'Release the Tapes': Lawmakers Demand Answers Over Alleged $50,000 Bribe by Trump Border Czar Tom Homan www.commondreams.org/news/tom-hom...

Trump's New Restrictions on Pentagon Reporters 'Should Alarm Every American' www.commondreams.org/news/press-f...

"The fact that he may now be put on a plane to El Salvador, a country he fled out of fear, at any moment, despite a clear path to becoming a permanent resident, is despicable," an @aclu.org attorney said of journalist Mario Guevara. www.commondreams.org/news/mario-g...

"​What ICE just did to me was a violent abuse of power—and it’s still nothing compared to what they’re doing to immigrant communities," said Illinois congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh. www.commondreams.org/news/kat-abu...

“From Indonesia and Turkey, to London and South Africa, activists and campaigners are raising the call to draw the line against injustice, pollution, and violence,” says @350.org.

"The goal of a Palestinian state can’t be put off any longer if we want the next generation to avoid suffering from the same insecurity and affliction,” said Sen. Jeff Merkley.

Censoring Jimmy Kimmel Is Not The Biggest Threat To The First Amendment... @jasonpramas.bsky.social explains what is: www.commondreams.org/opinion/jimm...

If you are Latino, you’d better start carrying your identification papers with you—and they had better be in order, writes @blumslaw.bsky.social: www.commondreams.org/opinion/supr...

"While Palestinian mothers in Gaza are left to watch their children waste away from starvation under Israel's genocide, arms companies and others continue to reap substantial profits," said @amnesty.org secretary general @agnescallamard.bsky.social. www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...

Yet for a country so insistent on not being an empire, Washington has followed a trajectory nearly indistinguishable from its imperial predecessors: www.commondreams.org/opinion/depa...

Over 70 people, including New York lawmakers and other elected officials were arrested as they attempted to block ICE at a facility in Lower Manhattan on Thursday that has been documented subjecting immigrants to wretched conditions. www.commondreams.org/news/new-yor...

When she was but days away from being able to enroll in a nursing program, this cruel policy reversal deprived Sonia of the chance to fulfill her life’s goal. www.commondreams.org/opinion/immi...

Everywhere fascism has taken power or grown quickly it is because the wealthy and powerful have thrown their support behind it and against democracy. www.commondreams.org/opinion/when...

“Israel kills every day and nothing happens,” said Algeria’s UN ambassador. “Israel starves a people and nothing happens. Israel bombs hospitals, schools, shelters, and nothing happens.”

Ratcheting up his what FCC commissioner Anna Gomez called a "campaign of censorship and control," Trump threatened to revoke the broadcast licenses of networks that give him "bad press." www.commondreams.org/news/trump-t...

After the Israeli government smeared the Global Sumud Flotilla as a "jihadist initiative," one journalist said it "feels like the response is being set up to be more severe than in the past."​ www.commondreams.org/news/flotill...

“Instead of bending over backwards to appease Trump in an attempt to avoid his tariff bullying, it’s time for Starmer to show real leadership and stand up to him,” said one campaigner.

These are all positions Republicans hate, and any one of them will get you labeled as a far-left radical instantly, writes @thomhartmann.bsky.social: www.commondreams.org/opinion/what...

The Department of Education has announced a new initiative to instill "patriotic education" across the US by giving grants to schools that adopt a US history curriculum written by MAGA-aligned groups like PragerU and Turning Point USA. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-p...

I’m mourning Redford’s passing this week, not just because I knew him, however slightly, but because of his singularity in Hollywood as an actor, director, producer, social justice/environmental activist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. www.commondreams.org/opinion/holl...

In the absence of any meaningful action by the world’s governments, a global citizens’ movement has arisen and is currently gathering steam, says Gerry Condon of @veteransforpeace.bsky.social: www.commondreams.org/opinion/all-...

"No one wants Lecornu or Macron anymore," said one National Assembly member as hundreds of thousands of people joined protests across France over the government's proposed austerity measures. #18septembre www.commondreams.org/news/french-...

Pope Leo Is Right: Uber-Wealthy CEOs Like Musk Are Paid Too Much www.commondreams.org/opinion/pope...

The fossil fuel industry is reaping major returns on its investment in the Trump administration. But what about the costs? www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

Democracy Needs a Fearless Press and Vice Versa—Trump Is Killing Both www.commondreams.org/opinion/demo...

"It is no surprise that the Trump administration continues to retaliate against me for my exercise of free speech. Their latest attempt, through a kangaroo immigration court, exposes their true colors once again," said Mahmoud Khalil. www.commondreams.org/news/mahmoud...

“The Trump administration has taken a sledgehammer to our capacity to hold sex offenders to account and undermined support and services for crime victims,” said @raskin.house.gov.

​If there is no accountability for Netanyahu and his fellow war criminals, other demagogues will do the same, says @sanders.senate.gov: www.commondreams.org/opinion/isra...

The Federal Reserve's small interest rate cut "will do little to address Trump's economic turmoil," warned one economist. www.commondreams.org/news/federal...

Trump's TikTok deal will hand control of the platform to two of his top billionaire allies: Marc Andreessen and Larry Ellison. "The TikTok ban wasn’t primarily about national security or influence...but rather political control," one tech columnist wrote. www.commondreams.org/news/tiktok-...

“These repeated attacks are grave violations of international humanitarian law that likely amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of genocide," says @newhumanitarian.bsky.social.

“This isn’t about left or right,” said @issueonereform.bsky.social, the group behind the survey. “It’s about protecting our democracy’s foundation: Congress makes the laws. The president enforces them.”

What the Trump administration is doing in short, is going to war against drugs as a cover for opening Latin American markets to US businesses. www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

At least 142 people were killed and four were confirmed missing last year for "bravely speaking out or taking action to defend their rights to land and a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment," according to an annual Global Witness report. www.commondreams.org/news/environ...

As veterans we know that the war machine runs on the deaths of innocent Indigenous people all for the glory of the almighty dollar, which is the only God the war pigs serve. www.commondreams.org/opinion/vete...

Why is his death shocking while a 5-year-old Palestinian child’s death by bombing, or by starvation, is nothing at all? Is Kirk the only one of them who’s human?https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/charlie-kirk-s-killing

Ben & Jerry's co-founder Jerry Greenfield is quitting the ice cream company after 47 years to protest Unilever's "silencing" of his and his partner's pro-Palestine activism. www.commondreams.org/news/ben-and...

If there is a danger of a two-front war with Russia and China, as the Congressional Commission reported in 2023, the obvious way to avoid such a horror is through diplomacy. Not through a massive arms race that could precipitate this very war. www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

We're Not Crazy—But This Rigged System Is www.commondreams.org/opinion/econ...

The Authoritarians Want Your Hopelessness—Don't Give It to Them | This is how authoritarians operate: they flourish when the population feels despair, turning even moments that could bring us together into tools for separation. www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-...

Aid Groups Demand 'Decisive Action' From World Leaders to Stop Israel's Genocide in Gaza www.commondreams.org/news/aid-gro...

“It’s a five-alarm fire,” one Kentucky soybean farmer said, describing the harmful effects of the president’s tariffs.

Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein obtained online chats and spoke with a childhood friend of Tyler Robinson, who is accused of killing Charlie Kirk. www.commondreams.org/news/tyler-r...

“When military troops police civilians, we have an intolerable threat to individual liberty and the foundational values of this country," the head of the ACLU's National Security Project said of Trump's deployment to Memphis. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-m...

Human Rights Watch is calling for an independent investigation into ICE's shooting of Silverio Villegas González after CCTV video appeared to undermine DHS's version of events. Despite repeated calls, ICE has refused to release videos of the incident. www.commondreams.org/news/ice-chi...

The countries’ foreign ministers urged Israel to “refrain from any unlawful or violent act against the flotilla” and “to respect international law.”

The way the media has handled these strikes is an indictment of the state of American neoliberal reporting in a neofascist age, writes @GeopolWonk. www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

Gen Z was supposed to guarantee a progressive future. Instead, many of its most visible political entrepreneurs are on the far-right. www.commondreams.org/opinion/youn...

“There is NO legal justification,” says @repilhan.bsky.social. “It risks spiraling into the exact type of endless, pointless conflict that Trump supposedly opposes.”

Whatever else one might expect from America’s “new” Department of War, you can bet your life (or death) on a whole lot of future body bags: www.commondreams.org/opinion/depa...