Austria says it’s banned the U.S. military from using its airspace, adding to a growing list of countries denying requests from the U.S. military amid its joint war on Iran with Israel as President Donald Trump lashes out at allies for refusing direct participation in the atrocities.

Pete Hegseth has galvanized Christian nationalists’ thirst for authoritarian rulers whose Jesus is defined by militant masculinity — more like a crusader or cowboy than the peace-loving, “sacrificial lamb” celebrated on Easter, who was executed for challenging the hierarchies of empire.

Trump gave a primetime televised address to discuss the war on Iran but gave very little new information about when or how the war could end, only boasting about killing top Iranian leaders and threatening to bomb Iran “back to the stone ages, where they belong.”

Watching a man with the nuclear codes spew lie after lie while promising war crimes and threatening to bomb my motherland back to the stone age genuinely just took a decade off of my life.

Israel’s new death penalty law was passed down from a scaffold the British had already built on the same land, testing it on the same people under the same sky. The military courts established by the British Mandate in November 1937 were built for speed above all else.

BREAKING: Trump announced that he has fired Attorney General Pam Bondi, who leaves behind a legacy of obstructing the release of the Epstein files and protecting the alleged sex abusers named within them.

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth vowed to bomb Iran into the “Stone Ages” in concerning statements on Wednesday night harkening to Vietnam War-era atrocities, as the U.S. and Israel carry out strikes on life-supporting infrastructure in Iran.

President Donald Trump announced that the US government has “to take care of one thing: military protection” and isn’t able to provide people in the US with necessities like healthcare and childcare.

“We have a great opportunity in our movements to learn how to be opponents without being enemies,” says Tanuja Jagernauth.

The struggle over labor conditions has forced the faculty at St. John’s University to mobilize, a move precipitated by the current college administration’s abrupt announcement that it will no longer recognize two faculty unions or continue negotiations to hash out a new contract.

Every interaction between patients and staff in the methadone clinic system is marked by a lack of trust, surveillance, coercion, and punishment. Patients are not even allowed to possess their own medication.

The vitriol of Trump’s anti-trans attacks has stoked anti-trans violence by prison staff and other incarcerated people.

On Tuesday, Israel struck a major pharmaceutical factory in Tehran that is one of the country’s top producers of cancer drugs and anaesthetics.

Applications to medical residency programs in states with abortion restrictions have declined compared to other states. The findings are an “early signal” that the Supreme Court’s decision overturning federal abortion rights protections may exacerbate health care shortages.

More than 3,000 meatpacking workers in Greeley, Colorado, have been on strike since mid-March, the first major labor strike in the U.S. meatpacking industry since 1985.

In a first for any president, Trump attended oral arguments in the Supreme Court as justices weighed his executive order on birthright citizenship, sparking concern that he was trying to intimidate justices after months of criticism over their rulings.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio lectured Iran in interviews this week, saying that the country should be spending money on supporting its people rather than on weapons and militaristic causes — after the Trump administration has gutted the social safety net while requesting a $1.5T Pentagon budget.

Trump on Tuesday issued a second executive order on elections, this one giving the U.S. Postal Service unprecedented oversight over who is voting by mail, a move experts and state election officials said will quickly draw legal challenges.

The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Tuesday that a Colorado ban on conversion therapy for youth violates the free speech rights of a Christian counselor, clearing the way for a practice that goes against the recommendations of every major medical association in the country.

Single mothers are among the hardest hit as rising prices spurred by the Iran war exacerbate the affordability crisis. @19thnews

The GOP is reportedly considering kicking hundreds of thousands more off Medicaid to fund Trump’s illegal war on Iran.

Discriminatory Israeli military courts, which have a 99 percent conviction rate, can now mandate death by hanging. buff.ly/SKlGebK

Sexual abuse like the harm enacted by Cesar Chavez plagues movements because it plagues our world — both must change.

Yes cable news is in decline (embarrassingly so at CBS) but it's still a major source of info for millions of people and will be for a while -- especially during war, when corporate TV outlets have the more access than alt news, podcasters etc. That's why I worry about Trump controlling cable news

“Trans people in prison are experts on organizing under conditions of extreme censorship, surveillance, and repression." --Pooja Gehi of @arcgenderjustice.bsky.social (in a crucial piece by Gabriel Arkles) truthout.org/articles/tra...

The vitriol of Trump’s anti-trans attacks has stoked anti-trans violence by prison staff and other incarcerated people. truthout.org/articles/tra...

You wouldn’t know it from listening to corporate Western coverage, but thousands of Iranians live on Kharg Island, which Trump is currently threatening to occupy. The US simply renders them invisible.

As soon as the state House passed a bill which would raise Pennsylvania’s minimum wage to $15, the Employment Policies Institute began reaching out to the media. Their address, and staff, are the same as Berman and Company, known as the food and beverage industry’s “weapon of mass destruction.”

Israeli forces killed 3 journalists who were reporting on Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. They were in a clearly marked press car when Israel bombed them. Israel then openly admitted to using a photoshopped picture of one of the journalists as supposed evidence that he was affiliated with Hezbollah.

Locals on the Kharg Island said that the targets the U.S. bombed hit deep inside the city of Kharg, where most of the population resides, that “the island doesn’t really have a military base,” and that following the bombing of Kharg Airport, there was now no way to evacuate.

The EPA is failing to put warnings on pesticides linked to cancer — even when the agency itself determined a product’s ingredients are carcinogenic, according to two new analyses of federal data.

The U.S. hit a school and sports hall in Lamerd, Iran, on the first day of its war on the country, using a new, untested weapon made by Lockheed Martin that unleashes an explosive barrage of metal pellets on its target, new reporting finds.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum will convene a rare meeting tomorrow of the Endangered Species Committee, who could roll back existing environmental protections by exempting companies from the Endangered Species Act, paving the way for oil and gas projects throughout the Gulf of Mexico.

Trump bragged about Corinthian columns he has chosen for his $400 million gilded ballroom as Goldman Sachs found that the U.S. will lose 10k jobs a month through the end of the year due to high energy prices caused by the war.

A New Jersey man has been arrested and charged with plotting to firebomb Kiswani’s home. Investigators say he was a member of the JDL 613 Brotherhood, a New Jersey-based group that describes itself as a revival of the Jewish Defense League, a pro-Israel group designated as a terrorist organization.

Pope Leo XIV used his Palm Sunday sermon to take what appears to be a shot at U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war,” Pope Leo said.

Organizers say up to 8 million joined events nationwide, from San Diego to New York City. buff.ly/Phhcb2f

Corpus Christi faces a looming emergency as officials delay limits on large-scale water consumption. buff.ly/ZQxRcvj

As Israel continues to deny essential supplies to Gaza, Palestinians are inventing new forms of creative reuse.

From custody deaths to suspicious cases, records reveal how one office’s failures denied accountability.

After 17 months of campaigning, Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard won its first victory, setting its sights on the future. buff.ly/q1jEj28

200 masked settlers descended on the West Bank on March 22, throwing Molotov cocktails and terrorizing Palestinians. buff.ly/AH1ulFR

Experts say proposed rules could deter eligible applicants as costs rise and enrollment drops. buff.ly/c0tz2j8

Experts say Yemen’s Houthis could escalate pressure by targeting Red Sea routes and key infrastructure. buff.ly/7BBrciv

Educators face pushback, threats and political pressure despite a state law. buff.ly/37bbTAk

While the far right remains a formidable electoral threat, progressive coalitions are starting to push back. buff.ly/HuHHS6e

Israeli forces are using extremely destructive 2,000-pound bombs on residential areas in Tehran, reports say, slaughtering dozens and violating international law barring the use of such weapons in areas where a disproportionate amount of civilians may be harmed.

“The Iranians do not seem like they’re in a panic, despite what the White House says. In fact, the Iranians are saying they think that Trump is in deep, deep trouble with his Gulf allies, who are in utter panic about what Iran has been able to do to their economies.”

As Republicans in the senate vote to uphold a Trump administration policy banning abortion care and counseling for veterans at VA facilities, some states are expanding reproductive health and maternal health access.

While affirming that the right to present a defense is “paramount,” the judge refused to dismiss the case — for now.