Amazon Retaliated Against Workers Who Supported Regulating Data Centers, Complaint Says The employees encouraged limits on the complexes in a series of hearings in the tech giant’s hometown, Seattle. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/t...

Pablo "Bareta" Arauz, a member of the Sandinista guerrillas, preparing to throw a Molotov cocktail made from a Pepsi bottle. Photographed in 1979 www.reddit.com/r/UtterlyUni...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear prominent lawyer Alan Dershowitz's bid to revive his defamation lawsuit against CNN over the network's coverage of his remarks defending Donald Trump during the president's first Senate impeachment trial ‌in 2020. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

SNAP recipient’s benefits slashed: ‘Who lives on $24 a month?’ www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

‘He Didn’t Judge Us’: The Priest Throwing a Lifeline to Men Leaving Prison www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

Virginia - Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

About 3 million fewer people in the United States had Affordable Care Act health insurance plans in February compared with the same time last year, according to new federal data. apnews.com/article/affo...

The nation’s largest Tahitian dance competition is coming to Hawaiʻi. Tahiti Fête, founded in California, will be held on Oʻahu for the first time, spotlighting ‘Ori Tahiti and Polynesian culture through traditional dance. www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/06/28/n...

A Tulsa man is suing the Tulsa Police Department after what he says was a wrongful arrest, even the officers realized during the encounter that they had detained the wrong person www.newson6.com/crime/tulsa-...

Trump bought as much as $5 million in Axon stock before ICE sought $220 million Taser deal www.cnbc.com/2026/06/29/t...

Americans have grown less proud of their country’s history or the way its democracy works over the past decade, according to a new AP-NORC poll. apnews.com/article/poll...

Supreme Court rules Trump cannot fire Fed member Lisa Cook; grants him more power over other independent agencies Justices allowed Cook to keep her job while green-lighting president’s firing of another Democratic appointee to an independent body, FTC Commissioner www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

The Supreme Court refused President Trump’s request on Monday to overturn a jury’s verdict finding him liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s and defaming her. thehill.com/regulation/c...

NEW: SCOTUS says Trump can't fire Fed governor Lisa Cook — a blockbuster ruling that limits the president's influence on the central bank.

NEW: It has been 118 years since the Supreme Court ruled the federal government owes tribes water, but Native American communities in northern Arizona are still fighting for their rights to the Colorado River. With @kjzz.org

"Our favourite picture from Birmingham anti-fash demo - will do a photo dump later." via Expose Racism

50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, Ja Rule, and Timbaland will perform at Donald Trump Jr.’s members-only MAGA club on the eve of America’s 250th anniversary. www.thedailybeast.com/secret-perfo...

Pennsylvania - Washington Co. jail guard accused of sending lewd photos to teen girl www.observer-reporter.com/news/local-n...

Gaza A displaced Palestinian girl looks through an opening in her family’s tent. The majority of Gaza’s 2.4 million people have been displaced, often multiple times, since Hamas attacked southern Israel on 7 October 2023 www.theguardian.com/news/gallery...

Arizona, US Demonstrators protest outside Eloy Detention Center, calling for the release of Arbella ‘Yari’ Rodríguez Márquez, who is critically ill with leukaemia, and all LGBTQ+ migrants, on the anniversary of the Stonewall uprising www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gall...

Belfast, UK Resident doctors on the picket line outside Royal Victoria hospital in Belfast, striking over pay. The 24-hour walkout began at 7am on Monday www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gall...

Haro, Spain People attend the annual Battle of Wine in La Rioja province, where more than 40,000 litres of wine are poured among participants using all kinds of ‘weapons’, from water pistols to sprayers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gall...

Billionaires are just criminals with sufficient capital. www.reddit.com/r/WorkReform...

Well, I agree there Obama and Biden certainly could not have possibly hosted such a failure as he has www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySke...

Hippie VW, Kabul Afghanistan, 1972. www.reddit.com/r/Historical...

Alternatives to detention: How tech ‘solutions’ expand containment A new report reveals how ATD programmes are often simply another form of detention – and how tech could be used to promote rights instead blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

What Putin's admission about fuel crisis means for Russia Fuel shortages are spreading across Russia as Ukraine increases attacks on energy infrastructure, and Vladimir Putin has acknowledged the damage. Could this be the beginning of the end of the war with Ukraine? www.dw.com/en/what-puti...

Vancouver - Cops Caught Using AI to Edit Picture of Pathetic Drug Bust www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it “Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.“ www.theverge.com/science/9576...

Hawaiʻi Is Losing Therapists Before They Even Start. A New Law Could Help A new policy puts Hawaiʻi on par with other states. civilbeat.org/2026/06/hawa...

Argentina: Milei's top aide resigns over corruption scandal Manuel Adorni is mired in a corruption scandal but has denied wrongdoing. Javier Milei has defended Adorni, saying, "Manuel is innocent." www.dw.com/en/argentina...

French woman rescued after 12 years held captive by abusive husband in Pakistan, police say Sylvie Yasmina married the Pakistani national in Australia in 2003 before the family relocated to Pakistan in 2014 www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-a...

‘She never says goodbye when she leaves’: the Romanian families separated by migration Many thousands of children live with at least one parent working abroad in what is one of the EU’s poorest countries www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Native Hawaiian Teens Learn To ‘Make Change’ For The Islands Youth from across the islands — and the continent — participated in a mock legislative event last week aimed at engaging students in shaping Hawai‘i’s future. civilbeat.org/2026/06/nati...

Hungary: Magyar's 'Operation Purgatory' tackles Orban system The new Hungarian government is moving swiftly to dismantle the system of former Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The focus: fighting corruption, reforming the media and protecting democracy www.dw.com/en/magyar-hu...

Some kinds of insider trading are perfectly legal – and they offer useful signals about a company’s health theconversation.com/some-kinds-o...

How children in West Bank are being killed by Israel ‘without accountability’ IDF has killed 235 children in territory since 7 October 2023 with no indictments in what activists say is ‘licence to kill’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Cruise ships told to reduce speed after pregnant endangered whale killed in Alaska www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

The Oral Histories of the AIDS Crisis The voices of artists and activists illuminate the human experience behind the AIDS epidemic. daily.jstor.org/the-oral-his...

Australia - The government is ‘doubling down’ on its social media ban. But bigger penalties for platforms aren’t enough theconversation.com/the-governme...

The state of Hawaiʻi and Kauaʻi County have paid almost $1 million to settle a case in which government officials took a fifth grade girl from her Big Island classroom without telling her mother, then flew her to Kauaʻi to live with a biological father she barely knew. civilbeat.org/2026/06/offi...

Getting Murdoched is a fascinating study of the Murdoch media’s bullying tactics theconversation.com/getting-murd...

Canada - The right to strike is constitutionally protected — a new Senate report is looking for a workaround theconversation.com/the-right-to...

Cambridgeshire police face questions over decision to hand sexual assault case to US military Jacob Wulfson, who strangled woman he met online, was allowed to be tried at airbase court martial instead of facing UK justice www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The Ghost Roads of Ireland’s Great Famine Starving families were forced to earn aid by carving roads through rock, fields, and mountainsides. daily.jstor.org/the-ghost-ro...