The Trump administration has "sought to assert its dominance against people, businesses and institutions that it viewed as enemies," says reporter Ned Parker, who just won a Pulitzer along with his colleagues at Reuters for documenting the campaign of retribution.

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The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran and the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz have exposed "the real limits of American imperial power," says historian Toby Jones.

As more people cut the cord and drop their cable TV subscriptions, public access channels are losing a vital source of revenue.

Israel’s destruction of infrastructure has become a “generator for disease,” with sewage contamination and rodent infestation now an everyday hazard for refugees living in tent camps.

The Shell oil company reported $6.9 billion in profits during the first quarter, exceeding shareholder expectations.

The “gerrymandering arms race” kicked off by Donald Trump, aided by the recent Supreme Court decision that gutted the Voting Rights Act, “could lead to the largest drop in Black representation since the Jim Crow era,” says @ariberman.bsky.social.

Israel's attacks across Lebanon, particularly in the south of the country, are following the Gaza playbook, says reporter Lylla Younges. "We're talking about entire villages that have been reduced to moonscapes."

Kimberlé Crenshaw says the failure to believe Anita Hill in the early 1990s had a major impact on the direction of the country. "This intersectional failure not only impacts Black women, not only impacts communities of color, it undermined the security and the democracy of the entire nation."

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More than 20,000 workers are stranded on commercial ships since the outbreak of the Iran war and unable to move out of the region. “There is lack of food, there is lack of provisions, there is lack of water. … The seafarers are just exposed and absolutely vulnerable.”

More than 20,000 workers, mostly from the Global South, have been stranded on commercial ships since the outbreak of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Homesick, unpaid, and running out of food and water, they lack the visas to disembark in any of the Gulf countries near the ships.

Bulldozers preparing an expansion of the U.S. border wall with Mexico caused extensive damage to the Las Playas intaglio 280-by-50-foot etching in the Sonoran Desert. The intaglio, a site sacred to the Indigenous Oʼodham peoples of the Sonora, is estimated to be at least 1,000 years old.

Congressmember Adelita Grijalva from Arizona, who visited two ICE jails recently, says detainees who spoke to her described dire conditions, medical neglect and more.

From an FBI raid in Georgia to federal investigations in Arizona into the 2020 election, the Trump administration seems set on gaining federal control over upcoming elections, with worrying implications for U.S. democracy.

More than 20,000 seafarers are stranded on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. "The seafarers, men and women, have not provoked this war, are not a part of it, and cannot stop it," says Mohamed Arrachedi of the International Transport Workers' Federation.

Construction crews working on President Trump's expanded border wall with Mexico have destroyed a portion of 1000-year-old Native American archeological site in the Sonoran Desert. Lorraine Marquez Eiler, an elder of the Hia Ched O'odham community, details what we know.

As part of the Trump administration's ongoing attacks on transgender rights, the Department of Education is investigating the historically women's Smith College for allegedly violating federal anti-discrimination laws by admitting trans women.

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The U.S. government has reinstated deportation proceedings against Mohsen Mahdawi, a graduate student at Columbia University who was detained last April for his outspoken support for Palestinian rights. Mahdawi is a green card holder who grew up in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.

Iran hit far more U.S. military targets across the Persian Gulf region than the Trump administration has acknowledged, with satellite images reviewed by The Washington Post showing damage to at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. bases.

Amy Goodman and Juan González will appear together, in-person, at the Chicago screening of "Steal This Story, Please!" on Saturday at 6 p.m. The new documentary from award-winning directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal tells the story of Democracy Now! and Amy Goodman's remarkable career.

Since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act last week, Republican-controlled states have begun redrawing their voting maps in a “gerrymandering arms race” that “could lead to the largest drop in Black representation since the Jim Crow era,” explains Mother Jones correspondent Ari Berman.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won big in state-level elections this week, with the Hindu nationalist BJP now controlling over 70% of the country. Ahead of elections, 9 million names were deleted from the rolls.

Gaza is facing an “environmental and biological apocalypse” under Israeli bombardment and blockade, reports Palestinian aid worker Eyad Amawi of the Gaza Relief Committee. Israel’s destruction of infrastructure has become a “generator for disease."

States across the South are redrawing congressional maps after the Supreme Court's effective gutting of the Voting Rights Act, says @ariberman.bsky.social of Mother Jones. “This could lead to the largest drop in Black representation since the Jim Crow era, and it is happening with alarming speed."

Recent state-level elections in India have further consolidated the power of the ruling Hindu nationalist BJP led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “The general public does not think the elections are free and fair in India,” says Arfa Arfa Khanum Sherwani, an Indian journalist.

“We are speaking about systematic transformation of life into something unlivable,” says Eyad Amawi, a representative of the Gaza Relief Committee. According to Amawi, there are widespread rodent infestations in tent encampments, water is scarce, and food is often spoiled.

Israel has bombed Beirut for the first time since mid-April, when it agreed to a ceasefire with Lebanon, although Israel has continued to carry out strikes, home demolitions and other aggressive acts in other parts of the country.

House Democrats Urge U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Acknowledge Israel’s Secret Weapons Program

Husband of Imprisoned Iranian Human Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi Speaks Out After Her Hospitalization

Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, who coined the term "intersectionality," discusses her new memoir "Backtalker" and more.

Israeli officials are "using the word 'cleanse' to describe what they’re doing" in Lebanon. "They’re just bulldozing homes.”

The United States now ranks 64th in press freedom, falling seven places since last year, according to Reporters Without Borders.

Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw discusses her new memoir "Backtalker" and the gutting of the Voting Rights Act.

30 House Democrats sent a letter urging the Trump administration to publicly acknowledge Israel’s undeclared nuclear weapons program, and breaking a bipartisan policy of silence dating to a secret 1969 agreement between President Richard Nixon and Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.

Reporters Without Borders (@rsf.org) says global press freedom has fallen to its lowest level in 25 years. "We're seeing deterioration pretty much across the board, both in authoritarian countries and in democracies," says Clayton Weimers.

We spoke to Grammy-winning Mexican singer-songwriter Julieta Venegas about her new album and memoir, Norteña.

We look at the growing funding crisis in public access TV.

Anna Gomez is the sole Democratic commissioner on the FCC, which is currently operating with just three commissioners instead of the usual five.

"If the United States has been engaged in a 50-year imperial project, to protect its interests in the region and its allies in the region, which all circulate around oil, [then] this war has rapidly undone the conditions that made that possible in the first place."

After President Trump called for ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel to be fired, the FCC has announced a review of ABC's television licenses. Anna Gomez, the sole Democratic commissioner on the FCC, slams what she says is an "unprecedented" attack on the First Amendment.

We discuss the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft’s Trita Parsi.

We get a firsthand account of the violent raid, arrest and detention of members of the Global Sumud Flotilla, after Israeli forces intercepted the humanitarian mission in international waters Thursday.

In a major blow to abortion access, a federal appeals court decision siding with the state of Louisiana has placed restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone. The medication, used in roughly two-thirds of all U.S. abortions, can no longer be sent by mail or prescribed through telemedicine.

Trump is “increasingly using desperate language and even considering desperate moves,” says @tparsi.bsky.social, because “according to the plan of those who sold this blockade idea to the Trump administration, Iran should have crumbled about 10 days ago, and it clearly has not happened."

“It is a favorite tactic of the Israeli regime to try to bully people into silence and submission,” says @raniabatrice.bsky.social of the Global Sumud Flotilla’s communications team. Flotilla members Saif Abukeshek and Thiago Ávila were abducted from their ships and taken to Israel last week.

“We see Palestine and Gaza as a front line in the global fight against oppression and injustice,” says Hannah Smith, representative of the Global Sumud Flotilla’s public affairs team.

The Nation’s abortion access correspondent @amylittlefield.bsky.social says the abortion rights movement is more prepared to fight Friday’s federal appeals court decision to limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone than it was when Roe v. Wade was overturned four years ago.

"We’ve been scapegoated as a community," says a Haitian pastor in Springfield, Ohio.