More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates
The post More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates appeared first on ProPublica.

Trump Claims He Cancelled Planned Attack on Iran at Request of Gulf States
Trump said the US military is “prepared to go forward with a full, large scale assault of Iran” if a deal isn’t reached.

ProPublica Selects 11 Journalists for Investigative Editor Training
The post ProPublica Selects 11 Journalists for Investigative Editor Training appeared first on ProPublica.

Muzzling goes to new extremes on US campuses
Students, professors and commencement speakers all targeted for opposing Gaza genocide.

Trump Admin Cites National Security to Pause Permits for TX Wind Energy Projects
The Defense Department has not approved a wind project since August 2025 as 165 projects nationally now remain on hold.

Gutting Voting Rights Act Is Just First Step in Far Right Plan to End Democracy
Curbing access to the ballot brings us closer to the far right's techno-feudalist dream of a "Dark Enlightenment.”…

USAID Cuts Could Hinder Management of Ebola Outbreak in Congo and Uganda
The World Health Organization has declared a global health emergency due to the rapid spread of the deadly virus.

UC Is Finalizing Its Land-Use Rules Without Involving Directly Impacted Tribes
Some Native leaders say the omission is not an oversight -- it is a structural problem baked into the framework itself.

Livestream: The True Cost of Iran War! / AIPAC Tries To Get Rid of Massie In Tomorrow's Election & More
Lee Camp's full livestream - free to watch…

In the Wake of Iran War, African Nations Struggle to Cope with Rising Fuel Costs
Fuel prices have spiked across the African continent, leading to desperate stop-gap measures to manage the crisis.

Has Trump torpedoed the ICC’s Gaza probe?
How US sanctions criminalize those upholding law.

PATRICK LAWRENCE: History Turned in Beijing
To say not much happened during Trump’s two days in the Chinese capital, as a lot of people seem to think, is to miss the forest for the trees. By …

Outlandish Merger of Giant Power Companies NextEra and Dominion is ‘Contrary to Public Interest’
Massive Florida-based power company NextEra Energy announced today its plan to acquire Virginia’s Dominion Energy, citing the growth of A.I. data ce…

OPCW Inadvertently Admitted Burying Critical Evidence on Syria Chemical Weapons Investigation
As part of a legal battle, the chemical watchdog group released a document that shows it concealed information about the deadly 2018 incident in Douma…

Long Island Rail workers strike; Hezbollah’s fiber-optic drone warfare; Ebola outbreak in DRC
Drop Site Daily: May 18, 2026…

Palestine Action prisoners may be sentenced as "terrorists"
“Terror connection” claimed by judge could have lifetime consequences.

The United States’ Long War on Cuba
A U.S. invasion would only mark the bloodiest phase in an extended bipartisan war against Cuba for the “sin” of reclaiming national sovereignty an…

Declassified: UK Knew NATO Expansion ‘Would Provoke’ Russia War
Kit Klarenberg Substack On April 15th, Declassified UK published a bombshell investigation exposing how in the mid-1990s, senior British political…

50 rights groups blast Meta for brazen policy reversal of Instagram end-to-end encrypted messaging
Fight for the Future, Access Now, the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and other leading human rights org…

Pete Hegseth “War Crimes Secretary” Called Out
ScheerPost Staff As the Trump administration’s war on Iran spirals deeper into civilian bloodshed and media complicity, activists with CODEPINK are…

Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help.
The post Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help. appeared first on ProPublica.

Trump Is Making America Uninsured Again
The GOP is heading into the midterms as the party that made health coverage out of reach for millions of Americans. Sasha Abramsky for Truthout This a…

After Offering ‘No Tangible Concessions’ in Iran Peace Talks, Trump Issues Latest Violent Threat
Julia Conley for Common Dreams With the economic impact of the war on Iran linked to President Donald Trump’s plummeting approval rating, the pres…

ICC Issues Arrest Warrants For Five Additional Senior Israeli Officials
By News Desk, The Cradle. The Hague-based court previously issued warrants for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former War…

Tiny Footprints, a Blue Blanket: What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died of Vitamin K Deficiency
The post Tiny Footprints, a Blue Blanket: What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died of Vitamin K Deficiency appeared first on ProPublica.

Communal Consults and Venezuela’s Fight for the Future
“This is a system of ants,” Dulce Esperanza, a member of the Candelaria Heroica Commune in Caracas, Venezuela, explained to me as we sat outside o…

The Immigration Debate Starts Too Late
One of the great evasions in American immigration politics is that the story begins at the border. The uncomfortable truth is that it begins decades e…

Keeping Score: China and the USA
I will be the first to admit that comparing GDP growth across countries is generally a silly exercise. We care about how people are living: can they a…

Life in Cancer Alley, When a Liquified Natural Gas Facility Moves In
21 years after Katrina, one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to strike the United States, Louisianans are facing a whole new kind of storm. Liquefied…

Drug Ads Are Deceptive and Deadly
Imagine you are sick with a serious medical condition. How would you feel if someone constantly told you to buy their product because it would cure yo…

From Mutual Suspicion to Political Embrace: How the U.S. Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Pakistan
Yesterday, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told the Sunday Times that Pakistan serving as a mediator in the U.S.-Iran war is “one of the…

Falling wages, spiraling credit card debt
Polygraph | Newsletter n°341 | 16 May 2026…

WATCH: The World This Week — ‘Hitting a Chinese Wall’
A brash, expansionist Donald Trump returned from two days in China, having been schooled by Xi Jinping in what global stability looks like. Watch the…

Names of Some US Boat Strike Victims Revealed
Despite the Trump administration’s effort to conceal their victims’ identities, journalists and researchers have disclosed some biographical detai…

Livestream: Why Trump's China Trip Achieved Nothing / Commemorating The Nakba & More
Episode 300! Free to watch and share…

U.S. Agencies Will Operate From Surveillance Tower in Chihuahua, Despite Recent Unauthorized CIA Presence in the Mexican State
Chihuahua officials will share intelligence data from surveillance cameras, license-plate readers, drones, and helicopters with U.S. agencies.

Revealed: USAID, NED & Open Society Quietly Bankroll Cuba’s “Independent” Media In Push for Regime Change
From CubaNet to ADN Cuba, some of the most widely cited “independent” Cuban media outlets in Western Corporate media are quietly funded by USAID,…

As Evidence Mounts of Dogs Raping Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Prisons, NYT’s Isabel Kershner Revives Unverified October 7 Rape Narrative
Following Nicholas Kristof’s report on sexual abuse inside Israeli prisons including the use of dogs to rape hostages as young as 13, the NYT’s Is…

Palestinians commemorate Nakba; 40% of Sudan faces “acute hunger”; U.S. offers aid to Cuba amid U.S. blockade of Cuba
Drop Site Daily: May 15, 2026…

Infectious diseases rampant in Gaza
Israeli forces shoot, kill Palestinian child in West Bank.

New Podcast/Painting Video: AI, Weaponized Robots, And The Ethics Of Porn
Our best one yet!

New Podcast: AI, Weaponized Robots, And The Ethics Of Porn
Our best one yet!

Why Have Immigration Agents Detained This American Citizen Three Times?
The post Why Have Immigration Agents Detained This American Citizen Three Times? appeared first on ProPublica.

Italy jails Palestinian over videos on his phone
Ahmad Salem sentenced to four years in prison.

Grifty Colossus Strikes Again and Again and...
Oh man. Same old clown show, awash with boondoggles, each more cringey than the last. As the mad man-child deconstructs DC and slaps his hideous face…

It's Not About "Blood Libel", It's About Narrative Control
And Other Notes…

From Bahrain to the UAE: Gulf States Expand Anti-Shia Crackdowns During Direct Strikes on Iran
As reports emerge of direct Gulf involvement in strikes on Iran, Bahrain is escalating a sweeping anti-Shia crackdown — arresting clerics, revoking…

Hezbollah’s Cheap FPV Drones Are Making Israel’s High-Tech Military Obsolete
From destroying hundreds of Israeli Merkava tanks to Iron Dome systems, Hezbollah’s $50 FPV drones are inflicting massive losses on Israel using wea…

Trump’s Iranian Nightmare
Trump’s catastrophic miscalculation in Iran and refusal to accept the inevitability of defeat is pushing us towards a global depression and ensuring…

The History of National Resistance Movements in Palestine (w/ Ramzy Baroud) | The Chris Hedges Report
Professor Ramzy Baroud discusses a people’s history of Palestine in his new book, that chronicles the powerful resistance to Zionism and its manifes…

As Israel's Use of The Rape Weapon Is Revealed, Media Tries Frantically To Cover It Up
New column by Lee Camp…

Wholesale Horror: Producer Price Index Spells Disaster for Economic Outlook as Trump’s War in Iran Drags On
Trump’s war in Iran is now bleeding through the wholesale pipeline. April’s Producer Price Index (PPI) report shows wholesale prices rose 6% over…

Either You Believe Israel Is Evil Or You Believe It’s All An Elaborate Conspiracy—And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley:…

I'll Stop Talking About Israel When Israel Gets The Fuck Out Of My Face
Reading by Tim Foley:…

Join Me for a Live Q & A on June 29 on Dostoevsky’s 'The Idiot'
The livestream will be on June 29 at 7:00pm ET.

Big Tech Favoritism on Display with CEOs Set to Join Trump at China Summit
Sixteen Big Tech CEOs will be joining President Trump on his upcoming summit with president Xi Jinping in China this week, according to media reports.

America’s Suicide Pact - Read by Eunice Wong
America’s suicidal march began long before Donald Trump. Trump and the buffoons around him are the inevitable final chapter of the decaying empire.

LIVE from Beijing, China — Trump Arrives This Week
My new video from Beijing…

The US Has A 2,000-Year-Old Lost City That No One Talks About
New column by Lee Camp…

America’s Suicide Pact
America’s suicidal march began long before Donald Trump. Trump and the buffoons around him are the inevitable final chapter of the decaying empire.

What $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon could fund instead
Polygraph | Newsletter n°340 | 27 Apr 2026…

Dr. Marandi: Washington Post Assassination Orders, Iran Refuses Negotiations & UAE Complicity
As Washington shifts from threats to negotiations, Iran is signaling it no longer sees talks as credible. Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi explains why Tehr…

Trump’s budget for 2027, a breakdown
Polygraph | Newsletter n°339 | 13 Apr 2026…

Trump proposes largest military budget ever
Polygraph | Newsletter n°338 | 3 Apr 2026…

US spends $2.1 billion a day on the Iran War
Polygraph | Newsletter n°337 | 2 Apr 2026…