Inside the Noisy, Spontaneous, Airport Protest to Greet Separated Children in NYC
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at New York City’s Laguardia Airport late Wednesday night to greet inbound flights from Texas carrying displaced migrant children. They held signs offering words of love and support, and criticism of controversial family separation policies at the US-Mexico border. The scene outside…
Tech Employees Are Rallying Against Their Companies’ Work With ICE
President Donald Trump and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at the White House in 2017. Alex Brandon/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On June 17th, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff retweeted images from a CBS reporter of a detention facility in McAllen, Texas where children slept on the floor, covered in emergency blankets.…
Lawsuit Alleges Milwaukee Cop Involved in NBA Player’s Violent Arrest Later Joked About It on Facebook
This Jan. 26, 2018 police body-camera footage released by Milwaukee Police Department shows NBA Bucks guard Sterling Brown as he talks to arresting police officers after being shot by a stun gun in a Walgreens parking lot in Milwaukee. MIlwaukee Police Department/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, professional…
Here Are 4 Hard-Hitting Cartoons a Pro-Trump Newspaper Tried to Bury
Cartoon by Rob Rogers Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday, veteran editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers was abruptly fired from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after a string of anti-Trump illustrations were spiked from the newspaper. Rogers, who joined the Post-Gazette in 1993, says 19 cartoons or proposed drawings were killed by…
For Black Lives Activists, Engaging in Trump’s Pardon Politics Feels Like a Deal With the Devil
Trump granted clemency to Alice Marie Johnson (left, with daughter) after hearing a personal plea from Kim Kardashian West. Adrian Sainz Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last Wednesday, Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old great-grandmother who served more than 20 years of a life sentence for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense,…
Betsy DeVos Says School Safety Commission Won’t Study the Role of Guns in School Safety
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos pauses as she testifies during a Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2019 funding request. Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos continued her streak of groan–inducing trips to Capitol…