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ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He’s Approaching 300 Days Behind Bars With a Festering Wound.

With the case of Carlitos Ricardo Parias, the U.S. has broken its own record for holding a journalist in custody.

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Israel Justified Its Wars by Calling Enemies “Crazy.” Now, the Warning Signs All Apply to Israel.

Benjamin Netanyahu shocked the world with violence in Gaza — then took an unhinged Israel to the mainstream.

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No, AOC: “Woke” Wasn’t “Crazy” the Way You Say It Was

Protesting George Floyd’s murder wasn’t the "crazy" part. Centrist Dems selling out was.

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Francesca Hong’s “Thanksgiving-Gate” Shows Her Detractors Are Totally Out of Ideas

Today’s Democratic gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin has featured increasingly desperate attacks against the frontrunner.

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Sophie Cunningham Is the Anti-Trans Right's New White Woman Mascot

The WNBA star has become the latest symbol in the right’s campaign to define which women deserve protecting—and which do not.

09.08.2026 10

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There’s No Time for Centrists to Be Doomers About El-Sayed’s Victory

The public health official faced down AIPAC — and the entire Democratic Party establishment — to beat Haley Stevens. That’s well worth celebrating.

05.08.2026 10

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Bari Weiss’s “60 Minutes” Hires Producer Who Downplayed Gaza Starvation, Justified Killing Journalists

The latest CBS News hire shows that the way to get ahead in journalism is to act as a tool for the powerful.

04.08.2026 10

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Liberals Are Ceding Ground to the Far Right on Ceuta Border Crossings

From the New York Times to the EU, liberals defending Spain from far-right fearmongering are regurgitating the right’s anti-immigrant premise.

03.08.2026 10

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Trump’s Truth Social API Is a Blatantly Corrupt Favor to Wall Street

By selling off early access to his posts at a premium, the president is merging a public good with his own profit motives.

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Fauci’s Diary Isn’t the Key to Why Covid Ravaged the U.S. — Our Broken Healthcare System Is

Rand Paul is trying to put Anthony Fauci in prison for not confirming a conspiracy theory, but the key to blunting the next pandemic is universal...

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The Right Seeks to Capitalize on Berlin Pride Attack — Even as It Poses Its Own Existential Threat to Queer Lives

Day in and day out, it is the likes of Germany’s conservative parties, and the Republicans at home, who are assaulting LGBTQ rights.

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House Investigation of BreakThrough News Is an Attack on All Journalism

Favorable coverage of U.S. adversaries is constitutionally protected speech.

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Fetterman Might Leave Democratic Party Because the Only Thing He Loves More Than Israel Is Attention

Why is the senator floating the idea of leaving the Democratic Party? Well, Israel, of course. Though he sure loves the media coverage.

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It’s Scary As Hell Being Black in America Right Now

The deaths of Nolan Wells and Kohen Wiley are symptoms of a nation retreating from any pretense of equal rights.

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It’s Time for Maine to Ditch Platner — But Not the Politics That Won Over Voters

Platner has lost the moral right to speak for the left. The movement that energized Maine’s voters should choose his replacement.

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Why Would Anyone Trust Ex-CIA Agents in Elected Office?

The agency trains officers to conceal their true intentions — and has long existed to violently suppress the left.

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Graham Platner Inspired Another Left-Wing Veteran to Take On an Establishment Dem

Alex Scheel is running an anti-war campaign to unseat incumbent Rep. Marilyn Strickland. He’s also a longtime member of the DSA in Washington state.

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How to Show That Israel’s Sexual Violence Against Palestinians Is Systemic — and Has Gone on for Decades

A new report demonstrates the patterns by compiling accounts detailing rape by soldiers using bottles, batons, and other sharp objects — even...

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Even the Liberal Supreme Court Justices Ceded Ground in the Fight for Trans Existence

This was always the plan for the anti-trans zealots who saw girls’ sports as an easy entry point from which to decimate trans people’s civil...

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The Businessman Who Helped Peter Thiel Kill Gawker Wanted to Save Journalism. Then His Site Went Dark.

Aron D’Souza sees the media as in peril. His solution is an AI-powered tribunal to adjudicate the facts of reporting.

29.06.2026 20

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Online Age Verification Law Could Kill Whistleblowing

A House bill ostensibly aimed at protecting children will raise the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers.

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Keir Starmer’s Downfall Is the Only Reward for Simpering Centrism

As head of Labour, Starmer served his role ignobly: weeding out the Left and paving the way for the far right.

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30-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech

The harsh sentence for a defendant who wasn’t even at the Prairieland protest is likely only the start of the Trump administration’s efforts to...

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Establishment Democrats to the Dustbin of History

It’s increasingly clear that the energy is with the left wing of the Democratic Party — not the centrists, not the establishment.

25.06.2026 10

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The Surprising Reaction Inside Iran to Its War Victory

Despite extracting extraordinary concessions, the reaction in Iran isn’t entirely jubilant. Past betrayals are too recent to forget.

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Chud the Builder Fantasized About “Race War.” Now He’s Charged With Attempted Murder.

Dalton Eatherly streams his racist provocations online. It was only a matter of time before the violence rhetoric entered the real world.

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Trump’s Spaghetti-Against-the-Wall Indictment Against ICE Protesters — and How to Fight It

Trump’s indictment against ICE protesters in Minneapolis is part of an attempt to criminalize organizing as a “conspiracy.”

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They Weren’t Convicted of Terrorism, But These Palestine Activists Got Sentenced as Terrorists Anyway

The case marks the first time that “criminal damage” convictions in the UK have been classified as terrorism.

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Indiana Banned Press From Executions for “Dignity.” It Actually Serves Repression.

There’s no dignity in secret executions.

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Scott Pelley Shows How Legacy Media Got It Wrong — Before Bari Weiss Made It Worse

Scott Pelley describes Weiss’s horrific pro-Trump meddling, but he also shows how “both sides” journalism was already dooming our country.

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The Real “Divide” Among Democrats Over Israel Is Between Party Leadership and Voters

Supporting Israel is now a fringe position among Democratic voters. Why does the media keep covering it like a 50/50 issue?

04.06.2026 20

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Stop Calling It a Ceasefire

How many acts of war must occur before the mainstream media accepts there is no ceasefire between the U.S., Israel, and Iran?

03.06.2026 20

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After Uvalde, Texas Stuffed Schools Full of Cops. They Brutalized Students.

Texas’s response to school shootings was as predictable as it was doomed to produce only more violence in schools — violence by cops.

29.05.2026 20

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Graham Platner Is Forcing Centrist Dems to Reckon With “Vote Blue No Matter Who”

Rep. Jake Auchincloss urging Democrats to vote against the presumptive Maine Senate nominee exposes the limits of party unity.

28.05.2026 20

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Ahmadinejad Is Still Bad for Iranians — and Still Great for Israel

A bombshell report shows how Israel and the U.S. never really cared about freeing the Iranian people.

20.05.2026 20

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The End of the Voting Rights Act Isn’t Just a “Black Problem”

Preserving racial hierarchy remains one of most animating impulses in American political life.

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Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization” Fund Is a Handout to His Hardcore Supporters

Putting January 6 rioters on the dole is a new kind of corruption — and it definitely won’t help the American working class.

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DOJ Escalates War on Trans Youth Healthcare With Criminal Subpoenas

We already know how high the stakes are for patients and their families — and rolling over now could hurt all of medicine.

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Dodging FOIA Could Now Mean Arrest and Strip Search, Depending on Who’s Asking

The DOJ is now treating evading a records request as a crime, a stunning act of hypocrisy from the Trump administration.

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Big Finance Might Be Dooming the SPLC — Even Before Its Day in Court

Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and Vanguard are tamping down on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s donations as the government’s de facto censors.

08.05.2026 30

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Tennessee GOP Moves to Decimate Black Voting Power After Supreme Court’s Blessing of Jim Crow

With the Supreme Court blessing racial gerrymandering, Tennessee’s GOP rushed to eliminate the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.

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Hasan Piker Is the Democrats’ New Man on the Trail, Whether They Like It or Not

Insurgent candidates like Bush are tapping Piker as a campaign surrogate — but they still face an uphill battle to winning.

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Clavicular and the Right-Wing Project to Radicalize Young Men

The popular streamer offers easy answers for why the world has left young men feeling unhappy and alone.

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Never Apologize

James Comey, Zohran Mamdani, and the lost art of doubling down.

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Graham Platner Handed Centrist Dems a Bruising Defeat in Maine

After throwing their support behind Gov. Janet Mills, party leaders are left doing an about-face on the insurgent candidate.

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We Need to Kick Prediction Market Betting Out of Journalism While We Still Can

Treating journalism like a casino will harm reporting — and erode democracy.

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How Trump’s America Produces Normie Assassins

The only extremism would-be assassins like suspect Cole Tomas Allen share is an extreme response to Trump’s deranging politics.

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Kash Patel Is Using MAGA’s Favorite Tool to Muzzle the Free Press

By suing The Atlantic for defamation, the FBI director is leveraging one of Trump’s legal tactics to tamp down free speech.

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How the Lebanon Ceasefire Could Make It Harder to End the War on Iran

The deal is a welcome reprieve from Israel’s bombing — but separating Lebanon from the ceasefire with Iran sets a dangerous precedent.

20.04.2026 30

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Don’t Trust the Lebanon Ceasefire When Israel Keeps Killing in Gaza

News of less violence is welcome, but with Israel promising to stay in Lebanon, we need to remember the Gaza “ceasefire” has meant continued genocide.

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