Rachel was in Minneapolis last week where over 100,000 people took to the streets and reports on the mass action that happened Friday, shutting down businesses, schools and the city in response to the Trump administration’s deployment of ICE to Minneapolis and the brutal killing of Renee Nicole Good earlier this month. The next day, CBP agents killed Alex Pretti, a VA nurse...

Mass protests have taken place across the country after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis, executing her in her car as she tried to drive away...

At his first court appearance in New York along with his wife Cilia Flores, Nicolás Maduro told the judge, “I am innocent. I am not guilty. I am a decent man, the constitutional president of my country.”...

As 2025 comes to an end and we enter a new year, we’re looking back on the past 12 months that sometimes feel like a never-ending cycle of bad news...

Worked security for Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign The 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee was a fascistic spectacle where Donald Trump and many of the other speakers spewed vile anti-immigrant rhetoric and a masochistic ultra-nationalistic, extreme right-wing ideology. Fifty-three years earlier, the CEO of the convention’s host committee, Stephen...

President Donald Trump has expressed enthusiasm about Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, stating that her elevation to head the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in late October was “tremendous news.” Speaking to U.S. troops aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier in Japan on October 28 during his Asia tour, Trump introduced...

Executive orders will ensure more executions If you were wondering about changes in the use of the death penalty at either the state or federal level since Donald Trump reassumed the presidency, well, wonder no more. On his very first day as president, Trump signed an executive order directing...

On June 9, 2025, I attended a protest in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania led by the local SEIU union (Local 32BJ). The protest, which was quite peaceful I should emphasize, was organized primarily to protest the arrest of SEIU California President David Huerta who was gravely injured and then apprehended by police...

Over the weekend, ICE agents invaded Los Angeles and its suburbs, kidnapping dozens of people on Friday and threatening more near a Home Depot on Saturday. These masked and heavily-armed forces are part of Trump’s promised 30-day surge in anti-immigrant attacks in the LA area...

NATO held its 2025 Parliamentary Assembly in Dayton, Ohio between May 22 and 26. Though it promotes itself as a force in defense of peace and security, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s history exposes its true purpose: propping up Western imperialism and hegemony...