Favorite Protesters demonstrate in front of police along the perimeter of the Columbia University campus in NYC on April 30, 2024. Photo: Melissa Bender/NurPhoto via AP Columbia University could hardly have been more draconian in the last year and a half since students began speaking out against Israel’s assault on Gaza. In early November 2023,…
Favorite President Donald Trump throws pens after signing executive orders following the Presidential Parade at Capital One Arena on Monday January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Weather has moved Monday’s inauguraton indoors. Photo: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images President Donald Trump’s flurry of executive orders, signed on his first day back in the…
Favorite Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives in Seoul on Feb. 27, 2024. Photo: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images In a shameless act of genuflection toward the incoming Trump administration, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that his social media platforms — which include Facebook and Instagram — will be getting rid of fact-checking partners and…
Favorite Activists target the Elbit Systems offices in Merrimack, N.H., blocking entrances and painting the facility red, on Nov. 20, 2023. Photo: Maen Hammad In mid-November, four young women will start two-month jail sentences for an action attempting to halt operations last November at a weapons factory in Merrimack, New Hampshire, operated by Elbit Systems,…
Favorite Mayor Eric Adams speaks during the NYPD graduation in New York City on July 25, 2023. NY Daily News via Getty Images New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced last Friday that the city would spend at least $225 million on a new police training facility in the borough of Queens. The mayor’s decision…
Favorite Protesters opposed to the Jordan Cove Pipeline project in Coos Bay, Ore., stage a sit-in at the office of then-Gov. Kate Brown on Feb. 20, 2020.Photo: Andrew Selsky/AP Photo The activists of Siskiyou Rising Tide are not new to being watched. Founded in 2016 under the name Southern Oregon Rising Tide, the direct action…
Favorite A person holds up a sign reading “Trans People Belong in Alabama” during a rally outside the Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., on International Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, 2023. Photo: Kim Chandler/AP Three Trump-appointed federal judges ruled on Monday to allow one of the country’s harshest bans on gender-affirming care for minors…
Favorite Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speak on a book tour in Des Moines on March 10, 2023. Photo: Rachel Mummey for The Washington Post via Getty Images It reads like a headline pulled from a dystopian near future: Artificial intelligence is being used to ban books by Toni Morrison, Alice…
Favorite Participants in the “Trans Youth Prom” pose for a photo in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., on May 22, 2023. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Last week, federal courts in Tennessee and Kentucky moved to temporarily block laws that would ban important health care for trans minors in those states.…
Favorite Photo: Courtesy of Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) Hours before dawn on Tuesday, eight animal liberation activists entered the Petaluma Poultry slaughterhouse facility in Sonoma County, California, disguised as workers, with the aim of rescuing as many chickens as possible. Meanwhile, approximately 175 protesters gathered outside the property, where up to 49,000 chickens are killed…
