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Congress Must Act Now to Protect Social Security—Make the Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share

17h ago·2 min read·374 words

A Special Kind Of Loathsomeness

1d ago·6 min read·1051 words

More than 325 Organizations Affirm Support for Medicare for All

1d ago·3 min read·581 words

We'll Make Our Home In the American Land

4d ago·5 min read·863 words

Warner’s Continued Collaboration with Trump Threatens Democracy

5d ago·2 min read·360 words

350.org responds to WMO warning on developing El Niño

Jun 2·2 min read·224 words

That Colossal Wreck

Jun 2·13 min read·2521 words

Labor Unions Celebrate World Court Ruling Enshrining Right to Strike

May 31·10 min read·1806 words

Statement by the NYC chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace on the illegal sale of Palestinian land

May 28·2 min read·298 words

Lawsuit Filed Over “Alligator Alcatraz” Air Pollution

May 27·4 min read·643 words

Vermont becomes first state in the nation to ban Parkinson’s pesticide paraquat

May 26·2 min read·387 words

AFGE Blasts Administration’s Proposed NDA Rule as Yet Another Attack on Non-Partisan Federal Employees

May 26·2 min read·238 words

Purchased With Blood and Lies

May 26·6 min read·1040 words

RootsAction Blasts Official DNC Autopsy; ‘Disgrace’ Would Be ‘Understatement’

May 21·2 min read·278 words

“Failures of ‘America First Global Health’”: U.S. Global Health Cuts and DRC Conflict Fuel Ebola Crisis

May 21·7 min read·1212 words

Burgers, Brats, and Busted Budgets: Summer Staples Up 13%, Travel Prices Surging Ahead of Memorial Day

May 21·4 min read·754 words

One Racist Batshit Christo-Fascist Homeland Under God

May 21·8 min read·1422 words

G7 Finance Ministers Let Big Oil Off the Hook Again

May 19·2 min read·360 words

Outlandish Merger of Giant Power Companies NextEra and Dominion is ‘Contrary to Public Interest’

May 18·1 min read·175 words

50 rights groups blast Meta for brazen policy reversal of Instagram end-to-end encrypted messaging

May 18·5 min read·936 words

Grifty Colossus Strikes Again and Again and...

May 15·8 min read·1493 words

Wholesale Horror: Producer Price Index Spells Disaster for Economic Outlook as Trump’s War in Iran Drags On

May 13·1 min read·17 words

Big Tech Favoritism on Display with CEOs Set to Join Trump at China Summit

May 12·1 min read·14 words

AI Companies Are Recklessly Racing Toward a Cybersecurity Crisis

May 11·1 min read·9 words

Are Trump’s nuclear plans illegal?

May 11·1 min read·5 words

Ode To Joy

May 11·1 min read·3 words

ABC Learns from Past Mistakes, Takes Stronger Stance Against Carr and Trump's Censorship Campaign

May 8·1 min read·14 words

FPF commends ABC for fighting back against FCC censorship

May 8·1 min read·9 words

April Jobs Report Shows Uneven Labor Market Growth As Inflation Outpaces Wages

May 8·1 min read·12 words

Operation Trust Me Bro: Let Them Drink Bourbon

May 8·1 min read·8 words

Shell’s profits ‘obscene’ as European oil majors’ profits surge by 43%

May 7·1 min read·11 words

New Report Reveals Coordinated Corporate Campaign Against Life-Saving Federal Heat Standard for Workers

May 5·1 min read·13 words

Senate Republicans Pander to Trump in Reconciliation Bill, Throwing Billions More to ICE and Trump’s Tacky Ballroom

May 5·1 min read·17 words

Winning Blind Cruel Inept Nationalism, Also Cultism

May 5·1 min read·7 words

Keystone Light Tar Sands Pipeline: Same Problems, Different Name

May 1·1 min read·9 words

Top CEO pay increased 20 times faster than workers’ pay in 2025

May 1·1 min read·12 words

100,000+ Students to Walk Out Alongside Workers in Largest One-Day Strike in Over 80 Years

May 1·1 min read·15 words

Telling It Like It Is

May 1·1 min read·5 words

AFGE Urges Passage of the Shutdown Fairness Act

Apr 30·1 min read·8 words

Wyden to Force Declassification of Secret Court Opinion on FISA “Serious Abuses”

Apr 30·1 min read·12 words

Friends of the Earth Applauds House Stripping Harmful Pesticide Language from Farm Bill

Apr 30·1 min read·13 words

U.S. House Strips Cancer Gag Act From Farm Bill

Apr 30·1 min read·9 words

Supreme Court Eviscerates Last Remnants of Voting Rights Act, Opening Door ti Jim Crow Gerrymandering in Red States

Apr 29·1 min read·18 words

New Report Exposes Trump Cryptocurrency Corruption

Apr 28·1 min read·6 words

Again To the Grisly Well, With Ballrooms

Apr 28·1 min read·7 words

New Report Shows That Hardening of US Sanctions on Cuba Since 2017 Fueled a Sharp Increase in Cuba’s Infant Mortality Rate

Apr 27·1 min read·21 words

Jewish New Yorkers Welcome Mamdani's Veto of Anti-Palestinian Buffer Zone Bill, Call on City Council to Stop Attacking Protest

Apr 24·1 min read·19 words

Shareholder Vote for Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal Won’t Be the Final Word on This Dangerous Mega-Merger

Apr 23·1 min read·15 words

Industry Insider Seeks to Eviscerate U.S. Forest Service

Apr 23·1 min read·8 words

Thousands Urge DNC to Release Autopsy on 2024 Defeat

Apr 23·1 min read·9 words

You Got This: Amidst the Carnage, A Beautiful Moment

Apr 23·1 min read·9 words

EFF Sues DHS and ICE For Records on Subpoenas Seeking to Unmask Online Critics

Apr 22·1 min read·14 words

Common Cause: DOJ’s Attack on SPLC Part of “Campaign of Intimidation”

Apr 22·1 min read·11 words

Trump Administration Finally Discloses White House Ballroom Funding Contract in Response to Public Citizen’s FOIA Lawsuit

Apr 22·1 min read·16 words

Data center growth threatens air quality and progress toward cleaner energy grid

Apr 22·1 min read·12 words

New report: Households pay $12 trillion a year in hidden fossil fuel costs – a $23 million a minute ‘gift to Big Oil’

Apr 21·1 min read·23 words

EWG sues EPA for 7-year inaction on glyphosate in oats, citing risks to children’s health

Apr 21·1 min read·15 words

April’s Beige Book Reveals Trump’s War in Iran Is Devastating Economy At Home

Apr 21·1 min read·13 words

California’s Regressive Rooftop Solar Policy Hit With Second Appeal to State Supreme Court

Apr 20·1 min read·13 words

Lawsuit Targets Trump Administration Approval of BP’s Ultra-Deepwater Drilling in Gulf of Mexico, 16 Years After Deepwater Horizon

Apr 20·1 min read·18 words

On Witless Great Vengeance and Furious Anger

Apr 19·1 min read·7 words

Federal Bill Would Put Big Oil Above the Law

Apr 17·1 min read·9 words

Jared Golden Joins Republicans to Sink Iran War Powers Resolution

Apr 16·1 min read·10 words

On Tax Day, Patriotic Millionaires descend upon Capitol Hill urging lawmakers to raise their taxes

Apr 15·1 min read·15 words

A Majority of Voters Support Senate Resolutions To Block Bombs and Bulldozers To Israel

Apr 15·1 min read·14 words

Bipartisan Privacy Champions Slow Johnson’s Roll to Renew FISA

Apr 15·1 min read·9 words

New Report Warns of Growing Debt and Climate Crises in Developing Countries

Apr 15·1 min read·12 words

The Terrifying Ridiculous Spectacle

Apr 14·1 min read·4 words

ICE Detention Center Contractors Host a Hotbed of Legal Problems, Regulatory Violations and Deadly Conditions

Apr 13·1 min read·15 words

Is War Criminal Donald Trump Actually a Healing Jesus Christ?

Apr 13·1 min read·10 words

Human Rights Organizations Call on Congress: Do Not Send Cubans Fleeing Impacts of the U.S. Fuel Blockade to Guantánamo

Apr 10·1 min read·19 words

Trump’s War in Iran Hits Pockets at Home as Inflation Spikes

Apr 10·1 min read·11 words

Humanitarian Scorecard: Six Months In, Gaza Ceasefire is Failing

Apr 9·1 min read·9 words

Iran: President Trump’s apocalyptic threats of large-scale civilian devastation demand urgent global action to prevent atrocity crimes

Apr 7·1 min read·17 words

Congress Must Restrain the Trump Administration from Nuclear Weapons First Use, Says Union of Concerned Scientists

Apr 7·1 min read·16 words

Attack on Iran's Bushehr reactor would spell disaster

Apr 7·1 min read·8 words

Trump Wages War on Working Families to Fund $500 Billion Pentagon Boost

Apr 3·1 min read·12 words

Progressives Urge Senate Dems to Block AG Confirmation Until Epstein Files Released

Apr 3·1 min read·12 words

March Job Gains Mask a Volatile Labor Market as Iran War Chaos Mounts

Apr 3·1 min read·13 words

Trump Appointees on Planning Commission Rubber-Stamp Trump’s White House Ballroom Project

Apr 2·1 min read·11 words

Advocacy Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Decision to Exempt All Oil and Gas Activities in Gulf from Endangered Species Act

Apr 2·1 min read·20 words

EPA and HHS Pledge to Address Threat of Microplastics, PFAS to Health and Drinking Water Safety

Apr 2·1 min read·16 words

EPA Must Do More to Address Microplastics Crisis

Apr 2·1 min read·8 words

Blockbuster New Documents Show EPA Employees Should Never Have Been Fired

Apr 2·1 min read·11 words

Taxpayers and Seniors Would Lose Billions Under Big Pharma’s EPIC Act

Apr 2·1 min read·11 words

Pam Bondi Trivialized the Rule of Law

Apr 2·1 min read·7 words

Second Unlawful Anti-Voter Executive Order Challenged by Voting Rights Coalition

Apr 2·1 min read·10 words

Untaxed wealth hidden offshore by richest 0.1% surpasses entire wealth of the poorest half of humanity

Apr 2·1 min read·16 words

Trump's Anti-Voter Executive Order Is Hypocritical and Unconstitutional

Apr 1·1 min read·8 words

Staircase to Nowhere: MAGA's Crowning Achievement

Mar 31·1 min read·6 words

Rep. Himes Sides With Trump on Warrantless Surveillance of Americans

Mar 30·1 min read·10 words

Coalition Sues Trump EPA Over Illegal Repeal of Mercury and Air Toxics Standards

Mar 30·1 min read·13 words

New Analyses: EPA Consistently Fails to Warn Public of Pesticide Cancer Risks

Mar 30·1 min read·12 words

Over $100 Billion Lost to Oil and Gas Price Spikes in First Month of Iran War, 350.org Analysis Shows

Mar 30·1 min read·19 words

Economic Liberties Applauds Bicameral “Take Back Our Hospitals” Legislation

Mar 27·1 min read·9 words

ICE Patriots Guard the Exit

Mar 27·1 min read·5 words

1 Million Americans Demand Impeachment as Free Speech For People Launches Full-Page New York Times Ad Ahead of ‘No Kings’ Protests

Mar 26·1 min read·21 words

Trump’s Broken Promises: Energy and Utility Bills Surge as Families Struggle to Keep Up

Mar 25·1 min read·14 words

House Dem Leaders Waver on Iran Vote As Trump Prepares to Escalate

Mar 25·1 min read·12 words

Oil Change response to María Corina Machado's speech at CERAWeek

Mar 24·1 min read·10 words

Dancing On Graves: Going Low, Lower, Lowest (For Now)

Mar 23·1 min read·9 words

Clown Shoes 'R Us

Mar 20·1 min read·4 words

Heat Wave Scorches Western States, Just as Big Oil Predicted

Mar 19·1 min read·10 words

Trump is Illegally Undermining Oversight of His Social Security Sabotage

Mar 19·1 min read·10 words

New Polling: As Trump’s War Drives Up Energy Prices, Americans Call for Corporate Profiteering Crackdown

Mar 18·1 min read·15 words

Patriotic Millionaires applaud Senator Markey’s introduction of the Equal Tax Act

Mar 17·1 min read·11 words

Desperate to Hold Onto Power, Trump Strong-Arms Senate to Vote on SAVE Act

Mar 17·1 min read·13 words

Send Me, Jesse Said

Mar 17·1 min read·4 words

Pipeline That Caused Massive 2015 Santa Barbara Oil Spill Restarts Illegally

Mar 16·1 min read·11 words

Trump Administration Rolls Back Safeguards Limiting Release of Cancer-Causing Air Pollutant Ethylene Oxide

Mar 13·1 min read·13 words

EPA Bows to Corporate Polluters, Abandons Duty to Protect Public from Sterilizers’ Ethylene Oxide Emissions

Mar 13·1 min read·15 words

Consumer Sentiment Tanks, Prices Rise, Growth Stalls as Trump’s Illegal and Costly Iran War Pushes Economy to the Brink

Mar 13·1 min read·19 words

JVP sends love and care to Jewish communities following Michigan synagogue attack

Mar 13·1 min read·12 words

More Than 250 Groups Oppose Additional Spending on Trump’s Illegal Iran War

Mar 12·1 min read·12 words

Middle East: All parties to the conflict must refrain from unlawful attacks on energy infrastructure

Mar 11·1 min read·15 words

FERC Undermines Trump’s Useless Big Tech Ratepayer Pledge

Mar 11·1 min read·8 words

Trump Eradicates Critical Oversight as he Fires More Inspectors General than All Other US Presidents Combined

Mar 11·1 min read·16 words

Coalition of Antiwar Groups Launches National Campaign Calling for Jeffries and Schumer to Step Aside from Leadership

Mar 11·1 min read·17 words

Shit, Here We Go Again: War By Cartoon Sociopaths

Mar 11·1 min read·9 words

Social Security and the “Millionaires Day” Milestone

Mar 6·1 min read·7 words

Labor Market Plummets as Trump Fuels Economic Turmoil

Mar 6·1 min read·8 words

New Letter Calls on CFTC to Investigate Suspicious Bets on Iran Attack

Mar 5·1 min read·12 words

February Beige Book Shows Trump’s Price Hikes Continue to Create Struggles for Consumers, Businesses

Mar 5·1 min read·14 words

Operation Epstein Fury: A Holy War With Shitty Toilets

Mar 5·1 min read·9 words

Sanders and Khanna Introduce Legislation to Tax Billionaire Wealth and Invest in Working Families

Mar 2·1 min read·14 words

Ribbital: Democracy As Something We Do, Not Just Have

Feb 28·1 min read·9 words

Paramount Skydance’s Takeover of Warner Bros. Is Bad News for Workers, Consumers, and Free Expression

Feb 27·1 min read·15 words

For Now A Prince. How Long Till A (Fake) King?

Feb 23·1 min read·10 words

SCOTUS Blocking of Trump’s “Emergency” Tariffs Is a Small But Meaningful Check on a Lawless President

Feb 20·1 min read·16 words

Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump Tariffs

Feb 20·1 min read·6 words

EPA Dismantles Protections for Mercury and Air Toxics From Power Plants

Feb 20·1 min read·11 words

Donald Trump to Pollute Tennessee Air with More Mercury, Arsenic, Lead

Feb 20·1 min read·11 words

Supreme Court Ruling Curbs Trump’s Authority, But Tariff Chaos and Higher Prices Remain

Feb 20·1 min read·13 words

Center for Food Safety Responds to Trump Administration’s Executive Order on Glyphosate

Feb 19·1 min read·12 words

Despite Relentless Attacks, Nearly Half a Million Workers Unionized in 2025

Feb 18·1 min read·11 words

NIAC: With “90% Chance” of War on Iran, Congress Must Act Now to Prevent Illegal U.S. Military Adventure

Feb 18·1 min read·18 words

Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s Climate Science, Tailpipe Rule Rollbacks

Feb 18·1 min read·8 words

UCS Joins Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Unlawful Endangerment Finding Repeal

Feb 18·1 min read·10 words

350.org urges countries to support Vanuatu's proposed UN resolution

Feb 18·1 min read·9 words

Fuck This Guy: The Hunted Becomes the Beached

Feb 17·1 min read·8 words

CTU on the Death of Ofelia Torres

Feb 16·1 min read·7 words

Trump Appoints Gambling CEOs to CTFC After Ousting Enforcement Lawyers

Feb 13·1 min read·10 words

UK: High Court rules ban on Palestine Action under terrorism legislation unlawful

Feb 13·1 min read·12 words

On Fascists, Mean Girls and Screechy Pedophile Allies

Feb 13·1 min read·8 words

Lawsuit Seeks to Protect Monarchs Under Endangered Species Act

Feb 12·1 min read·9 words

Trump Administration Takes Chainsaw to Science-Based Endangerment Finding Endangering Us All

Feb 12·1 min read·11 words

Repeal of EPA’s Endangerment Finding Will Have Devastating Impact

Feb 12·1 min read·9 words

House Republican Moves to Block Climate Lawsuits as Oil Industry Pushes for Immunity

Feb 12·1 min read·13 words

Minnesotans Fought Back Against ICE and CBP. Now it’s Congress’ Turn.

Feb 12·1 min read·11 words

CAIR-MN Welcomes End of ICE Siege of Minneapolis as ‘Community Victory,’ Warns of Lasting Harm and Ongoing Risks

Feb 12·1 min read·18 words

House Member Crafting Legislation to Stop Climate Lawsuits

Feb 12·1 min read·8 words

Revised Data Paints a Grim Picture of 2025 Jobs Market

Feb 11·1 min read·10 words

Tennessee Valley Authority goes back on commitment to retire dirty coal plants

Feb 10·1 min read·12 words

Anti-Them: A Joyful Colonial At the Heart of Empire

Feb 10·1 min read·9 words

FPF complaint targets prosecutor over Washington Post reporter raid

Feb 9·1 min read·9 words

New Report Exposes MAHA’s Corrupting Influence in HHS and Beyond

Feb 5·1 min read·10 words

New Trump Administration Policy Politicizing Federal Workforce Endangers Federal Operations, Largest Federal Employee Union Says

Feb 5·1 min read·15 words

Trump Administration Illegally Seeks to Cancel Millions in Funding For Electric Vehicle Charging, Again

Feb 5·1 min read·14 words

We Are Here: Courts Join the Furious Chorus

Feb 5·1 min read·8 words

ACLU Calls On UN to Investigate Trump Administration's Gross Violations of Human Rights in Minnesota

Feb 4·1 min read·15 words