One of Texas’s largest cities has formally recognized transgender history for the first time.
The San Antonio City Council approved a resolution recognizing this week, May 4 through 10, as Trans+ History Week.
“At a moment when both our state and country are systematically trying to push trans people out of public life, erase our stories, and outright deny our existence, this proclamation…
Immigrant workers from around the world are on strike at one of the nation’s largest beef plants. (Essential Workers for Democracy)
In less than a quarter-mile stretch of sidewalk, chatter in fifty-seven languages…
The US president made the comments to the Financial Times on Sunday, just as hundreds of US Special Operations troops arrived in the Middle East ahead of a possible mission to seize Kharg Island, Iran’s main oil export hub. (As it happens, Trump has been thinking of doing this for nearly 40 years.) Trump is also weighing an operation to…
Pete Hegseth blocked the promotions of two women and two Black Army officers, showing yet again that he will stop at nothing in his war on diversity in the U.S. military.
The officers were originally on a one-star promotion list of about three dozen officers consisting mostly of white men, _The New York Times_ reported Friday.
Hegseth had been pushing Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll to remove…
Cauleen Smith recently encountered a terrifying specter. A spirit appeared to her portending a divine promise, like a biblical angel to Mary or the prophets. The spirit was of a white woman in billowing robes, her hair tied in a chignon. And she said that God—God Almighty Himself—will descend from the heavens to the earth and vindicate the Confederate States of America. The rebel nation’s white…
Put on your best progressive’s voice and repeat: in our lived experience ‘Linux user’ is a protected characteristic, and anyone who disagrees is actually, like, performing an illegal operation and making us feel memory-unsafe right now!
It’s a demonstration of how toxic the surveillance-tech company Flock has become when Amazon’s Ring cancels the partnership between the two companies.
As Hamilton Nolan advises, remove your Ring doorbell.
I’ve been finding it increasingly difficult to concentrate lately. There I’ll be, trying to work, or read, or eat dinner, when the intrusive thought returns: For decades, many of the wealthiest men and women in the world actively participated in the trafficking and rape of children; the powers that be knew what was happening; nobody was held accountable.
Even today, few of Epstein’s enablers are…