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  'Historic': Seattle Passes First City Ban on AI-Enabled Surveillance Pricing Seattle became the first city in the country to ban surveillance pricing on Tuesday afternoon after the City Council voted 7-2 to approve a measure co-sponsored and championed by progressive Mayor Katie Wilson.

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  Bernie Sanders: The World Is “Moving in the Wrong Direction” on War, Climate, Inequality & AI Tech SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: What Dr. King said was true nearly 60 years ago, and it is even truer today, as our country, the United States of America, is now spending over a trillion dollars a year on the military, while some 800,000 Americans are homeless, 85 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured, and millions of people cannot afford the basic necessities of life.

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  'Incredible Story of Corruption': Bombshell Report Puts Susan Collins at Center of Massive Bribery Scheme Of all the politicians Navatek courted under Kao’s leadership, [Senator Dusan] Collins was its most important patron,” the investigative outlet reported. “The senator’s office steered government contracts worth millions toward the company while her campaign was pumping Kao and his network for donations, according to emails seen by ProPublica. Sometimes they cut checks within 24 hour...

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  ‘Massive Betrayal’: Fury at Newsom and Bonta Over Merger Deal With Paramount | Common Dreams The deal, which is set to be formally announced later Monday, will pave the way for the creation of one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, helmed by the son of a billionaire megadonor to [Trump]…

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  Show us your damn Nazi tats, low T Pentagone Peter Brian!

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  U.S. House of Representatives Votes to End War on Iran for a Third Time …Iranian strikes have damaged or destroyed hundreds of buildings and other structures at U.S. military bases across the Middle East, causing about $184 million worth of damage.

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  Our message to global leaders: we need solar power everywhere by the decade’s end | Open letter The oil that governments fight over is also the carbon pollution that is warming our climate. The bad air quality in Delhi, the high price of fuel in Vietnam, the cost of electricity in the United States, the terrifying floods in the Himalayas – they all connect back to fossil fuels. Until we end that dependence, we’ll never be able to address the climate emergency and stop fighting these endless o...

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  The climate fight has one great ally. You just can’t look at it directly | Bill McKibben …there is one solitary (and very literal) ray of sunshine amidst this gloom: the steady rise of solar, wind and batteries. That clean energy trinity has broken out of its Chinese base and over the last few years expanded quickly across the planet – from Karachi to California to Cuba, solar panels are going up faster than any energy source has ever grown. It’s even begun to demonstrate that it can drive emis...

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  “Politics Are Desperately Important at the Moment”: Bill McKibben on Midterms, Trump & Climate Crisis If you add up the gas that all these data centers are going to burn, U.S. data centers are going to be burning more gas than any country except the U.S., Russia, China and Iran. It’s as if Donald Trump is helping invent a whole new country to burn fossil fuel, precisely at the moment when our system is about to break. So, whether it’s, you know, gross beef or disgusting natural gas or whate...

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  'Nothing Short of Torture': Critics Decry Abuse Affirmed by DHS Alligator Alcatraz Probe …the OIG reported on September 11 that staff at the facility, which was operated by the state of Florida and private contractors, “confined 79 detainees in small metal enclosures—each offering about 18 square feet of floor space—for periods ranging from several minutes to nearly two hours.” “Facility staff described the small metal enclosures as ‘calming areas’ for detainees to de-escalate and hav...

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  The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The spirited, disruptive “No Space for Bezos” campaign tapped into wells of outrage against billionaires, climate breakdown and militarism – and it also gave the organizers a megaphone to broadcast ideas for different, less lethal ways we could choose to live together

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  ‘I needed an IV’: shoes melt as turf temperature reaches 157F in Eagles-Titans game “I’ve never thought about how hot a stadium can be if it’s [synthetic] turf. [The heat] just sits there and bounces up into you,” Mailata said. “[The union] have got to bring it up. This is why we want all grass fields, to create a standard of play in the league where we’re not putting players in dangerous positions if we don’t have to.”

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  Working-Class Taxpayers Subsidize Billionaires' Climate-Killing Private Jets: Report A handful of the world’s wealthiest people are traveling aboard some of the planet’s most polluting vehicles while receiving substantial public subsidies, according to a new report documenting how taxpayers and commercial airline passengers are funding billionaires’ private jet lifestyles due to corporate lobbying, tax breaks, and other policies.

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  Guess What Happened After New York Raised Taxes on the Rich? More Millionaires Moved In | Common Dreams Lindsay Owens, president and CEO of Groundwork Collaborative, said the new data makes clear that “tax flight is nothing more than a myth, and should be given as much credence as flat-earthers.” “If there was any merit to the myth that tax increases on New York’s wealthy drive them away, the new IRS data should show it,” said Owens. “It doesn’t—New York’s millionaire population kept climbing...

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  Trump’s love of fossil fuels is about more than money …part of Trump’s love of fossil fuels – and his accompanying hostility to climate change mitigation, green initiatives, and nature conservation – might be less transactional than libidinal. Because to him, part of the appeal of climate-destroying, future-inhibiting, polluting energy industries is not merely that their executives are writing him checks. It’s that he sees these industries, and these forms of energy consumption, as more manly.

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  124 Land Defenders Killed in 2025 Amid Trump-Driven Lawlessness and Aid Cuts Indigenous people remain especially vulnerable to violence, as over three-quarters of the people killed in 2025 were either Indigenous, Afro-descendant, or small-scale farmers. “For Indigenous peoples, land is life,” said Joan Carling, executive director of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights International, in the report foreword. “Any threat to our lands, territories, and resources is a threat to our very existence—our cultu...

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  124 Land Defenders Killed in 2025 Amid Trump-Driven Lawlessness and Aid Cuts Indigenous people remain especially vulnerable to violence, as over three-quarters of the people killed in 2025 were either Indigenous, Afro-descendant, or small-scale farmers. “For Indigenous peoples, land is life,” said Joan Carling, executive director of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights International, in the report foreword. “Any threat to our lands, territories, and resources is a threat to our very existence—our cultu...

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  US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them In January, the New York Police Department’s counterterrorism unit sent out a memo warning police officers about a new potential “security and counterintelligence” threat: Ray-Ban Meta glasses. The memo directed officers to “conduct thorough inspections of all eyewear permitted within inmate cells” and cautioned that people who have been arrested could use these glasses, equipped with small cameras and microphones, to rec...

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  On Labor Day, Mamdani Announces First-of-Its Kind ‘Office of Worker Power’ in NYC “We created the first-in-the-nation Office of Worker Power to put the full weight of City Hall behind the people who keep New York running,” said [NYC Mayor] Mamdani. “The nurse working a double shift. The teacher working a second job. The warehouse workers organizing for a union. Every New Yorker working hard to build a life and support a family. On Labor Day, we honor the workers who came before us by fighting f...

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  Food-borne illnesses, funding cuts and layoffs: Maha movement’s glaring limitationMs are now showingr Cyclospora in leafy greens, E coli in frozen blueberries, salmonella in jalapeños – multiple food-borne illness outbreaks in the US, alongside massive cuts to food assistance programs and to the federal agencies charged with food safety, are showing the limitations of the Make America Healthy Again (Maha) movement, experts say. “The policies that we’re enacting are the exact opposite policies...

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  don’t forget “who killed my mommy?” & “who killed my daddy?”

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  “Catastrophic Failure”: Postal Service Whistleblower Warns Mail-In Voting Rules Could Derail Election With the midterm elections two months away, a federal whistleblower has warned that the U.S. Postal Service’s new mail voting system is untested, fatally flawed and likely to lead to a “catastrophic failure” if it’s implemented ahead of November’s midterm elections. Critics warn the system could disenfranchise millions of voters. In March, President Trump signed an executive order directing h...

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  Trump’s Contested Order to Restrict Mail-In Voting Could Disenfranchise Millions: Ari Berman With the midterm elections less than 10 weeks away, the Supreme Court has lifted a lower court injunction on President Trump’s executive order seeking to limit mail-in voting ahead of the midterms. Trump’s order directed the Department of Homeland Security to create state-by-state lists of eligible voters who are citizens. The U.S. Postal Service would then use the lists provided by states to assess if...

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  Wendell Berry, Writer and Activist Who Fought Corporate Takeover of US Farming, Dies at 92 “The true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment, the size of its income, or even the statistics of its productivity, but the good health of the land,” wrote [Wendell] Berry…in 1977. He stressed that the “increase in overhead, debt, and dependence on machines” in the agricultural sector “is a matter of complex significance, and its agricultural significance cannot be disentang...

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  A Deadly Glacier Collapse... and All the Future Damage We Could Still Forestall …focus on the image at the top of this newsletter, taken by a Chinese mountaineer…that shows the collapse—that’s the stream in the center of the picture that looks like a waterfall. And what I want you to notice is how much ice is still there—to the naked eye it looks like 99% of the glacier remains. And this is just one glacier of perhaps 50,000 across the Himalayas and Hindu Kush. My point is: There is infinitely...