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Last week a federal judge in Alabama ruled that the suffering caused to a prisoner being killed by gas suffocation executions does not rise to the level of being unconstitutional. The ruling is being appealed, but we know what this means: We must continue to hope and pray for the best, but prepare for the worst.
That's why Death Penalty Action is once again in Alabama, speaking in a church this morning and leading the petition delivery and rally to stop the execution of Jeffrey Lee.
On May 27, 2026, Israel announced it was bombing areas around Tyre, Lebanon, after ordering the forced displacement of the city and surrounding villages south of the Zahrani River, which the IDF declared a “combat zone.”
On June 2, Israeli forces killed Lama Talal Basma, a young Lebanese woman, in a drone strike while she was riding a motorcycle in the town of Ain Baal, near the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon. Lama kept her small kitchen open throughout the war to support and feed her community.
Following is a statement from Lynn Tramonte, Executive Director of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance
Well now we know. According to a majority of the U.S. Senate, and both of Ohio’s Senators, our tax dollars are just an ATM for ICE.
On June 2, 2026, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) kidnapped four Palestinian college students — including one American citizen — in the middle of the night from their dormitories or homes and transferred them to undisclosed detention facilities.
The students were identified as:
- Jolan Abu Awwad, kidnapped after IOF soldiers stormed student housing in Birzeit, north of Ramallah;
- Sama Safi, taken from her family home in Ramallah at 3:00 a.m.;
- Liela Na’el Khalil, forcibly taken from her home in Beitunia;
- Natalie Abu Diah, kidnapped from her family residence in Birzeit.
Israel enforces a policy known as “administrative detention,” which allows authorities to imprison Palestinians for renewable six‑month periods without charges or trial. These detentions can continue for years. Currently, Israel is holding approximately 10,000 Palestinian detainees, including more than 3,000 under administrative detention in Israeli prisons.
I don't believe the vast majority of Medicaid suppliers who were put on a “list” and are under “investigation” by Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel and Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are guilty of a damned thing. And I wouldn't believe a thing Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose said either.
Here we have pedophile protectors in Patel and Todd Blanche pretending they are concerned about corruption. They are doing all they can to get rid of Medicaid, not trying to root out fraud. They represent the real fraud that is undermining the United States. We all know that Blanche went to Ghislaine Maxwell and offered her a sweet deal at a country club prison if she kept quiet about Donald Trump's ties to Epstein and any horrible atrocities Trump might have committed.
Hunger strike inside, protests outside the private prison holding good American immigrants, best of the best. Not content to destroy America’s working class, they also destroy the media, thank you Bari Israel Weiss. Still no competition with Israel, which can destroy several countries at once. USA a close second. Now refugees in the US will become refugees from the US. But no worries, we’ll just erase all this from the museums. And history.
The U.S. has no right to attack Cuba, threaten Cuba, starve Cuba, or decide Cuba’s future. The people of Cuba need fuel, medicine, food, and sovereignty. For more than 60 years, Washington has tried to force Cuba into submission through economic warfare, isolation, and regime-change operations. Media outlets should not help recycle the narratives used to justify escalation and intervention.
Cuba does not need another “new relationship” written in Washington. Cuba needs the U.S. to get out of its way.
To the editors of Axios,
We are deeply concerned by Axios’ recent reporting alleging that Cuba acquired hundreds of military drones for possible attacks on Guantánamo, U.S. vessels, and Key West.
On the outskirts of Lhasa, Tibetan mourners whispered prayers, while hungry brooding vultures circled overhead.
Cawing.
"This is our sky funeral. We let the vultures eat the bodies of dead Tibetans," a mourner said as we sat on rocky dirt among other Tibetan mourners at the beginning of the somber rites.
"I personally think it is too gruesome. But this is our Buddhist tradition."
Cremations and burials are difficult to perform.
Firewood is scarce throughout much of Tibet.
The ground is often frozen or rocky.
A gray boulder looming 30 feet high, served as the cold altar for Lhasa's Tibetan corpses.
The flat boulder's 20-foot by 20-foot surface could be used every day except Sundays.
Sky funerals -- "bya gtor" or "alms for the birds" -- began at dawn with attendees moaning prayers.
"Today, four bodies," the mourner quietly explained.
"You can see, three of the dead are village women.
"Also a merchant. He is a murder victim. He was killed two nights ago in the Lhasa market at a card game. Stabbed.