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As news organizations increasingly block the Wayback Machine, the world’s premier independent third party archive of the Internet, tech justice group Fight for the Future launches a petition demanding news publishers commit to getting the work of today’s journalists preserved.
“2026 is the first World Press Freedom Day in 30 years that journalists’ work at major media outlets including New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today is not being preserved by the independent, nonprofit Internet Archive. We are calling on you and on all news outlets to publicly commit to working with the Internet Archive to keep the news in the Wayback Machine,” reads a petition that tech justice group Fight for the Future has launched.
The public petition addressed to leadership at major news outlets comes on the heels of a letter that journalists delivered to the Internet Archive, thanking them for their work as an essential resource in journalism. When signing, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow called the Internet Archive "a national treasure.” Adding “I use it daily, and have for many, many years. I cannot imagine doing the work I do without it.”
We have reached a moment of absolute clarity: No one is coming to save us.
The "feasibility studies" are being written in real-time, and they have determined that our communities are targets for extraction, not investment. As we lead the charge for the Protecting Ohioans Constitutional Rights Initiative, we see a coordinated effort that goes beyond policy—it is a calculated campaign to dismantle Black Political Power in America.
Opulence as a Weapon
While the administration moves forward with a $400 million White House ballroom, they are simultaneously pulling the rug out from under the most vulnerable. This gilded hall, designed for the elite, stands in mocking contrast to the 400,000 seniors and children with disabilities whose SSI benefits are being slashed. We are watching our tax dollars build a palace while the financial lifelines that keep our families in their homes are stripped away.
The Democratic leadership in Congress has failed to provide real leadership against a war-crazed Trump administration. Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Hakeem Jeffries have not acted to prevent war on Venezuela or the current war on Iran. They worked to delay a vote on Iran until after the war had started, while failing to clearly oppose it before or after the launch of the war. Schumer and Jeffries have shown that they cannot be trusted to prevent more wars, more threats of wars, or the transfer of another half a trillion dollars a year into the war machine.
It’s time for congressional Democrats to replace Schumer and Jeffries with leaders who are willing and able to challenge the runaway militarism that has dragged our country into launching yet another insanely destructive war.
Trump’s Iran War has turned into a frozen fiasco. American motorists face steadily rising costs of fuel. Many retail prices are also rising as the now closed Persian Gulf causes commodity prices to mount. The Jeffery Epstein scandal, which lies at the heart of the Persian Gulf war, is beginning to break out into the open. The Trump administration just spent $20 billion to try to distract attention from it.
What does Trump do? He blames Germany for being soft on what he calls terrorism. This from the man who authorized his Israeli ally to kill over 79,000 West Bank Arabs and killed thousands of Iranians in recent weeks. Germany, thunders Trump, is ‘soft’ on military matters and only interested in playing footsie with wicked Muslims. The US, says Trump, is doing Europe a huge favor by stationing over 80,000 troops in Europe. He’s been claiming this for a long time. As I’ve written in the past, Trump simply does not understand the nature of geopolitics. Why should he? Trump used to renovate old hotels and run beauty pageants. The trembling yes-men who surround him dare not contradict their leader, who styles himself a ‘unique genius.’
Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan interview special guest Travis Irvine and play his favorite anti-war songs.
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In actions that would do Putin, Orban, or Maduro proud, Vanguard and Fidelity just created a precedent to cut off funds to any nonprofits disliked by the federal government or any state government. The justification is a Trump administration indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) claiming that SPLC paying hate group informants constituted fraud. SPLC has actually coordinated with Federal and state law enforcement for years, using information supplied by the informants to help secure indictments and convictions.
Today, May 1, 2026, as the "No Kings" banner flies from the statehouse in Columbus to the streets of Cleveland and across the heart of America, we are witnessing more than just a labor strike. We are seeing a national rejection of a future that has already been scripted for us. While the administration moves forward with the "Project 2025" agenda – a calculated blueprint to dismantle the federal workforce and consolidate executive power – the people have decided to stop the machine.
This "May Day Strong" boycott is our collective response to a vision of governance that treats the Constitution as a suggestion. We are currently facing the shadow of Senate Bill 293, a law that enables systematic voter purges, while the Senate Judiciary Committee weighs House Bill 20, which seeks to criminalize the citizen journalists of the Fourth Estate for documenting police activity. Most alarming is the renewed attempt to resurrect the failed 60 percent threshold for citizen-led ballot initiatives a transparent power grab designed to silence the majority because the "kings" know we are ready to win.
I am writing this to shine a light on the human toll inflicted on a Palestinian family living in France, as well as the silence of mainstream media and public officials. I hope readers will share this story widely. Perhaps your share will be the reason these three children are safely returned to their family.
A Palestinian family evacuated from Gaza to France says French authorities have separated three children from their parents after allegations of abuse that the family strongly denies and that courts have not substantiated with evidence. The abduction took place in cooperation with an organization that describes itself as supporting survivors of the Gaza genocide.
The case centers on three siblings — Rabhi (11), Nour (10), and Hussam al‑Din (8) — who arrived in France with their father and grandfather after fleeing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The French Foreign Ministry facilitated their evacuation in late 2023. Their mother, Raghda al‑Sheikh, remained trapped in Gaza, hoping to reunite with them later.