Connecticut has become the most recent political entity to enact police reform. The new law, signed by Gov. Ned Lamont late last week, bans chokeholds, limits police departments’ ability to withhold disciplinary records, and sets up an independent police watchdog. Seattle has also joined the growing movement to defund the police. City leaders have supported …

Uighur women are speaking out about their experiences under Beijing’s genocidal campaign, describing forced sterilization and other human rights violations. A coalition of more than 180 human rights groups says that is “virtually certain” one in five cotton products are the result of forced Uighur labor, and that almost entire fashion industry is complicit in …

A cache of documents related to the dealings between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell have been released. The documents contain emails between the two, including one in which Epstein told Maxwell she had “done nothing wrong.” Two depositions remain under wraps, however. The documents also indicate that Maxwell sexually abused and groomed Virginia Giuffre, the …

Unsurprisingly, the presence of violent, untrained federal troops in Portland, Oregon is leading to more protests and more police brutality. Although Trump claims he wants to stop the unrest in Portland, city officials say the troops are only making things worse. One wonders if that’s what Trump wants, given the debacle at a press briefing …

According to a Gallup poll, almost every American is in favor of some level of police reform. While the percentages of people who think there needs to be major reform versus those who think the reforms should be minor, very few say no change is needed. Seattle has joined the growing movement to defund the …

President Trump has sent federal police to Portland, in what critics are calling an act of political theater: “This political theater from President Trump has nothing to do with public safety,” Kate Brown, Oregon’s Democratic governor, said in a statement. “The president is failing to lead this nation. Now he is deploying federal officers to …

In what is shaping up to be a repeat of his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump has demoted his campaign manager Brad Parscale. This news is the latest sign that the Trump campaign is, in the words of a recent Hill piece, flailing. That’s because things have been going horribly for him. New polls show that Donald Trump’s approval …

The New York Times has found over sixty videos showing police brutality against protestors, often unwarranted. The great irony of the nationwide protest over police brutality (specifically against the black community) is that it’s somehow inspiring the police to commit more violence. The LAPD is being sued for shooting a homeless, wheelchair-bound man in the face with rubber bullets (warning: the …

Wells Fargo has joined the growing number of companies and even countries that have banned TikTok, citing concerns that the app is actually a massive data-gathering scheme orchestrated by the Chinese government. TikTok is expecting to lose some $6 billion after India banned the app. If you’ve been on any form of social media in the last …

Seattle has joined the growing movement to defund the police. City leaders have supported a plan to defund the police by 50%. Seattle’s largest labor coalition has booted the Seattle police union from its ranks, citing the force’s unwillingness to confront internal racism. After more than a month of protests, cities around the nation are …

NAACP president Derrick Johnson has called Facebook a “threat to democracy.” He is one of the leaders the ongoing Facebook boycott, and he also said the boycotters won’t quit until Facebook makes changes. Despite the tremendous pressure from inside and outside the company, Facebook has so far refused to change its policy on (not) fact-checking …

In 500 counties with spiking COVID numbers, Trump’s approval rating is dropping. As COVID sweeps around the nation in the much-anticipated second surge, Trump’s numbers are going to plummet. So all the numbers seem to be stacking up against Trump. But a recent USA Today opinion piece made a very important point: voter suppression and …