This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.
NEW: Journalist Sam Husseini announced today that he is running for Congress in Maryland’s 4th District as the Green Party nominee, challenging Democratic Rep. Glenn Ivey in November.
The Palestinian-Jordanian-American Husseini is a senior analyst at the Institute for Public Accuracy, and has repeatedly confronted U.S. officials over their complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Security removed him from Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s final State Department briefing in January 2025. Last month, he was ejected from a National Press Club event after confronting Chuck Schumer.
Husseini has branded the incumbent “AIPAC Ivey” over his support from the pro-Israel lobby and for U.S. military aid to Israel as it carries out a genocide.
Van Lathan, co-host of Higher Learning podcast, reacts to transphobic remarks by WNBA athlete Sophie Cunningham
"If you cannot gift trans people with visibility, humanity, and acceptance, could you at least gift them with silence? Could you at least shut the fu## up about it? Could you at least leave them the fu## alone?"
You guys are doing your victory lap on this shit, fucking up the country. You mean to tell me there are wars happening in the Middle East, food prices are crazy, like the environment is in the shitter, we can't eat lettuce without crap in our pants, all of this stuff, and you still picking on these people after all of this time?”
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
- John Steinbeck