🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott.
Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
I’ve spent the last couple weeks in South Korea. This is the first of a few different reports I’ll be sharing from visits to sites of US atrocities and military bases. More to come.
⚡️NEW: A coalition of 102 faith, human rights and civil rights organizations is urging Secretary of State Marco Rubio to secure the immediate and permanent release of Sama Safi, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen and Birzeit University honors student with a severe chronic illness who has been held by the Israeli military since soldiers raided her family’s West Bank home on June 2.
🔹The letter says the Palestinian-American Safi was shackled, blindfolded, denied food and water for 24 hours, verbally abused and forced into stress positions before being unlawfully transferred to Damon prison in Israel, warning that the interruption of her specialist treatment could become life-threatening.
🔹 A new report on Monday found that at least 10 Palestinian women at Damon have contracted scabies amid overcrowding, poor ventilation and shortages of basic supplies, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, which describes the conditions and denial of treatment as “torture and systematic medical neglect.”
🚨BREAKING — TEXAS ICE DETAINEES ON HUNGER STRIKE TO PROTEST INHUMANE CONDITIONS
Detainees at the Limestone County ICE facility in Groesbeck, TX report deplorable conditions including worm-infested food and systematic denial of basic medical care. In a demonstration of resilience, detainees have begun a hunger strike to protest their mistreatment.
The detention center, located 40 miles east of Waco, was sold by the county to LaSalle Corrections in 2020. Since then, the company has made hundreds of millions every year off the detention and mistreatment of our immigrant neighbors - notorious for committing human rights abuses in its facilities in Louisiana and Texas, and using a vast network of shell companies to avoid accountability.
While working people everywhere continue to struggle to afford rent and healthcare, our government continues to funnel money into the coffers of private prison companies like LaSalle, GEO Group, and CoreCivic.
Stop mass detentions! ICE off our streets!
Leaked video from men's ICE detention center—detainees are coughing up blood.
"People have tuberculosis—I witness it working in the kitchen," he says.
"They lock them in punishment cell... instead of medical center."
"Conjunctivitis is spreading cause 76 people are in 1 cell."
"There is a flu going around that never goes away because we are overcrowded."
Video footage comes from inside the River Center ICE Detention Center in Ferriday, Louisiana.
"This video is intended to reach health authorities and the media, so that the reality of what we are all experiencing here is known."
Adonys doesn't have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.
During the first Red Scare liberals largely accepted the McCarthyist anti communist imperative, disagreeing more on tactics.
The mainstream critique was that the Red Scare went too far and targeted non communists as well.
Democrats are poised to repeat this framing again.
In southern Syria, Israeli forces have blocked farmers from their land with chemicals, bulldozing, and arrests. More than half the country faces a hunger crisis, and international aid has been halved.
Al Jazeera’s Hannah Raslan reports from southern Syria.
An ankle monitor or deportation: This is the "choice" that ICE is giving to Haitians in Ohio who lost their legal status overnight.
On July 27, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) ended for over 300,000 Haitians in the US. Kerbie Joseph of Caribbean Defense breaks down what's going on in Springfield, Ohio – the same Haitian community Trump and JD Vance smeared with lies about "eating pets" in 2024 – where residents are going to what they thought were routine ICE check-ins, only to leave shackled with GPS ankle monitors.
"The United States struck a family home on #Iran’s Qeshm Island overnight on Thursday with a large-scale bomb...The Times found no indication of a military site near the family’s home or any reports of military casualties from the strike, which the Iranian authorities typically announce."
https://t.co/wmLMQtZbqa
America's largest home builder is taking on a lot more mortgage risk to keep selling homes.
DR Horton now finances 82% of its home sales through its own mortgage company.
At the same time, the share of FHA and VA loans has surged from 44% to 63% over the last four years.
This matters because DR Horton just admitted that housing demand is weaker than they expected.
They lowered guidance, said orders came in below their internal forecast, and acknowledged demand softened during the quarter. So if demand is weak...
...how are they still selling homes at a decent clip?
They're not cutting prices as aggressively as Lennar.
Instead, they're widening the buyer pool with builder financing, mortgage-rate buydowns, and a much bigger share of FHA and VA loans.
The problem is that FHA loans currently have much higher serious delinquency rates than conventional mortgages.
I'm already finding examples of recent DR Horton buyers trying to sell at steep losses after buying near the peak.
To me, that's one of the biggest housing stories in America right now.
The country's largest home builder is increasingly relying on aggressive financing to keep sales moving in a weakening market, and no one is paying attention.
🔴 BREAKING: Two Palestinians, including a child, were killed and several others wounded when Israeli helicopter gunships attacked a tent belonging to the Balawi family near a university west of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
Source: Shehab News
Air shelling in Gaza City, Yarmouk Mosque specifically, and we transported a serious head injury
The situation in Gaza is becoming more dangerous and the war begins gradually