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Meet Mia Tretta: Shot 6 Years Ago, Brown Student Speaks Out After Surviving 2nd School Shooting
Democracy Now • Dec 15, 2025

Meet Mia Tretta: Shot 6 Years Ago, Brown Student Speaks Out After Surviving 2nd School Shooting

A deadly mass shooting at Brown University left two students dead and nine others injured on Saturday. One student, Mia Tretta, had survived a shooting in 2019 when she was shot in the stomach as a high school student. Her best friend was killed in the shooting, and she had selected Brown University for Rhode Island’s strong gun control laws. Now she has survived yet another school shooting. “Physically and emotionally, a school shooting takes your whole life and flips it upside down,” says Tretta, who criticizes politicians who refuse to enact meaningful gun reform. “We know that every single act of gun violence is 100% preventable.”

Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi Arrested Again in Iran
Democracy Now • Dec 15, 2025

Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi Arrested Again in Iran

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, one of Iran’s most prominent human rights activists, was rearrested Friday when Iranian authorities violently raided a memorial ceremony she attended at a mosque in Iran’s northeastern city of Mashhad. “She’s been seen as a huge threat to the Islamic Republic’s regime,” says Porochista Khakpour, Iranian American author and essayist. “They find her moral authority extremely intimidating.” Mohammadi has spent more than 10 years of her life in and out of prison, most recently when she was arrested in November 2021 and accused — among other charges — of threatening Iran’s national security and spreading “propaganda” against the state for her decadeslong work fighting for human rights, women’s rights and democracy in Iran.

Antony Loewenstein on the Hanukkah Massacre in Sydney & the Muslim Food Vendor Who Saved Lives
Democracy Now • Dec 15, 2025

Antony Loewenstein on the Hanukkah Massacre in Sydney & the Muslim Food Vendor Who Saved Lives

At least 15 people were fatally shot during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach this Saturday, and at least another 42 people were injured, marking Australia’s worst mass shooting in nearly three decades. Victims included a 10-year-old girl, two rabbis and a Holocaust survivor who died while shielding his wife from bullets. After Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu blamed Australia’s recognition of a Palestinian state for the shooting, Antony Loewenstein, member of the Jewish Council of Australia, says the shooting is “being weaponized by the worst people imaginable to support incredibly draconian policies.”

Trump Is Hellbent on Crushing Federal Unions, But They’re Still Kicking
Mother Jones • Dec 15, 2025

Trump Is Hellbent on Crushing Federal Unions, But They’re Still Kicking

Chandler Bursey used to have an office. It was a modest room at the Veterans Affairs campus in Idaho, a set of buildings nestled under one of the mountain ridges reaching into Boise. The office, a meeting place for members of the union chapter Bursey leads, was something the union had negotiated. For many years […]

The (Muslim) Hero of Bondi
Zeteo • Dec 15, 2025

The (Muslim) Hero of Bondi

Mehdi on the Islamophobes' response to the brutal killing of Jews in Australia; how the DOGE folks are headed for Gaza; and the fallout from the Bari Weiss/Erika Kirk CBS town hall.

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