This morning, while sitting at a red light, I watched as the person in front of me rolled down the window of their Lexus, stuck out an arm, and flung a greasy McDonald’s bag filled with garbage and empty soda cans onto the sidewalk. Instinctively, I slammed my horn with one hand and made the universal “what the hell?” gesture with the other. They did not respond. For a moment I considered stepping out of my car and scooping the strewn Egg McMuffin entrails into a pile to hand back to them; then I remembered that I live in America, where people have guns, and I decided this wasn’t really a situation worth escalating. The light turned green and the driver sped off—laughing maniacally and slurping ketchup from each of their fingers, I assume—while I fumed.
In a move decried by human rights organizations, the Trump administration has scrapped a Biden-era prohibition on the use of antipersonnel landmines, which killed thousands of noncombatants last year. The Washington Post reported on Friday that US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sent a memo on December 2 reversing the policy, saying the use of such mines would provide the US military with a “force […]
By Christine Ahn & Davis Price for Truthout Since 1964, the U.S. military has leased roughly 47,000 acres of land from the State of Hawai‘i — for a token $1. The leases, which account for 18 percent of military lands in Hawai‘i, are set to expire in 2029, offering Hawai‘i a rare opportunity to reclaim land from the war machine. […]
The Department of Education said Monday that the Trump administration will begin to garnish earnings from student loan borrowers in January. This is the first time borrowers’ paychecks will be at risk since pandemic-era policies paused payments in March 2020. Starting the week of January 7, around 1,000 borrowers in default will get notices of […]