"These reports make clear that Musk and his DOGE functionaries have sought access to the payments system not for an audit, but instead to manipulate the system in order to enact a political agenda. The Treasury Department’s payment systems facilitate nearly 90 percent of all federal payments and more than $6 trillion annually. These mission-critical systems are not to be manipulated or subject to the whims of unelected billionaires or software engineers with fantasies of destroying the federal government from within."

from the desk of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon:

After all this carnage in Gaza, don't expect us to be grateful for just a ceasefire

by Mohammed R. Mhawish

Media Hype Set Up Tren de Aragua to Serve as Trump’s New Bogeyman

"U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has a long history of violating constitutional and other rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens. More precisely, agents of the Border Patrol (a component agency of CBP) are known for regularly overstepping the boundaries of their authority by using excessive force, detaining people under inhumane conditions, and using coercion and misinformation to remove people from the United States."

Former President Joe Biden didn't completely pardon Leonard Peltier, but has commuted his sentence so he can finally go home. Peltier can continue to fight for a full pardon from home, where he will be sent to serve the rest of his sentence. After 49 years where is home? It is with the native people of this land, and with the people of the NDN Collective. NDN is an abbreviation of "Indian". When I met John Trudell, in Eugene Oregon just before 9/11, I was surprised to hear him use the word "Indian", and asked about it. In reality, he said, it is so common, we use it.

manifesto condemned corporations that “continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them...”