NFL star and noted activist Colin Kaepernick is paying for an independent second autopsy for a Mississippi college student who was found hanging from a tree. Demartravion “Trey” Reed, 21, was a student at Delta State University whose body was found on campus a week ago. The state’s medical examiner ruled it a suicide, but […]
Silencing protesters. Getting Jimmy Kimmel taken off air. Ordering Mahmoud Khalil's deportation. Another week of Zeteo's project to document the growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term.
The Republican party apparently thinks that making fun of people’s deaths is absolutely abhorrent, unless the people dying are your perceived political enemies. Over the past two weeks, the Trump administration has deployed two lethal, and highly contested military strikes on boats in international waters, claiming that the passengers were members of Tren de Aragua […]
When Dr. Mimi Syed returned from her first volunteer trip to Gaza in the summer of 2024, she started flipping through her notes and came to a shocking conclusion: In one month, the ER physician had treated at least 18 children with gunshots to the head or chest. And that’s only the patients she had […]
Misleading ads get muted, universal child care is here, a tech company gets caught cheating, and tenants step up.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Human-made global heating caused two in every three heat deaths in Europe during this year’s scorching summer, an early analysis of mortality in 854 big cities has found. Epidemiologists and climate scientists attributed 16,500 out of 24,400 heat deaths from June to […]
From The Devil’s Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled History Reverberates Today, Counterpoint Press. The prosecutor at the Treblinka trials, Alfred Spiess, described his defendants to filmmaker Claude Lanzmann this way: “They weren’t SS men; they came from the euthanasia project, became accustomed to killing, were kept together during the winter of the […]
Mehdi and Owen discuss the Tommy Robinson far-right rally in London, the crackdown on pro-Palestine protesters by the unpopular Starmer government, and Owen's recent visit to the occupied West Bank.
Watch Francesca Fiorentini break down how ABC’s cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel Live is more about the bottom line for media conglomerates than 'cancel culture'.