Showing posts with label injustice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label injustice. Show all posts

Saturday, November 1, 2025

Trump ally Stephen Miller at heart of FBI agent purge, new book reveals

Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, was the driving force behind a purge of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents who had investigated Donald Trump, a new book reveals. 

Miller trampled the independence of the FBI by demanding firings that would satisfy the US president's desire for retribution, journalists Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis write in Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/30/stephen-miller-trump-fbi-agents-injustice


 

Friday, October 10, 2025

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’ - The Washington Post

Leo's new document, an apostolic exhortation defending the poor and marginalized, is based on an unfinished text started by Pope Francis. In it, he quotes Francis, calling on the faithful to "welcome, protect, promote and integrate" migrants. Leo takes aim at Christians who embrace "secular ideologies or political and economic approaches that lead to gross generalizations and mistaken conclusions." (He suggests they "go back and reread the Gospel.") And, deploying some of the same charged phrases favored by Francis, he pillories market capitalism, deriding "the dictatorship of an economy that kills" by enriching a small wealthy elite.

"Either we regain our moral and spiritual dignity," the document states, "or we fall into a cesspool."…

Leo "was very clear that what is happening to migrants in the United States right now is an injustice," said Dylan Corbett, executive director of the Texas-based Hope Border Institute, who attended the meeting. "He said the church cannot remain silent."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/09/pope-leo-riles-conservatives-vatican/

 

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Saturday, May 7, 2022

Inside the Division: how a small team of US prosecutors fight decades of shocking injustice | New Orleans | The Guardian

"When a legal system condemns, incarcerates and executes people because it prioritizes convictions over justice," Williams said in a speech as he was sworn into office, "then why would members of the public believe that doing the right thing will ever keep them safe?"…


Saturday, April 23, 2022

Opinion | Silence in the face of injustice is a sin, too - The Washington Post

…We can't help but notice the absence of moral sensibilities in many of today's Christian churches, as right-wing Christian nationalists, in the name of Christ, try to overturn elections, attack voting rights and convert this country into a living hell for all unlike themselves, especially people of color and members of the LGBTQ communities...


Saturday, August 21, 2021

‘We work non-stop’: LA garment workers toil for top brands and earn paltry rate

…Fashion brands including Forever 21, Fashion Nova, Urban Outfitters, Charlotte Russe, Los Angeles Apparel and several others have been linked to these factories in their supply chains...


Tuesday, June 9, 2020

“Your President of Lawlessness and Disorder.” (Pod Save America podcast)

The nationwide protest against racism and injustice shows early signs of progress, Trump’s presidency reaches a dangerous new low, and Joe Biden and Barack Obama remind us what a real president sounds like. Then LaTosha Brown, the co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund, talks to Dan about organizing and mobilizing black voters ahead of November.
Interview:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/9513168/your-president-of-lawlessness-and-disord

Monday, July 3, 2017

In Atlantic City, residents feel injustice of climate change

When global warming leads to coastal flooding, low-income neighborhoods can suffer some of the worst effects. One stark example is in Atlantic City, where people living in houses built on low-lying lands were left out of flood-mitigation projects that benefit their wealthy neighbors. John Upton, who reported on the disparity for Climate Central, joins Hari Sreenivasan....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuB9l4ey6Z4&feature=youtu.be








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