A new report from Food & Water Watch highlights the explosive growth of drinking water bills across American households already testing the limits of their ability to afford day to day life.

Trump’s stock portfolio logged nearly 28,700 stock trades in his first 17 months back in office, more than all 535 members of Congress combined. While working class people live with the real world consequences of his economic decisions, the president holds investments that could directly profit from them.

California, Colorado and Illinois have passed laws that make age classification part of your phone and computer. Privacy advocates warn that once this system is in place, it could make more invasive forms of identity verification much easier to expand.

Police agencies in at least 10 states have spent more than $920,000 in opioid settlement money on automated license-plate readers, including Flock cameras. 

Anthropic is building out a corporate intelligence operation that monitors activists, tracks protests near company executives and facilities, and in some cases alerts law enforcement before a crime has occurred.

New York City just created the nation’s first Office of Worker Power, offering a new model for how local government can help workers organize, understand their rights and rebuild collective power.

Laura Berlin built a tool showing which companies do business with ICE. Organizers used it to pressure contractors and banks. Then the database showed up in a federal intelligence bulletin.

We spoke with Pamela Zimba about the housing gap facing formerly incarcerated women, what reentry actually requires after years spent inside and how The Lilac House is building a place for women to navigate what comes next.

Two young Black men died in Mississippi within a year. Their families sought independent autopsies, federal scrutiny and answers beyond the initial public accounts. In both cases, important parts of the record remain unresolved.

The public is paying to build private computing power, and it is paying in electricity, water and money. 

The pursuit of ‘high-quality training data’ at any cost is a window into the psychoses that drive modern tech oligarchs who view all as subservient to profit and ‘progress.’

New Trump rules place political appointees between researchers and federal grant money. They’re forbidden from appealing to peer review, which is to say ‘science.’

The public is paying to build private computing power, and it is paying in electricity, in water and in money. 

On July 7, 2026, Hyvemind received an official statement and video from Ana Bell following the conviction of her brother, Daniel Sanchez-Estrada.

What else could the money spent on the Iran War have been used for to benefit the American public? Why does no one in power seem to even be asking?

This first installment of The Trillion Dollar Man examines SpaceX’s public listing as a case study in how retirement defaults, index rules and founder-controlled governance can place ordinary workers’ savings inside companies they may never choose or meaningfully influence

Trump’s ‘UFC Freedom 250’ celebration felt like a hyperreal living satire in an age where pointing out that things feel like satire has become tiresome.

At a time of deep concern over children’s reading, Missouri is preparing to cut a low-cost program that sends books directly to preschoolers’ homes.

For neurodivergent remote workers, Focused Space turns structure, shared presence and small acts of care into the conditions that make work possible.

No, you’re not imagining it, our phones are making conversations with family, friends and strangers more difficult.