Motel 6 has agreed to pay damages and not tell the deportation thugs about its guests without a warrant.

If it puts the data in a computerized data base, the FBI could collect it every day with a "national security letter", and nothing stops it from giving the whole list to other agencies including the deportation thugs.

"Trump lost the House, but he lives to fight — and lie — another day."

Many of the Democrats in Congress are plutocratist today just as they were last week. What they propose to do sounds good, but preventing global heating disaster is not an item mentioned in this article. And there is the issue of the enormous budget deficit caused by last year's tax cuts for the rich. The Republicans want to use this to justify shafting the poor. If the Democrats oppose that, what will they propose instead?

An Israeli soldier faces charges for attacking a Palestinian prisoner that was bound and blindfolded.

Things like this happen around the world; no government can magically make sure it won't. What a government can do is adopt a clear and firm policy against it. I will be glad if Israel turns its slogan, "the world's most moral army," into a reality.

Israel's government wants to make it easier to apply the death penalty to Palestinian prisoners.

The death penalty is wrong in all circumstances, but in this particular situation I fear that Israel will frame Palestinians and kill them.

Cozying up to individual fascist-leaning leaders (even when they are anti-semitic) is not even in Israel's practical interest, except momentarily.

As Netanyahu allies himself ever more closely with fascist-leaning leaders, the fascist nature of his own policies, such as bigotry in Israel and the occupation/siege of Palestine, becomes undeniable.