This isn’t an isolated incident. ICE has deployed agents to at least 25 airports nationwide, and arrests are climbing fast. Airports are quickly becoming a new front line, and airline employees are becoming the last line of defense for passengers being targeted.  The July 25 standoff in Dallas is one of at least six similar incidents involving Southwest employees in recent weeks, according to internal documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. These workers are making split-second calls to protect their passengers, with no concrete company policy behind them and their own jobs and safety on the line.  And it’s not just Southwest workers sounding the alarm. The union representing flight attendants across at least 20 other airlines has already warned the industry in writing that ICE’s expanding presence at gates and on jet bridges raises serious safety and legal concerns—including reports of agents boarding planes to interrogate and harass passengers who aren’t even their targets.  When asked directly about its role in these detentions, Southwest's response wasn't reassurance. Instead the company pointed out that TSA and DHS already have access to passenger data through the standard federal screening process.  Sign the petition: Tell Southwest to stand up and protect its employees and passengers! 

Flock is a surveillance company that operates over 90,000 cameras nationwide that feed location data to over 5,000 law enforcement agencies. This totalitarian spying network is a grave danger to our civil liberties, privacy rights, and physical safety. ICE is accessing Flock footage to hunt people down. At least 24 police officers have used Flock to stalk romantic interests. Law enforcement have used Flock and other automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to discriminate, track protesters, and follow at least one woman seeking reproductive health care. Lawmakers are introducing bipartisan legislation to withhold funding from police departments and local governments who use ALPR cameras like Flock to mass surveil, stalk, violate rights, and prey on communities. Tell Congress: Defund Flock. Urge lawmakers to withhold funding from cities that spy on people with Flock cameras! ALPRs snap millions of pictures of license plates that law enforcement can use to follow people around to their homes, health care appointments, jobs, houses of worship, and everywhere in between. That means ICE and other Trump administration agencies can use Flock to track your every movement, all across the country. “The tracking of an individual vehicle, as it moves throughout an area, can reveal very deeply personal and private information, not only about the vehicle but the person operating it. That is Flock at its most dangerous," said the ACLU. There's a bipartisan push in Congress to effectively ban Flock cameras, but we need more lawmakers to back this critical policy right away. Send a message to your members of Congress: Defund Flock's authoritarian camera network and protect our privacy rights! SOURCES: 1. Truthout, "The Nationwide Resistance Against Flock Surveillance Cameras Is Gaining Steam," July 4, 2026. 2. ACLU, "Flock’s Aggressive Expansions Go Far Beyond Simple Driver Surveillance," August 18, 2025. 3. Mother Jones, "Police Keep Losing Their Jobs for Using Flock Cameras to Stalk People," July 18, 2026. 4. Electronic Frontier Foundation, “EFF's Investigations Expose Flock Safety's Surveillance Abuses: 2025 in Review,” December 30, 2025. 5. Mother Jones, "Police Keep Losing Their Jobs for Using Flock Cameras to Stalk People," July 18, 2026.

Students deserve a school environment where political expression is treated fairly and no single viewpoint is given an advantage. We are not asking to silence anyone—we are asking for equal opportunity, representation, and freedom of expression. By joining this campaign, you are standing up for a school where students can hear different perspectives rather than being presented with only one.

Destructive data centers could soon pop up near you if folks like Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have their way. AI data centers bring noise, light, air, and water pollution, and create astronomical energy costs. It’s no surprise 63% of Americans oppose them being built in their communities. But tech billionaires and warhawks like Hegseth aren’t worried about all that. They see an opportunity to supercharge AI-powered warfare, and they’re demanding billions of dollars and hundreds of acres to build data centers across the country. Public lands should not be turned into sacrifice zones for an AI arms race — and we need to act now. Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s No AI Data Centers on Federal Lands Act would BAN data centers and associated infrastructure on land owned or managed by the U.S. government, including on military bases. It’s a necessary safeguard, and we need to push every lawmaker to go on the record: Will you protect communities from bearing the energy, water, pollution, and infrastructure costs that data centers bring? Or will you join with Hegseth and Big Tech to accelerate AI-powered warfare?

This is a continuation of ICE’s targeted harassment of the most vulnerable in our communities. If Sister Ugboaja is forced to return to Nigeria, she will likely be tortured, which is why she was granted a protection from removal order in 2019.  Sister Ugboaja isn’t the only one. In July, Nepthali Zozaya Saucedo and his wife Cinthia Sarai Cardona Otero were detained by ICE agents as they were flying from Texas to North Carolina for a religious retreat. Both are assistant pastors from south Texas who are in the U.S. on religious visas and in the process of obtaining green cards. They claimed that ICE threatened them with prolonged detainment if they didn’t sign voluntary deportation papers. Public pressure works, even against ICE. We must  block the deportation proceedings against Sister Leticia Ugboaja before other religious leaders are put in deportation proceedings.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency is trying, once again, to silence the public. Did you know that you are "unnecessary and burdensome red tape" in the eyes of the EPA? The agency is accepting comments until August 21st on its proposal to make a change to the way permit applications for air quality permits are reviewed. At present, the review includes an opportunity for the public to comment. The change would eliminate that process for facilities considered to be "minor sources" of pollution and leave it to the states to decide if the public should have an opportunity to comment. "Minor sources" include diesel backup generators and natural gas turbines, like those used at data centers. For example, this Spring, the PA DEP received a plan approval application from Amazon Data Services for its Falls Township data center for 280 natural gas generators and 3 diesel tanks. DEP says the facility will remain a "synthetic minor," a facility that would exceed maximum "minor source" levels without the operator taking steps to keep the facility in compliance. A "minor source" is by no means a trifling matter. Please add your name to this petition we will submit to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. Thank you! And please consider taking an extra minute or two to submit a comment. The EPA Is accepting comments on its proposed rule change until August 21st. We've created this EZ form you can use to submit a comment. We'll format your comment as a PDF and submit it to the docket on Regulations.gov. We do this because agencies count petitions as one comment, even if a million people sign it. The number of signers will not go unnoticed, but will not "count." Even the letters some organizations ask you to sign and send are treated the same way. Our form ensures that each submission will be unique and, therefore, counted. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5VrVoZh8yQz9JyZHCsg2S6UPNRW8_1lnzaSy6iD8Z4rPOTQ/viewform If you prefer to submit your own comment, you can go directly to Regulations.gov at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/07/07/2026-13667/minor-new-source-review-program-air-permitting-public-participation-requirements-for-state#open-comment EPA's press release - https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-proposes-streamline-state-and-local-permitting-process-minor-sources

As loyal viewers, we are asking for his representation.  As a film historian, I am concerned that Turner Classic Movies is attempting to rewrite film history. Since they do not own the films of 20th Century Fox, they promote the stars and studios of the films they do own, giving the impression that Fox and its stars were less important. In the book by Bruce Cogerson, The Top 50 Movie Stars: Statistically Speaking, using box office figures adjusted for inflation and awards, Tyrone Power is listed as the 21st biggest male star in film history. This list includes modern stars - Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio etc. Yet in TCM’s book, The Top 50 Leading Men of the Studio Era, Tyrone Power is eliminated. How is this possible? Yet actors whose films are owned by TCM are there who were less popular. This may seem unimportant. Yet we live in a time where there is an aggressive effort to rewrite our country’s history and the contributions of some of our citizens. However, the legacy of talented individuals needs to be preserved. 

We ask that Riverfront Nights continue in some form during the Ross’s Landing refurbishment, preserving the music, community, boating tradition, local vendors, and economic activity that make these events so important to Chattanooga.

Permanent corrective action to armor the cliff with a rip-rap system has been in place since April 5, 2013 – Project # GXUN 13-0016 – and even has been funded several times, with that money then put to other uses. Local, state, and federal agencies are all aware of the problem and detailed studies have been completed with multiple state and local agencies participating. But year after year this project, important to thousands of military and federal personnel, drops out of the funding formula despite this long-standing plan and remedy.  Meanwhile prices rise and the damage continues, making the immediate cliff a danger, though not one person has been injured in all this time. The site is currently under the ownership of Hanscom Air Force Base’s 66th Air Base Group, with many of its neighbors to the south on Humarock Beach having adequately armored their properties on their own dollar. The people who have signed this petition (with family and friends who know of and have enjoyed Fourth Cliff) urge these lawmakers to take action and see that Project GXUN 13-0016 gets funded this year, saving Fourth Cliff for posterity as an R&R gem. It is also sanctuary to three endangered species of birds.  As a 100% disabled veteran with a Purple Heart and two Bronze Star metals from combat in Vietnam, Fourth Cliff has been a great blessing to my wife and I for 45 years, from tenting to renting guest houses, to holding our daughter’s wedding in the Pavilion, to beachcombing, swimming, and fishing. My three grown children and grandchildren enjoy and love Fourth Cliff. This is our favorite location in all of New England, no, in the United States, a real gem. Contemplating a future without it is almost too hard to imagine.  The announcement of its closure late this year for safety reasons (though no one has been injured there in its history), drove me to post this petition and urge our lawmakers to “Save Fourth Cliff!” It is not too late. Find a way to fund this 2013 project now, and provide the resources needed to upgrade an important historical site and campground for thousands of military members and residents who are an important boon to the local economy.

Congress could soon add a dangerous provision to expand and empower ICE’s violence — violence that killed two more people last month — to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Proponents of the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act (CORCA) claim they’re focused on decreasing retail theft. In reality, CORCA would sneakily hand DHS, ICE’s parent agency, even broader authority to collect, analyze, and share our personal information. More facial recognition. More data-sharing between police and corporations. More opportunities for reckless ICE agents to terrorize our communities with violence. That’s the world we’ll live in if the Senate adds this dangerous provision as an amendment to the final bill. But with the Senate NDAA currently stalled, we have a critical opportunity to push lawmakers to keep CORCA out of the final bill. Stopping the addition of CORCA to the NDAA will require all of us joining the movement partners already speaking out. We need to flood Senate offices today with messages demanding they reject deepening an era of ICE violence and impunity.

AI technology is advancing faster than community leaders and elected officials can keep up, and in Ohio, many of these data centers are going up without full transparency around who is behind them. Meanwhile, billionaires are getting richer from data centers that put a drain on local communities and force everyday people to foot the bill.  A 2022 study from UCLA and Columbia University found that historically redlined communities face the brunt of the pollution and toxicity from data centers.  Our communities will only suffer more with the construction of more centers and we deserve better.  Sign the petition calling for a data center moratorium!

Trump wants to rewrite the past and sow doubt about our elections to lay the groundwork to contest November’s midterm elections and seize control over future elections. There are checks and balances in our country for a reason. Local leaders run our elections—not the president. Only an authoritarian would attempt to seize control of our elections in order to control the outcome.  That’s why it’s so important that the North Carolina Secretary of State join other secretaries of states across the country and double down and commit to overseeing a free and fair election. And they need to know North Carolina constituents are watching and support them in upholding the law. They are, after all, elected to serve the people, not the president.  We need to defend our democracy. Join NC neighbors and your name to the petition to urge our North Carolina Secretary of State to protect essential voting processes from partisan interference and uphold the will of the people!