ICE agents made between 20 and 40 arrests per day at U.S. airports last month alone, and agents have now been deployed to at least 25 airports nationwide. This surge traces directly back to a data-sharing agreement TSA signed with ICE back in May 2025.  TSA isn't just flagging people with final deportation orders, it's flagging anyone with an expired visa, including people actively working with the government to renew their status or with a legal case still pending. Immigration attorneys say ICE is under enormous pressure to hit daily arrest quotas, and this pipeline is the easiest way to do it: people come to them. Earlier this month, ICE agents detained a Georgia man on a Delta jet bridge in Atlanta, pinning him to the wall and handcuffing him, because his name happened to match someone else's. If this system can't even reliably tell citizens from the people it's targeting, no traveler is safe from it.  ICE shouldn’t have endless access to our data and travel records. Booking a flight is not permission to participate in the government’s surveillance network. Congress must take measures to protect all travelers and prevent ICE from using TSA data to fuel its deportation campaign. Demand Congress pass the No TSA Data for ICE Act!

At this point, we likely don’t need to tell you about the risks of a “U.S.-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative” — the plan to effectively fuse the U.S. and Israeli militaries that’s buried within this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). What you need to know is that there’s still a narrow path to stop a dangerous Pentagon-IDF partnership. Here’s the state of play: The House barely passed its version of the NDAA, separated by just four votes, and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate has stopped its version in its tracks for now. The next critical juncture will likely be during conference, when lawmakers from both chambers reconcile the differences in each of their versions of the NDAA. Then, the final package will get full votes on the House and Senate floor — our last opportunity to defeat this insidious provision for good. It means there's a crucial — but narrow — runway of time for us to work in lockstep with champions who oppose this effort and get other lawmakers to join them. Until that final vote, we aren’t slowing down one second in our work to keep building on the progress we’ve already made and amass the opposition we need to stop a deeper U.S.-Israeli military partnership from becoming a reality.

Corporate executives have been using artificial intelligence to exploit, fire, abuse, and burn out workers. Meta made news already this year for using AI to track employees' keystrokes and computer activity. It sparked backlash and led 1,600 Meta workers to organize around privacy and consent in the workplace. Meta then announced it was pausing the program. From corporation to corporation, executives have laid off tens of thousands of workers, saying that AI will replace them. Bosses have forced employees to use AI, causing an outpouring of subpar work called "workslop" that is causing burn out, also known as "AI brain fry." Workers must band together to stop this corporate AI takeover in the workplace. We must also vigorously defend our rights as workers from AI-powered discrimination and abuse. Sign this petition and call on Mark Zuckerberg to put an end to any and all workplace discrimination with AI tech!  

With the removal of the GSA, the reasons given were often “prevention against political indoctrination”. This was already an attack on queer peoples identities as no one should be deemed as political for a simple characteristic. However, the formation of a Right-Leaning organization powered by Turning Point USA which in itself is a right-leaning organization, is directly against the given reasons for absolving and banning a GSA. Straight from an official turning point site (1), one of their main goals is to “win the American Culture War by instilling a love for conservatism, faith, family, and America in the hearts of the youth.” This Culture War that they reference is now being placed into High Schools and putting the students directly into the battle. This allowance of a club directly powered by TPUSA is a reflection of the administrators of Hebron High School that they are allowing their students to be placed into the line of fire. To add onto the placement of Hebron Students into political war I think it is only right to mention their now passed founder, Charlie Kirk, who they still hold highly and strive to keep his legacy alive. His views on queer and non-white people were harmful, and can be seen as an attack on students. As the removal of the GSA is still prevalent, we will look at his views on Queer individuals. I will link an article I found in the footnotes but here are a few examples (2). To any administrators reading, is this what you want queer students to think you agree with and allow to be said on campus? . August 25th, 2025, he says that anyone convicted of a hate crime for destroying a pride flag should be released, additionally stating that it should be legal to burn a Pride Flag and BLM flag. . March 3rd, 2025, when at a conference he is asked for his opinion on queer people and although he states, “What you do in the bedroom does not matter” he then follows it up with, “I don’t agree with that lifestyle.” . October 28th, 2024, Kirk wears a T-shirt saying “XY = Man”, meant to invalidate Trans peoples experiences. . June 8, 2024, Charlie Kirk akin being queer to an “error”, saying it is alike to alcoholism and drug dependency and that you should not affirm queer people in their “struggle against god” Whether Club America is removed or an opposing political club is adopted into Hebron, it will provide a layer of safety for many kids who feel attacked by this movement of right-leaning organizations into school grounds following the removal of a safe space such as a GSA. Especially after Mr. T received death threats and a large amount of pressure from Right Leaning Individuals, such as our current Texan governor Greg Abott, many queer and non-white students have felt unsafe and unaccepted in Hebron’s halls. I can attest to that fact, as I was one of them. This action will create a safe environment and help remove Hebron Students from the frontline of the culture war Club America has placed them in. We ask that the removal of Club America is considered heavily before any clubs are added on top, as ending the political encroachment would be better for the health of the students at Hebron. Articles ---- 1 : https://tpusa.com/about/ 2 : https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/charlie-kirk-and-turning-point-usas

A 30 minute lunch period does not mean students actually have 30 minutes to eat. Students must leave their classrooms, walk across campus, use the restroom if needed, and wait in lunch lines before they can sit down and begin eating. Depending on the length of the lunch line and where a student's previous class is located, a significant portion of the 30 minute period can be gone before a student ever receives their meal. Our students deserve enough time to eat without rushing. Lunch is not simply "free time." It is an important break in a demanding academic day. Students need adequate time to eat, decompress, socialize, and mentally prepare for their afternoon classes. When students have to choose between finishing their meal and getting to class on time, we believe the schedule is failing to meet a basic student need.

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.