You do not get to kill someone and get away with it. While Renee’s family and community are forced to deal with the fallout and live with the trauma, Jonathan Ross continues to live his life and keep collecting a government paycheck funding by the taxpayers. Allowing him to continue working for ICE sends a message that immigration agents can act recklessly and with impunity and get away with it. This message puts all of us and our communities in grave danger.  We must send the message that you don’t get to harm our communities and face zero consequences. Jonathan Ross must be held accountable and removed from duty now. 

Transgender people already experience homelessness at staggering rates. Forcing shelters to ignore someone’s gender identity only makes these environments more dangerous. It exposes transgender women to possible harassment, violence, and assault, and it humiliates and endangers people who are already in crisis. Nobody should have their gender or sexuality interrogated when trying to access basic safety and shelter. When our government begins to surveil our bodies, it is a dangerous and terrifying escalation of authoritarianism and control.  This rule isn’t about shelter safety—it’s about exclusion. The Trump administration has made its transphobic agenda plain, and it’s now targeting people in their most vulnerable moments, using the federal government to shut transgender people out of the last safety net available to them. Advocates say that if made official, the new rule will prevent scores of unhoused transgender people from accessing safe emergency sleeping arrangements.  Sign the petition to demand HUD withdraw its cruel and discriminatory shelter rule and protect the safety of unhoused trans Americans >>

Three workers died at Amazon facilities in New Jersey in 2022. Another in Colorado Springs that same year. Sadly, the list goes on. There's no excuse for this to happen at Amazon. Analysis based on a 2024 federal report from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), showed that Amazon's fulfillment centers report injuries more than two times as much as the warehouse industry average. Amazon workers accounted for 39% of all warehouse workers in the United States but Amazon reported 56% of all serious injuries in the industry.   A Senate report at the end of 2024 revealed that these issues could be even worse than that. The report said, Amazon “manipulates its workplace injury data to portray its warehouses as safer than they actually are.” The PDX9 warehouse in Oregon where the worker died in early April has a reputation for harsh conditions. 26% of employees at the fulfillment center suffered from injuries, according to investigative reports. Amazon has no excuse for the rate of injuries, the unsafe working conditions, and outright neglect.  Sign this petition urging Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to take immediate action to improve safety standards in Amazon warehouses and improve working conditions for all Amazon workers.

Sign this petition to tell Newberry County Council: Protect our water, our power, our peace, and our way of life. Reject Project Altair.

Right now, the three largest consumer credit agencies—Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian—are still choosing to allow medical debt to appear on credit reports, despite no law requiring them to do so. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has found that medical debt is the most common type of debt in collections. Yet it is one of the weakest predictors of whether someone will be able to repay it, because you don't choose an emergency. Fortunately, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion have caved to public pressure before. And with millions of families struggling, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion have the power to provide real, immediate relief by stopping something they were never required to do in the first place. Add your name to demand that Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion grant relief to families and permanently remove medical debit from consumers' credit reports.

When Trump says it’s “not possible” for the federal government to fund Medicare, Medicaid, and child care, what he’s telling us is: There’s plenty of money to go around, just not for you. Now, a proposed $1.5 TRILLION Pentagon budget request presents a choice as clear as day — and it’s one Congress, not Trump, gets to decide. That means we, as their constituents, have a powerful say in what happens next. So you choose: Do you want our government to spend hundreds of billions more of our taxpayer dollars on bombs and bullets to sow violence across the world, OR put those funds toward expanding healthcare access, combating climate change, ending homelessness, and funding more priorities that we know will actually keep people safe? We say: Not another dime for war and bloodshed, for Pentagon waste and weapons contractor payouts. If you’re with us, the time to act is right now. As weapons lobbyists race to the Capitol to build support for this outrageous budget, we need to get louder than the war hawks by sending lawmakers an urgent, unmistakable message that $1.5 trillion is a nonstarter.

Donald Trump Jr. is a dangerous peddler of election conspiracy theories who encouraged those closest to his father to work to overturn the 2020 election results. He’s also a war profiteer who is helping his father use the influence of the White House to enrich the family.  We can’t allow history to repeat itself. Putting Don Jr. at the head of an "Apprentice" reboot will only serve to sanitize his image and could possibly lay the groundwork for a future in politics.  Amazon is already enriching the Trump family. Amazon co-owns the rights to "The Apprentice" alongside Trump’s production company, and, through reruns on Amazon’s streaming services and airings in syndication, the show still nets the Trump family anywhere between $100,000 to $1,000,000 in royalties as of 2024. In addition to donating $1million to Trump’s inauguration fund, Amazon also spent $75 million acquiring and promoting the documentary film "Melania," about first lady Melania Trump. It netted the first lady more than $28 million.  We can’t let Amazon rehab the Trump family image so they can continue their scams. Sign the petition to demand Amazon drop all plans to reboot "The Apprentice" with Donald Trump Jr. 

Kids are spending most of their day sitting and moving from one structured activity to the next, with very little time to just be kids. In many classrooms, that means over 300 minutes of instruction and only 30 minutes of recess, and even that often gets shortened in practice. Recent LAUSD surveys and data also show more students struggling with anxiety, stress, and disengagement from school. Schools are trying to respond by limiting device use and focusing on student wellness, but the structure of the day hasn’t really caught up yet to what health workers already know - movement and play are essential for development and health! Play is one of the simplest, most effective ways for kids to reset, connect with each other, and come back ready to learn. It’s not extra—it’s part of how kids actually function throughout the day. And for a lot of students in LAUSD, especially those without access to safe parks or outdoor space, school might be the only place where that kind of play can happen consistently. This isn’t about taking time away from learning. It’s about making the school day work better for kids so they can actually focus, engage, and enjoy being there. If we care about student mental health, attendance, and learning, this is something worth paying attention to and speaking up about.

Six unelected justices on the Supreme Court have gutted crucial, hard fought protections against racial discrimination in voting. Justice Elena Kagan dissented, noting that the consequences of the Court’s “demolition” of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) “are likely to be far-reaching and grave.” This ruling is likely to set off a firestorm of gerrymandering, hollowing out the voting power of Black people and other communities of color while maximizing partisan gains. It’s not an exaggeration to say our representative democracy is at stake, and with it the future of U.S. foreign policy. So we’re joining the demands for Congress to act now. That includes passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would restore and strengthen federal protections against racial discrimination in voting.

AI technology is advancing faster than community leaders and elected officials can keep up—meaning we don’t have the information, guardrails, and protections in place. Meanwhile, billionaires are getting richer from data centers that put a drain on local communities and force everyday people to foot the bill.  One study from Cornell found that at the current rate, in less than five years, AI could put 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. That’s the same as adding 5-10 million cars into our roads.  It also would guzzle up to 1,125 million cubic meters of water per year—equivalent to the usage of 6-10 million Americans.  If we continue to go down this dangerous, reckless path, our net-zero environmental goals will be pushed completely out of reach.  And who is footing the bill for all this environmental damage? We are. While corporations like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft rack in billions of dollars, families are paying higher bills—sometimes as much as 200% more—for electricity. And they are paying higher water bills while facing potential shortages.  Enough! We need commonsense solutions to protect Americans from corporate greed. The AI Data Center Moratorium Act of 2026 would implement safeguards to ensure:  • AI is safe and effective—ensuring it is not harming the environment working families.  • Workers actually benefit—not just Big Tech • Consumers don’t foot the costs while billionaires rake in profits  Everyday people are already doing their part—100 communities have enacted moratoriums on data centers, and states are moving to do the same. But we need members of Congress to listen to constituents and implement a national solution. Sign the petition to demand Congress pass the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act. 

Every day, creators build the content that powers platforms like TikTok—yet most earn only pennies per thousand views while the platform makes billions from their work.    This isn’t just about social media. It’s about a system where the people creating the value are the ones paid the least, with no stability or protections.    If creators stop, the entire platform stops. It’s time for fair pay, transparency, and real protections in the digital economy. 

Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, loving fiancé and devoted father to a little girl, was shot seven times by ICE agents in Patterson, California. The FBI and DHS have access to multiple angles of video footage, but they won’t release it to us. The DHS accused him of being a violent gang member, but then retracted the statements once they were questioned about it. Carlos was released directly from the ICU to the FBI, and he has been transferred between five detention facilities and has not received proper medical treatment. He is unable to eat because he was shot in the mouth, the gunshot wound on his arm almost got infected, and they have only been giving him painkillers. He is now being charged with weaponizing his vehicle to hurt ICE officers, when in reality, he was just trying to get away from the agents who were shooting at him. They tried to kill him and it didn’t work, so now they’re punishing him. Carlos and his family desperately need YOUR help.