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Firearms are the number one cause of death for children, recently surpassing motor vehicles and remaining the leader for a few years now.

Renee Good’s death is part of a decades-long continuum in which state violence has come to resemble the dynamics survivors recognize from private life: domination framed as protection, punishment framed as necessity, rage framed as fear.

The Russian president is enacting one of the world’s most extreme natalism programs—and one of the weirdest.

Reports on women in action in Bulgaria and El Salvador, the election drama in Ecuador, the coup in Niger, and more

Nothing could ever scare the fire out of her voice, which carried the whole story of American music in it. Tina Turner’s voice will never go silent. In the end, she is the big wheel who keeps on turning, forever. The Queen of Rock and Roll.

The court is being asked to overturn an Appeals Court decision that would allow domestic abusers to possess firearms despite the fact that "the presence of a gun in a house with a domestic abuser increases the risk of homicide sixfold.”

The fascists are moving from covert to overt

I feel the burden of having to demonstrate that my ancestral homeland deserves to exist, and that my people are human and multi-faceted, with a rich history and resistance, and deserve the opportunity to thrive.

“In this society, safety and security will not be premised on violence or the threat of violence; it will be based on a collective commitment to guaranteeing the survival and care of all peoples.”