picks North Dakota must drop outrageous charges against journalist Amy Goodman of "Democracy Now" Trevor Timm

picks #NODAPL activists arrested after trying to shut off 5 oil pipelines carrying 15% of U.S. daily oil Xeni Jardin

water Militarized police action on the Dakota Access Pipeline Jason Weisberger

picks #NoDAPL: U.S. orders halt in North Dakota pipeline construction on Native land Xeni Jardin

politics Trump makes worse comments about Medal of Honor recipients Jason Weisberger

law Judge rules pipeline company can enter and survey land without owners' permission Rob Beschizza

History Every day is Columbus Day for indigenous peoples Elías Villoro

military The wealthiest countries spend twice as much on border security as climate change Thom Dunn

native americans That time George Washington ordered "total destruction and devastation" of the Haudenosaunee Thom Dunn

elections Meet Jackie Fielder, the recently homeless indigenous woman who's primarying a San Francisco Democrat in a state senate race Cory Doctorow

china Hong Kong's #612strike uprising is alive to surveillance threats, but its countermeasures are woefully inadequate Cory Doctorow

Copyfight France's Front National (who support the EU's mandatory copyright filters) furious when Youtube's copyright filters kill their channel Cory Doctorow

usausausa Fox and other conservative sites hastily nuke posts urging vehicular murder of left-wing protesters Cory Doctorow

gop The media manipulators who poisoned the coverage of the Dakota Access Pipeline also sold us the Iraq war Cory Doctorow

class war Leaks: Mercenaries targeted Standing Rock water protectors with anti-terrorist tactics Cory Doctorow

trumpism In Oklahoma, a law to bankrupt groups that organize political protests Cory Doctorow

politics Here's the weirdest, scariest stuff Trump said at 77-minute 'I'm not ranting and raving' meltdown Xeni Jardin

trumpism Almost everything Trump has done since taking office has been a meaningless publicity stunt Cory Doctorow

corruption These four oil-fattened Democratic Senators helped the GOP confirm Exxon's Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State Cory Doctorow

5 Calls New website 5 Calls makes it easy and convenient to contact your representatives Caroline Siede