Author: Christopher Palma

Source: Stephen Waytek / facebook Given the current global political climate, a president who made racism great again, the richest man in the world making goo-goo eyes at the Third Reich, and that tool who was bounced from Fox News now giving platforms to Jewish hate, it “makes sense” that

Source: Etta Avolio / GoFundMe In the wake of the spate of suspicious hanging deaths of Black folk across the country, many have raised eyebrows when police have ruled them “accidents,” acts of self-harm, or “inconclusive” during or after their investigations.  Given this country’s history, when a Black person is

Source: Ray Tan / Getty Residents in Jackson, Mississippi, a city that is roughly 82% Black, have been grappling with an ongoing water crisis — a public health crisis caused by infrastructure neglect, severe weather, and a deteriorating water system — since the near-collapse of its water treatment plant in

Source: Heather Diehl / Getty A lawsuit filed in Maryland challenges the disturbing trend of warrantless arrests made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.  The Washington Post reports that four Maryland citizens and the immigrant rights group We Are CASA filed the lawsuit. The lawsuit is seeking class action

Source: CNN / via Aaron Rupar/X Video Y’all, we have got to stop acting like there’s anything normal or OK about the way President Donald Trump attacks reporters — especially women reporters, and even more especially Black women reporters — just for asking him basic questions any journalist should feel

Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty Another day, another legal loss for the Trump administration. A panel of appeals court judges has upheld a block against President Donald Trump’s executive order creating significant restrictions on mail-in voting.  AP reports that the three-judge panel upheld the block Judge Indira Talwani issued last

Source: Pool / Getty One of the first lessons I learned as a young, bright-eyed journalist is that being a good journalist means being an objective conduit of stories, moving at the lightning pace breaking news demands. A big story breaks, you move in, you cover it quickly, and under

Source: NurPhoto / Getty Two days after insiders at AI research and products corporation Anthropic took to social media to sound the alarm on artificial intelligence technology advancing fast, being handled irresponsibly, and threatening to “kill all humans” within the next decade or so, Anthropic has released a new report,

Source: Infinite Creations / Getty California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills on Wednesday that are intended to put safeguards in place for how independent agencies monitor the safety of AI systems.  Politico reports that Newsom signed the bills shortly after posts made by former AI researcher Jacob Coxon went

Source: Anadolu / Getty What happens when you put immature people with automatic weapons and too much time on their hands on the streets of the nation’s capital?  Well, you might get the case of the 21-year-old National Guardsman who is sitting in the D.C. jail for drawing a gun