How Much Are You Spending on the Iran War? $300 and Counting.

The Pentagon estimates that it has spent upward of $29 billion on weaponry to bomb Iran since February 28, in a war of choice that has killed at least 3,400 people in Iran and thousands more across the region.  Americans, far away from the bombs, are relatively insulated from the immediate, human costs of warmaking. But the war is hitting…Read More

The Fight Against Warehouse Detention Has Come to Congress

Laura Spivak, an organizer with Washington County Indivisible, has spent the past few months trying everything to stop the construction of an ICE detention warehouse only five miles from her home.  “We’ve protested, we’ve written and called, we’ve fought legal battles,” she said at a press conference Thursday in support of the Ban Warehouse Detention Act, a bill Rep.Rashida Tlaib…Read More