Progressive search for action

6+ min ago (966+ words) A video of a McDonald's worker refusing to serve a customer coffee has been making the rounds on TikTok, garnering over 6.6 million views. In the video, TikTok creator @bigjudo_ films the employee repeating the phrase, "I'm not serving you coffee," over and over again. Big Judo, on the other end, repeats lines like, "And I'm stupid, right? Go ahead and say it again." Viewers in the comments were mostly confused about what led up to the exchange, with many siding with the employee. Later, the McDonald's worker posted her own video explaining what happened that morning. Under the TikTok account @t3h0nlyvvxdreamy, the McDonald's worker posted her own video addressing the incident and explaining what led up to her refusing service. She starts by clarifying that the interaction happened early Monday morning, around 5:30 a.m., near the end of her overnight shift. She says she…...

6+ min ago (1875+ words) The true cost of fulfilling Trump's mass deportation agenda and who's profiting. "I think most Americans are intelligent enough to recognize that everybody deserves due process," says "brego Garcia's attorney Benjamin Osorio. "There's a process. They get a jury of their peers. And the same thing in immigration: This guy had a lawful order protecting him from being removed from the United States, and the government violated that." "brego Garcia's story epitomizes the unlawfulness and cruelty of the Trump administration's deportation agenda and for that reason his story has become a political flashpoint. But what's less understood is the scale and scope of fulfilling the administration's vision of mass deportation. A new investigative video series from Lawfare and SITU Research called "Deportation, Inc.: The Rise of the Immigration Enforcement Economy," maps out a vast web of companies that make up…...

36+ min ago (1756+ words) This story describes in detail incidents of racial and sexual harassment. In Colorado, students taunted their Black classmates by playing whipping sounds on their cellphones and saying they should be shot "to make us a better race." The only two Black students in a small district in Ohio were called the N-word by white peers starting on their first day. They got accustomed to hearing slurs like "porch monkey" and being told to go pick cotton. And at a school in Illinois, white students included Confederate flags in their PowerPoint presentations for class assignments and shook a school bus as Black students were exiting to try to make them tumble off. In each case, the U.S. Department of Education's civil rights arm investigated and concluded that school districts didn't do enough to stop racial hostility toward Black students. It struck agreements…...

50+ min ago (392+ words) The Republican Party is turning on Donald Trump once more after the president's national address. A GOP insider believes there is one issue Trump "can't happy talk his way out of" as political analysts highlight the woeful cost of living crisis. The unnamed insider, speaking to CNN, is said to be advising on several midterm races and the cost of living crisis will likely be a hot topic for voters next year. They said, "The president can't happy talk his way out of what people feel. The White House staff around the president know what the message needs to be, and I wish that the president would listen." Trump has said numerous times the affordability crisis is a "hoax" but GOP insiders are urging the president to reconsider his position on the economy. A Republican Party member who served in…...

1+ hour, 1+ min ago (537+ words) By" Sheikh Arif (Dhaka Bureau)" Following the death of Sharif Osman Ha d i , spokesperson for "Inqilab Manch" (a political organization formed after last year"s student-led mass uprising) and a potential candidate for the Dhaka-8 constituency in the upcoming" Pressenza IPA By Sheikh Arif (Dhaka Bureau) Following the death of Sharif Osman Ha d i , spokesperson for "Inqilab Manch" (a political organization formed after last year"s student-led mass uprising) and a potential candidate for the Dhaka-8 constituency in the upcoming February elections, students and various political organizations held protest marches across the country last night. Sharif Osman Hadi passed away at 9:30 PM on Thursday (December 18) while undergoing treatment at Singapore General Hospital. As news of his death spread, protests erupted in Dhaka and throughout the country. Per a pre-scheduled program, leaders of Inqilab Manch called upon students and…...

2+ hour, 12+ min ago (435+ words) Donald Trump has found himself compared to a fictional dictator by the press office of California Governor Gavin Newsom. A viral post to the Governor Newsom Press Office X account had an image of Trump, screenshot from a recent announcement video, contrast with that of President Snow from The Hunger Games series. The comparison was made just hours after Trump announced his plans for a "patriotic" competition that had many compare it to the dystopian fiction series written by Suzanne Collins. In a video posted by Freedom 250 on Thursday, the president promised "to give America the most spectacular birthday party the world." He said, "In the fall, we will host the first-ever Patriot Games, an unprecedented four-day athletic event featuring the greatest high school athletes, one young man and one young woman from each state and territory." Members of the…...

2+ hour, 30+ min ago (262+ words) by Ruther Ray C. Ruado The Alchemy of Mentorship Sharpening the Blade of Truth Aristotle famously wrote, "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation." This sentiment echoed through the breakout sessions where elementary journalists honed their habits. The results of this rigorous sharpening were evident in the participants" improved journalistic competency, exceeding initial expectations. No fire can burn without fuel, and the community, led by BENECO, acted as the hearth for this gathering. By providing the essential "learning kits", the notebooks and pencils that serve as the tools of the trade, and the sustenance needed to keep minds sharp, they proved that it takes a village to protect the truth. Director Josephine Aclayan of BENECO District 2 offered words that served as a bellows to the students" burning curiosity, highlighting the cooperative"s commitment to community inspiration. This support ensured…...

3+ hour, 7+ min ago (495+ words) December 16, 2025. "Pressed to defend their homes against intimidation and illegal evictions for a 100 MW Waste-to-Energy (WTE) incinerator, the Manila Anti-Incinerator Alliance (MAIA), along with residents" organizations from Smokey Mountain and support groups, brought their grievances to Congress yesterday, December 17, 2025. MAIA said the 20-hectare land is a public land promised to bring a dignified life to the urban poor by virtue of'Proclamation No. 39 (1992) and No. 465 (1994), placing it under the NHA"s administration'and disposition. They said the WTE project is already violating national laws banning incineration and laws on the urban poor. Rep. Renee Co said WtE destroys our environment, violates people"s rights, especially those of marginalized communities, and only benefits waste industrialists. Congresswoman Marivic Co-Pilar, Chairperson of the House Committee on Housing and Urban Development, also called for a briefing on the WTE project that is causing evictions in Smokey…...

3+ hour, 9+ min ago (178+ words) In his furious 24-page order, Brown wrote, "The evidence presented to this court, which has been largely unrebutted, demonstrates that ICE has been deploying its "holding rooms" in a manner that shocks the conscience." Brown was particularly enraged by the treatment of a Jamaican national named Erron Anthony Clarke, who came to the U.S. on an H-2B visa in 2018, overstayed it, but married an American citizen in 2023, has no criminal record of any kind, and applied for permanent residency due to his marriage. "This case implicates something more," wrote Brown. "There is evidence that the conditions of the detention are substandard, abhorrent and likely unlawful." This comes after a series of other court cases in which judges expressed shock at how immigration detainees were being treated. Earlier this month, a shocked federal judge in Oregon offered her lunch to a Guatemalan national…...

3+ hour, 21+ min ago (370+ words) A unanimous vote to change the name of The Kennedy Center has been mocked by talk show host Jimmy Kimmel. The 58-year-old observed two major problems with Donald Trump's play to have the center renamed. The board agreed unanimously to change the name of the building from The Kennedy Center to The Trump Kennedy Center. White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt says the reason for the change is to credit "the unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building". Her statement also congratulated president John F. Kennedy, with Leavitt writing the name change "will be a truly great team long into the future! The building will no doubt attain new levels of success and grandeur". The controversial change, which Trump says he is "surprised" by after receiving the news, means Trump's name will be placed onto…...