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MoveOn’s Fastest Growing SMS Petition in Five Years Calls for No U.S. Occupation of Venezuela

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See the petition here WASHINGTON – A MoveOn petition, with nearly 50,000 signatures and growing in less than 24 hours, is calling for no United States occupation of Venezuela. The petition follows Trump’s declaration the U.S. will “run” Venezuela and his decision to invade and capture its President, Nicolás Maduro. MoveOn members overwhelmingly reject yet another expensive and deadly war, leading to the group’s fastest growing SMS petition since the end of the first Trump administration.  “The American people did not vote for an illegal and taxpayer-funded forever war. There…

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Lawmaker calls for an independent review of cybersecurity in the U.S. courts system

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After a high-profile hack, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is calling for an independent review of cybersecurity in the U.S. courts system. In a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts, Wyden said the federal Judiciary has fallen short in protecting its sensitive IT systems. He pointed to a recent intrusion of the courts’ case management system. Hackers reportedly took advantage of vulnerabilities that were brought to light five years ago, after a separate hack of the case management system. Wyden says Roberts should commission a National Academy of Sciences review of…

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He Spent His Life Trying to Prove That He Was a Loyal U.S. Citizen. It Wasn’t Enough.

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Joseph Kurihara watched the furniture pile higher and higher on the streets of Terminal Island. Tables and chairs, mattresses and bed frames, refrigerators and radio consoles had been dragged into alleyways and arranged in haphazard stacks. It was February 25, 1942, two and a half months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the U.S. Navy had given the island’s residents 48 hours to pack up and leave. An industrial stretch of land in the Port of Los Angeles, Terminal Island was home to a string of canneries, a Japanese…

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