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350.org supports the Movement For Black Lives' BREATHE Act
Last week, the Movement for Black Lives announced the BREATHE Act, a vision for policy aimed at divesting from incarceration, policing, and fossil fuels, and investing in self-determination for Black communities and equity for all.
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Last week, the Movement for Black Lives announced the BREATHE Act, a vision for policy aimed at divesting from incarceration, policing, and fossil fuels, and investing in self-determination for Black communities and equity for all. In response, 350.org Associate Director of U.S. Policy Natalie Mebane issued the following statement:
"The Movement for Black Lives has been leading the way in holding the policing and criminal justice system in this country accountable. Though there is no easy solution to the decades of abuse from policing in this country, the BREATHE Act is a much needed step in the right direction. We are happy to support the bill summary that has been introduced and we are eagerly anticipating the final release of the bill language. We cannot tackle the climate crisis without dismantling racist systems."
350 is building a future that's just, prosperous, equitable and safe from the effects of the climate crisis. We're an international movement of ordinary people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-led renewable energy for all.
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GOP Senator and AIPAC Darling Tim Sheehy Accused of Breaking Anti-War Veteran's Arm
“How has Tim Sheehy not yet been arrested for assault and hauled away as the deranged violent thug that we all saw brutalizing a marine veteran in the Senate today?” asked one observer.
Mar 05, 2026
US Sen. Tim Sheehy came under fire Thursday after the former Navy SEAL was involved in an incident in which a Marine Corps veteran and Green Party Senate candidate's arm was fractured after he disrupted a hearing to protest the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran.
In a video posted on social media by CBS News reporter Alan He, Sheehy (R-Mt.) is seen helping Capitol Police officers as they forcefully remove Brian McGinnis—who is wearing Marine dress blues and shouts, “No one wants to fight for Israel!"—from a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on US military readiness.
In an apparent attempt to make it more difficult to remove him, McGinnis inserts his left hand into a door frame and wraps his arm around the door. Sheehy joins officers who are trying to pry McGinnis from the door, and the audible sharp snap of breaking bone is heard as the senator hooks in under his victim's shoulder and pulls hard.
People are heard saying, "His hand! His hand!" and, "A US senator just broke the hand of a Marine!" as Sheehy and the officers struggle to remove McGinnis.
This is psychotic behavior by Sheehy. My goodness
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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) March 4, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Prior to his removal from the Senate chamber, McGinnis had stood up and shouted during the hearing, "America does not want to send its sons and daughters to war for Israel!"
The peace group CodePink posted video of the incident recorded from different angles, including footage of McGinnis being removed from the building.
"Americans citizens don't want to send their sons and daughters to fight in Iran," he says.
On Thursday, McGinnis said on social media that the incident has "only made me more determined."
"Anger is real," added. "So is resolve."
Sheehy—who previously admitted to lying about a self-inflicted gunshot wound which he falsely claimed he suffered during his deployment to Afghanistan—said on X following the incident that "Capitol Police were attempting to remove an unhinged protestor from the Armed Services hearing. He was fighting back. I decided to help out and deescalate the situation."
"This gentleman came to the Capitol looking for a confrontation, and he got one," the senator added. "I hope he gets the help he needs without causing further violence."
X users added a community note to Sheehy's post, stating: "The [senator] describes this as 'deescalation,' but full vid/reporting show he joined officers by physically grabbing the marine's leg then his arm breaks. Reports say the protester was treated for an injury after. The marine did not come to start a confrontation, he protested."
The Capitol Police said McGinnis "got his own arm stuck in a door" and claimed three officers were injured during the incident. The department said McGinnis would be charged with three counts of assault, resisting arrest, an unlawful protest.
Critics, meanwhile, called for Sheehy's arrest and even his resignation from Congress.
"How has Tim Sheehy not yet been arrested for assault and hauled away as the deranged violent thug that we all saw brutalizing a marine veteran in the senate today?" asked New Yorker staff writer Philip Gourevitch on Bluesky.
Numerous observers noted that Sheehy has taken more than $600,000 in campaign contributions from the pro-Israel lobby, including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Sheehy also visited Israel at the height of the US-backed Gaza genocide—which has left more than 250,000 Palestinians dead, maimed, or missing—during which he recorded a video for AIPAC as "his first act as an elected senator" to promise he would do "everything" for the Israeli military.
US and Israeli forces are now bombing Iran, where more than 1,000 people have been killed and over 5,000 others wounded, according to the Iranian Red Crescent Society. Bombings include so-called "double-tap" strikes meant to kill survivors and first responders. Paramedics and victims' relatives say Saturday's massacre of around 175 children and others at an elementary school in Minab was a double-tap strike.
McGinnis is an Iraq War veteran running for Senate as a Green "because I know capitalist parties will never actually serve working-class people."
In a video posted on social media prior to Wednesday's incident, McGinnis said he was "here in DC trying to speak out" against lawmakers' support for President Donald Trump and fugitive Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's war of choice against Iran.
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— Brian McGinnis (@BrianMcGinnisNC) March 4, 2026
"Anyone who feels disillusioned and betrayed by our government, you are not alone," McGinnis said, alluding to Trump's promise of no new wars. Trump has ordered the bombing of 10 countries—the most of any US president ever—and announced Wednesday that he is deploying troops to Ecuador to help fight drug traffickers.
"Free Palestine," McGinnis says in his video. "Free America."
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Jayapal Demands Kristi Noem 'Be Fired, Resign, or Be Impeached'—and DHS 'Dismantled'
“I gave her an opportunity to answer for her agents’ lawlessness,” Jayapal said of the secretary of homeland security. “Instead, what we heard from her was excuses, deflections, and flat-out lies.”
Mar 05, 2026
Surrounded by people who have accused the Department of Homeland Security of violating their civil rights, Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Wednesday demanded that Secretary Kristi Noem be removed from her role as head of the agency.
"Today in the House Judiciary Committee, I questioned Secretary Noem. I gave her an opportunity to answer for her agents' lawlessness and the trauma that her personnel have inflicted on immigrants and citizens alike," Jayapal (D-Wash.) said at a news conference outside the Capitol building. "Instead, what we heard from her was excuses, deflections, and flat-out lies."
Jayapal grilled Noem on Wednesday during her second day of testimony before Congress, accusing her agency of “unlawfully detaining US citizens in violation of the Fourth Amendment."
An investigation published by ProPublica in October found that at least 170 citizens had been arrested or detained by immigration agents, and many more have been reported since.
The congresswoman said that after months of denying, despite the mountain of evidence, that any US citizens had been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Noem finally acknowledged the detention of 18 US citizens by ICE in a letter sent Tuesday.
Jayapal then revealed that four other citizens, "who were not even included" in Noem's letter, were in the hearing room.
She read the story of Patricia O'Keefe, who she said "was monitoring ICE agents when they deployed pepper spray into her car vent without provocation."
"They smashed her car windows, pulled her and her friend out, arrested them for 'obstruction,' and detained them," Jayapal explained. "Patricia saw an entire area dedicated to detaining US citizens."
"An ICE agent also said, 'You guys have to stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead,' referring to Renee Good," who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis in January. "ICE detained Patricia for over eight hours," Jayapal said.
She relayed the stories of the other citizens in the room, who she said had been detained for several hours for monitoring agents or peacefully protesting.
One was kept in leg irons for six hours after attempting to monitor agents from his car. Another was hit with a pepper ball while protesting and denied medical treatment or the ability to change out of clothes that were coated with dangerous chemicals. Another observer was chased down by agents and had firearms pointed at him before the situation was defused by local police, though he was detained for six hours.
Noting Noem's previous statements that ICE can arrest citizens if they are obstructing law enforcement or if there is "probable cause," Jayapal then asked the people she'd invited about the circumstances of their detention.
All of them responded that they were not charged with any crime after their encounters, that they were not questioned about their citizenship, and that they were all exercising their First Amendment rights.
Asked if she had anything to say to the four individuals or "the millions of American citizens across the country that are watching this and horrified at what your department is doing," Noem responded that “context is critical in each of these situations, to know the full range of what happened in each of these situations before and after the incident and their arrest.”
Jayapal reiterated: "Secretary, not a single one was charged with a crime, and they were detained."
Elsewhere during the hearing, Noem doubled down on her agency's most controversial tactics.
After Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) showed the secretary videos of citizens being violently dragged out of their homes and cars in arrests by agents without judicial warrants, Noem defended the agency’s practice, which experts have said violates the constitutional protection against unlawful search and seizure.
Other questions she evaded. When Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) asked her point-blank if she believed Good and Alex Pretti, whom ICE agents "shot in the face and killed," were "domestic terrorists" as Noem and others in the Trump administration claimed without evidence, the secretary repeatedly refused to correct the record, as ICE's acting director Todd Lyons did during a hearing last month.
Following Wednesday's hearing, Jayapal said Noem's responses "only further cemented my belief that she needs to resign, be fired, or be impeached."
"She refused to accept responsibility for the actions of ICE and [Customs and Border Protection], for the arrests of US citizens, for the deaths of 40 immigrants in ICE custody, for the kidnapping and the disappearances of children like Liam Ramos, and for the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in the streets of Minnesota," Jayapal said. "It is a terrible shame that she could not do any of that."
Noem's appearance on Capitol Hill comes as DHS has been partially shut down for nearly three weeks, with Democrats demanding reforms to the agency's conduct in exchange for full funding.
Republicans have thus far refused to budge on demands that agents obtain judicial warrants before entering homes and private spaces, stop wearing masks to conceal their identities, and rein in the practice of “roving patrols” that have often taken the form of indiscriminate arrests rife with racial profiling.
She said Noem's testimony also affirmed her belief that "DHS, ICE, and CBP need to be dismantled."
"There is no reason for them to operate in this way with zero accountability and no way to ensure that they actually protect our residents rather than terrorize them," Jayapal said. "That is why I have refused to give another cent to these agencies without significant reforms."
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'Total Panic' Across Beirut as Israel Issues 'Unprecedented' Mass Evacuation Warning
"They want civil chaos in this country," said one journalist of Israel's military plans in Lebanon.
Mar 05, 2026
The Israeli military on Thursday issued what the Times of Israel described as an "unprecedented" evacuation warning to residents in Beirut's southern suburbs ahead of planned strikes against Hezbollah.
According to the Times of Israel, the warning "covers four major neighborhoods in the southern suburbs" of the Lebanese capital, and represents a marked difference from past evacuation warnings that have typically covered specific locations where Israel intended to launch strikes.
In the warning, Israeli Army spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee told residents of the four neighborhoods to "save your lives and evacuate your homes immediately," and warned that any movement southward toward the Israeli border "may endanger your lives."
Israel has deployed soldiers and conducted airstrikes in Lebanon as its military also joins the US in attacking Iran in an operation they began late last week. The US and Israeli attacks have led to a widening conflict in the region, with the Iran-backed Hezbollah launching missiles at Israel in retaliation.
Maha Yahya, director of the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, said in a Thursday social media post that the Israeli warning has caused "total panic across the city," as the area being targeted by Israel is home to "at least a half million people."
Lebansese-Australian journalist Rania Abouzeid similarly described "widespread panic" across Beirut in the wake of the order.
"Traffic is choked, people rushing to leave and head north," Abouzeid wrote. "Drones in the air. WhatsApp messages urging people to crack windows open to avoid shattering from expected blasts."
Ariel Oseran, senior Middle East correspondent for i24News English, posted video on social media showing packed streets filled with cars of people trying to escape the impending Israeli attack.
Residents of Beirut’s southern suburbs seen fleeing shortly after the IDF issued an evacuation warning for the entire area. https://t.co/V34p1mhCW6 pic.twitter.com/LCQfOxO59J
— Ariel Oseran أريئل أوسيران (@ariel_oseran) March 5, 2026
Mohamad Safa, executive director of PVA Patriotic Vision, an international multilateral organization with special consultative status at the United Nations Economic and Social Council, said that the evacuation order was making a dangerous situation on the ground in Lebanon even worse.
"Our teams have been on the ground assisting [internally displaced peoples] since day one," he wrote. "The humanitarian situation in Lebanon is going from bad to worse. Shelters are overcrowded, and there are no apartments available for rent. Emergency relief is insufficient. People are sleeping on the ground without blankets or mattresses in the bitter cold."
Journalist Rania Khalek of BreakThrough News said that Israel "is trying to empty out huge portions of the country," and she speculated that it was being done in a way to maximize chaos on the ground.
"The Israelis are telling Lebanese they are displacing from Shia neighborhoods to take roads to what will inevitably land them in Christian and Sunni areas," she wrote. "They want civil chaos in this country."
Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said that his agency "has opened emergency shelters for displaced people—Palestine refugees, Lebanese, and Syrians alike" in the wake of Israel's evacuation warning.
Lazzarini also emphasized that "Lebanon needs peace, not more destruction, displacement, and death."
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