SCHEERPOST NEWS 20/05/2026

No More Kings But Billionaires are Fine? Really?

Americans rejected monarchy 250 years ago. So why do we now defend an economic system that allows a microscopic fraction of humanity to accumulate extraordinary wealth, influence, and political power?…

The $72 Billion Power Grab: How Republicans Are Using a Budget Trick to Build Trump’s Personal Deportation Force — and How Congress Can Still Stop It

Jon Rainwater for Common Dreams You know their names. Renee Good was 37 years old, a poet, a mother of three, when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer named Jonathan…

‘Hatred Often Manifests In Violence’: After San Diego Mosque Shooting, Muslim and Anti-hate Groups Condemn Rampant Islamophobia

Sahar Fatima for Prism Muslim groups expressed pain, grief, and anger over rampant Islamophobia after a shooting at a San Diego mosque on Monday that killed three people. Two teenage…

ICC Targets Smotrich For War Crimes— He Responds by Promising More War Crimes

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich appears to have found the perfect way to answer a reported ICC arrest warrant request for war crimes: announce more war crimes.