Activism

MSNBC bizarrely airs live immigrant 'roundup' with ICE to capture unsuspecting man when he steps out of home

MSNBC on Tuesday broadcast live from a "stakeout" with ICE agents as they waited outside the home of an unsuspecting undocumented immigrant.

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WATCH: Liberal journalist rips Julian Assange for 'gruesome' Trump/Clinton comparison in fiery interview

An interview with Julian Assange on progressive website Democracy Now! took a nasty turn when a liberal journalist called the Wikileaks founder out for insisting that President Donald Trump and former Secretary of Sate Hillary Clinton were "equally dangerous."

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Comic W. Kamau Bell's PSA to black youth: 'Do not give cops Pepsi as a way to stop them from abusing you'

Stand-up comic W. Kamau Bell wants to warn the black youth of America not to follow the controversial Pepsi ad that threw the internet into fits of anger this week.

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MN Dem exposes lawmakers' whites-only card game -- and now they are calling her a 'racist'

Minnesota lawmaker has refused to apologize after she called out her colleagues for playing a "100 percent white male card game in the retiring room" instead of doing their jobs.

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Jane Goodall: Public needs to face down Trump's 'absurd' anti-science policies and back researchers

Famed anthropologist Jane Goodall took to Facebook on Friday to push back at the anti-science policies of the Trump administration, calling it disturbing that there are those who "belittle" scientists at their own peril.

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'Show me yours Donald J. Trump': Arizona Dreamer busts myth of immigrants not paying taxes

A Facebook post by an undocumented immigrant who was brought to the U.S. as a child went viral over the weekend after she showed off her tax forms and dared President Donald Trump to do the same.

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‘This is for you all motherf*ckers that voted for Trump’: ICE arrests captured by sobbing family on Facebook

Robert Espino turned on his Facebook live video this week to show the moment that DeSoto Police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested his brother and brother-in-law, Marin Marquez and Eduardo Diaz.

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Dancing NYPD cop who rocked LGBT Pride rally dies of 9/11-related cancer

A New York City cop who became a viral sensation when he twerked with a marcher at an LGBT Pride parade died this week of brain cancer at the age of 44.

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'You, sir, shut up': GOP congressman demands constituent stop complaining about violence against women

Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) told a man to shut up after he disagreed with the congressman's vote against the Violence Against Women Act.

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WATCH: Rep. Darrell Issa mocks woman at town hall who claims she was 'battered' by one of his staffers

At a contentious San Diego town hall, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) dismissed and mocked a constituent who used her question time to complain that she was stripped of her protest sign by Issa's "bodyguard," saying he "assaulted" her.

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WATCH: Woman arrested for speaking out at Mitch McConnell's swanky closed-door luncheon

At least one protester was reportedly arrested on Thursday for interrupting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) while he was speaking at a closed-door Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Covington, Kentucky.

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WATCH: Joy Reid boots ex-Congressman off her show for ‘incredibly offensive’ racist rant on immigrants

MSNBC host Joy Reid pulled the plug on a former congressman Saturday morning, booting him off her show because he wouldn't stop ranting about undocumented immigrants and then turned to making offensive comments about Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

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ICE agents ambush Latino men spending the night in church hypothermia shelter

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Fairfax County, Virginia reportedly ambushed a group of Latino men who were spending the night in a hypothermia shelter.

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