A tweet from Michael Freeman (@michaelpfreeman) reads: “But cancer research was deemed a waste of money.” It quotes FactPost (@factpostnews), which says: “Trump’s order to change the Department of Defense’s name to the ‘Department of War’ could cost an estimated $2B in taxpayer dollars.” Below are two images: one shows a man affixing a sign that reads “Pete Hegseth — Secretary of War,” and the other shows Trump smiling.

Everything is a very expensive exercise in vanity.

"Our government is embarking on a totally unprovoked military assault and regime change operations in Latin America."

A Confederate statue toppled in Washington, D.C., in 2020 has been reinstalled A statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, which had been pulled down during the Black Lives Matter movement, has been put back up in Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square.

A statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, which had been pulled down during the Black Lives Matter movement, has been put back up in Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square.

Speaker Johnson: Federal employees aren’t being paid. Nutrition cuts may cause children to go hungry. Millions are seeing their health premiums soar.

End the 6 week paid vacation you’ve taken. Join your Democratic colleagues and negotiate an end to this shutdown.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

BREAKING: We've now filed more than 100 lawsuits against the Trump administration to protect our civil liberties and keep the president's abuses of power in check.

When they come after our rights and our communities, we fight back.

Even if the House was fully functional, they're in session for an avg of 147 days and out for 218.

Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of the last 97 days, and he still won't swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva.

These are the people who demand Work Requirements.😐

Zohran Mamdani's proposals for NYC build off city's progressive foundation: Experts While some critics decry Zohran Mamdani's vision for New York City as far-fetched, experts noted that they build off progressive foundations laid by past policies.

"Mamdani's proposals, such as freezing the rent for some New York tenants, free buses and free child care, are not only feasible but also build off the foundations of previous New York City laws, political analysts told ABC News."

Israel killed at least 104 people in Gaza, including 46 children, in overnight strikes on the Palestinian territory.

The attacks came after Israel claimed its soldiers came under attack by Hamas militants, though the group denied responsibility.

Forget the polls. Take nothing for granted. And let's work our hearts out these next seven days.

Vote now: zohranfornyc.com/vote

Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

"It's basically Groundhog Day," Palestinian writer Muhammad Shehada says of Israel's latest attacks across Gaza that killed over 100 people. He says Israel has a long history of signing ceasefire agreements only to immediately and repeatedly violate them.

In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government.

She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.

So I confronted him.

Democracy requires decency.

Our democracy is devolving because we neglected to demand common decency of the most powerful individual in our country; the President.

How presidents have changed the White House — and how Trump's ballroom is different President Trump is demolishing the East Wing to make room for a ballroom. His administration says he's continuing a presidential legacy of White House renovations, but this is the biggest in decades.

President Trump is demolishing the East Wing to make room for a ballroom. His administration says he's continuing a presidential legacy of White House renovations, but this is the biggest in decades.

Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.

Protesters in New York March in Solidarity with Street Vendors Detained by Federal Agents Here in New York, protesters marched Wednesday in solidarity with street vendors who were harassed and detained Tuesday by federal agents during immigration sweeps targeting Manhattan's Canal Street.

Protesters in New York March in Solidarity with Street Vendors Detained by Federal Agents

Epstein Files Fight: Rep.-Elect Grijalva Still Waiting to Be Sworn In Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election for a House seat in Arizona two weeks ago, has still not been sworn in to Congress. Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is bl...

Are Republicans refusing to swear in Democratic representative-elect Adelita Grijalva to prevent a vote on the Epstein files?

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

Kristi Noem is complaining that ICE and Border Patrol agents have it really tough in Chicago because the restaurants won't let them use their bathrooms or serve them food.

But I thought Republicans loved free market capitalism? 😅

Don't mess with Chicago! ❤️✊🏽

abolish 🧊

Honest

Tax on richest 10 families could lift 30,000 kids out of poverty A WEALTH tax on Scotland’s 10 richest families could raise 30,000 children out of poverty at a stroke, according to a new report.In analysis for Tax Justice Scotland, an alliance of trade unions, comm...

10 families bask in a staggering combined wealth of £24.7bn, eclipsing the £24.5bn owned by #Scotland’s poorest 28 per cent — more than 1.5m people

While £7.7bn, along with 220,000 acres of land is owned by one man

Best #VoteGreen

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tax-...

After the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, then-Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi supported raising the age to 21 to purchase assault weapons in Florida.

But when asked yesterday, she avoided the question. This is what the gun lobby’s influence looks like.

Murray: I talked to a family that’s paying about $300 a month for their health insurance. It’s going to jump to over $1,800 per month.

Many people will turn away and not pay for it—obviously, they’ll lose their health insurance. The fewer people who have insurance, the more everybody pays.

Grijalva: The frustration for me is that it seems as if Speaker Johnson is not willing to swear me in because our politics are a little different, or because I’m going to be the 218th signer—he can just continue to drag this along with no end in sight.

That is not a foundation of our democracy.

Laura N. Rodríguez Presa on Twitter: “A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them. Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.”

While Trump escalates his attacks on our freedoms with occupations of our cities and secret police forces terrorizing our communities, normal everyday people across the nation are showing up every single day with courage and defiance. Join your local peaceful protest: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Trump DOJ has deleted a National Institute of Justice study showing that “white supremacist & far-right violence in the USA outpaces all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.”Per Wayback Machine it was there on 9/12

Fascists erase violent history for one reason—to repeat history.

A three-run homer! 🦅

Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic.

Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956