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🚨Spread the word! MA is launching an open call to members of the public to participate in the effort to redesign the state’s seal, flag & motto. The deadline for submissions is June 18, 2025. Ideas can be submitted using this link: maexecutiveofficeofeconomicdevelopment.formstack.com/forms/massac...

My tax money going to pay the family of a terrorist.

A group of onlookers in Worcester attempted to intervene in an ICE raid, some of them were arrested.

These people went above and beyond the duty of citizen. That is heroic. If you’ve followed me, you don’t I don’t use the term lightly.

Dr. Noor Abdalla will be spending her first Mother's Day as a mom without her husband Mahmoud Khalil, who is still locked up hundreds of miles away from her in ICE detention.

He should be holding his son who he hasn't met yet, but he is instead detained without due process by the U.S. government.

Trump administration threatens to arrest House Democrats over ICE facility incident "There will likely be more arrests coming," a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said.

The Trump administration is threatening to arrest Congress members who were performing their oversight duties. Targeting elected officials for opposing the president's agenda is straight out of authoritarian playbooks.

We won't allow Trump and DHS to intimidate us into submission.

Abolish ICE doesn't sound too radical now does it?

I’ll ditch app and stick to website for sharing then. Thanks!

Exactly that - in the app, I don’t see the built in share option - also iOS. I had to navigate to browser/website to share. Unless I’m missing something. 🤔 Thanks for reply!

Hey @govtrack.us, can you put a share button in your app somewhere - to share bills from at minimum?

Exciting news! We were just named a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Explanatory Reporting alongside The Center for Public Integrity and @revealnews.org for our “40 Acres and a Lie” investigation into how formerly enslaved people were given land—only to have it taken back: 40acresandalie.com

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and…

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.

Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)

Red Dress Day Red Dress Day 2025, held every May 5th, is a National Day of remembrance and activism honouring the lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirited People (MMIWG2S+).

Today is Red Dress Day. I am not supposed to be here. Indigenous women are not supposed to be here. But we are still here, and our very existence is an act of resistance.

Learn more. Be an ally. 🙏🏻

amnesty.ca/red-dress-da....

Newark Radar Failure Left Controllers Blind for 90 Seconds Air traffic controllers guiding planes bound for Newark Liberty International Airport lost radar and radio communication for more than a minute early last week before flights at the key hub were snarl...

Do not fly in and out of Newark without watching @maddow.msnbc.com's segment tonight. Air traffic controllers say it's not safe and even THEY are traumatized.

“Do you swear to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States?”

“I don’t know.”

Black and white etching-style triptych showing 8 hours for work on the left, 8 hours for rest in the middle, and 8 hours for “what we will” on the right

Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea?

139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea.

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Stop the SAVE Act The SAVE Act would keep millions of people from being able to vote – and would shut countless eligible voters out of our democracy. Urge Congress to vote no now.

If passed, the SAVE Act would make it significantly harder for millions of eligible citizens to vote.

The House has already passed it — tell your Senator now to reject this bill and defend our democracy.

Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump's trip Trump has effectively given Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say.

BTW, the word for this is genocide, folks.

How does anyone still support this? Why?

www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented.

His argument fails even on its own terms.

Take your time with this one…

Scanlon: The Gulf of Mexico was so named over 500 years ago. If we want to update that name to reflect our current culture, maybe we should call it the Sea of Emoluments—you know, the place where we can board the Ship of Fools and navigate from a State of Ignorance to the Confederacy of Dunces…

The response every sane person expected… #econsky

Just a quick update on flight safety. It's on everyone's minds and I would like to provide a very important statistic.

So far, in 2025, we have had the most aircraft related fatalities in the US since 2001.

And yes, we are referring to 9/11.

It's only May.

A constituent was forcibly removed from Mike Lawler’s town hall.

He has inadvertently created an instantly iconic image of the resistance.

Bills on the Floor; Spending Negotiations Elsewhere - GovTrack.us Original reporting and other news from GovTrack.us

This week’s Legislative Preview is up www.govtrack.us/posts/498/20...

🔜 H.R. 867 by Rep. Michael Lawler [R-NY17]: IGO Anti-Boycott Act https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr867 🏛️

NEW: We're asking a court to expand our clients' recent legal victory to ensure that all transgender, non-binary, and intersex people can be issued passports with the correct gender marker.

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant.

They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear.

They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings.

The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore.

kfor.com/news/local/w...

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

A bad sign, not just because of what it recalls historically, but for what it promises about the future.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Despite seeing several people I totally trust say this was real I still felt I had to verify it with my own eyes. And having done so I still can't believe it's real.