If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options:

1-877-447-4487

When miscarriages become crimes 412 women faced criminal charges for pregnancy outcomes. This is what fetal personhood looks like.

412 women faced criminal charges for pregnancy outcomes. This is what fetal personhood looks like.

Durbin: “The president said he wanted to use American cities as 'training grounds for our military' to fight 'the enemy within.' Chicago is not the enemy. Our fellow Americans are not the enemy."

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

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This organization works to provide mental health services to active service people and veterans, on a confidential basis. It’s a hand of humanity reaching out to some of the people who need most to see and feel it. Learn more and donate here. (2/3)

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Helen, an Air Force vet, breaks down why rural America leans Republican: fear, jealousy, and a lack of accurate information.

She calls out the corruption tied to Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Trump’s team, exposing how they profit millions from Netanyahu.

27 Democratic Senators, a Majority, Just Voted to Stop Arming Israel

A majority of Dem senators voted to stop arming Israel's genocide in Gaza. Although the effort didn't pass, it reflects a remarkable change where power is beginning to listen to the people.

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Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling (RNS) — ‘We think that it’s not a matter of if, but just a matter of when, the Supreme Court will overrule Obergefell,’ said Mathew Staver, head of Liberty Counsel.

And so it begins...

Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling [Obergefell v. Hodges]

JD Vance claims the Steele Dossier was used to “cook” the “Russia collusion hoax.”

Fact: Trump’s own CIA Director confirmed it was not used for “analytic” conclusions. The intelligence community’s assessment of Russia’s 2016 election interference wasn’t based on it.

www.cia.gov/static/Trade...

The Administration Wants Military Women to Know Their Place Pete Hegseth seems to be on a mission to erase women from the top ranks of the U.S. armed forces.

"At this point, women have been cleared out of all of the military’s top jobs."
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Never before in the Nation’s almost 250 year history has America’s present and future depended more on the free press than it does today.

Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years.

“There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”

I genuinely do not understand how so many people EVEN NOW say we cannot oppose starving a population to death like this.

Wtf are we even doing??

President Trump lashed out at criticism of the administration’s handling of the Epstein case, using an expletive and calling it a “scam.” He wrote that “PAST supporters” had bought it “hook, line, and sinker” and that he didn’t want their backing anymore.

YouTube video by Senator Markey Senator Markey Introduces State Based Universal Health Care Act

Hospitals are closing. Care is being cut. The solution is clear: universal health care for all. Let’s pass my and @khanna.house.gov's State-Based Universal Health Care Act.
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Trump says MAGA supporters who want the Epstein list to be made public are a bunch of “pretty bad people.”

Republicans block effort to force release of Epstein files in Congress California Rep. Ro Khanna, who authored the amendment, slammed the decision and declared the American public ‘won’t be gaslit’

US Trump Republicans blocked an effort to force the release of Epstein files in Congress. The House Rules Committee voted 7–5 to block the proposal presented by California Rep Ro Khanna from reaching the lower chamber. #OpDeathEaters

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🚨Trump’s “Retreat and Abandon Plan” would slash $9 BILLION in aid to allies, refugee programs, disaster response, and democracy support—handing wins to China, Russia, and Iran.

It’s a blueprint for American retreat and a gift to our adversaries. Congress must reject it.

Is the feeling I have right now called “hope”

So this stuff is genuinely very disturbing and dangerous bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is my 6th time coming to immigration court & it only gets worse.

These buildings have ceased to be court houses where rule of law is applied—they are now abduction traps.

I encourage more elected officials, faith leaders & New Yorkers of every stripe to come & witness what is happening here.

This is from The Guardian. Forget Cancun or anything else the man is known for and nail Ted Cruz to this for the rest of his life. He did this LAST WEEK.

Coincidentally, the “big beautiful bill” just subjected veterans on SNAP to work requirements

There have been claims that NOAA/NWS did not foresee catastrophic TX floods--but that's simply not true. This was undoubtedly an extreme event, but messaging rapidly escalated beginning ~12 hrs prior. Flood Watch mid PM, "heads up" outlook late PM, flash flood warnings ~1am.

a graph showing the amount of tariffs paid by Americans rising from $75B to $300b annualized

Graph of intense pain & suffering

The bill eliminates the $200 registration fee for gun silencers, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns & other easily concealable guns (that actually goes towards registering, background checks, etc)

It adds fees for dialysis patients to be able to receive necessary treatment to stay alive

Old cartoons of black people being used as alligator bait "Seems like a good time to mention that white supremacists have had a long standing fixation with alligators eating Black and Brown people. This isn't new and it's not about 'illegal immigration.'"

Christ, I just went down this rabbit hole and there is a LOT