That was amazing! Both for the story and for the media. Absolutely loved both!

Legendary songwriter Joan Baez hadn't sat down to write poems in many years.

"Lately, the more I read the daily news, the more I’ve felt compelled to write again. Lining up words into sentences that attempt to make sense of the chaos is my bulwark against a creeping feeling of despondency."

A New Cycle of Texas Gerrymandering: Your Questions Answered - Bolts A redistricting expert answers questions from Bolts readers about the effort to redraw Texas’ congressional map, and its effects on communities of color and political representation.

"Typically lawmakers tend to treat redistricting as akin to getting a root canal or colonoscopy... Mid-decade redistricting hasn’t happened a lot & there's a lot of untested ground about what states can & can’t do voluntarily. We may be about to find out."

Classic example of government waste—in fact exactly the sort of bullshit DOGE claimed from Day 1 it was laser-focused on getting rid off (but never actually was): pure vanity projects

A lot of children are dying around the world so Donald Trump can get his ballroom instead of the world having USAID

'No recovery from this': Grand Teton National Park advocates sound alarm bells The GOP tax bill puts public lands for sale. Its effects could be irreversible.

'No recovery from this': Grand Teton National Park advocates sound alarm bells over proposed sell-off of public lands for development. www.sfgate.com/national-par...

June 14 No kings Over 11 million people protested!

11 MILLION PEOPLE!! 💥💥💥

Are we nearing the magic 3.5%??

Never forget….WE hold the power.

#nokings

This comes to mind

From a miltiary post on Reddt..... 80 year old vet arrested at the capitol today for protesting against military force used on US citizens.

Media will fail US again tomorrow and cover Trumpie's Draft Dodger Parade instead??? Well I won't watch it but I'll be scanning the nation-wide protests online & tune in to MSM only if he's struck by a lightening bolt!!!

There will be protests all across the US and in many other countries. You can check with NOKINGS.ORG for a closer rally! Even if you can’t be there in person, call your reps at (202) 224-3121 (U.S. House switchboard operator) and keep sharing online. We all have a part in this fight 💙

Hegseth faces sharp questions from Congress on deploying troops to LA and Pentagon spending Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been met with sharp questions and criticism by lawmakers who demanded details on his moves to deploy troops to Los Angeles.

US #Congress should be doing more than just asking questions of #Hegseth ‼️. They too, will go down with the ship when the #American voices #riseup.

#NYC held rally and peaceful protests in the city in solidarity with LA. Many more are scheduled across the nation now.

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RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

Boston-area climate activists report visits from the FBI Local climate activists are on edge after people claiming to be FBI agents visited at least six at their homes on the same day in Greater Boston in March. Weeks later, the motivations behind these vis...

While ICE does their best Gestapo imitation, the FBI is testing those same waters. Ultimately, no one is safe from fascism. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

“They’re trying to kidnap someone” On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.

"The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I was just thinking how people need to normalize being uncomfortable at times. Not all the times, but enough to learn something.

“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science.”

- Carl Sagan

'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.

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‘He gets him what he needs’: Hegseth’s new favorite adviser helped set up Signal on one of secretary’s computers at Pentagon | CNN Politics Last month, after news broke that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was using Signal to discuss sensitive military operations in violation of Pentagon policy, one of his closest military aides made an...

“Hegseth also likes Buria’s ‘yes sir’ attitude.”

Wow! Autocrat loves flunky who carries out illegal orders instantly and without question, film at 11...

Government says - for now - it will restore international students' status International students had filed dozens of lawsuits after the government removed them from a database crucial for maintaining their legal status.

International students had filed dozens of lawsuits after the government removed them from a database crucial for maintaining their legal status.

I know people are saying Pete Buttigieg can’t be elected president because he’s gay but I bet if someone had told you 10 years ago that we would elect a rapist for president you wouldn’t believe them.

ICE can enter anyone’s home, and abduct and deport them to a foreign prison indefinitely because the DOJ says they can ignore the 4th, 5th and 15th amendments.

If there’s no due process or protections against illegal search and seizures, none of us are safe.

Don’t let the arrest of a Federal Judge distract you from the announcement that ICE can enter anyone’s home without a warrant to look for migrants.

BREAKING: The constitutional crisis has arrived. We knew it was coming, just not when.

Trump administration puts new pressure on UC Berkeley with investigation into foreign funding The investigation, part of the administration’s effort to exert control over universities it sees as promoting liberalism, puts billions in federal aid at risk.

The Trump administration, which is engaged in an effort to exert control over universities it sees as promoting liberalism, said Friday it is looking into whether UC Berkeley violated federal requirements for disclosing funding from foreign sources.