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BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional.

We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

May 31, 2025 “I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition,” Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine told her colleagues on June 1, 1950.

May 31, 2025

Granted humanitarian permission to enter the U.S. from Mexico in 2023, the 4-year-old child is receiving treatment for a rare bowel condition.

But last month, the family received a notice telling them to leave the country.
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🚨 This bill gets more egregious by the minute. Rules just dropped an amended “Big Beautiful Bill” that includes a provision to pressure health exchange plans to drop abortion services except in the case of rape or the life of the mother, even if federal funds are not used to cover the services.

Yup. That’s the one.

Stand up to him, get rewarded. Try to placate, he'll just demand more. The way is clear

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

The Democracy Index April 18, 2025

We won't lie. This week has been pretty awful. But we're still here running a temperature check on our country’s democratic institutions.

This week's Democracy Index breaks it down. Read it here:

And what is happening to our country!! These precious moments with my cats are grounding but everything else is not. I appreciate HCR - thank you for your sanity checks.

My cats love their TV. It makes me smile so sharing.

77 million people voted for deregulation (Trump). Did they know they were also voting for pollution, cancer, and climate chaos loved ones and future generations? We can now be poisoned on purpose—without a check.

Unless I'm misunderstanding Trump's post, we still have 10 percent across the board tariffs and are in the midst of a trade war with China.

That's not a good scenario for the US economy. Why is everyone acting like Trump just turned into Adam Smith?

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

Chart showing global stocks plunging because of Trump tariffs

Remember: Republicans in Congress can put a stop to this at any time.

West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.

Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

As part of the #TeslaTakedown movement, people around the world are coming together today around noon for a Global Day of Action—with over 500 peaceful protests planned at Tesla facilities and public spaces. Our coalition is full of tree huggers, and we’ll be out there standing with you.

…’there is going to be a red rural recession’….and Canadian response will have a more significant impact than many could have expected. 🇨🇦

When you're accidentally included in a war plan group chat

This is how it happens.

My first reaction is pity and how sad is this. Embarrassing.

Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.

YouTube video by Pete Buttigieg Pete Responds Live to Trump Admin’s Major Security Failure

The lives of American troops - and every American life - depends on the people in charge of our government taking their responsibilities seriously. But again and again, including with the incompetence that came to light today, they are demonstrating the opposite.

My full interview here:

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

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Here is your country. Cherish these natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage for your children and your children's children.
Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
~ Teddy Roosevelt

March 22, 2025 Perhaps in response to the growing outcry over last weekend’s rendition of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under a legal justification a federal judge has found questionable, President Donald Trump...

March 22, 2025