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.

Missouri Supreme Court defies voters, halts abortions in the state Despite passage of a constitutional amendment last fall, the ping-pong battle over "reproductive freedom" continues.

One might have thought that last November, when Missourians voted to enshrine “reproductive freedom" in the state constitution, that would have been the end of the conversation.

Alas, the Missouri Supreme Court doesn’t seem to be inclined to listen. This week, the court halted abortions.

The painting titled Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi. The painting portrays the moment that Judith beheads Holofernes, mid act of sawing his head off with a sword. Judith grasps his hair as he lies face up on his bed and cuts the sword across to behead him while blood spurts out of his neck. Another woman helps hold him down as he attempts to resist.

Some guy on Twitter made a point of announcing that thousands upon thousands of men are descended from rapists, and we women "aren't going to like it when [they] stop asking nicely."

Which, you know, surprise surprise brother, but you're also not going to like it when we stop refusing nicely.

Palestinians face severe malnutrition due to Israel’s blockade of aid, says Gaza’s Media Office.

This has led to:

🔸 300 miscarriages in pregnant women
🔸 58 deaths from hunger
🔸 242 deaths from lack of food and medicine

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/jbp58f

The House just passed a reckless budget bill gutting clean energy tax credits & handing billions to polluters. ☎️ Call your Senators NOW: Tell them to protect the clean energy provisions in the IRA—they’re saving money, creating jobs, and powering the future.
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I have no words.

This is what moral consistency looks like.
(And I'll bet any money that most of her GOP and conservative haters didn't tweet anything like this when Wadea al Fayoumi was stabbed to death, or Hisham Awartani was shot and paralyzed, or the little kid in Dallas was almost drowned.)

Trump ambushes South African president in Oval Office with video | CNN South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sat in awkward silence as he listened to a video US President Donald Trump played in the Oval Office. CNN’s Larry Madowo reports that Trump was pushing debunked...

staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...

A win! A federal judge today blocked Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Department of Education and ordered the reinstatement of thousands of fired employees, a major setback for his plans. Thank you, Judge Myong J. Joun of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts.

LIVE May 22nd Israeli assaults continue across Gaza, at least 51 killed today since dawn. International condemnation is mounting after Israeli forces fired towards foreign diplomats visiting the West Bank

51 people were killed by Israel today. No statements of international condemnation from every world leader. No "violence is never the answer".

The forced starvation of millions of people just continues.

Outrage over the innocent seems to only apply in one direction

Told you

This is the great replacement conspiracy theory in action

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Francesca Albanese—

"If governments now dare whisper "sanctions", it’s because pressure—from people devastated by 20 months of uncensored genocide—works.

"But much remains pretense: sanction with one hand, arm & trade with the other.

"People must not stop now.

"Keep pressing."

Greenpeace remains determined to fight the corporate silencing of dissent As Greenpeace prepares to appeal a devastating verdict, the environmental group knows it is defending more than just itself.

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We're on Capitol Hill with a message for Marco Rubio:
GAZA MUST HAVE FOOD AND WATER!
RUBIO YOU MUST STOP THIS SLAUGHTER!

In his first live interview since his release from ICE detention, Palestinian activist @mohsenofpalestine.bsky.social reflects on the "interconnectedness between injustices."

What we are seeing now is calculated ethnic cleansing.

This is the final frontier of genocide. 

Israeli air strikes killed over 250 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip in the past 48 hours, including over 100 Palestinians last night. There are reports of entire families trapped or missing under the rubble.

This Week in Democracy – Week 17: Bribes, Bullying, and 'The Boss' How can a sitting president accept a $400 million plane from a foreign government? Why is his administration threatening to suspend habeas corpus? And what did Bruce Springsteen do to upset Trump?

"This Week in Democracy – Week 17: Bribes, Bullying, and 'The Boss'"

How can a sitting president accept a $400 million plane from a foreign government? Why is his administration threatening to suspend habeas corpus? And what did Bruce Springsteen do to upset Trump?

So very true.

"All problems in the world go back to the British."
— Professor Jeffrey Sachs

Nuralhuda became a refugee on New Year’s Day.

But she’s so much more than her status.
She’s a mother of six.
She’s an agricultural engineer.
She’s a woman leader.

Now in Uganda, the Sudanese mom is making contributions for her family and in her new community.

Seven European nations urge Israel to ‘reverse its current policy’ on Gaza Israel has halted the entry of food, medication and all other essentials into the Palestinian territory since March 2.

Israel has halted the entry of food, medication and all other essentials into the Palestinian territory since March 2.

“More and more leaders are raising our voices against what’s happening in Gaza... The situation is unbearable.”

Spain is working towards a resolution in the UN General Assembly to end the Israeli blockade on Gaza, says PM Pedro Sanchez.

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Kid at NYU just lost his diploma for speech you can overhear by tuning into the UN security council.

We are human rights lawyers. Our new report is clear: Israel perpetrates apartheid | Sandra L Babock, Susan M Akram, Thomas Becker and James Cavallaro We conclude that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, including mass killing, arbitrary detention and torture, meets the legal threshold for the term

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘The ground split and swallowed them’: Survivors of European Hospital bombing in Gaza recount deadly Israeli attack Survivors describe “hell raining down” on them following Israeli airstrikes on the European Hospital in Gaza. “There is nothing left of the horrors of the Day of Judgment that we have not witnessed…

Survivors describe “hell raining down” on them following Israeli airstrikes on the European Hospital in Gaza. “There is nothing left of the horrors of the Day of Judgment that we have not witnessed in Gaza,” an eyewitness tells Mondoweiss.

Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for:

"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."

😭😭😭

GAZA IS BEING STARVED
OPEN THE BORDER NOW

TRUTH.