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Border officers detain well-known legal scholar travelling to conference on Palestine | CBC News A prominent academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.

Canadian border officials detained for hours a 95-year-old man on his way to a conference about human rights violations against Palestinians. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

These spineless ones want our suffering to be wasted.

NOW is the time to be calling, leaving VM, email.

Use @5calls.org if you need a script. Call even if they aren’t yours. Email if you can’t get through.

No whining. Get it done.

Please sign on

This is a terrible headline, and the first paragraph makes it sound like the bullied student did something inappropriate. All the facts you report make it clear that bullying was occuring, and the location was incidental. Do better.

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.

sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.

Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.

Collective boycott.

Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

The sit in by veterans in Washington D.C. protesting Trump’s military take over is growing!!

Jay Carrey, the army veteran who was arrested for burning the flag has been released and is there!

These veterans will continue their sit in until the National Guard leaves DC!! 💪

Say her name @apnews.com - Maryam Abu Daqqa risked her life working for you, yet now you refuse to say her name while spouting the same old IDF lies. Shame on the AP and all the mainstream media silent amid the slaughter of >250 Palestinian journalists - that's more than 20 colleagues each month.

🚨ALERTA🚨 Zonas donde ha habido informes de policías/agentes federales parando a la gente y pidiendo documentación, especialmente a individuos en scooters/ciclomotores y confiscándolos
- Calle 5 y K NW
- Calle 19 y M St NW
- Calle 14 y Rhode Island NW
- Calle 14, entre T y U NW
- Calle 14 y Irving NW

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

Protect Medicaid Vigil Join the Protect Medicaid Vigil to stand up for essential healthcare services. Learn more about our events, partners, and how you can take action.

There's going to be a 60-hour protect Medicaid vigil in DC starting on July 23 "in honor of the 60th anniversary of Medicaid and Medicare, as these very care programs are under attack." protectmedicaidvigil.com

Democrats on Bluesky: “The truth” (A graph showing “Republican Budget Bill Transfers Wealth from Poor to Rich” with “$1.1T in Tax Cuts for People Making Over $500k” on one side, and “$700B Medicaid Cuts” and “$300B SNAP Cuts” on the other side)

If you’re in a swing district or state, use our simple Neighbor2Neighbor tool to get a list of like-minded neighbors, knock on their doors, and talk to them about stopping the GOP’s monstrous megabill. Let’s get the word out to save Medicaid and SNAP: indivisibleproject.formstack.com/forms/stopth...

4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care In 2023, a Mexican girl, 4, was allowed U.S. entry for lifesaving medical care. She and her parents, who live in Bakersfield, have been told they must leave.

4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care - Los Angeles Times

Don’t ever tell me that Christians support the GOP. There is nothing Christian or Christ-like about this. Just plain old cruelty and callousness:

Tell Your Senators: Don't cut health care & food assistance to give another tax cut to the rich Contact Congress today!

Senate offices are closed right now. Their inboxes aren't. Send your letters demanding Senators not cut health care or food assistance. Let's send 1,000 in the next 2 hours:

actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Today marks two months since the Senate unanimously passed my bill with Senator Collins to fix the D.C. budget time bomb set off by House Republicans.

If they don't pass this bill, D.C. won't be able to use its OWN money to fund its OWN schools, public safety and more. They must act.

Tell Congress to Impeach Trump Contact Congress today!

Do you agree Trump should be impeached and removed? Tell Congress here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Children face starvation in Gaza as Israel's blockade of food, medication reaches 2 months | CBC News Roughly 60,000 children in Gaza are showing signs of malnutrition, the territory's Health Ministry said, as a two-month blockade on the besieged Palestinian territory remains in place, with aid groups...

Tens of *billions* of US taxpayer dollars to fund the Israeli military and its 60+ day blockade. Tens of thousands of Palestinian babies and children now facing malnutrition. www.cbc.ca/news/world/g...

The end of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division as we know it In a little more than one hundred days, the Trump Administration has significantly dismantled the federal government.

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Pete Hegseth is a pretty despicable human being, on top of the other, many deficits he brought to the Pentagon

But you should be even madder at the 50 senators who knew Hegseth was an alcoholic, a serial abuser of women, and a poser massively unqualified for the post and yet voted for him anyway

Black Mirror pitch: POTUS destroys democracy in 90 days.

Everyone watches it happen on their phones.

The opposition party leaders are 85 years old and post "Hey, stop" once a day.

Toiletries are locked behind glass.

An evil online bookstore sends Katy Perry into space for feminism.

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Staff Editorial: American University needs to respond to the ACLU’s demands - The Eagle The University cannot stay silent while members of the community are under attack

AU leadership has been strangely silent as the new administration wages a frontal assault on higher ed. Kudos to the student newspaper, The Eagle, for calling them out: "AU needs to publicly commit to defending students’ rights to protest, speak and assemble without any qualifiers or delays."

8/ Israeli airstrike hit the reception and emergency wing of Gaza City’s Baptist Hospital with two missiles, completely destroying the building.

CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).

Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

I’m not kidding; this is DOGE at work; multiple US citizens getting notices that they just leave the country because USCIS is revoking their humanitarian parole.

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.

“Mommy, no. Mommy.”

Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.

The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.

www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

Important for all of us but especially journalists.

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.

North Carolina judges side with Republican colleague in close Supreme Court race | CNN A North Carolina appeals court sided Friday with the trailing Republican candidate in an extremely close state Supreme Court election, a ruling that could flip the result of the nation’s only 2024 rac...

If your NC vote has been challenged, the appeals court has triggered a 15-day "curing" period. It is imperative that you contact your local Board of Elections or legal representation for the next steps.
The NC GOP is openly trying to steal their state's Supreme Court. Do not let them.