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Military family members “have generally been shielded from deportation under bipartisan consensus for decades … they’re now routinely being detained for months … and even as the military continues to recruit by advertising immigration benefits for enlistees’ families.” #AbuseofPowerWatch

📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 #AbuseOfPowerWatch

As @bridgetmoixfcnl.bsky.social writes in @rns.org, our country is facing a moral reckoning a year after President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" slashed food assistance, healthcare, and other vital programs. "For Quakers, this is not partisan language but a matter of conscience."

Aliyah Rahman, a Minnesota resident invited by Rep. Ilhan Omar to attend Tuesday’s State of the Union address, was later hospitalized following her arrest during the speech, according to statements from both Rahman and Omar.

In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% — its lowest on record. Meanwhile, Meta is pumping $65 million into elections this year to boost AI friendly candidates. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax, it's corrosive to democracy. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.

Thank you @kaine.senate.gov! 👏 🚨All of our members of Congress need to hear loud and clear: #NoWarWithIran! ☎️Action resource: fcnl.quorum.us/campaign/128...

"True security is rooted in justice, not fear. "We hold those harmed in the Light, and we demand a budget and guardrails that reflect our shared humanity."

A win! A federal judge has directed the Trump administration to ensure detainees at an immigration facility near Minneapolis have meaningful access to legal counsel, noting concerns that many immigrants may have been cut off from proper legal services.

“Love Forward Together”: Faith Leaders in North Carolina Launch 50-Mile March for Social Justice

Jiwasa is a fundamental principle and linguistic code in the Aymara language that means “communal we.” In many ways, Ruben Hilari Quispe reflects, it relates with Quaker testimonies such as community, integrity, peace, and harmony with nature.

The Trump administration has removed an exhibit on slavery at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, calling it “corrosive ideology.”

The exhibit, Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation, honored nine people enslaved by George Washington at the President’s House Site and examined the contradiction between slavery and freedom at the nation’s founding.

A year after the Trump admin. began dismantling USAID, the human costs have been staggering and devastating. "While we cannot recover the lives lost, we are not powerless to change our path forward." @bridgetmoixfcnl.bsky.social

Is our air and water cleaner? No. Are our bills and expenses at least going down? Also no. Trump is destroying our planet while making life worse for every American.

The Trump administration is attempting to intimidate Minneapolis by ordering around 1,500 active-duty soldiers to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota.

Trump keeps trying to ban clean energy in order to enrich his Big Oil friends and settle his own petty grievances. We all pay the price in higher costs, dirtier air and water, and less reliability because of it.

“As ICE attacks our neighbors across America, it is an attack on us all.” @mayor.nyc.gov #LoveThyNeighbor #Solidarity

Right now, millions across the U.S. are needlessly facing sky rocketing healthcare costs. Congress can and must rectify this unacceptable moral failure. ⬇️ 💰Our tax dollars should fund our needs, ❌ not ICE, wars, and greed.

We can - and must - build a better and more peaceful world. "One that meets the needs of the majority of its people, rather than endlessly squandering precious resources on war and preparations for more of it." A timely and grounding piece from William Hartung in @thenation.com 👇

🌐New: U.N. officials are sounding the alarm over the dangerous precedent set by President Trump's attack on Venezuela and disregard for the U.N. charter. “A peaceful, safe and just world for everyone is only possible if the rule of law prevails instead of might makes right."

The attempted cultural genocide carried out through Indian Boarding Schools is one most shameful yet little-known chapters of US history. But as FCNL's Rachel Overstreet writes in @friendsjournal.org, we must not allow "shame to cloud our judgment or slow our feet" in acting to address its legacy.

Way to go Hilton!!!!

"Peace President." [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

Stephen Miller’s wife. FFS.

🕊️Our representatives in Congress need to hear from us loud and clear.

"As a person of faith, I believe every life is sacred. War not only violates our human dignity — it defies the divine spark that lives in each of us. Peacemaking is sacred work." @bridgetmoixfcnl.bsky.social

Instead of working to lower our bills by embracing clean energy, Trump is busy giving handouts to Big Oil billionaires and forcing obsolete coal plants to stay open and making American taxpayers foot the bill

As Zohran Mamdani takes over as mayor of New York City, he joins his new Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice, Julie Su, to talk about building an economy that works for the many — not just a select few.

The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks. The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.

"Developers either canceled or delayed 20 projects after facing pushback from locals." Data centers are driving up our energy bills, stealing our resources, and polluting our water. The American people are fighting back and saying enough is enough.

The assaults on immigrants and any American who does not look 'White enough' is just the beginning. Trump is gearing up to disrupt the 2026 election by preventing those who do not approve of his autocratic kleptocracy from voting.

🍃 A positive climate story to help balance your time line: A coal town goes geothermal

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Each day, we work to bring a voice for moral governance to the halls of Congress — the kind that prioritizes: ✔️human dignity over ❌corporate profit, ✔️compassion over ❌cruelty, ✔️peace over ❌militarism. Our voice depends on you. Please consider chipping in today:

Let’s talk about something not many people are chatting about and what’s actually happening right now. You might wonder why Imran Ahmed and the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) suddenly became targets of the U.S. government. The honest answer is that their research hit where it hurt.

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

The Trump administration's dehumanizing rhetoric denies the inherent worth and dignity of all people. And it has been deployed to justify wanton violence and cruelty - both at home and abroad. We can't let it become normalized or accepted.

New from @npr.org: Organizations including Quaker House in North Carolina that provide counseling to service members have been receiving calls from U.S. military members concerned about their own legal and moral culpability in the Trump administration's boat strikes.

Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class. You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.

Firing over 100 immigration judges. Arresting immigrants outside of their immigration hearings. Pausing asylum decisions. And now? Cancelling citizenship ceremonies, the final step to becoming a U.S. citizen. Just remember that Trump never cared about "legal immigration."

Ten months ago, the Trump administration deported two planeloads of asylum seekers—including 81 children—to Costa Rica, where they were put into a de facto prison. A group of Quakers in Monteverde was led to confront the Costa Rican government—and welcome some of these refugees into their community.

🔋🌎A victory for our planet -- and "everyone who pays an electricity bill:" Judge Tosses Trump Ban on New Wind Energy Projects

📣 Let's make sure Congress hears our message loud and clear: Immigrants make America whole!

Stronger fuel economy standards would have lowered fuel costs by $23 billion and prevented more than 710 million metric tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere by 2050. The Trump administration has once again sided with polluters over clean air and water and the well-being of ordinary Americans.

A government that targets people simply for providing humanitarian aid to others in need is a government that has lost its humanity.

Federal workers are members of our community who keep our essential services like Social Security, Medicaid, the VA and more, running for working families. They—and all working people—need a government that supports federal workers, not attacks them. https://bit.ly/4rE9r9e

Why have so many corporations donated to Trump’s White House ballroom project? Could it be because many of them have lucrative government contracts? Or because they have mergers and other regulatory business before Trump? I’m sure they just thought a ballroom sounded nice…

Did you know? Children, not soldiers, are often the victims of landmines and cluster munitions. Rep. Sara Jacobs and Rep. Jim McGovern breakdown why the U.S. must lead in the global effort to ban these immoral, indiscriminate weapons. 🧵👇