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Students surviving multiple school shootings is the reality of where U.S. is now, says Rep. Frost www.ms.now/the-last-wor...

Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.

Tomorrow, the Senate will vote to either save the ACA tax credits or not. This will determine if premiums will skyrocket for millions of Americans. Pay attention to see if Republicans vote to help or hurt regular Americans.

As Australia began enforcing a world-first social media ban for children under 16 years old this week, Denmark is planning to follow its lead and severely restrict social media access for young people.

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

Senator Ruben Gallego has introduced Senate legislation to outlaw surveillance pricing. Surveillance pricing is yet another way for corporations to pull one over on you. Watch former FTC Chair Lina Khan explain the dangers of this shady practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cbtUYshYM8

NEW, from me: One startling stat captures just how badly the year went for the GOP. Democrats flipped 21% of all GOP-held legislative seats at play. That's thanks to gains they made in six states this year, and I break it all down in my latest:

Yesterday I introduced the One Fair Price Act to stop companies from using your personal information to exploit you.

Texas, let’s win this thing. #JasmineForUS #TexasTough

Whoa. This is a big one. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Hell yes, Democratic candidate Eric Gisler just won the HD-121 special election in Georgia and has officially flipped the seat from red to blue in a district that the orange felon won by 12 points, a major surprising upset. Much more of this please. 💙👊

Just thinking back to how I was feeling a year ago. This is better.

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Melissa basically isn't even a hurricane anymore; it's more like an island-sized tornado. That is a legitimately terrifying concept.

Through its actions, the Trump administration has declared war on measurement. Out of sight, out of mind?

Marco Rubio told the Parkland survivors to their face, on a stage, that he would continue to support school shootings and every Democrat in the Senate voted to confirm him for secretary of state because they care about being friends with him above anything else

RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

Truth. Let's F*cking Go!

Law firm CEOs and university Presidents: start organizing to stand up to Trump together. Don’t let him pick you off one by one. E.g. every law firm should commit to not providing any legal services to Trump or his allies as long as he keeps attacking individual firms.

"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in. The attempts were 'near real-time'... "Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..." www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

I'm sorry, but isn't this just the Cultural Revolution 2.0? Why on earth would fired aid workers and NIH medical researchers go to work on assembly lines for worse salaries in jobs they don't know how to do? Why are they getting their economic policy from Mao?

The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

Forest Service employees protect our headwaters, safeguard our communities from wildfires, and ensure Coloradans’ access to our public lands. The Trump Administration’s plans to downsize this agency disregard Colorado’s way of life and threaten the safety of our communities.

In a statement, @murray.senate.gov denounced Vought’s rationalizations for deciding not to follow this law. OMB broke it by taking down the public website detailing apportionments. As she says, this “about basic transparency & holding *any* administration accountable.” Secrecy hides corruption.

If you live in Wisconsin or in the 6th congressional district of Florida you’ll have a chance to do something the rest of us only dream about doing... [It's also an election day in many other parts of the country, too.] https://robertreich.substack.com/p/if-you-live-in-wisconsin-or-floridas

This is a helpful tool to explain to those who think that the wealthy pay their fair share.

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It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

@ossoff.bsky.social: "My first reaction... was 'what absolute clowns.' Total amateur hour... And this is what happens when you have basically Fox News personalities cosplaying as government officials."

Goldberg: I've never experienced this.. these are these are life and death issues and you don’t just put out specific targeting information, specific timings of attacks that have not yet taken place into a commercial messaging app.

Yale law professor: "They not only shared highly classified information on a private messaging app, but they also presumably did so on private unsecured phones--phones that are highly likely to be of interest to our adversaries. People have spent years in jail for far less." bsky.app/profile/oona...

Every single Democrat in Congress should be demanding the resignation of Waltz and Hegseth. Every single one. This is a massive scandal. There should be a serious price to pay. AND THERE IS ZERO DOWNSIDE FOR EVEN THE MOST SCAREDY-CAT CONGRESSPERSON.

my takeaway from reading this is that i have to assume that every half-competent intelligence agency in the world has an almost real-time glimpse into what the white house and the pentagon are doing

"IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA" "in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

Trump’s Plan: Let’s put a bunch of loyalist clowns in charge of our national defense. What could possibly go wrong?

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There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com

Can confirm. USAID's DARTs are being fully dismantled. These are the legendary teams that fight famine, beat Ebola, rescue people after earthquakes. They represent the very best of America in the world. Elon Musk was once a builder. Now he just destroys. This shameful nihilism will kill people.

Are you smarter than a 5th grader

This flew under the radar, but Trump revoked a minimum wage hike for companies that contract with the government. An estimated 390,000 workers will now see significant pay cuts. It's not surprising that Trump's populism is fake, but it's hardly ever been more clear.

“I did not put my life on the line for some tech bro billionaire from South Africa to come in here and try to destroy our country...” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

🎉 Portland, Oregon just took a critical climate step, and four of our JanePAC candidates led the charge: Mitch Green, Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane, and @counciloravalos.bsky.social.