Newsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"
5 COVID-19 LESSONS
1 Fewer hospitalizations doesn't mean Covid is over
2 Long Covid is downplayed
3 Disregarding Covid's later hospitalizations & deaths sends the wrong message
4 Health policy isn't a weapon
5 A national COVID-19 inquiry is tomorrow's guidebook
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US sees spate of arrests of civilians impersonating Ice officers
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Also incredible that a Republican terrorist shot four people in order to gain control of the Minnesota legislature and journalists aren’t confronting the Republican president who has often condoned violence about it every day.
MUST WATCH: Oceanside CA: Militarized DHS (HSI) smashed windows, assault rifles drawn, tossed flashbangs and sent drones into the apartment which had 2 kids inside. They then told neighbors they were going to use tear gas, and they’d probably be exposed. Please share widely. WTF
I just have to say for those of you not in LA that in the days before the horrible raids started, there was no crisis or whatever they would let you believe. It wasn't like something was escalating out of control and somebody had to step in. THEY are creating the problems.
The entire modern internet has been built on platforms that don’t believe in asking for consent. What if we started demanding a culture of consent online? www.anildash.com//2025/05/27/...
On Sarah’s bridge-building work - Those who mourn Sarah Milgrim should reflect on her ideals, learn from her life’s work and aim as she did on creating the fragile groundwork for Middle East peace. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
President Trump just fired almost the entire staff of the CFPB, who protect you from getting scammed by Wall Street.
This is another assault on consumers and our democracy by Trump's lawless Administration.
We will fight back with everything we've got.
A coalition of Jewish groups warns that the Trump administration stripping international students of visas under the guise of fighting antisemitism actually makes Jews less safe and undermines the rule of law.
Four R senators and four R House members could announce they're caucusing with the Dems for now, and will vote for Schumer for Majority Leader and Jeffries for Speaker, because the threat to the rule of law is dire. Meanwhile, they'll work with Democrats to construct guardrails against dictatorship.
Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.
Weird how they keep saying they can barely afford to make any TV shows or movies and then this keeps happening. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
“The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying ‘anti-Christian bias’ as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new order on supporting employees of Christian faith.”
Did you know that every single active duty service member pays into social security at the full cost but billionaires are capped at what they contribute?
Feel like today is a good day to remind ourselves of how tyranny grows….. youtu.be/cXR5HLodsT8?...
THIS NEEDS MORE ATTENTION: an appellate court in NC appears ready to throw out legitimate ballots from a state Supreme Court election last November where the Republican lost, flipping the outcome.
This is a trial balloon for what they want to do nationally, election subversion on steroids.
The US stock market has now lost over $10 trillion in value since Trump’s inauguration.
To tell stories about Indigenous nations, we need to build capacity for Indigenous journalists in Canadian media — including Indigenous editors.
That’s why this year, The Narwhal is hiring an Indigenous editorial fellow. Learn more and apply. #cdnmedia #journalismjobs thenarwhal.ca/2025-indigen...
Canadians: this feels kinda maga-y…and something we should be using our ‘freedom of expression’ to push back against.
Free speech just might be a “use it of lose it” kinda thing…here’s the link to CTV’s ‘contact us’ page if you’d like to provide feedback: www.ctvnews.ca/about-us/con...
NEW: CTV cancelled a fact-checking segment in response to political pressure from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
‘Target suffers eighth week of foot-traffic losses since caving on DEI
Costco, which resisted demands to end DEI, extends its streak of foot-traffic gains to 13.’
"use creative tactics, stay active for long periods of time, and retain public support by eschewing violence even when facing government repression..."
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