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Ohio doctors asked lawmakers this week to back off of a bill that would require a 24-hour wait before abortion procedures ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/06/12/o...

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deemed to “inappropriately disparage Americans” or portray the United States “in a negative light.” The ruling also requires the National Park Service to restore any exhibits or materials that were altered or dismantled, with restoration to be completed within three weeks.

removing, covering, or revising signs, films, exhibits, and other educational materials at national parks to comply with a Trump administration directive. The order pauses enforcement of an executive action that called for the removal of materials

Todd Blanche, the President's former personal lawyer, is a corrupt grifter who has proven he will always put Trump above the law. Anyone with an ounce of common sense can see that. I'm voting NO. We should not let these crooks run the DOJ like a mob family.

Sadly this morning, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved Sen. Mike Lee’s amendment to eliminate the 2001 Roadless Rule, which protects roughly 45 million acres of national forest land.

Israel is officially an authoritarian, apartheid state, and has for decades allowed rabid right-wing "settlers" (terrorists) to torture, murder, and steal the land of Palestinians for illegal settlements. Is that something you support?

Bernie Sanders and his progressive allies are on a hot streak. The senator’s support has been instrumental in powering unknown candidates to major wins this cycle, a demonstration of how much political influence the 84-year-old progressive leader still commands.

Gun locks and safes would be exempt from state sales tax under a secure firearms storage bill Pennsylvania lawmakers advanced Monday. The law requires gun owners to keep firearms locked in a gun safe or with a locking device when they are not in use. ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/bill-...

Biden appointed Deb Haaland as Secretary of the Interior and even as an indigenous person she couldn't achieve much due to bureaucracy and a Republican congress.

Senator Mike Lee has introduced a last-minute amendment to the Wildfire Prevention Act that would eliminate the 2001 Roadless Rule, stripping protections from roughly 60 million acres of national forest land. This is an attempt to sneak a major public lands policy change through before most

Americans even hear about it. There has been little public attention given to a proposal that could have significant impacts on national forests, wildlife habitat, recreation, Tribal interests, and local communities across the country.

Combine toxic "masculinity", with immaturity, racism, misogyny, ignorance, and almost unfathomable stupidity, mix them up in a dirty toilet, and Hegseth is what you get.

Because all of those fit the Individual Liberty, and government existing for the common good principles Our Founders gave us.

He must've been thinking about Ginny Thomas and Jane Roberts when he started accusing judicial spouses of wrongdoing. Projection is so convenient.

MAGA is ever and always about pointing fingers and blaming the other, whether it's trans people, undocumented immigrants, Muslims, etc. They'll just keep picking off targets until they're made to stop.

🚨 BREAKING: A federal appeals court has ruled, in a 2-1 decision, that the Trump-Hegseth transgender military ban is likely unconstitutional, finding that the policy appears to be driven by a “bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group” and is “both arbitrary and based upon animus.” 1/3

Instead of trying to eliminate birthright citizenship guaranteed in the Constitution, we should pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting felons from serving as president

If you don’t like what you’re seeing at Delaney Hall, pay attention to what’s happening in Congress this week.   We must stop giving ICE and for-profit companies like GEO Group a blank check to create chaos.

Autopsies show how hard doctors tried to save babies who died after not getting a vitamin K shot: tubes inserted in their airways, blood transfusions. They’re excruciating to read because they underscore how preventable these deaths could have been.

We live in a country where some of the best journalists are late night comedians & editorial cartoonists. THANK YOU Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Jimmy Fallon, Tom Tomorrow, Mike Luckovich & Michael de Adder ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! #LAUGH_DO_NOT_DESPAIR ✊

The U.S. just had its worst year for international tourism since the pandemic and it wasn’t even close. While the rest of the world broke records in 2025, America was the only country out of 184 to see a drop in foreign visitor spending.

Originally, the Purcell principle was aimed at preventing court orders from changing voting or election rules too close to an election. Instead, it has rapidly expanded into a tool to block court orders that protect voting rights, while allowing anti-voting measures to proceed unchallenged.

Not surprised at all.

🗺️ A.M. REDISTRICTING UPDATE 🗺️ 📍LA: House debate begins today on a map eliminating one majority-Black district. 📍AL: State asked SCOTUS to uphold 2023 map with one majority-Black district for use in the midterms. 📍FL: GOP map in effect for the midterms. 📍TN: GOP map in effect for now.

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NEW: This is the story of one couple’s long fight with their health insurer — and the little-known tool that helped them finally win. In this episode of “Paper Trail,” we’re going to tell you what it is:

Lets not do anything about Climate Change it's too difficult, it's not like Solar and Wind are 8x cheaper than Fossil Fuel and only need to be replaced every 40/25 years. Oh wait... The only reason we don't act is to protect the outrageous Fossil Fuel profits.

While Russian officials boast of flags planted deep behind enemy lines, maps, videos and leaked frontline accounts reveal a very different picture.

Ken Paxton tried to undo the results of the 2020 election on behalf of Trump – and he wants to be Texas’ next senator. But Paxton went even further than just challenging the results or alleging fraud. Here’s why he’s being called dangerous for democracy:

It’s embarrassing, and honestly it’s starting to look like Idiocracy could see the future.

This is fascism. Tactics straight out of the playbook of the Nazi's, Lysenko, and North Korea. Science doesn't have borders and setting up "us vs. them" hurts everyone. www.science.org/content/arti...

Forget all the annoying stuff in the world for a few moments and enjoy the natural beauty of Brazil’s Seven-coloured Tanager (Tangara fastuosa) Photo: Luiz Cavalcanti Damasceno

The Trump administration’s process for awarding border wall contracts has been shrouded in mystery after former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem waived dozens of laws regulating financial transparency and competitiveness in government contracting. With @texastribune.org & Big Bend Sentinel

Just in time for her to get some of the $1.7B Trump wants taxpayers to pay to the J6 traitors. He's gotta make sure they will "stand back and standby"again.

GDammit. I’m so tired of the corruption. And when we *finally* hold someone to account—justice is subverted.

There was a big clean water deal among those other things that were being held up. We are living in a mob racket.

The president of the United States of America is a worldwide embarrassment.

Justice Samuel Alito has fossil fuel stocks making up nearly a quarter of his personal investment portfolio. And he just voted to put a major climate accountability case on the Supreme Court’s docket after recusing himself from virtually identical cases for the exact same reason.

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

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Racism makes it about race.

“Trumpflation. U.S. inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war” — Political artwork by and opinion of Michael de Adder.

I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing

10,000 losses. That's the Trump admin's track record as federal judges have ruled against ICE detention practices in roughly 90% of cases, a POLITICO analysis revealed. 🔗 politi.co/4nuxJB5