320 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  Season 3 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives debuted on November 13, and among the routine infighting, there’s a heavier topic that has consumed the season’s conversations: the incremental revelation...

321 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  Secretary of State Marco Rubio has identified a new enemy: Calibri. According to multiple reports, Rubio has ordered diplomats to stop using the font—a “wasteful DEIA program” from the Biden era, he ...

From the ACLU -  If a president can murder civilians at sea and keep the legal justifications secret, we should all be concerned. The harm is even worse when basic factual evidence, such as full videos and orders, are...

From Citizens for Ethics -  The post DC Circuit unanimously denies DOGE effort to block discovery in CREW FOIA lawsuit appeared first on CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

322 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  The Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection is planning to require visitors from countries on the Visa Waiver Program to provide up to five years of their social media history...

From the ACLU -  This year, the ACLU’s most-read stories reflected the pressing issues shaping life in America: challenges to civil liberties, attacks on marginalized communities, and the ongoing struggle to hold thos...

From Citizens for Ethics -  The post One of the last remaining checks on presidential power is leaving office by the end of the month appeared first on CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

323 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s affinity for public exercise was once again on display this week, with the 71-year-old health secretary and his transportation counterpart, the former reality star Sean Duffy,...

From the ACLU -  When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained Fernando Viera Reyes, his first concern was deportation. His second: prostate cancer. “It’s one thing being healthy and going through that,...

324 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  The image was grotesque. In March, a camera-ready Kristi Noem posed in front of a group of shirtless, shaved, tattooed men crammed inside a metal holding cell in a foreign prison. The photo-op (and v...

From the ACLU -  The holidays often bring together people who care about one another, but don’t see the world the same way. In a year marked by deep political turmoil, real threats to constitutional rights, and widesp...

325 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Pattie Gonia, the drag queen and environmentalist, arrived in San Francisco on Fr...

From the ACLU -  Pass the yams and the politically-fraught chatter, everyone — it’s that time of year again. We know many of us will find ourselves gathering around tables this holiday season with a wide range of folk...

326 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  The second Trump administration has made tearing down parts of the federal government a priority. And some of those efforts have been literal. In October, President Donald Trump ordered the demolitio...

327 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  Democrats’ resounding victories in the New Jersey and Virginia governor’s races got most of the headlines, but the most dramatic results in last month’s elections were downballot. In Virginia, Democr...

328 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  Three South Carolina voters with disabilities, represented by the NAACP, filed a lawsuit on Friday against the state’s election commission and Republican attorney general Alan Wilson to challenge rul...

329 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in a case that could unravel the final remaining limits on the ultra-rich writing unlimited checks to their preferred federal candidates, opening the...

330 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  In the wake of the longest government shutdown in US history, an ongoing self-inflicted tariff war, and his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, President Donald Trump’s approval rating has...

From the ACLU -  At the largest immigration detention site in the country, officers beat up Samuel, a detained teenager who uses a pseudonym, so badly, he had to go to the hospital. His right front tooth broke, and he...

331 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  In a rare instance of bipartisan alarm, Republican-chaired committees in the House and Senate announced that they have launched inquiries into an explosive Washington Post report alleging Defense Sec...

From the ACLU -  As Donald Trump started his second presidential term, 2025 began with a lot of uncertainty. However, the ACLU was ready to protect the civil liberties of individuals around the country, as we had done...

332 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a sunny morning two years ago, a group of state officials stood in the mountains of nor...

333 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

From Mother Jones -  On Thursday, President Donald Trump once again found it acceptable to use the r-word, directing it towards Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, in a Truth Social post which also attacked Somali immigrants in...

334 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

How Trump's unlawful name change of the Department of Defense to the Department of War can be challenged https://f.mtr.cool/izciikpnqk

From Mother Jones -  On November 29, 1975, Republican President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act into law, which later became the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). IDEA ...

335 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

Anyone can state a problem. It’s the insightful person who works toward a solution. https://f.mtr.cool/soqluelesg

From Mother Jones -  This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Porcupines are easy to recognize but hard to find—so elusive, in fact, that ...

From the ACLU -  Subscribe to the Free Future Newsletter Free Future home Another Police Use of AI The police technology company Axon has gotten a lot of attention for its “Draft One” product, which uses body camera r...

336 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

Polling shows nearly nine in ten Americans support a ban on congressional stock trading.

From Mother Jones -  In August 2022, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall made a guest appearance on a local conservative talk radio show. It was two months after the US Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade, and a...

From the ACLU -  Searching for an apartment online, applying for a loan, going through airport security, or looking up a question on a search engine – you might not think anything of these exchanges other than that th...

337 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.

Past presidents were stopped by Congress when money dried up. It’s time to use the same playbook.