Just in time for that annual celebration of the land of the free and home of the brave: US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza. apnews.com/article/pale...

Mahmoud Khalil walked out of the detention center in Louisiana shortly before 7 p.m. local time Friday. “No one is illegal — no human is illegal,” Khalil said. “Justice will prevail no matter what this administration may try.” trib.al/dZtYU0u

This pro-war resolution rests on two destructive misunderstandings. First, it is based on the illegal notion of “preventative” war. Israel was not facing imminent attack. Israel (which has nukes) can’t attack Iran because they *could* develop nuclear weapons. 1/ jewishinsider.com/2025/06/isra...

We are dismayed and heartbroken by the killing of two Israeli embassy staff in Washington, D.C. last night. As Quakers, we abhor violence and believe there is that of God in everyone. We condemn this attack and are holding the victims, their families, and everyone impacted in the light.

Sen. Welch @welch.senate.gov quoting a Palestinian in Gaza on the nightmare Trump and Netanyahu’s blockade has created: “Believe it or not, people no longer care about bombs, rockets, or even death. What consumes them now is food: How to find it, how to feed their children.”

Join actioncorps.org online panel Tues. 5/13 at 8pm ET: The president does not have constitutional power to start wars. Panelists: - Dr. Annelle Sheline, Quincy Institute - Bruce Fein, Esq, author - Diego Rivera, Bring Our Troops Home RSVP: actioncorps.org/wpr-panel.html. #WarPowers

Free Mohsen Mahdawi!

Rally tomorrow at the State Department! Marco Rubio must hear our voices demanding that Mohsen Mahdawi is released immediately. Proud to protest with @vanhollen.senate.gov, @raskin.house.gov, @jayapal.house.gov, @frost.house.gov, @pressley.house.gov, and more of my powerhouse colleagues. Join us📢💥

“The footage showed bodies covered in dust amid blood-stained rubble. Rescue workers carried a man who was moving slightly on a stretcher. A survivor could be heard calling "My mother" in Amharic, the main language of Ethiopia.”

I filmed this yesterday on my way to Lousiana where my constituent Rümeysa Öztürk is being wrongfully held by ICE. I’m there now demanding her release. More to come.

“This is a critical test of Congress’ role under the Constitution,” said Evans-Frantz. “We urge lawmakers to step up now—not after more civilians are killed or more classified information is mishandled.” www.actioncorps.org/statements/n...

Today, the Trump administration notified Congress of the potential sale to #Israel of engines for Eitan armored personnel carriers for $180 million. www.dsca.mil/Congressiona... See updated resource page www.forumarmstrade.org/us-israel-tr...

🔥 36k in LA. 20k in Salt Lake. The people are rising. Bernie & AOC are packing stadiums & breaking records. "We're going to make our revolution with joy. We're going to sing & dance our way to victory against the hatred & divisiveness." @sanders.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2tt75xwz

President Trump says Mexico is “essentially run by the cartels”. He says that the United States should “wage war” against them. Are we over this notion that Trump is anti-war or anti-intervention? www.latimes.com/world-nation...

Philly turning out for #HandsOff to oppose Trump’s autocracy, imperialism and oppression. From our friends at [email protected].

Massive turnout at today's #HandsOff! rally against Musk and Trump in St. Paul, Minnesota 🔥🔥🔥

It was a lovely day for a rebellion. Hard to judge crowd size from our vantage point, but the crowd kept growing all afternoon. Here’s Jamie Raskin speaking to the rally at the Washington Monument.

The folks at @peaceactionmaine.bsky.social representing on #HandsOff day. #HandsoffCanada.

Right now in @peaceaction.bsky.social ‘s hometown of Oakland: #HandsOff Fire Musk, bring all the detainees home, end Trump’s wars, and roll back the autocratic takeover.

Protests aren’t the only tool in the anti-authoritarian toolkit, but they’re incredibly important. Protests help us see each other; they make it feel safer to refuse to obey the dictator, and make it more possible for us to organize mass non-cooperation. It’s an essential step in the process.

Augusta, Maine

I was at the DC rally. Loads of positive energy and a big crowd. Very energizing. I feel better now than I have in weeks. I’m hopeful. Let’s do this around May Day too! Congratulations to the organizers here and *around the country.* ☘️

Power to the people. ✊

“They fired everybody, there’s nobody left to do anything,” said Mark Wolfe, executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors Association. “Either this was incredibly sloppy, or they intend to kill the program altogether.” Authorotative Voiceover: “They intend to kill the program.”

Petrova was arrested in Russia in 2022 after her involvement in protests against the country’s war in Ukraine. “I am scared to go back to Russia,” she said, according to the letter. “I am afraid the Russian Federation will kill me for protesting against them.”

Tariffs can be a useful tool to regulate global trade in the interest of jobs, wages, labor rights, and the environment — if applied correctly. But Trump’s chaotic, overly broad tariffs are only likely to hurt working people.

🧵 It's appalling and unacceptable that the U.S. is continuing to fuel the catastrophic violence and suffering being inflicted in Gaza. We are grateful to @sanders.senate.gov and the 14 other Senators who took a stand today against U.S. complicity and more arms sales to the Israeli gov.

Mahmoud Khalil. Rumeysa Ozturk. Alireza Doroudi. Ksenia Petrova. And now another student at the University of Minnesota. The increasing number of students who have been detained for exercising their constitutionally protected speech (or for no justified reason) is deeply troubling. (1/2)

Protest Trump's Policies!! "Call your senators’ offices immediately at (202) 224-3121. Demand they vote YES on Sanders' Resolutions of Disapproval on U.S. arms transfers to Israel – S.J.Res 26 and S.J.Res 33."🙏🕊️ @peaceaction.bsky.social @jonrainwater.bsky.social🙏 www.commondreams.org/opinion/bern...

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

BREAKING: Rep. Summer Lee has introduced a bill that would ABOLISH super PAC spending nationwide, severely curtailing the undue influence billionaires and corporations exert on our elections.

I learned this week that you can put our troops' lives in danger, compromise our national security, and violate the Espionage Act. And the government will do nothing. But if you write an editorial for your school newspaper that Trump doesn't like, you will be abducted on the street and disappeared.

"Shocking" (not) news of the day: the US Air Force, after completely mismanaging a massive, unneeded effort to build high-priced, destabilizing, vulnerable land-based, nuclear-armed missiles, is looking to extend the life of the ones they already have until 2050: gulfnews.com/world/americ...

NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest “Stop resisting” “He’s not resisting” Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions

"I am a political prisoner," Mahmoud Khalil says in his first statement since being detained www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Marco Rubio reposting Bukele’s ‘oopsie too late’ is like a kid giggling after breaking a vase: barely cute if you’re 8, cringeworthy when you’re America’s top diplomat. Aren’t Secretaries of State supposed to project gravitas, not troll judges with emojis? #DiplomacyFail prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/vlTpVLPl

This set of recissions on March 14 includes NSM-18, aka conventional arms transfer (CAT) policy. See CAT policy resource page at www.forumarmstrade.org/catpolicy.html Unclear what replaces the policy at this point. If you know, please add comment to this post. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Today in a historic move, the Marshall Islands has submitted its ratification of the Mine Ban Treaty to the United Nations Secretary-General, marking a significant milestone in the global fight against #landmines. Well done Marshall Islands! Check out the full article: bit.ly/3XPskJ0

There is a non-zero chance that Trump decides to unilaterally seize some Canadian territory or to annex Greenland by diktat. It would be a mistake to treat these threats as idle boasts or jokes. Neither Canada nor Denmark are treating them as such. news.sky.com/story/amp/do...

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.

“Trump the peacemaker contrasts sharply with the Donald Trump who makes casual reference to taking over other nations, launches trade wars, orders mass deportations, empowers high-tech billionaires, and dismantles America’s foreign aid apparatus, putting millions of lives at risk.”

This Republican Spending Bill is meant to codify DOGE and give them more power. Hell no. The Senate should vote on the CLEAN 4-week CR so we can negotiate an actual spending bill. Not a DOGE empowerment bill.

I know Stuart well, and trust him. If he’s saying this to those kids, in that room, it’s with good reason. And it means we’re fully down the slippery slope.

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

Free Mahmoud Khalil.

This is straight up authoritarian thought policing of political speech Trump and his Allie’s don’t like. Colleges and Congress need to step up quickly to oppose this is a united fashion. thehill.com/homenews/edu...

On Thursday, @JoaquinCastroTX.bsky.social @ChuyGarcia.house.gov & @Velazquez.house.gov led a resolution reaffirming that Congress opposes calls for U.S. military action in Mexico. winwithoutwar.org/win-without-... 🧵

By "Cuts" they mean protection from things like catastrophic climate change (a REAL security threat), in order to merely shift those resources to new nuclear weapons, an #IronDome missile defense shield, and other Trump priorities. #TrumpIsNotAPresident4Peace

From Reuters on the NNSA firings - apparently some people were reinstated. I would guess the people who worked on nuclear weapons were brought back & the people who work on nonproliferation were not, because they think it is better to threaten others with death than prevent death, but what do I know