Today I traveled to Selma with my colleagues in Congress to take a stand against the radical right-wing plot to suppress Black political representation and dismantle our democracy by gutting the Voting Rights Act. We’ve made too much progress in this country to go backwards. We won’t be silenced.

Bible was created to rule ancient Homo sapiens.

I love and respect this scientist. Carl Sagan answers a question about creation vs evolution.

This is not okay! Colorado Gov. Jared Polis announced today that he’s commuting the sentence of Tina Peters a former county clerk and 2020 election denier who received nine years for tampering with election equipment

Xi deployed the classical reference during Trump’s visit may be a foreshadowing of his position on Taiwan. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

🚨BREAKING: Immediately after the South Carolina legislature ended their legislative session Thursday, Gov. Henry McMaster (R) called lawmakers back to redraw the state’s congressional map and eliminate its lone majority-Black district. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Did Trump press Xi to release Jimmy Lai from prison like he promised during the campaign on the Hugh Hewitt radio show in 2024 when he said it would be “easy” for him to get Lai released if elected because of his “great relationship” with Xi. Any updates on that?

GILLIBRAND: How did we bomb 22 schools? COOPER: There's no indication we have G: So how do you explain publicly available information that 22 schools have been hit and multiple hospitals? C: There's no way we can corroborate that G: Have you investigated those claims? C: We have not

SCOTUS has frequently admonished lower courts for intervening too close to elections but is now facing accusations that it is doing exactly that in a way that helps Republicans draw new districts at breakneck speed. “I don’t think you can see this as anything other than a raw exercise of power.”

CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil will broadcast from Taiwan this week after failing to obtain a visa to China. CBS network’s strategy has been shaped by the political and business interests of the Ellison family which depends on Trump to complete merger with WarnerMedia. www.semafor.com/article/05/1...

What the trailer showed was a reality show in which Duffy, his still-a-Fox-host wife Rachel Campos-Duffy and their nine children gallivant around America.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar Barrios has been released! She should never have been locked away by ICE. As an emergency and trauma doctor, she served patients in South Texas with dedication. I am grateful that she will be reunited with her 5 year-old daughter Milena and husband.

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

Ronald dela Rosa, the chief enforcer in former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody "war on drugs", said on Facebook his arrest was imminent. He took refuge in his legislative office on Monday.

Roger Innes at Indiana University (IU) Bloomington who has sharply criticized the government’s recent prosecution of several Chinese scientists has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. www.science.org/content/arti...

Eileen Wang was elected mayor of the city of Arcadia of 56,000 in 2022. She was charged with one count of acting in the US as an illegal agent of a Chinese government and has agreed to plead guilty.

Must listen! The most dangerous part of the ruling isn't just the legal outcome, it's the cultural message it sent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF1c...

Let’s not forget that Sean Duffy not only spent last year leading the Department of Transportation (during multiple air travel accidents), he also simultaneously spent six months as the head of NASA.

Meanwhile in the UK, the far right Reform UK party gained more than 1,400 seats. The Labour Party losing more than 1,100 seats. Green Party gaining more than 300 seats and the Liberal Democrats more than 150. The Conservative Party losing over 500 seats. www.npr.org/2026/05/10/n...

The dismantling of the Voting Rights Act is a reminder that we have unfinished business. This fight is ours — and we are going to finish it.

Hundreds of children die each year from spontaneous bleeding in the brain, a result of vitamin K deficiency. Vitamin K shots, which help the blood to clot, are one of three key interventions for newborns, along with an antibiotic eye ointment and the hepatitis B vaccine.

Moderna has been conducting early-stage vaccine research on hantaviruses in collaboration with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, and separately with the Vaccine Innovation Center at Korea University College of Medicine. qz.com/moderna-stoc...

Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine are standing up for science today, May 11th at 8am ET.

Unbeknownst to most people, logging companies and the US Forest Service have been spraying massive amounts of glyphosate ( Roundup) in clear cut and fire ravaged forests of California and throughout the nation. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The transportation secretary, a former “Real World” star, is facing criticism for filming the program while gas prices remain high.

PhotoDNA, developed in 2009 collaboration with Microsoft, that finds child sexual abuse material online. The tool scans content uploaded on Google, Facebook, Reddit etc, comparing files against a database of known child sexual abuse material. www.science.org/content/arti...

Alito said that Black voter turnout had exceeded white voter turnout in two of the five most recent presidential elections, both nationally and in Louisiana. Alito’s claim was from a misleading data analysis by DOJ. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NAACP sues to stop Tennessee GOP gerrymander that dismantles majority-Black district www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Not a surprise, the administration has laid off thousands of CDC scientists and public health professionals, including members of the agency’s ship sanitation program. apnews.com/article/cdc-...

If gardeners are keystone species, the metaphor does real work: a keystone does not control the ecosystem, it creates conditions for the rest to flourish. The gardener who wilds rather than manicures is practicing a different kind of power. The question is what you let go and what stays.

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

Americans are abandoning agriculture jobs and U.S. immigration policies are restricting access to undocumented workers.

We will still be here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Mh...

Matthew Elliston, assistant director of Law Enforcement Systems & Analysis at ICE, said in a meeting the plan to create smartglasses was to “supplement Mobile Fortify,” the DHS official said. 404 Media granted the official anonymity as they weren’t permitted to speak to the press.

At least 10 crewmembers aboard a Disney Magic cruise were detained by ICE after the ship docked in San Diego late last month

The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room opens to the public on Friday, May 8th.

Deeply demonic. This is political retaliation.

A shadow docket order by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Monday restored nationwide access to the abortion drug mifepristone by mail. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GziI...

Lambert: The Strait of Hormuz is going to be open and we’re going to control it. Mockler: In two weeks? Lambert: It doesn’t matter if it’s two weeks or two months. Mockler: It does actually matter because economists are saying if it's closed for a few more months, we're going into a recession

Julie K. Brown www.pulitzer.org/winners/juli...

. If you work in media shame on you. .

Can confirm.

More than 40 global media outlets are coming together as the One Free Press Coalition to bring attention to fellow journalists who are being threatened for seeking to tell the truth. #OneFreePress

Democrats just flipped Pearland, Texas. Quentin Wiltz has defeated Republican Tony Carbone in the mayoral race — turning a red seat blue.

HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of people are in the streets in DC as part of the #MayDay day of action and solidarity. We refuse to cooperate with a regime that is killing people, ignoring the law, and destroying our rights.

The rise of MAHA and the Republican gutting of Medicaid have prompted other doctors to launch Democratic congressional bids—counting Richard Pan, at least three are running in California.

According to a new analysis by Fair Fight Action, a voting rights group, Democrats could redraw anywhere from 10 to 22 additional congressional seats for the party in time for the 2028 elections if they push hard with redistricting in seven blue and swing states.