While you can’t afford a trip for your family this summer, you just paid for Sean Duffy’s 7-month road trip at $4.55 per gallon of gas.

8/ Another mom in Portland told ProPublica that her 3-year-old daughter screamed and cried one night as tear gas drifted in, holding her face as it burned her eyes. The mom started taking her into the bathroom to hide from the gas.

7/ Two girls, ages 6 and 10, started wearing surgical masks indoors last fall after tear gas seeped into their home. Their mother said the younger girl has gone to urgent care repeatedly for her throat. “It gets to the point she can’t breathe.”

4/ Another officer fired pepper spray through a car window, hitting a 1-year-old girl in the back seat. A bystander filmed her in tears. DHS called the incident a “hoax.” But, as a local pastor at the scene testified later, “there’s literally video evidence.”

A must-read thread 🧵

The straightforward effect of adding more administrative burden on stores will be that fewer stores will accept SNAP. These are the equivalent of abortion TRAP laws, like mandating the width of a corridor.

On Tuesday, May 5, the State Department separated more than 200 Foreign Service members under the reduction in force first announced last July, even as it continues to recruit and onboard new officers. Read our statement: https://afsa.org/afsa-statement-state-department-reductions-force

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Oh, the people who shoot protesters in the head are bad too? Crazy.

A century ago during the 1920s, America experienced what the historian Merle Curti aptly called a "cult of prosperity," an era that -- just like our own -- conflated "rich and powerful" with "brilliant and wise" I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but I bet it worked out great for everyone back then.

The lack of health insurance kills more Americans than Iran, yet Trump and Hegseth prefer spending 200B on war over care. Prioritizing weapons while ignoring lives is national neglect, not national security. #HealthcareNotWarfare #USDemocracy

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

The lack of charging infrastructure is, you guessed it, a policy decision made by Donald Trump. Other countries are WAY ahead of the US in terms of charging availability and charging standardization. It's common in the US to go to a charging station only to find none of the chargers operable. 11/x

You remember last year when 500 South Korean battery production experts were kidnapped from a Hyundai plant in Georgia and mass-deported? This single act completely destroyed the willingness of foreign EV experts to work in the US to advance American battery and motor manufacturing. 7/x

You may be sick of me posting these things. I am sick of the silence. How is it that so many of us are sitting by and watching these atrocities happen? WITH. OUR. MONEY? Israel refused to allow help to a journalist trapped under rubble after they attacked her. www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-de...

Before basic income, Cecia was pretty much homeless. With it, she was able to get a new apartment, substitute teach, and pay her rent. Later, it helped her land an even better job. Because she was able to earn additional teaching credentials, her income from teaching is thousands of dollars higher.

I am a nyc teacher and my students will be doing a public service announcement project on a topic that is meaningful to them. They will need to take pics of their action based research project to share. Please repost www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

Come ON

Why has our country fallen so far? Because a major political party built its brand on constant outrageous lying.

American Black women now have fewer voting rights and reproductive rights than their mothers did at the same age. Progress isn’t a straight line, indeed.

There still is absolutely no plan for how to finance & operate our universities without foreign students or restored federal funding, & the public still has zero awareness of the magnitude of this existential crisis, because our leaders have been totally absent from the public stage.

Despite creating a billion-dollar franchise - with a new $200M budget Hollywood blockbuster launching in a month - the creator of He-Man's family were unable to afford his dementia and care facility costs, and had to setup a GoFundMe. Mattel gave $5,000.

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED

notably his cure is from CAR-T therapy, which is so new I didn’t even learn about it in med school THIS is why we invest in science

84% of Iowa students taking public funding to attend private school have never been in public school

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

The thought that been kicking around my head all day since the insane comments of “this is why we need a ballroom”… So basically the Washington elite deserve to have save spaces where guns can’t be a worry but the rest of the people, they don’t deserve such safety. Schools. Malls. Houses of worship.

ICYMI with the other drama going on

Media figures who spent years normalizing violent rhetoric and political violence spending a few minutes hand-wringing about violent rhetoric and political violence before going back to normalizing those most responsible.

“Everybody needs to turn down the rhetoric.” -supporters of a guy who threatened to destroy an entire civilization of 90 million people

Trump thinks a new White House ballroom is a solution to prevent gun violence. What about for the rest of us? Guns kill 100 people in America every single day. Already in 2026, about 7k people have been shot and injured. A White House ballroom won't make us safer.

This is a very interesting take, because I, a person who has volunteered in gun violence prevention for nearly a decade, am told all the time that "we just need to enforce the laws we have!"

Thinking of Martha Odom's family and community this morning.

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

every few months, americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen

Speaker Mike Johnson turned down an invitation to meet with us after a mass shooting in his hometown left eight young kids dead. Speaker Johnson, there is popular, bipartisan reform that would protect American children. The time is now. Your inaction is costing lives.

If you're wondering why the Senate is in session at midnight tonight, it's because Republicans are trying to jam through at least $70 billion for ICE with no accountability. $70 billion for ICE. $0 to help families. $0 to help lower costs. What a disgrace. I'm voting NO.

After these four companies settled with Trump in his shakedown lawsuits, the money was pledged to his presidential library. But the fund was then dissolved. Senate Dems asked the companies where the money went. They have now replied. I've obtained their answers: newrepublic.com/article/2092...

Too many students across America have been forced to endure the pain and trauma of a school shooting. Our lawmakers fail our generation every day they refuse to act. We’re fighting for a future where we can go to school free from the fear of gun violence. Text STUDENTS to 644-33 to join us.

“I have yet to go a single day without thinking about gun violence since the shooting.” - Jonah, a Brown University Students Demand Action leader Our schools should be places of learning, not where our classmates go to die.

Every day, we lose Minnesotans to gun violence. Parents worry about their kids being killed in a school shooting. Violent crimes are committed with guns stolen from vehicles. Gun-inflicted suicides have been rising for decades, even more so in our rural communities. We deserve better than this.

Twenty years ago, the notion that people could elect a Black man named Barack Obama President of the United States and a Muslim named Zohran Mamdani Mayor of New York City would’ve seemed completely outlandish Voters can sometimes surprise us in beautiful ways. Remember that during the midterms

That’s the point — if we are aware of the scenarios and we are ready to mock and block, these stunts can be deterred or turned against Trump. One of them just failed hard in Hungary — because people were ready!

We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

Honored to be recognized as a Moms Demand Action Gun Sense Candidate for 2026. This is about taking action, strengthening our communities, and focusing on what truly matters. Let’s get to work. 🇺🇸 #PruittForCongress#SaferCommunities #SCPolitics #LeadershipMatters

I’m proud to announce that I’ve been recognized as a 2026 Gun Sense Candidate by Moms Demand Action and Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund — an award that reflects my commitment to keeping our homes, schools, neighborhoods, and public spaces safe. To learn more visit iris4colorado.org.

"SpaceX bought 1,279 Cybertrucks in Q4 2025, representing over 18% of Tesla’s total US sales during the quarter. That’s not fleet expansion—that’s a bailout wearing corporate camouflage" www.gadgetreview.com/spacex-bough...

In addition to all the other conversations about Justin Fairfax shooting and killing his wife and then himself, I want to center an important part of this story. Their two children were home when the shooting happened. Their teenaged son called 911. 🧵

Deployed US ships are running out of food. Families’ packages aren’t getting through. “The Pentagon did not respond to a request for comment on the mail stoppage or reports that some U.S. vessels were short on food.” Literally everything else aside, this should make Pete Hegseth resign in shame.