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For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel. Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare. Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.

Call me old fashioned, but I think any president creating a meme coin hustle to recruit anonymous financial backers and rewarding the biggest spenders with “a night to remember” private dinner with the president kinda feels like an impeachable offense.

@slotkin.senate.gov in case you're the one that actually doesn't know what it means. If you're Dem messaging doesn't include fighting against this, you're a waste of space in the Senate.

Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics https://go.nature.com/42Zryw1

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

They deported A CHILD. WITH CANCER.

A two year old. bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Kash Patel is constantly giving Skeletor Henchman

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

I would like for stupid people to stop making important decisions that affect my life

Over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved 154 million lives. This World Immunization Week, let’s celebrate the scientists, researchers, and public health workers who work tirelessly to keep us healthy and disavow baseless conspiracy theories about vaccines.

I want politics to be about a better everyday life. Here's what that can look like:

"Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies" What's Title VI? "prohibits discrimination against or otherwise excluding individuals on the basis of race, color, or national origin"

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

America has had its share of crooks (Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon), bigots (Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan), and incompetents (Andrew Johnson, George W. Bush). But never before Donald Trump did we have a president who combined all these nefarious qualities.

Happy Earth Day! 🌍💙 Each year on 22 April, people across the planet join forces to raise awareness about the unequivocal effects of climate change and the importance of protecting our planet for future generations. We celebrate Earth Day every day at ESA.

So the Republican Party has historically blocked: -Paid sick leave -Paid family & medical leave -Universal childcare -Universal pre-K -Expanded Child Tax Credit -Programs to support reproductive health And they're wondering why more people aren't having children?

Good job team America www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The government did this in the 80s and 90s to track people with HIV. The lists were given to businesses and more by the departments of health to discriminate against people even suspected of having it so they couldn’t work or get housing

Can't let Patriots' Day go by without returning to one of our most loved and controversial lists ever.

Worth noting that a number of universities have now sued over withheld and canceled grants, but no university has yet sued over the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of its foreign students. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

The Oscar-winning documentary, No Other Land, is available to rent and screen at nootherland.com from now until May 9. All of the proceeds will support the Masafer Yatta communities featured in the documentary.

Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.

and there is more of this for democrats to do! demand to see the other people renditioned to this prison! conduct on camera interviews with people who have lost social security, veterans benefits and medical care because of DOGE, hold rallies against the administration’s lawlessness!

the US government is so hostile to immigrants and Palestine activism that they’re snatching students off campuses and deporting them—while radicalized white men like FSU shooter Phoenix Ikner, the son of a cop who used her gun, espouse Nazi ideology and ridicule protesters before killing. my latest

Pros And Cons Of Bringing Back Extinct Species theonion.com/pros-an...