"Tucker Collins, an 18-year-old freshman at USC, attended a 'No Kings' protest in Los Angeles on Mar. 28. He ended up getting shot in the eye with a less-lethal projectile by a Department of Homeland Security agent and is now blind."
The acting head of the DOJ’s voting section told a judge last week that the agency had not touched the nonpublic voter roll data it has collected. That wasn’t true. www.wired.com/story/doj-mi...
US job growth has slowed sharply over the past year, making it especially difficult for young Americans not just to land their first jobs out of college but even to land internships, often the foundational step in an early career. https://cnn.it/4sNm566
This is not who we should be—but ICE is so desperate for stats they detain a woman who is legally applying for her green card, a scholarship college student who teaches Sunday School. Trump would have us believe he’s taking criminal aliens off the streets. It’s a lie www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...
Pope Leo XIV focused on retaining hope amid the violence of war, climate change and other suffering, in his first Easter homily since becoming the head of the Catholic Church last year. https://cnn.it/3OaF23s
After seesawing between diplomacy and threats, Trump may find it harder to knock down prices through words alone.
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Nearly all the bicycles sold in the United States are made overseas. An Indiana company set out to change that — and it's seeking a push from the Trump administration's tariffs.
An amendment to a bill protecting Trans+ rights has removed legal gender recognition for one in five of the world’s Trans+ people, pending assent by India’s president. An amendment to the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act of 2019 proposed by MP Virendra Kumar has passed, removing the rights of Trans+ Indians to self-identify. The right was guaranteed by a Supreme Court ruling in 2014. It is a significant rollback.
It’s estimated that 2 million people could be affected by the changes
Understand the amendment 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-the-lgbtqia-n...
President Zelenskyy warns that a prolonged US-Israeli war with Iran could divert critical aid from Ukraine, adding that is threatening the supply of vital Patriot missiles and boosting Russia’s economy through surging oil prices.
A total of 87 drones were shut down over Russia and annexed Crimea overnight on Saturday, the Defense Ministry said.
Donald Trump’s endorsement does not seem to be helping Viktor Orban. The world’s most famous right-wing populist is increasingly associated with war, pricey petrol and corruption. Centrists should take advantage
Slaughtering our golden goose: massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Under Bondi, in the first six months of Trump’s administration, DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, fraud, and drugs..."
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"The latest Gallup survey found the number of Americans who identify as Republican voters fell to 39%, an 11-year low.
"Meanwhile, the number of Americans who identify as Democratic voters climbed to 49%, levels unseen since the aftermath of Jan. 6..."
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"Four Catholic faith leaders washed feet and offered Communion to 14 DHS detainees at the ICE facility in Broadview IL on Holy Thursday..."
"Outside in rain and heavy winds, 50 Catholic faithful held a Holy Thursday liturgy, blessed the delegation and held their own Washing of the Feet ritual..."
ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months.
Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs.
Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food.
Placed in solitary.
Denied medical accommodations.
They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!
“They were going to come. It was going to be a big thing. We were going to go to the beach right after. All those plans had to go out the window because they said ICE would be here."
"In late March [Pope Leo XIV] warned against invoking the name of Jesus for battle, saying in a Sunday homily that Jesus 'does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.'”
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'Senior Army officers reacted with anger...to the news of General George’s dismissal'
The reason for the dismissal?
Gen. Randy George disagreed with Hegseth blocking the promotions of 2 women and 2 black Army officers.
Arguably the more consequential firing today.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...
More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May of last year, when the Trump admin shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program, according to the latest industry data.
That is the highest pace of foreclosures for VA loans in a decade.
“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.”
-Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University
This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.
Users online are reacting to Karoline Leavitt's latest declaration that President Trump is always the "most well-read person in the room," and some cannot believe she said it with a straight face.
The president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee was detained by ICE agents this week after the authorities said he had been convicted of crimes by Israel more than three decades ago and had lied on his U.S. green card application.
