Virginia, it’s Election Day, and here’s your voting checklist.

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This year's Goldman Prize Winners:
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Mike Johnson to Unleash 'Catastrophic' Attack on Endangered Species Act "When wildlife is already under immense pressure from habitat destruction, climate change, pollution, and industrial development, Congress should be strengthening the Endangered Species Act," said one advocate.

"At a time when wildlife is already under immense pressure from habitat destruction, climate change, pollution, and industrial development, Congress should be strengthening the Endangered Species Act, not tearing it apart," said a critic of the House GOP bill.

Meet the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize winners! 🏆🌎

Discover their stories: goldmanprize.org/2026

#GoldmanPrize

For the First Time in the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas

"Solar, wind, and batteries will account for 93 percent of power capacity added to the grid this year, according to the Energy Information Administration, but rapidly rising power demand is giving a lifeline to fossil fuels." https://bit.ly/426KEPB

More on this here:
www.thegreenspotlight.com/2026/03/prej...

“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.”
– Dr. Paul Farmer

Bar chart of survey responses from about 1,000 UK adults in 2022 where most respondents rate a range of common farming practices for chickens, cows and pigs as "not acceptable," highlighting a gap between public concern for farm animals and current practices. Data source: Bryant Research (2022). License: CC BY.

In a world that often feels deeply polarized, it is rare to find a topic where almost everyone agrees. The treatment of farm animals is one of them.

Surveys across many countries show that a strong majority of people, regardless of their diet, oppose common practices in animal agriculture.

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

Ordered free, still locked up: Judges fume as Trump administration holds ICE detainees A legal maneuver once reserved for death row inmates and suspected terrorists has become the only recourse for immigrant detainees, who have flooded federal courts in California with thousands of peti...

“Many of the cases involve longtime U.S. residents unexpectedly hauled off to jail after routine immigration check-ins.” #Pinks #MomSky #ProudBlue

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JAMA article "When Disregard for Population Health Becomes US Policy" by Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH, published online March 16, 2026. Text discusses US population health, policy, and mortality rates.

💬 Perspective: Cuts to social welfare, health agencies, and data surveillance are projected to increase mortality rates and escalate the US health disadvantage relative to other nations.

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Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

Important story from the Times on the rise of AI influencers for Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

Alligator Alcatraz phones were cut off. Then the beatings began, court docs say One attorney wrote in a sworn declaration that officers broke a detainee’s wrist and “pepper sprayed everyone.”

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'Women Are Right to Choose the Bear: The Online 'R*pe Academy' And What It Says About All Men'

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Men, We Need to Talk About "Rape Academy" This isn’t about women. This is about us. And it’s long past time we had this conversation

This article is for men.

In just the past few weeks: a wife murdered. A community leader killed. Multiple women alleging assault from another congressman. A survivor died by suicide. "Rape Academy" has 140 million visits in two months.

The pattern is horrifying, and the solution starts with us.

If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than:

Tesla
Southwest
Disney
Live Nation
HP
United
PayPal
CVS Health
Palantir
Citigroup
PG&E
3M

That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax.

It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.

Farmers can't afford to wait months for a John Deere tech to show up and overcharge them to repair their tractor.

It's time to make right to repair the law of the land — for farmers, our military, car owners, and all Americans.

Can confirm

This section of the @washingtonpost.com really captures why women are enraged right now and how the system keeps allowing women to die and be assaulted. I’m HOT today so here’s a thread explaining why.

Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women The two women died during miscarriages. The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to their deaths.

NEW: Porsha Ngumezi and Nevaeh Crain died during miscarriages in Texas after doctors delayed treatment.

The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to the deaths, but the doctors were given minimal punishment.

By Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

It's a slippery slope: from bias, generalization, prejudice, “othering,” to scapegoating (collective blame), bigotry (e.g., racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, anti-semitism, xenophobia, etc.), using slurs and hate speech, to discrimination, bullying, and harassment, to...

Michigan averages 15 tornadoes a year. Last year, there were 33. This year, so far, there have been six. Tornado season used to start in June. Lots of damage in Ann Arbor and elsewhere last night.

Climate change isn’t going away.

#extremeweather

What do these companies have in common?

-Block
-Citigroup
-Coinbase
-CVS
-Dominion Energy
-Disney
-Halliburton
-Hasbro
-HP
-Kohl's
-Live Nation
-Palantir
-Paypal
-PG&E
-Southwest Airlines
-Tesla
-United Airlines

They all paid a lower effective income tax rate than you: zero.

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart The family of Marie-Thérèse, from Brittany, fear for her health after she was cuffed and placed in a detention centre

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart | France | The Guardian

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

#HealthcareNotTrumpsWar

As a result of $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 15 million Americans will lose health insurance (Source: CBO: Estimated Budgetary Effects of Public Law 119-21)

Fact-Checking Republicans’ Misleading Claims About Elections

President Trump and his allies have claimed widespread issues with mailed ballots and fraudulent voting, but the evidence doesn’t support them.

Learn more about how to separate fact from fiction 👇

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