VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump dealt crushing blow at trial
David Pecker's testimony in Trump's porn star hush money trial contained some powerfully incriminating evidence that gives prosecutors the tools they need to nail him on election interference.
Take Action: Tell the media to stop treating Biden’s age like a bigger deal than Trump’s MANY crimes!
I’m a Jewish student at Yale. Here’s what everyone is getting wrong about the protests
Ian Berlin Ben Weiss, a protesting Jewish student at Yale, has had enough of the media's efforts to categorize the peace movement as "supposedly antisemitic pro-Palestine activists pitted against Jewish pro-Israel activists" because that "could not be further from the truth. At every turn, I have encountered a community of activists and organizers that is eager to listen, ready to learn and committed to including Jewish voices and perspectives." Weiss describes how the protest organizers held serious discussions on whether or not it was acceptable to use terms like "intifada," ultimately choosing to ban the word as it made certain Jewish students unsafe. Weiss describes how non-Jewish students have been taking part in singing Jewish healing prayers and participating in a communal Passover seders. "To see Yale protests once again swept up in accusations of antisemitism denies this experience and invalidates the Jewishness of those calling for an end to the violence in Gaza... the Talmud teaches us that we may not sell weapons to those we suspect of using them criminally. Therefore, we have a duty to disrupt the manufacture and sale of military weapons that kill others, including those killing Palestinians," writes Weiss
Take Action: Make college affordable again!
Texas radicals seek to cut off escape for abortion seekers
Avow: Stripping away bodily autonomy, reproductive rights, and access to life-saving medical treatments for Texans wasn’t enough for anti-abortion extremists. Now they want to stop pregnant people from leaving the state entirely, forcing them to bear unwanted children and endure agonizing pain and trauma from unviable pregnancies. Avow is on the front lines organizing 24/7 to provide funds for abortion travel, educate the public, and come up with creative ways to get abortion seekers the care that they need. Will you chip in to support their mission?
Samuel Alito’s resentment goes full tilt on a black day for the Court
With the most extreme rightwing Supreme Court since the Plessy v. Ferguson era, competition for most unhinged fascist Trump sycophant is tight. But Samuel Alito continues to goosestep his best foot forward! "[Alito's] line of questioning to Michael Dreeben, the attorney arguing the special counsel’s case, was from some perverse Lewis Carroll universe," writes Michael Tomasky at the New Republic. "...he told us, in essence, that in his view democracy depends on allowing presidents to commit federal crimes, because if ex-presidents were to be prosecuted for such things, the United States would become a banana republic." Yep, nothing says democracy like instilling presidents with the tyrannical power to murder their political opponents.
Take Action: Rename a prison after Trump instead of an airport!
Take Action: Tell Congress to protect reproductive rights and repeal the Comstock Act!
Koch's purchase of Iowa fertilizer plant purchase would devastate farmers and consumers
The president of the Iowa Farmers Union, Aaron Lehman, is sounding the alarm and demanding federal and state officials investigate the pending sale of OCI Global's nitrogen fertilizer plant in Wever, Iowa, to fertilizer goliath Koch Industries. Yes, THOSE Kochs. The plant was built with half a billion dollars of taxpayer money, but "the proposed sale to Koch would reduce competition, artificially increase prices paid by farmers, and ultimately increase food prices for all Iowans. It is another painful example of public investments being misused to increase monopolies," writes Lehman in the Des Moines Register. "To safeguard our economy — and indeed our democracy — our enforcers must prevent dominant firms from capitalizing on investments made with public resources."
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