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Today, a student was shot inside a high school in Maryland. The student who was shot was found with one gunshot wound in a hallway and was taken to a hospital in stable condition.
Kids should be safe going to school and at school.💔
https://t.co/2N8SY4p3VV
#ProtectOurKids
Kids are seeing gun content online — often without parents knowing. New nonpartisan research with @ChildrenScreens shows why transparency from social media platforms matters. Simple changes can put parents back in charge.
https://t.co/WQhHiZJPzq
#SaferInternetDay#OnlineSafety
SPJ strongly condemns the 20-year jail sentence given to Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai. This verdict is the equivalent to a death sentence to the 78-year-old founder of Apple Daily.
🔗 Read the full statement: https://t.co/dMYihV1RnR
As grocery prices rise, Samantha Black has cut her budget in other places to feed her family of five.
"You can't cut out groceries," said Black, who lives in Dallas with her husband and three kids. So they cut back on eating out. The family spends about $600 a month on groceries, up from about $400 last year.
A new WalletHub study analyzed the U.S. cities where people spend the most and least on groceries. The study reviewed 26 common items in 100 cities and compared them to the median household income to determine where Americans spend the greatest percentage of their income on groceries.
Shoppers in Detroit spend the most while shoppers in Fremont, California, spend the least.
Read more at: https://t.co/P1ImchzcuZ
BREAKING: As of earlier this week, the United States has now reached 150+ mass shootings [4+ shot and/or killed, not including the shooter] this year.
Complete list: https://t.co/2OhPFpsw7r
American gun violence data so far this year, as of Juneteenth:
–6,800 deaths
–12,018 injuries
–166 mass shootings
–5 mass murders
–111 children killed | 215 children injured
–452 teenagers killed | 1,265 teenagers injured
–535 defensive incidents
–617 unintentional shootings
–288 murder-suicides
Moms Demand Action volunteers have been working with Rhode Island lawmakers for months to ban the sale of assault weapons. Tonight, a ban FINALLY passed the state legislature!
We’re grateful to gun sense champion @Rep_Jason, who stood up to gun extremists and never backed down.
#SB62 Press Conference Advisory: Greenpeace and Oxfam: new findings on public support for making polluters pay
📅: Thursday, 19 June 2025
⏰: 16:00-16:30 CEST
📍: Press Conference Room, Nairobi 4
Join virtually>> https://t.co/SheIMrlc6X
Release: Dire warning on 1.5°C goal must spark urgent climate action
"The answer is simple: end the production and burning of coal, oil and gas and defend our future.” https://t.co/WDdCoWJsbG
Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children and teens in the U.S.- and it's preventable. Communities across the country are pioneering gun injury prevention strategies that everyone can support.
Learn more: https://t.co/vmvVgfwhbx
#ProtectOurKids#EndGunViolence
#Haiku's alive!
Reading this by Tom Sterling, we heard *In My Life* by the #Beatles. Tom's words need no comparison, they stand on their own. We've got a #HaikuCrush on Tom and the #FabFour!
Pictures and poems.
People and places in time,
forever with me.
#haikusaturday#poetry