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[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

28 years and Hegseth cancels it. This isn’t anti-DEI. It’s hate designed to push them out of service. — Air Force cites DEI ban in cancellation of wreath-laying honoring women vets https://t.co/Lu6vBCVJ8R

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥😳NASHVILLE: “We are asking to not live like this… we’ll leave if this goes through, and find a place that actually respects the people who live there.”

Last night @NashvilleZoo (+ Fisk U) neighbors spoke out powerfully against the @DCBLOXinc data center. @MetroNashville

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Trump may as well have called the rest of us peasants.

According to him, it wasn’t workers who built America. It was rich guys like him and his cabinet:

“These people built the country, not the complainers. The complainers didn’t build the country…. Whether it’s fishermen or farmers or anything else. Me. Guys like me, they built the country. And you know, I watch all these ingrates, they’re always complaining, complaining. They didn’t build anything, they couldn’t build anything.”

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

What do you mean accused when you have the pics right there lmao

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

California, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin are suing the US Department of Education for cutting special-education grants that train educators and support students with disabilities.

California alone says over 880,000 students are eligible for special ed, and its grant was worth $10.5 million over 5 years.

This is a direct attack on public infrastructure that children with disabilities rely on every day.

Linda McMahon has no qualification to defund these programs. This administration is making life harder for millions of vulnerable Americans who lack the political lobbying to defend themselves. It's pure evil.

[Ola Ojewumi @Olas_Truth]

Dr. Oz is nothing short of evil and is ruining lives.

I was in chemo and overheard a patient talking about how she couldn't afford to come in for treatment. It's because Medicare cut the mileage from 75 to a 25 miles radius for rides to medical facilities.

This will kill ppl!

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity.

“You are not numbers or case files.

“You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

[Financial Dystopia @financedystop]

She got an echocardiogram, had health insurance, and still got billed $1,731 after insurance already paid around $7,000. She tried to negotiate and they told her no.

So she makes a fake appointment for her husband who doesn’t have insurance, asks the self-pay price, and they tell her $487.02. Self-pay being cheaper than using your insurance is crazy.

[Jedi @dhe3g]

Seven hours. All children.

[Jeremy Diamond @JDiamond1]

Fahd Abu Haikal was driving through Hebron last week when he spotted a group of Israeli soldiers.
He began to slow down, but one of the soldiers raised his rifle & opened fire.
One bullet pierced the windshield, striking his son, Sam, in the head.
He was just 7 months old -- the 13th child to be killed by Israeli security forces in the West Bank so far this year.
The IDF says it is investigating the shooting.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

The grift here is astounding. The "Trump Kennedy Center" people tried to outright STEAL more than half of a $300,000 bequest to the Washington National Opera made in a donor's will — even though the funds were intended to go solely to WNO. https://t.co/RKg6QTSJVo

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Hawaii just passed the first state law in the country banning corporations from making political donations in state elections.

Now a Koch-backed legal group is suing to overturn it.

Big Money won't get out of our politics without a fight — one that we the people must win.

(via @LeverNews)

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Wow, this cop's weak-ass punches did ZERO damage to this Black driver's face (dude kept saying "punch me again," LOL), but that lawsuit filed against the cop and his department will leave a mark.

Long Island cops are racist AF.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

I told you they were coming for the Roadless Rule.

Yesterday, Republicans made their move — and they hid it inside a wildfire bill.

Here's what makes this so enraging:

59 million acres of America's wildest national forests are now on the table.

The 2001 Roadless Rule has protected nearly 60 million acres across 39 states for 25 years. No logging. No road construction. No drilling. No mining.

Built after 1.6 million Americans showed up — at 430 public hearings nationwide — to demand it.

What lives here: bald eagles, elk, black bears, Cerulean warblers, marbled murrelets. Species that need large, intact, unfragmented habitat to survive. For many of them, roadless forests aren't just home — they're the last places left.

What the amendment does: guts the rule. Opens the backcountry to logging and road construction under the cover of "fire prevention."

The administration is pursuing repeal through the executive branch at the same time. And unlike the original rule — they aren't holding a single public hearing.

1.6 million people showed up to protect these forests.
The administration isn't asking anyone this time.

What do you call a wildfire bill that opens forests instead of protecting them?

#DemsUnited

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This is Sad!

For almost 30 years, leaders from both parties have set politics aside to honor the women veterans who gave their lives for this country at Arlington National Cemetery.

Then Trump and Hegseth shut it down.

Why? Because the ceremony recognized women.

This is an insult to every woman who wore the uniform, served with courage, and sacrificed for this nation.

Yesterday, @demwomencaucus stood with the women veterans Trump and Hegseth tried to erase and held an event anyway.

We see you. We honor you. We thank you. 🇺🇸

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

She is lying. Brazenly. Israel has forced over a million people (a million!) from their homes, razed entire neighborhoods to the ground, told Christian villagers to not let Shia villagers stay in their villages, and killed multiple first-responders in double tap strikes.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: ABC News Just Published Some Pretty Stunning ICE Data.

The administration says it is targeting the "worst of the worst."

But according to ABC's analysis of government data, only 3% of the more than 400,000 people detained by ICE between January 2025 and March 2026 had a violent felony conviction in the United States.

ABC reports that ICE apprehended more than 4,800 U.S. citizens and deported over 2,000 of them during the first eight months of 2025.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Elias: Why does California have signature matching? They have it to satisfy the same right-wing zealots who claim there’s fraud, right?

So they do this whole kabuki theater that takes all of this time in order to contend with the fact that people say that if you don’t do signature matching, there’s going to be fraud. And then they get attacked for taking the time to do that very thing.

The fact that the New York Times thinks there’s a middle ground here… Here’s my message: I don’t compromise with Republicans because there is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist, and they are trying to burn down democracy.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Hegseth removed Chappie James's portrait from the Air Force Art Gallery and left the wall empty.

James flew 179 combat missions across two wars. First Black four-star general in US military history.

Curry passed that portrait every day for a decade. When it came down, he retired.
The wall is still empty.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

NASHVILLE— REP. @brotherjones_: “I was a professor here, teaching environmental racism. @Fisk1866 U President (Dr. Clark) asked me if it would conflict with plans to build a data center on campus. I started teaching about dangers of A.I… my class was canceled within a week.���🤔