Over 3,000 innocent people have been killed in Lebanon by the Israeli military & over a million displaced.
We are talking about children, elders, & loved ones.
I urge my colleagues to support @RepRashida's War Powers Resolution on the floor this week & act to end this war now.
From North Lake to Delaney Hall, ICE and their for-profit contractors are committing horrific acts of violence and depravity against our neighbors.
These torture facilities must be shut down, those responsible prosecuted, and ICE abolished.
A church in Nantucket has CANCELLED its annual 4th of July reading of the Declaration and Bill of Rights after 25 years. The reason? Its leaders now believe the founding documents were bound up with the ideas of "whiteness" and have been "unequally applied" across American history.
But the church forgot the most important part.
It's true that the promises of America weren't applied equally: Slavery, Jim Crow, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the denial for generations of women's voting rights.
But what CHANGED all that? What philosophies and documents did brave pioneers like Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr. utilize to fight these injustices?
Our founding documents. The very documents that this church is now calling problematic. They're not the problem. They're the solution. We must live up to them, not change them to fit our current worldviews.
These leaders will help create a lasting public record of both the harm endured and the resilience Minnesotans demonstrated during Operation Metro Surge.
Minnesota will continue to demand accountability.
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WOW… this man says Lindsey Graham had s3xual relations with him in Hilton Head when he was only 16 years old.
He says Lindsey Graham knew he was only 16 but didn’t care.
He says he didn’t know who Lindsey Graham was at the time.
He provides date, time, & location.
WTF?
I have trouble watching actors today. I seem to only be interested in documentaries, with very few exceptions.
I don't really know why. It seems like modern films and shows do not reflect real life, but are all films about films, films for their own sake. And the acting seems unanchored to anything real.
I have trouble finding films that interest me, because they aren't really about anything -- and the acting all seems to be vanity, self-serving, not about serving the story. Maybe because there isn't much of a story? Or because the stories all seem cliched, or phony?
Or am I just too old?
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The lesson Israel has learned, time and again, is that it can commit genocide and other atrocities with near-total impunity.
Now it's exporting the Gaza playbook to Lebanon.
Israel's war in Lebanon is killing thousands and displacing over a million.
NO MORE U.S. AID TO ISRAEL.
We're proud to announce that we're awarding more than $1 million in funding to arts, culture and dance organizations through the Bridge Fund for Dance and the Cultural Districts Arts Fund.
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"For a long time I wrote nothing else.
Life changes in the instant.
The ordinary instant.
At some point, in the interest of remembering what seemed most striking about what had happened, I considered adding those words, 'the ordinary instant.' I saw immediately that there would be no need to add the word 'ordinary,' because there would be no forgetting it: the word never left my mind. It was in fact the ordinary nature of everything preceding the event that prevented me from truly believing it had happened, absorbing it, incorporating it, getting past it. I recognize now that there was nothing unusual in this: confronted with sudden disaster we all focus on how unremarkable the circumstances were in which the unthinkable occurred, the clear blue sky from which the plane fell, the routine errand that ended on the shoulder with the car in flames, the swings where the children were playing as usual when the rattlesnake struck from the ivy. 'He was on his way home from work --- happy, successful, healthy --- and then, gone,' I read in the account of a psychiatric nurse whose husband was killed in a highway accident. In 1966 I happened to interview many people who had been living in Honolulu on the morning of December 7, 1941; without exception, these people began their accounts of Pearl Harbor by telling me what an 'ordinary Sunday morning' it had been. 'It was just an ordinary beautiful September day,' people still say when asked to describe the morning in New York when American Airlines 11 and United Airlines 175 got flown into the World Trade towers. Even the report of the 9/11 Commission opened on this insistently premonitory and yet still dumbstruck narrative note: 'Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States.'"
-Joan Didion, "The Year of Magical Thinking"
Flotilla German activist Anna Ledetzke has recalled the sexual abuse she says she experienced while detained by Israeli authorities during a previous Freedom Flotilla mission.
In a recent interview on the YouTube channel Mad in Germany with James Jackson, Ledetzke described her interrogation and detention, alleging that Israeli personnel sexually assaulted her. “They penetrated me with their fingers,” she said.
Ledetzke participated in the Freedom Flotilla Coalition to Gaza in September 2025. The vessel was intercepted by Israeli forces, and she was detained along with the rest of the crew for five days. During that time, she says she was subjected to assault, humiliation, and degrading treatment.