Joanne swanton 🇨🇦

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez calls to reform the UN Security Council and abolish the veto power of permanent members:

"No country should be judge in its own case, no matter how powerful they are."

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

oh come on

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Big if true.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

⚠️ Tens of thousands of Texas voters are missing from the voter rolls after the state failed to process their voter registration applications properly.

But it doesn’t mean they won’t be able to vote in the midterms: https://t.co/ieca1V2QtI

[VoteVets @votevets]

While Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump insist we're not even at war with Iran, the Pentagon just quietly added 37 more wounded troops to its official tally, bringing the total figure to 861.

No explanation was given by the Pentagon, just a growing number capturing the real cost of this conflict.

https://t.co/0OVBTmQ7Zc

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

When Republicans win, Elon Musk gets to sit at this table.

If Democrats win, he faces possible prosecution and a long imprisonment.

Do you think there's anything under the sun the man wouldn't do to ensure Republicans win? Anything at all? Then you know nothing about Elon Musk.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Trump’s DOJ claims it has turned over unredacted handwritten FBI notes from four interviews with a woman who alleges Trump sexually and physically abused her as a minor.

But there’s a major question about what else Todd Blanche actually handed the judge. https://t.co/4yY7tydT2x

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Here are the 14 senators who signed the letter:

Roger Wicker
John Curtis
John Cornyn
Jerry Moran
Thom Tillis
John Hoeven
Mitch McConnell
Jeanne Shaheen
Michael Bennet
Richard Blumenthal
Chris Coons
Ruben Gallego
Tim Kaine
Sheldon Whitehouse

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING WaPo:

The White House has blocked CNN from traveling with Trump on Air Force One for a Saturday trip to Knoxville, according to two people familiar with the decision, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share sensitive details. https://t.co/BOUI6NRqmD

[Stephano🍁Barberis @HelloStephano]

BC Cons trying to convince BCers to vote for them when they proudly elected a MapleMAGA leader who just stepped down a week ago. The MapleMAGAs who brought her in are still in that party. 🤡

The call is coming from inside the house…

[Christine 🌻 Guenter @ChristineGuent8]

Lorne Doerksen may seem like a kindly, grandfatherly old man, but never forget that he supported and promoted Kerry-Lynne Findlay. A leopard doesn’t change its spots! #NeverVoteConservative

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court GRANTS People Not Politicians stay application, ordering the 2022 map to be in effect for the midterms!

A victory for Elias Law Group, our clients People Not Politicians and Richard von Glahn, and the people of Missouri. https://t.co/0MeDNaTlgU

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Midterms shifting fast. Texas drama. Trump’s red-state detour. White House triage. Florida warning signs. Mortgage rates spike. Bond market alarms. Xi dinner fallout. Cuba military planning. ICE hits cattle country. And a Jack Smith appearance ahead. https://t.co/1edbYtNwVT

[Trump Girl @TrumpGirlLove]

In June 1860, Elizabeth Packard kissed her six children goodbye.

She thought about the dinner she would cook later. She thought about the laundry. She thought about the quiet life of a mother in Illinois.

She had no idea that when the front door clicked shut, it would stay locked for three long years.

Her husband, Theophilus Packard, was a respected minister. To the neighbors, he was a man of God. Inside their home, he could not stand a wife who thought for herself.

Elizabeth liked to read. She liked to debate religion. She had her own opinions about life and faith. In the 19th century, a woman with a mind of her own was treated as a danger.

Theophilus decided to end the argument. He didn’t need a crime. He didn’t need a witness. Illinois law let a husband commit his wife to an insane asylum without evidence or a public hearing. He simply had to say she was “disturbed.”

One morning men arrived at her home. They did not listen to her logic. They did not care about her tears. They took her to the Jacksonville Insane Asylum.

Elizabeth was 43, perfectly sane, and suddenly a prisoner.
Inside she expected people who needed medical help. Instead she found a warehouse of “inconvenient” women: wives who argued about money, daughters who refused marriages they did not want, women who were simply too independent.

“This is not a hospital,” she realized. “It is a cage for the unwanted.”

Doctors tried to break her. They told her that if she admitted her husband was right and she was wrong, she could go home. They wanted her to say she was crazy for wanting her own thoughts.

She looked them in the eye and said, “I cannot buy my liberty by a lie.”

She did not give up. She wrote. She hid scraps of paper in the linings of her clothes. She tucked notes under floorboards. She recorded every abuse and every story of the women around her. She became a secret journalist inside a living nightmare.

After three years she was released. Her husband locked her in a room at home and planned to send her to another asylum in a different state.
This time friends helped her reach a judge. A trial was ordered.

The courtroom was packed. Theophilus was confident. He brought “experts” who claimed her religious doubts proved her mind was broken.

Elizabeth stood up. She did not shout. She spoke with the calm power of the truth. She explained her beliefs. She showed the jury that a different opinion is not a disease.

The jury needed seven minutes.

They came back with one word: Sane.

She walked out a free woman and found that her husband had taken the furniture, the money, and the children. She was alone and penniless.

Most people would have disappeared. Elizabeth did the opposite.

She spent the next forty years traveling the country. She stood before legislatures and demanded new laws. She said a woman’s mind is her own, and the law must protect it.
Because of her, states changed their laws. They made it illegal to lock a person away without a fair trial and a medical exam.

She turned private pain into a public shield for thousands of other women.

You can take a woman’s home, her money, and her children.

You cannot take her voice. 🌹

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Dear Democrats and ALL undecided voters,

Do NOT believe the polls. Get out and fucking VOTE!

[Teri Mooring🇨🇦 @TeriMooring]

This is an insulting, uninformed, and disrespectful take on what’s happening in #bced. Teachers and EAs work hard everyday despite the chronic underfunding, to educate our students. Often at the expense of our own health.
Maybe go visit a school Lorne?

[MeidasClips @MeidasClips]

Brett Meiselas: "The Chinese officials looking out of the plane, watching our military get on their hands and knees to wipe the dust off the red carpet, rolling it out for Xi Jinping. That image to me is a career ender. You know, if you're anybody else, if you're Barack Obama, Joe Biden, that's the defining image of your presidency."

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Trump's latest claims of a breakthrough with Iran just ran into a major problem. https://t.co/Fotk10MpjQ

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

I told you.

This number is still not accurate.

[BigBlueWaveUSA2026® 🇺🇸🌊🇺🇦 @BigBlueWaveUSA]

Hey Texas! Your own Republican John Cornyn, who served you 24 years, knows Republican Ken Paxton is a terrible candidate.
The only sane choice here is to #VoteBlue for the superior candidate: Harvard graduate and teacher James Talarico @jamestalarico