Good news! A circuit court just struck down a Florida law that required local legislators pay a fine or risk removal from office if they voted to regulate guns.
This decision confirms that local advocates can't be punished for supporting gun safety. https://t.co/rKcV0PQbe9
Emmett Till was murdered at 14. He would’ve been 78 years old today. Racists love to shoot the sign marking where his body was found. That pockmarked plaque is the inverse of a gravestone, showing just how alive racism remains in this ugly country of ours. https://t.co/SH0GaU9xbu
"Ticks bit some of the men and some were very sick, Galicia said. But many were afraid to ask to go to the doctor because CBP officers told them their stay would start over if they did, he said." #thursdaythoughts
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"This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.”
@TheAtlantic@AudreyCFarley Uhh...she died tho. No one prevented her from conceiving & carrying a child. She decided to do something that would probably result in her death & affect everyone around her. It did. How is this eugenics?
Three of the four congresswomen of color Trump attacked this morning were born in the United States.
To be perfectly clear, he’s not saying the only “real” US citizens are people who were born here.
He’s saying the only “real” US citizens are white.
It's exhausting y'all, I know, but if you're outraged, stay outraged. We've got to fight for this shit. We've got to push back. They want us to give in. Love will win.
132 members - incl GOP & Independents - voted against creating the Dept of Homeland Security.
Don’t let people rewrite history as if DHS/ICE always existed, or is a no-brainer. It’s a young agency, ill-conceived after 9/11 & sacrificed our civil liberties - like the Patriot Act.
NEW: The Interior Dept has been scrubbing mentions of climate change and climate-related damages from press releases. Research with significant national implications, including essential information for infrastructure planning, have been quietly buried. https://t.co/Q1EqToGqH3
The US Department of Agriculture has suspended data collection for its annual Honey Bee Colonies report, citing cost cuts -- a move that robs researchers and the honeybee industry of a critical tool for understanding honeybee population declines https://t.co/h5ULGxCKDd
In 2004 when we were making convention film for President Bush, we were explicitly prohibited from using official White House shot video. Now Trump WH is not only using video but paying for full production. This is probably $500,000 of your tax dollars.
One detail you might have missed in our July 4th story: engineers are examining if the weight of stationing tanks will damage the Lincoln Memorial’s underground rooms. Those are the ones Zinke often liked to tour frequently w/ guests @jdawsey1@DanLamothe https://t.co/G4k3qg5ZTO
The National Park Service is diverting $2.5 million, which is collected by entrance fees to pay for improvements at parks nationwide, to fund Trump's July 4 spectacle -- to which his political donors get VIP tickets, via @eilperin@jdawsey1 & @DanLamothe https://t.co/nh7UbGtDN4