WOW….Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce donated $26M to more than 20 charities ahead of their wedding. https://t.co/uhsJ3XaP4s
Recipients include:
• City Harvest (New York City)
• Food Bank for NYC
• New York Cares
• Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
• Harvesters – The Community Food Network (Kansas City, MO)
• The Store (Nashville, TN)
• Helping Harvest (Reading, PA)
• Rhode Island Community Food Bank
• Feeding America
• ASPCA
• Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
• Grammy in the Schools
• Education Through Music (New York, NY)
• Answer the Call (New York, NY)
• Musical Mentors (New York, NY)
• After-School All-Stars (New York, NY)
• After-School All-Stars (Cleveland, OH)
• MSK Kids, the pediatric cancer program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (Children & Teen and Adolescents & Young Adult programs)
• Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone
• Children’s Mercy Hospital (Kansas City, MO)
•The U.S. Senate may hold a floor vote TODAY which would overturn a 20-year moratorium on sulfide-ore copper mining on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest land in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) Wilderness in northern Minnesota. The Boundary Waters is the most visited Wilderness in the United States.
🛶 Enjoying the Minnesotan/Canadian wilderness by canoe or other lesser watercraft is one of our nations greatest available pastimes, and one I have personally enjoyed my entire life. We must protect these public lands from the rapacious capitalists threatening to turn them into a poisoned wasteland.
•This vote in Congress would open the door to copper mining at the headwaters of this entire ecosystem. This kind of mining produces toxic pollution, including acid runoff and heavy metals, that can contaminate nearby waters.
•The Boundary Waters supports a major outdoor economy that sustains thousands of jobs and generates over a billion dollars a year - built on clean water and intact public lands. But this vote would clear the way for toxic mining that puts all of that at risk. It would also set a dangerous precedent, making it easier to roll back protections for public lands across the country, including wilderness areas, national monuments, and national parks.
•This is a defining moment. If you care about clean water, public lands, and protecting places we can’t replace, now is the time to speak up.
•Protect the Boundary Waters, and vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140. Let’s save this treasured place for all of us—forever. https://t.co/JhNAR6Za2O
Sen. John Hoffman (DFL-Champlin) called on a Republican colleague to refrain from using the word "illegal" during a committee hearing, citing his own experience surviving a shooting.
Hoffman stated that such language "dehumanizes an individual" and contributed to the violence he survived after being shot nine times during a targeted home invasion and assassination attempt on June 14, 2025.
As a Catholic, I find it abhorrent that the President of the United States would publicly attack the Successor of St. Peter. Donald Trump is flailing. His war in Iran has led to the death and injury of American servicemembers and the death of Iranian children. He will attack anyone or anything to try to protect himself, even the Church that millions of Americans find faith and comfort in every day. The American people deserve a president who understands the consequences of his words and takes responsibility for his actions.
As Trump sends ICE to airports in America today, and as he pushes to force women to show marriage certificates to get a voter ID when they change their names, let’s remember that this happened in an Episode of The Handmaids Tale.
ICE stopped Emily, her wife and child at the airport, telling her that her marriage certificate is not valid before separating the family.
@DeRushaJ No celebrating or backing down here-Stay vigilante because it’s a “see it to believe it”situation. The trauma our communities endured from this lawless occupation will have lasting effects 😢 The zero accountability from the regime is disgraceful and disgusting. #ICEout