To reform America's prisons we must change the laws that send too many people to them in the first place-for no good law enforcement reason. Bipartisan sentencing reform has strong support in Congress. We can’t miss this opportunity to move forward with bold reform. Time to act
1/ I'm re-reading the autobiography of Frederick Douglass published in 1845. It is all-too-easy for us to forget what a brutal, horrific, inhuman reality slavery was. Facing it, as Douglass forces us to do, makes us wonder how people could have supported or tolerated it. And yet
We need to give young immigrants who came to our country as children permanent assurance that they are safe here, and we need to give them this peace of mind now. They shouldn’t have to spend another day living with fear and uncertainty.
The agency in charge of US immigration services has updated its mission statement to no longer include the phrase "nation of immigrants" https://t.co/xGIok3Vfh9
BREAKING: First National Bank of Omaha just dumped the NRA and will no longer issue NRA Visa cards!
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This is SGT Buddy Hughie, KIA in Afghanistan on this day in 2007, while trying to save the life of an Afghan soldier, leaving behind a baby boy, grieving widow, and heartbroken family. Have a thought for him if you would.