A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention.
He left in tears.
www.texastribune.org/2026/06/15/t...
www.texastribune.org
Muslim delegates and attendees hoping to participate in the state Republican convention were shunned and rejected by members as they espoused themes of party unity ahead of the November election.
Today’s focus: The GEO Group — world’s second-largest private prison company. It owns and operates prisons and jails, including immigration jails and “community corrections” centers, and uses forced prison labor. It also provides e-carceration technologies 🧵
investigate.afsc.org/company/geo-...
ICE took mom and dad. Now the Perez kids are home alone.
Chapters in the Republicans’ ghastly Project 2025 document dealt with their plan to cut Social Security and Medicare.
So-called moderates to the most extreme MAGA true believers want to do away with commie pinko programs, like social Security and Medicare, once and for all.
Buried deep in the details of the UFC deal with the White House are provisions streaming funds from the UFC straight into the private pockets of the Trump family. And they usually involve crypto, whose very purpose is to disguise or hide illegal payments. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Lee West
Four American siblings left to fend for themselves—and they're not the only ones.
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A children's camp called "Stormtrooper" has opened in Russia's Primorsky Krai.
The name alone tells a story.
As Russian schools become increasingly militarized, war is being woven into childhood itself
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
Kathy Hursen, RN, MS
this is unsustainable
Lewi Whalberg
Trump has repeatedly vowed to defend these landmark safety-net programs. It was another lie
A basic income program in central Iowa gave 110 people $500/mo. It caused improvements in savings, stress, and agency. It also found significant changes in scores relating to hope — the ability to create goals and feel capable of working toward them, and also increases in mattering and self-reliance
1/5 THIS:
"How do you silence children in the home, censor them in the classroom, shame them in the church, police them in the street, lie to them in textbooks, & then expect them to become courageous defenders of truth?"
You can't. "That is why authoritarian movements always go after children."
Police have made 2700+ arrests under terrorism laws in the UK for protesting peacefully against the banning of Palestine Action. This cannot go unchallenged. The UK’s chief pr... www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...
I expect all of us are completely shocked by this. This is a Labour government!
Bruno J. Navarro
Researchers presented their findings from the Central Iowa Basic Income Pilot in Des Moines. Their study looked at how participants used monthly $500 payments, and how it affected their well-being and...
Police have made 2700+ arrests under terrorism laws in the UK for protesting peacefully against the banning of Palestine Action. This cannot go unchallenged. The UK’s chief prosecutors must now decide...
Americans "no longer believe the U.S. economy is working for them. A few people are getting fabulously, unimaginably wealthy at the same time that entire generations of families worry they will never be able to afford to buy a house, raise children..." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/b...
