I'm looking for a ridiculously old-fashioned girl's name for our new born . Think great-grandma name. Very old and rare. Any suggestions asap pls?

JD Vance is lecturing the Pope on Catholicism and Pierre Poilievre is lecturing Mark Carney on economics and RFK Jr is lecturing scientists about vaccines and Donald Trump is lecturing the world on tariffs and Pete Hegseth is quoting Pulp Fiction and thinking it’s the Bible

We are spending at least $500 million a day to bomb Iran. Imagine how many teachers we could hire, how many public housing units we could build, how many bridges and roads we could fix, if we spent that kind of money on improving life for working people?

Five Israeli prison guards who raped a Palestinian inmate-hostage at the notorious torture camp Sde Teiman are being return to military service. Rape of prisoners is widely supported by the Israeli public, politicians, law officers – and now officially by the Israeli army.

I want to know what the ICE agents told themselves when they went to lock this grieving widow in handcuffs and throw her in jail, even though immigration law has options for widows of U.S. citizens and they could have given her a warning and asked her to file the right paperwork.

I can’t stop imagining making the choice to run as far as you can from anyone you love so you can hopefully be killed alone. I just. I’m so fucking angry and sad. This is something beyond evil.

Thank you Senator Chris Van Hollen for sharing US citizen Rachel Corrie’s story from the Senate floor and voting to block the destructive bulldozers that Israeli soldiers used to kill her.

NEW: Progressive Caucus members are discussing the idea of introducing enough war powers resolutions to force a vote on one *every day*, sources familiar with the matter tell @Axios Even some centrist Dems aren't dismissing the idea. axios.com/2026/04/16/ira…

We've all heard lots of pundit/elite chatter over the years (especially from monied interests) regarding concerns of Bernie-style candidates' ability to win. Proud to see Analilia - Bernie's political director - giving us very strong results in D+5 district

Oh wow Dems missed it by one vote who could have ever guessed that such a thing would happen for the 40 billionth time

ONE YEAR AGO TODAY: Israel murders 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona (sometimes spelled Hassouna) along with six other members of her family, including her pregnant sister, in an airstrike on her home in northern Gaza A day earlier, Iranian director Sepideh

Khanna: Forty Senate Democrats voted no on sending bulldozers to Israel. Schumer was just one of seven Democrats to vote yes. He’s out of touch with his caucus, with the Democratic base, with the country—he needs to step aside.

They have called us back at midnight to cast a secret vote to reauthorize FISA while America sleeps. A yes vote gives Trump more power to surveil Americans. Every Democrat must vote no. Everyone who loves the constitution must vote no.

Senator Van Hollen cited the nine Americans killed by Israel in the West Bank since January 2022 — “not one of them has gotten justice,” he said, as he voted Wednesday to block a $295 million sale of Caterpillar D9 bulldozers to Israel. The measure failed 40-59, but marked a

Breaking FISA vote news: Four Dems just took the *extraordinary* measure of voting with Republicans on a rule vote to enable more mass domestic spying: Gottheimer, Golden, Perez and Suozzi. Thankfully 20ish Republicans held the line and blocked.

In 1984, Ruth Coker Burks was 25 years old, visiting a friend at a hospital in Little Rock, when she noticed nurses drawing straws outside a patient's room. Someone had to go in. She didn't wait for the straws. She opened the door herself. What she found inside would define the

lol Mamdani not rich enough for the NY Times

Some happy news this Friday. aclu.org/press-releases…

so appalling this happened

⚡️🇱🇧 BREAKING: Despite President Trump “PROHIBITING” Israel from striking Lebanon, a fresh Israeli drone strike has just killed at least one person in Beit Yahoun, southern Lebanon, the country’s civil defense told Al Jazeera. 🔸Just an hour earlier, President Trump posted on