Six days before the first Juneteenth celebration, Congress passed the 14th Amendment making ‘equal protection under law’ the law of the land. Today, on the eve of fifth recognition of Juneteenth as a federal holiday, the U.S. Supreme Court declared ‘not it’s not.’

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There’s schools in New Mexico open 4 days a week bc they can’t afford Friday. Schools in Baltimore close when it’s too hot bc they cant afford AC. In whole counties in South Dakota people die a decade before everyone else. But there’s always money for bombs. Alway money for bombs

Growing up, as we counted passing time in Garden State Parkway exit signs, my parents instilled a love of The Boss. On the eve of the lost albums release, some reflections on my journey through the democracy fight with Bruce Springsteen's music as a guide: jpmandel.substack.com/p/pursuing-dem…

if I send you this pic it means I've made yet another horrible decision and abandoned my standards and morals

My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.

Keilar: You’re taking issue with the CBO estimate? Burchett: The office is very partisan… Keilar: So in January 2024, there was a Republican who trusted the CBO so much that they reintroduced a resolution to require the house clerk to read the CBO estimate of any bill. I

Details of El Salvador’s black box prison from Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This is where our government sends people with no due process. Social media influencers and US politicians get staged tours of CECOT and rave about how great it is.

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

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All the tax cuts happen immediately and all the horrible cuts come a month after the midterms and this presidential term. Genius politics.

After the Supreme Court ruled that parents in Montgomery County, Maryland, must be allowed to opt their children out of LGBTQ-themed elementary school lessons, reactions were swift and sharply divided. abcnews.link/AiuUgNf

🚨 BREAKING: Texas Republicans are livid, accusing their own colleagues of handing Democrats the runway to escape to Illinois and break quorum on Trump’s redistricting plan. “We had a quorum on Wednesday,” Rep. Brian Harrison fumed. Then they gaveled out until Monday; a

JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia was taken into immigration custody after checking in with ICE at its office in Baltimore on Monday morning, his attorney announced. Read more: abcnews.link/l9d77SK

There are only two possibilities -- John Roberts is so afraid of a constitutional crisis that he will give Trump everything he wants, or Roberts is 100% in on the MAGA project to destroy our democracy.

In Iowa, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) criticizes New York members of Congress who haven’t endorsed Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy for NYC Mayor. “That kind of spineless politics is what people are sick of,” he says. “They need to get behind him, and get behind him now.”

“We need to run pro-life democrats to win in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri” meanwhile, in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri, the pro-choice side won every single abortion referendum

Australian doctor in Gaza: “We’re here in Gaza at the moment…we weren’t allowed to bring in any baby formula or any cash…it’s mass casualty event after mass casualty event, it’s a nightmare…bombing after bombing with the apache, F-35, F-16 attacking us from everywhere around

CONGRATULATIONS to the one and only - Ashley Allison !!! edition.cnn.com/2025/10/02/med…