No U.S. Troops in Haiti: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Military Mission Would Not Help Country

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• Public Citizen Opposes Senate Permitting Bill
  Next week, the U.S. Senate is set to debate and vote on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (BAAJA) (S. 5653), a compromise permitting reform deal. Ahead of the planned vote, David Arkush, director of Public Citizen’s Climate Program, issued the following statement: “We appreciate the effort and care Senators Whitehouse and […]
• Statement on Google AI in School Allegedly Helping Teen Girl Plan Suicide
  Fairplay, the nation’s leading nonprofit fighting to protect kids from the dangers of Big Tech and AI, released the following statement today in response to the Emma v. Google lawsuit.Fairplay Associate General Counsel for AI and Privacy Brendan Bouffard said: “The idea of an untested AI chatbot helping a 13-year-old girl plan her own suicide […]
• ACLU Applauds Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Historic Commutation of All Death Sentences in California
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced today that he was moving to commute all death sentences in California, marking a historic step towards ending the death penalty in California and across the country.The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Southern California, ACLU of Northern California, ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties, and ACLU California Action […]
• Well Done, America
  Well that was a night. The glad spectacle of a newly sentient America tottering back to its capacious ideals was dubbed Orange Crush, Bluenami, a political earthquake, a wily tweak to Hegseth's coveted public execution and "one of the great acts of defiance in American history." It was both landslide too big to rig or […]
• 'Trump Asked the People to Vote as If He Were on the Ballot,' Says Bernie Sanders. 'THEY DID.'
  In the wake of Tuesday's walloping of the Republican Party in congressional and state-level races across the country by Democratic candidates, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont on Wednesday said it was as clear a repudiation of President Donald Trump and his horrible policies as there could possibly be."Trump asked the people to vote as if […]
• Free Speech for People Launches 'Time to Impeach' Campaign Ahead of New Congress
  Free Speech For People, a nonpartisan legal advocacy organization, today launched the “Time to Impeach” campaign, urging members of the newly elected House of Representatives to launch impeachment proceedings against President Trump on the first day of the new Congress.“Members of Congress swear an oath to support and defend the Constitution,” said Alexandra Flores-Quilty, Campaign […]