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

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• A Sea Of Sorrow: Mindless Cruelty Remains the Point
  Still held in a Louisiana detention center for the crime of denouncing the slaughter and starvation of Gazan children, Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil told a judge Thursday his deportation would likely mean death for him and his family. His testimony came hours after Khalil finally got to hold his one-month-old son Deen for the first […]
• DOJ Charging Rep. Mclver with Assault for Oversight Is ‘Outrageous’
  Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has charged New Jersey congresswoman LaMonica McIver with assaulting federal agents over her contentious visit to an immigration detention center in her state. In response, Public Citizen co-president Lisa Gilbert issued the following statement: “The decision to charge Congresswoman McIver is outrageous. Her visit to Delaney Hall was for statutorily […]
• Take This Home With You: Let Freedom Ring
  The indefatigable Bruce Springsteen just launched his aptly bittersweet Land of Hope & Dreams Tour in England, where he preceded three songs in turn with eloquent, furious critiques of the "weird, strange and dangerous shit going on in my home, the America I love" at the hands of "an unfit president and a rogue government." […]
• ACLU and ACLU of Louisiana Sound Alarm on New Orleans Police Department’s Secret Use of Real-Time Facial Recognition
  The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Louisiana are raising urgent concerns following an investigation that shows the New Orleans Police Department has secretly used real-time face recognition technology to track and arrest residents without public oversight or City Council approval. This not only flouts local law, but endangers all of our civil liberties. […]
• House Budget Committee Wrangles with Reconciliation Bill Disconnected from Reality
  Five Republican members of the House Budget Committee voted against the House Reconciliation bill today on the grounds that the budget cuts it imposed were not severe enough. The move means House leadership will need to cobble together a new version of a bill that already cut critical federal programs too deeply, according to the […]
• Report: Commerce Sec. Lutnick’s Family Business Dumped At Least $300M More Into Largest Corporate Bitcoin Holder As Lutnick Helped Establish Trump’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
  An Accountable.US review of Q1 2025 SEC filings posted this week for Cantor Fitzgerald – billionaire Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s family-run financial services firm – reveals that while Lutnick was playing a leading role in President Trump’s national Bitcoin reserve effort, Lutnick’s family business empire dramatically deepened its investment in Microstrategy (now called Strategy), […]