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I am writing this to shine a light on the human toll inflicted on a Palestinian family living in France, as well as the silence of mainstream media and public officials. I hope readers will share this story widely. Perhaps your share will be the reason these three children are safely returned to their family.

 A Palestinian family evacuated from Gaza to France says French authorities have separated three children from their parents after allegations of abuse that the family strongly denies and that courts have not substantiated with evidence. The abduction took place in cooperation with an organization that describes itself as supporting survivors of the Gaza genocide.

The case centers on three siblings — Rabhi (11), Nour (10), and Hussam al‑Din (8) — who arrived in France with their father and grandfather after fleeing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The French Foreign Ministry facilitated their evacuation in late 2023. Their mother, Raghda al‑Sheikh, remained trapped in Gaza, hoping to reunite with them later.

URGENT: Call your Member of Congress immediately (202) 224-3121 and tell them to

VOTE NO on the FARM BILL

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Members of Congress must vote NO on this unconstitutional Farm Bill.

Despite today’s vote to remove the chemical liability shield, the Farm Bill currently under consideration in the House remains a devastating failure of policy and responsibility.

This is a moment for caution, not celebration. If we signal victory now, before the full House vote, we risk sending exactly the wrong message to America, that this bill is now safe to support. It is not.

This Farm Bill still erodes states’ rights, limits the ability of communities to protect their citizens, entrenches industrial agriculture, and locks farmers further into dependence on costly chemical inputs and consolidated corporate power.

The European Union is the “chief of all cowards,” Amnesty International declared in a searing statement issued on April 21. The condemnation was a direct response to the European bloc’s systemic failure to sever ties with Israel during the Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Luxembourg.

Despite months of legal warnings, the EU once again prioritized procedural safety over the urgency of human life.

The efforts to press the EU to finally take a moral position were led by a coalition of Spain, Ireland, and Slovenia, later joined by Belgium. They argued that the EU-Israel Association Agreement—the legal framework governing their trade relationship—is predicated on the "respect for human rights." 

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The Supreme Court just ripped away a core American right: the right to a fair and equal vote in elections no matter your racial background. Their ruling in the Louisiana v. Callais case opens the door to discriminatory voting maps across the country. On April 30th, join legal experts and civil rights community leaders from the No Kings Coalition for a rapid response call as we break down the ins and outs of the Callais decision, what this means for you, and the future. You will hear from leaders from LDF, ACLU, and more.

More than four months after Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin announced that he was breaking his promise to release its autopsy report on the 2024 election, the decision remains highly controversial. Arguments swirl around whether it’s wise to proceed without public scrutiny of what went wrong during the last presidential campaign. But scant attention has focused on how hiding the autopsy provides an assist to Kamala Harris, who currently leads in polling of Democrats for the party’s 2028 nomination.

Perhaps theologian Walter Wink can help us understand Pete Hegseth, America’s self-declared “secretary of war” and spokesman, for God’s sake . . . for God. At a recent prayer service at the Department of Defense, for instance, Hegseth, after calling the Iranians “barbaric savages” who deserve no mercy, called on the citizens of his country to pray for victory “in the name of Jesus Christ.”

Love thy neighbor, folks! Earlier he had boasted that the American bombing campaign had “unleashed twice the firepower in its first five days as the initial ‘shock and awe’ bombing phase of the Iraq War in 2003.” You might recall, of course, that this campaign included the devastation of a school in Minab, which killed – murdered – around 170 people, including over 100 children. God bless America.

The overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh on August 19, 1953, stands as one of the most consequential coups of the twentieth century, marking a decisive moment in the consolidation of modern imperialist intervention. Operation Ajax was not merely the removal of a democratically legitimate, anti-imperialist government; it represented a deliberate effort by the United States and Britain to discipline a postcolonial state that sought control over its own resources. In doing so, it established a durable template for undermining nationalist movements that threatened Western imperial strategic and corporate dominance.