Today's Top Stories:
VIDEO OF THE DAY: Democrat Chris Murphy just gave the speech of the year amid today's tragedy in Texas
The Senator who led the failed Republican-stymied effort to pass gun reforms after Sandy Hook issued a passionate speech imploring his colleagues to finally take action.
19 children, 2 teachers murdered in Uvalde, Texas mass shooting
Yet another unfathomable atrocity has befallen the innocent while the Republican elite bathes itself in the blood and grief of American butchery, consigning our children to the ground once again to slake their unquenchable and unholy thirst for power.
Take Action: Call on cities to pass laws proven to mitigate gun violence!
Republicans pull VILE stunt over baby formula shortage
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Unreal.
New evidence indicates Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in targeted attack by Israeli forces
Contrary to Israeli protestations, the evidence indicates that beloved Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was deliberately killed by the Israeli army.
Take Action: Tell Biden to condemn Israel’s murder of a Palestinian-American journalist!
Trump's revenge candidate and Bush scion eat shit in GOP primaries, nailbiter in progressive vs. conservative Democratic race
Brad Raffensberger, who famously refused to interfere in the 2020 Georgia runoff elections, successfully fended off the Trump-backed Jody Hice, deranged psychopath Ken Paxton easily swatted aside a halfwit Bush failson in Texas, and the race between anti-choice NRA favorite Henry Cuellar vs. progressive Democrat Jessica Cisneros is still too close to call. Stacey Abrams easily won her primary and will seek to win the governorship away from vote-suppressor Brian Kemp.
Take Action: Tell Congress to break the school-to-prison pipeline!
Brave young woman confronts Indiana pastor about sexually assaulting her as a teen in front of the whole congregation
Pastor John B. Lowe II resigned his post and gave a speech to the congregation in which he admitted to "adultery" — but wasn't ready for his victim to come forward there and then.
Southern Baptist leaders plan to release a secret list of accused sex abusers
After a public outcry, the hidden evidence of a decade of abuse will finally be revealed — and hopefully a reckoning will begin.
Republicans are going to gut the rules to let their corporate cronies pollute our communities
EDF Action Votes: Can you help us kick the Republicans out of Congress and foil their heinous plans?
Extremist lunatic Rep. Paul Gosar spreads appalling misinformation, falsely blaming trans person for Uvalde massacre
In a since deleted tweet, the KKKaucus member promoted right-wing conspiracy that the shooter was a "transsexual leftist illegal alien," complete with pictures of a random person who will now spend the next few weeks barraged with death threats and hate mail from his rabid, moronic supporters.
Indiana lawmakers override GOP governor's veto to enact anti-trans sports ban
The radicals in the Indiana statehouse defied their GOP governor to cruelly target and dehumanize trans kids.
Iraqi citizen living in Ohio arrested after allegedly plotting to assassinate former President George W. Bush, says FBI
Given the FBI's long and disgraceful history of enticing and entrapping Muslim immigrants in terrorism stings, we have a LOT of questions.
North Korea fires three missiles into the sea
Come on. Kim Jong-un, please, not now. Read the room, would you?
Some much-needed levity
Now time for rage
Hope...
Today’s Action: Pass gun safety laws NOW!
A decade after Sandy Hook, we still haven’t passed enough gun safety laws in place to prevent another mass shooting at an elementary school. Instead of enacting common sense gun laws, Americans have spent the past decade teaching students how to build barricades, run for their life, and fight back against active shooters — effectively embedding the possibility of gun violence into everyday life. Where we could have had gun reform, we instead have legislators with even more blood on their hands.
By four months into 2022, pages of mass shootings had been added to the Gun Violence Archive. Just in the past few weeks? The NYC Subway shooting, resulting in 29 injuries; the Tops supermarket shooting in Buffalo, resulting in 10 deaths; and yesterday, the shooting at a Texas elementary school that left at least 18 children dead. How much mass trauma must working America experience before our elected officials step up and do something?
Call (202.224.3121) or email your members of Congress and demand comprehensive, common-sense gun safety laws, including universal background checks, age limits, and expanded waiting periods!
In the face of unthinkable trauma, violence, and suffering that has only escalated over the course of the pandemic, we are still waiting for meaningful, sensible gun reform. It’s well past time for fundamental change.
There were 693 mass shootings in the United States in 2021 alone. Excluding suicide, there were 20,726 gun deaths by the end of last year, as well. In total, more than 40,000 gun deaths have occurred just during the Biden presidency alone. Despite months of virtual, online schooling last year, there were still 42 acts of gun violence on K-12 campuses. According to the Washington Post, a child is shot every hour in America. Despite these startling numbers, an estimated 18.8 million guns were still sold last year, and six states passed permit-free concealed-carry laws. We have had more mass shootings in 2022 so far than there have been days — something's got to give.
There were 693 mass shootings in the United States in 2021 alone. Excluding suicide, there were 20,726 gun deaths by the end of last year, as well. In total, more than 40,000 gun deaths have occurred just during the Biden presidency alone. Despite months of virtual, online schooling last year, there were still 42 acts of gun violence on K-12 campuses. According to the Washington Post, a child is shot every hour in America. Despite these startling numbers, an estimated 18.8 million guns were still sold last year, and six states passed permit-free concealed-carry laws. We have had more mass shootings in 2022 so far than there have been days — something's got to give.
Email or call (202.224.3121) your representatives and demand common-sense gun safety laws broadly supported by Americans from both sides of the aisle!
PS — Please don't forget to sign the petition to tell Congress to pass gun reforms to make sure the Texas school massacre never happens again, and be sure to follow OD Action on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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