Today's Top Stories:
Mexican president openly mocks Ted Cruz by playing a humiliating video of him
President López Obrado accused the odious senator of being an NRA stooge and played the infamous video of Cruz fleeing from a reporter when asked about the Uvalde school shooting.
Take Action: Demand big corporations stop funneling money to anti-choice politicians!
House 1/6 committee holds primetime public hearings
TONIGHT: The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol is finally holding its primetime hearings on Trump's violent insurrection. Rep. Raskin has promised that these hearings will "blow the roof off the House." Brian Tyler Cohen will be live streaming this blockbuster event tonight, so click on the image above and hit "NOTIFY ME" to be reminded when the live stream begins.
Take Action: Prosecute Trump and his insurrectionist cronies for seditious conspiracy!
Katie Porter steals the show, demolishes gun argument
The Democratic Congresswoman has had enough of the bad faith gun arguments — and made that fact abundantly clear.
House passes sweeping gun reform package that stands little chance in the Senate
The long-overdue legislation would raise the age from 18 to 21 for buying certain guns and target bump stocks and ghost guns, among other measures.
Take Action: Tell the Senate: Pass red flag laws to take guns away from potential mass shooters!
Supreme Court gives lawsuit immunity to Border Patrol agents who violate the Constitution
Constitutional precedence apparently has no meaning for this court, which just ruled that the Border Patrol cannot be held accountable through lawsuits for violating the rights of citizens. The case in question? Excessive force and the violation of the Fourth Amendment. Yes, the implications of this are as terrifying as they seem.
Take Action: Tell Congress to pass the Judicial Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act!
Lawsuit alleges trans child attempted suicide over Gov. Greg Abbott’s "child abuse" directive
This is precisely the kind of harm Republicans are actively cultivating with their relentless anti-LGBTQ+ campaign.
Colorado investigating Lauren Boebert for alleged misuse of campaign funds
Colorado officials are investigating whether the insufferable MAGA congresswoman broke any laws by cashing in on large amounts of mileage reimbursements from her own campaign.
Republicans pull DISGUSTING stunt on gun reforms
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Unreal.
GOP Rep. Pat Fallon blames mass shootings on "these dang smartphones"
Because it couldn't be guns causing gun violence, right?
Rep. Louie Gohmert blames mass shootings on lack of prayer and "taking God's name in vain"
The man who has unwittingly cultivated a reputation as the stupidest member of Congress took things to a new low defending the gun lobby.
Woman who torched Wyoming abortion clinic caught on video
She waged a war on women and lost.
GOP candidate for Congress claims he "didn't remember" sharing Buffalo "false flag" conspiracy theory... last week
Carl Paladino, a New York co-chair of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and noted racist rabble-rouser, shared a preposterous conspiracy theory regarding the recent massacres in Buffalo and Uvalde but now claims he doesn't remember doing so. Voters in Buffalo should remember to vote against him in his quest to join Congress.
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Today’s Action: Find a March For Our Lives event in your area June 11th!
Over 450 cities around the country are hosting protests THIS SATURDAY, June 11th, demanding comprehensive gun legislation. March For Our Lives, a youth-led organization created after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, has been fighting for comprehensive gun safety reform from recalcitrant legislators for years. Instead, legislators — overwhelmingly Republicans — have let thousands of kids die. In fact, gun violence at school has continued to reach record highs.
The June 11th marches are in response to the latest preventable school massacre, which left 19 children and two teachers dead in Uvalde, Texas. A decade after the unspeakable horrors of Sandy Hook, there are still nowhere near enough gun safety laws in place to prevent catastrophic mass shootings in American elementary schools. It’s time to band together in protest of our legislators’ abysmal, fatal inaction.
2,500 instances of school shooting threats have been logged in the K-12 School Shooting Base since just 2018 — how much mass trauma must America experience before our elected officials step up and actually do something?
In the absence of any new, common-sense gun laws, teachers in America have spent the past decade instructing students how to build barricades, run for their lives, and fight back against active shooters — effectively embedding the reality of gun violence into everyday life. Make no mistake, obstinate legislators across the country, at every level, have blood on their hands. At the very least, we need a national red-flag law that will allow officials to intervene before any more lives are senselessly lost, and it’s up to us to demand it.
PS — Please don't forget to sign the petition demanding the Ohio Senate reject anti-trans genital inspections of children in schools, and be sure to follow OD Action on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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