The mother of murdered 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman says she could hear lawmakers laughing while she testified about losing her daughter, and she singled out Rep. Pramila Jayapal for telling the families there were “many other things we could be doing.” Jessica Gorman didn't hold back Thursday. “They give us five minutes to tell our daughter's story. Our dead children's story. She listened to four before mine. She didn't want to listen to another.” Gorman also accused Rep. Jerry Nadler of napping during the congressional hearing. Sheridan was an 18-year-old freshman at Loyola University Chicago when she was shot and killed near the Chicago lakefront in March. Jose Medina, a Venezuelan national who entered the U.S. illegally and had previously been released following a shoplifting arrest, is charged with her murder. Jessica Gorman said the families came to Congress to tell lawmakers what happened to their children. Her message Thursday was simple: they deserved to be heard. See the link to the article in the comments.

دموع الظلم والقهر لهذه السيدة المغربية بعد أن قامت السلطات المغربية بإقتلاع أشجار الأفوكادو التي غرستها في أرضها وذلك لأن مجموعة مهادرين (Mehadrin) الإسرائيلية هي من تمتلك حصريا زراعة الأفوكادو وإنتاجه في المغرب بعد التطبيع في 2020! إسرائيل إبتعلت كل شيء في المغرب الأقصى!

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🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.

The agreement to release €6.6 billion from the European Peace Facility for Ukraine is excellent news. It means more support for Ukraine’s defence, from training to equipment. It complements what we are doing through our Ukraine support packages – for the state and for defence. And more is coming from our side. Very soon.

Netanyahu is the architect of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. He is a war criminal and a fugitive charged by the ICC. He can, and must, be arrested and prosecuted for crimes against humanity. thenation.com/article/world/…

Thank you to the 77 countries whose delegated walked out on Netanyahu. Now they should all agree to boycott Israeli goods and services and to expel Israel from the UN.

🚨VIRGINIA'S U.S. SENATE RACE: Warner unveils new proposed healthcare legislation; Republican challenger Bert Mizusawa responds Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner is unveiling new proposed healthcare legislation that he says will lower costs for Virginians. WRIC's Capitol Bureau reporter Tyler Englander breaks it all down:

🇺🇸🗳️ 23-Sept North Carolina Early Voting Update: The First Tea Leaves 🗳️ The DataRepublican North Carolina map is LIVE and is updating on a daily cron job. Before any numbers: In 2022, Democrats led mail returns by 55 points at this stage and by 41 at the end, and Republicans went on to win the state's statewide races that year. So my analysis judges 2026 against the same point in 2022. Shift from the same point in 2022 (42 days out): 🔴 R share of mail: −1.8 🔵 D share of mail: −4.9 🟡 I share of mail: +6.7 Raw D–R margin: 🔴+3.1 shift toward Republicans With independents split by each county's R/D mail split: 🔵+1.3 Democrats are losing share faster than Republicans, and independents are taking it. The reason I still forecast an overall Democratic shift is because I assume those independents break the way their county's mail does, and so far they are breaking Democratic. In 2024, independents broke Republican. That is a big flag to watch here. Military and overseas ballots, sent by email, are 29% of returns this year, compared with 8% in 2022, and they run about D+47 (unchanged). Without them: 🔴 Domestic D–R margin: 🔴+7.4 shift toward Republicans (D+29.8, against D+37.2 in 2022) 🔴 Urban domestic mail (the 7 biggest metro counties): 🔴+6.3 (D+56.8, against D+63.1) ⚪ White domestic mail: roughly flat (D+35.1, against D+34.6) Raw counts so far (2022 same point in brackets): 🔴 R : 1,120 [1,501] 🔵 D : 3,971 [5,186] 🟡 I : 3,078 [3,011] 🟡 I leaning 🔴 R: 659 🟡 I leaning 🔵 D: 2,419 Caveats: - Tiny sample. 8,169 ballots in a state that cast about 3.8M in the last midterm. - 2022 is the best available comparison, but it still had COVID-era mail habits. That baseline is inflated for Democrats. - 2024 can't be compared yet. NC mailed its civilian ballots 18 days late that year, after reprinting them to take RFK Jr. off, so almost everything back by this point in 2024 was military and overseas. - NC has no permanent mail list, so every civilian ballot here was requested for this election. Early returners are mostly habitual mail voters: 58% are 65 or older. - The overseas surge makes Democrats look better statewide than they are on domestic mail. Which picture holds depends on what the civilian returns do over the next few weeks. This doesn't rule out a Democratic wave. It also doesn't show one. The real signal starts when in-person early voting opens in mid-October. Website link below: 👇

Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu said Zohran Mamdani is making Jews in New York City feel “unsafe.” Here I am, a Jew in New York City, standing a few feet away from a massive anti-Netanyahu protest, and I feel completely safe. Benjamin Netanyahu is a liar. And a war criminal.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said Thursday that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco (R) will face “legal consequences” after the state Supreme Court unanimously ruled that his seizure of roughly 650,000 ballots violated state law. democracydocket.com/news-ale…

California Governor Gavin Newsom to the UN Special Session on Climate Action: "You heard that speech from my president yesterday. All but called for genocide of 93 million people. Nothing normal about that. There is nothing normal about this moment."