Boy with leukemia held in detention, threatened with deportation

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Boy with leukemia held in detention, threatened with deportation

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/07/03/boy-leukemia-immigration-detention-trump-administration/84433220007/

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Israel steps up Gaza bombardment ahead of White House talks on ceasefire

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Israel steps up Gaza bombardment ahead of White House talks on ceasefire

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/06/30/israel-gaza-bombardment-ceasefire-talks/84413019007/

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THE HILL: GOP senators push back hard on Medicaid cuts, endangering Trump bill

GOP senators push back hard on Medicaid cuts, endangering Trump bill
Republican senators are pushing back hard on hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicaid cuts included in the Senate version of President Trump’s budget reconciliation package, endangering Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-S.D.) plan for a vote as soon as Friday.

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NBC NEWS: ICE detains Marine Corps veteran’s wife who was still breastfeeding their 3-month-old

ICE detains Marine Corps veteran’s wife who was still breastfeeding their 3-month-old
Adrian Clouatre, eyes welling with tears, said that he and his wife had tried to “do the right thing” and that he felt ICE officers should have more discretion over arrests.

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OHIO CAPITAL JOURNAL: 3 years into post-Dobbs abortion bans, more miscarriages are being criminally investigated

3 years into post-Dobbs abortion bans, more miscarriages are being criminally investigated
Editor’s note: This report examines abortion access three years after the U.S. Supreme Court decision struck down the federal right to abortion.

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NBC NEWS: The strange bedfellows driving — and winning — the war on porn

The strange bedfellows driving — and winning — the war on porn
Feminists, religious crusaders and “alpha male” influencers have turned the tide in the decades-old battle over adult content.

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Peace & Justice History for 6/22

June 22, 1843
The First General Peace Convention opened in London, England, for “persons from different nations . . . to deliberate upon the best means, under the Divine blessing, to show the world the evil and inexpediency of the spirit and to promote permanent and universal peace.”
June 22, 1987
At least 8,000 peace protesters formed a 10-mile human chain around the U.S. air base on Okinawa, an island that is part of Japan. Subsequent demonstrations and negotiations between the U.S. and Japan have led to the prospective closing of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Futenma Air Station.

People in Okinawa demonstrating against a new U.S. base.

2002 No Base chain at Okinawa.

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjune.htm#june22

Odie on our kitchen couch.

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Scottie

USA TODAY: Vance defends using military to quell protests, refers to Sen. Alex Padilla as “José ”

Doing everything they can to upset people and cause chaos. They seem to be trying to make people so angry that they react negatively. They mock a senior senator of a state and insult the people. Really good servants of the people. Hugs

Vance defends using military to quell protests, refers to Sen. Alex Padilla as “José”
Protests in Los Angeles against the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement turned violent earlier this month.

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Supreme Court upholds state ban on transgender minors’ use of puberty blockers, hormone therapy

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Supreme Court upholds state ban on transgender minors’ use of puberty blockers, hormone therapy

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/18/supreme-court-transgender-minors-gender-affirming-care/77693917007/

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