https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/us/new-jersey-mayor-arrested-at-ice-detention-center?cid=ios_app
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THE GUARDIAN: Woman says Boston hotel guard told her to leave bathroom because she ‘was a man ’
Woman says Boston hotel guard told her to leave bathroom because she ‘was a man’
Same-sex couple says they were appalled after being confronted and wrongfully accused in women’s restroom
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THE GUARDIAN: Ukraine war briefing: Hegseth’s sudden arms halt ‘cost US up to $2.2m’ – report
Ukraine war briefing: Hegseth’s sudden arms halt ‘cost US up to $2.2m’ – report
Missile attack against Kyiv after deadly strike on Sumy; Zelenskyy seeks ramp-up of drone interceptor development. What we know on day 1,169
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NBC NEWS: Trump administration has shut down CDC’s infection control committee
Trump administration has shut down CDC’s infection control committee
Four members said they were informed of the termination Friday, but it had already taken effect in late March, according to a CDC letter.
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Wednesday political cartoons / memes / and news items. Some good ones in this batch
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rochester-minnesota-park-racist-rcna204553
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14674047/Shiloh-Hendrix-playground-slur-Rochester.html
05/5/25
Not one company would hire Kennedy or Hegseth. Not one company would weaponize their ignorance and betrayal to country.
MAGA welcomes the white male ignorance.
NBC NEWS: Journalist was tortured and had her organs removed in Russian captivity, report says
And Trump wants to give Putin everything he wanted from the start of his invasion to stop the war, causing Ukraine to give up everything including the mineral / oil gas rights and the security of joining NATO. Hugs
Journalist was tortured and had her organs removed in Russian captivity, report says
Viktoriia Roshchyna, 27, was captured after she traveled to the Russian-occupied region of Zaporizhzhia in eastern Ukraine, the joint media report said.
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Is Trump in mental decline? He sounds far worse than Biden ever did. | Opinion
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Is Trump in mental decline? He sounds far worse than Biden ever did. | Opinion
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Inheriting The Wind, and More, in Peace & Justice History for 5/5
| May 5, 1818 Political philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary Karl Marx was born in Trier, Germany. His ideas, laid out in the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, and in many other publications, considered the state, class divisions, the nature of industrial capitalism, and culture and religion as oppressive forces.  A young Karl Marx |
| May 5, 1925 Biology teacher John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution in a Dayton, Tennessee, high school in violation of state law. Working in a public school, he was prohibited by statute “to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.”  State of Tennessee v. Scopes ACLU |
| May 5, 1981 Irish Republican Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands died in Northern Ireland’s Maze Prison (aka Long Kesh); it was his 66th day without food.He had just been elected by a narrow margin to a seat in the British Parliament for the district of Fermanagh and South Tyrone while still serving the last of a 14-year sentence for possession of firearms. The government introduced and Parliament quickly enacted the Representation of the People Act 1981 which prevented prisoners serving jail terms of more than one year in either the UK or the Republic of Ireland from being nominated as candidates in UK elections.  “Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.” – Bobby Sands |
| May 5, 1983 Over one million Sicilians, a fifth of the Italian island’s population, signed a petition against the deployment of more than 100 U.S. cruise missiles at the Comiso Air Base. |
| May 5, 1991 The last U.S. cruise missile left Greenham Common Air Base in England, the site of a decade of women’s anti-nuclear protests. The encampment persisted for nearly another decade until it was returned to public access.  Protesters leave Greenham Common for the last time Peace link |
| May 5, 2000 Reformers allied with President Mohammed Khatami swept run-off elections, winning control of the 290-seat Majlis of Iran (parliament) from hard-liners for the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Results were subject to certification by the Guardian Council which reversed the results in eleven of the original February contests. |
https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorymay.htm#may5
Right house, wrong people, DHS admits, after raiding home of US citizens
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Right house, wrong people, DHS admits, after raiding home of US citizens
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THE HILL: Judge rules Trump use of Alien Enemies Act for gangs is ‘unlawful’
Judge rules Trump use of Alien Enemies Act for gangs is ‘unlawful’
A federal district judge ruled Thursday that the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) does not permit President Trump to swiftly deport alleged Venezuelan gang members to a prison in El Salvador, extending a block on the law being used against migrants detained in South Texas.
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