Monday, February 9, 2026

Tag: Orlando

Congress’ Response To Orlando Shooting Is To Try To Legalize Discrimination

House Republicans plan to mark the one month anniversary of the Orlando shooting with a hearing on a bill that would enable widespread discrimination against LGBT people.

Time for a Nonviolent Assault on Our Blood-Stained Congress

“It is time to end this experiment with transmogrifying the entire US into Tombstone Territory with everyone armed to the teeth prepared to either be a bad guy or take out a bad guy. It is not working.”

Scott Brown Says Orlando Shooting Did Not Primarily Target Gay People

“I don’t identify the people who were murdered as from a particular class of people.”

Here’s How the Presidential Candidates Responded to the Orlando Shooting

You will never believe how Donald Trump reacted to the Orlando nightclub shooting.

Mass Shooting in Orlando Gay Nightclub

Details are still emerging in the horrific mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando, but here is what we know so far.

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$380 million in funding cuts to one of the most successful public education programs

“Every day, there’s yet another abuse.” The wanton attack on public schools is one of America’s biggest tragedies.

DHS warehouse jail plan signals historic expansion of immigration detention

Documents and reporting reveal a sweeping plan to convert warehouses and deploy military contracting to rapidly expand immigration jails across the United States.

The digital media oligarchy: Who owns online news? 

Even Bagdikian’s later editions, written at the dawn of the internet, could not fully anticipate how profoundly digital technology would reconfigure the media oligarchy.

EPA reapproves drift-prone pesticide dicamba

This decision will allow farmers in 34 states to use the herbicide on dicamba-tolerant soybeans and cotton, following a 2024 court ruling that had previously vacated its use.

Omar says ICE drawdown ‘not enough’ as thousands of agents remain deployed in Minnesota

After Trump border czar Tom Homan announced that 700 federal immigration agents would leave Minnesota, Rep. Ilhan Omar, civil rights groups, and national coalitions said the move leaves an ongoing occupation intact while killings, constitutional violations, and international human rights complaints remain unresolved.