After SB 1632 and HB 1471 cleared their final committees, the ACLU of Florida warned the bills would let the government brand its critics as terrorists. Meanwhile, the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops confirmed that amendments had addressed their concerns about Canon Law — a carve-out that revealed exactly who the bill’s religious law provisions were designed to target, and who they were designed to protect.
Florida’s domestic terrorist designation bill barely survived its second Senate committee hearing on February 25 — a grueling three-hour session in which approximately 95% of public testimony opposed the bill, the committee chair voted yes but couldn’t guarantee future support, and the bill’s sponsor struggled to explain how it wouldn’t be weaponized. Senate leadership’s response: pull the bill from its third and final committee and send it straight to the floor, bypassing one more opportunity for scrutiny.
The year 2025 was the deadliest on record for journalists worldwide — and Israel was responsible for the majority of those deaths. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 86 press workers were killed by Israeli fire, most of them Palestinians reporting from inside Gaza.
Israeli settlers set fire to the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Mosque near Nablus before dawn prayers on the first Monday of Ramadan, spraying ‘Price Tag’ graffiti on its walls — as Israeli occupation forces conducted simultaneous raids, arrests, and a home demolition across the West Bank.
A landmark report by the Committee to Protect Journalists documents how 58 of 59 Palestinian journalists released from Israeli custody since October 2023 describe being subjected to torture or abuse — including beatings, sexual violence, starvation, stress positions, and psychological threats against their families.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the killing of 19-year-old Palestinian-American Nasrallah Abu Siam, who was shot and beaten by Israeli settlers in the West Bank village of Mukhmas while trying to prevent them from stealing his community’s sheep. Three others were wounded in the same attack.
On the first day of Ramadan, Israeli occupation forces imposed sweeping movement restrictions around Al-Aqsa Mosque — capping West Bank access at 10,000 worshippers and issuing more than 250 expulsion orders — while simultaneously demolishing a residential building housing over 40 Palestinians in Hebron.

The DNC’s Own Secret Report Says Gaza Cost Harris the Election. They’ve Been Hiding It.
A confidential Democratic National Committee analysis concluded that the Biden administration’s handling of the Gaza war was a ‘net-negative’ for Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign — and party leadership has kept the findings secret because of how politically damaging they are.