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If you believe deployed military families, truckers, students, the elderly, working parents should vote, read our full statement on Watson v. RNC usvotefoundation.org #scotus #disenfranchisement #votefromabroad #militaryfamily #mailballot #absenteeballot #mississippivoter
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League of Women Voters of Connecticut retweeted
The administration is promoting a tool known as the SAVE program to maintain state voter lists. Here’s why that’s a bad idea: bit.ly/4v2OaaJ
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WIN: A judge dismissed a far-right lawsuit seeking access to Georgia’s election night reporting hub, which aggregates and publishes county vote totals. Voting rights advocates warned that granting access could open the door to partisan interference and undermine confidence in elections.
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Melanie Cradle nominated as first Black woman to CT Supreme Court ctmirror.org/2026/06/15/mela…
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The administration is promoting a tool known as the SAVE program to maintain state voter lists. Here’s why that’s a bad idea: bit.ly/4v2OaaJ
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League of Women Voters of Connecticut retweeted
As America commemorates its 250th birthday, we're helping ensure that women are not left out of the story. This summer, we'll be sharing the stories of the women who were essential to the establishment of our nation across 250 years. American women are founders, not footnotes.
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Facts matter.
The Constitution is clear: the states and Congress—not the president—set the rules for our elections. The Trump administration executive order concerning mail-in voting is interfering with plaintiffs' essential work helping American citizens vote. We are one of those plaintiffs.
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On this Flag Day, we hold that patriotism includes defending the rule of law. States administer elections. No president has the authority to unilaterally rewrite election rules or dictate how they’re run. We have taken our position to court. lwv.org/newsroom/press-relea… @LWV
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Rachel Accurso — Ms. Rachel, to her millions of online followers — made her first visit to Congress with handwritten letters and drawings by children whom have been, or remain, in ICE custody at the nation’s only family immigration detention center. wapo.st/43wrmnO
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NEW: A federal appeals court has fast-tracked Democrats’ bid to block Trump’s executive order targeting mail voting after a lower court left it in place last month. The move is a hopeful sign for voters seeking to stop the administration from upending mail-in voting before the midterms. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
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#PrideMonth is a time to celebrate the voices, stories, and contributions of LGBTQ people who continue to strengthen our communities and our democracy. Take a look at what’s on our reading list this month. 📚
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Our new poll finds that 79% percent of voters want a constitutional amendment that restores limits on money in elections. More results and what’s behind them: bit.ly/4dPG5yA
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#OTD in 1963, President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law to end sex-based wage discrimination. Yet 63 years later, women still earn just 81 cents on the dollar. For Black women, it's 68 cents. The promise of equal pay remains unfulfilled. It's time to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act.
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“When we listen, talk and connect, we replace confrontation with cooperation, and tension with trust.” – On Wednesday’s International Day for Dialogue Among Civilizations, @antonioguterres reflects on the power of dialogue to address global challenges. un.org/en/observances/intern…
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League of Women Voters of Connecticut retweeted
Congress just added $70B more to the $140B already committed to the deportation crackdown—more than the annual budgets of many federal departments. Budgets reflect priorities. That's money not spent on childcare, schools, housing, health, and other public needs. That's a choice.
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In the upcoming midterms, voters in six states will face restrictive voting laws enacted this year. Learn about all of the voting law changes in our latest roundup: bit.ly/4dzRNNM
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Hundreds of detainees across at least 33 states allege in federal lawsuits that immigration detention facilities are failing to provide adequate medical care, an investigation by KFF Health News and The Associated Press exposes. Detainees say they didn’t get medications on time — or at all — for conditions including high blood pressure, diabetes, depression, epilepsy, Parkinson’s and HIV. @KFFHealthNews
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What a Data Center Actually Does to the Place You Live - They tell you it's just a building full of computers. Here's what they don't tell you. AT THE FENCE LINE: The air around a data center is not the same air you grew up breathing. These facilities require diesel backup generators by the dozens, sometimes hundreds, and those generators release fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) that are directly linked to asthma, heart disease, and respiratory illness. We're talking 200 to 600 times more nitrogen oxides than a natural gas plant produces. (World Resources Institute) At the xAI facility in Memphis, a Time Magazine investigation found that nitrogen dioxide levels in surrounding areas measurably increased after the facility opened. The noise never stops. Internal noise levels can reach up to 96 decibels, well above the 85 dB threshold considered harmful to human hearing. (PubMed Central) Neighbors near a Virginia facility reported 90 decibels at their homes. One resident said he can no longer open his windows. Another put mattresses against the glass to block it out. The light runs all night, disrupting the natural circadian rhythms of the body, including melatonin production and sleep cycles. (EHP) Sleep disruption, chronic stress, hearing loss. These aren't hypotheticals. They are documented outcomes in communities that said yes before they understood what they were agreeing to. WITHIN A MILE: The land changes fast. The average data center site in 2024 covered about 224 acres, roughly 450 football fields, which is a 144% increase in footprint since 2022. (World Resources Institute) Farmland gone. Forests cleared. Viewsheds destroyed. The water starts disappearing. A mid-sized data center uses roughly 300,000 gallons of water per day, the same as 1,000 homes. (Nixon Peabody) Between 80 and 90 percent of that comes from the same surface water and groundwater sources your tap water comes from. (Fwpcoa) Most of it evaporates in cooling towers and never returns. Wildlife changes too. Researchers describe data centers as potential "sensory danger zones," places where light and noise levels exceed the thresholds at which species experience measurable fitness consequences. (National Wildlife Federation) Animal communication breaks down. Migration patterns shift. Nesting fails. MILES AWAY AND DOWNSTREAM: The water table doesn't stop at the property line. Heavy groundwater use can deplete aquifers in ways that threaten ecosystems and long-term water availability for entire surrounding regions, not just immediate neighbors. (Waterplan) The power plants feeding these facilities pollute far beyond the data center itself. Data centers increasingly rely on large-scale plants that are now being co-located nearby to avoid grid upgrade delays. (arXiv) Whatever that plant burns, your airshed absorbs. A September 2025 study found that air pollutants from data center operations increase rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease, and elevate cancer risk in nearby communities. (EHP) THIS IS PENNSYLVANIA RIGHT NOW. From Penn Forest Township to Kline Township to Salem Township to Archbald Borough, proposals are moving. Permits are being filed. Ordinances are being written or ignored. Folks, the research is clear and the damage is real. The question is whether your municipality is asking the hard questions before the ground gets broken, or after. You deserve to know what's being built next to your water, air and land. Research via: PA Data Center Accountability / Carbon County, PA Sources: National Wildlife Federation (Sept. 2025) · World Resources Institute (Feb. 2026) · Environmental Health Project (Feb. 2026) · PMC/Public Health Research (2025) · Science & Environmental Health Network (Aug. 2025) · Nixon Peabody/Joyce Foundation (2024) · Smithsonian Magazine (Sept. 2025)
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