Activism

Former National Football League (NFL) player Wade Davis has come out publicly to reveal that he is gay, and shared with CNN Wednesday morning that he should have revealed it during his playing career.

Capitol Police removed a man from the U.S. Senate on Tuesday after he began shouting that abortion was a sin, according to the Associated Press.

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone has urged the U.S. Department of Defense in a recent video to stop using thousands of goats in medical training drills.

Thousands of people gathered at the Madison Labor Temple on Friday to participate in a get-out-the-vote rally targeting Republican Gov. Scott Walker, according to The Daily Page.

Upset over President Barack Obama's "kill list" and continued usage of drone striking throughout his administration, The Nation's national security correspondent Jeremy Scahill called the commander-in-chief's actions "murderous."

Members of Occupy Minnesota are accusing police of abusing their power by using physical violence to arrest demonstrators peacefully protesting at a foreclosed home in Minneapolis.

The pastor of New Hope Baptist Church in Seneca, Kansas says President Barack Obama has gone too far in supporting same sex marriage and it's time for the U.S. government to begin killing gay men and lesbians.

The executive director of the nonprofit Women With a Vision in New Orleans says that her clinic was "intentionally" burned because of the work that it does to help poor women and sex workers.

A California church is planning of placing billboards in North Carolina to apologize for the Christians who voted to add discrimination against LGBT people to the state's Constitution.

A historic Minneapolis church known for supporting LGBT rights and other progressive causes burned to the ground on Sunday night.

A heckler burst into a room where former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair was testifying on Monday and branded him a "war criminal" over alleged payments by JPMorgan for the Iraq war.

The Senate attached an amendment Thursday to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that seeks to lift the ban on abortion insurance coverage for women in the military who are victims of rape, according to RH Reality Check.

While anonymous (or, really, pseudonymous) comments are on the outs everywhere from Politico to TPM because of bullying and straight-up trolling, Ill Doctrine's Jay Smooth takes New York legislators to task for an effort to make them outright illegal. Though it is important to find ways to limit cyberbullying, in which anonymous commenters often engage, Smooth notes that making anonymous comments illegal violates the First Amendment, which protects even anonymous speech from government interference.