AdventuresInAdulting

Making fun of life...and bad politics

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

If you can line up to buy Powerball tickets, you can line up to vote. The chance that your vote decides an election is actually much higher than your chance if winning the lottery.

[AdventuresInAdulting @AdultingIs_Hard]

@FartInACanMan 💵 💰

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

Just a warning to my British friends: An American dipshit is coming to visit you. Please remember most of us didn't vote for him; he lost by 3 million votes. His presidency is a statistical anomaly.

[The Hill @thehill]

Migrant girl separated from family had to get diapers changed by other detained kids: report https://t.co/g8Ep8g5zWs

[Rachel Maddow @maddow]

Ugh, I'm sorry.

If nothing else, it is my job to actually be able to speak while I'm on TV.

What I was trying to do -- when I suddenly couldn't say/do anything -- was read this lede:

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[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

I didn't think this could get any worse but I was wrong https://t.co/uMWfWVnXYs

[Stephen Colbert @StephenAtHome]

One thing I know for sure: no one on the right side of history has ever had to nitpick what the definition of “cage” is.

[Tina Vasquez @TheTinaVasquez]

A MOTHERFUCKING THREAD: Because of this new executive order, you're going to be hearing a lot about the Flores Settlement, which, when boiled down, is supposed to limit the amount of time children can be detained. The feds have been trying to weasel out of this for a long time

[Dr Aviva Dautch @AvivaDautch]

I’ve seen several tweets comparing this to Nazis / The Holocaust and saying things like “this is how it begins”. I teach Holocaust Literature so let me be clear - this ISN’T how it began. This is already several stages along the way.
#NeverAgainIsNow https://t.co/HaYTrVyOGr

[AdventuresInAdulting @AdultingIs_Hard]

@blindfordrumpf @jacobsoboroff Children taken from their parents would create a detained population reflecting society—51% female.

[AdventuresInAdulting @AdultingIs_Hard]

FACT: 51% of human population is female...which means there should be over 9,000 girls statistically. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OTHER 6,000 GIRLS?!! https://t.co/btZ83PLAUP

[Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff]

Just heard from @HHSGov again:

Of the 11,786 minors currently in the unaccompanied alien children program, 3,280 are female and 8,506 are male.

We still don’t have photos of or acces to any girls or toddlers.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

The real headline today should be that President of the United States has decided to do nothing to help 2300 children reunite with their parents

He took them away from their moms and dads and he’s not backing down at all

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

Beware of outrage fatigue. This administration will keep adding to its list of unbelievable, cruel, maddening and shocking practices and policies, hoping citizens of good conscience grow too exhausted and numb to respond. That's why checking Trump's power this Nov is so vital.

[Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff]

Last night on @Lawrence I said I saw babies alone in cages at the processing center in McAllen.

Just learned more: it's a play area for mostly tender aged kids *without* parents, supervised by contractors in a watch tower.

Border Patrol didn't explain that on the tour.

[Michael Biesecker @NewsDudeAP]

BREAKING ⁦@AP:⁩ Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at a juvenile detention center in Virginia say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells. https://t.co/ffw0bBcYrH

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

ICE took away this mother's child. After 85 days, this mother finally got her child back. Listen to what she says.

https://t.co/9AVCtREyrH

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

More details: https://t.co/DqI0Efkq7E

[Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff]

Where are the girls?

Where are the toddlers?

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