Deb Myers

Dog mom, daughter, sister, aunt. Critical care nurse. Seasoned radical boomer. #DISSENT #BansOffOurBodies #EndGunViolence

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

Welp. It’s happening.

Bulldozers and heavy equipment arrived in Big Bend National Park today. The most rugged, pristine lands in the lower 48. Trump’s border wall is coming. CBP is refusing to inform residents, park superintendents, landowners, business owners, or Texas legislators what is happening. What we know is that they are now paving new roads where there were none, erecting fencing and walls to protect those roads, and then planning to install technology and border patrol agents in an area where close to zero people ever cross the border.

Ironically, depressingly, they will be spending billions of dollars to destroy this pristine American land while literally making it easier to access, which means easier for coyotes and border crossers to actually traverse the region if they wanted to. Before this, there were no roads, just desserts, cliffs, and cacti, which made it all but impassable.

A few miles upstream, the first border barriers the administration just erected were washed away in the first flood of the season — not even a bad one — but hundreds of millions of dollars wasted, literally floating down the Rio Grande. A few miles downstream, near Eagle Pass, razor wire and debris are washing up ashore from the first floods there, making this critical water source inaccessible for Texans or any wildlife enthusiasts.

Right now, as we speak, $4 billion is flowing to contractors in Trump’s orbit to cut Texans, including me and my family, off from the most critical water source in the state. All for what? Big Bend is 25% of the patrolled southwest border and accounts for less than 1% of all border crossings. Border towns, businesses, tourism — all about to be destroyed. Nevermind the irreversible wildlife damage, the feds stealing land from private citizens via eminent domain, and all the money wasted that could go to actual solutions to secure the border or support these communities.

Ever since I first visited my family here when I was 13 years old I wanted to make a life in West Texas. Three years ago, after so much hard work and planning, I spent my savings on building a home there. One I hoped my son would inherit. A home in one of the most beautiful, rugged, untouched, places in the country. Also one of the safest.

Now, everything that makes this special place special is being upended — for an illogical, wasteful, stupid plan that won't work and won't help the country.

A genuine gut punch. So depressing.

[Deb Myers @Deb_MyersRN]

@Acyn So says the draft dodger who didn’t care about communism during the Vietnam era; now he’s building a golf course there.

[BatGuy50 @ScottLantz9]

@NPRinskeep The wide angle before/after is even worse.

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

We had this conversation in a public hearing a week ago and you said it would take “years” to replenish some of these stockpiles. That’s not classified, it’s a quote from you. This war is coming at a serious cost and you and the president still haven’t explained to the American people what the goal is.

[Deborah J. Hankinson🦉 @daijumao]

@RadioFreeTom I’m old enough to remember the HUUUUGE stink about Billy Beer. 🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

[Deb Myers @Deb_MyersRN]

@CanadianPenny1 Jazz is a fan of the orange!

[Deb Myers @Deb_MyersRN]

Mike Johnson, a Christian, wants to tell the Pope (the Augustine Pope!!!) about the just war doctrine?? Really????

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Mike Johnson says the Pope had it coming: "A religious leader can say anything they want, but obviously if you wade into political waters, you should expect some political response and I think the Pope has received some of that. Frankly I was taken a bit aback by him saying something about 'those who engage in war, Jesus doesn't hear their prayers' or something. There's something called the 'just war' doctrine.'"

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

[Conspiratorial Templates @mynamehear]

Some of you need to take a basic civics lesson on the United States federal government. There is nothing Democrats can do to stop what's going on right now. You gave Republicans all the power. Start calling for THEM to do something.

[Deb Myers @Deb_MyersRN]

@caldarone_al @wildfreakouts It was privatized before 9/11.

[Deb Myers @Deb_MyersRN]

The whole world has been impacted because Trump, his administration & the Republican Party are prosecuting an illegal war. Our failed SOS blames everyone but his boss & himself.

[Department of State @StateDept]

SECRETARY RUBIO: The whole world has been impacted unfortunately because Iran is violating every law known by striking commercial vessels in the Straits of Hormuz.

Iran is a regime that doesn’t believe in laws, rules, or anything like that. It’s a state sponsor of terrorism.

[Deb Myers @Deb_MyersRN]

@PaulRieckhoff Except that Caine is clearly not in charge. So what do we do to protect service members from legal & moral injury?

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The warfighter Miller is describing exists. His name is Matthew Blank. Five years in. Previously deployed. Training to deploy again this month.

Three days ago ICE came to his base and took his wife. She was brought here as a toddler. No record. Teaching Sunday school and finishing her biochemistry degree. The deportation order on her is from 2005. She was 22 months old.

The agents apologized. Said the higher-ups made them do it.

“Frontier history never ended” and “Western excellence” are doing work in this post that has nothing to do with Matthew Blank’s courage, character, or sacrifice. The gap between the rhetoric and the policy is Staff Sergeant Blank standing in a detention facility parking lot with a form his wife can’t sign.

[Deb Myers @Deb_MyersRN]

@servicerotties I won! I won! I won! 😂
These are my cyber soul dogs. (I have a large pack!) Love your human, too! ❤️🐾❤️

[Deb Myers @Deb_MyersRN]

@MissAlly_01 👋 Sitting on the floor in front of the B & W console TV! Really bad video we thought was a miracle!

[Deb Myers @Deb_MyersRN]

@Ellyce_S @SkinnerPm And beautiful gardens!

[Tammy Duckworth @SenDuckworth]

Trump was warned this would happen. He did it anyway.

Now, over 10,000 Veterans lost their homes. 90,000 more are on track for foreclosure. On top of cutting jobs, slashing benefits and throwing our heroes into an unnecessary war.

The most anti-Veteran President in history.

[Deb Myers @Deb_MyersRN]

@servicerotties A = Kenji
B = Kuno
C = Chesnyy

How did I do? 🤷‍♀️🐾🤷‍♀️

[Deb Myers @Deb_MyersRN]

@bunsenbernerbmd I’ll do my own research, thank you very much!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[Deb Myers @Deb_MyersRN]

@bunsenbernerbmd I sang too!!