Paul English (pme.org) 🇺🇸

founder Kayak, gumdrop, etc - not a fan of Musk or No. 47

[Paul English (pme.org) 🇺🇸 @englishpaulm]

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, 
courage to change the things I can, 
and wisdom to know the difference.

[skumm🧊 @skumWgmi]

just got off the phone with my university friend.

His daughter was diagnosed with leukemia in March.

He has insurance. Good insurance. The kind you feel safe having.

5 months later:
Savings wiped out. 401k: cashed early. Penalties and all. House: refinanced to cover the gaps insurance decided weren't their problem.

He told me he's not the same person anymore.

Said watching your child fight for her life while simultaneously fighting an insurance company over coverage codes does something to you that doesn't go away.

They did everything right.
Two incomes. No debt. Responsible their whole lives.

One diagnosis all of it in 7 months.

And somewhere a health insurance CEO is getting $35 million bonus this quarter.

I don't know how people defend this system with a straight face.

i really don't.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

cc: @SecScottBessent

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

Let me get this straight, Republicans went berserk when Lloyd Austin took three days to notify the WH about his emergency hospitalization - but when Mitch McConnell disappears for 84 days - not a fucking word.

[Robin ❤️🇺🇸👈✡ @rob0349]

Hey Maga remember how outraged you were when 4 Americans were killed in Benghazi?

So far, 18 Americans have been killed in the illegal #IranWar‌ and you are totally silent

What feckless hypocrites you all are

[Quienton @BigDawg31779]

Ain’t that some shit

[Kimiyah-Vette C8 @boujiebaddie]

The mass deportation is not deportation at all. When people are captured without due process, that’s kidnapping.
When they are sent to another country against their will, that’s human trafficking.
When they’re put in prison with no way to get out , that’s a concentration camp.

This is fascism behavior.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

For Republicans, this is called an INCONVENIENT FACT.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Why I never Dropbox. Ever. EVER!

[David Gilbert @daithaigilbert]

NEW

ICE wants to build a nationwide database of voters, their voting history and, potentially, their party affiliations too.

....and it's willing to pay someone up to $5M to do it

https://t.co/wsDyuoII6e

[Sgt Pepper @MzSgtPepper]

RFK Jr testified in his divorce proceedings that he was too brain damaged to work so therefore couldn’t pay alimony.

He is now the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Our food is poisoned and measles is on the rise.

Thanks for your attention to this matter.

[Tea Pain @TeaPainUSA]

Food so good you grow an extra finger!

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE wrongfully deported a 25-year-old U.S. BORN citizen to Mexico… and he had to SUE the federal government to finally be allowed back into the United States.

Brian José Morales García repeatedly told authorities that he was born in Denver.

He told them he was an American citizen.

He told them he had a birth certificate, and Social Security number, at his home in Austin that he could provide.

And they deported him anyway.

According to his lawyers, the government deported Brian in April after a police stop near Fredericksburg. His citizenship was questioned, and ICE treated him as someone who had entered the country illegally.

Except he was born in the United States.

His lawyers later submitted additional evidence, including hospital records, witness affidavits, and a certified Colorado birth record confirming his citizenship.

And now, months after the government wrongfully deported him, Brian has finally been allowed to come home.

A U.S. citizen had to SUE the federal government, and produce an overwhelming amount of documentation, just to get back into the country he was born in.

And this is exactly why the argument that “if you’re a citizen, you have nothing to worry about,” is absolute bullshit.

Because what happens when the people with the guns and badges decide they don’t believe you?

What happens when saying, “I’m an American citizen…” isn’t enough?

What happens when you have to produce your birth certificate, your Social Security number, hospital records and witnesses… and even THAT doesn’t stop the government from deporting you?

So, when DHS say, “We won’t deport citizens.”

They already have. Brian is proof.

And the most terrifying part is that he was lucky enough to have lawyers who could fight like hell to get him back.

How many people don’t have that?

How many Americans could be detained, deported, or have their lives destroyed because an ICE agent decides they “look undocumented,” and didn’t believe them when they say they’re citizens?

That is why racial profiling is so dangerous, why due process matters, and why ICE agents violating constitutional rights puts everyone in danger.

And that is why giving federal agents more power, while demanding less accountability, is a dangerous combination.

Brian José Morales García was born in America… he told them he was an American...

They deported him anyway.

And months later, the government finally had to let him come home.

[Mary @MaryMarykf61]

I remember Do you ?

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Stay one night at a traditional Japanese inn
and the goodbye will break you a little.

You arrive. Your shoes vanish.
They come back cleaned, turned around,
pointing toward the door for the day you leave.

Tea appears before you think to ask.

You go down to dinner, and while you eat,
someone slips into your room and lays out your futon,
folds back the sheets, dims the lamp.
No note. No tip expected.
Tipping doesn't exist here.

Then you leave. And this happens.

The owner walks you out. The staff follow.
The cook comes too, still in his apron.
They line up in the road, and they bow.

Your car pulls away. They keep bowing.

You turn in your seat and watch them shrink
through the rear window, still bowed,
until the road bends and takes them away.

They don't stop when you stop looking.

Every hotel I've ever stayed in gave me service.

This was a family in the middle of a mountain road,
bowing to a stranger,
thanking me for letting them take care of me.

I cried in the car.
I'm not even a little ashamed.