Jeni Sands she/her 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

Veteran, Activist, Catering Director

What if the journey IS the destination?

#Resist #FBR #Medicare4All #LGBTQ
@continuetoserve

[Jeni Sands she/her 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @Events4yu]

@mrbenwexler Anybody else notice the condescending smirk on his face?
It's triggering bc as a woman, I cant even count the times in my life that I've encountered that exact face from men who've had their egos bruised.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning coup against Ken Paxton, the Houston Chronicle, one of the largest papers in Texas, just endorsed James Talarico. Let's go!

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Maryland may finally be on course to redraw its congressional map to gain an extra seat for Democrats in the U.S. House, after its state senate leader said he was in favor of redistricting –  a prospect that he’s opposed much to the chagrin of Democrats. https://t.co/pPF5DyBeSQ

[Jeni Sands she/her 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @Events4yu]

@TeresaBene90995 @CongressmanRaja But a president funneling money to himself, his family members, and friends is perfectly fine?
Stfu

[Jeni Sands she/her 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @Events4yu]

@RCamposDuffy Grifters gonna grift.

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Megalomania alert- autocrats in this state of mind grow more reckless. It's time for enablers and complicit elites to act patriotically and denounce the harm he is doing to the country.

[VoteVets @votevets]

Six American soldiers are dead because Pete Hegseth sent them to a base the Pentagon's own internal analysis said was indefensible.

The Pentagon knew, and Hegseth sent our troops there anyway.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: Newly obtained documents show a clear paper trail of Trump administration officials planning to share sensitive voter data with an outside political group trying to overturn elections, as part of a secret agreement. https://t.co/ehhCCzys1D

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

This farm bill hurts rural communities, betrays farmers, and locks in the $187 billion Republicans stole from food assistance to give tax breaks to billionaires—you can't be healthy if you're hungry, but this bill makes it harder for families to afford good, nutritious food.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Today's VRA decision is intellectually dishonest and wrong. The conservatives basically said: Black people can vote for their preferred candidates, as long as they prefer the right candidates -- which will be Republicans.

An absolutely mockery of the law and stain on the court.

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

“By the time he had become a reality show star, Trump had blown through his $400 million inheritance and bankrupted most of his businesses; he needed the NBC pay check and so did his kids. That’s why they all ended up on the show.

Think about how many children of actual billionaires are appearing on game shows judging which celebrity has a better pop-up shop in Times Square? They’re usually riding dressage horses or sailing catamarans in Monaco - enjoying the fruits of their trust funds. Trump brought his kids to work and made sure they got paid, down to daily cash per diems.

This was my first clue that they were nowhere near the billionaires they claimed to be - and the TV show was essentially going along with a fraud. Even the furniture in his Trump Tower office was so threadbare that Mark Burnett had to rent furniture for the taping of the show. The famous boardroom was a set recreated on a soundstage.

DJT’s kids were like ‘Succession’ without the actual success. Sure, they possessed all the arrogance and entitlement but they had never truly struck pay dirt until now. And once again, they are ALL getting in on the act. The world is already paying a huge price for their unbridled greed.
The money they are stealing belongs to all of us.

Even Barron Trump was taken out of NYU and moved into the family quarters at the White House where he silently and out of sight places bets on oil futures and his father’s military maneuvers. They needed someone who could react in minutes, without any sort of paper trail or phone or text communication, before his father’s social media posts - that in these tumultuous times have the power to move markets in an instant.

They are making a killing while our military does the actual killing.
Innocent lives are being lost so one family can lie and cheat and trade on their access to enrich and engorge themselves on the spoils of war. Not a thought for the suffering and misery caused by their unbridled greed and the actions of their incompetent, immoral and completely corrupt father.

When I worked around the Trump family, I observed a people so detached from their father’s wickedness, so accustomed to his misdeeds and malfeasance, that they carried themselves with the smug air of both indifference and incredulity for those that would call them out on their family’s wretched ways.

They are unequivocally the most dangerous people on the planet right now.

I do not say this lightly but with the acknowledgment that Trump not only let Putin continue his murderous rampage in Ukraine but allowed Netanyahu, as execrable a leader as we have seen emerge through the smoke of war, and one who will justifiably go down in history as one of the world’s awful villains, guile him into a war in Iran.

This is not to say POTUS doesn’t deserve to be held fully responsible for his actions, he very much does, but he let his own greed goad him into an awful miscalculation for which he is now apparently stuck.” https://t.co/w7VRmFm33H

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: Virginia court REJECTS Republican lawsuit in challenging the legislature’s authority to alter the 2021 congressional map. A HUGE victory for our client the DCCC and the voters of Virginia. Another defeat for the GOP. https://t.co/vFY56Uiwxo

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Reports indicate Elon Musk controls a secretive network of over 90 companies and entities so he can hide how he spends his money.

No wonder he wanted the Trump admin to “look into” the Corporate Transparency Act, which would have regulated those companies.

[Jeni Sands she/her 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @Events4yu]

The U.S. military is "blockading" the Strait of Hormuz, but the only thing they’ve successfully blocked is the food supply to our own ships. The USS Tripoli is rationing food while their mail is suspended. Hope the Pentagon enjoyed their catered lunch today!
#FeedOurTroops

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump punishes Pope Leo for criticizing his Iran War by stripping $11 million from Catholic Charities in Florida that was supposed to help shelter and care for children who enter the country alone.

Trump is terrorizing kids in America while killing them overseas...

“The U.S. government has abruptly decided to end more than 60 years of relationship with Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Miami,” said Archbishop Thomas Wenski. “The Archdiocese of Miami’s services for unaccompanied minors have been recognized for their excellence and have served as a model for other agencies throughout the country.”

"Our track record in serving this vulnerable population is unmatched. Yet, the Archdiocese of Miami’s Catholic Charities’ services for unaccompanied minors has been stripped of funding and will be forced to shut down within three months," he added.

The Department of Homeland Security, through its Office of Refugee Resettlement, has paid Catholic Charities in Miami for years to help house children who enter the country without accompanying adults. The Miami Herald describes the program as essentially a "federally funded foster care system."

Bishop Wenski said that despite there being a recent decrease in unaccompanied minors “it is baffling that the U.S. government would shut down a program that it would be hard-pressed to replicate at the level of competence."

Robert Latham, associate director of the University of Miami Law School’s Children and Youth Law Clinic, said that the gutting of funding and possible need to move the children elsewhere could inflict serious damage on their developing psyches.

"It’s incredibly psychologically harmful to be moved,” he said. “For little kids, moving repeatedly creates bonding issues and destroys the sense of both self and community. They don’t know who they are and where they will be."

“This should only be done with a lot of emotional support that you normally would find within a family. Unfortunately, that is not there in a group home setting,” Latham added.

Of course, Donald Trump couldn't care less about the suffering of children. This man was friends with Jeffrey Epstein for years and been accused of sexual abuse himself. He started his Iran War by blowing up a school full of little girls and his administration has worked around the clock to strip funding from programs that feed, educate, and house children.

While the administration has not admitted that these funding cuts are payback against Pope Leo, the point A to point B is apparent. Trump is the most vindictive man to ever hold the presidency. He has been relentlessly attacking Leo for criticizing his Iran War. This is him using financial leverage in an effort to beat the Pope into submission. It will not work.

Please ❤️ and share to demand that the funding be doubled when Democrats take back control!

[Jeni Sands she/her 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @Events4yu]

Baldwin wrote this decades ago, but it feels like it was written for this moment.
When a person is stripped of hope and a stake in the future, they stop playing by the rules of a society that didn't include them.

#IfWeBurnYouBurnWithUs
#TruthToPower #SocialJustice

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I’ve never forgotten this, or trickle down economics. He and the GOP set us back generations.

[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.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

BBC confirms the US is responsible for the Minab school massacre that killed 175 people, mostly girls. The "advanced" AI targeting system used outdated coordinates to hit a base next door, ignoring satellite images showing kids playing in the courtyard. Absolute war crime.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HOLY SMOKES! Bombshell report accuses Trump and Rubio of "the largest fraud in the history of the U.S. immigration system" amounting to over $1.3 billion stolen from migrants.

And the details will absolutely enrage you...

According to the Cato Institute, a right-wing think tank, Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and outgoing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem extracted at least $1.3 billion from migrants in fees for visa processing and other immigration services that they never intended to provide. They took the money, then took no steps to hold up their end of the agreement.

The administration is taking money from immigrant hopefuls from over 90 countries despite the fact that Trump's own xenophobic travel bans have made it so that those same people are "banned from receiving immigrant visas and immigrating permanently to the United States." Trump is having it both ways: taking the money he would get for allowing immigration while simultaneously blocking that immigration.

"During testimony before the US Senate, I called it the largest fraud in the history of the US immigration system. In fact, it is likely the first $1 billion fraud—a theft of processing fees for services never rendered," wrote David J. Bier for Cato.

But the corruption goes so much deeper...

Rubio's State Department has issued internal rules that prohibit his staff from informing the migrants in question that they have no chance of success and their money is essentially being stolen. It's a systemic graft operation.

“Cubans represent the largest group of affected applicants with nearly a million affected applications at a combined cost of $543 million. The second most common was Venezuelans, with 239,000 applications at a cost of $138 million,” Cato reports.

Cato estimates that over 2 million immigrant applicants were affected by the travel bans and had their money taken when there no intention on the part of the administration of rendering the services in question.

"The fees came primarily from applications for work permits and filings to adjust status to permanent residence or immigrant visas—the two ways in which people receive green cards to stay permanently in the United States," writes Bier.

Congress must immediately investigate this blatant, rampant fraud and begin the long, difficult process of ensuring that every single victim is paid back with interest. These people came looking for a better life in the United States and were instead fleeced for what little money they had. This is a kind of cruelty and greed that could only exist with Donald Trump as president.

Please ❤️ and share to demand full refunds!