George Withers

USN Veteran/Aircrew/Vietnam/former HASC staff

[George Withers @George_Withers]

@LAWGaction @_VickiGass Congrats Vickie!!

[George Withers @George_Withers]

@skinosian @Reuters Congratulations Sarah and good luck in Mexico City!

[Dennis Clark @dennistclark]

It's first day of school vibe in the Main Reading Room at @librarycongress this morning! Staff are bouncing around waiting for researchers to arrive for the first time in 15 months. Room looks great and is dying to be used, as are the collections! Get in here!

[ICRC @ICRC]

War.
Hunger.
Violence.
Persecution.
Climate change.
Extreme poverty.
Natural disasters.

Why would you risk everything to migrate?

Because sometimes a dangerous journey is safer than staying put.

[George Withers @George_Withers]

https://t.co/74VDhVoeHE

[Adam Isacson @adam_wola]

This is horrible. You know what's more horrible—but harder to photograph? The other option: expelling kids, alone, to their countries, where they may face danger.

Sure—hit the Biden admin for failing to anticipate shelter needs. But don't hit them for deciding not to expel kids.

[Adam Isacson @adam_wola]

Important find by @PJAsmann: some of the police implicated in the 1/22 #Mexico migrant massacre are from a unit, created in mid-2020, that got US training.

Why would the USG train a _state police_ unit in _Tamaulipas_, of all places? We need answers.

https://t.co/iA1ZZ2jD7S

[Derenic Byrd @DerenicByrd]

Kalief Browder allegedly stole a backpack at 16, spent 3 yrs at Riker's Island without trial.

Riley Williams stole a laptop from Speaker Pelosi's office and tried selling it the Russians. She was released to her mother

There are two justice systems in America #BlackLivesMatter

[digby @digby56.bsky.social @digby56]

I'm so thrilled to hear @NormOrnstein on MSNBC say that it was Newt Gingrich who turned the GOP into a cult.

Yes! Trump inherited it and became its leader, but it already existed

It's important to recognize Trump is not essential to this group. They were radicalized long ago.

[Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu]

January 6 was one of the worst attacks on civil order in American history.

Have any of these given a briefing and answered questions yet?

Capitol Police
DC Police
FBI
Secret Service
Homeland Security
National Guard
Secretary of Defense
DOJ
Vice President
President
White House

[Pamela Campos-Palma (pamcp on bluesky🦋) @pamcpx]

Politicans of ALL stripes have consistently been complicit when it comes to institutional failures and systemic military sex crimes & the Guillén case.

Vanessa Guillén’s family & countless others deserve real justice, not coverups #ShutDownFortHood

https://t.co/n3FX8Uskcr

[Vets for American Ideals @Vets4AmerIdeals]

Ending the militarization of our police is too important to wait. Tell your Senators to support #NDAA amendment from @SenBrianSchatz. Reforming the 1033 program will save the lives of both American civilians and law enforcement.
https://t.co/QfdSGgilPr

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Thank you for your service and your patriotism, @AVindman.

[Maureen Meyer @meyermc]

Important victory for asylum seekers & advocates as federal judge strikes down third country asylum ban- one of many draconian measures implemented by Trump administration to limit access to asylum in US https://t.co/K8MPrWYFxO

[Adam Isacson @adam_wola]

Using the military for crowd control escalates protests and endangers everyone. These helicopters’ crews, and those who commanded them, treated Americans like enemies.

This must never be normal. Accountability must be extremely severe, to avoid precedent-setting.

[Adam Isacson @adam_wola]

"Using the military to do public security will not make #Mexico safer because it is not the right tool for the job.
The US has been using the wrong tool, the police, to solve social problems for decades and with devastating results." —@JoyLeeOlson

https://t.co/UrQdc4BlKp

[George Withers @George_Withers]

@adeline_hite So sorry Addie.

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

Holy shit.

[George Withers @George_Withers]

After the South lost the civil war, they gave themselves “participation trophies” in the form of statues of Confederate soldiers. Now they’re bawling because the meanies are taking their participation trophies away.

[Adam Isacson @adam_wola]

111 more over the holiday weekend. The vast majority could've been released, to socially distance with sponsors.