ItDoesntHaveToBeLikeThis

Exasperated optimist

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Let's walk through what actually happened here, in order.

DOGE cut the USAID program specifically designed to prevent screwworm from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. DOGE cut USDA's animal disease control and prevention funding. That funding had supported more than 180 outbreak investigations in 22 countries and capacity-building in more than 160 laboratories. The screwworm monitoring and response program that watched the border for exactly this parasite - cut.

Then screwworm showed up in Texas cattle. Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared a disaster for Zavala and Uvalde counties this week.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins went on CNBC this morning and blamed the Biden administration, 17 months out of office.

Her specific words: "obviously not much had been done to push back."

The program that was supposed to push back existed. DOGE eliminated it in March 2025. Rollins has been Agriculture Secretary since February 13, 2025. The cuts happened on her watch.

Beef prices are already high. Ranchers in south Texas are now dealing with a flesh-eating parasite that was eradicated in this country in the 1960s - eradicated, specifically, using the sterile fly program her department defunded.

The flies existed. The program existed. The budget existed.

Until it didn't.

[OGHI @Oghi_Oco]

@BladeoftheS

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

13 workers left Palantir and issued this statement.

"Palantir is increasingly complicit, normalizing authoritarianism under the guise of a 'revolution' led by oligarchs. We must resist this trend."

[Indiana Democratic Party @INDems]

Mike Braun and Indiana Republicans have given Amazon data centers over $8 billion in tax subsidies.

When data centers are built in Indiana, they must pay their communities a fair share & only use union labor.

Time to vote out the Republican corruption making billionaires richer

[ᴘʀɪɴᴄᴇ @justprince]

the sooner you recognize that ICE is just a glorified human trafficking operation the better

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: We're suing the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service over their plan to give away 715 acres of a public wildlife refuge to billionaire corporation Space X.

We shouldn't be sacrificing our cherished public lands to subsidize a company owned by the richest man in the world.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump wants federal control over state voter rolls so he can purge voters and manipulate the outcomes of elections.

This is what rigging an election actually looks like:

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

When do we burn it down?

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

There are credible allegations made against Donald Trump that he mutilated a child’s nipples while raping her.
Allegations so serious, his inner circle had to meet in the Situation Room to discuss them.

I mean, how the fuck isn’t this the biggest scandal in the world right now?

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

The same people who said masks were "literally 1984" think this is fine.

[Epstein File Search @epsteinsearchin]

Jane Doe 4 alleges President Trump raped her when she was 13 years old.

In 2025, she settled with the Epstein estate.

In March 2026, Epstein's accountant Richard Kahn confirmed this under oath, before Congress.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Scientists at Trump’s EPA say they are being told to make chemical risks “disappear on paper.” Not to study or manage them, but to make them vanish.

When a safety test on a household chemical shows danger, supervisors reportedly ask to keep shrinking the scenario until the poison looks safe.

They have reassigned senior scientists to paperwork and handed life-and-death risk assessments to staff with less experience. They have installed former chemical industry lobbyists to run the very offices that are supposed to regulate the chemical industry.

A gift to industry, paid for with your family’s health.

They are even throwing out research on how certain chemicals hit certain communities harder, calling decades of established science “DEI.”

You can make risk disappear on paper.

The cancer does not disappear.

The birth defects do not disappear.

The infertility does not disappear.

The kids drinking the water and getting sick do not disappear.

The EPA exists to protect people, not to protect the profit margins of the people poisoning them.

Every American deserves to know what is happening. #TrumpMakesUsSick

https://t.co/5DwXgxBybt

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jennifer Welch: “There is credible information in the Epstein Files by a 13-year-old girl, she claims under oath that she was assaulted by the sitting president. All these MAGA Christians, Erika Kirk and her harem of pro-pedophilia women never speak out for victims of sexual assault. They never speak out about crime when it’s one of their own because they believe in nothing other than white men getting power”

[Nina Burleigh @ninaburleigh]

Hey, same clan from TPUSA weekend in Texas is headed to #Illinois to push for Christianizing schools.
Heather Lloyd, TPUSA education expert, is married to Alex Lloyd, who in 2022 pled guilty to possessing child porn. Please share with Illinois friends. https://t.co/8kW0y6pa5r

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: We're suing the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service over their plan to give away 715 acres of a public wildlife refuge to billionaire corporation Space X.

Americans shouldn't be sacrificing their public lands to subsidize a company owned by the richest man in the world.

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

🚨ÖNEMLİ | AMERİKA BU İTİRAFLA ÇALKALANIYOR!

Epstein mağduru bir kadın Trump hakkında şok edici itiraflarda bulundu:

“BANA GÜNDE 3 KEZ TECAVÜZ ETTİLER, BU BİR İSTİSMAR HATTIYDI VE HER ŞEY DONALD TRUMP İLE BAŞLADI!..”

Bu Trump hakkında yapılan canlı kanlı ilk itiraf. Açıklamanın ardından ABD halkı Trump’ın İSTİFASINI ve YARGILANMASINI talep ediyor.

Rezalet!

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Dr. Oz is attempting to lay the foundation for Republicans to gut Medicaid and Medicare again by calling them programs “of great danger” to the American people.

These people have no health care plan other than taking away yours.

[MAGA Cult Slayer🦅🇺🇸 @MAGACult2]

I told you, you woke up GenX. It will be the biggest mistake you’ll make. Anyone that can hold that F like that, not someone to f with. #smokefleet #smokeflèèt

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

This one hits hard.

[i Expose Racists & Pedos @SeeRacists]

Christian ‘Pastor Tommy’ pleads guilty after sexually abusing boys in his youth group. He framed some contact as ‘how Jesus greeted disciples’…”

Thomas Pinkerton Jr., 52, pleaded guilty Monday to one count of sexual abuse of a minor under a plea deal. He was a youth pastor at Central Christian Church in Rossville, Baltimore County.

Between 2006 and 2010, Pinkerton sexually abused teenage boys ages 12 to 17 at the time at the church and at his Baltimore County home. At least six men in Maryland (and reports of a seventh in Georgia) came forward describing a clear pattern: he showed favoritism to certain “athletic, good-looking, popular” boys he called his “favorites,” gave massages, held hands, touched them inappropriately, and even shared beds with boys during out-of-state mission trips while his wife stayed with the girls.

Victims described him as a “spiritual father” figure who crossed every boundary. He was arrested in Georgia in August 2025, extradited to Maryland, and initially faced 24 charges.

Under the plea, Pinkerton faces up to 4 years in prison, followed by 5 years of probation and lifetime sex offender registration.

Prosecutors plan to present accounts from additional victims at his December sentencing.
Another predator in a position of spiritual authority preyed on vulnerable boys for years.

How many more churches and communities will fail to protect kids until these “spiritual fathers” are finally held fully accountable?