NEW: Staff at an ICE facility in Louisiana mistreated immigrants, including one incident where an officer stabbed an inmate in the hand with a pen, the Homeland Security inspector general found. The watchdog's report provides a rare and candid look inside an ICE detention center.
🚨 The House just voted 218-204 to move forward on the discharge petition to provide military aid to Ukraine and impose tough sanctions on Russia. The House will vote on final passage tomorrow. This is our Churchill moment and we must pass the test.
We’ve fought the attacks on NCAR since day one. We protested. We held up the Senate floor. We’re glad to see the courts stopped Trump’s efforts but our fight isn’t over.
“For most Americans who love the outdoors, our national parks are a national treasure. Not so for the man holding the position as Secretary of the Department of Interior, Doug Burgum. He sees dollar signs and development.” https://t.co/FBx1a8U7jS
WHOOPS. After falsely railing for weeks that gas prices will go down if California just drills more in the ocean, Big Oil Shill Wright accidentally admitted the truth: “It’s a global market”
Perhaps he should talk to his boss about stabilizing it by ending the Iran war — we hear that could bring prices down!
At least 40 minors gave sworn statements to the FBI that Jeffrey Epstein raped and trafficked them. The line prosecutor wrote an 82-page memo recommending charges.
Alex Acosta declined and signed a non-prosecution deal.
He was later confirmed as Labor Secretary.
"Globally, we’ve lost over 50% of the phytoplankton biomass since the 1950s, and we’re continuing to lose it about 1 to 2 percent a year. Never mind nuclear war. This is what’s going to kill us.”
You know the phytoplankton that creates most our our oxygen
https://t.co/RRiqCOkJro
For more than 30 years, a federal court order has required the prompt release of children in immigration detention. Courts have interpreted that to mean no more than 20 days.
The Trump Administration is not only violating that court order, but they are fighting in court to end it entirely.
During Trump’s second term, more than 6,300 children have been detained, 97% of whom have no criminal record, and some of whom are only two months old.
This Administration has gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure you never see what is happening to these children.
Despite the fact that I serve on the Oversight Committee, Oversight Republicans refused to let me speak during their sham hearing on Medicaid in Ohio. Why? They knew I would call out their political theater. Here's what happened and why it matters:
Apparently, cleanse America of all gay people is beyond the pale for them.
Great start. Now let’s try: women should have the right to make their own healthcare choices.