JuxtaposeGOP

Frustrated with lies, hypocrisy, and corruption of certain GOP politicians. Documenting what I come across here. 🐝 🚊 ✈️ 🚙

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

NEW: We obtained a classified tranche of documents prepared by the Chinese and Russian military proposing an unprecedented level of integrated aerospace defense between the two countries. One of their targets? The @Starlink satellite constellation, which they see as a major threat, thanks to its use in the ongoing war in Ukraine, and now aim to countermand with cyber attacks or simply by shooting down @elonmusk's property in Low Earth orbit: https://t.co/ZsEfcXXpjJ

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

In February, it was already clear that the administration would make multiple attempts to manipulate the elections. From the Autocracy in America podcast:

https://t.co/u2k62EiW4V

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

Instagram decided to roll out a new “Muse AI” feature, that lets users create AI images based on people’s Instagram photos.

Then they opted in EVERYONE with a public account

To opt out:
Click your profile picture
3 bars in the top right
scroll down to "Sharing and reuse"
Toggle off for both Posts and for Reels

[Ken Dilanian @KDilanianMSNOW]

Damn right.

[ElectionBabe @ElectionBabe]

This decision has massive implications, and it doesn’t matter what your political affiliation is. Replacing commissioners at the EAC is not something that can be done by executive fiat. And we’re currently…commissioner-less.
H/T @Votebeat

https://t.co/cETEzSKgLs

[JuxtaposeGOP @JuxtaGOPosition]

It's all about the grift and benefiting themselves, not doing any work.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

MS NOW Exclusive: Kash Patel has been demanding special perks from bureau employees during his taxpayer-funded travels throughout the country, including helicopter tours and jet ski excursions, according to whistleblower accounts given to Democrats on the House and Senate Judiciary committees. https://t.co/Lg4sgzxvNz

[Eric Katz @EricM_Katz]

New: At one time, DHS was sending staff to 60 countries around the world to vet refugees. Now they're only in one country: South Africa, to vet white Afrikaners.

A look at how Trump has decimated the refugee system and narrowly focused it to his preference, with @AlmsNatalie 👇

[JuxtaposeGOP @JuxtaGOPosition]

SCOTUS didn't invent birthright citizen last week - the 14th amendment to the Constitution created it way back in 1868. And as for "the entire family" being allowed to follow, it was through such chain migration that the First Lady's parents were able to arrive in the US.

[JuxtaposeGOP @JuxtaGOPosition]

We had a revolution over this.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Agents must knock and announce before exciting a search warrant unless a judge says otherwise. They can’t just walk into a house to make an arrest, certainly not of a US citizen.

[Topher Spiro @TopherSpiro]

I am shocked, just shocked, that enhanced ACA tax credits lower costs and increase coverage.

[JuxtaposeGOP @JuxtaGOPosition]

The cut to ACA premium tax credits was $31 billion, causing rates to go up by triple digits.

[Stephen Semler @stephensemler]

Through four months, the US has spent $103 billion on the Iran War.

An average of more than $860 million per day.

[Freedom of the Press Foundation @FreedomofPress]

DHS investigated a New York woman for the supposed offense of reposting the news.

The government shouldn't get to decide what journalism is too dangerous to share.
https://t.co/Sh4Zzk2OV1

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Reuters analysis found that the Trumps have raked in $2.3 billion from 4 different crypto ventures.

Through the same schemes, their investors lost $2.3 billion.

My @Morning_Joe Chart

[Jon Ralston @RalstonReports]

A Nevada federal judge says ICE is ignoring his order to release certain detainees. That is at once shocking and all too believable.

Excellent reporting via @bella_tweetss, who has owned this beat in Nevada.

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

New in The Atlantic this morning: an extraordinary cover story by @rosehorowitch.

If you’re generally only reading tweets, emails, texts, and machine-generated sentences, you should really, really read this story (and after that, a novel!):

https://t.co/izCxIr0MW2

[JuxtaposeGOP @JuxtaGOPosition]

I really hope he’s not seriously considering Kharg Island.

[Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs]

🚨 Trump said more strikes likely coming on Iran.
"It may be a big attack," he said.
"We may take over Kharg Island. There's not a thing they can do about it."
US knocked out 28 Iranian boats last night, Trump said. He said US also did strikes on Iranian radar. "They were trying to rebuild their radar, and they had about 60% rebuilt. Now they have to have to start all over again."

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

The message to the Kremlin, in effect, is that redrawing the borders of Europe by force is not a U.S. concern.

[Daniel Swain @Weather_West]

I just submitted my formal comment on the disastrous proposal to transform essentially all U.S. federal grantmaking--affecting every sector of American science, technology, education, & health--into an overtly partisan political process. Full text here: https://t.co/9ZZmQcTmSP

[JuxtaposeGOP @JuxtaGOPosition]

“His wife has said that he relied on an inhaler for asthma, but ICE agents rejected her attempt to give them the device when he was taken into custody.”

[NBC News @NBCNews]

An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. https://t.co/cdUXugVq2O

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Lost in the news this weekend, the Trump administration is moving forward with a wholesale gutting of the agency responsible for enforcing our gun laws.

They are ending the zero-tolerance policy that let inspectors pull the licenses of gun dealers caught breaking the law, the same policy that revoked more than 600 licenses from dealers who falsified records or skipped background checks. 

They are reinstating the gun show loophole, so private sales and gun shows no longer require background checks.

They are restoring gun access to some people with a history of mental illness. 

They are easing scrutiny on stabilizing braces, the accessories used in mass shootings to make weapons more lethal.

Even the administration’s own analysis admitted the risk. It said one change could range from minimal to, in their words, potential mass casualty events.

All of this is happening while ATF has already been hollowed out, with hundreds of its agents pulled off gun enforcement and reassigned to immigration raids.

If we take the majority in November and we will do everything possible to write these protections back into law, so no administration can quietly strip them away with the stroke of a pen again.
https://t.co/vVwdHq6de4