Kathleen Joshua

Vegan. Activist. Wife. Proud Mom. LGBT Ally. Retired NATO HQ.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

I’m the grandson of Mexican immigrants. They came here, they worked hard, and they built a family.

My grandmother was a lawful permanent resident her whole life.

My grandfather was 50 when he became a citizen. They followed the rules, they earned their place, and they paid what they owed every single year.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was on that same road.

He lived in this country for nearly 35 years. He built homes in Houston. He raised three sons, all American citizens. His family says he had no criminal record and had started the process of getting a work permit. On the morning of July 7, he was driving his construction crew to a job site when an ICE officer shot him during a traffic stop. He died at the hospital.

Here is what the government itself now admits.

DHS confirmed the officers were looking for someone else. Salgado Araujo was not the target. His brother, who was in the van, was not the target either. They stopped him because he drove a white van and, in their words, resembled the man they wanted.

ICE says he tried to run over an officer with his vehicle. But there is no body camera footage, because DHS confirms none of the officers were wearing one. There is no dashcam footage. And the three men riding in the van with him say the ICE account is false, that the van never veered toward any agent and that officers fired almost immediately.

You don’t need a position on immigration to see the problem.

Getting enforcement right and enforcing the law are not opposites. Body cameras, judicial warrants, and independent review protect honest officers and innocent people alike. They are how you prove the official account when it’s true and correct it when it’s not.
https://t.co/rw0cjdMrFa

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

The hypocrisy is staggering.

op: @briantylercohen

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Trump’s interviews today about the passing of Graham made one thing clear, again, as he immediately promoted the “save” America act:

He is incapable of compassion.

He made it all about…. Himself.

He is a empty hollow “man”

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE.

His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook.

Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Abolish ICE. Now.

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

NEW: I just uncovered more evidence that Donald Trump is spending hundreds of thousands of your tax dollars to print giant banners of his face and put them on government buildings.

Not only a terrible waste of the hard-earned dollars of the American people, but also an illegal use of public funds.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"Today is the first day without him for all of us, and it is heartbreaking to know that my mom did not make lunch for my dad before going to work—the first time in their 30+ year marriage" - son of the man ICE killed
https://t.co/9bhid7sPXc

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus.

You want to know what insults Jesus?

Kicking the sick off their healthcare.
Bombing schoolchildren in Iran.
Deporting moms and babies.
Covering up the Epstein files.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Talarico: “Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. Lorenzo was a child of God endowed with infinite worth. His life was invaluable. His death was senseless. Our neighbor, our fellow Texan, deserves justice”

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

Ossoff, to conservatives:

"Why are gangs of masked men... [in our cities] shooting people? What happened to 'Don't tread on me?' Are there any principled conservatives left?"

Good question.

Conservatives cannot claim a belief in liberty if they refuse to speak out against ICE.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Buttigieg: You can see it in the carnival of corruption that is Washington, D.C., today.

The leader of the free world flying around in a secondhand jumbo jet from a foreign country while he makes a billion dollars on crypto deals propped up by foreign leaders.

A Supreme Court saying that a president, even if he used the government to murder someone, could not be held accountable for the crime.

Nine out of ten House races drawn so that you know who’s going to win before the first vote is cast in a 50/50 country.

This is not an academic concern. This hurts us. This is why things aren’t working properly. This is how they can make you pay more at the pump for a war you never asked for, how they burned down the Department of Education while we’re worried about kids who can’t do math or read like they’re supposed to.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. And that’s what we’re here to do something about.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

ICE lied about how Renee Good was shot.

They lied about how Alex Pretti was shot.

And now they’re lying about how Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot.

Don’t believe their story for a second.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Dave Matthews: “This father and grandfather who was murdered by ICE in Houston, Texas. Then they say he’s not even the guy they were looking for. Well then don’t pull the trigger you assholes. It just makes me mad. I want to send this to the memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo”

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

I've beaten Trump and his allies in court so many times I've lost count. But I am still not tired of winning.

[Rep. Bennie G. Thompson @BennieGThompson]

Not a damn person believes Tom Homan.

We’re still waiting for accountability in the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

These DHS agents should be fired and criminally charged.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Two GOP women - a Trump spokeswoman & daughter of Sen. Bernie Moreno - have accused Rep. Max Miller of domestic violence. Has any Republican politician or Twitter pundit called for him to drop out of his race? Please reply so I can see all the receipts thanks.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MAJOR BREAKING: Federal Judge Kaplan just signed an order forcing the Clerk of Court to release the $5 million judgment against Trump, plus accrued interest!

The Rapist LOST!

[Acyn @Acyn]

Nichols: It’s almost like we have a relative in the room, and there’s something deeply wrong with him. And we’ve all agreed not to talk about it. But there is something deeply wrong with him.

His friends know it, his critics know it. His staff, I’m sure, knows it. The world knows it. World leaders know it. And most importantly, our enemies know it, which is why they don’t take him seriously.

Nobody hangs on his words. They kind of do, but mostly out of freakish curiosity to see what kind of wild thing he’s going to say next, not because his words have any inherent meaning or reflect policy.

You know, I spent years teaching students that when the president speaks, it’s policy, and you must pay attention when the president speaks because nobody can contradict him.

Now, you know, are we really cutting off all trade with Spain? Who knows? Maybe. Maybe not. It might have just been a stray electron, you know, careening around inside his brainpan. Who knows?

But this is really dangerous because in the middle of all this stuff—and we can laugh about, you know, the Islamic Republic of Japan and all of that—but he made several statements about an ongoing war that the United States is losing. And no one’s even trying to pretend that they can make any sense of it.

And I’ll just add one last thing that you just brought up.

If this were any other president, this would be a national crisis. I mean, Joe Biden got somebody’s name wrong, and it was headlines. The president gets all kinds of things wrong, completely, you know, is out to lunch at an important NATO summit, and, you know, it’s Wednesday.

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

As a Christian, I am deeply offended by JD Vance’s proclamation of the United States as “a Christian nation.” Our country was founded on religious freedom. Read the First Amendment— no establishment of religion.
https://t.co/NwJDKzh3wl

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Did you hear this? After throwing millions off their health care insurance, Trump is now going to let insurers make loans to patients - possibly with sky high interest rates - so they can afford the Trump premiums. Just a total scam.