America 250 was going to be like a World Fair that would have attracted millions of people.
But Trump stole the money, denied permits, & renamed it Freedom 250 so he could make it all about himself & Republicans.
Trump stole America's Birthday from you! 🤬
Never forget that the trump administration wants to throw people in jail for touching water in the reflecting pool but allowed an ICE agent to walk free after he murdered a woman in broad daylight on camera and called her a "fucking bitch."
Ossoff: Let's be very clear about what the president is saying to the American people. The president is saying that he will not sign a bill whose purpose is to make housing affordable unless his allies in congress pass a voter suppression bill to rig the election. He is saying, I won't even sign a bill that will give economic relief to Americans unless the rules of this election are changed so that he, Donald Trump, cannot be held accountable for all of his misdeeds because that's what he really fears most of all is that when there is a change in the balance of power, and when we restore checks and balances, he knows that there will be subpoenas flying that officials from his administration will be testifying under oath about the full range of misconduct and corruption that we already know has been happening since the moment he was sworn in.
The biggest opportunity we have ever had to protect animal welfare and food safety is happening right now in the Senate and one passionate not for profit is working their heart out to make sure it succeeds! Let’s help them!
A Justice Department lawyer just signed a memo saying disabled Americans have no right to live in their own homes. In the same document, she admits no court in the country agrees with her.
Read that again. A government official wrote down, in black and white, that her own argument is wrong by every legal standard of the last thirty years, and she made it anyway.
Here is what it means in plain terms.
Right now, 8.4 million people get help that lets them stay in their own homes. Aides who help them dress. Care that lets them work, see friends, raise their kids, sleep in their own beds at night.
This memo tells states they can cut all of it.
And if they cut it, where do those people go? Into nursing homes. Into institutions. Into facilities where someone else decides when you wake up, what you eat, who your roommate is, whether you go outside today.
A lawyer who has visited people locked in these places said their whole world shrinks to one hallway. That is the future this memo is opening the door to.
Keeping people in their own homes is cheaper. In one case, home care cost under $7,500 a year. The nursing home would have cost close to $50,000. The cruel option is also the expensive one. They want to spend more money to make people's lives worse.
So why?
Because last summer Trump signed an order to deal with homelessness by force, by sweeping people off the streets and committing them. He said it out loud during the campaign: the mentally ill belong back in institutions.
The only thing standing in the way was the law that says people deserve to live in their own communities.
This memo is how they get around it. And it landed the same week Republicans slashed Medicaid, giving every cash-strapped state the perfect excuse to start cutting.
A think tank drew up the plan. A lawyer wrote the memo. A president signed the order. Three signatures, and millions of people could lose the right to their own front door.
We are about to spend the summer celebrating 250 years of American freedom.
Some Americans are about to find out it doesn't include them.
Trump’s son-in-law is soliciting $5 billion from Middle Eastern oligarchs who want political favors from the Trump administration.
These are not business deals.
This is an open call for bribes.
@SecMullinDHS@SenateGOP@SenateDems@HouseGOP@HouseDemocrats@OversightDems@GOPoversight
ICE agents beat a man to the point of brain damage yet the case against him appears to have been dropped due to his not having done anything wrong.
Are Republicans really okay with allowing these people to continue to harm & terrorize the American people with no reforms whatsoever?
We now know of DOZENS of incidents like this one (much more really).
PLEASE DO SOMETHING
On public sidewalks, parks, and plazas, you can mock ICE with satire. A giant cartoon ICE agent “capturing children” is protected political speech.
https://t.co/du9bv2U4pY confirms: if ICE removes people simply because their satire hurts the government’s feelings, that is anti-American authoritarianism.
Get the tools to fight ICE into the hands of everyone: https://t.co/Txyhf9LSil
99 years is the amount of prison time a doctor in Alabama will receive if they perform an abortion.
6 months is the amount of prison time you will receive if you rape an unconscious girl next to a dumpster.
Wake up.