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[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

The Bible Belt is also:

The divorce belt
The teen pregnancy belt
The obesity belt
The murder belt
The poverty belt
The high-school dropout belt
The uneducated belt
The MAGA belt
The prison belt
The disease belt

None of these are a coincidence. They are not simply correlation.

This is cause and effect.

[CathyNotToday2 🌿 @Cathy2NotToday]

“You'll notice Florida's tough-talking CFO, Blaise Ingoglia, isn't saying squat about any of this.

He and his office have refused to answer questions about audits tor any of the
"emergency" immigration spending that . started posing last year.

And WKMG recently reported that when their viewers started asking "What about Alligator Alcatraz?" his office deflected, saying it had "full confidence in the Trump Administration's financial review of Alligator Alcatraz."

🎯Apparently, Blaise is too busy screaming about a $6,000 annual stipend for Orlando's poet laureate to focus on $1 billion being blown on no-bid contracts down in the Everglades.

Remember: The Sentinel revealed that the state hasn't yet produced a single audit on all this "emergency" immigration spending - audits that state statutes say are required.

🎯💰So we're missing both audits and competitively bid contracts while reading one report after another about bloated spending. Gee, you think there might be a connection?”

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 The Utah Republican Party paid a firm $4.3 million to falsify the signatures of dead people.

The election fraud was conducted in an attempt to legalize gerrymandering in Utah.

[FactCheckGovLandry @ag_landry]

Vetoed like someone who gets his fresh food courtesy of the state tax payers

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

You’re not poor because you bought coffee and avocados. You’re poor because billionaires bought Congress and the Presidency.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

The Supreme Court just ruled to allow corporations to poison people.

If you poisoned someone, you’d go to prison.

When corporations do it, they get a pass because the conservative Justices on the Supreme Court were put there by a special interest group funded by corporations.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In Louisiana, black women were put in cells with male prisoners and some became pregnant

All children born in the penitentiary became property of the state

At 10 years they would be auctioned off. The proceeds were used to fund schools for white kids #BlackHistoryMonth

THREAD

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Lynn Callaway says she was left bleeding on the floor at home, fearing she would die, after being sent home twice from two Texas emergency rooms without the care she desperately needed. No woman should have to fear losing her life because doctors are afraid to provide medically necessary care. Compassion and patient safety must always come first. https://t.co/oUqrsEpRsW

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

The guy with no bank accounts. Anybody ever look into that

[Matt Bowers @_Matt_Bowers_]

It’s disgusting that Derek Carr was treated 1000 x’s better than Alvin in the end…. Derek Carr 🥴🤮🤮🤮

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

A mother watched her 1-year-old son, Kohen Wiley, take his first breath and, tragically, his last. Vellesiya Wiley’s pain is unimaginable, and her call for answers must be heard. We stand with this family in demanding transparency, accountability, and #JusticeForKohenWiley.

[Lee Merritt @LeeMerrittesq]

Immediately after the conviction, Karmelo Anthony’s father reached out to me and asked for help assembling a new legal team to fight for his son’s future. From that moment, we have been working nonstop to bring together experienced appellate and civil rights attorneys to review every aspect of this case and pursue relief through the courts.

Today’s filing, formally replacing prior counsel and placing this new team on the record, is the first step in that process.

We remain committed to ensuring that Karmelo receives a full and fair review of his conviction and sentence, consistent with both the evidence and the law.

This is not about headlines; it is about due process, accountability, and the pursuit of justice for a young man whose life now depends on what happens on appeal.

[Brandon C. Armant @BrandonArmant]

https://t.co/9dBmJLZ5t9

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

Texas is planning to transfer 5,000 disabled students in Houston to "hub" campuses, which will potentially segregate them from the students in their neighborhood schools.

The state made this decision without any meaningful input from communities.

Families in Texas are demanding a pause before this major restructuring proceeds, and a federal civil rights investigation is underway.

When I was a kid, the highlight of my day in school was passing the special education classes and dapping them up and chatting with them in-between the bell. It was always a high point. No matter how bad things were, they never failed to brighten up my day and I hope they felt the same about me. The thought of our nation's schools losing these meaningful interactions makes me so upset.

I'm not an expert on disability education, but I know the implications of rounding up a certain group of vulnerable people and concentrating them into a centralized institution where their interactions and personal agency are limited.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

The maximum amount a person can donate to a candidate is $3500.

Miriam Adelson just donated another $25 million.

Citizens United didn’t give corporations “free speech.”

It let billionaires buy elections and legally bribe politicians.

End Citizens United.

[James E. Clyburn @RepJamesClyburn]

Most people know about Rosa Parks and her courageous act of defiance that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped lead to a court ruling ending bus segregation in Montgomery.

But fewer people know about Sarah Mae Flemming of Columbia, South Carolina.

72 years ago, Flemming was assaulted by a bus driver after she sat in a section reserved for white passengers. She fought back in court, and in a groundbreaking ruling, a federal appeals court ruled that bus segregation could no longer be justified under the doctrine of “separate but equal.”

Flemming's victory helped pave the way for the legal challenge that ultimately ended bus segregation in Montgomery and across the South.

[Rep. Summer Lee @RepSummerLee]

The Pentagon is the only place in America where you can fail 8 audits in a row, admit you’ll fail the next few & still get handed more money than you asked for.

But let a family need help buying groceries and suddenly it’s a lecture about hard work, responsibility & bootstraps.

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

The deeper story isn't Jim Jordan.

It's the deportation-industrial complex.

A major ICE contractor allegedly routed $250,000 to a Jordan-aligned super PAC. Whether this specific contribution is ultimately ruled legal or illegal is almost beside the point.

Look at the incentive loop:

→ Congress expands detention funding.
→ Private prison companies win larger contracts.
→ Those contracts generate profits.
→ Profits fund political spending.
→ Political spending helps elect politicians who promise even more detention.

Then the cycle repeats.

GEO Group and its subsidiaries have spent years testing the limits of federal contractor donation rules while collecting hundreds of millions in ICE-related contracts.

Watchdogs have repeatedly filed complaints.

The FEC has repeatedly deadlocked.

The money keeps flowing.

The real question isn't whether one check bought one vote.

The real question is whether we've built a system where detention has become an economic development strategy.

More detention.
More contracts.
More profits.
More political money.

At some point, "public policy" starts looking suspiciously like a revenue model.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE hit & run over Black woman with car—just peacefully waving American flag.

"She didn't know there was a vehicle behind her, and was not out to block traffic," said witness.

"He didn't warn her, didn't honk, and didn't slow down."

"If you strike a pedestrian—that is a crime under any situation under New Jersey law."

This is the 2nd or 3rd time that same red Challenger has tried to run somebody over—according to witness.

Man driving is a contract worker at the Delaney ICE for profit prison run by GEO Group in Newark, New Jersey.

Durga Advocate for Justice does have an account on this platform—so posting this video here first to help them raise awareness.

Video is safe to watch, contains additional eyewitness commentary, and does not show any graphic content.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Today marks 62 years since James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner disappeared near Philadelphia, Mississippi, while doing the dangerous work of Freedom Summer: voter registration, education, and civil rights.

They had gone to see the burned remains of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, where members of the Ku Klux Klan had beaten worshipers days earlier. After being arrested and released that night, they were kidnapped and killed by members of the Klan. Their bodies were found weeks later.

Their lives were taken because they believed democracy should include Black people, because they believed voting rights were worth risking their safety for, and because they understood that justice requires courage.

As we honor them, we must also recommit to protecting the right to vote, confronting hate, and continuing the work of freedom with disciplined love and nonviolence.

#JamesChaney #AndrewGoodman #MichaelSchwerner #MLK #FreedomSummer