DevBSirius

Composer, freelance journalist, music teacher, photographer, INTJ, bisexual, and feminist.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: In a Chicago suburb, a U.S. citizen was observing an adult man in a black ski mask, who she believed was an ICE agent, driving around a HIGH SCHOOL…

…and police pulled HER over.

Not the MASKED MAN driving around the Schaumburg high school…

The officer told her she was being detained for “stalking.”

Even though, when she asked who she was allegedly stalking… the cop admitted he didn’t even know yet, and would “find out in just a moment.”

So, just to clarify…

The cop hadn’t confirmed who the MASKED MAN was.

He hadn’t determined whether he was a federal agent, or why he was driving around a HIGH SCHOOL in a SKI MASK.

But the cop had already decided the woman, OBSERVING THE MASKED MAN, was the problem.

Americans have a First Amendment right to observe what government officials are doing in public.

If this was a federal agent… documenting their activity isn’t a crime.

It’s accountability.

And if it wasn’t a federal agent… most people would expect the police to be concerned about a MASKED MAN driving around a HIGH SCHOOL.

Not the woman observing him.

In a country where school shootings are a real and constant threat to students… that’s the bare minimum our law enforcement should be doing.

But when she asked why a MASK MAN, driving around a HIGH SCHOOL, didn’t concern him, the officer said:

“Everyone wears masks nowadays.”

So, if someone can be detained for peacefully observing, what they reasonably believe is government activity…

While police focus more on the observer than the MASKED MAN around a HIGH SCHOOL…

Then we have some serious questions that need to be asked… @GovPritzker

[DevBSirius @DevBSirius]

@GOP__Ls That’s a dictator move. Suppression of truth and callousness towards death.

[DevBSirius @DevBSirius]

@pubity Oh fuck off!

[DevBSirius @DevBSirius]

@F0ODHub Hot/wing sauce for me.

[DevBSirius @DevBSirius]

@washingtonpost I hope the artist wins his lawsuit. FIFA had no right and the city shouldn’t have let them do that.

[DevBSirius @DevBSirius]

Withholding her diploma because she exercised her freedom of speech is shameful. Hope she keeps speaking up against injustices.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

A 17-year-old valedictorian, Leen Hijaz, used her graduation speech to speak for the voiceless: "Millions suffering in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Afghanistan. Families torn apart by ICE."

The school administrator cut her mic. Told her: "If you don't stop, you're not graduating." They withheld her diploma for four days.

[DevBSirius @DevBSirius]

@BladeoftheS @beardedphotog24 Those endowed with the power of critical thinking still blame the billionaires.

[DevBSirius @DevBSirius]

@barrycunningham Do you really not understand how water works? It always reflects. No one needed to paint the bottom to make that happen.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

Of the 97, 14 were charged with sex crimes, including child molestation and possession of child pornography.

These are the monsters Trump released back onto our streets.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, according to a report from a government watchdog group. https://t.co/wEAqxMA7AG

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump appears to be completely passed out asleep during his 3pm Oval Office announcement

[DevBSirius @DevBSirius]

@Polymarket If true, @CBS is really becoming state-run media. There is no place for that in a democracy and the founding fathers would be ashamed of what this country is becoming.

[DevBSirius @DevBSirius]

@kushika_twt There are so many reasons why this is a bad idea. Constructing buildings that large in Antarctica will cost more, be life threatening to the contractors, and be so damaging to the environment there and all over the world because it will only melt the polar icecaps faster.

[DevBSirius @DevBSirius]

@Microinteracti1 That might just be the gayest thing any politician has posted during pride month.

[DevBSirius @DevBSirius]

@GemmaNoiosi @jerseyh0mo Queer people simply existing isn’t forcing anything on you. Governments, corporations, & tv shows simply acknowledge that queer people exist, have rights, & that their stories deserve to be told. As a Christian, you are called to love thy neighbor and told thou shall not judge.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I swear to God we are living in Idiocracy. Everyday I think 'This can't be real.' But it is.
You couldn't write a satirical movie like the insane shitshow we are being forced to live through in real life.

[DevBSirius @DevBSirius]

@chefsevenn No. They taste like a fart smells. Why would I want to eat that?

[DevBSirius @DevBSirius]

@YourAnonNews How does a person get to be 80 years old without learning that respect is earned? Money, demand, and intimidation won’t get you respect. If you want respect, give people a reason to respect you. Showing others respect is a good way to way to get respect in turn.