EBluvsDC

American politics, with sprinkles of cute animals and James Acaster fandom. Vegan. ♎

[EBluvsDC @e_barrett]

Never in all my years has so much evidence of serious crimes been out in the open about so many people walking around free.

[Duty To Warn 🔉 @duty2warn]

If only our our Justice Department, Defense Department and our intelligence agencies had access to the information in the New York Times and Washington Post, imagine how heads would roll.

[EBluvsDC @e_barrett]

Hip hip hooray, it's #Taskmaster day!

[World Bank Water @WorldBankWater]

Forests are engines of the water cycle. They regulate rainfall, store water, and employ millions around the world.

Our blog underscores the important of investing in forests – for economic growth, nature, and communities.
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[EBluvsDC @e_barrett]

Aid groups crippled by US foreign aid cuts plead for funds as Middle East humanitarian crisis grows
https://t.co/D5VduTnnC4

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

This is hilarious.

Also, completely enraging.

[EBluvsDC @e_barrett]

Welcome to the era of global water bankruptcy.
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[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨Last night, in Minneapolis, federal agents fired green chemical gas into a residential neighborhood after community members showed up to document what was happening on their own block.

Let’s be very clear about what that means…

This wasn’t a federal courthouse.
This wasn’t federal property.
This was people standing in the streets where they live… streets lined with houses, apartments, kids, babies, and pregnant people.

That green gas didn’t just hit people outside. It spread through the neighborhood, into yards and homes.

Agents also threw flash bangs at a family trying to leave because of the smoke, even though they had small children, including a 6-month-old who was later taken to the hospital by ambulance.

And, the green gas matters. This isn’t “normal” tear gas.

That same green smoke has been documented before… in Portland… where it was used by federal agents to “protect” federal buildings.

Independent testing found it contained hexachloroethane, which produces zinc chloride smoke when deployed. The U.S. military stopped using it decades ago because of how toxic it is.

Exposure to this gas is linked to burning skin and eyes, coughing, vomiting, chest pain, and serious respiratory injury, with the risk of delayed and long-term lung damage. This is especially dangerous for infants, children, pregnant people, and anyone with asthma or other respiratory conditions.

Now, federal agents are using it in neighborhoods.

And on top of that… ICE and other federal agents are not supposed to be doing crowd control in residential areas at all.

Their authority is limited to specific federal functions. Crowd control in city streets is not one of them. They do not have blanket jurisdiction to gas neighborhoods because people are in their own neighborhood streets.

So what we’re watching is federal agents:

• acting outside their role
• performing crowd control where they have no jurisdiction
• firing toxic green gas into civilian neighborhoods
• and exposing families inside their own homes to chemicals that cause real physical harm.

This isn’t public safety.
This isn’t lawful enforcement.

This is the federal government treating American neighborhoods like hostile territory… and using chemical weapons to do it.

That should alarm everyone, because there is nothing stopping this from happening in your neighborhood next.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

The MAGA accounts defending this body cam footage reveal them to be either bloodthirsty monsters who love to murder lib women or the biggest pussies in history who are deathly afraid of a Honda Pilot going 3 miles an hour. Do not see an in between

[Andy Signore @andysignore]

This is the most neutral summary I’ve seen of the Minnesota murder by ICE. It has ALL angles, it syncs them together, and shows the lead up and aftermath… if you watch this all and still think those shots were justified - you just might be a psychopath.

[EBluvsDC @e_barrett]

My #Taskmaster fandom also started with James Acaster, Kumail.
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[EBluvsDC @e_barrett]

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[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

President Trump on NYT reporting he's seeking $230 million from the DOJ in response to the investigations into him: "With the country, it's interesting because I'm the one that makes the decision, right? And that decision would have to go across my desk. And it's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself...I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get I would give to charity."

[EBluvsDC @e_barrett]

@myloveishemp https://t.co/LH23pQo5es

[World Bank Water @WorldBankWater]

. @WorldBank group is elevating New Water by #ScalingWaterReuse & #Desalinaion. How do governments start the process?

See the World Bank's new guidelines & tools for the creation of an enabling environment & the appraisal of desalination & reuse projects. https://t.co/vV7MBTBM0o

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

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[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

31 U.S.C. § 5114 (engraving and printing of currency) says only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities.

Have a good day.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

JD Vance is outright LYING when he says Democrats are giving health care to illegal immigrants in our funding bill. How do I know? Because I wrote it!

Undocumented immigrants are NOT eligible for federal health care programs. But our bill DOES stop your premiums from doubling next year.

[Steve Martin @UnrealBluegrass]

We aren't learning.

[EBluvsDC @e_barrett]

Director of KS Eisenhower Library ousted after refusing to give Trump administration a sword to gift to Charles III https://t.co/HlCY2UVpPt

[EBluvsDC @e_barrett]

According to the sources cited in a Sept. 23 letter from the GA senators to #DHS Sec. Noem, at least 14 people have died in #ICE custody since January 2025. That's more than 1 per month. https://t.co/e15M6Zw5V9

[EBluvsDC @e_barrett]

Bessent says new Trump child savings accounts are 'back door for privatizing Social Security' https://t.co/teq8ii9fI1