Don’t let her con you. Susan Collins is the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee. She’s in charge of ICE funding. Collins voted for an ADDITIONAL $70 billion while they already received $170 billion and still had $95 billion in unobligated funds. Vote her out.
These elections coming up… don’t dick around voting for candidates that can’t win. Vote for Democrats. Vote BLUE from top to bottom. Don’t dick around and not vote either ffs! Got it!?
When I was a judge at the Department of Labor, black lung cases were the biggest part of my docket. Miners applying for black lung benefits are entitled to a hearing within close proximity to where they live, so I traveled to coal country regularly to provide them their day in court.
Often, the miner would enter the hearing room pulling along a portable oxygen tank to aid with breathing. I watched some who’d have to stop for a minute and catch their breath as they walked a hundred feet or so from the parking lot to the building. Sometimes it was the widow of a miner who showed up for the hearing because the miner died before his case could be heard.
Trump calling it the “beautiful clean coal industry” is like calling the current explosive diarrhea epidemic a “delightful colon evacuation opportunity.” From the deadly coal dust inside the mines to the toxic coal ash residue leftover after it’s burned, there’s nothing beautiful or clean about coal at any point in the process.
When the Black Lung Benefits Act was first enacted, it established a presumption in favor of the miners if they could prove they worked at least 15 years in the mines and had a totally disabling lung condition. When Reagan was President, the presumption in favor of the miners was abolished and the balance shifted in favor of the coal companies who were trying to avoid paying benefits. The presumption in favor of the miners was restored in the Affordable Care Act thanks to Senator Robert Byrd. When I used to write black lung decisions I would note that it was Obamacare that shifted the burden back in favor of the miners and made it harder for the coal companies to avoid paying benefits to the men that coal mining left disabled.
The condition that the father and son in the article have, progressive massive fibrosis, is called complicated pneumoconiosis. It’s incurable and it’s not a question of will it kill you, it’s a question of how fast you’ll die. It gets harder and harder to breathe as the scarring in the lungs increases and you’ll feel like you’re suffocating as you struggle to draw a breath. Eventually, you’ll suffer respiratory failure and then you’re gone.
Trump likes to throw around the word “hoax.” Well, hoax is the right word to describe so called “clean coal.” It’s also the right word to describe Trump’s claim that he loves coal miners.
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"Administration cannot cherry-pick information from our nation's intelligence.. agencies to justify attacks on voting rights while refusing to show the American people the full records"
Watchdog group Democracy Forward sues for electronic messages from these Trump officials:
Senate Republicans, this is the crap you pretend will not happen when Trump nominees sit in front of you and lie. And you know they are lying. The DHS secretary has NO role to play in our elections. You know that too.
“Mandatory” my ass!
BREAKING: Shocking new reporting shows that the ICE agent who murdered Johan Guerrero in Maine is “extremely mentally ill” and has a LONG history of violence, including brutally beating his wife and kids and throwing boiling water at his infant child, but was given a badge and a gun anyway!
They’re hiring the worst of the worst…
There’s no wonder why people are getting shot if this is the quality of person that ICE is putting on the street in their Gestapo squads.
Ashley Brouillette, the ex-wife of ICE killer David Brouillette, revealed his deeply disturbing past to the media after he called her and asked her to lie for him. She would not.
She revealed that he “once threw boiling water at her while she was holding their child,” which was confirmed by her mother Avis Collins.
His SECOND ex-wife – red flag right there – “alleged that he had stalked and harassed her and physically and verbally abused his daughter, according to multiple requests for temporary protection orders. Brouillette tackled his teenage daughter and smashed spaghetti in her hair, and during another outburst, he dragged his daughter around the house as she cried, she said.”
He once left his ex-wife a voicemail that said “And all of you should have your f——–g throats cut. Yeah, you should. Am I threatening that I’m gonna do that? Nope. Nope. But do I think that you should have your f——-g throats cuts? Or should have had them cut? Yep.”
A relative said that David was “extremely mentally ill” and said he attempted suicide twice at age 12 and was hospitalized multiple times. His daughter said that she came home from school once and he told her he had been sitting on a tree stump with a gun to his head.
This is the kind of person that Donald Trump is giving a gun to and sending out on the street to terrorize innocent people. It just goes to show that they are doing ZERO vetting and don’t care at ALL about who dies as a consequence.
David Brouillette needs to face justice for murdering Johan – but so does everyone up the chain who put him in a position to kill, because this man should NEVER have been allowed anywhere near a firearm.
🎯 @chrislhayes: “Every day it gets clearer Trump wants to 1/6 the midterms… he does not believe in free & fair elections… he wants to use any means at his disposal to retain power regardless of what the voters say…”
The correct reaction to his speech. Time to wake up.
The Constitution is clear: states run elections
Now Mullin says states lose security funding unless they purge voters through a system a court already blocked
They want to coerce states before the midterms, but we will not let them
Free & fair elections are non-negotiable
They spread bullshit lies about Pizzagate
They spread bullshit lies about the 2020 election
They spread bullshit lies about the Epstein Files
They spread bullshit lies about the economy
They spread bullshit lies about the Iran war
They spread bullshit lies about Mitch McConnell
They spread bullshit lies about crowd sizes
They spread bullshit lies about vaccines
They spread bullshit lies about drug prices
They spread bullshit lies about eating cats and dogs
They spread bullshit lies about immigrants and crime
They lie about everything, and you MAGA dipshits believe it.
🚨BREAKING: Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced Friday that the Trump administration would continue to withhold election security support from states unless they use a faulty federal database to maintain their voter rolls. https://t.co/a24lodzOCF