Matt Witkowski

Metaphysician of Memetic Epidemiology & Psychodynamics

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: IT'S MURDER! Death of a 31-year-old woman dropped by ICE at a Pittsburgh bus stop in freezing weather with no coat ruled a homicide!

The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office has ruled the death by hypothermia of Haitian immigrant Daphy Michel, who spent more than 30 hours shivering at a Pittsburgh bus stop after being dumped by ICE, a homicide.

Three days earlier, Michel had been in Washington County Jail on misdemeanor charges that a judge dismissed. Her family was waiting to pick her up in Charleroi – just a 40-minute drive away.

But because ICE had placed a detainer on her, instead of releasing her to loved ones, authorities handed her over to immigration enforcement.

ICE fitted her with an ankle monitor, put her in their “Alternatives to Detention” program, and then dropped her off on the South Side of Pittsburgh, far from home, in February cold, wearing only light clothing. She never made it back.

“When you release someone like that that far from home, it’s a recipe for disaster,” Her attorney Joseph Murphy said. “She would have been in her own environment. She wouldn’t have been sitting around a bus stop [with no coat] in February, and she’d be alive now.”

The death at the hands of ICE was no accident. It was the direct result of cold, bureaucratic cruelty, with immigration officials choosing enforcement theater over basic human decency.

County Executive Sara Innamorato said the death was “a tragedy that appears that with a little humanity, it could have been completely avoidable.”

After the death, friends and family gathered at the bus stop where she died and held a vigil for her (photo, right).

This horror is part of a pattern under Trump’s ICE that hasn’t dissipated since the agency has fallen from the headlines: they still treat people as disposable, and appear to get perverse satisfaction making life as difficult as possible for the people they harass, like dropping vulnerable individuals in unfamiliar places with no support.

Michel didn’t deserve to die alone in the cold on a bench because the system cared more about optics than people. Her death should haunt every official who signed off on this cruel process. Each one should be worried about the pendulum of justice swinging in their direction now that the ruling is official.

If this preventable, heartbreaking tragedy makes you furious, like and share this post.

No one should die abandoned in brutal winter's cold because ICE decided their life didn’t matter.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

The Kennedy Center is BACKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!

[WATT @WATT499663]

@NormEisen Trump's legacy has already been written. and putting his name on a building beside president Kennedy will not make people see him any different than what they see him now.He is the worst president in history and that is all he will ever be.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

I don’t want to jump to conclusions but I’m starting to think he doesn’t like Black people.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

THANK YOU TO THE PEOPLE WHO BLESSED MSG TODAY TO GET THE STANK VIBES OUT YOUR SERVICE IS APPRECIATED

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Trump's failed economic agenda is raising costs and draining your paychecks.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

Trump booed loudly at the NBA FINALS!

[TravelRN4U 👩🏻‍⚕️💝🩺🌎 @TravelRN4U]

@OccupyDemocrats I💙NYC

Narcissistic psychopathic prick INSERTS himself where he is NOT wanted.

Sound familiar? 🤔

#TrumpBooed 🤣👏🏻

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump issues desperate outburst demanding Republicans fire the senate parliamentarian just so he can get money for his stupid ballroom!

In a deranged Truth Social rant, Donald Trump is demanding that Senate Majority Leader John Thune immediately fire Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough– the nonpartisan official who interprets the rules – simply because she keeps blocking his pet projects from sneaking through via budget reconciliation.

Trump raged that MacDonough is a “Radical Left Lunatic” who “treats Republicans horribly” and is a “nasty holdover” from the Obama and McConnell eras. He even invoked Harry Reid, who left the Senate nearly a decade ago.

“Senate Majority Leader John Thune should immediately fire the Parliamentarian, who treats Republicans, and everything that they stand for, horribly!” Trump raged. “She was put there by then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Barack Hussein Obama, need I say more? She is a nasty holdover from Mitch McConnell.

“She is known as a Radical Left Lunatic that caters to Democrats, and has no respect for Republicans, or Republican Ideology… We have every right to change her, and should do so, IMMEDIATELY!”
Trump never mentions her by name, which we suspect was because he didn’t even want to attempt to spell “MacDonough.” Too many vowels, lol.

He’s furious that MacDonough recently ruled against him on multiple items from his wish list, especially funding for his risible White House ballroom-and-bunker project.

In his usual style, Trump is attacking someone who cares about enforcing basic rules of American governance. Those darn checks and balances that prevent him from ramming through whatever he wants with a simple 51-vote majority.

Trump doesn’t care that the Senate Parliamentarian is supposed to be nonpartisan, or even believe it's possible for someone to not be so ideologically aligned with one position or another that the outcome is all that matters, rules and procedures be damned.

He’s trying to drain the swamp, alright, to Trump that means getting rid of any of the institutional guardrails that prevent immediate implementation of his radical, divisive, and destructive agenda.

Kudos to Ms. MacDonough. She is a footsoldier in the fight against Trump becoming an authoritarian dictator, his life’s final ambition, by rigging the Senate rules.

[Gregory Haynes @pointofsucces]

“For some reason he couldn’t get his arm up”. I don’t care what your political affiliation, John McCain BLED for this Country. He was tortured and the injuries incurred the resulting disabilities? Were for this Country. For that he deserves our gratitude and respect. If Trump can’t acknowledge that then it’s best he says nothing at all.

[Michael Cleere @mikecleere]

@hwinkler4real Trump is always oblivious to others pain and suffering, and how dare Trump slander John McCain for saving our healthcare. How can any veteran still support Trump?
WTF is wrong with you guys?

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Pay attention.

Late last night the Trump-packed Supreme Court issued an UNSIGNED order to help Republicans erase Black voters and keep a congressional seat.

The Court's legitimacy is earned and they are burning it to the ground.

MAGA is rigging our democracy in real time!

[Hakeem Jeffries @RepJeffries]

We cannot trust the Trump administration to abolish their corrupt $1.8 billion slush fund.

Congress must kill it by legislation.

Permanently.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

Trump LOST his war with Iran, and he's losing the negotiations to end his war.

America can easily afford healthcare for every American.

First, we have to stop blowing up our tax dollars

#FundHealthcareNotWar

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

We obviously can't take Todd Blanche at his word. Democrats and Republicans must join together to pass our bill to shut down Trump’s slush fund permanently (FOREVER!) and block any future presidential schemes to steer federal settlement money to themselves or private militias composed of cop-beaters and insurrectionists.

Even after the slush fund is crushed, Blanche's dirty deal will still include a Super Pardon for President Trump, his family members and all their businesses from criminal, civil and administrative prosecution for all offenses committed so far. How can he remain the top law enforcement officer for the American people when he's giving a bottomless stack of 'get out of jail free cards' to a lawless president and his family?

[Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra]

Because Congress is complicit.
VOTE THEM OUT.

[Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra]

Americans are failing in a big way. We need to turn this around pronto.

[Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra]

Amen.

[Leslie @Lesliesusan2023]

@hwinkler4real It’s really challenging to live through this Administration and the way he and his goons have divided our Country.

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

And … and … on and on