Michael Valdes

[Kevin Maley @KevinAMaley]

Illegal colonists who are violently stealing Palestinian land held up a U.S. congressman at gunpoint. You’d think this would be on the front page of every paper

[Elisabeth Potter MD @EPotterMD]

Another peer-to-peer call.

The reviewer was kind. Really kind.

But, respectfully, not my peer.

He listened as I explained why my patient needs lymphovenous bypass surgery. It’s a surgery that can treat the painful swelling in her arm caused by breast cancer treatment and prevent it from getting worse.

She has done everything right. Compression. Therapy. Expensive garments. She’s changed her life to spend an hour a day with every resource she can afford. It’s affecting her ability to work as a nurse.

And she is getting worse.

This is the window where we can fix it. Early enough that surgery can actually change the course.

We can do this surgery outpatient. Two hours. CMS even has a code for it.

The man on the phone agreed it would help her… But he couldn’t approve it… Because he’s not a plastic surgeon and doesn’t have the specific knowledge necessary to make this recommendation.

He gave me the help he felt he could. He told me to appeal and told me not to expedite it, because that wouldn’t work in my favor.

Every human involved in this case knows what we should do. But the system is inhumane.

[Pat Ellington Jr. @tangible_uno]

There were 215 unmarked graves discovered on the property of a Mississippi county jail because of this woman’s search for her missing son: https://t.co/YsUb3PeveK

[Daniel Cadena Jordan @dcadenajordan]

Ondřej Satoria, pitcher de Chequia esta semana, pero usualmente un electricista en su país, recibió una ovación al ser sustituido tras dejar en blanco a Japón por 4.2 innings.

El béisbol es literalmente esto: Reconocimiento a la entrega.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: DHS agents are now illegally arresting U.S. citizens at airports… and trafficking them across state lines.

A 28-year-old U.S. citizen, Sunny Naqvi, was detained by DHS, for 43 hours, after landing at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.

She wasn’t charged with a crime, and she wasn’t accused of doing anything illegal…

Agents reportedly detained her over what they called a “curious travel history.”

Even though Sunny was born in Illinois…they still disappeared her.

After being held for about 30 hours inside the airport, agents secretly moved Sunny to an ICE detention facility in Broadview, Illinois.

While this was happening, federal agents repeatedly told her family she was NOT in custody, even though her phone location showed she was inside the facility.

Then it gets worse.

According to witnesses, agents asked for Sunny’s phone number so they could “look for her phone.”

Minutes later, the phone was opened, her messages were read, and the device was shut off, cutting off the family’s ability to track her.

After that, agents transported the U.S. citizen across state lines, to another detention facility in Dodge County, Wisconsin.

And then she was eventually released early Saturday morning… in a random state, alone.

Her phone was dead, and she had no transportation.

So, a U.S. citizen detained by the federal government had to hitchhike to a hotel, just to be able to reunite with her family.

And this is what people need to understand…

When federal agents can detain U.S. citizens without charges… lie to families about their custody, search personal phones, and secretly transport people across state lines…

That puts every single American in danger.

Because they can do it to anyone.

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

The only reason to bomb anything 40 min apart is to kill the rescuers. Doing that to an elementary school is beyond depraved. The United States is the most evil entity on the planet

[Adam Gaffney @awgaffney]

Even in the setting of a just war — which this war is absolutely not — I would find such puerile, callous zeal for killing stomach-turning. We are led by truly sick people with no decency and little regard for human life.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

JUST TO BE CLEAR, AMERICA IS MASSIVELY UNDER-REACTING TO A SITTING US SENATOR BREAKING THE ARM OF A MARINE SPEAKING OUT AGAINST TRUMP'S ILLEGAL IRAN WAR.....🤬

[cosmic jester @cosmicjester]

The hardest part of a limited two week military engagement is the first six years.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The leaders of America do not care about its people.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Reminder: If Bernie's Social Security bill was signed into law, Social Security would be solvent for the next 75 years, benefits would go up by $2,400 & the bottom 91% of Americans would not pay a penny more in taxes.

Instead, Dr. Oz wants you to work until you drop dead.

[AT @primediscussion]

30x difference over 4 decades. This is a lesson in branding and how perception can persist in the face of reality.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

"If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, that's not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They haven't pulled the knife out; they won't even admit that it's there." —Malcolm X

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Private prisons are criticizing ICE on their investor calls for not filling up their prisons fast enough.

Your reminder that ICE is a for-profit industry — and the companies profiting are big campaign donors to the politicians voting to fund them.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@jamestalarico: I've had a lot of interviews with national media. No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. No one's asked me about the cost of prescription drugs. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.

The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. Undocumented people are 1% of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1%.

Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare. Undocumented people aren't defunding our schools. It's the billionaires and their puppet politicians.

[‏ً @BALUCIAGA]

do not let the government fool you. they absolutely do owe you functioning systems, they owe you clean water, they owe you access to housing, they owe you opportunities to work, they owe you dignity. that’s within their constitutional mandate, that’s their purpose and their duty.

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

No one is above the law. Unless they write the laws or are friends with the people who write the laws. Or are part of the club that enforces the laws or have enough money to buy the laws. Basically, anyone with power or money is above the law. Except you. You must comply or die.

[Tired Peasant @HorrorGorl]

Let me be very clear. If bringing down the largest child sex trafficking ring in history will “collapse the world as we know it” then the world as we know it needs to collapse.

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

HOT TAKE: nobody in 1975 needed a budget app, a financial coach, and a side hustle to afford a two bedroom apartment. this isn’t a personal finance problem. it’s a wage theft problem.