Let’s take a moment to remember that #blm protests became violent when Trump ordered extreme force on protesters. Some taken in unmarked vans.
When he asked to send aid to cities slammed with COVID. He did nothing. He sent more violence.
Congress was attacked. He did nothing.
These project 2025 MF’s are gonna kill us. Science is not political. Evidence-based research. Peer-reviewed studies. These are not negotiable. What the hell is “conservative-based research”?
@Amonstersmom1 I will never understand this thought process. She's not even near the papers. Patrick hasn't shred ONE tear in court. Juors have had to be replaced for crying. Yet, no emotion from him - at all. It's bizarre!
@Lillyin_London He's trying to prove she was mentally unstable, it was not premeditated. Within that, the defense also showed that some searches were made while Lindsay was physically present at the pediatrician with her kids. They are showing reasonable doubt.
@Aluminaughtee Yes, a lot of reasonable doubt! MA's law enforcement failed to collect & document evidence. Yes, they were traumatized, but not questioning Patrick is wrong. He knew Lindsay was desperate for help! She admitted herself to a mental hospital multiple times & was denied/sent home.
Bulldozers sent by Trump have begun tearing up Big Bend National Park to build a border wall through the protected public land.
The Trump administration waived dozens of environmental laws to permit the construction.
NEW: New Yorkers have started a trend of tagging Mayor Zohran Mamdani to report problems around the city and the fixes are happening so quickly that the videos are going viral.
A dangerous playground hazard was repaired after a resident wrote a letter. A pothole was filled the same day it was posted online. And ahead of this week’s heat wave, the city installed temporary water fountains in Prospect Park.
The message from City Hall: no problem is too small to fix.
Elon's words are literally what an evil villain in a superhero movie would say.... No corporation could ever be worth the beauty this planet has... it's sad that so many corporations try to suffocate and kill that beauty by polluting this planet.
Parnas: How much money was funneled through these banks to Epstein?
Wyden: I think it’s certainly well over a billion dollars.
There’s also something that didn’t really get picked up yesterday. One of the things we pointed out yesterday is that Deutsche Bank failed to properly and promptly report to the Treasury Department more than $250 million in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein.
That is brand new. That is a staggering sum of money—$250 million. And I think it’s representative of what these banks did.
Their goal was to do virtually nothing at the time because they didn’t want to step on dirty money. Then, years later, they thought they could make it right by being retroactive.
Welp. It’s happening.
Bulldozers and heavy equipment arrived in Big Bend National Park today. The most rugged, pristine lands in the lower 48. Trump’s border wall is coming. CBP is refusing to inform residents, park superintendents, landowners, business owners, or Texas legislators what is happening. What we know is that they are now paving new roads where there were none, erecting fencing and walls to protect those roads, and then planning to install technology and border patrol agents in an area where close to zero people ever cross the border.
Ironically, depressingly, they will be spending billions of dollars to destroy this pristine American land while literally making it easier to access, which means easier for coyotes and border crossers to actually traverse the region if they wanted to. Before this, there were no roads, just desserts, cliffs, and cacti, which made it all but impassable.
A few miles upstream, the first border barriers the administration just erected were washed away in the first flood of the season — not even a bad one — but hundreds of millions of dollars wasted, literally floating down the Rio Grande. A few miles downstream, near Eagle Pass, razor wire and debris are washing up ashore from the first floods there, making this critical water source inaccessible for Texans or any wildlife enthusiasts.
Right now, as we speak, $4 billion is flowing to contractors in Trump’s orbit to cut Texans, including me and my family, off from the most critical water source in the state. All for what? Big Bend is 25% of the patrolled southwest border and accounts for less than 1% of all border crossings. Border towns, businesses, tourism — all about to be destroyed. Nevermind the irreversible wildlife damage, the feds stealing land from private citizens via eminent domain, and all the money wasted that could go to actual solutions to secure the border or support these communities.
Ever since I first visited my family here when I was 13 years old I wanted to make a life in West Texas. Three years ago, after so much hard work and planning, I spent my savings on building a home there. One I hoped my son would inherit. A home in one of the most beautiful, rugged, untouched, places in the country. Also one of the safest.
Now, everything that makes this special place special is being upended — for an illogical, wasteful, stupid plan that won't work and won't help the country.
A genuine gut punch. So depressing.