🪷Wendy L. Temple

Southern liberal banshee! KHive!

This machine blocks fascists.

#fibromyalgia
#disability

[🪷Wendy L. Temple @temple_winds]

@IAmSophiaNelson The man is totally a sociopath.

[Sophia A. Nelson @IAmSophiaNelson]

My senior citizen parent who lives with me is on Medicare. If she were to lose benefits and her social security, that falls on me to pay her medical and living expenses. Too many Americans cannot do that. It would bankrupt families and leave sick seniors uncovered. NOT OKAY!

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: A U.S. citizen was riding his bike in Laredo, Texas… when Border Patrol agents pulled alongside him and illegally tried to block him in.

When he kept riding, they chased him down, physically grabbed him by the arm, and immediately started demanding identification and asking where he was from.

He told them he born in Laredo, Texas.

But that was not good enough.

The agent asked, “What high school did you go to?”

He answered that, too… and they still kept demanding ID, over and over again.

The Fourth Amendment exists for a reason. In America, law enforcement don’t get to randomly stop people, physically grab them, and demand identification because they feel like it.

Being on a bike isn’t a crime.

You also don’t have to carry an ID on you unless you are operating a motor vehicle… which he was not.

So, demanding an ID, without probable cause, is illegal.

And the cherry on top? When the man went to use his phone, an agent tried to stop him by grabbing it… apparently unaware the entire encounter was already being recorded by his glasses.

If Border Patrol can stop an American born citizen riding his bike, demand his papers, and put their hands on him without stating a lawful reason… every American should be paying attention.

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

Palantir's investors have rejected proposals for independent human-rights reviews of their work with ICE, DHS, police forces, and militaries.

The proposals were filed by faith-based investors like the Presbyterian Church and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, and they requested transparent human rights impact assessments regarding the company's contracts.

These were modest proposals that were asking for independent reviews of human-rights risks. They weren't calling to abolish any contracts, or switch up the business model, or anything like that... but even the bare minimum is too much.

[🪷Wendy L. Temple @temple_winds]

@davenewworld_2 How dare they get federal funding with no oversight or transparency?

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: We're suing the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service over their plan to give away 715 acres of a public wildlife refuge to billionaire corporation Space X.

We shouldn't be sacrificing our cherished public lands to subsidize a company owned by the richest man in the world.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Todd Blanche’s central qualification for Attorney General is that he served as Donald Trump’s criminal defense lawyer.

That is the exact reason he should not have the job.

Some will point to Robert F. Kennedy Sr., whom President Kennedy made Attorney General despite being his brother and campaign manager. The comparison fails where it counts. RFK Sr. was unmistakably loyal to his brother, but he had never been his brother’s defense lawyer in criminal cases brought by the very department he would go on to lead.

That is precisely the line Blanche crosses.

He did not advise Trump on policy or run his campaign. He stood between Trump and federal prosecutors in matters of the same kind the Department of Justice pursues every day.

A lawyer owes a former client lasting duties of confidentiality and loyalty on the matters he handled. Those duties do not expire when he changes offices. They mean Blanche carries live professional obligations to Trump that can run directly against the interests of the Department he now heads.

Personal loyalty can be set aside by an honest person.

A binding attorney-client privilege cannot simply be willed away.

The Attorney General does not work for the president. He works for the people of the United States, and his duty is to enforce the law without fear or favor, including when the law points straight at the president or those around him. The office exists so the nation’s top law enforcement officer can say no to the White House. The man who recently defended the president against federal charges cannot be expected to do this.

A president is entitled to a cabinet that shares his agenda. He is not entitled to erase the line between his own legal jeopardy and the interests of the country.

So the question before the Senate is not whether Blanche is loyal to Trump.

The question is whether a man who built much of his career defending Trump in court can turn around and hold Trump accountable under the law, while still bound by the duties he owes a former client.

The burden is on the nominee to prove he can. Blanche has spent his time in office signaling the opposite.

When the Attorney General is seen as the president’s lawyer rather than the nation’s, faith in equal justice breaks entirely. A senator can fully respect the president’s right to choose his cabinet and still refuse to confirm Blanche.

The Senate should wholeheartedly reject this nomination. https://t.co/LHxH0OJZ7i

[Nicole Minét @mouvement33]

On August 30, 2015, @MotherJones published an article about Trump Modeling Management, which was Trump's modeling agency for underage girls that was active from 1999-2017.

Trump Model Management built a systematic machine of exploitation: luring aspiring models from around the world with false promises of stardom, then trapping them in a web of abuse. Girls as young as 14 were placed on tourist visas and told to lie to customs, packed into overpriced bunk-bed apartments, buried under fees that stole up to 80% of their earnings, and left broke despite promised six-figure contracts. This wasn't a few bad deals — it was the business model. One model described it as modern-day slavery.

I would say this business is a blueprint for the Tate Brothers' business of owning and exploiting underage girls by trafficking them in the porn industry. Both Trump and the Tates are basically doing the same thing, luring women, trapping them in a foreign country, and sexually exploiting them mercilessly under false pretenses while robbing them for all they're worth.
https://t.co/WDCYit3o1s.

[Rep. Lauren Underwood @RepUnderwood]

ICYMI: My bipartisan amendment to block the Trump Admin from cutting off nurses’ access to student loans passed our committee unanimously this week. America needs more nurses, and I will not stand by while Trump attacks our profession.

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

This week, DHS waived every one of our nation's most important environmental laws to bulldoze new border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park. This marks the first time in U.S. history these laws have been waived in a national park.

With these laws gutted and a $1.7 billion construction contract already issued, very little stands in the way of DHS contractors plowing into the park, permanently destroying countless archeological sites, blocking off river access and turning this peaceful national park into an industrial construction zone.

We will continue to fight this project every step of the way... more on that soon.

Audio from NPR's fantastic Studio 1A program, which aired across the country last week.

[🪷Wendy L. Temple @temple_winds]

@snackvampire @sethharpesq Great film!

[Cat Herding Science Nerd 🔬 @catladyactivist]

@JasonBassler1 Zuckerberg lies like a rug and always has. Is anyone surprised? I'm sure not. Keep sharing this until people understand what we're up against.

[Drew P. Sack (Skeptical/Suspicious) @LocumRex]

By the way, these data centers will only be a thing for about 20 years. Eventually, the technology will catch up and there will be no use for these Leviathan structures.

Musk is already working on a data center in outer space. And technology will eventually come to a point where we do not need cooling or space that is required today.

Meanwhile… we will have these gargantuan, empty husks of a building scattered all across the country. Entire towns will be built around them. Entire infrastructure will be built to support them. And eventually, I’m a long enough timeline within one generation they will be abandoned.

I hope you’re all planning for the shadow left in its wake. Because that’s what’s coming.

[SkriptkeeperElect @Skriptkeeper17]

They are lying about the data centers.

[deedee @deedeebou]

Oh look, everyone. It's the religion studies man who wrote the terrible Wired article about using brain retraining for actual medical illness.

SOOPRISE SOOPRISE, he's promoting his book on the subject. 🙄

No wonder he's full of absolute crap. It's $$$$$

May karma find you.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Billionaires do not create wealth. Workers create wealth. Billionaires capture it.
They steal workers wealth and convince people that they've worked hard for the billions they've stolen from the workers.

[Daisy @DaizyZeeX]

FACT: Female victims who kill in SELF DEFENSE will spend an average of 15 years behind bars

Men who kill their female partners serve ,on average, between 2 and 6 years behind bars...

[Daisy @DaizyZeeX]

Men will say “she knew what she was doing” about a 14-year-old girl but “he made a mistake” about a grown man.
That’s not confusion. That’s misogyny.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

able-bodied persons had better wake up to the (inevitable) fact that if they/we live long enough, we will be disabled; & if we live longer, we will be severely disabled. this MAGA/GOP war against "disabled" persons is actually terrifying.
you may think that you are 100% healthy but, face it, you are one bloodwork or CAT-scan away from un-healthy. one hour in your life can alter it forever.

have some sympathy for the disabled & what this administration is threatening before it is too late.

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

Death threats against me. A subpoena from Congress. Interviews cancelled and censored. A source indicted. Witnesses killed. Read the book that the corrupt national security state and criminal actors within it have fought tooth and nail to suppress. Now available in paperback.