therese halbur

wife,mom, gmma, retired ped dr “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." – Orwell, "1984"

[COtoMD @co3blue]

@TheJFreakinC @cardon_brian Just a reminder. We have paid out $50 million because of ICE’s illegal behavior and there are more than 400 claims against ICE pending. When is enough enough? Where are our reps to stop this bullshit and wasteful spending?

[poeticsoul @scorpoetsoul]

@TheJFreakinC @JaneotN ABOLISH ICE and vote out @SenSusanCollins - she is directly responsible for this

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING UPDATE OUT OF MAINE: The man killed in the Biddeford, Maine ICE shooting has been identified as a 26-year-old Colombian man who was authorized to work in the United States and had been issued a Social Security number.

This wasn’t a “violent criminal.” This wasn’t even an undocumented immigrant.

This was someone who had legal authorization to live and work here.

So why was ICE trying to pull him over?

A witness also says he saw a large white vehicle ram the smaller vehicle, followed by a second impact… And heard gunshots.

He says he then saw an officer open the vehicle door, pull a man out with blood covering his head, and heard him say: “I tried to stop.”

ICE agents do not have the authority to stop whoever they want, give conflicting orders, escalate an encounter, and then use deadly force when that situation becomes chaotic.

If the government gives agents the power to carry weapons and take someone’s life, those agents have a responsibility to make sure they are acting within the law before they create a situation where someone can be killed.

A person’s rights do not disappear because an ICE agent decides to stop them.

Which means the question that must be answer is this…

Was this man killed because ICE created a dangerous situation that never should have happened?

Because when the government can put someone in a life-or-death situation, the question cannot only be whether the final seconds justified pulling the trigger.

We have to ask why this encounter was allowed to escalate in the first place.

[Warren @swd2]

They shot him, dragged his lifeless body onto the pavement, and handcuffed his corpse while his 3-year old daughter wearing Bluey pajamas watched in horror. If you say you voted for this you are an empty soulless vessel.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump just notified Congress that fighting with Iran has resumed, and in the same breath, he says the decision to keep this country at war is his alone.

That’s not how our Constitution works.

Article I, Section 8 gives Congress, not the president, the power to declare war. Hamilton spelled it out in Federalist 69. The whole point of distinguishing our president from a king was that the king could take the country to war on his own, and the president could not.

That power was given to the people’s representatives.

A president is Commander in Chief once we are in a conflict. That decides how a war is fought. It has never meant the president alone decides whether to wage one. Those are two different powers, and the framers split them deliberately so that no single person could march the nation into war.

That is why Congress passed the War Powers Resolution. When forces are sent into hostilities without authorization, the clock runs, and Congress must approve, or the fighting needs to stop.

No president gets to claim sole authority over war. Not this one, not any one. The framers feared exactly this. So they gave the decision to Congress, the branch closest to the people.

It is long past time for more of my Republican colleagues to wake up, cross the aisle, and help us put a stop to a claim of one man ruling over war and peace before the power Congress was given slips away for good.

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[Dream for America @DreamAmerica_]

THOMAS MASSIE: “It’s ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, & the White House -- and we're yelling 'election fraud'? We won all the damn elections.

What are we doing with that? We’re bankrupting the country. We’re starting new wars. We’re violating the Constitution. We’re not cracking down on the fraud. The problem is not the elections. We won the damn elections. The problem is that we’re wasting the opportunity voters gave us."

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

I know Susan Collins is pro-ICE, but you’d think she’d at least care enough to put out a statement when a victim is gunned down by ICE agents in her own backyard. Her silence today speaks volumes.

For shame.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

I’m the grandson of Mexican immigrants. They came here, they worked hard, and they built a family.

My grandmother was a lawful permanent resident her whole life.

My grandfather was 50 when he became a citizen. They followed the rules, they earned their place, and they paid what they owed every single year.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was on that same road.

He lived in this country for nearly 35 years. He built homes in Houston. He raised three sons, all American citizens. His family says he had no criminal record and had started the process of getting a work permit. On the morning of July 7, he was driving his construction crew to a job site when an ICE officer shot him during a traffic stop. He died at the hospital.

Here is what the government itself now admits.

DHS confirmed the officers were looking for someone else. Salgado Araujo was not the target. His brother, who was in the van, was not the target either. They stopped him because he drove a white van and, in their words, resembled the man they wanted.

ICE says he tried to run over an officer with his vehicle. But there is no body camera footage, because DHS confirms none of the officers were wearing one. There is no dashcam footage. And the three men riding in the van with him say the ICE account is false, that the van never veered toward any agent and that officers fired almost immediately.

You don’t need a position on immigration to see the problem.

Getting enforcement right and enforcing the law are not opposites. Body cameras, judicial warrants, and independent review protect honest officers and innocent people alike. They are how you prove the official account when it’s true and correct it when it’s not.
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[GBC @GBC_Press]

JUST IN: 🇺🇳🇮🇱 ​The United Nations announced that it evaluates what is happening in Gaza under the scope of genocide, highlighting that Israel is deliberately targeting children and infants.

​It took exactly three years to make this determination.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

The CDC under RFK Jr stopped tracking cases of cyclospora, a parasite that causes diarrhea

Now the case count, like the diarrhea it causes, is explosive

Thousands and thousands of cases across the US but no one is quite sure how many

What a shit show

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

It can be done. 👏👏👏

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🇺🇸Marco Rubio in MARCH: "Goal of the war is to change the regime."

🇺🇸Marco Rubio in APRIL: "Goal of the war is to stop 🇮🇷 Iran from making nukes."

🇺🇸Marco Rubio in JULY: "Goal of the war is to return everything 'back to the way it was,' including the Strait of Hormuz." 🤣

Americans have elected a bunch of clowns

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Dave Matthews: “This father and grandfather who was murdered by ICE in Houston, Texas. Then they say he’s not even the guy they were looking for. Well then don’t pull the trigger you assholes. It just makes me mad. I want to send this to the memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo”

[Critter @asclepiasyriaca]

"If you vote for me I will cut your energy and electricity prices in half within 12 months."

"We will cut your energy prices in half, within, mark it down, and you can get very angry if at me if we don't do it, within 12 months, your energy prices will be cut in half. "

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

This’s the face of the richest man on Earth who dismantled the organization that feeds the poorest children on earth, and the result is a silent massacres.

Elon Musk is the world's richest man who killed the world's poorest children.

Everyone in the world should see his face.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

💯💯💯🎯🎯

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Spot on.

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

Insurance denied my friend’s MRI last month.

Doctor ordered it. Said it was medically necessary.

Insurance said they needed more documentation.
Doctor sent more documentation.
Insurance said they needed a peer to peer review.

Peer to peer happened.

Insurance denied it again.
My friend paid $2,400 out of pocket.
The person who denied it was not a doctor.

Was not reviewed by a doctor.
Was an algorithm trained to find reasons to say no.

This is legal.
This is standard practice.

This happens 50,000 times a day in America.