This should make everyone terrified. I've been following this for a few years now. About halfway down the page are numbers for 2020/2021. Few people realize the repugs have been at their fvckery for decades. Pass it along.
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Pregnant girls as young as 13 are being held in a remote Texas immigration facility while a member of Congress (Rep. Maxine Dexter) says she was blocked from speaking to them. Some of these pregnancies are the result of rape.
This is one of the most horrifying immigration stories right now in the USA.
How many pregnant children are there? Where are these girls coming from? Where are they being sent? Are they getting real prenatal care? Do they have access to proper legal representation? Are newborn babies being ripped out of their mother's arms? Why are members of Congress being blocked from speaking with them?
No agency should be able to hide where vulnerable kids are being sent. We need to free these children and give them healthcare, lawyers, family reunification, and safety.
This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.
The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.
And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.
Record-breaking temperatures.
A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.
The response?
Yank out the instruments and walk away.
That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.
For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.
The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.
That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv
Breaking NYT:
Trump just pardoned Stephen E. Buyer, a former Republican representative from Indiana who was convicted of insider trading in 2023. https://t.co/k4fOt4Zi1A
RFKjr congratulates himself on "containing" measles. (Self congratulation is a familiar maga sound bite.) In reality, the U.S. measles cases just surpassed 2,000 cases for the second year in a row!
Reporter: How much oil have you gotten through the straight with the help of naval escorts?
Trump: A lot. I don't want to say how many. A lot of oil is coming into the world that people don't even know about. And that's why it's at $97 a barrel instead of $300 a barrel.
Trump's Agriculture Secretary claims farmers are better off today than 2 years ago. (Farm bankruptcies have more than doubled over the last 2 years.) Someone better run right out and tell farmers that they are really better off. (Honest! And now she's got a bridge to sell you!)
RFK Jr: "The CDC has done an amazing job at getting the measles outbreak under control"
(U.S. measles cases just surpassed 2,000 for the second year in a row)
@factpostnews The Permian basin, accounting for half of US oil production, is an ecological disaster. It will never be cleaned up. There is a reason why the refuge has been off limits.
“The Trump administration had plans to classify 2.7 million living people — including some U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents — as dead as part of its immigration enforcement efforts” https://t.co/cT8R7DS3C4
After roughly 19 hours straight of voting, GOP leaders fend off amendments targeting $1.8B DOJ fund. 52-47, Senate passes $70B ICE/CBP bill after weeks of internal wrangling.
House takes up bill next week.
Vulnerable Rs fell in line. Murkowski was a NO
https://t.co/rnBV5tyFwM
🚨 BREAKING: Republicans have introduced a new REAL ID bill that could help them revive parts of the anti-voting SAVE America Act and bypass the Senate.
The SAVE America Act may be stalled, but the GOP’s push to make voting harder isn’t.
https://t.co/3YtLVHMxQv