Love this and the entire thread! Hi from Philly where Soul Harmony opens tonight. Alycee and I are going together. Then Friday the 29th she and prettyfoot have organized a TOD mini-meetup with Nancie and Terri too. So excited!!
Just spotted President Obama’s message for World Refugee Day. Profound, loving, and inspirational. His voice represents the “open arms” that OUR COUNTRY must represent, again.
Obviously, others are marking the day with many “new causes,” including the families who are being separated at OUR border … not Mexico’s border … OUR border.
On this World Refugee Day, the stakes for refugees have never been higher. Please join us, African Communities Together (ACT) and the City of Refuge Coalition tonight at 5:30pm as we march to stop the refugee ban and keep children and families together. https://t.co/1FL5s0ftDwpic.twitter.com/hktkhSEDAe
"Are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents’ arms, or are we a nation that values families, and works to keep them together?" pic.twitter.com/AeyM2Qyxfz
BREAKING NEWS
Michael Bloomberg plans to spend $80 million on the midterms to help Democrats take control of the House
Wednesday, June 20, 2018 1:13 PM EST
Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has decided to throw his political clout and personal fortune behind the Democratic campaign to take control of the House of Representatives this year, directing aides to spend tens of millions of dollars in an effort to expel Republicans from power.
ICE lied, told flight attendants the kids were a soccer team. They weren't. Now this flight attendant won't work when the US transports children away from their parents. "I might as well have been a collaborator on their transport." https://t.co/BM5BCIjHTY#EndFamilySeparationpic.twitter.com/QZ61DmSC5I
The world must not allow @realDonaldTrump to continue with his maddness. In the middle of the #WM2018, I call every leader and every citizen to make a stand against this xenophobic and hateful turd. The world needs to come together, he's targeting everything and everyone.
— Vicente Fox Quesada (@VicenteFoxQue) June 19, 2018
This monstruosity that came to power a year and a half ago is destroying everything that was once great. It got there by lying and cheating. It even has a name: @realDonaldTrump, and I hope the U.S. are strong enough to put an end to its madness. https://t.co/z02eeGVtTf
— Vicente Fox Quesada (@VicenteFoxQue) June 20, 2018
NEW: United Airlines CEO asks federal officials not to "transport immigrant children on United aircraft who have been separated from their parents," calling separation policy in "deep conflict" with company's mission.
Didn’t realize you’d already posted this … what great news from United and American. It’s got to be a FIRST – at least I don’t recall this ever happening before.
I finally decided to direct my contributions via ActBlue; easy to do (I have donated before) and the major organizations helping in this effort for long periods of time are listed. Your donation can be evenly divided between groups or specified for a particular one. Thanks Nerdy for providing all of this information. Even doing something as small as donating so that others can do the work more effectively, gives an outlet for some of the rage and horror.
Short answer: they don’t. Most arrive at destinations 1000s of miles away with no follow up documentation, no points of contact. Imagine babies with no one to advocate for them, no papers or birth certificates, no nothing, crying uncontrollably. This is unimaginably inhumane.
Here is a pic I just took at the McAllen airport of seven young boys of detained parents being transported out of the area by handlers via AA flt 5772 to DFW. Who knows where they are going from there. Sending children 1000 miles away from their parents is a disgrace. #Outraged pic.twitter.com/zrqdIFnsWY— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) June 20, 2018
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I gotta take the afternoon off from this crap! Won’t stop me from thinking of the little children, but will free up a little space in my head to pray for them. See y’all later. Keep fighting the good fight. #GoodTrouble
ALL of the parents and ALL of the children who were snatched from their loving arms need to be brought to ONE location NOW, so they can be reunited. This is DOABLE, ffs. And no one should trust a bleeping word in trump's EO. We must stand ready to verify anything and everything.
President Obama: "Are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents’ arms?"…"Do we look away or do we choose to see something of ourselves and our children?" #KeepFamiliesTogetherpic.twitter.com/qXjuSTA3lo
In a new lawsuit, immigrant children detained at a government-funded facility in Texas described being forcibly drugged with psychotropic medicines that made them dizzy and unable to walk.
Reveal reported Wednesday that minors held at the Shiloh Treatment Center in Manvel, Texas — described in its Google+ listing as a “baby gulag” — were physically abused and given shots of “powerful” psychiatric medications that “rendered them unable to walk, afraid of people and wanting to sleep constantly.”
In the affidavits, the children and their parents said workers at the facility told them they would not be allowed to leave or see their parents if they didn’t take the medicine, which was administered via shots. The children were allegedly told the shots were “vitamins.”
“The supervisor told me I was going to get a medication injection to calm me down,” one girl said. “Two staff grabbed me, and the doctor gave me the injection despite my objection and left me there on the bed.”
According to one mother, her child “fell repeatedly, hitting her head, and ended up in a wheelchair.” Another “described trying to open a window and being hurled against a door by a Shiloh supervisor, who then choked her until she fainted.”
TRUMP’S FAMILY SEPARATION LEVERAGE SCHEME ENDS IN DEFEAT (politicus.usa)
Trump caves and says he’ll sign something.
““We want to keep families together. It’s very important. I’ll be signing something in a little while that’s going to do that. And the people in this room want to do that and they’re working on various pieces of legislation to get it done. But I’ll be doing something that’s somewhat preemptive but ultimately we’ll be matched by legislation, I’m sure.”
(Let’s expose any lie he tells about Democrats right away.)
Unfortunately for the children who will forever bare the scars of separation (even if they eventually end up back with their parents), Trump’s evil policy was reversed too late. The damage this policy has already done should never be forgotten or minimized. We must hold Republicans responsible for the actions of their Leader. And we need to hold investigations into what is happening with the snatched children and what is being done to reunite them with loved ones. Trump’s caving to pressure doesn’t make everything okay.
from Trump bunker, DHS fires at airlines refusing to fly migrant kids separated from families: “unfortunate @AmericanAir , @united, and @FlyFrontier no longer want to partner w/brave men-women of DHS. clearly do not understand immigration laws. Buckling to false media narrative"
Here is a ltr from my client Lilian, in custody, to her 7 yr old daughter Britany (in pic with mom long ago). Lilian has no idea where they took Britany and ICE will not tell her. Lilian is about to be deported without her daughter, who she fears she will never see again. pic.twitter.com/sv8xszlHu5
“ICE will not tell her.” Does this mean they DO know? And that she could find out where her daughter has been taken?
TRUMP must agree not to deport parents without their children going forward.
In this day and age of technology, give me a break. It would be easy to keep track of the hostage children. First you would have to give a damn….. The age of Donald, the age of third world, low intelligence, rabid people. Steven Miller looks like he is a reincarnated Nazi oven boss.
My son and I hung out together this morning, we went to get haircuts and then we went out to lunch. I would give up my life trying to stop someone if they tried to take him from me. But for a moment change the variable to include I’m migrating to a new country for a better life for my family, I don’t speak the language of the new country I’m going to, and my children are taken from me by men with guns and they won’t tell me where they’re taking them. What would I do then?
Yes, that is true Jojo. For decades the children of slaves were taken from their parents and sold to other slave owners. And Native American children were forcibly sent off to boarding schools. And those are the only instances I can think of at this moment because I am so upset by all this. America has a long history of actions like these against minorities and the powerless. It is not something new. It is our history, only this time, thanks to social media, it cannot be hidden. And this time, because we are aware of it, we can change it.
Children crying out for their “mamita”; mocking a child with down-syndrome; “Tender-Age” detention centers for babies & toddlers; children in cages…. It seems like ages ago some were clutching their pearls and condemning the cruelty of a comedian’s joke about smoky eye make-up.
Frontier prides itself on being a family airline and we will not knowingly allow our flights to be used to transport migrant children away from their families. At this time, we are not aware if Frontier has been used for this purpose.
One child's prescription cocktail included Latuda, Geodon, Olanzapine, Benztropin, Clonazepam, Divalproex, Duloxetine, and Guanfacine. https://t.co/aRJZ6iou6h
Effng hell. This would kill a horse. Who had the authority to administer the drugs and who provided them? This harks back to shock therapy and psychotropics given to birthing mothers who remembered nothing. Experimenting with children? Trump should expect EVERY ACCUSATION and never ending criminal actions brought against him for these disgusting Crimes Against Humanity.
Since the new Trump EO says its "maintain family unity" policy only applies "to the extent permitted by law," and the admin claims the law does not allow them to maintain family unity, did anything actually just change?https://t.co/s0IWvXIj9y
A reminder…Trump lost, and lost badly today. This was a PR, political, legal, and moral disaster and it's unspeakably awful for him.
Also, Manafort is still in jail, Michael Cohen is ready to squeal, and the dumb spin on the IG report got overtaken by events. pic.twitter.com/0WIg6dhLBf
Here’s a fun (read: terrible) nugget in the revised Ryan #immigration bill. Not only would it authorize the mass and prolonged incarceration of children, but it would EXPLICITLY BAR states from requiring that family detention centers be licensed facilities.
1/ Immigrant children have been forcibly injected with powerful psychiatric drugs at one of the U.S. gov't shelters, Shiloh Treatment Center outside of Houston, according to court documents and interviews. https://t.co/Ve4XSyRw5N
To control them our children were given “psychiatric” drugs. Surely lawsuits are imminent. Let’s see who is providing the drugs and what damage has been perpetrated on young bodies and minds.
TRUMP. WILL. PAY.
You might not know this about me, but I'm a white guy. And as a white guy, I would encourage @realDonaldTrump & his fellow GOP white guys to consult a not-white-guy in their efforts to enact comprehensive immigration reform in less than 24 hours. pic.twitter.com/EkmCux3Nnm
— Rep. Joe Kennedy III (@RepJoeKennedy) June 20, 2018
Thread. This information needs to get to the correct people so that Americans can see what’s being done with OUR tax $, in OUR names to these children!
Dozens of critical/high infractions Hired Employees who tested positive for drugs Children had access to weapons Children given medicine they were allergic to Actual physical child abuse Not trained or licensed We should talk https://t.co/fbTAGcMf7z
Some of Trump’s Donors are Benefiting Bigtime on Trump’s Immigration Centers:
“Trump, his sycophant Stephen Miller and Minister of White Supremacy Jeff Sessions are taking today are a huge payoff to the prison lobbyists and the border security industry that spent millions helping to get Donald Trump elected. Private for-profit prison executives were furious that President Obama decided to end the practice of using private prisons. They poured everything into Donald Trump and his campaign…” https://www.alternet.org/some-trumps-biggest-donors-are-profiting-big-time-immigrat..
-Have heard Trump wants to continue jailing families indefinitely…thus continuing to pay back his donor$ in the private prison industry.
@HardballChris you really expect us to believe that Donald Trump backed tracked on his zero tolerance policy because of his wife.???😆..he does not give a hoot about his wife…sometimes the press…is just…… you fill in the blanks
Did Ivanka just win the in-house “Trump whoppers of the Day award”? She didn’t mention the 6,000 children deemed ‘lost’ whom
Sessions says were abandoned to fate absolutely WITHOUT ANY TRACKING MECHANISM of any kind.
CRIMINAL CHARGES are clearly warranted against Trump/Sessions for illegally abducting and then not tracking 6,000 children.
Rousing welcome from Trump faithful at tonight's 2020 campaign rally in Minnesota. Appeared to be a full house. Rally had the usual Trump ingredients: 1) bragging about himself, 2) bashing the media, 3) uttering assorted lies. A few protestors. Now headed back to Washington
My friend told me about this earlier, and I finally found the video. God bless him. #GoodTrouble
“Just tell me whatever you want me to do. I will go to the borders. I'd get arrested again. If necessary, I'm prepared to go to jail.” ~ @repjohnlewispic.twitter.com/7MxV5mBl1d
I find it entirely fascinating that Ivanka thinks she can just cheerfully motor her way through all this and that her name and brand and reputation and her husband's reputation and her welcome in polite society the second Daddy departs 1600 Penn aren't destroyed forever and ever. https://t.co/Tub5TtoLkj
Hi Ivanka,
ARE THE BABIES OUT OF THE BABY JAILS YET? At the signing your Dad make a point of saying he didn’t like to see that happening.
So are the babies out of the baby jails yet?
Former Vice President Joe Biden endorsed Stacey Abrams Wednesday in her bid to become Georgia’s first Democratic governor in 15 years and the nation’s first-ever black female state executive.#gapol#gagovhttps://t.co/ZWhyQa3IGK
On a lighter note, on the train going to work, I like to look at the creative graffiti on building walls along the tracks. There’s always the usual “Dump Trump”, “Crotch Rot”, & names of whoever made the art. The one that put a grin to my face is: “UR the cool side of my pillow”. Awww! Someone’s in love! ❤
Rachel Maddow points out the many ways that Americans are working in different capacities to undercut Donald Trump’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents, whether by politics, business, protest, leaks to the media, or donations to advocacy groups.
Rachel Maddow reports exclusive news that the Department of Justice has asked the Pentagon for help processing immigration cases and the DoD has agreed to send active duty JAGs to Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico to serve as special assistant U.S. attorneys.
Garance Burke, national investigative reporter for the Associated Press, talks with Rachel Maddow about “tender age” facilities where the Trump administration is keeping babies and toddlers taken from parents seeking asylum in the U.S., and why the U.S. hasn’t had orphanages for decades.
Rachel Maddow notes a number of protests around the U.S. against Donald Trump’s family separation policy and notes the difficulty HHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has had defending it to Americans.
Jeh Johnson, former Secretary of Homeland Security, talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump’s adjustment to his migrant family separation policy and how its application is challenged by an already overcrowded system.
Jeh Johnson, former Secretary of Homeland Security, tells Rachel Maddow about concerns he raised with James Comey about how Donald Trump would react to news of the Christopher Steele dossier.
BREAKING: NYC Mayor DiBlasio confirmed 239 girls separated from their parents were being held at a detention center in E Harlem. The youngest is 9 months old, she’s been there for a MONTH.
He went on to say the only reason he knew about the girls is because it was leaked to him.
Watch this ad and see how this woman is talking about her campaign in a way that breaks through the noise while being super creative on so many levels:
Smith & Wesson argues that gun safety will hurt business: activists could pressure our financial institutions, our customers, our vendors, or other businesses and institutions with whom we maintain relationships to adopt actions that are not in the best interests of our company." https://t.co/e6t0rJuA22
I’m a Doctor. For 16 years now. Have a degree in emergency/trauma med. So not a pediatrician, but I’m equipped to take care of pediatrics. I called DHS today, to find out how I can volunteer at any of the shelters. I was told by James Groth- I was too qualified. Too qualified?
As a doctor, she has a duty to inform and report. They don’t dare let outside doctors into these concentration camps because it will trigger this reporting mechanism to state and local authorities. This entire gulag of horrors has been well thought out.
This story about how Southwest Key, which runs the converted Walmart facility in Brownsville, hired a case manager *who had previously been fired by Border Patrol following an arrest for possession of child pornography* to work with children https://t.co/c49BWRq3ha
THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O’DONNELL 6/20/18 Lawyer named in Trump executive order responds
The President’s executive action orders Jeff Sessions to challenge a court order that prevents the actions that are actually included in the President’s Executive order! One of the lawyers Sessions now has to challenge explains that families could end up jailed on military bases. Lawyer Peter Schey, tells Lawrence how he will respond in court to Sessions and Trump.
Hasn’t surprised me at all. Stop giving these muthaphuckas ANY benefit of the doubt.
What has been surprising to me–I will confess–is the comfortability some people have with cruelty to children on a policy level. ‘It’s like summer camp’. ‘Just like day care’— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) June 21, 2018
They did not think this out very well, they did not think they would get the sustained blow back, they thought people would not care if the people were “immigrants and their children”. That is why they were showing older boys, calling them MS-13, making the rwnj’s afraid and thinking he is doing the right things. Saying MS-13 coming across the border with their children and all that B.S. Will mothers and little babies are NOT MS-13, you can’t spin that a 9 mo old baby or sweet looking little girls have anything to do with MS 13. I saw that attorney on LO and Sessions and Trump are in deep do-do.
BREAKING: GOP to propose $1.5 trillion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.
If you have a choice between believing someone’s words or their budget, believe their budget. https://t.co/9vvmu871HP— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) June 21, 2018
I believe he will do whatever it takes to expose this atrocity.
We are now representing whistleblowers within ICE, outside contractors, etc. They have reached out to us to provide us with info as to what is really going on. We are going to blow this wide open and take the info to the American people so they can decide what happens next.
Wrong to put so much of my faith in one human being, but I know that he is a fierce fighter for the truth:) I believe that he will find the bottom of this cesspool….
The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 (WPA) is a law that protects federal government employees in the United States from retaliatory action for voluntarily disclosing information about dishonest or illegal activities occurring at a government organization.
Today Trump again pushed McConnell to end Senate voting procedures & create a system where Republicans alone control every result of every vote in Congress.
This would end our 2-party democracy & create Trump as a dictator w/unopposed power, like those he envies.
House Republicans are intent on labeling their anti-family immigration legislation as a “compromise.” It must be a compromise with the Devil, because it is *not* a compromise with Democrats.— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) June 21, 2018
Read somewhere that Sinclair is overstepping the number of tv outlets it is permitted to take over. Where is the legal opposition
to becoming another Russia State News tv?
Condescending fuck. She could mop the floor with him
Ian Bremmer describes a reported Trump-Merkel exchange at the G7: "He stood up, he put his hand in his pocket… and he took two Starbursts candies out, threw them on the table and said to Merkel, 'Here, Angela. Don't say I never give you anything.'" pic.twitter.com/NVUlQTHMwg
Michael Avenatti is representing 50 mothers that have been separated from their children… and counting. Retweet if you agree that he's a patriot for representing these moms for free. Listen to my conversation with him below. #DworkinReport#bastahttps://t.co/YTLvDJbdyf
Trump stole children, has no intention of ever tracking or reuniting them to put an end to asylum seekers. We must call on an international tribunal to investigate this crime against humanity because @HouseGOP@SenateGOP will never do their job. They only protect themselves.
The Obama Diary 
President Obama visits young refugees at a Dignity for Children Foundation classroom in Malaysia in 2015.
petesouza
Love this and the entire thread! Hi from Philly where Soul Harmony opens tonight. Alycee and I are going together. Then Friday the 29th she and prettyfoot have organized a TOD mini-meetup with Nancie and Terri too. So excited!!
Have a great time Judith and Alycee. Plus at the meeting. This sounds fun.
THANK YOU, Nerdy, for always bringing the best and smartest info. And for always being on the right side of history.
Just spotted President Obama’s message for World Refugee Day. Profound, loving, and inspirational. His voice represents the “open arms” that OUR COUNTRY must represent, again.
Obviously, others are marking the day with many “new causes,” including the families who are being separated at OUR border … not Mexico’s border … OUR border.
BREAKING NEWS
Michael Bloomberg plans to spend $80 million on the midterms to help Democrats take control of the House
Wednesday, June 20, 2018 1:13 PM EST
Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has decided to throw his political clout and personal fortune behind the Democratic campaign to take control of the House of Representatives this year, directing aides to spend tens of millions of dollars in an effort to expel Republicans from power.
We’ll take it where we can get it. We need to offset the $$ the Koch Bros. (down to one Bro?) are pouring into the GOP’s war chest.
Thank You Nerdy…(((huggs)))…yes we can if we organize….
Agree. You who ever You are, are next.
United joins in.
Didn’t realize you’d already posted this … what great news from United and American. It’s got to be a FIRST – at least I don’t recall this ever happening before.
We need lots MORE of this NOW.
I finally decided to direct my contributions via ActBlue; easy to do (I have donated before) and the major organizations helping in this effort for long periods of time are listed. Your donation can be evenly divided between groups or specified for a particular one. Thanks Nerdy for providing all of this information. Even doing something as small as donating so that others can do the work more effectively, gives an outlet for some of the rage and horror.
???
Short answer: they don’t. Most arrive at destinations 1000s of miles away with no follow up documentation, no points of contact. Imagine babies with no one to advocate for them, no papers or birth certificates, no nothing, crying uncontrollably. This is unimaginably inhumane.
Sigh!
This is all so sickening.
If we do not know whose children they are…then how can we hold them accountable for what happens to them….
Here is a pic I just took at the McAllen airport of seven young boys of detained parents being transported out of the area by handlers via AA flt 5772 to DFW. Who knows where they are going from there. Sending children 1000 miles away from their parents is a disgrace. #Outraged pic.twitter.com/zrqdIFnsWY— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) June 20, 2018
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Great post, NW. Thank you so much.
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I gotta take the afternoon off from this crap! Won’t stop me from thinking of the little children, but will free up a little space in my head to pray for them. See y’all later. Keep fighting the good fight. #GoodTrouble
oh good this has been upgraded to the level of Japanese internment https://t.co/LouYPfcPgW— Sam Thielman (@samthielman) June 20, 2018
I.Can’t.With.This.Shit.Anymore.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/immigrant-children-forcibly-drugged-powerful-psychotropics-texas-treatment-center-lawsuit/
In a new lawsuit, immigrant children detained at a government-funded facility in Texas described being forcibly drugged with psychotropic medicines that made them dizzy and unable to walk.
Reveal reported Wednesday that minors held at the Shiloh Treatment Center in Manvel, Texas — described in its Google+ listing as a “baby gulag” — were physically abused and given shots of “powerful” psychiatric medications that “rendered them unable to walk, afraid of people and wanting to sleep constantly.”
In the affidavits, the children and their parents said workers at the facility told them they would not be allowed to leave or see their parents if they didn’t take the medicine, which was administered via shots. The children were allegedly told the shots were “vitamins.”
“The supervisor told me I was going to get a medication injection to calm me down,” one girl said. “Two staff grabbed me, and the doctor gave me the injection despite my objection and left me there on the bed.”
According to one mother, her child “fell repeatedly, hitting her head, and ended up in a wheelchair.” Another “described trying to open a window and being hurled against a door by a Shiloh supervisor, who then choked her until she fainted.”
What the ever loving F?!?!?!?!?!
They are medicating children? Why, so they can molest them? There are going to be so many lawsuits against the USA.
TRUMP’S FAMILY SEPARATION LEVERAGE SCHEME ENDS IN DEFEAT (politicus.usa)
Trump caves and says he’ll sign something.
““We want to keep families together. It’s very important. I’ll be signing something in a little while that’s going to do that. And the people in this room want to do that and they’re working on various pieces of legislation to get it done. But I’ll be doing something that’s somewhat preemptive but ultimately we’ll be matched by legislation, I’m sure.”
(Let’s expose any lie he tells about Democrats right away.)
MSNBC video available.
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH OUR GIRLS, OUR CHILDREN? Trump must still answer and keep answering.
Unfortunately for the children who will forever bare the scars of separation (even if they eventually end up back with their parents), Trump’s evil policy was reversed too late. The damage this policy has already done should never be forgotten or minimized. We must hold Republicans responsible for the actions of their Leader. And we need to hold investigations into what is happening with the snatched children and what is being done to reunite them with loved ones. Trump’s caving to pressure doesn’t make everything okay.
He isn’t caving.
“ICE will not tell her.” Does this mean they DO know? And that she could find out where her daughter has been taken?
TRUMP must agree not to deport parents without their children going forward.
TRUMP REUNITE OUR FAMILIES.
All the brutal business you made will cover the costs.
In this day and age of technology, give me a break. It would be easy to keep track of the hostage children. First you would have to give a damn….. The age of Donald, the age of third world, low intelligence, rabid people. Steven Miller looks like he is a reincarnated Nazi oven boss.
My son and I hung out together this morning, we went to get haircuts and then we went out to lunch. I would give up my life trying to stop someone if they tried to take him from me. But for a moment change the variable to include I’m migrating to a new country for a better life for my family, I don’t speak the language of the new country I’m going to, and my children are taken from me by men with guns and they won’t tell me where they’re taking them. What would I do then?
What a wonderful way to spend the day. Cherish these moments. So many are being robbed of them.
NO AMERICA IS NOT BETTER THAN THIS! AMERICA HAS BEEN CAPABLE OF THIS AND WORST!
Yes, that is true Jojo. For decades the children of slaves were taken from their parents and sold to other slave owners. And Native American children were forcibly sent off to boarding schools. And those are the only instances I can think of at this moment because I am so upset by all this. America has a long history of actions like these against minorities and the powerless. It is not something new. It is our history, only this time, thanks to social media, it cannot be hidden. And this time, because we are aware of it, we can change it.
Yes, we can change this and shame people into not voting for these kind of people when they show you who they are.
And many in the MSM were among those pearl clutchers.
Ohh Myyy God….
Effng hell. This would kill a horse. Who had the authority to administer the drugs and who provided them? This harks back to shock therapy and psychotropics given to birthing mothers who remembered nothing. Experimenting with children? Trump should expect EVERY ACCUSATION and never ending criminal actions brought against him for these disgusting Crimes Against Humanity.
This is a RUSE.
We Rise
UH HUH
What happens to a trump cult person
Except if President Obama were still in office, THEY would believe it.
For the love of God.
Yes, they’re DRUGGING CHILDREN.
THREAD.
To control them our children were given “psychiatric” drugs. Surely lawsuits are imminent. Let’s see who is providing the drugs and what damage has been perpetrated on young bodies and minds.
TRUMP. WILL. PAY.
HUMAN ORGAN TRAFFICKING:
Cannot help thinking about the global industry that steals children and uses them children to DONATE ORGANS.
-Sorry.
Good for Rep. Joe Kennedy.
They would only get a not-so-white-guy (Hispanic or Black) who would repeat what they say……
Michael Burgess (TX-Cult) needs to be voted out
Thread. This information needs to get to the correct people so that Americans can see what’s being done with OUR tax $, in OUR names to these children!
Some of Trump’s Donors are Benefiting Bigtime on Trump’s Immigration Centers:
“Trump, his sycophant Stephen Miller and Minister of White Supremacy Jeff Sessions are taking today are a huge payoff to the prison lobbyists and the border security industry that spent millions helping to get Donald Trump elected. Private for-profit prison executives were furious that President Obama decided to end the practice of using private prisons. They poured everything into Donald Trump and his campaign…” https://www.alternet.org/some-trumps-biggest-donors-are-profiting-big-time-immigrat..
-Have heard Trump wants to continue jailing families indefinitely…thus continuing to pay back his donor$ in the private prison industry.
Wow. It always comes down to money for these bastards.
some members of the press is stupid
Yes, they are. They need their conscious to tell them these people are not this evil when they are.
We need freaking landslide numbers.
Tell me about it.
Yes!! We have to get Republicans out.
I love Obama people.
Did Ivanka just win the in-house “Trump whoppers of the Day award”? She didn’t mention the 6,000 children deemed ‘lost’ whom
Sessions says were abandoned to fate absolutely WITHOUT ANY TRACKING MECHANISM of any kind.
CRIMINAL CHARGES are clearly warranted against Trump/Sessions for illegally abducting and then not tracking 6,000 children.
TOTALLY agree about the criminal charges. And for anyone else involved in the chain of events.
Hi Everyone! Here’s a little sunshine to break through the dark cloud of evil out there!
Nice!! I love that it has moved from being named after a racist to a man who was so universal.
Me too!
My friend told me about this earlier, and I finally found the video. God bless him. #GoodTrouble
Hi Ivanka,
ARE THE BABIES OUT OF THE BABY JAILS YET? At the signing your Dad make a point of saying he didn’t like to see that happening.
So are the babies out of the baby jails yet?
Journalists and Congress members please follow up.
Good morning!
Have a great day!
Can we just call it “kidnapped babies, held for iQ45’s petulant & manic ransom” instead of media jumping through hoops to put words to this atrocity?
On a lighter note, on the train going to work, I like to look at the creative graffiti on building walls along the tracks. There’s always the usual “Dump Trump”, “Crotch Rot”, & names of whoever made the art. The one that put a grin to my face is: “UR the cool side of my pillow”. Awww! Someone’s in love! ❤
BOOOOOM
When you’re a criminal you’d better have every position fortified.
Good. That corrupt little racist deserves it.
Americans finding ways to work against Trump immigration policy
Rachel Maddow points out the many ways that Americans are working in different capacities to undercut Donald Trump’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents, whether by politics, business, protest, leaks to the media, or donations to advocacy groups.
DoD agrees to DoJ request for extra lawyers on immigration cases
Rachel Maddow reports exclusive news that the Department of Justice has asked the Pentagon for help processing immigration cases and the DoD has agreed to send active duty JAGs to Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico to serve as special assistant U.S. attorneys.
Trump detaining babies, toddlers breaks from child welfare policy
Garance Burke, national investigative reporter for the Associated Press, talks with Rachel Maddow about “tender age” facilities where the Trump administration is keeping babies and toddlers taken from parents seeking asylum in the U.S., and why the U.S. hasn’t had orphanages for decades.
Nielsen struggles with Trump immigration policy as protests grow
Rachel Maddow notes a number of protests around the U.S. against Donald Trump’s family separation policy and notes the difficulty HHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has had defending it to Americans.
Trump migrant family policy adjustment faces overburdened system
Jeh Johnson, former Secretary of Homeland Security, talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump’s adjustment to his migrant family separation policy and how its application is challenged by an already overcrowded system.
Johnson warned Comey on Trump volatility before dossier briefing
Jeh Johnson, former Secretary of Homeland Security, tells Rachel Maddow about concerns he raised with James Comey about how Donald Trump would react to news of the Christopher Steele dossier.
Big reminder: HHS officials pledged on Tuesday to release photos of detained girls and toddlers “within the next two days.”
That would be by the end of today.
https://t.co/SnhsGJ0FJa— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 21, 2018
Via LGF and twitter
BREAKING: NYC Mayor DiBlasio confirmed 239 girls separated from their parents were being held at a detention center in E Harlem. The youngest is 9 months old, she’s been there for a MONTH.
He went on to say the only reason he knew about the girls is because it was leaked to him.
My god!
Watch this ad and see how this woman is talking about her campaign in a way that breaks through the noise while being super creative on so many levels:
DAAAAMNNNNNN…..I pray she wins. THAT is how you campaign against teabaggers and rethuglicans.
Right?!! She just goes all out and does it so convincingly and creatively. I so hope she wins.
This woman was deemed ‘ too qualified’ to volunteer at a shelter.
TOO QUALIFIED?
SOMETHING.VERY.WRONG.IS.HAPPENING.AT.THESE.SHELTERS.
THREAD
As a doctor, she has a duty to inform and report. They don’t dare let outside doctors into these concentration camps because it will trigger this reporting mechanism to state and local authorities. This entire gulag of horrors has been well thought out.
There’s also horrifying stuff like this going on.
Trump-Sessions-KOCH have to answer for this. This is WHY you do not separate and detain children to fend for themselves.
THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O’DONNELL 6/20/18
Lawyer named in Trump executive order responds
The President’s executive action orders Jeff Sessions to challenge a court order that prevents the actions that are actually included in the President’s Executive order! One of the lawyers Sessions now has to challenge explains that families could end up jailed on military bases. Lawyer Peter Schey, tells Lawrence how he will respond in court to Sessions and Trump.
Hasn’t surprised me at all. Stop giving these muthaphuckas ANY benefit of the doubt.
What has been surprising to me–I will confess–is the comfortability some people have with cruelty to children on a policy level. ‘It’s like summer camp’. ‘Just like day care’— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) June 21, 2018
They did not think this out very well, they did not think they would get the sustained blow back, they thought people would not care if the people were “immigrants and their children”. That is why they were showing older boys, calling them MS-13, making the rwnj’s afraid and thinking he is doing the right things. Saying MS-13 coming across the border with their children and all that B.S. Will mothers and little babies are NOT MS-13, you can’t spin that a 9 mo old baby or sweet looking little girls have anything to do with MS 13. I saw that attorney on LO and Sessions and Trump are in deep do-do.
They have the nerve to turn down help?
They refuse outside help because of the abuses that will be exposed and they may have committed crimes.
BREAKING: GOP to propose $1.5 trillion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.
If you have a choice between believing someone’s words or their budget, believe their budget. https://t.co/9vvmu871HP— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) June 21, 2018
I believe he will do whatever it takes to expose this atrocity.
Wrong to put so much of my faith in one human being, but I know that he is a fierce fighter for the truth:) I believe that he will find the bottom of this cesspool….
The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 (WPA) is a law that protects federal government employees in the United States from retaliatory action for voluntarily disclosing information about dishonest or illegal activities occurring at a government organization.
thanks for the good guys, for all the good guys here and elsewhere.
Today Trump again pushed McConnell to end Senate voting procedures & create a system where Republicans alone control every result of every vote in Congress.
This would end our 2-party democracy & create Trump as a dictator w/unopposed power, like those he envies.
— Carole Myers (@CaroleMyers) June 21, 2018
House Republicans are intent on labeling their anti-family immigration legislation as a “compromise.” It must be a compromise with the Devil, because it is *not* a compromise with Democrats.— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) June 21, 2018
Sinclair propaganda at work
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/06/21/local-news-is-being-flooded-with-trump-propaganda-lies-about-migrant-kids.html
Read somewhere that Sinclair is overstepping the number of tv outlets it is permitted to take over. Where is the legal opposition
to becoming another Russia State News tv?
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2018/06/21/what-kind-of-nation-are-we/
Condescending fuck. She could mop the floor with him
Hero and patriot
Please ..If you haven’t seen this movie do so. This is how we take care of children. “Love is at the root of everything>” Mr Rogers