This tweet from Oliver Willis
https://twitter.com/owillis/status/1005470115478065153
Is ABSOLUTELY ON POINT.
The story behind this tweet:
Pizza delivery man nabbed by ICE, Pablo Villavicencio, gets deportation order put on hold
https://t.co/KSZfTnbtdD pic.twitter.com/eChipHlGsG— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) June 9, 2018
This father is NOT a criminal. He wasn’t swept up doing criminal activity.
He went, ON HIS JOB, to deliver pizza to an Army Base, AND SOMEONE CALLED ICE ON HIM.
He.was.doing.his.phucking.JOB.
And, some evil azz muthaphucka called ICE on him.
The restaurants in the area are fighting back – not only fighting to bring this father home, but refusing to deliver to the Army Base until he is let loose by ICE.
Here is the latest in him:
https://twitter.com/dabeard/status/1005607330497605633?s=20
I am sorry that this is the most positive story I have.
I, like, Oliver Willis, want folks to understand what we’re fighting against. Those who voted for Dolt45 are complicit in what is being done in the name of the United States of America.
In my last immigration post, I told you, that the OFFICIAL POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS TO RIP CHILDREN AWAY FROM THEIR PARENTS.
And, I want to make this clear:
This is NOT just those people that are coming here illegally.
This is happening to people ATTEMPTING TO GO THROUGH THE LEGAL ASYLUM PROCESS.
The blood is on those who voted for Dolt45.
The damage to these children and their families is on those who voted for Dolt45.
I will say this again:
The simplicity of the evil of this cuts through the bullshyt 😠
https://twitter.com/lizcgoodwin/status/1005792756726452225?s=20
A new “Trail of Tears ‘…..
https://twitter.com/lizcgoodwin/status/1005792417004392451?s=20
Here is some of the damage. Please spread the word as to what’s being done in this country:
A family was separated at the border, and this distraught father took his own life
June 9 at 7:00 AM
A Honduran father separated from his wife and child suffered a breakdown at a Texas jail and killed himself in a padded cell last month, according to Border Patrol agents and an incident report filed by sheriff’s deputies.
The death of Marco Antonio Muñoz, 39, has not been publicly disclosed by the Department of Homeland Security, and did not appear in any local news accounts. But according to a copy of a sheriff’s department report obtained by The Washington Post, Muñoz was found on the floor of his cell May 13 in a pool of blood with an item of clothing twisted around his neck.
Starr County sheriff’s deputies recorded the incident as a “suicide in custody.”
ICE is torturing and killing detainees by withholding medical care. When the prisoner is in grave condition, then they are hospitalized and released from custody so when they die they are not listed as a death in ICE custody.https://t.co/o1D902U94V
— Facts Do Matter (@WilDonnelly) June 9, 2018
‘They just took them?’ Frantic parents separated from their kids fill courts on the border https://t.co/zLlh7mrntu
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) June 10, 2018
I ask you…what could go wrong, with putting people who are here illegally WITH HARDENED CRIMINALS?
https://twitter.com/Shakestweetz/status/1004837295848132609
Chris Hayes
Verified account @chrislhayesYesterday DOJ was sending around an opinion in which they managed to deport a woman who was kidnapped by rebels along with her husband, forced to watch as they made her husband dig his own grave and then murder him. They then made her their servant.
3:58 PM – 7 Jun 2018Chris Hayes
Verified account @chrislhayesAn immigration judge found that she had an asylum claim and could stay in the US, country but Sessions’ DOJ said she was guilty of material support for terrorism because HER FORCED LABOR FOR THE REBELS THAT KIDNAPPED HER AND MURDERED HER HUSBAND COUNTED AS MATERIAL SUPPORT.
3:58 PM – 7 Jun 2018Chris Hayes
Verified account @chrislhayesSo now they can deport her. Back to a country where said rebels now run the government.
3:58 PM – 7 Jun 2018
THREAD
A constituent of @RepDaveBrat wrote to him expressing her anger at the Trump administration's family separation policy.
The letter she got back is extremely revealing.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 8, 2018
BOTTOM LINE:
It is infuriating that the Trump administration has created this policy, even announced it and speechified about it and bragged about it, and now it and its allies, faced with the sheer moral revulsion in response, want to pretend it doesn't exist.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 8, 2018
This poor child
An Iowa DREAMER high school student, who never knew any country but America, was forced to go to Mexico. The kind of story that makes GOPrs cheer.
Three weeks later he was dead. Mexican gangsters found out who he was. And slit his throat.
What’s sad: so many GOPrs wont care.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) June 8, 2018
I have more stories. Just as horrible. Just as rotten. Just as evil.
Either you believe that this is ok, or you believe it’s evil. There is no in between. There is no rationalization which makes the pain that is going on acceptable. We have nothing to discuss.
As a human being, you can’t be ok with this. And, if you aren’t ok with this, then you have to tell people what’s going on. Not everyone is as in tune with political happenings. But, people are parents. Have been the child of someone. Ask them to explain how this is ok. How taking away children from their parents is ok. Ask them to explain and reason it in English.
Don’t let them tell the lie.
THIS.DID. NOT.HAPPEN. UNDER. OBAMA. OR. ANY.OTHER.AMERICAN . PRESIDENT.
THIS is a policy created by Dolt45 and Attorney General White Citizens Council. Remember, it was first proposed by ‘ Aint Shyt’ John Kelly when he was over DHS.
The latest horror just came down yesterday.
THREAD
https://twitter.com/elisefoley/status/1006261423532662785
The evil never stops with this group. As I have said before, The KKKeebler Elf is getting to fulfill all of his White Supremacist Fantasies. He will NEVER resign. He’s enjoying being cruel to the non-White masses.
https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/1006579314689789953?s=19
Thread
https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1006623359067742209?s=19
😒😒😒
https://twitter.com/owillis/status/1006607385237041154?s=19
@kylegriffin1
2m2 minutes ago
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The Trump admin is looking to build tent cities at military posts around Texas to shelter the increasing number of unaccompanied migrant children being held in detention, McClatchy reports.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1006632241370460160
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1006636033067442179
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1006634512393129984
THE GALL OF THIS TREASONOUS SCUM
https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1006625961499156481
WHITE SUPREMACY, Y’ALL
https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1006631771893587978
https://twitter.com/kpolantz/status/1006628922556125184
“Some fans have noticed that Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown was scheduled to come off Netflix US on June 16. As of today, we’ve extended our agreement that will keep Parts Unknown on the service for months to come.”
https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1006612115216453632
Trump Administration Launches Effort to Strip Citizenship From Those Suspected of Naturalization Irregularities
By ELLIOT HANNON
The Trump administration is not only doing everything it can to discourage immigration of all sorts, it intends to launch an effort to identify naturalized American citizens it believes cheated the naturalization process and strip them of their American citizenship. The extraordinary process of denaturalizing an American citizen has occurred very rarely, with the Justice Department filing an estimated 300 civil denaturalization cases since 1990. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director L. Francis Cissna, however, told the Associated Press that the agency is ramping up its efforts to identify citizens who, for instance, assumed new identities in order to avoid deportation and claim a green card or citizenship.
Cissna said his agency is hiring several dozen lawyers and immigration officers to review cases of suspected fraud. “We finally have a process in place to get to the bottom of all these bad cases and start denaturalizing people who should not have been naturalized in the first place,” Cissna said. “What we’re looking at, when you boil it all down, is potentially a few thousand cases.”
While there is certainly a legitimate government interest in not allowing people into the country under assumed identities—previously this effort targeted literal Nazis and suspected war criminals trying to escape prosecution under assumed identities—the potential for the effort to be used as a means of intimidation and to find small discrepancies or errors in an individual’s naturalization paperwork is problematic. The Trump administration says it does not plan on pursuing deportations based on technicalities, but this is also an administration that is savagely separating families at the border as a form of deterrence to would-be undocumented immigrants.
Thing of beauty: The @NRA’s Texas lobbyist Alice Tripp is sitting all by her lonesome in the overflow room because Texas @MomsDemand volunteers filled the Violence in Schools and School Security hearing room to capacity. 😂 #txlege pic.twitter.com/TLlXi6VPf7— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) June 12, 2018
NO MAN IS AN ISLAND
President Trump says he got North Korea to commit to destroying a major missile testing site but “we didn’t put it in the agreement because we didn’t have time.”
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) June 12, 2018
Think about this quote for a second.
You’ve scored, what you believe is, a MAJOR disarmament win from a longtime enemy.
The thing is, that enemy has a history of reneging.
You could hold em to it by putting it in writing. But you don’t do it because you… didn’t have time. https://t.co/uBGatumxWW
— Sam Stein (@samstein) June 12, 2018
Negotiating advice 101. When you want to make a deal real bad you will make a really bad deal. #SingaporeSummit
— T. Boone Pickens (@boonepickens) June 11, 2018
This is some whacked & fucked up shit right here:
https://twitter.com/billprady/status/1006351109970018304
45 & Kimmy boy
https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/1006552059410337793
https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/1006466060135075840
Of course these two infantile, greedy, thugs are using the meeting & photo ops for their own NEFARIOUS purpose.
The Obama primary is underway | Analysis by CNN’s Chris Cillizza https://t.co/95NUQ5mjVJ pic.twitter.com/JHfAxz4azi
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 12, 2018
The ENTIRE PHUCK?!?!?
“As an example, they have great beaches,” he said during a news conference after his meeting with Mr. Kim. “You see that whenever they’re exploding their cannons into the ocean. I said, ‘Boy look at that view. Wouldn’t that make a great condo?’” https://t.co/v5O57neseH
— Michael Tackett (@tackettdc) June 12, 2018
“It does take a long time to pull off denuclearization,” says @POTUS. “But once you start the process it’s pretty much over. You can’t use them.”
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) June 12, 2018
I need a side eye gif to go with this ridiculous post.
EXCLUSIVE: President Trump tells @GStephanopoulos “I wanted to stop the war games, I thought they were very provocative, but I also think they’re very expensive,” when asked if he discussed pulling U.S. troops out of South Korea with Kim Jong Un. https://t.co/ANdmOzpPd9 pic.twitter.com/k015aM4PH9
— ABC News (@ABC) June 12, 2018
South Korean Blue House spox: “At this moment, the meaning and intention of President Trump’s remarks requires more clear understanding.”
— Elise Hu (@elisewho) June 12, 2018
Come on, with the COME ON, Rikyrah. Your post are SLAMMIN’, Lady
Co-sign.
Trudeau is gonna be @realDonaldTrump’s new “Obama.” He’s so jealous of both of them, because they have it all and he has nothing and he knows it. They also have the respect of their countrymen and women, and trump has nothing. And he knows it. He’s so jealous he can taste it.
— @joboomr44 (@joboomr44) June 12, 2018
Fox News: Obama meeting with North Korea = bad. Trump meeting with North Korea = good. #TrumpKimSummit pic.twitter.com/9zp13Bfk91
— Jeff Blix (@JeffBlix) June 12, 2018
POTUS tells @Greta that Kim Jong-un has “a great personality. He’s a funny guy, he’s very smart, he’s a great negotiator. He loves his people…” https://t.co/6TO6HHAdaw
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 12, 2018
GRETA: But he’s starved them. He’s been brutal to them. He still loves his people?
POTUS: Look, he’s doing what he’s seen done, if you look at it. But, I really have to go by today and by yesterday and by a couple of weeks ago because that’s really when this whole thing started.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 12, 2018
Yeah folks…just imagine if Chelsea Clinton and her husband had made $82 MILLION while ‘ working at the White House’
……………………………
If this were Chelsea Clinton and her husband, Congress would’ve set the entirety of Washington, D.C. on fire. https://t.co/5dupQmVKC4
— shauna (@goldengateblond) June 11, 2018
Word of the Day : June 12, 2018
Epithet
noun | EP-uh-thet
Definition
1 :a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing
2 :a disparaging or abusive word or phrase
3 :the part of a taxonomic name identifying a subordinate unit within a genus
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/epithet-2018-06-12?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=e&file=epithe11&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=wotd&utm_content=pron
There are good people out here.
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He fought a mob that chased gay people into a Utah cafe. Now some are bringing him balloons and calling him a hero.
By Courtney Tanner
Published: 4 days ago
https://twitter.com/SmithsonianMag/status/1006253539772026880?s=19
https://twitter.com/PragmaticObot/status/1006331648764497920?s=19
https://twitter.com/mentnelson/status/1006358768953839617?s=19
https://twitter.com/AFarray/status/1006359550180683777?s=19
https://twitter.com/Kat4Obama/status/1006392740517560320?s=19
Spot on. Bill Kristol really should f*** himself.
Yo Billy K.
https://twitter.com/staceyabrams/status/1006246854894419969?s=19
https://twitter.com/stevesilberman/status/1006190450418409473?s=19
https://twitter.com/gifuoh/status/1006426131678056448?s=19
https://twitter.com/speechboy71/status/1006425204531318784?s=19
https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/1006386833448755206?s=19
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1006378054799638528?s=19
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1006386119435522049?s=19
https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1006339247958306818?s=19
https://twitter.com/JeffreyGoldberg/status/1006182746857857024?s=19
https://twitter.com/HawaiiDelilah/status/1006318606299291648?s=20
Good Morning,Everyone 😄😄😄
Good Morning, Rikyrah, 3Chics Family & Friends.
Rikyrah, this just fucks me up. I swear we may all need therapy to help us cope after all is said and done. It’s so damn disturbing.
I feel you, SG2.
Keep our eyes on the PRIZE, though.
Look at what the Parkland kids are doing, David Hogg and their VOTER DRIVE.
This is how we FIGHT.
45’s day of reckoning is coming. TRUST GOD.