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"Pro-life" and "pro-family" groups are quietly supporting Trump's policy of taking children away from their parents at the border -- or refusing to comment at all huffingtonpost.com/entry/family-s…
Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life group that vows to “encircle the vulnerable ones who need us," says it won't discuss migrant children being taken from their parents b/c it's not about abortion.

"Therefore, we refrain from public comment on immigration." huffingtonpost.com/entry/family-s…
Tony Perkins of Family Research Council, whose mission is to ensure "all human life is valued” and “families flourish,” says it's “tragic” to separate migrant kids from their parents but it's not Trump's fault.

"That burden lies with their parents." huffingtonpost.com/entry/family-s…
Jim Daly of Focus on the Family, “a global Christian ministry dedicated to helping families thrive,” says it's harmful to take kids away from their parents -- but wishes ppl were more upset about other family problems "like the epidemic of divorce." 😐 huffingtonpost.com/entry/family-s…
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Missing from so much of the news coverage of Native people being outraged by Elizabeth Warren's DNA test: Native voices.

I asked prominent tribal leaders and Native people about it. Surprise: they said Warren is an ally and this narrative is media fodder. huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabet…
Virtually everyone I talked to -- tribal chiefs, Native politicians, policymakers, advocates, writers -- said they saw nothing wrong with Warren looking into her ancestry. You would never know this from the way mainstream media has covered this. huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabet…
Here's Richard Sneed, principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Is he mad at Warren for taking a DNA test to understand her ancestry? Not. At all.
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I'm gonna do a little thread that I think you should read. (1/14)
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young Native woman named Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind. She lived in Fargo, North Dakota. She was 22 years old. She was eight months pregnant. And then she disappeared. (2/14)
Her parents called the police. After reports of suspicious behavior by a couple who lived in the same apt building as Savanna, the police got a search warrant & smashed in the door to their apt. They found the woman who lived there with a newborn. It was Savanna's baby. (3/14)
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Mitch McConnell just filed cloture for district court nominee Thomas Farr, a guy who helped draft NC's voter suppression law, defended racist gerrymandering + may have lied to senators about aiding Jesse Helms' campaign in disenfranchising black voters. huffingtonpost.com/entry/thomas-f…
Dems have opposed lots of Trump's judicial picks, but Thomas Farr really stands out. Black Caucus members attended his confirmation hearing to oppose him. Every Dem in Judiciary spoke out against him. A civil rights group tied him to “the worst elements of white supremacy."
Every Republican on the Judiciary Committee voted to advance Farr's nomination earlier this year. huffingtonpost.com/entry/thomas-f…

Among them: Jeff Flake, who is currently threatening to hold up all judicial nominees until the Mueller protection bill gets a vote. We'll see if that holds.
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Who funds the IEA, the TPA, the ASI &co?
You know, the RW 'free trade' thick tanks advocating tax havens, "freedom" (no regulations like workers' rights or environmental protection), no welfare (no tax & no free healthcare).
Basically, "Only the wealthier survive" philosophy?
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*Could it be* that it has something to do with defending their funders' interests?
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This election is a referendum on fascism in America.
Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It’s a Set of Actions to Fight | By Aleksandar Hemon: lithub.com/fascism-is-not…
#tRump: "Barbed wire, used properly, can be a beautiful sight."
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Interesting how #trump’s anti-#trans policies (which are ultimately aimed at denying trans people healthcare) are based on the same arguments made by @tianran and @KathViner in their transphobic @guardian article last week. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/10/24…
@tianran @KathViner @guardian Not only was @tianran & @KathViner’s @guardian article full of inaccuracies & (deliberate?) misinformation but its underlying assumptions have now been revealed to be so close to #Trump’s oppressive anti-#trans policies that it seems like a justification for Trump’s transphobia
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What the fuck just happened today?

⚡️ Day 518: Shared values.

whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/06/21/day…
1/ Hundreds of separated children have been sent to New York even after Trump signed an executive order ending his administration's policy of separating parents and children who have illegally crossed the border

nytimes.com/2018/06/20/nyr…
1a/ Ivanka Trump thanked her dad for ending his family separation policy while calling on Congress to "find a lasting solution that is consistent with our shared values."

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Apparently the Attorney General and the White House Press Secretary have cited the Bible in defense of a "Zero Tolerance" policy that separates immigrant children from their parents. Since teaching the Bible is what I do, I thought I'd weigh in. Here we go... 1/8
It's hard to come up with a justice related issue in the Bible that's more prevalent than the insistence from the Torah, the Prophets, Jesus, and the Apostles, that we must care for least among us; and significantly, special consideration is give to "the foreigner among you." 2/8
If you want to play the chapter-and-verse proof-text game, I can do that.

"The wicked snatch the fatherless child from the breast." -Job 24:9

In this text, snatching a child from her mother's breast is presented as an example of indisputable evil. 3/8 cnn.com/2018/06/12/us/…
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