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Border agents took antibiotics away from her sick baby & detained them in a freezing cell called an icebox. When she asked for help, agents called her an “invader” who “wasn’t in a position to be asking for anything.” After 5 days, the baby had pneumonia.

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With GOP control of the House ending in days, Rep. @BennieGThompson (D-MS) can check Trump’s border policies—incl those affecting refugee children & families seeking asylum—when he becomes chair of the committee w DHS oversight powers. In @JxnFreePress:

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“Another young child has died...The welfare of children in our care must be a top priority...Next year...Cong will look for...solutions to these problems...made worse by this admin’s choices." –incoming Homeland Security Chair @BennieGThompson (D-MS)

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A video obtained by the Arizona Republic shows staffers slapping, dragging, & pushing migrant children at a child detention facility. 👇🏻

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In 2015, Pete tweeted that Hillary Clinton was unlikable. He thought other potential female candidates — like Elizabeth Warren — would be far more “likable.”

Now that Elizabeth Warren is running, does Pete still think she’s likable? Read the thread to find out!
Here is a later tweet in which Pete suggested a “likable” ticket of Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren, instead of the “unlikable” Hillary Clinton.
It’s 2019, and just a day after Elizabeth Warren announced her plan to run for president, Pete was already expressing concern that Dems may repeat the mistakes of 2016 by running an “unlikable” candidate—even though he once suggested Warren as a “likable” alternative to Clinton.
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THREAD: After seeing this tweet from Politico, I decided to search for tweets by several mainstream news orgs and see how they use the terms “likeable,” “unlikable,” and “likability” when applied to men vs. women. The results are...stark.
First of all, those words are used far more often to refer to women. Politico did note in 2014 that Hillary Clinton—who at the time had a favorable rating in the 60s—was now “likable enough” vs 2008.
If you’re Politico and reporting that a male politician—former Illinois Mayor Rod Blahojevich—has been found guilty of trying to sell a US Senate seat like, though, it’s important to note that the jurors found him likable, criminality aside.
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VIDEO: Staffers caught dragging, slapping, & pushing migrant children at a detention facility operated by Southwest Key (a nonprofit whose CEO makes millions on the backs of undocumented children). Full video as obtained by the Arizona Republic: google.com/amp/s/amp.azce…
“Though Southwest Key is, on paper, a charity, no one has benefited more than Mr. Sanchez, now 71. Serving as chief executive, he was paid $1.5 million last year — more than twice what his counterpart at the far larger American Red Cross made.”

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“Mr. Sanchez is central to the administration’s plans. Southwest Key can now house up to 5,000 children in its 24 shelters, including a converted Walmart Supercenter that has drawn criticism as a warehouse for youths.“
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Border agents plea for more walls and barriers, giving examples of how such measures (700 miles of “walls” built in 2009) have helped them stem flow of illegal crossings and drugs, but the headline focuses on whether their pleas raise “ethical questions” rollcall.com/news/politics/…
2. Why is bolstering border security and funding measures to allow border agents to better handle influx of families, kids so controversial now that it’s shutting down the government, when just a few years ago Democrats were touting border security? politifact.com/truth-o-meter/…
3. Meanwhile, Trump is deploying troops to the border to provide medical care for a steady stream of migrant families that are pouring in from Central America and to build 160 miles of fencing (paid for from Department of Defense's discretionary funding). npr.org/2019/01/03/681…
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I am posting this for Igor, who is one of the frontline Guardians at the #border. They have shut off the internet connection for all the Guardians except me. -SR

1) Yesterday, at the border, I was threatened by several National Guards and BW agent’s. They told me they would send
me to jail if my team and if I didn’t back off and stop trying to help the migrants. Of course they don’t have the authority to do that, however, John Bolton is in charge of much that is going on at the border and he wants to silence us. His goal is to cause disarray and division
so that Donald calls for a mandatory shut down of ALL borders and a travel ban on agents leaving America at all. itnessed a little girl and her young mother, early 20s, being beaten yesterday by #ICE agents. They then took the mother away from the daughter and separated them.
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I became aware of this clothing designer (from Hollywood, of course) and just got the chance to review their images on Instagram.

My opinion: About as Satanic / NWO / Illuminati / P-do as one can get. #SICK!

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HO! Really? Any parent STUPID enough to put their kids in this kind of outfit, are unfit parents IMHO.
What would childhood be like without assorted Illuminati symbols and “3-6” (also known as 6-6-6 / 3-6’s)

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I met Shyla last year in a meeting. Her father had dreamt of making her a doctor. But his dreams drowned in the sewer he had died in. This is her story. (ruralindiaonline.org/articles/my-mo…)
Ten years later, Shyla is almost close to realising her father’s dream. She is doing her nursing course, and she needs help. As a society that sent her father down the sewers, I think it is our responsibility to see that she becomes a nurse.
When I met her again last month, Shyla was exuding confidence. “I will soon be a nurse and if you need anything, call me over” she told me and i cant wait.
Shyla’s course fee for third year comes close to Rs 1 lakh. I already have someone pledging Rs 10,000.
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Follow this thread for highlights from the (sure to be remarkable) speech by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on the Trump administration’s Syria strategy:
"The nature of the Assad regime, like that of its sponsor Iran, is malignant. It has promoted state terror. It has empowered groups that kill American soldiers, such as al-Qaeda in Iraq"
"The story of Syria has been one of humanitarian catastrophe. Up to half a million Syrians have died. Over 5.4m Syrians are refugees, and 6.1m are internally displaced persons as a result of conflict between regime and opposition forces. Whole cities have been destroyed."
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