Profile picture
Mikel Jollett
@Mikel_Jollett
, 3 tweets, 2 min read Read on Twitter
The US government is paying private businesses $775 per day to keep children in sub-human conditions.

For that money, these kids could stay at the Hilton, eat from the buffet, and we’d still have millions to spare.

Someone is making a KILLING off the torture of children.
John Kelly, (Trump's former Chief of Staff), sits on the board of Caliburn which owns the company awarded $222 million to operate Homestead, the notorious child prison in Florida.

The Trump administration is PROFITING off the cruel treatment of children.
slate.com/news-and-polit…
Just to be perfectly clear:

It wasn't an accident or the result of bureaucratic mismanagement,

The Republican Party spent way MORE taxpayer money to SEPARATE vulnerable children from their parents than it would have cost to keep the families together.

nbcnews.com/storyline/immi…
Missing some Tweet in this thread?
You can try to force a refresh.

Like this thread? Get email updates or save it to PDF!

Subscribe to Mikel Jollett
Profile picture

Get real-time email alerts when new unrolls are available from this author!

This content may be removed anytime!

Twitter may remove this content at anytime, convert it as a PDF, save and print for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video

1) Follow Thread Reader App on Twitter so you can easily mention us!

2) Go to a Twitter thread (series of Tweets by the same owner) and mention us with a keyword "unroll" @threadreaderapp unroll

You can practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @Mikel_Jollett see all

Profile picture
Mikel Jollett
@Mikel_Jollett
Just so we’re clear on what just happened:

Mitch McConnell STOLE a Supreme Court seat, ignoring the constitution to deny the SC appointment of a democratically elected black president.

He then installed a white man who just voted to PERMANENTLY disenfranchise the black vote.
Dear Republicans,

Just fuck off forever with your talk of “respect for the rule of law,” “the sanctity of the constitution” or the “defense of freedom and democracy.”

You don’t know what ANY of these things mean.
If a democratically-elected president is denied his legal right to appoint a SC Justice is replaced by a president who won with a minority of votes using the help of a foreign power who appoints a Justice who disenfranchises 11% of voters, can you even call it democracy anymore?
Read 3 tweets
Profile picture
Mikel Jollett
@Mikel_Jollett
Mueller (shorter): Trump obstructed justice but the law won't let us charge him with a federal crime because he is president so if you want to deal with this prick, impeach him.
Mueller: The Constitution requires a process outside the criminal justice system to accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing.

The "process" he's referring to is called IMPEACHMENT.
This is the crucial moment:

"If we had confidence that the president did NOT commit a crime, we would have said so."

Read 3 tweets
Profile picture
Mikel Jollett
@Mikel_Jollett
A fetus is a person but a baby doesn’t deserve health care and a toddler doesn’t deserve to not be locked in a cage and a child doesn’t deserve to not be shot at in school and an adult doesn’t deserve a living wage or a life with basic dignity.

- The Republican philosophy
We have passed a milestone in American history in which the bottom 50% of households only own 1% of the wealth.

THIS is why every billionaire is a policy failure.

It is morally wrong that tycoons own the wealth of small nations while people starve.

axios.com/wealth-gap-uni…
“A fetus is a person, just not one who deserves to be fed, loved, educated, or given a life without fear, violence, sickness or poverty.”

- The Republican Mission Statement
Read 3 tweets

Related threads

Profile picture
⏳╰☆💕☆𝓡𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓪☆💕☆╮⏳
@40_Ronda
#SaturdayThoughts #SundayThoughts

How can we as #Americans accept that our government is responsible for the #genocide of #Yemeni civilians? How can we as a society not demand by every means necessary for the world's greatest #Humanitarian #Crisis to end?

#Yemen before #War
#Yemen a beautiful country full of beautiful #Yemeni who simply want to be left in peace. A country that's only fault is it's location in the world. A location that for the #US is strategically located close to #SaudiArabia, #Iran, and #Israel.
The #UnitedStates #Indoctrination and #Propaganda machine #FakeNews would have the American people believe we are helping to ensure peace and stability in the region. This is a claim that by now ALL AMERICANS should know is false!

Photos of Beautiful #Yemen before the #War
Read 73 tweets
Profile picture
Joe Murgia
@UfoJoe11
1 #Knapp tonight: "The government programs...recognized - along the way, about 10 or 12 years ago - that if u only study flying saucers & objects in the sky & nuts & bolts flying craft, you're not gonna really get to the heart of this mystery." @g_knapp at #UFO MegaCon #AAWSAP
2 St. Patty's Day, 2018, #Knapp invited to DC by #Reid. On way there, he thought he knew a lot about #AAWSAP/#AATIP. But when he arrived & met w/Reid & some others, he realized he only knew a little, tiny bit. We all know about AATIP, but in reality, there was something b4 that.
3 "I sat down for a couple of hours w/@SenatorReid & other people whose names, they don't want to be known. They brought me up to speed on how #AATIP was created. How its predecessor was under way for a number of years. It coexisted for a long time...I got this briefing about
Read 141 tweets
Profile picture
Victor Gevers
@0xDUDE
Can anyone (from China) identify these Messaging services?

imsg <--...
qg <--...
qqmesg. <-- imqq.com
wwmsg <--...
wxmsg <--...
yymsg <--...

In China, they have a surveillance program on social networks which looks like a jerry-rigged PRISM clone of the NSA.
So this social media surveillance program is retrieving (private) messages per province from 6 social platforms and extracts named, ID numbers, ID photos, GPS locations, network information, and all the conversations and file transfers get imported into a large online database.
Around 364 million online profiles and their chats & file transfers get processed daily. Then these accounts get linked to a real ID/person. The data is then distributed over police stations per city/province to separate operators databases with the same surveillance network name
Read 18 tweets
Profile picture
Holly sewell
@sewell_holly
This is Byron. He was separated as a result of the zero tolerance policy and has remained in detention for 7 months. He deserves a warm, loving home in which to await his case but isn't allowed. Here is our family's story: @RAICESTEXAS
We have been trying to keep things quiet while we go through this process because it is deeply personal and confusing to navigate, But our ultimate goal was to get Byron out of detention and into our home by Xmas. We have a power of attorney from his parents to care for him.
Byron is a sweet 9-year-old boy who walked over 1,600 miles from Guatemala to escape the violence and direct threats from gangs in his town. Last year, his dad was attacked by these gangs and left for dead.
Read 22 tweets
Profile picture
Okolla™
@OkollaIX
Even before the IMF SAPs and austerity the government had already destroyed the Kenyan business environment. See over the last five years we've lost about 2.2 million SMEs in an environment with about 7.6M MSMEs. That's an average of 400k p.a or 1k businesses per day.
Now consider the fact that Kenya now rank top ten globally with the highest number of extremely poor people at sixth in Africa and eight in the world. Basically 14.6 of the 48M+ Kenyans are rated as extremely poor and it gets even worse....
59% Kenya households earn Sh10k or less
2% percent have  zero income .

1% percent earn Sh55-75k
1% percent earn Sh75-100k

24% percent earn Sh10-25k,
10% percent earns Sh25-40k 
3% percent earns 40-55k

Ave. 9,500
Read 12 tweets
Profile picture
Thomas Binder
@Thomas_Binder
After 70 years of imperial/neoliberal indoctrination the web of lies is so obviously absurde (9/11, Skripal, WH = ISIS, etc.), that it is dissoluting. The empathetic humanity connects, closes ranks and sends their eternal psychopathic rulers and their lackeys into nowhere land.
The "evil empire" is a lifelong three year old child. I certainly loved my children at that age too, however only because they created not only a surreal mess, but also made steady progress.

A great documentary about psychopathy and society:
The elite invented "democracy" to protect them from the empathetic people. The media are their means for misleading the people sedated by "democracy". This is definitely a bad thing since the people have become educated and the elite almost totally insane.
Read 209 tweets

Trending hashtags

#BOOM #power #literature #Immigration #uap #Sports #Brexit #books #Creativity #MeToo #children #dollars #bitcoins #fakejournalists #XYTroll #KevinSpacey #AQAP #Neutronic #CuiBono #ThinkTanks #yikes #Acquisitions #genocide #RightToLife #AlexanderAcosta
Follow Us on Twitter!

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just three indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!