It's important people pay attention to Trump's Project 2025 immigration plan. Put aside the economic disaster that will unfold as 11 million people are quickly removed from the agricultural, construction and service industries by national guard troops from a different state...
...than the one in which they're hunting immigrants. They will be processed through concentration camps (ostensibly run by private military companies) before deportation to currently unknown destinations. It's safe to assume that operating at that scale nobody will be seeing a...
...judge or lawyer once they're nabbed. This mean if you live in, say, Texas or Arizona, you could be stopped at a checkpoint by guardsmen from, say, Idaho or North Dakota. If you don't look American enough, despite your accent, you could be sent to a camp. But you've got I.D...
...on you so you're safe, right? If the E5 at the checkpoint doesn't like the way you look, they could take your wallet and process you anyway. You'll never see a lawyer or judge, you'll simply be put through whatever crazy system they devise with no legal protections. The...
...dangers this will pose to any black or brown American are off the charts but I'm sure white people who just "don't look right," to a nineteen year old from Idaho will get swept up as well. Assuming you're spit out the other end of the camps, you'll be a stateless person unable
...to get back into the country from wherever you're been sent. You could try to go to the American embassy in whatever country you wind up and sort it out with the diplomatic staff, but that staff will be political-appointed flunkies from top to bottom who won't be helpful...
...to your plight. I don't think I need to go into the terrible levels of long term mistrust and hostility this will create between states, I just want you to recognize that you are in danger if this plan is put into effect, which it will be, if Biden loses the election.
I'd like to ask you to please retweet this thread so as many people as possible know the stakes in this election. Please talk to your friends and family that haven't or don't vote and let them know it can still be stopped. All they need to do is register to vote and show up on...
...Tuesday, November 5th, this year to cast a ballot for the Democrats running for President, Senate and the House of Representatives. You're still free. Let's keep it that way.
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Something I've been turning over in my head a lot is that you could fix a lot of America's problems by fully funding public education. We reaped more than half a century of massive benefits from the effort we put into public education after the 1940s through the early 70s.
Imagine how many problems you could solve by having a school system where your kids walked or biked to school, were given a nutritious lunch and had mandatory sports or music from the time classes ended until you got off work?
You'd eliminate a lot of metro traffic churn from 2:30-5pm, generate a massive drop in childhood diabetes, youth crime, childcare costs, and widespread societal isolation while providing everyone the same opportunities for advancement that is presently reserved for the wealthy.
My opinion is that Putin knew the nature and timing of the initial Hamas attack against Israel, which is why he timed the Avdiivka offensive to start within 24 hours of it. Aside from creating refugee flows into Europe to assist his authoritarian allies in their next elections,
further fracture civil society in the West and redirect munitions flowing into Ukraine to instead go to Israel, I believe he has another goal. He knew the attack would provoke an IDF invasion of Gaza (which Biden has so far headed off) and that Hezbollah would wait until the IDF
got bogged down in Gaza before launching everything they've got at Israel (what you're currently seeing is probing attacks). Putin is hoping that Israel responds to Hezbollah's full entry into the war with a nuclear weapon directed at either the Bekaa valley or Iran, which he...
As half-assed as this coup feels, it's been in the works for years. We'll find out there was significant participation by police forces. The main reason it failed(and it will fail) is that they were never able to generate a controlled opposition to wage fake battles in the street
and they put a lot of effort into that over the years. There needs to be an investigation into the f*ckery that's been committed against the American people when this is over and a whole lot of people need to be banned from police work.
There was nothing particularly secret about the coup - it was a collection of horizontally-aligned factions that had been looking for a leader dumb and reckless enough to get behind. Plenty of journalists and documentarians have been profiling the plotters for years and been like
Thanks for the retweets @pattonoswalt@joshtpm@AshaRangappa_ and @JuddApatow and welcome new followers. I'm not Gen Clark, I'm his son and was only an LT when I left the army. It's important to know this pandemic is merely a consequence of Trump's 1000s of bad decisions...
...of which there will be many more which will weaken our country for decades. People will continue to suffer under his inept leadership, primarily the poor and marginalized, but the pain will extend to all of us. Please help your neighbors, especially the vulnerable. We have...
...harder times coming. While I have your attention, please assist native tribes in our country who are under particular threat from this pandemic. A good starting point to find out where to give can be found in this thread.
The founders of our republic laid out 27 reasons for their revolution against King George in the Declaration of Independence. You would be stunned to see how many of them apply to Trump. Know your history.
"He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good." Take your pick - climate change, Russia sanctions, environmental regulations, continuation of the war in Yemen.
"He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance" - you will not see a single Republican governor address climate change. His administration seeks to overturn California clean air standards and force coastal oil extraction upon the states.