When #MAGA Republicans hold power, the Constitution isn't upheld:
#DeathSantis signed a new law today that guts oversight of police.
The law furthers limit local civilian police oversight boards by barring them from investigating allegations of police misconduct. Police unions support the law -it protects the rights of officers. Critics: another blow to police accountability efforts already shackled by existing state laws giving cops extraordinary legal protections-.
#DeathSantis has also signed this inhumane bill: local governments in Florida are now blocked from requiring heat protections for outdoor workers, driving a stake through the heart of Miami-Dade County’s efforts to keep farmworkers & construction workers safe from extreme heat.
Cities & counties in Florida can no longer mandate employers offer water, rest & shade to their outdoor employees on hot days, which are increasing due to #globalwarming.
Red🩸states are dueling on amorality & taking away the most Const. rights.
"When you think of the Due Process Clause of the C -what rights do you imagine it's protecting? The right not to be imprisoned by the govt w/o a fair trial... Acc to a 4-3 LA SC majority in Bienvenu v. Diocese of Lafayette, though, a due process right you may have failed to consider is the right of priests & their enablers not to be held accountable by victims of their sexual abuse."
The Republican AGs Assc. (#RAGA) is a pol org. that helps AGs in red🩸states to push extreme policies. They use their state’s legal power to end abortion access, assail LGBTQ+ rights, attack social justice, destroy our ENVIR, assault our democracy.
L Leo, the architect of the #MAGA hijacking of the SC that overturned Roe v Wade, has been RAGA’s biggest funder for years. Alongside Leo are Big: Oil & Gas, Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, the Gun lobby...
#TFG & Republicans attract abhorrent people to their party:
"A Trump county chair in New Hampshire is a former cop who threatened to kill his colleagues in shooting spree, murder his chief and rape the chief's wife because the department suspended him 5 days for his relationship with a high school girl."
Speaker Johnson: "Shamefully since #Oct7, Biden has transformed into a anti-Israel pres... He’s more concerned, seemingly, with placating the anti-Semitism in his base than standing with our historic & vitally impt. ally... it’s shocking to us, but it continues. Just days ago, >50 HSE Dems called for Biden to withhold the arms transfers to Israel. It’s wrong & it’s dangerous & it shows the Dems are losing their MORAL CLARITY." #GOPLies#GOPDeathCulthttps://www.mediaite.com/news/mike-johnson-rips-anti-israel-biden-for-placating-the-anti-semitism-in-his-base/
#TFG foments domestic terrorism (#J6, agst judges.. & some of his followers have perpetrated violent crimes). If Americans don't agree with TFG/Rs: MAY BE TARGETED:
"Many Americans who recently bought guns open to pol violence."
Large numbers of Americans who've bought guns over the past 4 years or who regularly carry their loaded weapons in public are willing to engage in pol violence, even to the extent of shooting a perceived opponent-.
Rs know that⬆️immigration would solve the worker shortage, but use it for...
Thankfully the WI Gov vetoed the GOP #childlabor bill that would've weakened regs.
R backers say the bill would've sped up hiring by cutting red tape & making it easier for kids to work.
Evers: “I object to eliminating a process that ensures our kids are protected from employers that may exploit youth & inexperience or subject children to hazardous or illegal working conditions."
From 2003 to 25 Mar 2024, a total of 888 worldwide human cases of influenza A(H5N1), 463 deaths (52% CFR), reported to WHO from 23 countries. Almost all cases of human infection with avian influenza A(H5N1) linked to close contact with infected live or dead birds, or contaminated environments... Avian flu outbreaks among birds now number >1100 in the US -across 48 states. Basically be cautious around any birds that you encounter for the near future bc🚨~50% mortality-."
-E Feigl-Ding
Ground-up chicken waste fed to cattle may be behind bird flu outbreak in US cows. Experts warn that lax regs could see the virus spread to US pig farms *serious consequences for human health.
In contrast to Britain & Europe, American farmers are still allowed to feed cattle & other farm animals ground-up waste from other animals incl. birds. The virus has already killed millions of animals worldwide since 2021.
If Dems improve their messaging & targeted ads, they should win more Congressional seats, & others down ballot. The Republicans' agenda, esp. cutting the social safety net, including beloved programs, & enforcing even part of #Project2025, would likely ensure Dems the US House. Senate: more difficult. New Survey:
TX GOP pol leaders repeatedly let down their constituents, but they always remind them of their "freedoms": guns, little regulation, low taxes...
After going years during the pandemic w/o ending MDCD & CHIP coverage for anyone, TX HHS began the process last spring of rechecking eligibility. Some 2.1M ppl were dropped at least temporarily as of late Feb. Only 700K were determined ineligible -other >1.3M who lost coverage bc TX couldn’t confirm -eligibility.
A Republican CMTE chose Greg Lopez -a fmr mayor -as the party nominee to replace Rep Buck. His nomination almost guarantees he'll complete Buck’s term.
He was arrested for driving under the influence. In 1993, he & his wife were charged with dom. violence. He allegedly shoved Lisa, 6 months pregnant at the time, to the floor & kicked her after she hit him on the top of the head -each pleaded guilty to a single charge of harassment.
"We just voted to allow foster families to exempt foster kids from vaccines. Speaker called on one Dem member then a GOP called the question. Multiple Dem members had their hands raised, me included. We objected to the question, they voted us down and passed this dangerous bill. We took an oath to do nothing injurious to TN citizens, we need discussion on this bill-."
The Republican study CMTE: released its 2025 budget entitled “Fiscal Sanity to Save America.” In their austerity manifesto is a block of text concerned with a crucial priority for the party: ensuring children aren’t being fed at school.
8 states offer all students, regardless of HH income, free school meals -& more states are trending in the direction. Congressional Rs are looking to stop the cause.
Republicans give to the rich, & harm women, children, seniors...
Given the Republicans' claim to be the party of 'family values,' this budget would eliminate SS spousal benefits +children's benefits, for middle-class families -would punish women who take time out of the workforce to care for children & other loved ones.
The caucus incl. 285 bills & initiatives from 192 members in its budget plan: proposals threatening abortion care, birth control & IVF-.
Wake up America. If you don't live in a state with a Dem gov. & legislature, you'll likely be dead by age 68.
h/t D Gloster
"It’s all about the policy environment ppl live in.
Longevity in the ST: aggressive tobacco control & taxation policies -quickest way you can do that. For the LT: we have to launch our children into healthier trajectories by giving them great educational & socioeconomic opportunities & access to clean air & water & healthy foods."
"R MOC are determined to continue to shorten the lifespans of Americans by forcing brutal Red🩸State policies on the entire nation -literally killing ppl.
Excess deaths in the US v others worldwide: researchers found the US had lower mortality rates than peer countries in the 1930s-50s & similar mortality in the 1960s-70s. Begin. in the 1980s: steady⬆️in the number of missing Americans, 622K in 2019 -almost all entirely the result of R fed & st. policies-."
Limbaugh: "With Covid, I've been waiting for the racial component -hits African Americans harder,” he giddily intoned, “harder than illegal aliens, women -disproportionate representation!”
Nothing to do with the biology of race or Covid -systemic racism. African Americans die disproportionately from heart disease to strokes... +over-repped in low-paid public-facing service jobs -more easily catch Covid.
No US or MX agency keeps a count of migrant deaths. BP maintains a nat. database but a damning 2022 USG found: agency failed to record all incidents & to report them to Congress, req. by law.
State troopers & NG had unrolled spools of concertina wire along the banks of the Rio Grande & later would set buoys in the river. Drownings there continue to mount: at least 17 migrants had drowned in 2024 as of mid-Feb.
The "Gilded Age" lives on, but in 2024, Republicans are setting a new standard for human rights violations. Workers wouldn't be allowed rest breaks, even in the severe heat of FL's summers, which has worsened with #globalwarming.
28-11: The FL state Senate just passed a bill to remove local govts' authority to adopt heat standards, such as guaranteed shade and rest breaks, for workers.
The bill would make all local heat protections “void & prohibited.”
Horror at the border: Gov Abbott has been winning his cases with GOP judges & RW courts. Abbott's is making #TFG's sinister immigration dreams come true.
"Appeals court reverses order blocking Texas immigration law, setting up SC showdown.
The 5th US CC of appeals late Sat reversed a lower court’s ruling that halted a new state law allowing TX police to arrest people suspected of crossing the border illegally."
Republican lawmakers appear to have been transported from the "Gilded Age". They're taking away #WorkerRights...
Several pieces of legislation to erode worker’s protections in KY have begun moving thru the leg. process this year, incl. a bill to allow teenagers to work longer & later hours.
Another measure in that surge of leg. cleared a CMTE vote -would strip KY’s meal & rest break protections & 7th-day overtime.
AZ GOP lawmakers want to make KILLING MIGRANTS: LEGAL *from #TFG's playbook. Red states &🩸areas in the US are amping up their cruelty -incl. extrajudicial killing🚨.
AZ Rs are advancing a bill that'd allow people to legally kill someone accused of attempting to trespass or actively trespassing on their prop. Leg. *expected to be vetoed by the Dem gov, would legalize the murder of undoc. immigrants, who often have to cross ranches that sit on the bord-.