More unnecessary deaths on the hands of Gov Abbott & his Republican enablers. Abbott’s political stunt meant that no one helped the migrants in distress. A woman & two children succumbed to the Rio Grand as they were seeking a better life in America. Another tragedy that should never have happened. #GOPDeathCult🩸
Gov Abbott has weaponized the border. He said Thurs: it's appropriate for TX LE to shoot migrants as a deterrent.
"A filing by DOJ at SCOTUS in the concertina wire case lays out TX’s rather stunning escalation of its efforts to interfere with fed IMG authorities along the border.
For those... sympathetic to what TX is doing, would you feel the same way if Gov Newsom used the CA NG/st police to block fed access to the border during a R admin?"-S Vladeck
Thankfully, seniors are waking up to the reality of the Republicans' plan to come after their Social Security & that a #TFG presidency would be chaotic:
Biden leads 60% to 39% among voters over 65 -panel agreed that TFG's attacks on Biden's age may be a major factor along with the chaos that always accompanies TFG is scaring off older voters.
Horrific, a US governor on the US-MX border would apparently like to shoot🔫 migrants at the border as a deterrent:
Texas Gov Greg Abbott tells Dana Loesch the "only thing we're not doing is shooting people" crossing the border because "the Biden Administration would charge us with murder." -Heartland Signal
Republicans are truly domestic terrorists. They'd kill their 'enemies', if given the chance.
Children go hungry while Republicans in🩸states deny aid bc of their dystopian views.
GOP govs. in 15 states are now rejecting a new, federally funded summer program to give food assistance to hungry children *expected to serve 21M kids starting around Jun, providing $2.5B in relief.
IA Gov Reynolds: saw no need to add$ to a program that helps food-insecure youths “when childhood obesity has become an epidemic.” NE Gov Pillen: "I don’t believe in welfare.”
Texas (& many red🩸states) let women die because of their draconian state abortion policies & laws.
The Fifth Circuit holds that federal emergency room protections (EMTALA) do not mandate that physicians provide abortions when that is the "stabilizing treatment" needed, upholding an injunction issued in a lawsuit brought by Texas. -Chris Geidner
We can't mitigate #ClimateChange bc of MOC, mostly Republicans, who block progress, & in this case, even monitoring the GHG emitted.
Written into a must-pass spending bill the House approved in Nov, the provision prevents the government from funding a law that requires big livestock farms to report how much methane their operations emit. Every spending bill Congress has passed in the last 14 years has contained similar disabling language.
TFG & his enablers imperil Americans because of those who make the threats, aid them, & carry out the threats.
"The all-American upholders of law & order in America are threatening to behead, strangle, hang, shoot, drown & otherwise murder CO's SCJs &💔 to kill their children.
CO SC justices face threats after disqualifying TFG from the ballot. The latest round of threats fits a familiar pattern: TFG faces a legal setback, & officials face threats."
Republicans will kill us by any means possible to achieve their end. GOP appointed judges are doing a lot of their dirty work:
Fed court blocks most of CA's new sensitive place law: The #2A doesn't allow keeping guns out of hospitals, playgrounds...
"Congratulations, Californians: A federal judge says you can finally bring your guns to playgrounds, banks, zoos, & the parking lots of nuclear sites—just as the Framers intended."
-Mark J Stern
House Republicans’ solution to curtail gun violence: “If democrats have their way, we will live in a world where 18, 19 and 20 year-olds can be drafted to defend the country but cannot legally acquire the means to defend themselves or their families.
This is immoral and unconstitutional. I've introduced HR 6782 to repeal this law.” -Rep Thomas Massie
Republicans DON'T CARE -they've refused to fund Ukraine🚨:
104 Russian torture chambers were discovered in the de-occupied territories of Ukraine. Ukraine's PG Kostin: UA is aware of 19 torture chambers on the territory of the Russian Fed. The largest number of torture chambers was found in Kharkiv region – 25 in Zaporizhzhia... He emphasized that almost 90% of prisoners & detainees are subjected to torture or some form of violence💔.
Evidence is clear,🩸states imperil lives, life expectancy is ⬇️ than in💙states:
Conservatives argue agst proposals for public remedy on grounds of futility. Public remedy will be ineffectual, they say, bc the problems it is meant to fix arise from intractable social conditions or human nature. The SOH responded to demands for gun reg. after a mass shooting: “at the end of the day” the true problem isn't guns but the “human heart" -he made futility argument. #GOPDeathCult https://prospect.org/health/2023-12-08-life-death-cost-conservative-power/
TX GOP leaders👏"Op Lone⭐" bc it glorifies LE & criminalizes IMG:
The investigation was launched after a medic & trooper assigned to Op Lone Star, initiated by Gov Abbott, told superiors that agents assigned to Shelby Park in Eagle Pass allegedly ordered troopers to push a group of migrants —incl. children & nursing babies —back into the river. Wingate emailed his supervisor & said other troopers were told to deny migrants water, even during high temps🚨.
Will the judge rule in her favor? The case seems like it would be a no-brainer, but...
Texas woman asks judge to let her terminate pregnancy after lethal fetal diagnosis
In an emergency request, the Center for Reproductive Rights is asking a judge to allow Kate Cox to terminate her pregnancy after she received a lethal fetal diagnosis.
Republicans are largely responsible for the record mass shootings. They won't do anything to thwart gun violence, that'd save lives💔. They've indoctrinated their voters to believe that Dems want to take away their guns, lie about💙cities...
The US just set a grim record for mass shootings & deaths in a single year. Fatal shootings this weekend in TX & WA pushed the nation to 38 mass killings with a gun this year -highest since at least 2006.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Texas' appeal in the border buoy lawsuit for the buoys in the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass. The COA affirms the lower courts ruling.
"This means that unless Texas successfully gets the Supreme Court to step in, Gov Abbott will have to take the buoy barrier out of the Rio Grande."
-A Reichlin-Meinick
Republicans are cruel, esp. their leaders. Pres Biden & most Dems support IHL & HR.
Sen McConnell: it's “totally unnecessary” for IL to abide by US standards re conditions for MIL aid ― offering a rare high-level acknowledgment that the US doesn't apply the law to IL as it does to other countries.
Asked about conversations among Dem senators about putting additional conditions on aid to IL... Sen McConnell: “I think it’s ridiculous.”
The GOP has many antidemocratic, fascist members, but if they actually hold power, like SOH #MAGAMike, they endanger us all. Another #MAGA Mike will likely become #TFG’s AG if he wins the 2024 presidential election. The fact that he’s even being considered & that he’s a player in the party, should instill fear & compel Americans to work to elect Democrats: Mike Davis is auditioning by calling for ‘gulags’ & ‘kids in cages’. #GOPFascists#GOPDeathCulthttps://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/mike-davis-trump-attorney-general-20231119.html