Serena Busterina

I have absolute raging hatred for these people, like nothing else in my 50+ years. If we get out of this, I don't just want justice, I want vengeance and a reckoning like the world has never seen.

I want retaliation so severe, no one will ever consider doing something like this for centuries.

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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Thanks for this. I need to know what to get for people, where to spread my dollars.

It’s not well known but Food Stamps came about as a way to help American Farmers

I love Julia to bits but I couldn't help but hear the voice of Meryl Streep in this video.
Bless you Julia, thanks for all the laughs and good food!

More people have died in ICE custody in last 9 months than in the entire prior 4 years.

We hear of a few, but most barely make the news.

Cases like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel.

He was in perfect health when ICE detained him.

He disappeared in June & by August was in a vegetative state.

Yup. Sociopaths. Devoid of empathy.

Yup. And empathy. But that almost goes without saying.

Exactly. Why make the issue more complicated than it really is, by searching for some sort of reasoning behind all this. He's mentally and morally depraved.

Last Saturday my little community raised $10,000 for Feeding America, which they turn into 100,000 meals. I run a meme account and have done more for the hungry in this country than the president, who is intentionally starving women and children for no reason.

“Gavin Newsom did THE WORK on this campaign. Swiftly, legally, and clearly, he delivered the message and asked us to decide. It was a surgical and brilliant response to the moment. Proud to be a Californian today and every day.”

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Man @gavinnewsom’s team doesn’t mess around

But then there’s this and more like it…

Of course we did!!! California spirit for the win!

Wake up, Dick! I want you to see droves of New Yorkers voting in a Muslim socialist as mayor!

Dick?

Our Social Security does not belong to the government or politicians. Period.

I think you've got it exactly right.

This is an excellent idea!!!

Why bother to say it? Let Jordan subpoena him and then JUST DO IT!

Say what you want about Dick Cheney but he raised a daughter who stood up when it mattered.

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Will I see any of you there?

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103.

12 days of work in 103 days.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Reframe your mind. Grow your empathy.