Bier: "Over the last 30 years, we looked at all the government budgets -- federal, state, and local combined. Immigrants reduce deficits by $14.5 trillion."
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🚨👀 As Trump/Hegseth angles for billions more to bomb Iran, they are spending:
- $6.9 million on 🦞 tail
- $15.1 million on 🥩 (in one month)
- $2 million for Alaskan king 🦀
& millions more (while cutting benefits for poor all across the country)
ICE is buying warehouses across America and calling them detention centers. But there's a problem no one in the federal government seems to want to answer: where does the water come from? A thread. 🧵
Happening NOW: @burningriverbrigad.bsky.social, @indivisibleneo.bsky.social, and 70+ other groups are at Citizens Bank branches calling on the bank to stop backing ICE detention companies.
Can't make it to a protest? Help us amplify these folks' work!
#deicecitizensbank #iceout
Check out the front page of the Boston Globe business section!
@de-icecitizensbank.org
In December, @paulthedogman.bsky.social and I closed our account at Citizens Bank to tell them we won’t do business with a “community” bank that finances ICE prisons.
Today, joined with protesters all over the East Coast to send them the same message. #DeICECitizens
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
BOYCOTT CITIZENS BANK
Today is national day of protest against Citizens Bank for bankrolling ICE detention centers. Good turnout in Concord, MA 🗽
Spread the word. 📣
Boycottcitizens.org
Turn up the volume to hear the music 🎶
We need better Democrats.
Not a single dollar more for Trump’s illegal war.
I used to think that folks AirTagging their kids were kinda wild but I’m ngl if I lived in the USA right now, that might be a solid choice
Can you imagine how hellish it must be to try to interpret his disjointed trains of barely thought? But hey, he can tell when his interpreter is bad.
imagine how much carbon this war is emitting; not sure "humanity" is the word; maybe not very bright primate digging own grave
Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.
He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.
The grift continues.
So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.
That's roughly $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
People do not want this.
They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
I feel sick. Some of these people were praying that Trump would come and free them, and instead they get this.
Just when you think US political culture has hit a new low a Republican Senator decides to break the arm of a protesting veteran in the middle of a Senate Committee on Armed Services meeting. To "help out and de-escalate the situation."
The Trump DOJ has been taking down Epstein files.
The massive tranche of files the Justice Department currently maintains is more than 65,000 pages shorter than what the agency initially released, according to a CBS analysis — and the number continues to fluctuate.
Kash Patel fired FBI counterintelligence staffers responsible for monitoring threats from Iran.
He did this just before Trump launched this insane war due to their involvement in the FBI's investigation of Trump's classified documents scandal.
This admin is a threat to our nation’s safety.
This 2020 Trump speech is going viral.
President Trump has done what he promised not to do—start a new overseas conflict—and it's already costing the American taxpayer over $5 billion.
An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
tucson.com/news/local/b...
“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
War is not the answer! Congress must act to end this illegal and immoral war.
The House plans to take up this measure as soon as tomorrow - they have an opportunity to do the right thing.
AMERICA BABY WE'LL SHOW YOU WHY WE DON'T HAVE HEALTHCARE
[runs out of war materiel]
The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.
They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.
The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.
That frigate was at the international fleet review in India BTW, along with US forces. This amounts to sinking a ship under a flag of truce so it's even worse than it seems
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has received 110+ complaints from US service members across 30+ sites about commanders using religious rhetoric
Including calling the war with Iran "part of God's plan" and Trump "anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon”
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
