Melissa Starking

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#MessWithTexas

Drowned out: While Texans beg for help, the GOP redraws the map to cheat.

The purpose of the special session wasn’t about flood relief. It was about stealing elections.

Let me make it plain: Over 100 dead. Flood victims plead for help. Republicans were busy rigging maps for Trump.

We’re spending a lot of time talking about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. But don’t forget their victims. The survivors.

Not all of them made it. At least two women connected to Epstein’s abuse have died by suicide. The real number may be higher.

Jeffrey Epstein accuser, Maria Farmer, speaks out.

ICE is about to get access to Medicaid records—a HIPAA violation.

Quick facts:
Undocumented immigrants don’t get full Medicaid. They only qualify for emergency care like childbirth or life-threatening treatment.

States like CA & NY offer limited coverage, but its’s state-funded, not federal.

When a government starts targeting former intelligence officials, law enforcement leaders, and anyone who once investigated or criticized those in power, it’s not just a red flag, it’s a page straight from the authoritarian playbook.

I think we all know why they are saying there’s no list now. Guess who’s all over it and in lots of pictures and videos?

Trump has been lying, which we all knew, but now there’s hard evidence. For the first time, El Salvador has confirmed that the United States is responsible for more than 130 Venezuelan migrants who’ve been imprisoned for months in its notorious megaprison.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans.

This is Washington at its worst.

We need to ban Congressional stock trading.

Congrats to Lisa Murkowski on voting for a bill that she herself admitted was not ready in hopes that the House would change it. Now it’ll become law. She had the power to stop it, and instead chose to become complicit. That’s her legacy.

It’s amazing how fast they can build a concentration camp: “Alligator Alcatraz”— but they can’t manage to fix a levee, fund a hospital, or get clean water to poor communities.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren I'm angry. You should be too. But this fight isn't over.

After 26 hours of fighting on the Senate floor, Republicans voted to rip health care from millions of people and let little babies go hungry. And they cheered.

I'm angry. You should be too. But this fight isn't over.

Not just excess, it’s a system built to keep people hungry so the rich can keep feasting. But the masses are waking up.

Powerful video…

Idaho shooting: two dead after firefighters ambushed by gunman while responding to fire Shelter-in-place alert sent to Coeur d’Alene residents after multiple people were shot at while controlling fire

Offline today… then I saw this.

WTF?

This absolutely breaks my heart.

In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?”

🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.

Brilliant timing.

Unsaid: ‘Make America Healthy Again’ means kill the sick Charles Gaba tells me that that, for Robert F Kennedy Jr, “would make those who survive healthier on average, achieving his ‘maha’ goal.”

Interview with healthcare policy expert @charlesgaba.com, founder of ACAsignups.net.

RFK Jr. policies aim for “‘survival of the fittest,’ in which the strong should rule and the weak should die.”

He’ll make the population healthier by killing off the sick.

www.editorialboard.com/unsaid-make-...

what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.

Kibble or dry food, I've never heard of the other two

Trump plunges the US into a new war In fewer than six months in office, the self-proclaimed anti-war president has engrossed the US into a new war in the Middle East

"Trump has spent the last five months vowing that the Ukraine-Russia war would never have happened if he was president, vowing that the Israel-Gaza war would never have happened if he was president. And yet the reality is that not only has he not avoided war, but he’s plunged us into a new one."

New Texas law will require Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom

In case you missed it…

“New Texas law will require Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom”

This is a cover-up‼️

DHS is illegally trying to change the rules on congressional oversight visits to facilities to hide human rights abuses.

“We know that they’re trying to hide all those abuses. That’s why it’s important that we can just get in at a moment’s notice.” – Rep. @gomez.house.gov

Four Democratic members of Congress from Illinois, Jesús “Chuy” García, Danny Davis, Delia Ramirez, and Jonathan Jackson, were denied entry to an ICE facility in Broadview, just outside Chicago, despite federal policy allowing them access without prior notice.

Ecological Thresholds, Abiotic Stress, and Climate Change: A Conceptual Framework As climate change accelerates, the risk of sudden, large-scale shifts in ecosystems is growing. A new USGS study examines the mechanisms behind these abrupt ecological transformations—known as thresho...

Roadmapping predictive large-scale ecosystem shifts caused by a warming climate - identifying locations and timing. A new USGS study 🌍

#Ecosystems #ClimateChange

www.usgs.gov/programs/cmh...

Cutting specialized suicide prevention services for LGBTQ youth — during Pride Month, no less — is disgusting.

To our LGBTQ youth: California has your back. We’ll keep investing in resources to help you lead safe and healthy lives.

This warning and the Fuhrer leaving the G7 to head straight to the situation room are VERY bad signs. The world should be very concerned…

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US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )

Israel has officially launched an attack on Iran; with reports of massive, back-to-back explosions rocking Tehran tonight.