Good lawd… The (in)humanity.
Capital Gazette Reporter To Trump: ‘I Couldn’t Give A F**k’ About Your Prayers
“I’m going to need more than some thoughts and prayers, because our whole lives have been shattered,” said shooting survivor Selene San Felice.
Capital Gazette Reporter To Trump: ‘I Couldn’t Give A F**k’ About Your Prayers | HuffPost
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Family Vacationing In N.H. Reeling After Arrest At Checkpoint 90 Miles From The Border
ICE is not promoting national security. They are harassing people of color and over-loading the system with people who should not be there.
…And we, as a society, pay for this garbage.
Can I see your papers?
Ivanka Trump’s Chinese-Made Products Conveniently Spared From Dad’s Tariffs
The first daughter doesn’t appear to believe in “made in America.”
Well, duh….
The Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Program |
The Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Program | Human Rights First
When we refuse to protect our allies they have no reason to stand by us. Cutting SIV visas is a threat to national security, pure and simple.
Mitch McConnell Confronted By Protesters Asking: ‘Where Are The Babies?’
Mitch McConnell Confronted By Protesters Asking: ‘Where Are The Babies?’ | HuffPost
Oh, Elaine… SYing something doesn’t make it true. Your husband is definitely complicit in anything he goes along with, including separating families at the border in a pre-nazi racist exercise of fascism.
Fox & Friends has another irrational childish tantrum when faced with Democrat who supports abolishing ICE
“[Trump] keeps saying, ‘we’re doing this to to go stop all of the crime, all of the MS-13.’ I think it was 228 people at the end of last fiscal year out over 300,000 that were MS-13. So again, he’s taking a group of people and branding them as criminals, which is just false.” (According to the Border Patrol, only 56 unaccompanied minors out of the hundreds of thousands who have crossed the border since 2012 were suspected of having MS-13 ties.)
…“How many illegals have you captured?” Kilmeade said. “How many people have you cracked down on?… You seem more concerned about illegals than you are about the men and women who decided to go through the academy and qualify for ICE.” [insert eyeroll for people who think law officers are more valuable than the people the are supposedly charged with protecting here.]
“It was created after 9/11 with main focus being around people who might have terrorist activity,” Pocan said. “Now we are going after people with traffic violations at a church or at a workplace. That doesn’t make any sense. So the president is using this as own police force. That is something that is completely wrong.”
…As the show went to commercial break, Pocan noted that his bill wouldn’t actually result in the firing of agents. Instead, they would be reassigned to other law enforcement agencies that would take over tasks currently performed by ICE.
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Immigration Attorney Says ICE Broke Her Foot, Locked Her Up
Immigration Attorney Says ICE Broke Her Foot, Locked Her Up
Law enforcement personnel with no oversight. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat. Just what this country needs!
Progressive Democrats increasingly criticize Israel, and could reap political rewards
Ocasio-Cortez won the primary, causing shockwaves throughout the Democratic Party. She is one of several progressives who has increasingly called out Israel’s actions — and the political gamble seems to be paying off.
…[Senator Bernie] Sanders, who is independent, called Israel’s intervention in Gaza “disproportionate” and called on the U.S. to “treat Palestinian people with respect and dignity.”
…Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has courted controversy among Democrats, too, by fostering close ties with the Republican Party, actively opposing former President Barack Obama’s efforts to negotiate the Iran nuclear deal, and lobbying President Trump to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
…Public opinion polling shows that sentiments have indeed shifted, especially among Democrats. According to a Pew Research poll conducted earlier this year, Democratic voters sympathize about equally with the Israelis as the Palestinians, with sympathy for Israel dropping 16 percentage points in the last two years.
Telhami said Democrats have increasingly seen the conservative Israeli government as one that has an opposing set of values.
Progressive Democrats increasingly criticize Israel, and could reap political rewards – ABC News
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ACLU Obtains Documents Showing Widespread Abuse of Child Immigrants in U.S. Custody
Law students in the International Human Rights Clinic examined a subset of the records obtained. The documents show numerous cases involving federal officials’ verbal, physical and sexual abuse of migrant children; the denial of clean drinking water and adequate food; failure to provide necessary medical care; detention in freezing, unsanitary facilities; and other violations of federal law and policy and international law. The documents provide evidence that U.S. officials were aware of these abuses as they occurred, but failed to properly investigate, much less to remedy, these abuses.
Examples of the documented abuses include allegations that CBP officials:
- Punched a child’s head three times
- Kicked a child in the ribs
- Used a stun gun on a boy, causing him to fall to the ground, shaking, with his eyes rolling back in his head
- Ran over a 17-year-old with a patrol vehicle and then punched him several times
- Verbally abused detained children, calling them dogs and “other ugly things”
- Denied detained children permission to stand or move freely for days and threatened children who stood up with transfer to solitary confinement in a small, freezing room
- Denied a pregnant minor medical attention when she reported pain, which preceded a stillbirth
- Subjected a 16-year-old girl to a search in which they “forcefully spread her legs and touched her private parts so hard that she screamed”
- Left a 4-pound premature baby and her minor mother in an overcrowded and dirty cell full of sick people, against medical advice
- Threw out a child’s birth certificate and threatened him with sexual abuse by an adult male detainee.
The report also shows evidence of CBP holding migrant children in excess of the 72-hour maximum period permitted by law, as well as officials’ efforts to deport children without due process and via coercion.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh. Monsterous.
Hawaii Passes Bill Banning Sunscreen That Can Harm Coral Reefs – The New York Times
An estimated 14,000 tons of sunscreen is believed to be deposited in oceans annually with the greatest damage found in popular reef areas in Hawaii and the Caribbean. In 2015, the nonprofit Haereticus Environmental Laboratory surveyed Trunk Bay beach on St. John, wherevisitors ranged from 2,000 to 5,000 swimmers daily, and estimated over 6,000 pounds of sunscreen was deposited on the reef annually. The same year, it found an average of 412 pounds of sunscreen was deposited daily on the reef at Hanauma Bay, a popular snorkeling destination in Oahu that draws an average of 2,600 swimmers each day.
Sunscreen alternatives …[with] mineral sunblocks with zinc oxide and titanium dioxide ..must be “non-nano” in size to be considered reef-safe. If they are below 100 nanometers, the creams can be ingested by corals.
Hawaii Passes Bill Banning Sunscreen That Can Harm Coral Reefs – The New York Times
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Don’t pack sunscreen on your next trip to Hawaii. These hotels will make sure you’re covered
Before you pack for your next trip to Hawaii, be prepared to leave your favorite sunscreen at home. And don’t worry, your skin won’t fry.
Scientific research shows that oxybenzone – also known as BP-3, contained in many sunscreen lotions, cremes and sprays — is extremely harmful to the state’s fragile coral reefs
Check-in desks and towel supply stations at the company’s nearly 50 properties throughout the state will allow guests to swap their oxybenzone-containing sunscreen for a free bottle of Raw Elements, a reef-safe sunscreen.
Don’t pack sunscreen on your next trip to Hawaii. These hotels will make sure you’re covered
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Hawaii may ban sunscreen that kills coral reefs. What kind is safe?
State lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday banning sunscreens containing oxybenzone and octinoxate, chemicals believed to cause harm to marine life and coral reefs.
..The bill …prohibit[s] the sale and distribution of sunscreen with those chemicals on the island “without prescription from a licensed healthcare provider.”
“Amazingly, this is a first-in-the-world law,” Gabbard, who introduced the bill, told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. “When you think about it, our island paradise, surrounded by coral reefs, is the perfect place to set the gold standard for the world to follow. This will make a huge difference in protecting our coral reefs, marine life, and human health.”
Hawaii may ban sunscreen that kills coral reefs. What kind is safe?
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