@DemocracyMattersALot Psychopathic stone-cold, power-hungry accountants like Kristi Noem count numbers, not lives.
Even when it's about lives in states governed by fellow-Confederate zombies like Greg Abbott.
Emails provided to Congress by a whistleblower and 15-year veteran of the Justice Department reveal that administration officials went to striking lengths to prop up the claim that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a “leader” of the MS-13 gang. https://trib.al/vc68chl
Professor Caravello was swarmed by ICE agents and thrown into a van after he tried to assist a protestor in a wheelchair by getting a tear gas canister out from under their chair.
SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “I don’t want to hear another Republican in Congress ever again pretend to care about deficits and debt… explain why 🇺🇸 families have to pay $3000 to ride an ambulance when we’re handing out million-dollar tax breaks to the wealthiest.” Amen. #MedicareForAll
@mls14 Our nation is greatly diminished, period. @GiftArticles
@GiftArticles @AlliFlowers
You can watch her (and her husband and their lawyers) speak about the situation here. Incredible people, what strength. Our nation is greatly diminished when our government attacks such people.
FEMA Granted Multiple Flood Map Exemptions For Camp Mystic
"Marcy Wheeler of EmptyWheel notes that one reason Noem has been cutting so ferociously at FEMA is because she has run through the money Congress allocated for HHS with her single-minded focus on immigration."
It has to be noted: a lot of Americans voted for this to be done to themselves and family members. Those voters need to be held accountable for what they chose for themselves — and all of us.
Florida Governor DeSantis refused to release names of people the state has forcibly interned in the Everglades, but today the Miami Herald released a list confirmed by DHS. https://archive.ph/2025.07.13-114542/https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article310541770.html (archived version, no paywall).
@RealJournalism
"For his efforts, DeSantis has received praise from Donald Trump and the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem. This kind of abuse of immigrants – rounding them up, cramming them into detention centers that are little more than cages, and letting them die there of heat, illness or neglect – is exactly the kind of policy that aligns with the Trump administration’s aims."
As Heather Cox Richardson reports today, we now know that the day after the lethal floods occurred in Texas, Kristi Noem did not renew the contracts for four call center companies answering emergency calls for FEMA help — so that on July 6, FEMA answered only 35.8% of the calls it received and the following day, only 15.9%:
Trump Threatens Rosie O’Donnell's Citizenship For Criticizing His TX Floods Response
Newlywed detained by ICE freed after 141 days and two deportation attempts
https://wapo.st/4lJNmmF
Great show this morning on Velshi, MSNBC about the US dollar as it sinks as a result of Trump destroying the integrity of our institutions, trying to prop up his damage by lowering interest rates, which will ignite inflation, and likely result in the rejection of the US$ around the world coming back to bite us on the ass. My take: as long as the Psycho is enabled, expect the US economy to sync to historic lows with blows.
Um, wake up America now or not, whatever. 😐
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