🔕: Surge in migrant “encounters” at the border *a way for the agency to request a⬆️enforcement budget.
An “encounter” is any person who's Q'ed by agents, or anyone whose doc is run thru the system. The aver. BP agent apprehends 6-7 ppl/mo. *suspect has a criminal record... not an everyday occurrence for maj. of agents. Apprehensions⬇️over time,⬇️83% from 1990’s to just 21/agent.
#RWMedia, & most of MSM #media, have helped poison the brains of voters. The outlets have bashed Pres Biden, eclipsing what they did to HRC, while giving #TFG & Republicans undue credit:
"That’s right: A flat majority says that economic conditions in our country are “poor.” Even though they simultaneously say that their own lives are going pretty well."
Rs are broadcasting their sinister plans. MSM isn't sounding the alarm:
Evidence is everywhere: the right is planning to end representative govt if it fails to legitimately return #TFG to the WH -clear a few months after #J6 that the RW propaganda apparatus was laying the groundwork to try again in 2024. #FoxNews & #MAGAMedia spent the weeks after the 2020 election fabricating & amplifying election fraud lies... to institutionalize TFG's #TheBigLie.
"Majorities know little or nothing about the Biden admin's INFRA bill, CHIPS act, ARP & IRA. While 40% of respondents said Biden has done more than Trump on INFRA, 37% said Trump had done more.
It's largely a media problem, large chunk is Fox News & Sinclair, their local affiliate, RW radio... If Biden did anything good, they won't hear it, but they'll hear lies, or gross distortions of the truth-."
#MAGAMike parrots his mentor's xenophobic rhetoric & says he'll help #TFG round up undocumented immigrants & deport ppl who've paid taxes & contributed to their communities & the workforce for years, sometimes, decades:
"Less than 24 hours after Democrats saved his job, Speaker Johnson vows to ‘round Up’ 11 million undocumented people, & likely deport them."
We need to amplify Republican's deceit, their plan to further cut taxes will be so costly, that the social safety net will be eliminated:
"Within this new document from the Congressional Budget Office, you can see that Trump’s current plan to extend every expiring tax break in his 2017 tax law would cost $4.6 trillion — with trillions of that going exclusively to very wealthy households."
-Bharat Ramamurti
"Top NYT Editor Offers Stunning Defense of Coverage of Trump."
"The failure to clearly describe Trump's plan to cancel prosecutions of himself & other elements of his legal strategy as threats to the system itself, that is, as efforts to put himself above the law."
The biggest GOP donors in America—Dick & Liz Uihlein—are targeting Tammy Baldwin. Their Super PAC is spending millions on a blatantly dishonest ad that'd to be recut due to inaccuracy🚨.
An ad declaring that Sen Baldwin voted to "cut MDCR funding & use that$ to subsidize EVs" was pulled & replaced with a new ad: Baldwin voted "to use MDCR$ for EV subsidies, instead of seniors."
Support Sen Baldwin & the other vulnerable Dem Senators & candidates.
In #Texas, #doctors face a real #SophiesChoice. They can either practice #medicine the way they’ve been taught, regardless of the personal consequences to themselves; they can try their best to comply with the arbitrary edicts of the #Republican state legislature and their own hapless medical board, and still risk #prison; or they can choose to leave the state of Texas and practice elsewhere.
Poor ppl aren't the problem, it's oppression by...
Ppl were dying of famine -but shared a sense of solidarity; while poor ppl did prey on each other -more the exception than the rule.
Poverty doesn’t cause the societal disintegration that leads to most crime, it turns out: #inequality does. America is now -most unequal developed county in the entire world.
The majority of Americans are struggling to get by -number in “middle class” below 50%.
A rotten week for #MAGA is a good week for Americans & democracy: “Raskin’s tongue-lashing does more than provide emotional satisfaction to Democrats fed up with reckless Republican antics (although no one should dismiss the value of an occasional dollop of Schadenfreude). In a media environment in which Comer’s farce is, in some corners, treated as though it were a legitimate oversight hearing, Democrats must go out of their way to draw bright lines.” #GOPLIes
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Republican leaders have lied to voters about their party’s “Christian values” for decades, & used their leverage to gain allegiance to the GOP. An egregious lie: Putin embraces their beliefs more than Pres Biden. Russia has systematically tortured & killed Christians in #Ukraine: “RU’s war on evangelical Christians. By hurting those who practice an “American” religion -the Kremlin can claim it is striking against American power—while picking on the powerless." #GOPLieshttps://time.com/6969273/russias-war-against-evangelicals/
Rs don't govern, they waste time/💰investigating innocent ppl for pol points, that no longer work:
At no point in recent months have GOP lawmakers in either chamber treated this process with even a hint of seriousness -entire impeachment ordeal was a cheap stunt, & Sen. Rs all but admitted that they wanted a trial as part of an election-season public-relations gambit. They weren't serious about border policy -quick to kill the bipartisan plan they requested-.
#RWMedia, #TFG, & most Republicans, have been successful at gaslighting voters. +It's an election interference case -the framing is poor from many in MSM.
"Only ~1/3 of Americans believe Trump did something illegal in the hush-$ case.
WhatsUp with #Republicans refusing to comply with lawful #subpoenas? Ever since #Trump brought his fat ass down the escalator, refusing to comply with subpoenas has become the default #Republican response. This petulant refusal to be held to account is pissing in the face of every American. We have a system of checks and balances that Republicans are committed to destroying.
"If not for the Bush tax cuts, debt/GDP would be⬇️indefinitely. Extending the Trump tax cuts would⬆️upward pressure on debt/GDP by >50%. Rs who pretend to care about debt are left pretending tax cuts pay for themselves.
Why do I say extending the Trump tax cuts would⬆️upward pressure on debt/GDP by more than 50%?
The fiscal gap measures how much primary deficit reduction you need to stabilize debt/GDP.
It's ~1.5% of GDP now.
Extending the Trump tax cuts would⬆️it to ~2.5%."
-B Kogan
Speaker Johnson: "Shamefully since #Oct7, Biden has transformed into a anti-Israel pres... He’s more concerned, seemingly, with placating the anti-Semitism in his base than standing with our historic & vitally impt. ally... it’s shocking to us, but it continues. Just days ago, >50 HSE Dems called for Biden to withhold the arms transfers to Israel. It’s wrong & it’s dangerous & it shows the Dems are losing their MORAL CLARITY." #GOPLies#GOPDeathCulthttps://www.mediaite.com/news/mike-johnson-rips-anti-israel-biden-for-placating-the-anti-semitism-in-his-base/
Gov Abbott continues to militarize the border, wasting$, resources...
"TX has spent $10B on Operation Lone Star so far, which has had virtually no impact at all on overall migration across the southern border."
-A Reichlin-Melnick
TX is building a massive new $400M anti-migrant MIL base. The "Forward Operating Base” outside of Eagle Pass will house up to 1,800 NG members, incl. an armory & have "surge" capacity for 2,300 troops.
Sen. Goober has humiliated himself every time he's opened his mouth, proving he doesn't have the slightest idea of what's going on. But, now we're supposed to believe he's a credible, authoritative voice on #Ukraine? GTFOHWTBS
"Biden is struggling. 3/4 of Americans: dissatisfied about the state of the country. Lots of failures over the past 20-yrs. Ppl who run our insts. have done very little to acknowledge or take responsibility for any of it, let alone undertake reforms that aim to fix what’s broken *why angry anti-estab. populism: become so prominent in our pol over the past decade. Biden speaks/acts as if he thinks US insts. are doing perfectly fine."
Pres Biden's economy is "GOLDILOCKS", but Republicans repeatedly tell voters that it's awful & that they & #TFG will make it better, like they did before. Their lies are significant, bc voters believe them:
Goldman: “We expect much stronger #GDP growth this year than consensus but nevertheless expect core PCE inflation to fall meaningfully, enough for the FOMC to cut 3X starting in Jun. We're often asked whether these forecasts aren’t contradictory.. We don’t think so.”
Republicans lie about readily available data, esp. #TFG:
Some ppl who've committed the misdemeanor of crossing the border illegally have gone on to commit much more serious crimes. TFG has repeatedly attempted to put a national spotlight on these cases, incl. some gruesome murders.
Relative to undoc. immigrants, US-born citizens are >2Xs more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5X more likely -for drug crimes, & >4X more likely -for property crimes.