Just an extremely Normal thing to say
Reminder they want to increase the budget for ICE from 3.5 to 45 billion dollars.
Reminder the majority of that will be for building new detention centers.
Reminder ICE are *currently* detaining tourists who can pay for a plane ticket home and people with visa issues that were already resolved, because they have to make quota so Trump can brag about the numbers going up.
Reminder most of these people were already in the immigration system - that's why they were easy to detain.
Reminder this is all at taxpayer expense.
Reminder these are people.
Every Trump and Musk lie unravels in two seconds. #SocialSecurity
“Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., said he had “absolute admiration for President Zelenskyy” after the meeting. “He went into the Oval Office and stood up to Russia’s best negotiators.””
— “Time for Europe to step up”: Contentious Trump-Zelenskyy meeting stuns politicians, world leaders
The end of American democracy.
volodymyr zelenskyy is the strongest man alive for sitting through this utter bullshit without swearing or punching the fuckers or angry crying. fuck trump and fuck everyone who did not vote for harris and fuck russia.
like i can’t even read this bit of news without feeling humiliated and i’m not even fucking there.
i am terrified that i will have to sit back and watch the loss of ukraine in front of my eyes.