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SmokeInFog

Homeland Security Blasts GOP’s ‘Evidence Free’ Impeachment Articles Against DHS Chief

"Republicans don’t want to fix the [immigration] problem; they want to campaign on it," the department said in a statement

House Republicans released articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday, prompting the federal government to respond in a scathing memo calling the impeachment effort “unconstitutional [and] evidence free.” In addition to accusing Mayorkas of not following immigration laws, the GOP’s articles claim Mayorkas “terminated contracts” to build Donald Trump’s wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Republican House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green said in a statement on Sunday, “These articles lay out a clear, compelling, and irrefutable case for Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ impeachment.”

“Republicans don’t want to fix the problem; they want to campaign on it,” DHS wrote in a memo responding to the articles. “That’s why they have undermined efforts to achieve bipartisan solutions and ignored the facts, legal scholars and experts, and even the Constitution itself in their quest to baselessly impeach Secretary Mayorkas.”

The statement continued, saying that the “farce of an impeachment is a distraction from other vital national security priorities and the work Congress should be doing to actually fix our broken immigration laws.”

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#republican #politics #gaslighting #DHS #impeachment #farce #UScongress #RollingStone #magazine

Homeland Security Blasts GOP's 'Evidence Free' Impeachment Articles Against DHS Chief

Republicans released articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday. The government called them "evidence free."

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Ted

Here is a #Florida Man you'll hear more about soon.

Frost has roots in a broad swath of American life: His parents, who adopted Frost at birth, are a Cuban American woman and a white man from Kansas. His birth parents were a Lebanese Puerto Rican woman and a Haitian man.

Frost, who is Black, spoke both English and Spanish at home, and he capitalized on his multicultural upbringing to campaign in a district that’s as diverse as his own origins.

Still, Frost stands out for a resume that doesn’t match his age.

He’s been politically active for a decade, mainly campaigning against gun violence and for abortion rights in organizations like March for Our Lives and the American Civil Liberties Union.

“Maxwell is a very ambitious and incredibly special person, a special candidate. I think he has a very bright future,” said Victoria McGroary, the executive director of Bold PAC, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus campaign arm.

“He is both extremely young and energetic and has a decade of experience doing the work to bring about change,” added McGroary.

#MaxwellFrost #USCongress #Democrat #candidate

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3614214-who-is-maxwell-alejandro-frost-the-25-year-old-democratic-house-nominee/

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Michael

Jimmy Kimmel on Elementary School Shooting in Uvalde, Texas

"Not a time for moments of silence" (by itself, again and again) - Jimmy Kimmel tonight, tears in his eyes

So tonight I saw this and compelled to come out of web retirement and update my resource on Children and Violence in order to share this video, mostly. Because nothing much has changed since Columbine, Parkland, Sandy Hook, one after another. (Yes, "woke", there are many mindful Americans who are equally baffled by the religion of guns before human life, and why we've just let the thoughts & prayers be the only result time after time.

So I updated that page, which - let me check if it's more than zero... yes, 101 people (or bots) visited today, not bad for a 21-year old page, unpublicized or promoted. I put it up in the immediate days following the attack, while working with children who witnessed it, teachers, and counselors. With PTSD like everyone else. Auto-pilot for a long while, right brain hazy and horrified and driven to do SOMETHING. In the next days I saw children's drawings and heard how they brought cookies to the firemen at the pit barricades.

Everyone can do something. besides sending thoughts and prayers. (Not that these are bad. But things much change! No?)

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[wonder if anyone reads past the new normal 7secs attention span? If so, congratulations, thanks, and this is 7th-inning stretch]

Fast forward, Columbine. Got me back to pursuing reasons and solutions for violence. (Spoiler: It's exponentially worse now)
But I worked with APA (psychology) and MTV (media/teen audience) giving talks on "Warning Signs" of suicide/depression etc..

A few years of calm between mass shootings. Fast forward again, it's now a near-weekly event. Four years of #TrumpVirus added to existing PTSD amplified by COVID & a division and tribalism plus a big cult of conspiracy & alternative facts. Thank you #Fox/ #GQP)

Here we are. A depleted and tribal Congress ministering to NRA and #TrumpVirus, deadlocked and gone for va-cay ...
Anything at all - pressure on OUR employees, supposedly working for WE the PEOPLE - "representatives". (scary thought too)

#StaySafe #Violence #guns #massacres #psychology #Children #PTSD #Fenichel #USCongress #culture

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Michael

A very thin-sliced review/commentary of "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future".
Jonathan Martin & Alexander Burns

I hope this isn’t a spoiler. Actually, as of today, the day after another massacre in a school, most people mindful of daily national events are well aware that Congress is broken. This book zooms in on individuals and coalitions/committees and many of the leaders, renegades, heroes, and pains. But it weaves it all together, fly-in-the-wall style using actual quotes, interviews, records etc.

The focus is on that first year, plus the lead-up to the 2020 election, and the four horribly destructive years of #TrumpVirus.
And it brings us almost to today, in real-time, with Sen. Chris Murphy shining as a rare "good guy" in Congress, which we see again now in his determined crusade to curb massive gun violence, like nowhere else, and growing exponentially.

Some governors and Congressmen are vaguely defending guns say to focus on “mental health”.
Start with Governors and Congress first, please… A 2 party system of delusional MAGAts vs. "dysfunctional dems" is not a great plan.

#USCongress #GQP #books #dysfunction #partisanship #ThisWillNotPass #Congressional #Inaction #2party #truth

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Michael

Conservative Democrats’ Lucrative Career Path

Crying all the way to the bank, er, offshore accounts.... Good argument for both term limits and repealing Citizens United so people are re-defined as humans and the corruption is curtailed by a process like the civilized world embraces: public-funded campaigns.

One thing very accurate that they've done here with the title: calling them "conservative" rather than "moderate Dems". If that.
Maybe we need a 3rd party, "Truth and Transparency", and a 4th party for these two and many friends: "Corrupt Party". And party they do.

#MakeAmericaSaneAgain #Corruption #USCongress

Conservative Democrats’ Lucrative Career Path

Democratic senators who oppose core party agenda items and upset the base can’t lose — because if they do, they get paid.

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