St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ retweeted
The number one issue that drove Latinos to vote Democratic this year — apparently a key reason that Texas went blue — was Trump’s mass deportation policies.
Thus, it’s interesting to see the demand on the right for doubling down on this strategy.
Thus, it’s interesting to see the demand on the right for doubling down on this strategy.
Time to ramp up the deportations.
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St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ retweeted
CORRECTION: This post and opinion video states that Abdul El-Sayed gave his acceptance speech in Arabic. That’s not accurate. In fact, he said a few phrases in Arabic, but the majority of his speech was in English. The Free Press regrets the error.
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St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ retweeted
Exclusive:
ICE investigated how dozens of immigrant detainees died.
Our @kolyn_cheang and @stjbs got the records.
The findings are ‘damning’
Gift link: sfchronicle.com/us-world/artic…
ICE investigated how dozens of immigrant detainees died.
Our @kolyn_cheang and @stjbs got the records.
The findings are ‘damning’
Gift link: sfchronicle.com/us-world/artic…
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St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ retweeted
This is going to trigger a lot of conservative Christians but if you put aside doctrinal disagreements and you look at how Talarico treats people—and I don’t mean gay people, I mean his actual enemies like Ken Paxton—he is indisputably more Christlike than many Christians
this is true Christianity. i left the church after coming out. Talarico is tempting me to go back.
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St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ retweeted
While DHS officials repeatedly defended detainee medical care publicly, ICE’s investigators found that detention staff “deviated from safe limits of practice” or “did not provide medical care within safe limits of practice” for the 23 detainees."
Exclusive: ICE investigated how dozens of detainees died. The findings are ‘damning’ sfchronicle.com/us-world/artic…
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St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: ICE investigators, in documents obtained exclusively by @sfchronicle, provide stark evidence of the medical failures that preceded the deaths of 23 people in ICE detention.
They confirm findings of my and @stjbs' April investigation. sfchronicle.com/us-world/artic…
They confirm findings of my and @stjbs' April investigation. sfchronicle.com/us-world/artic…
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St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ retweeted
“millennials are so cringe”
shut up. we watched 2000 people die on live tv when we were 10 and then nothing ever really got better. so leave us alone with our emotional support emo album, arch support vans, and an ounce of optimism.
shut up. we watched 2000 people die on live tv when we were 10 and then nothing ever really got better. so leave us alone with our emotional support emo album, arch support vans, and an ounce of optimism.
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Exclusive: ICE investigated how dozens of detainees died. The findings are ‘damning’ sfchronicle.com/us-world/artic…
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St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ retweeted
"If they want to do schoolyard politics, all right, let’s throw down," –Senator-Elect @AbdulElSayed on being called cocky.
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BREAKING: Newsom commutes all 548 California death sentences in historic move sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…
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I grew up a preacher’s kid, and as an adult, I, along with many other millennials, distanced myself from Christianity because of changing personal beliefs AND also because of how revolting it was to see religion be co-opted as a tool of oppression and bigotry and hate
it is refreshing to see somebody giving voice to the side of religion that is good and wholesome and worth aspiring to
it is refreshing to see somebody giving voice to the side of religion that is good and wholesome and worth aspiring to
“An incarnational politics would take seriously the idea that every person is God”
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
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St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ retweeted
Struggling to imagine what Texas is going to look like in January. It’s like trying to picture a circular square
Attorney General-elect Nathan Johnson says he won’t sue out-of-state doctors who mail abortion pills to Texas.
bit.ly/4Ae5Br2
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Staggering. Generational, extinction level. Just wild reading the whole list.
Texas Democrats
—flipped a U.S. Senate seat
—flipped Governor
—flipped control of the state House, flipping at least 14 seats (likely more)
—flipped control of the Texas Board of Education
—flipped attorney general
—flipped 4 seats on the Texas Supreme Court
—flipped 3 seats on the Court of Criminal Appeals
—flipped 3 seats on a key Court of Appeals the GOP just created
—flipped lieutenant governor
—flipped controller
—flipped agriculture commissioner
—flipped land commissioner
—flipped railroad commissioner
—flipped Tarrant County executive, & commission
—flipped Tarrant County district attorney
—flipped back Fort Bend executive
—flipped Williamson County executive
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St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ retweeted
Were I a ranking Republican in the House or Senate, I’d start taking the Trump family corruption seriously and cooperate in grown up investigations. 90% of voters said corruption was a determining factor in their vote and over 60% pointed not to Somali fraud or highspeed rail, but Trump. Start here. cbsnews.com/news/trump-lib…
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St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ retweeted
The number one issue driving Hispanic Americans to vote democrat?
Backlash against ICE and deportations
Backlash against ICE and deportations
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St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ retweeted
AOC: A note for Gen Z. If you want to understand millennial cringe, what you all call millennial cringe, this earnestness, imagine all the seats we flipped last night. That feeling, plus, on top of it, electing the first Black president ever. And on top of that, you did it the ed. That hits generationally. You’ve been chasing that feeling ever since.
And because you did it the first time you ever voted, you’re like, ‘Yeah, we can change the world. Why not? We did it the first time. Let’s just do it again.’
And because you did it the first time you ever voted, you’re like, ‘Yeah, we can change the world. Why not? We did it the first time. Let’s just do it again.’
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St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ retweeted
I’ll never forget Greg Abbott saying “it could have been worse” after those grown men stood outside that classroom for 77 minutes in Uvalde listening to those babies get slaughtered
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St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ retweeted
The man who started the Democrat comeback
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Whew
Bad policy, bad character make bad politics: erratic tariffs, impulsive Iran war, blanket pardons, apparent corruption, weaponized justice, ICE brutality, mountainous deficits, hiding Epstein, abandoning allies and coddling enemies. Hoping for a course correction, for the country and for my party.
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