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@HoodlumDoodlum @RyanLEllis @chriswithans @asymmetricinfo If you don’t want to cut benefits, what tax increases do you propose?

@RyanLEllis @chriswithans Fun to see @asymmetricinfo RT this like it’s a clever solution. It’s just a benefit cut; it’s a benefit cut that hides itself as a freeze in COLA only for high earners but by design would result in more and more people at lower (real) benefit levels being subject to it each year.

The maximum social security benefit per person this year is $4207 a month if you start at age 67. Sounds like much less than if you say $100,000 per couple, isn’t it? It’s not per couple, it’s just two people making the max social security benefit. That’s also almost certainly subject to income taxes if the person has additional income.

@JoaquinCastrotx ICE belongs wherever immigration law violators are.

We cannot normalize ICE inserting itself into our daily lives. Here is a reminder: ICE agents do not belong at airports. ICE agents do not belong at polling stations. ICE agents do not belong undermining our rights and hurting our communities.

@hknightsf @nytimes @Haleaziz Of course she has a criminal history, Refusal to leave in defiance of a judge’s final order of removal is a crime. 8 USC 1253.

NEW: A viral video showed ICE agents detaining a woman at SFO on Sunday night. Documents obtained by the @nytimes show TSA officials scanning passenger lists tipped off ICE she was planning to fly to Miami. The woman has no criminal history. Always great to team with @Haleaziz.

@EricLDaugh Everyone in the Senate knows that. In fact the SAVE Act won’t be passed at all. Trump and tne cult are making lots of noise but that is the truth. And idiot solutions like the talking filibuster won’t produce 60 votes either. Sorry.

🚨 JUST IN: Sen. Mike Lee tells John Thune and other senators NO, the SAVE America Act can NOT be passed with reconciliation, which was floated because it only needs 50 votes "It can't pass through budget reconciliation because it's a policy, it is not budgetary and even if you attached money to it, there are things at the margins we could do it to help facilitate compliance with it — but the restrictions themselves have basically zero chance of meeting the standard to pass through budget reconciliation." "There are other reasons out there to do budget reconciliation. Do not be fooled into thinking that we can set down the SAVE America Act and just pick it up on budget reconciliation, that's not going to work."

@mattyglesias Taking out Iran’s nuclear and missile capabilities is highly productive. We are the Great Satan. Do you think Iran will not strike us if it can?

I don’t think the United States should “sacrifice” Israel or the Gulf states on any kind of altar, but these are prosperous countries that could have been left to sort out their issues with Iran (and each other) on their own rather than us meddling counterproductively.

@histories_arch @archeohistories No one has been held accountable? Did you know that Epstein died in prison? And that his assistant Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20 year sentence?

A Missouri pastor, Stephanie Remington, was suspended by the United Methodist Church in March 2026 after church officials learned she had previously worked for Jeffrey Epstein. Between 2018 and 2019, Remington was employed first as an administrative assistant and later as a temporary property manager on Epstein’s private island, Little St. James. The church stated it had not been informed of this past employment and suspended her for 90 days pending an internal investigation, citing expectations of transparency and ethical conduct for clergy. Remington has said her role was strictly professional and that she did not witness any abuse during her time working for Epstein, and there have been no criminal allegations made against her. Still, no one has been held accountable in the US, but some investigations are advancing. © Reddit #archaeohistories

@ProfMJCleveland What a terrible idea. There are long lines at airports and Democrats are feeling the pressure. You want to help them defund ICE and the Border Patrol? They need to fund all of DHS: Coast Guard, Secret Service, TSA, ICE, Border Patrol, FEMA.

Republicans need to immediately draw up a clean bill with a mechanism to accept Elon’s money for the sole purpose of paying TSA workers.  No bells and whistles.  Dare the Democrats to oppose it.

@L0m3z @tedfrank Biden let in ~7 million illegals not tens of millions. Since Trump took office has has deported ~500,000 illegals and ~1.5 million have self-deported. The Garcia case is an unrepresentative oddity. This “everythings is too hard, let’s give up” narrative is tiresome and false.

An illegal immigrant El Salvadoran gang member in Maryland getting deported to El Salvador then repatriated back to the United States then, after being indicted in Tennessee for human trafficking and subsequently released back to Maryland, now awaiting deportation to Liberia of all places is just about the perfect microcosm of the immigration problem. Let in 10s of millions of illegals just by refusing to enforce border laws but to get just 1 of them out you need to spend millions of dollars and months or even years of legal wrangling just to dump them halfway around the world. Entropy v order. Order is extremely difficult and costly. Stop breaking things!

Feelingthe heat are you? How about the hard working men and women of the Coast Guard? Shouldn’t they get paid? And FEMA. And the Secret Service? And the hard working men and women of Immigation and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol who protect us from foreign criminals and terrorists. Stop the Schumer shutdown. Today.

BREAKING: I’m bringing a motion to the floor to FULLY FUND TSA. Republicans Senators will be forced on the record: they can either vote to fund TSA for good or be fully responsible for its continued shutdown.

This was false the first time you said it and it’s still false. The proposed legislation amounted to ratifying the open border. There was enormous Republican opposition in both the House and the Senate once the details became known. It would never have passed. The idea that this terribly flawed measure would have succeeded but for Trump’s opposition is a left wing fantasy. And there was no need for it. Trump shut the border by enforcing existing law. Indeed, the sharp drop in admission of illegals produced by the Biden Administration in the last half of 2024 (as the election approached) proves the point as well. They had the tools at hand. All they lacked was the will.

@totalizingtrial @andreagail_k @Hyperannoyed @CarolLeonnig @EdWhelanEPPC @lbarronlopez Yes, the Biden Administration asked for funds. Congress voted against funding at Trump’s urging. Trump said the immigration issue was Republicans only hope of winning the 2024 election.

ICE seizes DACA recipient on way to visit premature baby in NICU. Trump admin is not renewing "Dreamers" who were given legal status as children to stay in U.S. -- says they can now be detained and deported. @lbarronlopez ms.now/news/ice-detai…

Illegals are arrested then brought to detention centers where they receive whatever due process is required. The average length of stay for people arrested by ICE is 42 days. What is the problem? These detentions are in accordance with US law. ICE doesn’t need reform. Democrats need to stop their campaign to obstruct ICE and prevent criminal aliens from being deported.

This is HORRIFYING and should scare all of us. ICE is holding people at secret locations for days. We’re demanding immediate answers and a top-to-bottom overhaul of ICE.

@RepDanGoldman The Democratic Party is inconveniencing if not endangering millions of Americans to prevent foreign criminals from being deported from the United States. What strange priorities they have!

⁨In the triage center at my Manhattan office, I have a list of people we are working to free from unlawful ICE detention. Today, I wiped the 27th name off that list. Every release is a real victory. And we’re not stopping here.⁩

This fake asylum seeker should be expelled. Illegally entering the country, because you “want a better life” is not grounds for asylum. Hopefully the BIA will soon resolve his, no doubt frivolous, appeal. It is disgusting that this hack Democrat politician, based on nothing, impugns the integrity of the immigration judge.

Denying Liam Ramos and his family asylum is not only cruel, it’s political retribution. This decision should be overturned. Liam’s family came to this country in search of a better life. That’s the American Dream - something the Trump Administration seems to have forgotten. cbsnews.com/minnesota/news…

@David_J_Bier Expelling rapists, thieves, drug dealers and murderers makes America much safer. Illegals should fear law enforcement. They should go home before they are caught.

What ICE is doing to immigrants is bad for public safety. Making immigrants fear law enforcement is the opposite of making America safer. We need safe, orderly, legal immigration, not mass deportation. inquirer.com/news/ice-deten…

Nonsense. Did Biden ask for funds to detain the large number of “asylum seekers” he let in as the law requires? Of course not. He wanted to reduce the number of detention beds. He got more serious about border contol in the last half of 2024 as the election approached. Showing he always had the wherewithal.

@totalizingtrial @andreagail_k @Hyperannoyed @CarolLeonnig @EdWhelanEPPC @lbarronlopez Congress refused to fund operations at the border, or immigration reform, during the Biden Administration. Border crossings were Republicans only hope to win the election.

@Hyperannoyed @andreagail_k @CarolLeonnig @EdWhelanEPPC @lbarronlopez “Ridiculously restrictive”? Ludicrous. The percentage of foreign born living in the United States is at a record high.

@totalizingtrial @andreagail_k @CarolLeonnig @EdWhelanEPPC @lbarronlopez They don't and never did with the ridiculously restrictive migration and temporary labor laws that have been in place since the '80s . Add demographic collapse and you have a perfect storm.

@ManCrabby51667 @AAGDhillon @Cernovich None of the political and law enforcement decisions you don’t like are criminal matters despite what the podcasters tell you. Sorry.

@AAGDhillon @Cernovich Why did she refuse to comply? Also, please explain this.

You spoke, but didn’t ask a single question. How did you plan to get answers?

@andreagail_k @Hyperannoyed @CarolLeonnig @EdWhelanEPPC @lbarronlopez A small but influential sector of the economy benefits from a LEGAL temporary employment program. That hardly means factors of supply and demand don’t apply in the economy wide labor market.

@totalizingtrial @Hyperannoyed @CarolLeonnig @EdWhelanEPPC @lbarronlopez The Trump administration has finally accepted that its immigration crackdown is causing a labor crisis. newrepublic.com/post/207813/tr… A blatant admission that the WH’s promise that deporting more immigrants would help American workers with better wages & lower unemployment was a farce.

@andreagail_k @Hyperannoyed @CarolLeonnig @EdWhelanEPPC @lbarronlopez The border crisis has been solved. Border crossings are down ~90%. All it took was a sincere effort to enforce the law. That draft bill was a complete joke. It was full of loopholes and would have accomplished nothing. And as we have seen, it was entirely unnecessary.

@totalizingtrial @Hyperannoyed @CarolLeonnig @EdWhelanEPPC @lbarronlopez Trump had “illegals” working for him for decades. Republicans don’t want to solve “the Border”; that’s their main campaign gimmick. Democrats had a Bipartisan Border Bill, written by a Republican. Easy to pass with all Dems and many Rs. Trump ordered Mike Johnson to squash it.

@ApexKitten @CarolLeonnig @EdWhelanEPPC @lbarronlopez DACA is a statement of administrative enforcement policy, nothing more. It has no binding legal effect and “prevents” nothing.

@totalizingtrial @CarolLeonnig @EdWhelanEPPC @lbarronlopez DACA was around while Trump was in office during his first term. They approved new and current applications. DACA does not allow for a person to become a green card holder. It prevents deportation and allows for a person to work.