Str8OuttaIowa

An explanation of the state of rural America's politics.

ICE guards are betting on which detainee will kill themselves next. The AP just exposed the savage conditions of a detention camp in El Paso. The Associated Press got inside Camp East Montana. What they found should be on the front page of every newspaper in this country until it closes. About 3,000 people packed in per day. Loud, unsanitary quarters crawling with insects. Food so scarce that detainees steal from each other just to eat. Disease spreading through filthy rooms, showers, and restrooms that go uncleaned. People losing weight. People unable to see a doctor. People losing their minds. Staff made nearly one 911 call per day in the camp's first five months. One call captures a man sobbing after being assaulted by another detainee. Another has a doctor describing a man banging his head against a wall while expressing suicidal thoughts. A nurse calls about a pregnant woman in severe pain with coronavirus. Detainees suffering seizures, some resulting in serious head trauma. Ages ranged from a 19-year-old who fell from a bunk to a 79-year-old who couldn't breathe. And then there's the detail that should haunt this administration for the rest of its existence. Owen Ramsingh, a former property manager from Columbia, Missouri, who spent weeks in the camp before being deported to the Netherlands, told the AP he overheard a security guard talking about a betting pool among the staff. They were wagering on which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had put $500 in. The total pot rode on the outcome. Ramsingh said the talk was particularly devastating because he had contemplated suicide himself. Guards are gambling on the deaths of people in their custody. People who are hungry. People who are sick. People who are begging for help through 911 calls that come in every single day. And the staff turned it into a game. This is not some rogue facility. This is the system working exactly as this administration designed it. Overcrowded by policy. Underfed by neglect. Understaffed by choice. They built a place where human beings deteriorate and then the people paid to watch over them place bets on who breaks first. The AP has the data. The recordings. The interviews. The court filings. This is documented. This is real. This is happening right now in El Paso, Texas, in the United States of America. Share this. Do not let them bury it under another news cycle.

@ilhasx @TT23523064 @DannyDrinksWine

@TT23523064 @DannyDrinksWine You shouldn't yap so confidently while being this ignorant about Catholic doctrine btw

Masahiro Shinoda explains why it was impossible for the Jesuits to impose their religion in Japan: "Interviewer: Is 'Silence' (1971) critical of the very fact of the Catholics coming to Japan and imposing an alien culture on the Japanese? Shinoda: Japan is an island surrounded by the sea. Many cultures from outside have come here. Japan could not refuse them. The sea current itself conveyed these foreigners to Japan’s southern shores. Japan’s culture thus consists of many, many foreign cultures in a mixture. Sometimes it caused us to lose our essential Japanese culture. I’m not even sure sometimes what Japanese culture is. In the sixteenth century Christianity and the gun were introduced into Japan. The introduction of the gun was a traumatic event and had a much deeper impact than did Christianity. The Japanese people were perplexed, but they are a realistic people and they made their choices pragmatically, giving up the metaphysical. We are empiricists, materialists. Interviewer: If I had made that movie, I would have questioned the right of the Jesuit priests to come to Japan and impose their ideas on the Japanese. Shinoda: No, it was impossible for the Jesuits to impose their religion on the Japanese because of the animism believed in by this insular, island people. It was not to be destroyed by so severe a religion as Christianity. Christianity destroyed the Roman gods, but the Japanese gods were protected by the softness of Buddhism. Buddhism is so soft that it was absorbed into the Japanese culture of the time. The Japanese people believed that Buddhism could easily marry with Shinto, and thus Japanese culture is a mixed breed of both religions. Then Christianity came, but by this time the native animism of Shinto and Buddhism were already coexisting in harmony. I think that there was no room for an additional religion. All Eastern religions are in accordance with a belief in the oneness of man and nature, whereas Christianity deals with the relationship between one man and another. When movies, or film culture, were introduced into Japan they were already based on modern Western thought. But Japanese culture influenced the kind of films that would be made here, despite the Western origins of the cinema. I must categorize the films of the world into three distinct types. European films are based upon human psychology, American films upon action and the struggles of human beings, and Japanese films upon circumstance." ('Voices from the Japanese Cinema', Joan Mellen, 1975)

@RonFilipkowski @avspook

The US military is well on its way to becoming a partisan political rogue federal agency just like all the others, largely because retired Republican veterans in Congress and elsewhere betray their oaths to the Constitution by remaining silent.

@ReOpenChris @kylegriffin1

@kylegriffin1 Good. Therapy is what these people need. They are deeply sick in their soul.

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST COLORADO LAW BANNING 'CONVERSION THERAPY' THAT AIMS TO CHANGE A MINOR'S SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER IDENTITY

@Samples75 @aprilajoyr ✅

@aprilajoyr No one has a bigger persecution complex than Christians when being called out for being bigots.

MAGA has turned Jaden Ivey into a Christian Persecution story. But Ivey railed against fellow NBA Christians like Steph Curry. He made anti-Catholic & anti-queer remarks, none of which were Christ-like. He was not waived for being Christian. Don't let MAGA fool you.

@GOPareVillains @aprilajoyr 🏆

@aprilajoyr MAGA is essentially a theocracy without the morality.

SUPERCELL AND ISOLATED #TORNADO THREAT TOMORROW PM across parts or Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri! This tornado threat likely will ramp up near the magic hour around sunset as the low-level jet intensifies! This severe weather risk area includes Oklahoma City, Wichita, and Kansas City! Team Dominator will be activating live storm chase mode for the next 4 days

The judge didn’t literally laugh it out of court But a motion filed by Jan 6 defendants to challenge the Jan 6 plaque has been REJECTED

Storm Prediction Center Outlook for Tue. 20260331 @TrippHinkle @shockingguy @stevensent13

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Paula White, nommée par Trump présidente du Bureau de la Foi à la Maison-Blanche, conduit une session d'exorcisme pour chasser les esprits malins de l'assistance en soufflant dans le micro.

A key senate candidate voted for Trump, railed against abortion and Joe Biden… yet he's running for the Democratic nomination. Democrats say he’s a GOP plant. @KFILE has an exclusive report.

If you live in Nebraska, you need to pay attention to this. Apparently the “Democrat“ candidate is not a Democrat at all, but a Trump supporting republican, who just a few months prior to registering to run, attended Republican-led training programs. cnn.com/2026/03/30/pol…

If you want to talk about real reform, the most powerful single thing we could do is to end Citizens United. 16 years. That’s how long this has been poisoning the system. The campaign money dumped into both parties has completely skewed the legislative agenda. Big business. Big food. Big pharma. Tax cuts for the rich. Corporate welfare on an industrial scale. And the little guy gets nothing. Because we have built a separate but equal democracy. It has been 16 years since that decision. Now Trump has decided, I’ve got the ball, I’ve got the immunity, let’s go crazy with it. This is what unchecked money in politics produces at its logical endpoint. Get Citizens United off the books. Everything else follows from that.

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Republican voters going apeshit about Medicare fraud that the Biden administration was prosecuting, while the biggest individual Medicare fraud was perpetrated by a man Republican voters elected to the United States Senate. Oh, but he's white and rich, so...

The future of sustainable energy Colombian startup has created a device that turns salt water into light and power

NEW: CNN found a Nebraska Democratic Senate candidate attended a GOP training event just months before filing for Senate. The Dem state party calls him a GOP plant to "trick voters" — he tells me he's a "free thinker," but admits voting for Trump.

@TMZ x.com/i/status/20384… Nick's 1 dumb fk

Nick Cannon Calls the Democratic Party the 'Party of the KKK' tmz.me/NoJgFrH

@kyledcheney theweek.com/speedreads/748… [2018 - Russian 'birth tourists' are flocking to Miami, and Trump condos, to give birth to American citizens]

Trump calls the Supreme Court “stupid” and “dumb” again as he pre-buts another likely loss over birthright citizenship.