Dona Deman

Nobody normal is going to believe or accept that they were born responsible for all the sins of the world in all of its history. Nobody.

@nxt888 You poor dear. It’s not what passport you have that matters. It’s whether you have money.

The American passport is not just a travel document. It is a psychological artifact. A laminated proof of belonging to the "winning team." A small blue book that, when you hold it in a foreign country, does something to your posture, your assumptions, your baseline expectation of how you will be treated and what you are owed. Most Americans have never interrogated that feeling. They experience it as "natural." As if confidence in your own welcome everywhere on earth is a personality trait and not a political arrangement maintained by carrier groups and reserve currency status and the memory of what happens to countries that seriously inconvenience Washington. The passport feels like freedom. It is freedom: real, functional, enviable freedom. Built on a foundation that the passport holder almost never has to look at. That is precisely what makes it so effective.

@AbdulElSayedHQ Does Mr. DePaoli really think that the UAW could successfully negotiate on health care with the government? You can’t strike the government. Most of your taxes are already withheld. And it would take a lot of resources to convince other demographics to agree with your complaints.

UAW says Abdul’s position on Medicare for All helped him win their endorsement. "We, as a union, waste so many resources when we're in negotiation on health care," DePaoli said. "Why not a health care specialist in the U.S. Senate?" detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…

@poperespecter1 The US Church has exerted a lot of pressure behind the scenes on politicians and businesses. It has been neither kind nor fair for the people the Church didn’t favor. We will see what happens now.

@DonaDeman The US Church has no authority over immigration policy. Instead their role has simply been to be kind to people who are here. At no time did they say the border should be wide open.

Pope Leo's views on immigration should be completely non-controversial. He says he is against open borders. Countries have a right to decide who enters. Mass immigration is a problem to be solved. People should stay in their own countries. But that if people do come, they should be treated like human beings with dignity. He also says if they come, they should learn the language and respect the laws. But because people's brains are broken by American politics they cannot understand this nuance.

@Pontifex The Catholic Church should fund and implement an example program in Italy (at no cost to Italians.) It should take care of each client immigrant for at least 5 years and help them become self sufficient without any discriminating against the natives. Then show us the accounting.

Today in the Church, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. For Christians, Jesus’ Heart symbolizes God’s merciful and infinite love for every human being. No matter where we come from, God’s love knows no borders, makes no distinctions, is given to all, and brings us together in unity. #ApostolicJourney

@RepJayapal The American Dream was out of reach for multiple generations (that kept getting smaller) of non-immigrants, while it was right there for you. Figure out how that happened or forget about anybody’s future. The chickens have come home to roost.

In the Nation’s edition, recognizing America’s 250th anniversary, I wrote about how the American Dream that I have lived is out of reach for immigrants today. Read the full piece on my immigration story: thenation.com/article/societ…

@ElissaSlotkin We already have Obamacare and Medicaid. Why aren’t people happy with them? Fix them or shut up. Maybe the real problem is inefficiency, incompetence, and criminality in health care delivery. Maybe it’s unrealistic expectations about what modern life costs. Fix what’s wrong.

A national insurance option, for anyone at any age, would give millions of Americans the opportunity to be able to go to the doctor without going bankrupt. It's as simple as that.

@MalloryMcMorrow I hate you for misleading the unsophisticated. You MAKE me hate! The HONEST context is that the money raised by the IPO is going to be spent on building SpaceX. If that fails, the stock price goes waaaay down. Musk can’t spend it on himself and we can’t spend it on ourselves.

To put this into context, a trillion dollars could pay for the budget for the entire state of Michigan, a state of 10 million people, for all of the schools, roads, healthcare services, veterans services, public safety, state parks, universities and everything else…for over 12 years. Musk wouldn’t have become a success without us - paying for the government subsidies, incentives, and contracts his companies rely on.

@MarcoFoster_ @neiltyson We support international students and there is a special internship program for them. We don’t support our own talent like that. Most published research papers are too flawed to use. Why throw more dollars away? Know a fix?

“It’s time to wake the fuck up” Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Half of my fellow graduate students when I was getting my PhD were foreign nationals. Do you realize one third of all the Nobel Prizes in sciences won by Americans were won by immigrants to America? If you’re gonna trail the world in practically everything, including your economy, it’s time to wake the fuck up”

@Pontifex I remember being taught that God threw us out of the Garden of Eden. And now, we have to take care of ourselves. Was/is that lesson only for some?

Every human being is worthy by the mere fact of having been willed, created, and loved by God. There is no situation that causes the Lord to turn His gaze away from us. It is a consoling truth that accompanies us at all times and reminds us that His merciful love always outweighs whatever good or evil we may have done. #ApostolicJourney vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

@AbdulElSayed Stop being a pied piper, you jerk! Goods and services are mostly labor. The wealth of the rich CANNOT be liquidated into labor. Labor comes from the rest of us and it doesn’t increase if the rich are taxed, soaked, sent to Gulags, or anything else. Stop planning to screw workers.

If you tax a billionaire 8%, you know what they still are? Still a billionaire. Their kids' kids' kids' kids are gonna be rich. Maybe they could pay a little bit more so that all of our kids can go to good schools and travel functional roads and get good healthcare.

@RepRobertGarcia Do some actual fact finding. Ask people like Bill Gates whether they know or knew about any underworld connections on the part of Epstein.

Our Epstein investigation is still ongoing. This week, we're talking to Lesley Groff and Bill Gates. And we are going to keep talking to anyone with information about Epstein's crimes and those who were in his orbit. The survivors deserve justice.

@Pontifex Why not just say that we are all equal? The biggest global conflicts are over real estate, resources, and what economic systems do best at FAIRLY producing and providing goods and services. Bring in people whose history or “dignity” justifies being net takers and it explodes.

Every truly just society is built upon the recognition of the inviolable dignity of the human person. Such dignity precedes any concession by the State and cannot be subordinated to shifting social consensus. It belongs to every human being by the very fact of their existence, and for this reason, it must guide every positive legal system. When this conviction remains alive, the law becomes a safeguard for all and a guarantee against the imposition of particular interests and agendas. #ApostolicJourney vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

@ElissaSlotkin You have nothing to fear but your own speech. Trump has done nothing to you, but your own stupid questionable video has really lowered expectations of you.

Trump threatened to have me hanged over a 90-second video I made. I'm a sitting United States Senator and spent decades serving this country, and it didn't matter. Keeping your head down will not keep you safe. Staying quiet will not keep you safe.

@nytimes A prior video shows Renee Good turning right with the officer BETWEEN the right front of her car and the ICE van. He runs out in front and to the left of her car. She had started driving without looking where she was going, after being told that she could no longer leave.

In an exclusive interview, Scott Pelley spoke about being fired from “60 Minutes,” and why he thinks Bari Weiss should leave her job as the CBS News editor in chief. He also responded to President Trump’s comments. Watch, read or listen to “The Interview.” nyti.ms/4eqSjzk

@MalloryMcMorrow Ross Perot had made the budget deficit an issue that couldn’t be avoided. He ran for President and got enough votes to make both parties listen.

Who was in charge the last time the United States eliminated the budget deficit? Bill Clinton. For all the bluster about fiscal responsibility and cutting waste, fraud, and abuse - Trump and Republicans blew the deficit hole even larger, giving billionaires another tax cut while threatening to cut social security. Lift the cap. Make everyone pay their fair share. And ensure the benefit we ALL pay into is available for all of us when we retire.

@UAW @AbdulElSayed So he says that YOU can keep your union health insurance. Will the Medicare Trust Fund be there when you retire, or will you all go on Medicaid For All? Have you asked? And where does El Sayed get his campaign money? If it’s too good to be true…

The UAW is proud to endorse @AbdulElSayed for U.S. Senate. UAW members in Michigan want a fighter in Washington, D.C. who isn’t afraid to push forward a strong working-class agenda with moral clarity. Having never taken a dime from corporate PACs, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is someone we can trust to have our backs, including when we need it most – like come May Day 2028. From Medicare for All to banning stock buybacks, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is ready, eager, and well-equipped to move our core issues in the U.S. Senate.

@karllager_4 @RepRashida Iran always was and is in this, which a lot of Congress thinks is bad for the USA. I don’t want any of them, including Tlaib, to put another country’s desires first. I live in Tlaib’s district, so I’m asking her to state her overall policy. I deserve that.

@DonaDeman @RepRashida Is it lost on you that we are currently in a war on Israel's behalf? That most of the congress, not including Ms Tlaib, is putting Israel's desires over the interest of the United States of America? You're not a serious person.

Lebanon can't wait.

@AbdulElSayed You ARE dangerous to the needy. This government was created to protect our freedom and rights so that we could best serve our own needs, not to provide services. You are lying and insuring misery, saying that it’s possible to be dependent without being controlled.

Maybe I am dangerous, but not to the people who need the services that this government was created to serve.

@karllager_4 @RepRashida Every single member of Congress is supposed to be able to make such a statement BEFORE making any other statements about the conflict between Israel and its neighbors. Too many of them have skipped this important step. They should get called on it.

@DonaDeman @RepRashida What you need is a boot in your ass, simpleton.