CityGirlie

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Chicago Native 🏡 Travel Nut 🧳 Dog Rescue Volunteer 🐾 Cubs Fan ⚾️ Dig California life 💙☀️ Fuck trump and all enablers 🦠 Everyone bleeds red blood 🩸 Is he dead yet ☠️ It’s up to us to fix this shit 🇺🇸

🔥 TEXAS: “Registered voters in Tarrant County has increased 30% — to be closing polling stations is blatant voter suppression… when I joined the Navy, I swore an oath to defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic…Talking to you, Comrades."

Breaking: ICE is funneling massive DNA data into the FBI’s database, targeting immigrants, children, & even peaceful protesters. Expanding government reach to track families & build a nationwide surveillance system is terrifying. We must fight for privacy & justice! newrepublic.com/post/213887/...

ICE Is Using Immigration Arrests to Build a Massive DNA Database

A new report accused the agency of “abusing” its power for policing.

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🚨 NEW: $36 million payment from ICE to GEO Group, for-profit prison company, on July 24 for detention services at Mesa Verde and Golden State ICE detention facility in California. ICE is a for-profit scheme paid for by taxpayers, using immigrants as commodities. www.quiverquant.com/news/Governm...

Government Contract Update: $36M payment to THE GEO GROUP, INC | GEO Stock News

We just received data on a $36M payment to THE GEO GROUP, INC. from the Department of Homeland Secur

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Bunch of new medical personnel being flown to Germany? Probably nothing to see here. 🤦‍♂️ (Germany is the primary hub to prepare for military casualties in the Middle East. They’re flexing a lot of personnel, including over 100 medics)

Corporations have been hiring MAGA-world lawyers with ties to Trump to lobby on their behalf. The latest example? Taylor Farms hiring a former Trump White House official as it deals with a cyclospora investigation. This also comes after it donated $1M to Trump's super PAC. See the problem?

I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

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Taylor Farms' parent company has given $2.2M to GOP PACs this election cycle. That includes $1M to Trump's own PAC, just 6 days after the FDA delayed new food tracing requirements last year. Money in politics is sickening.

We need to talk more about age limits in government service, from Congress to the Supreme Court. These are people with generous pensions. At some point, they need to know when it’s time to go. Too many refuse. Maybe it’s time to make it law.