Civility

Great observation. People on both sides are really angry!

One of the biggest divides in politics right now isn't Democrat/Republican, but a polite political class in Washington that prioritizes things like civility and optics in a way an increasingly enraged public does not

— Astead (@AsteadWesley) June 24, 2018

Trump started the civility problem

The "lack of civility" storyline should surprise no one in the Trump era | Analysis by CNN's Z. Byron Wolf https://t.co/78q57QzuvK pic.twitter.com/Qk3ZsUplqI

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 25, 2018

Trump attacks the Red Hen but his establishments have had violations

What Donald Trump's "Red Hen" tweet revealshttps://t.co/ZEZ3r1i8nU pic.twitter.com/Bx6HiRfOfr

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) June 25, 2018

New: health inspection reports show the Red Hen passed with flying colors this year. By contrast, Trump's properties have been dinged for hundreds of health code violations https://t.co/QgwhRR7VGY https://t.co/TESNG59IBC

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) June 25, 2018

Mar a lago on the other hand pic.twitter.com/FcQ9rcAiGG

— STORMY Newport (@ruckus2) June 25, 2018

DC's Red Hen was egged and is getting death threats. It's totally unaffiliated with the Virginia Red Hen that kicked out Sarah Sanders https://t.co/3OA63XNkRc

— Jessica Sidman (@jsidman) June 25, 2018

One thing the Red Hen situation has made abundantly clear is that the vast majority of people in the national media identify more closely with the White House press secretary than with anyone who might be in a position to cook or serve food to her in a restaurant.

— Nick Baumann (@NickBaumann) June 25, 2018

Explanation of trade deficits

Frankly, I didn’t think I understood trade deficits. But Trump talks about them all the time. So I talked to a bunch of intelligent people to learn what a trade deficit really tells you, and what it doesn’t: https://t.co/CSuYakxM96

— Mike Warren (@MichaelRWarren) June 25, 2018

My 18th Pruitt roundup (new stuff since 6/8)

As I keep asking, how does he keep his job?

“We now have concrete evidence that Scott Pruitt offered to use taxpayer resources to do favors for the lobbyist who gave him a sweetheart deal on a D.C. condo,” says the executive director of the Sierra Club. https://t.co/9HjRJ6w2tv

— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 24, 2018

this particular swamp monster is both slippery and sticky … #BootPruitt https://t.co/voclNfKG9u

— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) June 25, 2018

Just posted: E.P.A. administrator, Scott Pruitt, discussed hiring the friend of his former lobbyist landlord, new emails suggest. With @LFFriedman https://t.co/PzqDI1e6PY

— Hiroko Tabuchi (@HirokoTabuchi) June 24, 2018

“The problem is he is not Trump — he is not a billionaire. But he sincerely thinks he is.”
Great reporting by my colleagues here on Pruitt's sense of entitlement. Everywhere he looks in the cabinet he sees wealthy people. He's not one of them. https://t.co/Bzr2vPVY1D

— Jeremy W. Peters (@jwpetersNYT) June 15, 2018

Wife of deceased US Senator who Congress named legislation after in 2016 as it revamped toxic chemical regulatory system in the United States. She chastises Pruitt over how he has implemented the landmark new law, nicknamed TSCA. https://t.co/QUHEcELV8Z

— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) June 23, 2018

"Scott Pruitt's many, many scandals." Heck of a graphic on @KasieDC pic.twitter.com/m8tjhiCHOu

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 18, 2018

Pruitt himself wanted to help his daughter get into UVA's elite law school. He placed a call to the former GOP speaker of the Virginia House, a UVA law school graduate, and ask him to weigh in with the UVA dean. His daughter got in.

— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) June 15, 2018

Scott Pruitt has spent a total of $4.6 million on security, new disclosures show — including $1,500 on “tactical pants” https://t.co/zy0GWLEgqd by Lee Fang @nicksurgey

— The Intercept (@theintercept) June 20, 2018

Scott Pruitt is trying to bury his pro-polluter agenda https://t.co/Xx8vtGhrOJ

— Salon (@Salon) June 16, 2018

Pruitt shocks former ethics officials

Pruitt pitched Trump on TV debate where he'd argue against climate change – and Trump loved it. He tried to get involved in NAFTA. He came to Oval w/dripping ice cream to fight Paris Accord. He pushed rules on imported cars that lawyers deemed illegal. https://t.co/zjS7gyZaWb

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 16, 2018

Trump owns Pruitt’s scandals

Scott Pruitt Wanted Oil Execs In Top EPA Jobs, Emails Show

For Pruitt, gaining Trump’s favor — and keeping it — came through fierce allegiance

Racism and intolerance are part of the immigration debate

There's an undercurrent of racism & intolerance in the immigration debate. If we avoid talking about it, we miss part of the story… https://t.co/0Augr3ktVu pic.twitter.com/dACvN4wBU3

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 25, 2018

Trump’s threat to Maxine Waters

Lots of people disagree with Waters but only Trump threatened her. He is such a scumbag. He also slammed her IQ but I bet she can spell better than he can.

I can see both sides of comments on Waters. On the one hand, you don’t want to stoop to Trump’s level and it will turn some people off.

On the other hand, Trump’s team lives in a Fox News bubble and they need to know their policies are wrong and not popular. I would not want to eat in a restaurant that served a Trump cabinet member.

There is certainly room for civil disobedience. Don’t forget American history.

The President just issued a thinly veiled physical threat to a sitting member of Congress. pic.twitter.com/3A3W221GAa

— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) June 25, 2018

Maxine Waters didn't call for violence against anyone but Greg Gianforte personally attacked a reporter for asking a straightforward question and was cheered on for it by many of the same people who are now claiming that she did.

— Joshua Holland 🔥 (@JoshuaHol) June 25, 2018

Maxine Waters did not say something dumb like folks should use their Second Amendment rights to deal with you.

But you did that.

Donald Trump Suggests ‘Second Amendment People’ Could Act Against Hillary Clinton #MondayMotivation https://t.co/1oX2sUKeYG

— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly 🌊 BWCS (@AynRandPaulRyan) June 25, 2018

"White journalists condemning Waters refuses to confess that their whiteness inoculates them from his bigotry and that it compels them to prioritize the humanity of the abuser over the discomfort of the victims who face Trump’s abuse," @Russian_Starr https://t.co/DYMHfJ40bU

— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) June 25, 2018

Just a thought: Maybe if the U.S. President hadn't called Nazis "very fine people" and his administration wasn't putting immigrant children in cages, then his appointees would be getting asked to leave restaurants and Maxine Waters wouldn't be calling for people to confront them.

— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) June 25, 2018

.@thefix: Before Trump warned that Maxine Waters had ‘called for harm,’ he told supporters he’d like to punch a protester https://t.co/OlsF4QxnI6

— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) June 25, 2018

All the times Trump was more explicit than Maxine Waters https://t.co/lipyrFWdxK

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 25, 2018

Maxine Waters is not sorry. "First of all I am very, very upset and concerned. I’ve had sleepless nights. Because I believe in peaceful, very peaceful protest. I have not called for the harm of anybody this President has lied again…This Don the Con man will say anything."

— Alan He (@alanhe) June 25, 2018

What? She said people should be screaming in the streets. That is not inciting violence nor is it calling for the harm of Trump supporters. If yelling at the opposition is harming people you are guilty at every rally you hold.

— Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) June 25, 2018

The only I.Q. you have is called an ignorant quotient. You hate smart women and especially, black ones, too. And lay off Twitter. Use their spell check. And try reading a book. https://t.co/HaFPeX7ZKu

— Terry McMillan (@MsTerryMcMillan) June 25, 2018

New Gallup poll on Trump

Trump, new Gallup:

41% approve (down 4 from last week)

55% disapprove (up 5 from last week)https://t.co/25vnLWwI6g

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) June 25, 2018

Immigrants add to the economy but the Trump administration doesn’t want you to know that

The facts don’t support Trump’s policy so they will suppress them

Trump Administration report shows refugees added $63 billion to US economy over the past decade. Trump White House then killed the report they ordered and demanded it be manipulated to only show costs and not profits. https://t.co/9F3i3DCC7c

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) June 24, 2018

The article states: “Trump administration officials, under pressure from the White House to provide a rationale for reducing the number of refugees allowed into the United States next year, rejected a study by the Department of Health and Human Services that found that refugees brought in $63 billion more in government revenues over the past decade than they cost.”

Sad!

Private prisons who donated to Trump’s inauguration benefit from his policy

Huge corporations should not be profiting from the detention of human beings. Period. pic.twitter.com/C0wPEtKbKs

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 23, 2018

Privatizing the detention of kidnapped children for corrupt economic gain is about as low as it gets. https://t.co/LFV6HIlVw4

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) June 24, 2018

The private-prison industry stands to make fortune from Trump's immigration crackdown. This toxic mix of senseless cruelty and corporate greed epitomizes the worst of Trump's presidency. pic.twitter.com/SeaGM9fPlk

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) June 24, 2018

President Trump’s inauguration fund collected $500,000 from two private prison companies that house detained migrant families https://t.co/4GB9sxX7mt

— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 5, 2018

Most immigrants are legal

This article shows that most immigrants to the US are legal.

It states: “Border crossings don’t even account for a majority of the people joining the unauthorized population in a given year. In fiscal 2016, for instance, the Department of Homeland Security estimated 628,799 people who had previously entered the country legally overstayed their visa that year. Other groups, such as the Center for Migration Studies, have similarly estimated that visa overstays account for about two-thirds of the total number of people joining the undocumented population in any given year.
“The number attempting to get across the Southern border is probably the lowest it’s been since at least the 1970s,” said Robert Warren, a demographer with the Center for Migration Studies. “I’m surprised the [Trump] administration hasn’t really focused on overstays. That’s where the action is.””