Drugs captured at a port of entry

Here are drugs that would not be stopped by Trump’s wall.

They seized this fentanyl at the PORT OF ENTRY.
At the PORT OF ENTRY.
PORT OF ENTRY.
(am I being too subtle). #wall https://t.co/FEj4eSgAEp
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) January 31, 2019

I want to add: bravo to @CBP.
In a normal world, this would be heralded as fantastic news showing how our efforts can stop the devastation of #fentanyl.
But since the only focus of WH is with a wall — rather than tough border protection efforts — it's viewed in that context. https://t.co/BTJdq63DcW
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) January 31, 2019

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— Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff) February 1, 2019

Mark my words: Trump will tweet about the massive Fentanyl seizure in AZ.

Mark my words: He will not mention it was at a port of entry, where a border wall wouldn't matter.https://t.co/7sVwurRSQK
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) January 31, 2019

CBP announces *massive* seizure of fentanyl at AZ border.

Guess where? Port of entry, not desert.

Guess who? Mexican national, not Central American asylum seeker.

Guess how? In a tractor-trailer, not a backpack.

Guess what didn't stop it? A wall. Agents using technology did. https://t.co/zoLG3Iuvdj
— Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff) January 31, 2019

Record-breaking bust at @CBPArizona Port of Entry in Nogales.
☀️254 lbs of fentanyl (mainly powder) – Worth $3.5 million
☀️395 lbs of meth – Worth $1.18 million
☀️Hidden in an 18-wheeler carrying cucumbers, beneath fake bottom
☀️26-year-old Mexican national arrested pic.twitter.com/U8B2w6XilW
— Mireya Villarreal (@cbsmireya) January 31, 2019

The drugs were discovered on a trailer coming through a legal port of entry, the way most narcotics enter the US. They usually don't arrive through unfenced border areas. https://t.co/IAabw7jbgV
— Anthony Zurcher (@awzurcher) January 31, 2019

Climate change update 1/31/19

Nature is only going to get weirder and more dangerous as climate change gets worse https://t.co/3qLeSCx4QV
— GQ Magazine (@GQMagazine) February 11, 2019

Freezing temperatures are part of climate change.

Why global warming is responsible for the freezing temperatures across the U.S. this week: https://t.co/yobaIcpqGp pic.twitter.com/OS3jWBMzJy
— Forbes (@Forbes) January 30, 2019

Map also overlays fairly closely to where the bulk of the population of black Americans, who in the aggregate have fewer resources to survive these changes, live. https://t.co/YMlVJIwFDf
— jelani cobb (@jelani9) February 1, 2019

Important multimedia reporting on climate change from @ZoeannMurphy and @chriscmooney. Just one of many eyeopening revelations: Montana forests used to pull 20 tons of carbon from air, now b/c of drought and bark beetles they EMIT million of tons. https://t.co/9IvATJ7Ocz
— David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) January 29, 2019

European colonizers killed so many Native Americans that it changed the global climate, researchers say https://t.co/1k1CZTjU5d pic.twitter.com/fK3h3N2gtZ
— CNN (@CNN) February 1, 2019

This is just fantastic. Apparently climate deniers think that solar panels are powered by heat… https://t.co/u6RwHyjeKD
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) January 31, 2019

Russia is trying to discredit Mueller

BREAKING / NBC News: Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team says that discovery they shared with defense attorneys associated with 'Putin's Chef' appeared online in October of last year in an apparent disinformation campaign to discredit the ongoing investigations.
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) January 30, 2019

It's really disturbing that this propaganda campaign by Trump—and the Russians—may be working https://t.co/8M9ATb8cZ2
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) January 30, 2019

Incredible. As Mueller toils away, his investigation is being targeted… https://t.co/udA6o776pk
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) January 30, 2019

Newspapers and newspaper jobs are disappearing

Bad news for all of us

New study: the steady loss of local newspapers and journalists across the country contributes to the nation’s political polarization https://t.co/uu5v4EKqR1
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) January 30, 2019

Newspapers are still shedding on average 1,000 jobs per month – more than mining, steel, fishing and all the beleaguered industries politicians talk about.

The news industry – in all formats – is in crisis. We need sustainable business models for journalism https://t.co/OJccQf7L2f
— Indira Lakshmanan (@Indira_L) January 24, 2019

45% of newspaper journalism jobs have disappeared since 2007.

Digital news outlets had replaced only 18% of those jobs even before recent layoffs at BuzzFeed, HuffPo, Mic, etc.

This isn't just a jobs thing, it's about people not getting basic information they used to. pic.twitter.com/hBV0W52Zxr
— Mike Rosenberg (@ByRosenberg) January 25, 2019

This is a superb thread on the decline of the newspaper industry. I’d add only two (little) notes: 1. Fast home internet connections (approx mid-aughts) helped stomp print circ; 2. Smartphones (beginning ‘07’) drove everyone to mobile. Otherwise, applause, @JeremyLittau! https://t.co/JOqPzO2uhh
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) January 25, 2019

.@mcclatchy emailed 450 employees, about 10 percent of the newspaper chain's staff, offering buyouts. #MiamiHerald https://t.co/Agiy2Ctl8f
— Miami New Times (@MiamiNewTimes) February 1, 2019

Journalism layoffs in just the past month:

HuffPost: 20
BuzzFeed: 250
Vice: 250
Gannett: 400
McClatchy: 450
— Alexander Kaufman (@AlexCKaufman) February 1, 2019

The NRA-Russia connection

EXCLUSIVE: Emails sent by NRA officials before the now-infamous 2015 trip to Moscow, as well as photos taken during the visit, reveal the gun group’s significant role in arranging the excursion. https://t.co/vSnwmrXmb3

— Pete Madden (@pamadden) January 30, 2019

The NRA is trying to create distance between CEO Wayne LaPierre and the NRA officers who traveled to Moscow in 2015 at the invite of criminal Russian influence agent Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin, when NRA members met with top Putin officials.https://t.co/SwSVwhFHPA

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 30, 2019

As the NRA now tries to distance itself from the 2015 Moscow trip where its leaders spent time with Russian operatives Maria Butina & Alexander Torshin, a reminder that NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch confirmed the trip last year, as I reported here https://t.co/Fn4f8l3luQ @RonWyden

— Mark Follman (@markfollman) January 29, 2019

Polls show people favor the Democrats on border security and oppose Trump’s wall

In 2010, Americans preferred the GOP to Dems on "border security" by 20 points.

Before the shutdown, the GOP led by double digits.

Today, Democrats lead Trump by 9 points.https://t.co/pWsPVYGvBr

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) January 29, 2019

American voters oppose 55 – 41 percent building a wall along the border with Mexico, compared to 55 – 43 percent opposition January 14.
https://t.co/rOoXEjxwYN

— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) January 29, 2019

Trump organization fired undocumented workers who worked at Trump golf club for years

.@realDonaldTrump's golf club in NY state employed undocumented workers for years — then fired 12 of them, en masse, during the shutdown.
Trump Org. said it had just discovered their papers were fake.https://t.co/skvSEuGwRe

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) January 28, 2019

Hear from Margarita Cruz, who was fired for being undocumented after working for Trump's Westchester golf course for eight years. And hear the audio she recorded of her own firing, in this amazing video from @DDaltonBennett and @jnebraska https://t.co/PCBUyxe88d

— Rosalind Helderman (@PostRoz) January 26, 2019

He could have joined e-verify. But he didn’t. https://t.co/gQgKDAkN82 https://t.co/9VFgKD6Qif

— Maria Sacchetti (@mariasacchetti) January 29, 2019

Trump has described them as rapists and thugs, but his golf courses have relied on undocumented migrants for years. "I'd never done anything wrong, only work and work," said one who worked 15 yrs at NJ course — until he was fired amid wall showdown. "I started to cry." @partlowj https://t.co/eJblLwCA1E

— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) January 27, 2019

7 questions about Trump’s use of undocumented workers at his golf courses, answered by the reporters who broke the story, @fahrenthold and @partlowj. Starting with, "How did The Post find these workers?" https://t.co/gemX4OQ9BJ

— Peter Wallsten (@peterwallsten) January 28, 2019

Until Trump’s NY golf course fired a dozen undocumented workers in recent days, the odds of encountering an illegal immigrant there were much greater than at the one on the border https://t.co/5FDxKCk9FU

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 29, 2019

Undocumented workers get no gov’t benefits, yet many pay taxes. Today I met some of the undocumented women you hired at your golf club in my district. Your people arranged their fake papers and then withheld their Social Security taxes. https://t.co/bwbSCGhcv8

— Tom Malinowski (@Malinowski) January 29, 2019

Um….?

Eric Trump: It’s ‘truly heartbreaking’ that NBC made Trump golf course look bad for firing undocumented workershttps://t.co/255S3lVltz

— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 29, 2019

Trump lies all the time

He lies about big things.

He lies about small things.

He uses numbers and provides no evidence that they are true.

He lies all the time – he’s a liar! Sad!

He lies about Obama:

You have to be really obsessed with black people to dream up this nonsense https://t.co/EGHae3BvbF

— Mara Gay (@MaraGay) January 28, 2019

He lies about the number of illegal immigrants and their cost to the country:

President Trump shared disputed figures about the number of undocumented immigrants, what they cost the country and how many had illegally voted in elections. “There’s a long history of these numbers being inaccurate." https://t.co/EUJmDKEx0u

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 28, 2019

Please note: the numbers @realDonaldTrump provides below are completely fabricated and should not be taken as true in any way. https://t.co/qmYdQvtHD4

— House Homeland Security Committee (@HomelandDems) January 27, 2019

What a crock of BS! Trump must think his followers are dumb enough to think these absurdly exact-looking strings of digits actually measure something. It’d be like saying everything Trump utters is approximately 97.46321954780214347% likely to be false. https://t.co/OmcR1FniPL

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) January 27, 2019

Nothing screams fake numbers than false precision (ie, the exact number to the dollar or illegal immigrant) in what can only be rough, disputed estimates https://t.co/G6ikOhlb0d

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 27, 2019

If these ludicrous figures are from the Department of Homeland Security, as the president seems to claim, shouldn't Secretary Nielsen be called before the relevant congressional oversight committees ASAP to explain where they come from and if they're correct? https://t.co/QYJiXwUN3h

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 27, 2019

He lies when he said women were taped:

After Trump repeatedly said, without evidence, that women were gagged with tape to cross border, @kmettler wrote about it. Then Border Patrol sent a message to agents asking if anyone had seen evidence of Trump’s claim. No evidence has been presented. https://t.co/8sPAdx7KqO

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 27, 2019

His soul is diseased and every once in a while we're forced to peer inside https://t.co/CWicFQyfZ2

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 27, 2019

He lies about voter fraud:

This is not true.

Read the facts here, from @TexasTribune: https://t.co/GPQHqFu9UM https://t.co/yUnMpL203s

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 27, 2019

He lies about Democrats:

The Democrats are named Jim. They do not have last names. They are big, strong Democrats who never cried in their lives, not even when they were babies, but cried when they made these calls to the White House.. https://t.co/TJetxke0nW

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 25, 2019

Trump says of Dems: "Almost all of them are breaking, saying walls are good, walls are good." 🤔 None have said that, and his bill got fewer votes than the Dem version after more Rs bolted from his side.

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 24, 2019

The Supreme Court may restrict abortion rights soon

Sad! This would be a bad decision by the court but hardly a surprise.

The Supreme Court may kill Roe v. Wade as soon as this week https://t.co/qSzo8Gj23T pic.twitter.com/A8AfDGEQp9
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) January 28, 2019

The constitutional right to choose is under immediate threat. https://t.co/yQxNZHZb7N
— Slate (@Slate) February 1, 2019

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