Words fail. Words utterly fail. As we write the US Senate is advancing a bill that would defund medicaid, defund food stamps, and incinerate our earth. It would be an act of ecocide - deliberate planetary sabotage - on a scale never seen. We explain 🧵(1/17).

There is still hope. There is still reason to fight. Rise up. Resist. Defy. We lost the battle but the struggle begins anew. Right now. END. (12/12).

We've all heard the poem. First they came for. and I did not speak out. We know how this story goes, which means we have no choice but to speak out. (11/12).

We are about to bear witness to atrocities that have not been seen at this scale in nearly a century. We have not learned from history, and as the saying goes. it seems we may be doomed to repeat it. (10/12).

The other side of this funding increase is also going to be used for a buildout of what is obviously Concentration Camp infrastructure. Immigrants without criminal history, asylum seekers, and yes. US Citizens are about to be detained en masse and disappeared to places like.

ICE’s apprehension of immigrants facing criminal charges are up 128 percent over last year—but the agency’s detention of immigrants without criminal records has increased by more than 1,400 percent. (8/12).

On an unprecedented scale, they are rounding up and detaining immigrants who aren’t accused of any criminal activity.(7/12).

These funds will allow ICE to continue its unconstitutional actions, while escalating the threat by multiple orders of magnitude. Let's be clear, we are about to see a significant increase in masked, unidentified goons on our streets. They will continue to harass, detain, and.

The ICE detention budget increase is larger than cuts in education or for SNAP in the bill. It is larger than cuts to NIH, CDC and cancer research combined. It is on the scale of the type of supplemental budgets that the US passed when engaged in foreign wars.(5/12).

This $45 Billion extra ICE spending alone eclipses the annual defense budget of 28 of the top 40 countries with the highest military spending. Israel being the next country with a budget slightly higher. Ironic since our existing police forces have historically had close ties.

This bill adds a shocking $45,000,000,000 to ICE over the next half decade. This is a 365 percent increase, year-over-year, and a figure that outstrips the combined funding of all 50 federal prisons. 📷(3/12).

The Republican party has shown that they believe nearly $1 Trillion in cuts to Medicaid is a worthwhile act if it allows them to enact what is ultimately the next stage of ethnic cleansing efforts within the US. (2/12).

The least popular piece of Federal US legislation is paving the way for the largest increase in police state infrastructure since the passage of the Patriot Act. We are about to witness ICE becoming a true modern day American Gestapo. Allow us to break it down: (1/12).

PS read the full article here, in @YaleE360, by @MikeGrunwald.

The sheer scale of this bill is also the point. It is structured to ensure we feel powerless to defeat it. The threats interwoven within it feel insurmountable. However, they have a fight on their hands, don't they. (13/13).

This bill is an atrocity, and all who support it should feel profound shame (at minimum.) This is adding fuel to the literal fire that is our planet. Our futures are being stolen from us all for the sake of maximizing profit for a select few. (12/13).

The European Union specifically excludes the use of crop-based fuels for aviation because the land-use effects are so devastating, but even when Biden was still president, the U.S. farm lobby was fighting to make sure that didn’t happen here. (11/13).

The world is already losing a soccer field worth of tropical forest every *six seconds*, most of it to agricultural expansion, and heightened demand for feedstocks like corn, soy, canola, and palm could overrun vast swaths of forests and undeveloped land (10/13).

Flying a plane with corn ethanol would be particularly inefficient; it takes 1.7 gallons of ethanol to make a gallon of jet fuel, and producing ethanol uses almost as much fossil fuel as ethanol replaces. (9/13).

Princeton senior research scholar Tim Searchinger has calculated that using vegetable oils like soybean for one fourth of global aviation fuel would require 40 percent of global cropland, an area twice the size of India. (8/13).

The impacts on the global landscape could be major. An analysis by the American Enterprise Institute (no leftist ally) found that producing about 10 percent of U.S. jet fuel from SAF by 2030 would require about half the U.S. soybean crop, using an area as big as Nebraska. (7/13).