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Wasn't sure where to put this, but we need a thread for the wing nuts. Lauren Boebert.
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HEBBRONVILLE, Texas (AP) — As one of the worst heat waves on record set in across much of the southern United States this summer, authorities and activists in South Texas found themselves embroiled in a mystery in this arid region near the border with Mexico.
Barrels of life-saving water that a human rights group had strategically placed for wayward migrants traveling on foot had vanished.
Usually, they are hard to miss. Labeled with the word “AGUA” painted in white, capital letters and standing about waist-high, the 55-gallon (208-liter), blue drums stand out against the scrub and grass, turned from green to a sundried brown.
The stakes of solving this mystery are high.
Summer temperatures can climb to 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius) in Texas’ sparsely populated Jim Hogg County, with its vast, inhospitable ranchlands. Migrants — and sometimes human smugglers — take a route through this county to try to circumvent a Border Patrol checkpoint on a busier highway about 30 miles (48 kilometers) to the east.
More than 60 miles (96 kilometers) from the U.S.-Mexico border, it can take several days to walk there for migrants who may have already spent weeks crossing mountains and desertand avoiding cartel violence.
“We don’t have the luxury of losing time in what we do,” said Ruben Garza’s, an investigator with the Jim Hogg Sheriff’s Office. Tears streamed down his face as he recalled helping locate a missing migrant man who became overheated in the brush, called for help but died just moments after his rescue.
Exact counts of those who die are difficult to determine because deaths often go unreported. The U.N. International Organization for Migration estimates almost 3,000 migrants have died crossing from Mexico to the U.S. by drowning in Rio Grande, or because of lack of shelter, food or water.
Humanitarian groups started placing water for migrants in spots on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico in the 1990s after authorities began finding bodies of those who succumbed to the harsh conditions.
John Meza volunteers with the South Texas Human Rights Center in Jim Hogg County, where the population of about 5,000 people is spread over 1,100 square miles (2,850 square kilometers) — larger than the state of Rhode Island.
He restocks the stations with gallon jugs of water, trims away overgrown grass, and ensures the GPS coordinates are still visible on the underside of the barrel lids.
On one of his rounds in July, Meza said, 12 of the 21 stations he maintains were no longer there.
The Associated Press compared images captured by Google Maps over the last two years and confirmed that some barrels that were once there were gone.
But to where?
Wildfires are common in this part of Texas, where dry grass quickly becomes fuel. Road construction crews frequently push or move aside obstructions for their work.
But as Garza, the sheriff’s investigator, walked along a path designated by GPS coordinates for the barrels, there were no signs of melted, blue plastic. And nothing indicated the heavy barrels had been moved. Though volunteers fill them only partway, they can weigh up to about 85 pounds (38 kilograms)………
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HEBBRONVILLE, Texas (AP) — As one of the worst heat waves on record set in across much of the southern United States this summer, authorities and activists in South Texas found themselves embroiled in a mystery in this arid region near the border with Mexico.
Barrels of life-saving water that a human rights group had strategically placed for wayward migrants traveling on foot had vanished.
Usually, they are hard to miss. Labeled with the word “AGUA” painted in white, capital letters and standing about waist-high, the 55-gallon (208-liter), blue drums stand out against the scrub and grass, turned from green to a sundried brown.
The stakes of solving this mystery are high.
Summer temperatures can climb to 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius) in Texas’ sparsely populated Jim Hogg County, with its vast, inhospitable ranchlands. Migrants — and sometimes human smugglers — take a route through this county to try to circumvent a Border Patrol checkpoint on a busier highway about 30 miles (48 kilometers) to the east.
More than 60 miles (96 kilometers) from the U.S.-Mexico border, it can take several days to walk there for migrants who may have already spent weeks crossing mountains and desertand avoiding cartel violence.
“We don’t have the luxury of losing time in what we do,” said Ruben Garza’s, an investigator with the Jim Hogg Sheriff’s Office. Tears streamed down his face as he recalled helping locate a missing migrant man who became overheated in the brush, called for help but died just moments after his rescue.
Exact counts of those who die are difficult to determine because deaths often go unreported. The U.N. International Organization for Migration estimates almost 3,000 migrants have died crossing from Mexico to the U.S. by drowning in Rio Grande, or because of lack of shelter, food or water.
Humanitarian groups started placing water for migrants in spots on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico in the 1990s after authorities began finding bodies of those who succumbed to the harsh conditions.
John Meza volunteers with the South Texas Human Rights Center in Jim Hogg County, where the population of about 5,000 people is spread over 1,100 square miles (2,850 square kilometers) — larger than the state of Rhode Island.
He restocks the stations with gallon jugs of water, trims away overgrown grass, and ensures the GPS coordinates are still visible on the underside of the barrel lids.
On one of his rounds in July, Meza said, 12 of the 21 stations he maintains were no longer there.
The Associated Press compared images captured by Google Maps over the last two years and confirmed that some barrels that were once there were gone.
But to where?
Wildfires are common in this part of Texas, where dry grass quickly becomes fuel. Road construction crews frequently push or move aside obstructions for their work.
But as Garza, the sheriff’s investigator, walked along a path designated by GPS coordinates for the barrels, there were no signs of melted, blue plastic. And nothing indicated the heavy barrels had been moved. Though volunteers fill them only partway, they can weigh up to about 85 pounds (38 kilograms)………
Barrels of drinking water for migrants walking through Texas have disappeared
As the heat rises in Texas, law enforcement is working to untangle a mystery involving the disappearance of a life-saving measure for migrants traveling through an arid region.
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DENVER (AP) — This week’s confrontation that ended with FBI agents fatally shooting a 74-year-old Utah man who threatened to assassinate President Joe Biden was just the latest example of how violent rhetoric has created a more perilous political environment across the U.S.
Six days earlier, a 52-year-old Texas man was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for threatening to kill Arizona election workers.
Four days before that, prosecutors charged a 56-year-old Michigan woman for lying to buy guns for her mentally ill adult son, who threatened to use them against Biden and that state’s Democratic governor.
Threats against public officials have been steadily climbing in recent years, creating new challenges for law enforcement, civil rights and the health of American democracy.
The Capitol Police last year reported that they investigated more than double the number of threats against members of Congress as they did four years earlier.
Driven by former President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him, threats against election workers have exploded, with one in six reporting threats against them and many seasoned election administrators leaving the job or considering it.
“It’s definitely increased in the last five years,” said Jake Spano, mayor in the Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park and a board member of the National League of Cities, which issued a report in 2021 finding that 81% of local elected officials reported receiving threats and 87% saw the problem worsening.
Officials in Spano’s town got deluged in 2018, when Trump tweeted critically about its city council’s decision to stop saying the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of its meetings.
“The lasting impact of Donald Trump’s presidency is that he made it clear that the norms of how we treat each other no longer apply,” said Spano, a Democrat.
The threats are not simply an issue of coarsening of the national discourse. Experts warn they can be precursors of political violence…….
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Six days earlier, a 52-year-old Texas man was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for threatening to kill Arizona election workers.
Four days before that, prosecutors charged a 56-year-old Michigan woman for lying to buy guns for her mentally ill adult son, who threatened to use them against Biden and that state’s Democratic governor.
Threats against public officials have been steadily climbing in recent years, creating new challenges for law enforcement, civil rights and the health of American democracy.
The Capitol Police last year reported that they investigated more than double the number of threats against members of Congress as they did four years earlier.
Driven by former President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him, threats against election workers have exploded, with one in six reporting threats against them and many seasoned election administrators leaving the job or considering it.
“It’s definitely increased in the last five years,” said Jake Spano, mayor in the Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park and a board member of the National League of Cities, which issued a report in 2021 finding that 81% of local elected officials reported receiving threats and 87% saw the problem worsening.
Officials in Spano’s town got deluged in 2018, when Trump tweeted critically about its city council’s decision to stop saying the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of its meetings.
“The lasting impact of Donald Trump’s presidency is that he made it clear that the norms of how we treat each other no longer apply,” said Spano, a Democrat.
The threats are not simply an issue of coarsening of the national discourse. Experts warn they can be precursors of political violence…….
Rising political threats take US into uncharted territory as 2024 election looms
This week’s confrontation that ended with FBI agents fatally shooting a 74-year-old Utah man who threatened to assassinate President Joe Biden was just the latest example of how violent rhetoric has created a more perilous political environment across the U.S.
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Rand Paul is as much a Libertarian as Trump is an Evangelical Christian..
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Technically, he’s right that there is no HIV virus.
HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, so that would be the Human Immunodeficiency Virus virus.
It’s like ATM machine, lol.
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I'm not a violent person, but I'd be all in favor of his neighbor beating the shirt out of him again...
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I feel that for sure.
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I saw this story on my google news feed the other day. I missed Ron filipkowski roasting Ronnie Jackson.
www.texastribune.org
ABC of emergency care, Ronnie.
Sheriff says U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson cursed at officers, threatened his job in rodeo altercation
The Amarillo Republican was briefly detained in the incident as he was trying to help a teenager suffering from a seizure.
www.texastribune.orgABC of emergency care, Ronnie.
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Know what you mean, but couldn't help thinking Already Been Chewed, since gum was involved.
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If a patient is going through a seizure due to low blood sugar, a gumball does absolutely nothing to raise the blood sugar to a safe level. It won't do much to someone not in that situation. Almost four decades as a type 1 has taught me that.I saw this story on my google news feed the other day. I missed Ron filipkowski roasting Ronnie Jackson.
Sheriff says U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson cursed at officers, threatened his job in rodeo altercation
The Amarillo Republican was briefly detained in the incident as he was trying to help a teenager suffering from a seizure.
ABC of emergency care, Ronnie.
And this is an MD?
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Greg Gutfeld, co-host of Fox News’ The Five, offered a strange scapegoat for crime in the United States: women.
The show played footage of a “mob of criminals” looting a Los Angeles Nordstrom. But Gutfeld took the incident as an opportunity to go on a tirade, during which he seemed to accuse women of being responsible for the frequency of certain crimes committed in the US nowadays — and how such crimes would vanish if women did too.
“What would happen if all the women took a ladies week off and they went to Venus … How many of these problems would still exist?” Gutfeld mused.
Co-host Dana Perino can be seen looking at him sceptically.
The co-host argued that “smash and grabs”, “no-cash bail” and “rampant recidivism” would “disappear” if women were no longer a factor.…….
www.independent.co.uk
The show played footage of a “mob of criminals” looting a Los Angeles Nordstrom. But Gutfeld took the incident as an opportunity to go on a tirade, during which he seemed to accuse women of being responsible for the frequency of certain crimes committed in the US nowadays — and how such crimes would vanish if women did too.
“What would happen if all the women took a ladies week off and they went to Venus … How many of these problems would still exist?” Gutfeld mused.
Co-host Dana Perino can be seen looking at him sceptically.
The co-host argued that “smash and grabs”, “no-cash bail” and “rampant recidivism” would “disappear” if women were no longer a factor.…….
Fox News host has a new theory for who to blame for US crime: Women
‘What would happen if all the women took a ladies week off and they went to Venus … How many of these problems would still exist?’
www.independent.co.uk
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Greg Gutfeld, co-host of Fox News’ The Five, offered a strange scapegoat for crime in the United States: women.
The show played footage of a “mob of criminals” looting a Los Angeles Nordstrom. But Gutfeld took the incident as an opportunity to go on a tirade, during which he seemed to accuse women of being responsible for the frequency of certain crimes committed in the US nowadays — and how such crimes would vanish if women did too.
“What would happen if all the women took a ladies week off and they went to Venus … How many of these problems would still exist?” Gutfeld mused.
Co-host Dana Perino can be seen looking at him sceptically.
The co-host argued that “smash and grabs”, “no-cash bail” and “rampant recidivism” would “disappear” if women were no longer a factor.…….
Fox News host has a new theory for who to blame for US crime: Women
‘What would happen if all the women took a ladies week off and they went to Venus … How many of these problems would still exist?’
The right hates women. In other news: grass is green, water is wet, and the Falcons suck.
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Don't know how legit this is, but definitely sounds like something that shouldn't be happening.
A corrupt MAGAt politician? I am stunned. Stunned, I tell you.
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