Under Cover of Darkness

"In order to avoid escape attempts, the moves are carried out late at night because children will be less likely to try to run away. For the same reason, children are generally given little advance warning that they will be moved." https://t.co/yaZ2eUcTzd

— David Gura (@davidgura) September 30, 2018

From the Times' description—

In shelters from Kansas to New York, hundreds of migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home: a barren tent city on a sprawling patch of desert in West Texas.

Until now, most undocumented children being held by federal immigration authorities had been housed in private foster homes or shelters, sleeping two or three to a room. They received formal schooling and regular visits with legal representatives assigned to their immigration cases.

But in the rows of sand-colored tents in Tornillo, Tex., children in groups of 20, separated by gender, sleep lined up in bunks. There is no school: The children are given workbooks that they have no obligation to complete. Access to legal services is limited.

Plays Well To The Base

When there's no bottom to just how base they are.

Higbie also said, "I believe wholeheartedly, wholeheartedly, that the black race as a whole, not totally, is lazier than the white race, period."

Pence is appearing at a fundraiser with the group today. He's done at least 15 events with them.https://t.co/Qu9BDwu0aa

— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) May 1, 2018

The concentration camp deaths and suicides, the contempt, the felony conviction play particularly well to the Law and Order crowd.

"I'm honored to have you here."

Vice President Mike Pence recognizes ex-sheriff Joe Arpaio during a tax policy event in Arizona, calling Arpaio a "tireless champion of strong borders and the rule of law." pic.twitter.com/tzmS3sKPnN

— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 1, 2018

The Godly Party

If I had to explain the Republican Party in one sentence to a visitor from another planet, this would be the sentence. https://t.co/xekTY0tG00

— Steve M. (@nomoremister) April 25, 2018

Governor Eric Greitens, who is accused of two felonies, will be the keynote speaker at a law enforcement prayer breakfasthttps://t.co/vQLw9BUdHK

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) April 24, 2018

No Knowledge, No Problems

Plan to dismantle Puerto Rico's statistics agency gets green light https://t.co/0vxNpFXihB <-- in line with other US government attacks on research and accurate data, but particularly alarming given the post-hurricane humanitarian crisis

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) April 9, 2018

Anniversary Gift

For this crowd, it's quite literally the custom to give blood money.

Trump hosted the NRA at the White House on the anniversary of Sandy Hook massacre https://t.co/kuUmEUFbKD

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) December 15, 2017

Blood money, and other services rendered.

White nationalist group of the year: The National Rifle Association. The NRA isn't just for lax gun laws anymore. It’s also building a racist media empire. https://t.co/16Y1iyYZ9Z (by @imillhiser) pic.twitter.com/pt1ColSUIS

— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) December 15, 2017

Thread on some of the test marketing history—

Speaking of which, here's a #TBT to Meghan McCain, before she was anointed an icon of "humanity and decency." https://t.co/ecLJ9PBDYu pic.twitter.com/XZtgl7IJbj

— Patrick Blanchfield (@PatBlanchfield) December 14, 2017