Heather Beaven
@ElectBeaven
Is your ego big enough to fail? Let's write about it. Navy & Army. Blue Dot. Find me elsewhere @HeatherBeaven or on Substack @MartinisWithMcGovern
NEW: Private immigration detention companies CoreCivic and GEO Group, and their subsidiaries and executives, donated nearly $2.8 million to Trump's election and inaugural fund. Now, they're benefiting from Trump's budget bill. Read more: citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…
Weaponized Bureaucrats are the sign of a dying Republic (res publica)
The mission of all these new press hires at @DeptofDefense is coming into focus.
Let’s see the books
I’m proud to share that, this year, our initiatives are once again fully funded—bringing the total investment under @GovRonDeSantis’ leadership to $1.1 billion for cancer care, treatment, and research. From cutting-edge cancer research, to spurring innovation in treatment, to…
Florida dropped to 47th on the SATs and 20-year lows on NAEP scores. And how are state leaders responding? With more in-school book bans. Because sure, that's where teens go for sex scenes. Not to their phones but to the school library for Judy Blume books orlandosentinel.com/2025/07/23/flo…
Study of heterosexual couples finds half of the income gender gap in Germany & Australia was due to men working long hours and women subsidizing them by cutting back their own work hours. A job with long work hours means someone else must pick up the rest.theconversation.com/new-study-find…
New: If you have information about the deportation operation or the immigrants who were deported, we want to hear from you. propub.li/40tk3Mw
Trump regime asks tiny Pacific nation of Palau to accept migrants deported from US theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
Stasi and the DeSantis regime is out of control and I hope @zoobeanreads and @markcuban take swift legal action.
Today I sent a letter to all school districts and charter schools informing them of content available on the Beanstack platform that runs afoul Florida law. Districts and charters utilizing this platform, consider this your notice to ensure that all associated materials align…
This is a good example of why we need to stop electing emotionally devoid people like Richard Nixon, Donald Trump, and Ron DeSantis.
Yup. Here is his December 1972 phone call with Senator-elect Biden. nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-ta…
Each will be paid over $14k for a month of cowering to protect traffickers and pedophiles
It's almost like there's a secret cabal of pedophiles that's controlling the country
Beef prices in the U.S. are searingly high. Here's why. cbsn.ws/4m80zFs
Hershey to increase candy prices by double digits amid rising cocoa costs cbsn.ws/418X35v
NEW: President Trump racked up thousands of conflicts of interest in his first term. This time around, the corruption is even worse. Here’s what we found in the first six months. 🧵
The Army has awarded a contract for a 5,000-capacity migrant detention facility for Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Fort Bliss in west Texas. stripes.com/theaters/us/20…
Breaking: General Motors' profit shrank 35% last quarter after taking a $1.1 billion tariff hit on.wsj.com/4eXz66U
AWFUL scenario. Border Patrol agents raided a car wash and arrested a DACA recipient working there. He has a REAL ID, but they didn't even let him show his ID, they just grabbed him and threw him in a van. He was then detained for a MONTH before getting bond.
This is a terrifying case. DHS did not recognize DACA as a protective status, & proceeded to arrest & detain Diaz. With the massive increase in enforcement that is about to start, are DACA recipients also enforcement targets? latimes.com/california/sto…
So Florida media expose DeSantis cut hundreds of millions of dollars in "emergency" contracts -- many of them no-bid -- without ANY being audited, as Florida law requires. His response: iTs tIMe tO aUDiT eVeRYonE eLSe! Audits for all. Follow the law. orlandosentinel.com/2025/07/22/des…
Markwayne has health insurance. Markwayne is also willing to F you out of health insurance
We’re back at @MayoClinic for 48 hours with my son, Andrew. Few more tests ahead. Thanks for the prayers!
The whole world is looking at us like we’re the 4th Reich. Detention of two Italians at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ sparks backlash at home. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…
Head of FEMA's Search and Rescue calls out Noem and DHS' responsiveness during the Texas flood response and resigns. She delayed life saving missions. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/21…