Beatriz Topete

Latina Union Organizer for Unite Here Local 11 living in the Nation of Aztlan. Fighting for our democracy through organizing. ✊🏼 #unitehere.

[Beatriz Topete @BeaUnionFull]

#chingona https://t.co/CWM2s5FYOQ

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

ICE smashed the window of a disabled Iraq War veteran, on his way to work, pepper-sprayed him, dragged him out at gunpoint, and locked him up for three days without charges.

This is fascism.

https://t.co/du9bv2U4pY confirms that George Retes is a citizen, a disabled U.S. Army veteran who served his country in Iraq.

Federal agents smashed his truck window, sprayed him with chemical agents, detained him for three days, denied him contact with his family, and released him without charges. He missed his daughter’s third birthday while sitting in a cell.

No person on American soil should fear being treated this way, least of all a citizen and veteran at the hands of his own government. A nation that can do this to a U.S. citizen and veteran can do it to anyone.

PAXIS helps you prepare for ICE encounters, help friends and family if you are taken, and deal with the aftermath: https://t.co/Hi5Yo2N2N2

[Irlandarra @martinez_j7902]

ICE arrested 4 members of Oglala Sioux Tribe….released 1

"There is nobody more American than American Indians! We are America, how can you possibly target Native Americans? It's legally impossible!"

[CantStopPoppin @CantStopPoppin]

Record every single ICE interaction. David Brouillette was seen in this video threatening to shoot some one. Months later he killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Trump just confirmed ‘Russiagate’ was real, lol

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨This is exactly how ICE agents create the very situations they later use to justify murdering citizens.

In the video, they box in the vehicle of a U.S. citizen. They approach with guns already drawn, and try to open her car door… while repeatedly ordering her to unlock it, and ignoring anything she says.

And notice how they don’t identify themselves. They don’t explain why she’s being detained. They don’t tell her what crime they suspect her of committing.

To the person inside the car, it’s just a group of masked, armed men surrounding her vehicle and trying to force their way in.

That’s how panic starts.

And when people panic, move their car, or try to get away from what they reasonably perceive as a violent threat, ICE agents open fire, and later claim the vehicle was “used as a weapon.”

Law enforcement cannot detain people without legal justification. The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures, and officers are expected to clearly communicate their authority, and the basis for their actions.

They are supposed to de-escalate situations.

Instead, they use tactics to create fear and confusion… making it more likely someone will panic, and easier for agents to claim deadly force was necessary, while they violate the person’s constitutional rights.

When these tactics become standard practice, accountability becomes nonexistent.

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

This is a video of ICE agents pulling a man out of a car and handcuffing him after shooting him in broad daylight in Maine — just days after killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas.

The blatant disregard for human life is absolutely disgusting. According to reports, there is once again no body cam footage.

There must be an independent investigation immediately and real accountability measures placed on this rogue agency.

[Keith Googins @KeithGoogins]

@swd2 JoanSebastian Guerrero. Murdered today by Trump / ICE.

[Rep. Greg Stanton @RepGregStanton]

Congrats to @UniteHere11 and your courageous members on strike for successfully securing an agreement with well-deserved pay and benefit increases!

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Money saved: 0

People killed: 757,314

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.

250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.

A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.

An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.

The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.

A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.

A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.

Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.

$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.

And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.

And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?

Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.

For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?

Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?

They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

"The success of the US mens national soccer team comes in spite of Trump, not because of him. Half of the roster is made up of dual citizenship holders, foreign-born players, and children of immigrants. Coach Mauricio Pochettino is Argentine. This team is a repudiation of everything Trump stands for and is working towards. It could never exist in the world that Trump has tried to bring about with his brutal immigration crackdowns and isolationist foreign policy. You can’t take credit for the success of the team while simultaneously trying to eliminate the conditions necessary for it to exist."
https://t.co/1JdKUoAvQo

[Dean Baker @DeanBaker13]

According to the NYT piece, every day, Trump stole four times his annual salary as president.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The world's richest oligarch is the biggest Welfare recipient in history, by orders of magnitude.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Holy shit.

This is Fox reporting on the “Trump family: biggest grift of all time.”

For once, they accidentally wandered into the truth.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Totally normal.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

How is any of this legal? Acceptable???

[Rep. Summer Lee @RepSummerLee]

The Pentagon is the only place in America where you can fail 8 audits in a row, admit you’ll fail the next few & still get handed more money than you asked for.

But let a family need help buying groceries and suddenly it’s a lecture about hard work, responsibility & bootstraps.

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Name a better take than this on the Iran war, I’ll wait.

[Save Our Schools AZ @arizona_sos]

The voucher lobby knows they can't win fairly, so they have resorted to trying to trick Arizona voters 😡 — but we won’t stand for it.

🗳️🛡️Arizonans are ready to vote YES on the Protect Education Act this November to end the waste, fraud, and abuse in the ESA voucher program.