Eric Pitkin

[Eric Pitkin @EricPitkin]

@ammattipyoraily Your info is always appreciated, thanks!

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨 Another day, another video of ICE agents illegally harassing a U.S. citizen for “proof of citizenship” while she walks through her own neighborhood in Minneapolis.

In the video, a woman is surrounded by masked ICE agents.

One agent tells her, “Do you have ID? If not, we’ll have to put you in our car and ID you.”

That statement alone is unlawful.

She calmly states, “I’m a U.S. citizen.”
The agent immediately demands ID anyway.

She correctly explains that she is not required to carry identification while walking in her neighborhood. There is no law requiring citizens to carry papers, and ICE does not have the authority to detain someone without reasonable, articulable suspicion of a specific crime.

At that point, the agents escalate.

They begin asking where she was born.
She responds, “Minneapolis is my home.”

The agents claim they are conducting an “immigration check” and repeat the question. That is not a legal basis for detention. Citizenship is not determined by place of birth alone, and ICE has no authority to conduct random street interrogations of people not suspected of immigration violations.

When she again refuses to show ID, an agent threatens, “We’re going to put you in our car then.”

That is an explicit threat of unlawful detention.

She says, “I should be able to walk around at 3 without being afraid for my life.”

Instead of disengaging, the agent again demands ID and again demands to know where she was born. She repeats, clearly and correctly, “It doesn’t matter where I was born. I’m a U.S. citizen.”

The agent then attempts intimidation, warning her that lying about being a U.S. citizen could result in federal charges, despite having no evidence she was lying and no lawful basis to continue the stop.

Only after repeated refusals to comply with an illegal detention do the agents finally walk away.

This wasn’t law enforcement. It was a fishing expedition, relying on fear, intimidation, and the false belief that Americans must carry papers to exist in public.

If masked federal agents can threaten to kidnap a U.S. citizen off the street for refusing to answer questions they have no legal right to ask, then the question isn’t whether rights are being violated.

The question is how long Americans are expected to tolerate it.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Immense planning and technical precision was required for this absolutely preposterous (but real) view: I captured my friend @BlackGryph0n transiting the sun during a skydive.

This might be the first photo of it's kind in existence. See a video of this moment in the reply 👇

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Innocent people wouldn’t need to hold an emergency meeting to try to find a way to block the release of the Epstein Files

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Kash Patel gets caught red-handed "grifting off the American public" by abusing a $60 million FBI jet and taxpayer money for a wrestling date night with his much younger girlfriend.

And the corruption gets so much worse...

According to FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin the public flight logs for Patel’s plane — identified as N708JH — show that it landed at Pennsylvania’s State College Airport on October 25th at 5:40 PM EST.

That's the same day that the 45-year-old Patel's 26-year-old girlfriend Alexis Wilkins performed as a country music singer at the Real American Freestyle pro-wrestling event at Penn State.

It would have been bad enough if Patel had just burned through expensive jet fuel on the public dime to watch his girlfriend perform, but the logs also show that his jet left the Penn State airport at 8:03 PM and then landed in Nashville soon after. Nashville is where Wilkins lives.

In other words, Patel jetted in for a concert date night with his girlfriend, then the two of them hopped on the plane and headed back to her place. One imagines them laughing and clinking champagne glasses in the clouds, delighting as they burn through gas paid for by hardworking American teachers, plumbers, and janitors.

“We’re in the middle of a government shutdown where they’re not even gonna pay all of the employees that work for the agency that this guy heads,” Seraphin said on his podcast. “And this guy is jetting off to hang out with his girlfriend in Nashville on our dime?”

Seraphin added that Patel is clearly "grifting off the American public," an apt description for just about every action taken by every member of this historically corrupt administration.

“He flew a $60 million aircraft to go hang out. Is that gross to anybody else?” asked Seraphin.

Under official government policy, FBI directors need only repay the cost of a commercial coach ticket when they use their jets for personal use — often leaving a margin of thousands of dollars to be footed by taxpayers.

Ironically enough, Patel previously slammed FBI Director Christopher Wray “jetting off out on tax payer dollars while dodging accountability for the implosion of the FBI on his watch" and called him a “#GovernmentGangster."

The sick irony here is that Trump and his Republican cronies claim to be targeting government "waste, fraud, and abuse" when in reality they're multiplying it tenfold. When Democrats retake power we need to a launch a full audit into every expenditure during the Trump years.

Please retweet and ❤️ to demand a full audit of the Trump administration!

[Flavio Volpe, C.M., LLD (Hon.) @FlavioVolpe1]

To be clear, a TV commercial is about to cost American consumers about $50B because he’s mad.

[Eric Pitkin @EricPitkin]

@KristabelDH Double Fudge since that’s what I’m doing this year!

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

So MAGA let me get this straight…

On January 6th, Donald Trump didn’t have the power to deploy the National Guard.

But now he can send the national guard in to DC to conduct law enforcement???

Please, explain that one.

[Eric Pitkin @EricPitkin]

@ScottyWho69 I watched all season and stopped through first finals. Not interested in seeing everyone rush through a totally different finals course. Hopefully they change format back.

[Eric Pitkin @EricPitkin]

@KristabelDH Malibu and cycling are amazing! Heading down this fall again!

[Stacy Cay @stacycay]

We’ve done this mass tariff thing 3 times in American history.

1828, 1930, 2025.

All spaced about 100 years apart because everyone who remembers the last one needs to be dead for the next one to happen.

The last two caused a depression. I hope this one makes us rich tho.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

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[Eric Pitkin @EricPitkin]

@GRobs_Boston A fellow April 2nd er, happy birthday!

[Eric Pitkin @EricPitkin]

@ammattipyoraily I’ll be there if so! Really miss Tour of California too, followed it around the last 3 years. Not many races to be able to follow in US.

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

I have no issue with a sitting president attending an event with the American people. However, if your mantra is extreme efficiency and cutting waste—while labeling things like cancer research and veterans’ benefits as waste—you have no business participating in events like this.

[Shea Serrano @SheaSerrano]

time for the IMMIGRANTS ARE STEALING OUR JOBS crowd to either clock in or shut the fuck up forever

[Eric Pitkin @EricPitkin]

@BenjiNaesen Nice ride! I looked for you out there.

[Eric Pitkin @EricPitkin]

@GoZwift I’ll have to ride it on here before I ride it in person in a couple weeks!