𝙷𝚎𝚢𝙹𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚎 𝚆𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚜

Just a writer tweeting writerly things. Author of BLUE SUN, YELLOW SKY & MY FATHER, THE PANDA KILLER #amwriting #writingtips #writingcommunity IG: heyjamiereads

[𝙷𝚎𝚢𝙹𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚎 𝚆𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚜 @HeyJamie]

How does one develop cultural pride when their stomach is full of shame?

I explore this topic here ⬇️.

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[𝙷𝚎𝚢𝙹𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚎 𝚆𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚜 @HeyJamie]

Great. I love talking into a void.

[𝙷𝚎𝚢𝙹𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚎 𝚆𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚜 @HeyJamie]

What’s up people. I’ve been gone from this platform for a minute. Is anyone still here? Drop a 🐥. If you’re still here.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨This video is terrifying.

And it’s another example of how ICE is making everyone less safe.

At Las Vegas International Airport, two people, in plain clothes, are seen trying to handcuff a man.

The man is screaming for help.

When the person filming asks a TSA agent what is happening, the agent replies, “It’s law enforcement.”

But when the person filming walks over and starts recording the people claiming to be law enforcement, one of them tries to swat the phone away.

Then, as more people begin watching, they get up and leave.

The man is left with a handcuff still attached to one of his wrists. He is visibly shaken and says they stole his belongings.

Think about how dangerous this is.

The government is normalizing armed agents, in plain clothes, grabbing people in public, without immediately identifying themselves in a way bystanders can verify. That creates confusion, panic, and makes it impossible for ordinary people to know whether they’re witnessing a lawful arrest, or a kidnapping.

In this case, people intervened… They started asking questions, and filming.

If no one had stepped in, who knows what would have happened to that man.

A government that expects people to simply accept unidentified agents, taking someone away without question, is making every person in this country less safe.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship.

She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.

[Tommy B. @realtommybib]

Sunset Boulevard is closed indefinitely in West Hollywood

after a massive, 100-year-old water main ruptured early Thursday morning, creating a large sinkhole directly under the traffic light at Sunset Boulevard and Holloway Drive

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

We’re obsessed with the idea that poor people might take more than they need, but we almost never question why billionaires are never satisfied with what they already have.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

MASSIE: “We control the house, the senate, the White House. (And to some degree the Supreme Court)— so I ask my Republican colleagues: why are you complaining about election fraud? We won all the damn elections!”

Also: REPUBLICANS were in charge when Trump says it was rigged 🙃

[Las Vegas Locally 🌴 @LasVegasLocally]

Two people in plain clothes tackled and tried to handcuff a man at Harry Reid International Airport on Monday.

When they saw they were being filmed, they quickly left.

A TSA agent was present and said they were law enforcement.

Very strange "arrest." (Video by Chris Motley)

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Wow — “ICE is totally out of control. They need to shut it down. They’re killing people. I see it. Now I do see it.”

@chadkultgen’s Trump-supporting mom blows his mind by finally coming around to saying “ABOLISH ICE” 👀

(on “The Necessary Conversation” Podcast )

[𝙷𝚎𝚢𝙹𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚎 𝚆𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚜 @HeyJamie]

@SDDonovan Sondor

[Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland @SheriffThad]

This was not a political endorsement. I appreciate anyone who is willing to come to Sanderson, Texas, listen to the people who actually live here, and see the situation firsthand. I don’t care what political party they are affiliated with, I’ll have a conversation.

James Talarico took the time to meet with local people who will be directly affected by the proposed 91 miles of four-foot vehicle barrier in the Sanderson Border Patrol Station area of responsibility. Along this stretch of the Rio Grande, there isn’t a place where someone can drive a vehicle across the river, yet this project is expected to cost nearly $2.6 billion.

Not a single Republican elected official or member of Republican leadership has come to Sanderson or the Big Bend to hear from the people who will be impacted. I believe too many are unwilling to publicly question this plan.

[𝙷𝚎𝚢𝙹𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚎 𝚆𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚜 @HeyJamie]

@SandraProudman 💯 yes!

[𝙷𝚎𝚢𝙹𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚎 𝚆𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚜 @HeyJamie]

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[FedericoErebia | PEDRO&DANIEL @FedericoErebia]

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[𝙷𝚎𝚢𝙹𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚎 𝚆𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚜 @HeyJamie]

#ceasefire #CeasefireNOW That it.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

UNRWA LOST 80% OF ITS FUNDING BASED ON NO EVIDENCE

They are all complicit in a Genocide

[FedericoErebia | PEDRO&DANIEL @FedericoErebia]

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