Who Dey Buckeye

Atlanta area film and tv production manager/producer. Bengals Buckeyes Bearcats Reds Fan. Steelers and SEC Hater.

[Who Dey Buckeye @Hilliard44]

@itsFilmatic @grok which theaters in Cherokee county GA

[Who Dey Buckeye @Hilliard44]

Maddening!!! 👇

[WhoBae (Jess) 🏈⚾⚽🏐 @thewhobae]

If I see anyone else saying "but what about protecting Joe Burrow" I'm going to SCREAM. This OL has been solid. It's absolutely not a problem. People saying it is are living in a narrative from 2022.

[Who Dey Buckeye @Hilliard44]

@LanceMcAlister @BengalsTalk Who Dey!!!!!!!!

[Who Dey Buckeye @Hilliard44]

April - the month of exhaustive discussions on arm length.

#WhoDey

[Who Dey Buckeye @Hilliard44]

@Dan_Hoard @BengalsTalk I had to check that distance from Xenia. I thought it was farther than that when they were in my conference in High School

[Who Dey Buckeye @Hilliard44]

This is freaking terrible

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

ANONYMOUS LETTER FROM A MINNESOTA EDUCATOR ON THE GROUND

I am a lifelong resident of Minneapolis and an educator who teaches at both a high school and a college here in the city. I have friends, family, colleagues, and students across the political spectrum. I am writing as an American citizen who loves this country and is deeply frightened by what I am witnessing in my city.

Before becoming an educator, I worked with Homeland Security in the early 2000s as a theft and fraud investigator for a major insurance company. I had direct exposure to federal law enforcement at that time. What is happening now does not resemble the agencies or officers I knew then. The ICE agents operating here appear poorly trained, are acting with little oversight, and are being encouraged to treat residents as enemies. They are operating with total impunity. That should concern everyone.

There is widespread disinformation about what is happening in Minnesota. I am asking people, regardless of politics, to stop relying on national pundits and political talking points and instead look to local reporting and firsthand accounts from people who live here. What is happening is real, ongoing, and deeply disturbing.

I am not a protester. I have not attended demonstrations. I am in classrooms and on campuses every day. What follows is what I have personally witnessed, along with what has been consistently reported to me by colleagues, students, parents, and neighbors with a wide range of political beliefs.

Here is what I have seen and experienced:
- Female friends who are U.S. citizens aggressively restrained, choked, forced into vehicles, and detained.
- Native American individuals detained, including citizens and members of sovereign tribal nations.
- ICE agents staking out high school and college campuses, then denying their presence to administrators and local law enforcement.
- I have been followed for miles after leaving a school parking lot by an ICE agent who only turned away after prolonged tailing.
- Emergency sirens at levels I have never experienced living here, including during 9/11, the 2008 Republican National Convention, and the George Floyd uprising.
- ICE agents running residential license plates, pulling personal data, and approaching people already knowing their names and addresses.
- Agents positioned outside churches, schools, and grocery stores, blocking traffic, yelling at residents, and intimidating EVERYONE, including people who are not protesting.
- White residents being offered money or “protection” in exchange for informing on neighbors labeled as non-citizens or “leftist protesters.”
- Door-to-door activity in Minneapolis and St. Paul, with local news now running nightly segments on what to do if ICE comes to your door.
- School buses rerouted to pick up students at individual homes because children are too afraid to walk.
- Parents emailing me asking what will happen to their children if they are detained.
- School administrators stated that local police will not intervene if ICE violates rights on private school property without a warrant.
- Reports from detainees of no bathroom privacy, including officers watching women use the restroom.
- Arrests occurring on highways, with abandoned vehicles left behind, causing multiple accidents.
- There are thousands of ICE agents operating here. It feels like an occupation.
- Residents have also documented aerial surveillance during enforcement activity, including drones over neighborhoods and public spaces. Community-recorded video shows drones hovering while individuals on the ground are followed or detained. Regardless of stated purpose, the effect is widespread fear, self-censorship, and the feeling of being monitored simply for existing in public.

What makes this even more frightening is the complete failure of political leadership.

Republican lawmakers from rural Minnesota openly cheer this enforcement without concern for the harm it is causing to Minnesota families, children, and communities. Democratic leaders speak about stopping it in press conferences but are not on the ground and are not backing their words with action. They return to their homes each night while families here live in fear.

Politicians and Government officials are playing with people’s lives.

I have never been this scared living in Minnesota. Not during past protests. Not during moments of national crisis. The fear now is constant and destabilizing because it is happening in everyday places: churches, schools, grocery stores, neighborhoods, and homes.

I do not care what your politics are. This is wrong and should not be happening in America.

This is not about border security or state fraud. This is about retribution for being a “blue state,” intimidation, surveillance, and the erosion of basic civil rights in a major American city, carried out openly and without accountability. We are being made an example.

We need help. If the government, law enforcement, and politicians will not protect people, then it is up to us to protect each other.

Ways to Help:
Legal Support
Immigrant Defense Network (COPAL) https://t.co/oPfr5rlmQL
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota https://t.co/bIJWwfdP2w
National Lawyers Guild
https://t.co/EiJXYyvnbf
MIRAC
https://t.co/ECoygXNcOA
ICE Watch & Community Defense
Defend 612 https://t.co/RQ0GcgdSAc
Minnesota 50501
https://t.co/kczWSwHxOJ

Food & Mutual Aid
HelpMe Connect https://t.co/qFkQpnoDEc
Twin Cities Mutual Aid Project https://t.co/Ov6VUaRdOp
La Viña Church
https://t.co/BiIO1W4aS1
People Helping People https://t.co/hhGS3giHVn
DHH Church Food Support https://t.co/XvRVjLVIzq

Please rely on local Minnesota news outlets, not national commentary, for accurate reporting. Please share this widely.

People are being harmed. Minnesota residents regardless of their politics are terrified and angry. Misinformation only allows this to continue.

— Sincerely,
An Anonymous Minnesota Educator

[Who Dey Buckeye @Hilliard44]

@USA_Polling @MeidasTouch 28% is in a cult

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Shared today by Bev Perry in the Expand Dem Values in the House and Senate Facebook group.

I need to say something that's been bothering me for a while, and I'm saying it as a Marine Corps veteran who leans center-right.
This isn't partisan. This is observation.
We've slow-faded into accepting militarized police as normal, and nobody seems to notice or care.
Even as a USMC pilot, I went through six months of infantry training as an officer before flight school. I've worn the gear. The helmet, the tactical vest, the whole kit. And I can tell you from experience, it changes you.
There's a psychological shift that happens when you strap that stuff on. You feel different. You carry yourself different. You start seeing the environment differently. In the Marine Corps, that shift was appropriate because it's a combat culture and organization.
But these are American streets. American citizens. And we've got law enforcement dressed like they're kicking down doors in Fallujah to serve warrants in suburbia.
What happend to high standards and real policing tactics? Think Adam-12...Officers Reed and Malloy. Crisp uniforms. A revolver. A baton. High standards and professionalism. They looked like public servants because they were public servants. They de-escalated. They talked to people. They were part of the community.
Now? Tactical gear, beards, ball caps, Oakley sunglasses, sleeve tattoos, and a tactical kit that would make special operators jealous. And we've turned it into a fetish. We celebrate it. We assume that because someone looks hard, they must be a professional.
They're not.
I loved the Marine Corps. But I'll be honest, I was also blinded by it for a while. Mission first. Unit over everything. And that mentality made sense in that context.
But law enforcement doesn't get that critical examination. "Back the Blue" has become a shield against accountability. A blanket assumption that a badge plus gun equals hero. That tactical gear equals competence.
It doesn't.
Most people who join law enforcement aren't special operators. They're average people who desperately want to belong to something bigger than themselves. I understand that impulse deeply, it's why I joined the Marines. But wanting to belong doesn't make you qualified. Looking the part doesn't mean you can perform under pressure. And wrapping yourself in warrior aesthetics doesn't make you a warrior.
Old school law enforcement represented something. Standards. Bearing. Discipline. Professionalism that was demonstrated, not costumed. A revolver and a baton meant you had to rely on your training, your words, your judgment, not overwhelming firepower.
What I see now in law enforcement is the costume without the culture. The gear without the training. The authority without the accountability.
Are there good people in law enforcement? Of course. I know some personally. But this reflexive "law enforcement can do no wrong" mentality is lazy, dangerous, and intellectually dishonest.
A woman is dead. And before we sort ourselves into teams and start assigning blame, maybe we should ask harder questions:
Why do we accept a militarized police force as normal?
Why do we assume tactical gear equals tactical competence?
Why have we let "Back the Blue" become a substitute for actual standards?
I wore the uniform. I went through the training. I know what that gear does to your head.
It shouldn't be normalized on American streets against American citizens.
And we shouldn't pretend everyone wearing it is qualified to carry it. The fact that he called her a “fucking bitch” after he shot her three times should be a huge red flag for all of us.

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

“The ‘Real Housewives’ aura of gaudy glamour softens the blood-soaked brutality of what is actually happening and makes the MAGA adherents feel better about being absolutely awful people. It’s as if Kim Kardashian merged with the KKK.

Standing behind her camouflaged lectern in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, Noem lied with a relish seldom seen in public life before the Trump era. Without as much as a morsel of empathy for the victim, she defended a killer before the facts were known beneath a bucket of makeup and a ten-gallon hat.

The Secretary of Homeland Security looked as silly as her belt buckle but in the end her actions were deadly serious, as they perhaps planted us firmly in the new era of American autocracy; absurdism mixed with state sponsored executions.

We certainly don’t need to become any angrier as a nation but it is hard to imagine anything more enraging than what we all witnessed this week.

We need to channel our justifiable outrage into peaceful action.

We must not succumb to their level. We should meet their angry rhetoric with compassion and illumination. We have to lead by example to overcome the darkness that is eclipsing the humanity of the MAGA faithful.” https://t.co/owBkfBxvoQ

[Who Dey Buckeye @Hilliard44]

@cpower1982 @NatliSznn @ThatEricAlper I can second what @NatliSznn is saying.

Absolutely nothing to be afraid of at all. The worry of what may be found and anxiety of the prep will all turn into thank god I did that and that was nothing to fear at all.

Do it!!

[Who Dey Buckeye @Hilliard44]

@MLFootball @fear_the_ravens @RavensTattooGuy @RavensTalkPod @Blitz_Burgh @SteelersWin109 @bengaljims_BTR @BengalsCaptain @thebengalorian @REFLOG18 @gameonjmoney I can’t believe he missed that kick

[Who Dey Buckeye @Hilliard44]

@Wrightreportt This is why people stay in jobs they dislike. Because they fear the job search process and the unknown - Too easy to just keep the same team. We’re doomed as bengals fans

[Mekka Don @MekkaDonMusic]

College football is cooked with coaches leaving whenever they want, no consistent NIL rules, transfer portal rules/timing, signing day timing, shady agents, the wack NCAA, no union/protection for players, and greed. And there’s nobody coming to save us. Where do we go from here?

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Did you know? By replacing your coffee with green tea, you can lose up to 92% of what little joy you still have left in your life.

[Who Dey Buckeye @Hilliard44]

Shall I say very rational. Thank you!

[Buckeye Irrationalist @BuckeyeRational]

Glad I stayed off this app most of the day.

Some of these takes/articles are absolutely bonkers 😂

Ryan Day doesn’t need fired.

Julian Sayin doesn’t need benched.

What we need is an aggressive offensive philosophy, more physical OL play, & a gosh darn kicker.

Everyone chill.

[John @iam_johnw]

These were not called pass interference on Georgia in the game as well as the branch push off on the touchdown . Now add in the missed face mask call now .. refs gotta be investigated

[Who Dey Buckeye @Hilliard44]

Cfb is so rigged

[Who Dey Buckeye @Hilliard44]

@NFLFrascella @RealJKPA But tonight’s loss is on Day and not the players? 🤷‍♂️

[Who Dey Buckeye @Hilliard44]

@woodyVSworld @Bausers_Burner Damn!! He was amazing

[Who Dey Buckeye @Hilliard44]

@KristopherDrew_ Sayin is young and inexperienced. That was the question mark for this team and it showed with talented well coached opponents.