Kathy Ross

A fan of Texas Rangers baseball, and Dallas sports. Cancer Survivor - I wear Peach for me! $rangerkitkat

[jay @BostonBaked0420]

@LqLana @RudeFulk Check out the new statue though....

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: CBS refused to air this Colbert interview with Democrat James Talarico, who is running for Senate in Texas, after being intimidated by Trump’s FCC rules.

Trump is worried that democrats are about to flip Texas.

SHARE EVERYWHERE!!

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

And DHS is now arresting deaf students because they didn’t follow verbal directions… https://t.co/nY15WpnXvR

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE/Border Patrol agents pulled guns on a car full of legal observers, saying they needed to “ID” them TODAY, because agents claim they had guns YESTERDAY.

Read that again.

Agents openly admit this stop had nothing to do with anything happening now, but with something they claim happened the day before.

That sounds a lot like U.S. citizens being stopped and detained for exercising their First Amendment rights, while agents catalog people they believe exercise their Second Amendment rights, into their database.

A database that, allegedly, included Alex Pretti.

In the video, agents surround a car of U.S. citizens who were legally observing law enforcement activity this morning in Minneapolis.

Multiple agents have their weapons drawn… guns turned sideways… pointed directly at a car full of U.S. citizens, ordering everyone out of the vehicle.

Not just the driver.

Every single person in the car, including people in the back seat.

This was a full-vehicle detention of legal observers, at gunpoint, with no immediate threat, and no lawful basis.

That alone is an excessive and illegal use of force.

The agents then demand that the people filming produce press credentials, further confirming that agents are illegally denying people their First Amendment rights to observe and record law enforcement activity…

Because press credentials are not required to film police.

They never have been.

And then, at the very end of the video, the justification for the illegal detainment finally slips out.

An agent admits the stop happened because YESTERDAY they claim these same people “threatened” agents with handguns.

Then the agent’s story changes…

The agent says, “they pulled them out, trying to engage us.”

A member of the press asks, “Pulling out literal guns?”

Then agent’s story changes AGAIN…

“No. Assuming that we were going to do something.”

So, no guns were actually pulled, and no threats were actually made.

The “threat” was that people disclosed they were armed… which is exactly what concealed carry holders are trained to do when law enforcement engages with you.

And then the agent finally admits what this stop is really about.

Saying, “That’s why they are being IDed right now.”

So TODAY, agents illegally stopped a car full of legal observers, at gunpoint, to illegally identify and catalog U.S. citizens…

Because YESTERDAY, those citizens lawfully exercised their Second Amendment rights.

If this doesn’t set off blaring alarm bells for the NRA and anyone who claims to be “pro–Second Amendment,” nothing should.

ICE/Border Patrol agents just used guns, intimidation, and an illegal detention to punish U.S. citizens, after the fact, for lawful gun ownership.

That is government retaliation.

And it’s exactly what the Second Amendment was supposed to protect people from.

[Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog @DougWahl1]

DO YOU WANT YOUR STATE TO DO THE SAME?

Maryland Democrats introduced the “ICE Breaker Act” to block ICE agents hired under Trump from later becoming state or local law enforcement in Maryland.

Your thoughts?

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

The twice impeached convicted felon you guys worship gave $40 billion to Argentina, let Qatar build an air base in Idaho, wants to screw over U.S. ranchers by importing beef from South America, attacked Venezuela, threatens to invade Greenland, and threw a party for a Saudi prince who murdered an American journalist.

Meanwhile you refused to schedule a vote to stop healthcare premiums from tripling in **our own country**

Is the America First agenda in the room with us?

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (@Rep_Stansbury) of New Mexico just eviscerated James Comer and House Republicans:

"You all are sitting here, writing legislation on shower heads while millions of Americans' health insurance is expiring, while millions of Americans can’t even put food on the table right now… and you’re passing legislation to redefine shower heads in Congress while the President of the U.S. is illegally invading foreign countries.

[ML Smith @maria48308]

That a Trump supporter actually called in to ask this question is shocking. These ppl are more fucked up than I ever imagined.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

Forget extending the tax credits, now the Republicans are talking getting rid of the Affordable Care Act completely...

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Jack White just earned a new degree of respect from me.

An exceptional response to Trump's little people!
The White House melts down and attacks music legend Jack White after he insults Donald Trump's "disgusting" and "vulgar" redecoration of the White House
“Jack White is a washed-up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career,” claimed White House spokesman Steven Cheung.
“It’s apparent [White]’s been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of ‘The People’s House,'” Cheung added.
this is Jack’s response…
"Listen, I’m an artist and not a politician so I’m in no need to give my answer or opinion on anything if I’m not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasn’t me calling out trump’s blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous 'wall' construction, his attacks on the disabled, his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress, his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake 'gunshot to the ear' that he showed no medical records or photographs of, his constant, constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. etc."
"No, it wasn’t me calling out any of that, it was the f*cking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults," he continued. "How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? 'Masquerading as a real artist'? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here’s my opinion, trump is masquerading as a human being."
"He’s masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy," he wrote. "He’s been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he’s involved in has prospered except by using other people’s money to find loophole
after loophole and grift after grift."
"His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and fomenting hatred and division in this country on a daily basis," White went on. "And I have 'ample time on (my) hands'? That orange grifter has spent more tax payer money cheating at golf than helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There is no progress with him, only smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy."
"So maga folk, enjoy your concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he ain’t spending any money on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremacist country club rich idiot agenda,"
"Wow, he hates who you hate....good for you, be proud of yourselves, how christian of you all,"
"The only way you can support this conman is because you are a victim of the 2 party system and you 'defend your guy no matter what he does.'" he wrote. "No intelligent person can defend this low life fascist. This bankruptor of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka, trump water, etc."
"This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have fleeced the American people over and over," wrote White. "This professional golf cheat, this grifter who has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands, this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality
television stars."
"Being insulted by the actual White House that this particular conman leads is a badge of honor to me, because anyone who trump supports and likes is a villain who gives nothing to their fellow man, only takes what can benefit themselves,"
"And no I’m not a Democrat either, I’m a human being raised in Detroit, I’m an artist who’s owned his own businesses like his own upholstery shop and recording label since he was 21 years old who has enough street sense to know when a 3 card monte dealer is a cheap grifter and a thief,"
"I was raised to believe that we defeated fascism in World War II and that we would never allow it again in the world. I don't always state publicly my political opinions, and like anyone I don't always know all of the facts, but when it comes to this man and this administration I'm not going to be like one of the silent minority of 1930's Germany. This man is a danger to not just America but the entire world and that's not an exaggeration, he's dismantling democracy and endangering the planet on a daily basis, and we. all. know. it. -JW III...

[Adam @AdameMedia]

JUST IN: A moment of disgrace for America on the world stage.

U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz hurls a barrage misinformation about Cuba and gets cut off:

“This is the UN General Assembly, not a Signal chat.”

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Speaker Johnson: "People’s faith in the government is at an all time low"

Republicans control all 3 branches of the government.

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

Top 3 reasons this is unconstitutional and one question:

1. President doesn’t write or enact laws (that’s Congress).

2. Supreme Court struck down actual laws like this in Texas v Johnson (they violate First Amendment).

3. U.S. Military and ICE don’t do civilian law enforcement.

Why did Trump pardon rioters and insurrectionists who used the American flag as a weapon to attack police officers?

[Trump Lie Tracker (Commentary Account) @MAGALieTracker]

Every word of this.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: MAGA world flies into panic mode as the grandmother of Charlie Kirk's suspected assassin Tyler Robinson reveals that his entire family is hardcore MAGA.

The Republican narrative has collapsed in record time...

“My son, his dad, is a Republican for Trump. Most of my family members are Republican. I don’t know any single one who’s a Democrat," the suspect's grandmother Debbie Robinson told The Daily Mail.

“I’m just so confused. [Tyler] is the shyest person. He has never, ever spoke politics to me at all," she added.

The Daily Beast reported that both of Robinson's parents are registered Republicans who hold hunting licenses. They appear to be run-of-the-mill conservative gun nuts.

In the immediate aftermath of Kirk's assassinations, Republicans rushed to blame Democrats. Donald Trump pointed a finger at the "radical left" and MAGA influencers, including Donald Trump Jr., gleefully embraced the false narrative that the shooter was transgender.

We now know that the alleged shooter was a 22-year-old white Mormon man from Utah. It seems increasingly likely that he was a far-right supporter of the white nationalist Nick Fuentes. The engravings on the bullets found appear to be references to memes popular within Fuentes's "groyper" movement. Groypers despised Charlie Kirk because he wasn't right-wing enough for their taste and they believe that he sold out the "America First" movement.

One bullet was engraved with the phrase “Hey fascist! Catch!" but it does not appear to be a left-wing "antifa" message as Republicans originally claimed. Instead, it seems to be a reference to a satirical slogan in the popular video game Helldivers 2. Video games are a crucial cornerstone of the bizarre groyper worldview, along with misogyny and racism.

In the coming days we will no doubt learn more about this twisted shooter and his hateful beliefs but we cannot allow Republicans to slink away without taking responsibility for their lies. Yesterday, they were promising now civil war. Now that it appears the shooter was one of their own, they want to move on.

We must hold them accountable. The shooter is not transgender, is not a Democrat, and is not an immigrant. He's an unstable homegrown white man with access to firearms. America's gun violence problem is a Republican problem.

Please retweet and ❤️ to spread the truth!

[Billy Baldwin @BillyBaldwin]

Not Black.
Not Trans.
Not Muslim.
Not an Immigrant.
Not a Democrat.

Meet Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson.
A white Christian, Conservative, Republican male with a gun... again.

[Covie @covie_93]

Minutes after former President Jimmy Carter's death was announced Scott Jennings was on CNN calling him a "terrible president" with a "big ego". He wasn't fired. He never apologized.

After Paul Pelosi was attacked Fox News hosts joked about it on air. They weren't fired. They never apologized.

After Charlie Kirk was killed Matthew Dowd said on MSNBC that he was "divisive" adding, "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions." He was fired after apologizing.

Free speech only goes one way.

[Kathy Edwards @kathy_k252278]

@marlene4719

[E. Jean Carroll @ejeancarroll]

He LOST.

YOU win.

(You knew he wanted YOU to pay his lawyers and his legal bills, right?)