Fussy Lil Guy 🇰🇭🇻🇳🇺🇸🇹🇷🔞🌈

Grew up in NY, Russian Studies & Turkish Studies, Poet

[Fussy Lil Guy 🇰🇭🇻🇳🇺🇸🇹🇷🔞🌈 @KhmerNDN]

@NevilleVoda 5 because shirts are overrated

[James Himberger @Beaconsfieldist]

Reading Theory. Reading History.

[Fussy Lil Guy 🇰🇭🇻🇳🇺🇸🇹🇷🔞🌈 @KhmerNDN]

How Diapers Became an Icon of Modern Political Discourse https://t.co/9rHLq1H630

[Fussy Lil Guy 🇰🇭🇻🇳🇺🇸🇹🇷🔞🌈 @KhmerNDN]

New York lawmakers propose lifting 1985 ban on LGBTQ+ bathhouses https://t.co/gslINLVCRX via @gothamist

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨ICE agents pulled a man over, accused him of a traffic violation that his own DASH CAM disproved, then illegally used that stop to demand his immigration status, in Pittsburgh.

And this is exactly what it looks like when a traffic stop becomes an illegal fishing expedition… for immigration status.

In this video, ICE agents surround the man’s car, with what appears to be a police vehicle behind him. A masked ICE agent aggressively approaches the passenger window while another ICE agent goes to the driver’s window and demands his ID.

ICE agents are federal immigration officers, they aren’t local police…

So, why are ICE agents the ones surrounding this car, confronting the people inside, and accusing the driver of a traffic violation… while the cop appears to walk up afterward?

If this was actually a traffic stop, why is the cop not initiating and enforcing the traffic violation?

The driver asks why he is being stopped.

The agent tells him he was “riding that guy’s ass” and claims he was following the vehicle too closely.

Except there’s a problem… his dash cam video shows the exact opposite.

He was traveling in his lane when another car… coming from a merge lane… pulled directly in front of him.

That is the moment ICE agents appear to turn on their lights, since the driver slows down and pulls over.

So, he understandably says, “Me? I wasn’t following anybody.”

The agent doubles down, claiming he was too close and that he “has to be a car length away.”

Then, they demand that both people get out of the vehicle. The passenger is taken by ICE, while another agent asks the driver whether he has any weapons.

And then comes the real reason for the stop…

“Are you allowed to be here? Are you illegal? Are you allowed to be in this country?”

The driver tells them he has his resident card and hands it over.

Eventually, they let him go.

And THIS is where the constitutional violations become impossible to ignore.

The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures. A traffic stop is a seizure, meaning the government needs reasonable suspicion that a traffic violation, or crime, actually occurred.

Even during a lawful traffic stop, officers cannot prolong the stop to investigate an unrelated matter without additional reasonable suspicion.

So, when the alleged traffic violation turns into demands for identification, orders to exit the vehicle, questions about whether the people in the car are “illegal,” and an immigration-status check… the Fourth Amendment comes into question.

And the fact that they eventually let this man go, after determining he was lawfully present, makes this even more disturbing.

Because what exactly was the point of stopping him?

He clearly wasn’t violating any tailgating law.

So this wasn’t a legitimate traffic stop…it was a fabricated pretext to investigate his immigration status.

And that is precisely why the Constitution exists.

Because the government doesn’t get to say, “We wanted to check who you are, so we made up a reason to stop you.”

And ICE does not get a free pass to stop Americans, and legal residents, and demand they prove their citizenship.

The government has to follow the law, too.

[Fussy Lil Guy 🇰🇭🇻🇳🇺🇸🇹🇷🔞🌈 @KhmerNDN]

@pdfhoarding @TerminusVinter It was not “Malay” in Cambodia! Only Maritime Southeast Asia! Khmer is spoken in Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

[Fussy Lil Guy 🇰🇭🇻🇳🇺🇸🇹🇷🔞🌈 @KhmerNDN]

@sam_d_1995 Put a “Big Baby On Board” sticker on the car

[slick7studios @slick7studios]

Honestly? Having to clean a sticker off your car for 30 minutes is a much more fitting punishment than an expensive fine. It also punishes equally instead of fines which tend to punish or criminalize the poor disproportionately compared to higher classes.

[MontgomeryAdvertiser @MGMAdvertiser]

Zaxby’s adds Alabama White BBQ sauce with help from this AL native https://t.co/y0Pa3YcQDM

[Orta Asya / Türk Dünyası @OrtaAsyaDunyasi]

Kerkük, Türk’tür; Türk kalacak!

[Turkey Book Talk @TurkeyBookTalk]

New episode drops tomorrow 📚📚

Onur İnal on “Gateway to the Mediterranean: An Environmental History of Late Ottoman Izmir” (Cambridge University Press)

Stay tuned 👇👇

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[Governor Kathy Hochul @GovKathyHochul]

No one is above the law.

Pepper-spraying a 72-year-old woman for exercising her constitutional rights is outrageous.

That's exactly why I expanded the right to pursue legal action against federal officials who abuse their authority.

[Fussy Lil Guy 🇰🇭🇻🇳🇺🇸🇹🇷🔞🌈 @KhmerNDN]

@alexsakalis As a scholar of Ali Pasha of Ioannina, I find this very interesting

[Alex Sakalis @alexsakalis]

One of the most mercurial heroes of the Greek War of Independence was Odysseas Androutsos. Born on Ithaca, he converted to Islam as a teen in order to work in the service of Ali Pasha of Ioannina. He later joined the Greek rebels, but ... (1/n)

[Etnikce @etnikce]

Yugoslavya kırsalı denen kısım bugün Makedonya sınırlarında yer alıyordur.

Giyim kuşama bakarsak Radoviç kırsalındaki Yörük köylerine benziyor.

Makedonya'da bugün yüzlerce terk edilmiş Türk köyü var. Göçler olmasa bugün Makedonya'nın %30'u rahat Türk olurdu.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Another person has been medically neglected to death in ICE custody.

He was just 29 years old.

Rest in peace, Prisciliano Trejo Ricano.
#AbolishICE

[Caldatelier @caldatelier]

What if Batman characters were Filipino during the Spanish colonial period?

[Henri Fjord @henri_fjord]

I’m so glad everyone is shitting on this literal fraud.

These fake ass politicians need to be treated like this all the time.