Scott McLeod

Professor. CASTLE Founder. Blogger. On a mission to make school less boring and more relevant for kids. #deeperlearning #4shifts #DLEMS ⚾️ 📷 ✈️ 📚

[Scott McLeod @mcleod]

You want student learning to change but you don't want to change teaching or schooling. Good luck with that.

[Scott McLeod @mcleod]

This is today’s deplorable @GOP.

#GOP #maga #republicans @TheDemocrats @TheDemCoalition #democrats

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Jan. 6 insurrectionist Nathan Pelham opened fire on police when getting arrested for his actions at the Capitol.

Trump gave him a full pardon.

[Scott McLeod @mcleod]

Yep, this is fascism. PAY ATTENTION. Speak up. Speak out. RESIST.

@GOP #GOP #maga #republicans @TheDemocrats @TheDemCoalition #democrats

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: In Columbus, Ohio, ICE agents hit a U.S. citizen’s vehicle, and then admitted, on camera, that they “do this all the time”… before driving away.

A 17-year-old U.S. citizen was reportedly on his way to church, when multiple officials surrounded his car, backed into his front bumper, and jumped out of their vehicles.

When he rolled down his window, they told him…

“We got the wrong person.”

And walked back toward their cars.

The 17-year-old got out to document what happened, and told an officer they had hit his vehicle…

And the response was:

“You can take a picture if you want. We do this all the time. You’re okay.”

And then they drove off.

The Fourth Amendment protects you from unreasonable searches and seizures. And courts have made clear that a “seizure” isn’t just being arrested, or put in handcuffs.

It also includes situations where law enforcement use their authority in a way that blocks your freedom to leave… or creates an intimidating, forced encounter.

So, when officers surround a car, hit it while backing up, and pull a teenager into a sudden law enforcement interaction, with no valid reason…

At minimum, it’s a reckless stop. At worst, it’s an unlawful seizure, with property damage, and no accountability.

And then there’s the part when she casually said…

“We do this all the time.”

Because that turns an “oops” moment into a pattern.

And when that pattern violates your constitutional rights and due process, it starts to feel a lot like the government is using the Constitution like they use the Bible…

Quoted when it’s useful, ignored when it isn’t.

[Scott McLeod @mcleod]

The atrocities continue...

@GOP #GOP #maga #republicans @TheDemocrats @TheDemCoalition #democrats #FAFO

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

The federal government just banned bison from public land in Montana.

Not cattle.

Bison.

Interior Secretary Burgum revoked grazing permits for 950 bison
on 63,000 acres of federal land in northeastern Montana.

The reason?

Bison raised for conservation don't count as livestock
under a 1934 law.

Bison raised for meat and milk? Fine.

Bison raised to restore a native species to its native land? Get out.

Meanwhile, cattle ranchers across the West keep grazing on your land.

For $1.69 a month.

One cow. One calf. Thirty days. $1.69.

On land that belongs to every American.

The Cheyenne River Sioux. The Coalition of Large Tribes —
50+ Native nations. Defenders of Wildlife.

They all filed formal protests.

They called it exactly what it is.

"DEI for cows."

The bison have until September 30 to be gone.

Who decided cattle belong on public land more than bison do?

#DemsUnited

[Scott McLeod @mcleod]

The grifting and corruption are staggering.

@GOP #GOP #maga #republicans @TheDemocrats @TheDemCoalition #democrats #FAFO

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

New reports reveal GOP Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp sold 3 lakefront properties shortly after he became governor.

The properties had been listed for over a decade, and the people who bought the properties were later given valuable government contracts and appointed to high-ranking positions.

[Scott McLeod @mcleod]

F*ck off, Republicans.

@GOP #GOP #maga #republicans @TheDemocrats @TheDemCoalition #democrats

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: The Secretary of Homeland Security just admitted, on camera, that he is going to violate your First Amendment right to free speech.

He said, “I have ZERO tolerance. If you verbally assault our officers… we will find you, we will arrest you.”

Except… that’s not how the First Amendment works.

Unless someone is making a credible threat of violence, speech… even rude, angry, or insulting speech… is still protected.

That’s the whole point of a free speech clause… to protect the people from situations where those in power don’t like what’s being said.

So, when a top federal official starts framing “verbal assault” as something you can be arrested for, without clearly defining it as an actual threat…

It stops sounding like protecting officers, and starts sounding like a government trying to silence people who speak out against it.

[Scott McLeod @mcleod]

It’s gonna be a long era of stupidity, dysfunction, hate, cruelty, and harm.

@GOP #GOP #maga #republicans @TheDemocrats @TheDemCoalition #democrats #FAFO

[Scott McLeod @mcleod]

The atrocities continue...

@GOP #GOP #maga #republicans @TheDemocrats @TheDemCoalition #democrats #FAFO

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The Trump administration is sending ships to rip 900 ocean sensors out of the Atlantic and Pacific — and Congress already told them twice they couldn't do it.**
They're doing it anyway.

[Scott McLeod @mcleod]

This is today’s deplorable @GOP.

#GOP #maga #republicans @TheDemocrats @TheDemCoalition #democrats

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: In Chicago, ICE agents were filmed hitting the car of a U.S. citizen, assaulting a bystander who was filming, pointing a taser at innocent people, and driving away before local police could even verify their identities.

And we’re supposed to believe they’re making our communities safer.

The video shows ICE agents chasing a man through Albany Park.

Two agents grab him and rip his shirt off during the chase, while one of the agents drops a fully loaded magazine… and leaves it there.

The man manages to get away and runs across a street, where cars are stopped at a red light.

An ICE agent then drive a black SUV into a U.S. citizen’s vehicle in an attempt to cut off the man running.

The man is eventually surrounded by agents, when one agent suddenly grabs the man and aggressively throws him to the ground, as multiple agents immediately pile on top of him as he screams for help.

As this is happening, residents begin recording what they are witnessing.

That’s when another agent enters the scene with his taser already drawn.

Despite another agent already standing next to a person filming, he walks directly toward the bystander, shoves them backward, and screams, “Back the fuck up.”

The person filming isn’t attacking anyone… or interfering with the arrest.

In fact, you can see them nodding and saying “okay.”

Yet, the agent continues advancing toward them with a taser.

Which all raises some serious first and fourth amendment concerns.

And let’s talk about the woman whose car was hit…

Her vehicle gets run into, during a federal operation… and then they threatened to arrest HER.

And afterward, local police told her they were not given proof of the agents’ identity at the scene.

One officer reportedly said, “[The agents] didn’t want to show us proof of that,” when speaking to the woman whose car was hit.

AND THEN, according to reporting from the scene, one of the ICE agents had a Jerusalem cross sticker on the back of his phone.

The Jerusalem cross is a Christian symbol dating back to the Crusades that has more recently gained popularity among some far-right and white supremacist groups.

Maybe that’s something DHS would like to explain.

So, if federal agents can crash into civilian vehicles, leave loaded ammunition in public streets, point tasers at bystanders, and aggressively confront, and assault, people exercising their constitutional rights…

Then the people holding the cameras aren’t the problem.

The cameras are documenting the problem.

[Scott McLeod @mcleod]

This is today’s deplorable @GOP.

#GOP #maga #republicans @TheDemocrats @TheDemCoalition #democrats

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Trump commuted the sentence of pastor Rodney Gibson, a drug dealer.

Gibson has now been arrested again for sexually abusing his 15-year-old foster child.

[Scott McLeod @mcleod]

👇 👇 👇 👇

So much hate and harm from people proclaiming ‘Christ’s love’ 😢

@GOP #GOP #maga #republicans @TheDemocrats @TheDemCoalition #democrats

[Scott McLeod @mcleod]

Pentagon hires convicted Jan. 6 rioter for sensitive counterterrorism job https://t.co/VmFDH7gaWL

This is today’s deplorable @GOP.

#GOP #maga #republicans @TheDemocrats @TheDemCoalition #democrats

[Scott McLeod @mcleod]

Pentagon hires convicted Jan. 6 rioter for sensitive counterterrorism job https://t.co/VmFDH7gaWL

The atrocities continue...

@GOP #GOP #maga #republicans @TheDemocrats @TheDemCoalition #democrats #FAFO

[Scott McLeod @mcleod]

He’s such a dumb*ss.

It’s gonna be a long era of stupidity, dysfunction, hate, cruelty, and harm.

@GOP #GOP #maga #republicans @TheDemocrats @TheDemCoalition #democrats #FAFO

[Scott McLeod @mcleod]

F*ck off, Republicans.

@GOP #GOP #maga #republicans @TheDemocrats @TheDemCoalition #democrats #minnesota

[Scott McLeod @mcleod]

This is today’s deplorable @GOP.

#GOP #maga #republicans @TheDemocrats @TheDemCoalition #democrats

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter Edward Kelley plotted to murder the FBI agents who investigated his crimes.

He has now been sentenced to life in prison.

[Scott McLeod @mcleod]

It’s gonna be a long era of stupidity, dysfunction, hate, cruelty, and harm.

@GOP #GOP #maga #republicans @TheDemocrats @TheDemCoalition #democrats #FAFO

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump has just appointed Bill Pulte to serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence.

Pulte has zero experience in national security or intelligence.

[Scott McLeod @mcleod]

Just leaving this here for you, MAGA.

@GOP #GOP #maga #republicans @TheDemocrats @TheDemCoalition #democrats #FAFO

[Scott McLeod @mcleod]

This is today’s deplorable @GOP.

#GOP #maga #republicans @TheDemocrats @TheDemCoalition #democrats

[Scott McLeod @mcleod]

Never forget. And don’t ever let today’s Republicans call themselves ‘patriots.’ This is today’s deplorable @GOP.

#GOP #maga #republicans @TheDemocrats @TheDemCoalition #democrats