MitchWhit

Adventure cohort of @mickstapevol1 / Owner of sports opinions, PoliSci degree, & Mfg company making lasers for undersea roller coasters -Retweets are judgments.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

NEWS: The Trump administration confirmed it bombed a girl’s school in Iran.

It's one of the most devastating military errors in decades.

Trump lied about it. Pete Hegseth gutted the office preventing civilian casualties.

175 are dead. Most were kids. Hegseth should be fired.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

To be clear about what this depicts: An immigration officer threw a woman onto the ground. Alex Pretti, a registered nurse on scene as a legal observer, is filming and goes to help the woman up. He is then pepper sprayed and thrown to the ground for no discernible reason. Many officer surround and assault him; one removes his firearm, which police say appears to have been legally registered. They then execute him with a hail of bullets.

They are, objectively speaking, both cowards and criminals, while Pretti is what we teach people an American ought to be.

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

Political speechmaking has generally degraded to the point that there's no reason to read them, rather than simply how they're reported, but Carney's Davos speech is a rare exception.

"The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy."

[Tampa Bay Buccaneers @Buccaneers]

"Honey, I'm coming home." 🥹

The Voice of the Buccaneers, Gene Deckerhoff, made the final call of his legendary career.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

One final time: This is not something the Trump administration is allowed to do. There is no provision in the Constitution or US law that permits the president to put government money into bank accounts outside the Treasury, or to spend money that Congress has not appropriated.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨 BREAKING: ICE/Border Patrol agents once again threaten to illegally arrest a U.S. citizen… for standing on a public sidewalk and filming them.

Yes. Really.

In the video, in Beaverton, Oregon, multiple agents swarm a man who is doing nothing more than observing and recording from a public sidewalk, something that is 100% legal and protected by the First Amendment.

An agent claims they “know who he is” and accuses him of driving erratically and being “a danger to the public.”

Which is rich, coming from an agency with a long history of hitting people with vehicles, assaulting women and children, and “accidentally” firing or dropping loaded firearms. But, even so, they are not police and cannot arrest someone for a traffic violation.

Then the threats start.

“You are interfering with our operations.”
“You could be arrested.”
“We will arrest you.”

Again, the man is standing on a sidewalk. Not blocking anyone. Not touching anyone. Not saying anything beyond asserting his rights.

Another agent jumps in with, “You were following us yesterday.”
Cool story. Still not illegal.

They repeatedly claim he has “interfered with operations,” yet, the only behavior they can actually point to is… observing them. Existing near them. Filming them.

When the man calmly says, “I’m not interfering,” the response is:
“If you continue, you will be in handcuffs.”

Let’s be crystal clear about what that means:

ICE agents are threatening to arrest a U.S. citizen for continuing to legally observe and film them in his own neighborhood.

When the man states the obvious, “I’m not breaking the law and you know it,” the agent completely loses it.

He steps inches from the man’s face, points at him, shoves into his shoulder or chest, and screams, “One more time and I will put you in handcuffs.”

This isn’t law enforcement. This is intimidation.

The man tells him to get off him.
The agent responds, “No, I’ll stand right here, pal. Right here all day,” while continuing to press into him.

The citizen points out the setup perfectly:

“If I touch you, you’re going to arrest me, right?”

Exactly. That’s the game.

That’s when the agent snaps completely, screaming that the man is “worthless” and has “no honor.”
Which… feels like projection.

This video shows exactly what ICE and Border Patrol are doing across the country:

They are trying to scare people into not filming.
They are trying to bully citizens out of exercising their rights.
And when intimidation doesn’t work, they escalate.

Because they know that cameras expose them.

So here’s the takeaway:

Always film.
State your rights calmly.
Keep your hands visible and on your phone.
Narrate everything that’s happening.

They want silence.
They want fear.
They want no witnesses.

Don’t give it to them.

[Greg Auman @gregauman]

Arizona's Budda Baker made the Pro Bowl as an NFC safety ahead of Antoine Winfield.

Baker: 0 INT, 0 FF, 0 FR, 0 sacks
Winfield: 3 INT, 5 FF, 4 FR, 5 sacks

[MitchWhit @MitchWhitty]

@TMobileHelp I know you don't get many thanks on here... so thanks for the quick help!

[MitchWhit @MitchWhitty]

@TMobileHelp @_Chris_Villa The signal at my house in western Ocala has been having issues on and off since Sunday night, but it's been really bad steady since Wednesday morning. Wifi was at 7.8 mbps and phone signal was one bar of 4G (normally 4 bars of 5G).

[J. Kanno @BucsDistrict]

I know folks gotta make content, but c'mon Over the Cap and Spotrac are not new, hard to use things, guys. Trading Evans leaves Tampa with a $21M dead money hit while saving just $2M. There is no realistic incentive for Tampa to trade Evans.

[MitchWhit @MitchWhitty]

@Ginger_Canary @Pb2paid @PewterReport People interview for jobs they’re not necessarily interested in all the time. The leverage is always helpful with current or future negotiating.
Pep was keeping himself open for the Texans’ HC job and gambled that he’d have more options as an OC if he didn’t get it.

[MitchWhit @MitchWhitty]

@Ginger_Canary @Pb2paid @PewterReport But what if that’s why he wouldn’t want to go to Tampa?

[MitchWhit @MitchWhitty]

@FlageyGod @PewterReport Byron won a SB with his mentor on the headset and a team with zero impactful injuries. He was horrible this season. No creativity, no answers, only predictability. Only good offense was when he had little part in the hurry-up late-game drives. New approach is needed.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Every single House Republican just voted to block President Biden from selling oil to lower gas prices.

They want you to pay higher prices.

[MitchWhit @MitchWhitty]

This group of potential OC hires for the @Buccaneers makes much more sense than the Monkens and BOBs of the world.
No way those guys are risking a one-year hire on a team with an unknown QB future and limited salary cap & draft options.

[MitchWhit @MitchWhitty]

@TakeThatNurses Researchers also say more Coronas will make it look better.

[MitchWhit @MitchWhitty]

The cage

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

If Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene were in a cage fight, who would you root for?

[MitchWhit @MitchWhitty]

Fucking screen after screen after screen after screen after screen after screen after screen.
Fire Byron. #Bucs @Buccaneers

[MitchWhit @MitchWhitty]

Fire all the coaches. Every one of them.
Bowles’ defense has been bad.
Byron’s offense has been worse.