Bodycam footage just came out of a farmer speaking against a planned data center, being handcuffed at a city council meeting for going a few seconds over the 3-minute public comment limit.
Darren Blanchard was speaking in Claremore, Oklahoma when two officers told him to leave, followed him to the front as he tried to hand documents to the council, and cuffed him as the crowd booed. He's charged with criminal trespass, a $200 offense, and is fighting it as retaliatory.
The case has become a marker for the wider fight over data center construction, where residents increasingly clash with developers over water, power, utility rates and farmland. Blanchard's sharpest point is about democracy itself: if attending a public meeting can get you cuffed, the chilling effect reaches well beyond one Oklahoma town.
Americans realizing they spent $75 billion fighting Iran, then another $300 billion rebuilding Iran, just to reopen the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the war started
The Florida GOP is now openly rigging the gubernatorial primary against James Fishback.
If the GOP is going to sabotage every America First candidate like Thomas Massie & now Fishback, then they deserve to be totally destroyed in 2026.
Party of traitors & controlled opposition.
To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:
Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.
You won’t.
You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.
That is not who we are.
My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.
For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.
I no longer believe that.
Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.
And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.
That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.
Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.
Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.
Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?
We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.
So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.
You won’t.
The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.
That is the only definition that matters.
I spent 24 years wearing this nations uniform.
Do you know what nobody ever told me?
That if I worked hard enough and sacrificed enough, someday my military career could be decided by the political opinion of a Fox News pundit playing Defense Secretary.
@FutureInclined@vlhill1@Acyn Except AI data center's gold rush is not going to cure cancer, drive down cost of goods nor anything you said. You are exceptionally retard.
LIKE this post if you think Donald Trump is the worst president in American history — a walking dumpster fire of corruption who betrayed his oath, divided the country for profit, ripped healthcare away, and turned the White House into a family grift operation.
📢Big news: California’s Protect Our Games Act (AB 1921) just passed the State Assembly 43–16! 🎮
The bill requires companies to provide notice before shutting down games and ensures purchased titles remain playable. Now it’s off to the State Senate!🇺🇸
Thanks @ChrisWardCA for @StopKilingGames
57 Arab and Muslim countries OFFERED Israel PEACE in 2024. GUARANTEED security in exchange for a Palestinian state and the end to the occupation.
Israel REFUSED.
Then Israel claims “they don’t want peace” while acting as the MAIN obstacle to peace.