Progressive Shield

The resistance has just begun!

[I Am Leah @Bossy_Leah]

These girls are not the reason I can’t shop at the mall alone on the weekend or buy deodorant without someone unlocking the case, but no one wants to have that conversation.

[Bender @Benderxxx7]

At 16, Brian Banks was one of the best high school linebackers in America. USC had offered him a full scholarship. Pete Carroll personally called him.

One afternoon at school he made out with a classmate. Consensual. By the end of the day he was in jail, charged with kidnapping and rape.

She said he dragged her into a stairwell. It never happened.

The DNA came back negative. His mother sold her house and her car to pay for a lawyer.

He couldn’t make bail. He spent a year behind bars waiting for trial.

His lawyer told him: plead no contest, or risk 41 years in prison. He was 17. He took the deal.

He did 5 years in prison. Then 5 more on parole. Registered sex offender. GPS monitor on his ankle. Couldn’t go near schools or parks. No one would hire him.

Meanwhile, the girl and her mother sued the school district for not keeping her safe. They won $1.5 million.

In 2011, a Facebook friend request popped up on his screen.

It was her.

She wanted to “let bygones be bygones.”

Brian went to a private investigator. They hid cameras in the office and invited her to talk. She came by bus.

On tape, she admitted it. He never raped her. He never kidnapped her.

Then she said she still wouldn’t tell prosecutors the truth. Because she’d have to give back the money.

In May 2012, a judge cleared his name. The hearing took less than a minute.

10 years of his life. Gone in one lie. Erased in 60 seconds.

A few days later his phone rang. “I’m looking for a linebacker. You know where I can find one?”

It was Pete Carroll. The same coach who recruited him 10 years earlier.

He finally signed with the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons. At 27. The dream he had at 16.

She was ordered to pay $2.6 million back.

What should happen to someone who steals 10 years of your life with one lie?

[ℝ𝕖𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕟 𝕠𝕗 ℝ𝕠𝕞𝕖 @return_of_rome]

Nayib Bukele: “There is no State that cannot defeat criminals. If a State does not defeat criminality, it is because the State is complicit.” @nayibbukele

[Chief_Engineer @ChiefEngineerCE]

A bridge in India fell into the River Ganges for the second time in a year while it was still under-construction.

Then a few months later a third time.

This is literally the Mississippi of India. We would assume their best were working this project?

Note* - No Foreign labor appears to have been involved in this incident.

** Construction Quality was cited as the cause.

Update, November 2026: three collapses. Still not open. It was supposed to be done by December 2026. Now they're saying late 2027. Another year slipped, and the original target was 2019.

[Isaac @isaacrrr7]

Los Europeos no hacen hijos porque no pueden mantenerlos.

Los Musulmanes hacen hijos porque se los mantienen los Europeos.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

As grave and insane a cultural development as I can imagine.

All writers and artists must stand against this -- or what we do falls to the level of cake decorating.

Guillotines next if we don't.

[Lee (Greater) @shortmagsmle]

This is how the whole country works

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Colorado State Senator Iman Jodeh, who’s celebrated as the first muslim elected to the Colorado legislature, is advertising an internship program at the Colorado Capitol

Qualifications are you have to be muslim or north african.

This is illegal.

Cc @CivilRights

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Karmelo Anthony stabbed a white kid to death and was still able to stay in school and graduate with no issues while his family raised half a million dollars and bought a new house. A white girl made a noise into a Ring camera and had to withdraw from school for her own safety within a day of the video being posted online. That basically tells you everything you need to know about the racial disparities in this country.

[Handre @Handre]

Economist tier list:

[Progressive Shield @ProgrsiveShield]

@WallStreetApes Nice use of the term “bad actors”. You could have also said “groups of teens”.

[Progressive Shield @ProgrsiveShield]

@BillMelugin_ @FoxNews Was he registered to vote?

[Laura Atty 🇺🇸 @laura_atty]

@elonmusk Elon, Thank you for everything you did to try to help our country. This is really ridiculous. I find it very hard to believe that so many ignorant people are living and voting in the United States of America. Prayers for our country🙏❤️🇺🇸

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Prophetic

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

8 days out from the midterms and Zohran Mamdani is telling New Yorkers they "don't need to bring anything" to vote. No ID. He says voting is secure, but not in the way you or I mean that. He means ICE agents are not allowed into the polling place.

Then he dropped a Spanish-language video coaching people on what to say when ICE knocks.

I thought illegals don't vote? Why would citizens be worried about ICE? Why is a mayor coaching illegals on how to evade law enforcement?

What on earth are we doing here, people?

[BKS @BrianKSouthard]

@JamieBonkiewicz Just wait until you live in a Muslim country. Don’t be naive. Geeez

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

These Ring videos of certain demographics raiding candy bowls on Halloween bring me back to what I like to call the Farm Stand Theory and which I think has been coined elsewhere as the Farm Stand Test.

Most of the neighborhoods I’ve lived in have had a house with an unmanned farm stand. You take fresh produce or eggs and leave the money in a box. It runs entirely on the honor system.

If you are moving and looking for a new community, find one that has a farm stand. The farm stand immediately tells you that the community is safe, neighborly, and high trust. The farm stand reveals more than any other single observable factor ever could. Even if you never use the farm stand, you can rest easy knowing it’s there.

If your neighborhood not only doesn’t have a farm stand but *couldn’t* have one, even in theory, that means you live in a shit hole. It means you can’t even trust the people around you to be minimally civilized and decent.

People who live in the city like to brag about the nice restaurants and stores nearby. But the vast majority of neighborhoods in the vast majority of cities couldn’t sustain a farm stand for even a day. It would be looted and wiped out within about 45 minutes. That makes them shit holes. I don’t care how expensive the houses are or how many restaurants you have nearby. You’re surrounded by dishonorable, deceitful thieves. You live in a dump, I’m sorry to tell you.

But the uncomfortable (for some people, not me) fact about the farm stand is that it also tells you something else: if you have an unmanned farm stand, your community is probably overwhelmingly white. It could also have an Asian population and sustain a farm stand just fine. But that’s about the extent of the “diversity” you’re likely to find if you’re trying to live in a Farm Stand Eligible location, which you should be.

A neighborhood could be wealthy or middle class or lower income and have a farm stand. The farm stand doesn’t tell you much about the average tax bracket of a community. It does tell you something about its demographics. Feel however you want about that fact. But it is a fact.

[🇨🇦🇺🇲Maureen Smith @maureensmith232]

Thank you Firefighter!!!