Ryan Himelein

Husband, father of 3, golfer, hunter, fisherman & occasional poker player

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

This checks out...

[Ryan Himelein @Rhimelein]

@Papershredder99 @ethereal_echo14 @davidalter Boy you’re a real classless piece of shit! #sayimatrumperwithoutsayingimatrumper

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

Pete Hegseth wasn’t removed from the DC National Guard by accident.

A Major General is now warning that his rhetoric and actions are putting him on a path toward war crimes—and he lays out exactly why.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

If you think BIRTH CONTROL pills are “a disrespect of life,” and can’t just say birth control is safe and effective for the overwhelming majority of women with your whole chest, you should NOT be America’s top doctor.

I'm voting NO on Casey Means for Surgeon General.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Filming ICE in public is protected speech. If someone with a badge loses their temper, your constitutional rights don’t disappear. https://t.co/rYrBQqyuu1 explains:

When an agent gets inches from your face and screams “18 U.S.C. 111” while threatening cuffs just to make you stop recording — that’s not “law and order.” That’s First Amendment retaliation.

What to do:
✅ Preserve the evidence (full, unedited video + backup)
✅ Write the timeline (time, place, exact words, witnesses)
✅ File complaints:
• ICE OPR (misconduct)
• DHS OIG (independent IG)
• DHS CRCL (civil rights/retaliation)

Support PAXIS so people know their rights before, during, and after ICE encounters: https://t.co/hN8SiV9y02

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. Learn more from @David_J_Bier.

https://t.co/MfkUXoopp4

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

When Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis, he says he was detained and shackled for hours.

“We're turning into something that I can't even begin to respect, and something that I literally went to war—or they told me I went to war—to fight against,” he says.

Since he was arrested, he’s continued protesting. Mother Jones senior reporter Julia Lurie spoke to Austin outside the Whipple Federal Building, where ICE is based.

“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨HOLY SMOKES: Danish MEP Anders Vistisen to Trump:

“Let me put this in words you might understand: Mr. President, fuck off.”

Europe is officially done pretending this is normal diplomacy.

[Ryan Crosswell @Ryan_Crosswell]

I prosecuted a UK billionaire and the former governor of Puerto Rico on bribery charges.

Trump pardoned them after millions went to MAGA Inc.

I believe those pardons were rewards for $$$ paid to Trump’s SuperPAC. And that this Administration is corrupt to the core.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

This retired military veteran has a request of Gov. Tim Walz. It is time to deploy the National Guard to protect the citizens of Minnesota from the terror, torture, and brutality of the pedophile führer and his murderous ICE Nazis. 😳👇

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

Kristi Noem is standing, literally, behind a Nazi slogan.

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

New York City is doing it right. Local police should be arresting ice officers if they do not produce a warrant.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I’m a Marine Corp veteran, trained by LEOs when I served in US embassies on how to handle unruly individuals or protestors.
1) If you are the guys with guns, you are the ones responsible for the situation. Doubly so if you outnumber the person you’re engaging.
2) You do not need to use force except to control the situation in order to deescalate it. Minimal force required.
3) You are NOT here to look for excuses to use more force. Even if the person gives you an excuse which “justifies” using force, that doesn’t mean using force is de facto the right move.
4) “Let the other person retreat” often resolves the situation just fine! Don’t surround people, back them up against a wall, etc. Your job is to control the situation. “I put myself stupidly in danger” is not an excuse to escalate “because I’m in danger.”
5) People will feed off of your energy. If you come rolling up like a fascist thug ready to break skulls, people will meet you at that level. If you show up calm, professional, and having a friendly chat, often that brings the temperature down.
Everything I see from ICE agents is they are relishing violence and exercising power, needlessly escalating situations, looking for opportunities to shoot their weapons and beat the shit out of people.
~ Alexander McCoy

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Everyone should be concerned‼️ you are 100% correct‼️

[Rep. Tim Kennedy @RepTimKennedy]

At the direction of Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, ICE is terrorizing our cities. They are turning our communities into war zones and treating our neighbors like enemies. As a result, an American citizen is dead. Kristi Noem must resign now.

[Pete @splendid_pete]

Sheriff Chris Swanson, the elected Sheriff of Genesee County, Michigan, is a career law-enforcement officer, not a pundit. He became nationally known in 2020 for prioritizing de-escalation during protests. What he says about the Minneapolis shooting directly exposes how bad MAGA-era policing policies fail.

Swanson calls the shooting tragic but predictable. Masked federal agents in unmarked vehicles confronted a 37-year-old woman, gave unclear commands, and then fired three shots as her car was backing up and turning away. The agent who fired was not hit, not run over, and not in the vehicle’s path. Two shots were fired as the car was already driving away.

That is not lawful deadly force. That is bad policy producing bad outcomes.

Swanson is blunt about the force continuum. You do not shoot people who are fleeing. You do not shoot when you are not in danger. “Tough on crime” slogans do not override use-of-force standards, no matter how loudly MAGA politicians repeat them.

What follows is worse. After the woman was shot and crashed, Swanson saw no attempt at life-saving aid. No urgency. No trauma response. He contrasts this with his own deputies, who once returned fire on a suspect who had already killed two people, then immediately tried to save his life anyway. That is professional policing. What happened in Minneapolis was not.

He also points to missing body cams and officers leaving the scene instead of securing it for investigation. These are not accidents. They are the results of policies that reward aggression and optics over training and accountability.

Swanson makes one thing clear. Calling this out is not anti-police. Blind loyalty is what damages law enforcement. Accountability is what protects it.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: Male ICE/Border Patrol agents used physical force to unlawfully detain a woman project manager on a private job site after she questioned their authority and refused to hand over ID.

In Amherst, NY, the woman is the project manager for a roofing company and was standing on the private property of an active job when agents entered the yard without a warrant. As she asked basic, lawful questions… including whether they had a warrant… and began filming, agents demanded her identification. She refused, which she is legally allowed to do in New York.

That refusal triggered an immediate escalation. A male agent ordered her to put her hands against a tree, pushed her into it, and began grabbing at her body and reaching toward her pockets while attempting to restrain her.

As this happened, she repeatedly asks, “What are you arresting me for?” The agents never answer. They continue using physical force without stating a charge, legal basis, or probable cause.

Refusing to provide ID is not a crime in New York. Filming federal agents is not a crime. Asking whether officers have a warrant is not a crime.

What is unlawful is entering private property without a judicial warrant, physically restraining someone without probable cause, attempting to search their person, and detaining them while refusing to state a reason.

This was not enforcement. It was retaliation. And when masked male federal agents feel empowered to shove a woman into a tree and put their hands on her for asserting her rights on her own job site, it exposes just how far beyond the law they believe they are operating.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Stephen Miller said something he was not supposed to say out loud. He said Trump had "plenary authority," which is the same complete and absolute power that Hitler had. We now know exactly what we're up against. We are facing the same fascist threat as German citizens in 1933. 👇

[Sigurdur Nordal @essenviews]

U.S. border officer speeds toward a Canadian tourist, yelling, 'Never come to the U.S. again!'