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Feeding San Francisco Parrots on the back deck and fishing under the Golden Gate Bridge. USAF Veteran.

[Star @StarMott]

I love this noisy mob arriving at my house.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Let's make this happen.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

What a breath of fresh air to hear a pastor speaking of true Christian values. In this moment, it takes a special kind of man of God, to speak truth and not fall into line, adopting the bastardized Christian Nationalist agenda that now dominates this regimes hard right political agenda.

My thanks to Pastor Loran Livingston for his authenticity and a willingness to speak the truth at a time when the truth has become the enemy of a regime intent on imposing theocratic autocracy.

My thanks to @TheTNHoller for the clip and their continued commitment to inform America.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/tm13Sx8SU6

[Star @StarMott]

@onestpress I wonder what percent of his base even have/need a passport?

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Robert DeNiro: "I hate to say it, but loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser… And let me just say it, I can't love the country that's led by Donald Trump.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

You reduce crime by eliminating poverty. Crime is reduced with universal healthcare, public housing, livable wages, and free college. Violence is reduced by creating happy, healthy communities that aren't constantly fighting over basic needs and material resources.

[Star @StarMott]

@sanandreafault I'm down, my tank is full of gas. My earthquake kit is ready to go.

[Donaldo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Stornoway_Cove]

And 100% of the rest of the world…

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

[Star @StarMott]

@covie_93 He is an alien in a really poor disguise, right?

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: Border Patrol agents violently pulled a U.S. citizen PASSENGER from a vehicle, slamming him to the ground…

Then shouted that he had a gun, even though he didn’t.

In Tucson, Arizona, state troopers pulled over a vehicle. While they were stopped on the side of the road, the state trooper called Border Patrol because the PASSENGER appeared to be Hispanic.

When Border Patrol arrived, the situation immediately escalated to agents smashed both passenger-side windows.

One agent tried to hit the phone out of the driver’s hand, who was recording, as they violently ripped the backseat passenger out of the vehicle, and threw him onto the ground, while multiple agents pin him down.

Then, an agent ordered the driver out of the vehicle.

She responded, “I didn’t do anything.”

The agent replied, “Step out or you are going to get tackled.”

At that point, at least three agents already had the passenger pinned, with his hands behind his back, when another agent suddenly yelled, “Gun!”

A fourth agent responded, “He has a gun?”

The driver immediately yells back, “NO! He has NO gun. WE HAVE NO WEAPONS!”

The agent, closest to the car, was startled by this, appearing to forget the driver was still inside… and filming.

That’s when he reached into the vehicle, grabbed her phone, threw it from her hand, and attempted to pull her out of the car.

There is a lot going on in this video, so let’s break this down…

First… you don’t get to detain people based on how they look. The Fourth Amendment requires individualized, reasonable suspicion. Not “he looked Hispanic.”

Second… a passenger, during a traffic stop, is not automatically required to identify themselves, or hand over ID. Law enforcement needs a lawful basis… like reasonable suspicion that that specific person committed a crime… to demand identification.

Third… even when someone is lawfully detained, they are only required to comply with lawful orders tied to THAT detention. A passenger doesn’t lose constitutional protections just because someone else was pulled over, while driving.

Fourth… the First Amendment protects the right to record law enforcement, in public, while they’re doing their job. Knocking a phone away, or throwing it because someone is filming, is violating that constitutional right.

And finally, any use of force… breaking windows, pulling someone out of a car, and restraining them… has to be objectively reasonable under the Fourth Amendment. That requires specific, articulable facts, not assumptions about identity.

This wasn’t a checkpoint.
It wasn’t a border stop.

This was a traffic stop where a PASSENGER became the target because of how he looked.

And if that’s enough to trigger federal agents breaking windows, and violently pulling U.S. citizens out of cars… then every single person should be demanding answers, and accountability.

Because this could’ve ended with another U.S. citizen dead…

And next time, that U.S. citizen could be you.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

There’s no fucking difference between men marching in white masks and men marching in white hoods. None.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

I miss the days when we could all agree that white supremacists, Nazis and pedophiles were bad and belonged in fucking prison.

[Damaan, AKA 'Philly's Finest!' @Damaan4u33]

Two years later.....

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MUST WATCH:

Clip from Larry David's new show "Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness"

Rob Reiner (before his death) as George Washington.

Trump is going to hate this.

[Star @StarMott]

@sanandreafault Silly, this is when @KarlTheFog shines, no one is thinking about you!

[Star @StarMott]

@0x_DeeJay Drop him, shared values is one of the most important things in a relationship any obviously doesn’t share your values, which are amazing.

[Star @StarMott]

@thehill Surrender, apologize, and say “my bad”

[Señor Don ˈPerədē @scaredketchup]

Presidente Trumpito sings "Make Algae Great Again" as America 250 drowns in the reflecting pool swamp