TodaysTomSawyer

🇺🇸 The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Veteran of the psychic wars.

[Classic Movie Hub @ClassicMovieHub]

Happy 95th Birthday Dame Virginia McKenna! Born June 7, 1931.
Over 60 roles including A Town Like Alice, Carve Her Name with Pride, Waterloo - but probably best remembered as Joy Adamson in Born Free!
Did You Know? She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to wildlife conservation and wild animal welfare.
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[Sarah Fields @SarahisCensored]

When I left the courthouse on Friday, multiple individuals approached Sippi and me. They were yelling and brandishing multiple firearms.

One of the men initially displayed a pistol that was slung outside of his shirt and held it at a low-ready position. The individuals were clearly making sure that we saw the firearm as they approached.

Afterward, Sippi sarcastically remarked, “That’s bad ass.”

The man then responded, “Oh, I bet you didn’t see this one,” before lifting his shirt and brandishing another firearm that was positioned near his waistband (in the center).

The group continued yelling and followed us across the front of the parking lot.

Sippi immediately escorted me to our vehicle, and we left.

I am not here to give these people any of my time or attention. I am here to report, as I have been for the past year.

It’s sad that it has come to this. They are angry that I’m doing my job, and behavior like this is exactly why we have increased our security measures and are taking additional precautions.

A large number of the men in the parking lot carrying firearms have identified themselves as members of the Black Panthers. I do not know whether the individuals who approached us were affiliated with that group or not.

[Okra @RealOkrahead]

With tensions running high inside and outside the courtroom where Karmelo Anthony is on trial, local CBS reporter J.D. Miles just doxxed a student who is providing key testimony against Anthony.
Besides violating a court order it looks as if CBS is witness tampering.

[Bear @Bear12121212121]

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

[😂 @kaleb115054]

@CHIMPUSX

[Chimp @CHIMPUSX]

New X policy you can now share a video even if someone blocked you on a lie.

Pretty amazing lmao 😂

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

Dilbert 10 Years Ago

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

The largest children’s hospital in the world - backed by the best legal team money can buy - is fighting tooth and nail against a family’s right to determine the medical care of their child.

If you can, please donate to help the family cover mounting legal and medical expenses.

https://t.co/e28aD2pWg2

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

2007 Dilbert Classics Week

[Mrs B @attackdogX]

“Dude, I’m not gonna fight you at a track meet”

Austin Metcalf

[Richard Williams @williams_rje]

This @historyinmemes post refers to the events of 19 September 2005, in Basra, Southern Iraq

2 SAS men captured by Iranian-backed insurgents whilst conducting covert surveillance of an Iranian-controlled Iraqi Police Force, were about to be spirited away to Iran for ritual humiliation or worse.

The British chain of command, who had ordered the SAS surveillance operation in the first place, became overly worried about the negative presentational impact of an SAS rescue operation on their plans to withdraw British Forces and hand over Southern Iraq to local police and security forces that they knew would be controlled by the Iranians. They feared that such a high profile operation would (correctly) prove to the US-led coalition and the Baghdad government that the UK was withdrawing its forces too soon, and certainly before the area was properly stable; that they were simply enabling a safe logistics base for Iranian insurgents to target Iraqi and US forces in central Iraq.

Whilst the many Generals, ambitious staff officers, civil servants and diplomats (in London and Iraq) wrestled with this emerging reality and its potential consequences for their withdrawal plan - hoping that there was a less visible way to recover the men, the SAS prepared an operation to rescue their own men, the moment an opportunity presented itself.

The moment it appeared, the SAS pushed past the concerns and fears of a confused, conflicted chain of command that had refused to give permission for a rescue declaring to the SAS CO “that there is more at stake than your men’s lives” and executed successfully the recovery operation, returning the men safe from the clutches of a vicious and merciless enemy.

If the SAS Command hadn’t ignored the concerns and constraints of the London HQ staff and their advisors, if their rescue force hadn’t been as skilled and decisive, then the outcome would have been dreadful for their two men and for the country; and for no good reason.

As Martin Luther King is reported to have said: “The time is always right to do what is right” and so it was in September 2005. 🇬🇧 🇬🇧

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In 2005, after two British Special Air Service operators were captured in Iraq and approval for a rescue was refused, a lieutenant colonel allegedly disobeyed orders and sent about 20 SAS personnel to retrieve them. When the government pushed back, the entire Special Air Service reportedly threatened to resign en masse.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This woman (dahfinebabymomma) who’s a mother of 2 films herself happily stealing from stores

She says “I be in n OUT” and puts a bunch of laughing emojis

I don’t know about you but I’m tired of seeing good people follow the rules and stay behind while bad actors break the rules and keep getting away with it

America needs change

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

Chaos erupted outside TPUSA’s Women’s Leadership Summit as masked protesters clashed with police, hurled objects, and attempted to disrupt arrests near the event entrance.

[QE Infinity @StealthQE4]

Open AI is expected to lose $218 billion over the next 3 years.

H/t @Stansberry

[Classic Movie Hub @ClassicMovieHub]

"If I were going to be a star, I'd have made it by now."
Remembering Richard Crane born June 6, in 1918.
Over 135 roles including Mysterious Island 1951, The Alligator People, Behind Green Lights, TV's Surfside 6, lots of TV - & of course TV's Rocky Jones Space Ranger!
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[miguelifornia @miguelifornia]

CALIFORNIA STEALIN'

[Mike Engleman🇺🇲 @RealHickory]

America is a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, not a democracy.

[🎹 Ames™ 🎹 @Real_Ames]

"Touch me and see what happens."

Those words matter.

If you have time to issue a warning, you have time to make a choice.

By that point, Karmelo Anthony could have walked away from the confrontation. Instead, the situation escalated and Austin Metcalf lost his life.

Then there are the questions many people still have:

If this was truly self-defense, why run?

Why get rid of the knife?

Why ask an officer, "Can I say it was self-defense?"

Most people who act in legitimate self-defense call 911, stay at the scene, cooperate with police, and explain what happened.

Self-defense is about necessity, not retaliation. When there is an opportunity to disengage, jurors have to ask a simple question:

Was deadly force truly the only option?

Those are some of the reasons many people believe this was not a case of self-defense.

[🎹 Ames™ 🎹 @Real_Ames]

A black "journalist" removed from the courthouse is now trying to make this about race.

According to reports, people were removed for alleged conduct and protocol violations.

If courthouse rules were broken, that's the issue—not race.

He forgot to report on himself !!