I’m here to report that seeing @carlypearce live is everything I hoped it would be and more. ❤️ Insanely gorgeous human and super talented. I won’t be shutting up about meeting her for at least the next 72 hours. 🤩
FINALLY get to see one of my favorite artists live in concert for the first time on Friday. Never thought she’d come to small town Wheeling, WV. @carlypearce I’ve been a fan since Every Little Thing. ❤️ Section 2, 4th row… can’t wait!!! 🤗
So businesses raised their prices to offset the tariffs, we the consumers paid those higher prices, and now those same businesses can get reimbursed from the government for tariffs we already covered for them by paying higher prices?? And *they* get a refund and we don’t??
@_sorrengailll Can confirm this to be sure. But I’d say it’s not just “having kids” … it’s the added stress, mental load, lack of a village, no time for yourself/putting yourself last, etc.
@AIPandaX And when his wife confronts him to say “I would also like time to do hobbies and things I enjoy” his response would probably be “ok then go do what you want I don’t care”… literally WHEN? With what time?!
@tradmother Left by their mothers? Why are fathers not guilted for not making enough money to provide for the family in cases where the mother has to work because his income is insufficient? If he is the “provider” he should own that responsibility. A lot of moms don’t have a choice.
@esjesjesj Well our reproductive rights have already been messed with… ban birth control next? Take away our right to vote? Probably something out of The Handmaid’s Tale.
@ryangrim Jfc these scumbags… He was trying to help a female protestor who got pushed to the ground and got killed because they were mad he was recording them with his phone?!
@SenateGOP I wouldn’t consider seniors a part of “working families” - if anything they are the most well off. Meanwhile Gen Z and millennials are struggling to afford childcare, buy groceries, and buy a house. Hope ya’ll lose the midterms.
@JDVance Bro, the administration that YOU are a part of called an unarmed mother with stuffed animals in her glove box a “domestic terrorist” … and your “innocent” law enforcement officer called her a bitch and chose to let her bleed out and die. Spare us the holier than thou attitude.
I'm a former defense attorney and currently a civil liberties attorney with no political dog in this fight. I watched the video at least 10 times from different angles and at different speeds and waited to offer an opinion, which I still reserve the right to change if additional information changes the calculus.
It is very clear that the officers instigated the confrontation. The woman initially tried to wave them past her.
ICE officers have no authority to search a US citizen or arrest her (unless there's probable cause to believe she's harboring undocumented individuals, not a contention here). A woman surrounded by masked, armed men who have no law enforcement authority over her has every right to try to escape. Video shows her steering wheel is turned to the right, clearly an attempt to leave WITHOUT hitting anyone and steer clear of the officer standing towards the front of her car. That officer had time to step to the side, which is where he was when he shot her.
Even a real police officer would not have the right to shoot at her for trying to flee. This is well-established in the case law; deadly force may not be used simply to prevent someone from getting away. Given that the ICE officers had no law enforcement authority to begin with, AND the video footage shows she was trying to escape a perceived threat, not to kill anyone, the crime is all the more inexcusable.
I'm praying for the victim's family, especially her children. I'm also praying for all the conservatives who are so unprincipled and lost they're excusing this terrible crime, and gloating over a death that will leave three young children motherless, because of the victim's politics.