A.Kat 🐈

Just trying to be a decent Ally

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨This video is terrifying, and it’s exactly why “just comply” does not protect you from ICE/Border Patrol agents, even as U.S. citizens, and why you always film them.

In North Carolina, ICE/Border Patrol agents illegally stopped two U.S. citizens. They questioned them without legal cause, took their licenses, and admitted on camera that the men were allowed to record.

And they were still attacked.

In the video, one man asks if he can film for his safety. The agent says yes, saying that he’ll “have to put his mask on.” The agents take their licenses, ask where they’re from, where they live, what they’re doing in the area, all without legal authority. The men cooperate anyway.

Then the situation turns dangerous.

Another agent suddenly tells the driver, “Turn off your video. You are being detained, so you are not free to record.”

That is false. Recording law enforcement in public is legal, including during detention.

The driver calmly refuses, keeps one hand on the steering wheel as instructed, and holds his phone in the other.

That’s when the agent lunges for the phone.

The agent throws himself into the car, trying to grab the device. When the driver moves it away, the agent assaults him.

The agent then illegally opens the car door, something the driver correctly points out they are not allowed to do.

The agents keep demanding the filming stop, as multiple agents keep reaching for the phone.

Then they escalate again.

They threaten arrest, grab the driver, and start hitting him and trying to drag him out of the car, even though he keeps saying, “We haven’t done anything wrong.” When they fail to pull him out, they back away, visibly angry.

They turn on the passenger next.

An agent grabs him, threatens handcuffs, and assaults him trying to force him out of the vehicle. When that doesn’t work, they start yelling conflicting commands, claiming the men are “interfering with an investigation.”

An investigation into what?
Their own illegal stop.

At one point, an agent shouts that the men can’t interfere, while another tries… again… to grab the phone, almost certainly to stop or erase the recording.

Only after all of this do the agents finally release them.
Because they are U.S. citizens.
Because the stop was illegal.
And because the camera was still rolling.

This is why you film ICE.
This is why compliance doesn’t save you.
This is why they hate cameras.

If this hadn’t been recorded, this would be another lie in a report, another “resisting” accusation, another abuse buried and denied.

Film them. Always.

[julia @eathedocument]

a woman is expected to remain completely calm as armed white supremacist thugs try to forcibly open her car door but an ICE agent is allowed to panic and shoot someone in the head three times from a foot away because he “felt threatened”

[Jacqueline Sweet @JSweetLI]

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University. This was her bio:

"Renée Macklin is from Colorado Springs, Colorado and is studying Creative Writing at ODU. Her poetry has been published in Metrosphere and Coronado Literary Review, and she currently co-hosts a podcast with her husband, comedian Tim Macklin. When she is not writing, reading, or talking about writing, she has movie marathons and makes messy art with her daughter and two sons."

(People are posting the wrong woman's photo, the red lipstick photo is not her. This is Renee, from her social media accounts.)

[A.Kat 🐈 @allykatv]

Fucking NAZIS!!!!
US have fully transitioned into 1939 Germany

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Doctor: I’m A Physician.

ICE: I Don’t Care.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States

[A.Kat 🐈 @allykatv]

This is it. This is the beginning of WW3.

Canada, it's time to start closing our border to the south

[Max Nesterak @maxnesterak]

A witness shared this video with me showing an ICE officer shooting a driver in an SUV in south Minneapolis. DHS says the woman is dead.

[A.Kat 🐈 @allykatv]

@SholaMos1

[A.Kat 🐈 @allykatv]

Daaaamn @kenklippenstein wrote about these plans back in April!! They've been planning this for a WHILE. 🚨 https://t.co/I8fdazRYjZ

[Steve Lookner @lookner]

NY Times: "President Trump is weighing a critical decision in the four-day-old war between Israel and Iran: whether to enter the fray by helping Israel destroy the deeply buried nuclear enrichment facility at Fordo, which only American “bunker busters,” dropped by American B-2 bombers, can reach."
https://t.co/WWrFCbjPn3

[A.Kat 🐈 @allykatv]

@lookner Daaaamn @kenklippenstein wrote about these plans back in April!! They've been planning this for a WHILE. 🚨
https://t.co/I8fdazRYjZ

[Shannon @shannonplante]

YEAAAAAAAAAASSSS ANNEX THIS YOU FUCKING NONCES #GOCANADAGO #4Nations

[David Moscrop @David_Moscrop]

Look at this loser.

[A.Kat 🐈 @allykatv]

@charli_xcx but is Walz brat?

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will be the Democratic VP candidate, alongside Kamala Harris.

Walz forged a reputation as a Governor who makes good policy happen.

Last year he signed a law guaranteeing free breakfast and lunch for all Minnesota students. And that's not all 🧵

[Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan]

Refreshing to see Democrats demonize right wing misogyny.

[Mihai Cirstea @Mihai_Cirstea_]

🚨 Why did @BrianVMontague meet with a Fortis BC lobbyist? Montague does nothing - barely works, doesn't attend events, doesn't write motions, doesn't live in Vancouver -- but suddenly found it very high priority to make sure we can re-introduce gas heating to new builds. (1/4)

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

We are not going back.

[A.Kat 🐈 @allykatv]

"He-Man-Woman-Hater's Club" 😂

Millennial nostalgia ftw #Walz4Harris

[Amanda Hu @amandalhu]

I learned the other day that Coca-Cola’s plant in NE Calgary bottles Calgary’s municipal treated water, that we pay for as taxpayers, and sells it as Dasani. They did this during the water shortage too.

[A.Kat 🐈 @allykatv]

theme for the Harris campaign
#Kamala2024 #bratgirlsummer

[𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆🫧💚 @beyoncegarden]

CRYING ACTUAL TEARS😭😭😭

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

Statement from the Ministry of Health in Gaza:

"The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announces that tests were conducted on sewage samples in coordination with UNICEF, and the results showed the presence of the virus that causes poliomyelitis.

Detecting the virus that causes polio in sewage portends a real health disaster and exposes thousands of residents to the risk of contracting poliomyelitis.

The Ministry of Health calls for an immediate halt to the Israeli aggression, providing usable water, repairing sewage lines, and ending population crowding in places of displacement."