amyreg

Children's librarian who must know and do everything, even Twitter. Talks too much about Supernatural and COVID.

[amyreg @amyreg]

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[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The USA have blocked the Somali Referee Omar Artan from entering the USA, the Referee who is rated the best in Africa was blocked at entry, so he got the Somalian embassy to give him a Diplomatic Passport.

But the USA still refuses to let him in.

The USA need to be disqualified

[Wesley @WesleyLowery]

FL police use A.I. to identify a vehicle theft suspect from surveillance video. Based on an "85% match" they arrest and charge Jalil Richardson. He spends 3 months in jail. He loses his job, his home, and custody of his kids.

Richardson lives in N.C.
He's never been to Florida. And his timesheet shows him at work at the time of the crime. No one checked before charging him. https://t.co/2AcQYwq30f

[Rachel Coyle @RachelCoyleOhio]

Only a few hours left to submit testimony against two of these terrible Ohio bills‼️⏰️ https://t.co/mg3ElTICzD

[keepitquarterly @keepitquarterly]

SEC Rule S7-2026-15 would let public companies hide bad numbers for six months at a time. Insiders dump their shares before disclosure, retail buys the bag. Comment is open until early July.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Karen Newton, 65, from Hertfordshire in England, left home in late July 2025 for the road trip of a lifetime through the United States with her husband Bill. Valid passports. Valid visas. Weeks on the road through California, Nevada, Wyoming and Montana. Then they tried to cross into Canada and things fell apart. Canadian officials said Bill didn’t have the right paperwork to bring the car across the border. When the couple turned back to the American side, U.S. border agents found that Bill’s visa had expired. 

Karen’s tourist visa was valid. Her British passport was valid. She has no criminal record. None of it mattered. She was handcuffed, shackled, and spent the night sleeping on the floor of a locked cell before being driven 12 hours through the night to an ICE detention centre. She and her husband spent the next six weeks there. 

She is now warning anyone planning to visit the United States that the situation is “totally out of control” and advises people not to go while Donald Trump is in office. 

A British grandmother. A valid visa. Six weeks in chains.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: In a Chicago suburb, a U.S. citizen was observing an adult man in a black ski mask, who she believed was an ICE agent, driving around a HIGH SCHOOL…

…and police pulled HER over.

Not the MASKED MAN driving around the Schaumburg high school…

The officer told her she was being detained for “stalking.”

Even though, when she asked who she was allegedly stalking… the cop admitted he didn’t even know yet, and would “find out in just a moment.”

So, just to clarify…

The cop hadn’t confirmed who the MASKED MAN was.

He hadn’t determined whether he was a federal agent, or why he was driving around a HIGH SCHOOL in a SKI MASK.

But the cop had already decided the woman, OBSERVING THE MASKED MAN, was the problem.

Americans have a First Amendment right to observe what government officials are doing in public.

If this was a federal agent… documenting their activity isn’t a crime.

It’s accountability.

And if it wasn’t a federal agent… most people would expect the police to be concerned about a MASKED MAN driving around a HIGH SCHOOL.

Not the woman observing him.

In a country where school shootings are a real and constant threat to students… that’s the bare minimum our law enforcement should be doing.

But when she asked why a MASK MAN, driving around a HIGH SCHOOL, didn’t concern him, the officer said:

“Everyone wears masks nowadays.”

So, if someone can be detained for peacefully observing, what they reasonably believe is government activity…

While police focus more on the observer than the MASKED MAN around a HIGH SCHOOL…

Then we have some serious questions that need to be asked… @GovPritzker

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨NEWS: Scientists Were Handcuffed At A Medical Conference.

Researchers and physicians attending the American Diabetes Association conference in New Orleans were reportedly detained and removed while distributing a paper criticizing cuts to federal research funding.

Think about that for a second.

Scientists were not accused of sabotaging research.

They were sharing research.

If the reports are accurate, the question isn’t whether you agree with their conclusions.

It’s why distributing a scientific paper resulted in handcuffs.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: In Chicago, ICE agents were caught on video assaulting a local chaplain for filming, and asking questions, about what was happening on her own street… AFTER the arrest was already made.

In the video, Alley Henny, a Black chaplain, is standing with her back against a parked car while recording.

An ICE agent is already pushing her backward as she simply asks:

“What did he do?”

But here’s what makes this situation even more disturbing…

The man had already been detained… He was already INSIDE the ICE vehicle.

The arrest was over.

That means, there was no active arrest taking place for her to “interfere with.”

Yet, multiple agents surrounded her anyway.

One agent yells, “Get back! We have a warrant for his arrest. Get out of here.”

She responds, “This is my neighborhood.”

The agent’s response?

“I don’t care.”

Then, while she’s already backed against a car, and surrounded by TWO agents… a THIRD agent rushes over, grabs her, and forcefully shoves her down the street while screaming, “GET BACK! I ALREADY TOLD YOU ONCE!”

And just to be clear…

She wasn’t stopping an arrest.
She wasn’t obstructing agents from reaching a suspect.
She wasn’t preventing agents from taking someone into custody.

The suspect was ALREADY IN THE VEHICLE.

So, this entire situation raises serious concerns about excessive force and retaliation against protected speech.

Because once the situation is already controlled, there’s no reason for that level of force against someone who’s just recording and asking questions.

And if that kind of response isn’t checked, and held accountable, it starts to send a very dangerous message…

That recording and questioning government actions can be met with physical violence, and intimidation.

And that’s exactly what the constitution is meant to prevent.

[Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw]

Extraordinary Letter.

Points to Bill Pulte appointment as national security danger.

"The undersigned include twenty-eight former service secretaries and retired general and flag officers who
collectively served under every president from John F. Kennedy to Joseph R. Biden, Jr"

[Floodlight @FloodlightNews]

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, used unpermitted gas turbines to power the data center behind Grok.

Thermal drone footage captured by Floodlight shows the turbines running at a custom-built power plant in Southaven, Mississippi:

https://t.co/xMMETSMA8M

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

A DHS agent tried to murder a man, and the courts refused to allow a lawsuit against him to proceed. But look at his exact behavior. He "stopped in front of Byrd's car to prevent Byrd from leaving and pulled the trigger." A jammed gun away from being a Renee Good.

[🇵🇸 | WillowTheBirdwatcher | Arcee’s #1 Fan @Dopamine_Fan]

this Datacenter is only 200 meters from the zoo. These things make constant noise & heat the surrounding areas by up to 16 degrees. The Nashville Zoo is home to over 350 species of Leopards, Tigers, Rhinos, Zebras, Giraffes, Alligators, Monkeys, & more. Please sign the petition

[Seamus Hughes @SeamusHughes]

“So he learned the obscure history of the U.S. mint and commemorative coin act and wrote a lawsuit, ponied up 405 dollars in filing fees, argued his case against a DOJ prosecutor and sorta persuaded a judge.”

https://t.co/wGGF1Vs4Xz

[Gigi @Gigi_chienergy]

The screwworm program wasn't charity, it was a $10 million fence that kept a billion-dollar problem from eating our own livestock alive. That's the thing with most USAID funding: it looks like "aid," but it's really cheap self-defense. Solve a problem there, and it never lands on our doorstep. But sure, let a bunch of guys who can't define DEI without Googling take a chainsaw to it. They didn't stop to ask, "Will this cut hurt us too?" Unless that's the point, burn it all down and call it efficiency.

As usual our inept agriculture secretary, blaming the Biden administration as usual, instead of offering a solution to the problem they created.

Texan here

A screwworm infestation is a nightmare for cattle, causing horrific wounds and economic devastation. For Texas, the situation has escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours with the first confirmed case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in over 60 years! This could have been avoided!

Infested animal can kill a cow in less than two weeks.

Treatment is extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring the painful removal of every visible larva and deep disinfection of the wound. Ranchers no longer have much experience with this labor-intensive process, and there is currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment to make it easier.

This has triggered a massive economic threat. The USDA estimates that a widespread outbreak would drain an astonishing $1.8 billion from the Texas economy alone in livestock deaths, labor, and medication expenses.

How will this affect you? Tightening supplies will drive already high beef prices higher.

[amyreg @amyreg]

@neocosmology ooF

[Nicholas Nehamas @NickNehamas]

NEW: Staff at an ICE facility in Louisiana mistreated immigrants, including one incident where an officer stabbed an inmate in the hand with a pen, the Homeland Security inspector general found. The watchdog's report provides a rare and candid look inside an ICE detention center.

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Yesterday I told you the government is pulling 900 ocean monitoring instruments out of the water.

Here is the part that should make every American angry, regardless of where you stand on climate.

Congress voted to fund this network. Not once. Twice. The Trump administration proposed cutting it by 80 percent in 2025. Congress restored the money. Proposed the same cut in 2026. Congress restored the money again.

So the administration labeled it a "descope" and ordered the instruments pulled anyway.

That is not a budget disagreement. That is an executive branch telling the legislative branch that its votes do not matter. The public paid for this infrastructure. Congress protected it. One office in Washington decided the public should not have it.

This is the pattern I document in 𝑾𝒆 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒅 𝑮𝒖𝒚𝒔. It is not about left or right. It is about who decides what Americans are allowed to know about their own planet.

Who should make that call?

[@charlesgaba.com at Bluesky now @charles_gaba]

📣 In response to the VRA being killed, I’ve launched TWO new fundraising pages specifically to help dozens of Black Democrats get elected.

This one is devoted to FEDERAL, JUDICIAL AND EXECUTIVE OFFICE races.

Donate today. #BlackJobs26 #Blue26

https://t.co/yih2G3bwRp

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘BACKROOMS’ director Kane Parsons says he would get “no enjoyment” out of using generative AI on any project — “It defeats the purpose entirely for me.”

“I think I'm in the same boat as most well-adjusted people. If I could snap my fingers and make generative Al disappear forever, I probably would.”

(Source: https://t.co/LA3K1o9KjK)