bigbrian-NC of SC

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[bigbrian-NC of SC @bigbrian_nc]

@harrisonjaime Get well soon!

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[Michael Okuda @MikeOkuda]

Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize!

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents stalked a U.S. citizen, at a POLLING PLACE, to pressure her into deleting her post, from JANUARY, about indicting ICE agent, Jonathan Ross.

The exact post read: The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in broad daylight has been identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribune. I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted!

FEDERAL AGENTS walked into a polling place… one of the most protected civic spaces we have… to intimidate a citizen, over political speech, about holding law enforcement accountable.

The document they handed her said…

“This notice officially informs you that it is unlawful to threaten to assault, kidnap, and/or murder a federal official or that federal official’s immediate family member with the intent to impede, intimidate, and/or interfere with the federal official’s duties or retaliate against a federal official due to the performance of their duties,”

The document also said she could be subject to both federal and state prosecution.

And just to be clear… The post, in question, wasn’t “doxxing.”

Doxxing is releasing private, non-public information. Repeating publicly reported facts… is not that.

Because law enforcement’s identities are not supposed to be private information, especially when they have been involved in the death, or shooting, of a civilian…

But, instead of upholding the constitution, the current administration is attempting to stretch “threatening” language to cover political speech they don’t like.

And let’s talk about election integrity…

Polling places are legally restricted civic spaces. It is illegal to deploy federal troops, or armed federal law enforcement, to any polling place.

Using that space to confront someone, over speech about federal agents, is highly inappropriate at minimum… and potentially unlawful.

And this isn’t the first instance federal agents have hunted U.S. citizens down to silence calls for government accountability.

Which should alarm everyone…

Because a government that punishes scrutiny instead of answering it, is not a government holding its agents accountable…

It’s a system telling you its agents are above it.

[bigbrian-NC of SC @bigbrian_nc]

@Dr_GrantSeeker Here’s my mom in that spot August 1996, she was in town for the National Association of Letter Carriers biennial conference, as one of the union reps from West Virginia.

[bigbrian-NC of SC @bigbrian_nc]

It is gone ( gift article)

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[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: In Queens, New York, ICE agents were caught on video violently shoving, and threatening, U.S. citizens because they dared to stand on a public sidewalk.

The U.S. citizens weren’t blocking traffic.
They weren’t interfering.
They weren’t even yelling…

They were filming, while another agent stood right next to them, without issue.

Then, out of nowhere, an ICE agent came charging from off camera, screaming, “BACK THE FUCK UP,” and then violently shoved one of the men multiple times.

Even as the U.S. citizens backed up, the ICE agent continued to violently shoved one of them, held pepper spray inches from his face, as the other agent threatened the second man with a taser.

When you’re walking down the street, observing a traffic stop from the sidewalk, normally police officers don’t sprint over, scream profanities at you, assault you, and then threaten you with weapons…

And that’s because watching law enforcement activity, from a public place, is protected by the First Amendment.

Recording law enforcement performing their duties, in public, is constitutionally protected.

The law generally only allows officers to use force when they’re facing an actual safety threat, active physical resistance, or someone trying to flee… not because U.S. citizens are standing on a public sidewalk, watching and filming.

And the most telling part?

If these U.S. citizens, standing on a public sidewalk, were really a threat… the ICE agents wouldn’t have instantly turned their backs to the threat, and walked away.

Because that just proved they were never a threat at all.

So, why did ICE agents violently shove U.S. citizens, and threaten them with weapons?

[bigbrian-NC of SC @bigbrian_nc]

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[Trapped on Vacation 🐦💨 @trapped]

Spending $2.6 billion dollars to get NOTHING is the definition of fiscal irresponsibility. Par for the course with Trump. Fucking dumbass, but MAGA dumbfucks love it!

Trump administration ending 4 wind power projects by buying up leases | AP News https://t.co/0LnI17bJ2Z

[Trapped on Vacation 🐦💨 @trapped]

@misfitpatriot_ MAGA had a fit when Lizzo playing James Madison's flute was disrespecting American values. But this shit show at the White House isnt?
Although sweaty naked dudes rolling around with their heads in other guys crotches is a great way to celebrate Pride! #UFCisSoGay #happypride!

[bigbrian-NC of SC @bigbrian_nc]

@mtaibbi It’s so much that “Democrats prefer to vote by mail” as it is that when you make it easier for more people to vote, Republicans get outnumbered, there are just more of us who are not Republicans.

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

That's a great observation.

The right's screaming outrage about DEI is not about qualifications, it's really all about racism

And this is proof positive right here.

#FightTheRight

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

This one hits hard.

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

It appears that stopping a flesh eating parasite from spreading across the continent was, in fact, NOT waste, fraud, and abuse.
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[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨This is one of the most disturbing ICE brutality videos I’ve seen in a long time…

Another angle of this incident shows ICE agents suddenly rushing protesters outside the Newark ICE Facility, then continuously shoving U.S. citizens toward the wheels of a MOVING TRUCK…

until an activist’s LEG is run over.

And the most disturbing part?

The protesters are not charging the agents… The agents are the ones creating the escalation.

And not only that, they are forcing civilians backward toward a MOVING VEHICLE, escalating a situation that was not violent until THEY made it violent.

That is reckless, dangerous force.

So, let’s go over the obvious constitutional violations happening in this video…

1. First Amendment violations, because Americans have the constitutional right to peacefully protest the government.

2. Fourth Amendment violations, because federal agents cannot use excessive or objectively unreasonable force against nonviolent civilians.

3. Fifth Amendment due process concerns, because the government cannot arbitrarily target, intimidate, or assault citizens exercising protected rights.

4. Federal officers can also face liability under 18 U.S. Code § 242 for depriving people of constitutional rights “under color of law.”

When armed federal agents create chaos themselves, then use that chaos to justify violence against civilians, that is an abuse of power.

Call your representatives.
Demand accountability.

[bigbrian-NC of SC @bigbrian_nc]

@TheMalakaCoin @BlackAndNative1 Diplomatic immunity does nothing to exempt them from the fact that in this country
if you are in a public place or a place that can be seen from a public place you do not have an expectation of privacy under the law, if you are in public you can be filmed or photographed.