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[CindyGetsPolitical @CindyGets]

I ordered a new shirt, and it can't get here soon enough!!!

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: An ICE agent was just caught on video violently shoving a TEENAGER to the ground, in a Chicago suburb.

But it gets worse…

In Joliet, IL, ICE agents jumped out of their cars, racially profiled a man, began handcuffing him, and forced him into an unmarked vehicle that had its license plate covered.

And they did all of this before even confirming who he was.

As U.S. citizens began recording the incident, ICE agents started forcing them farther back, even though they were not interfering with the arrest.

One of the agents looked at a teenager, who was just standing there and filming, and said, “Step back a little bit.”

The teenager wasn’t interfering. In fact, a woman was standing even closer.

And then, without warning, the ICE agent violently shoved the teenager to the ground.

Moments later, another ICE agent pulled out a taser and threatened the legal observers, despite them remaining away from the vehicle, and not interfering.

And after all of that, about 20 minutes later…

ICE released the man they had kidnapped because they realized he was not undocumented.

Think about how insane that is…

A man was detained, handcuffed, and taken away before ICE even confirmed they had the right person.

That’s exactly why the Fourth Amendment exists… to protect people from unreasonable seizures by the government.

And then there is the issue of an ICE agent shoving a teenager to the ground…

Using significant physical force against someone, especially a teenager, who is not posing an immediate threat, not resisting, and not interfering… is excessive force.

Federal agents do not get a free pass to assault teenagers because they are standing nearby.

The First Amendment protects the right to record law enforcement in public, and government officials cannot use intimidation, or force, to silence people who are lawfully documenting their actions.

This wasn’t just about one man being kidnapped…. It was about everyone standing there.

A teenager was thrown to the ground.

Legal observers were threatened.

U.S. citizens exercising their constitutional rights were intimidated.

And an innocent man lost 20 minutes of his freedom because ICE believes they are allowed to kidnap anyone they want.

So, why are these ICE agents not being held accountable?

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: Sen. Ted Cruz just thanked Trump for intervening with FIFA to overturn Folarin Balogun’s red card.

Political interference is a violation of FIFA’s statutes and carries serious consequences including permanent EXPULSION from FIFA competitions.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Do not stop demanding the unredacted Epstein files until corrupt pedophile protector Todd Blanche has no choice but to release them.

[Strummer @Strummer2323]

#11780

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Pleaae don’t stop talking about the Epstein files because every single one of these girls deserve Justice!

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

A funeral procession was held for the 52 people who have died in ice detention/custody. Hundreds of people gathered in marched carrying 52 coffins on July 4th in Minneapolis. They marched to the Justice department where they laid the caskets down and held a funeral service for all the sacred lives taken. The number is probably higher but those are the recorded numbers at this time. The 52 don't include Alex Pretti or Renee Good we're both murdered in the streets of Minneapolis defending their immigrant neighbors.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Governor JB Pritzker just signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act. It's the strongest framework promoting AI safety, transparency in the country. Pritzker also removed all tax incentives in existence for data centers. This is how you lead for the future.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Trump’s July 4th finale — which was so poorly planned it didn’t actually take place until July 5th — looked less like a fireworks show and more like the end of the world.
#America250

[Jared Ryan Sears @JaredRyanSears]

For anyone who is worried about the communist threat facing America, here is some important information:

No one was eating the dogs or the cats.

No country emptied it's asylums or prisons into America.

Schools were not setting up litter boxes for kids.

America did not win the war in Iran over 30 times. It lost.

Other countries didn't pay the tariffs, you did.

DOGE didn't cut $2 trillion from the budget. It cost more than the tiny amount it did cut.

There is no communist threat. Not one person who has won a primary for Congress this year is a communist.

A political party that can't run on its record because it has been such a massive failure resorts to baseless fearmongering. That's all.

[💙 Dr. MemeNstein votes 💙 BLUE 🇺🇸🦅 @Coste1Costello]

agree?

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

👏DO👏NOT👏LET👏THIS👏STORY👏DIE👏

Texas Attorney General, and now Republican nominee for the Texas Senate Ken Paxton gave his friend 28 days in jail after he repeatedly raped a young boy.

He does not have to register as a sex offender.

He didn’t even lose his license to practice law.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: Border Patrol agents violently pulled a U.S. citizen PASSENGER from a vehicle, slamming him to the ground…

Then shouted that he had a gun, even though he didn’t.

In Tucson, Arizona, state troopers pulled over a vehicle. While they were stopped on the side of the road, the state trooper called Border Patrol because the PASSENGER appeared to be Hispanic.

When Border Patrol arrived, the situation immediately escalated to agents smashed both passenger-side windows.

One agent tried to hit the phone out of the driver’s hand, who was recording, as they violently ripped the backseat passenger out of the vehicle, and threw him onto the ground, while multiple agents pin him down.

Then, an agent ordered the driver out of the vehicle.

She responded, “I didn’t do anything.”

The agent replied, “Step out or you are going to get tackled.”

At that point, at least three agents already had the passenger pinned, with his hands behind his back, when another agent suddenly yelled, “Gun!”

A fourth agent responded, “He has a gun?”

The driver immediately yells back, “NO! He has NO gun. WE HAVE NO WEAPONS!”

The agent, closest to the car, was startled by this, appearing to forget the driver was still inside… and filming.

That’s when he reached into the vehicle, grabbed her phone, threw it from her hand, and attempted to pull her out of the car.

There is a lot going on in this video, so let’s break this down…

First… you don’t get to detain people based on how they look. The Fourth Amendment requires individualized, reasonable suspicion. Not “he looked Hispanic.”

Second… a passenger, during a traffic stop, is not automatically required to identify themselves, or hand over ID. Law enforcement needs a lawful basis… like reasonable suspicion that that specific person committed a crime… to demand identification.

Third… even when someone is lawfully detained, they are only required to comply with lawful orders tied to THAT detention. A passenger doesn’t lose constitutional protections just because someone else was pulled over, while driving.

Fourth… the First Amendment protects the right to record law enforcement, in public, while they’re doing their job. Knocking a phone away, or throwing it because someone is filming, is violating that constitutional right.

And finally, any use of force… breaking windows, pulling someone out of a car, and restraining them… has to be objectively reasonable under the Fourth Amendment. That requires specific, articulable facts, not assumptions about identity.

This wasn’t a checkpoint.
It wasn’t a border stop.

This was a traffic stop where a PASSENGER became the target because of how he looked.

And if that’s enough to trigger federal agents breaking windows, and violently pulling U.S. citizens out of cars… then every single person should be demanding answers, and accountability.

Because this could’ve ended with another U.S. citizen dead…

And next time, that U.S. citizen could be you.

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

U.S. world-famous author Stephen King:

“Trump is a tumor in America’s veins. A tyrant who does not hesitate to set a country on fire for his narcissistic ego. No horror story I’ve written could be as terrifying as this man.”

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MAJOR BREAKING: Thomas Massie will be giving a Notice of Intent to bring forth a Privileged Resolution to release of ALL names of U.S. Representatives who have used tax dollars to settle sexual misconduct claims.

I support this. Do you?

[ABC News @ABC]

BREAKING: A federal judge has permanently blocked the Trump administration from enforcing an executive order signed last year that required proof of citizenship to register to vote and demanded mail-in ballots be received by Election Day. https://t.co/I78dhdVBvz

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It was great meeting with the talented folks who’ll be working at the Obama Presidential Center. We're excited to welcome everybody here soon!

[johnny ochoa @lakerinthehouse]

@MaryLTrump