Jill Anderson

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: An ICE agent POINTED A GUN at a U.S. citizen, through her car window, while threatening her, in Falls Church, Virginia.

And the excuse?

They claimed she “almost ran them over.”

Except… she had a dash cam recording the entire thing.

She immediately called their bullshit:

“You are so full of shit. I didn’t almost run anyone over.”

The agent tells her, “You aren’t funny.”

She responds, “You aren’t funny.”

Then he threatens her… “Keep it up, I will arrest you.” While he has his gun aimed inches away from her.

She says, “I’m a legal citizen, for what?”

And they keep threatening her with arrest.

Then, the agent repeats the accusation that she tried to run them over.

So, she tells him, “Run you over when? I have dash cam recording. That’s a lie.”

And suddenly… they WALK AWAY.

Because if she had actually tried to run federal agents over, why did they just leave after she called their bullshit, and said she had video proving them wrong?

And just to emphasize the seriousness of what happened…

An ARMED federal agent had his GUN POINTED AT A WOMAN, through her car window, while threatening her with arrest.

Pointing a firearm at someone is an enormous use of force that should NEVER be treated casually… especially when the supposed justification is an accusation they apparently couldn’t… or wouldn’t… back up.

She wasn’t arrested.

They didn’t show her evidence that she committed a crime.

They just threatened her, pointed a gun at her, and repeatedly told her they would lock her up if she continued following them.

And the SECOND she says, “I have it on dash cam,” they WALK AWAY.

Because apparently the threat disappears when there’s a camera that can prove what actually happened.

This is exactly why people need to DOCUMENT these encounters.

Because when armed federal agents can point guns at citizens, and make accusations with seemingly no consequences, the public needs cameras.

And when they threaten you for asking, “For what?”

keep recording.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

It’s instructive to have this Max Miller situation in such close proximity to the Platner debacle. Where are @SpeakerMcCarthy and @KellyannePolls (comical) Fox News hits crowing about how R’s get rid of abusers? Where’s @EWErickson and the rest? The hypocrisy spotlight is bright.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

🔥 Here's Sen. Whitehouse's entire remarkable speech opposing Todd Blanche: "What's left of this committee when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has this DOJ been asked what became of the $50,000 that the FBI reported it handed to Homan in a bribery sting? ... our Republican colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil"

[Face The Nation @FaceTheNation]

Unlike Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, where reporters embedded with U.S. troops documented the conflict from the ground, the war with Iran has largely been seen through government-produced videos, presidential social media posts and limited official briefings, leaving Americans with fewer independent accounts of what their government is doing in their name, @margbrennan notes.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

One month ago today: U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro claims she has “tremendous evidence” against David Hearn for vandalizing the Reflecting Pool.

She lied. Secretary Burgum lied. White House staff lied. Trump lied.

There will be no consequences.

[Brian Poindexter for Congress @bpforcongress]

I’m Brian Poindexter - I’m a union ironworker, and I’m running for Congress because working people's lives keep getting harder and harder while billionaires keep getting richer and richer.

Washington isn't making it any easier.

I'm ready to fight back. Are you?

https://t.co/fQum8AWjIe

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

America used to mean masked people didn’t stop you in the street.

[Bo Gardiner @BoGardiner1]

@kylegriffin1 Gift link. Because every American should read this and know that this administration has taken political "weaponization" of the government--something they routinely accuse others of as deflection-- to astronomical, unseen heights.

https://t.co/Q4gEoavTgJ

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

New video shows a cop violently assaulting 21-year-old Eryn Bonner in Tempe, Arizona.

The officer can be seen tackling the woman to the ground and then punching her in the face.

Here’s where it gets batshit crazy:

𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭.

The charges against her were dropped, but the cop who actually committed the assault has not been charged.

How much more violence are the American people going to let the police inflict on our communities?

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: Men posed as ICE agents and detained and assaulted a woman… and Tom Homan is telling everyone that they just have to comply with this.

A woman was driving on Highway 211, in Oregon, when a vehicle with flashing red and blue lights pulled behind her.

Believing she was being stopped by law enforcement, she pulled over.

Two men approached her vehicle, one was carrying a rifle, and they claimed to be ICE agents and told her she was being detained.

They pulled her out of her car, searched her, and put her in the back of their vehicle.

Then, a third man… who remained inside the vehicle… assaulted her.

He told her he was the “guard.”

The men were wearing tactical vests labeled “POLICE,” carrying fake badges, and wore face coverings.

They held her for nearly 20 minutes before telling her she was free to go… and then she drove herself to the hospital.

And while she was there, she reported that she started receiving text messages from someone claiming to be a law firm offering legal representation for her detention.

Federal authorities later confirmed this was NOT an official ICE operation… These were people pretending to be federal agents.

And this is exactly why Tom Homan telling people to “comply” with anyone claiming to be ICE is so incredibly dangerous.

Because what is a person supposed to do when someone in a tactical vest, carrying a gun, pulls them over with flashing lights and says they are federal agents?

Just trust them?

This is not about telling people to resist legitimate law enforcement.

This is about the government normalizing a system where anyone can look like an armed federal agent, claim to have authority over you, and expect you to obey without being able to verify who they are.

That doesn’t make people safer.

It makes everyone more vulnerable to being kidnapped, assaulted, or killed by criminals who know they can pretend to be ICE.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

They died serving our country. They should be honored, not erased.

Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Hawaii

Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Texas

Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, of New York

Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of North Carolina

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

Hey MAGA Texans.

Let me reintroduce you to Adam Hoffman. He raped his son’s best friend from the age of six years old to nine years old. For three years this man raped a little boy.

Paxton made sure his buddy only got a 60 day sentence. Oh wait it gets better, he didn't even serve the full sixty days.

Wait wait, it's gets even better. He doesn't have to register as a sex offender and his record has been wiped clean.

MAGA maniacs want women to go to prison for miscarriages but are cool with pedophiles going free.

Ken Paxton is a disgusting criminal, that's why Trump endorsed him.

Make sure you have a plan to vote. @jamestalarico is what Texas needs. Not more of the Epstein Class.
#DemsUnited

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Abolish ICE. Really.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: In a win for every ice cream lover across New York City, we will work with the state to do away with the frozen dessert permit that requires restaurants to seek out a superfluous second permit for what they’re already doing: serving food.

No more treat-sploitation, as we say.

Right now, barbershops need three licenses to cut hair: one to be a barber, one to own the shop, and one from the city on top of both.

The state of affairs is frankly anti-fade, and we will not stand for it, which is why we will work with the state to streamline these licenses as well.

And to the bingo enthusiasts out there, for too long, the potential earnings of a hot streak at bingo have been capped by arcane rules that no longer reflect how the game is actually being played.

With OPEN, DCWP will remove unnecessary regulations, including prize limits.

These are just a few of the improvements we are proud to announce today as we make it clear we are in the pocket of Big Abuela.

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

This dandy from the WSJ Editorial Board:

"Since Mr. Trump declassified the memo, we can quote the part he didn’t. “Vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to compromise election results,” it says. “The systems in each voting location are not connected to the Internet or to each other, and many methods for exploiting them rely on physical proximity.” Achieving it across many jurisdictions “would be difficult” and “audits and paper trails very likely would uncover such an effort."

...
"Unfortunately, the message from Mr. Trump and others has been that America’s elections can’t be trusted, and the only hope is the SAVE America Act. Aside from being untrue, this is a political backfire for the GOP. If Republican voters believe it, and the bill falls short, then why waste time going to the polls in November? Has the GOP already forgotten how Mr. Trump’s fraud outbursts cost them two Senate seats in the 2021 Georgia runoffs?"

https://t.co/pYuiD6uP4N

[Acyn @Acyn]

Haberman: The administration signed a mining deal with Kazakhstan for a little known U.S. Company. Six days before the deal was signed, the president's older son with other partners and took a 20% investment in the company related to the deal. What did the president know about his son's involvement in this arrangement and when did he find out about it?

Leavitt: From my understanding, nothing. They would never do anything they would put the president in the place of a conflict of interest

Haberman: So he did not learn about it until it was in the media?

Leavitt: That’s my understanding.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I spent the last few months talking to people across the political spectrum, and to people who want nothing to do with politics at all. Here is what I learned.

We are not a divided country. We are a country being divided, on purpose, by an American oligarchy that profits from the fight. They’ve captured our government, denied our healthcare, looted our treasury, and saddled us with crippling debt.

I believe in a New New Deal. Healthcare as a human right. The right of every family to a decent home, and an end to endless wars.

And a dividend paid to every American from the AI economy, because these machines were built on the whole of human inheritance. That inheritance belongs to all of us, and not just to the handful of men playing God with our very existence.

And none of it happens if we just move on. Donald Trump, his family, and his administration are robbing us blind, not just of our money, but of our faith in one another, and they have to answer for it. Truth and reconciliation, not revenge. Then we break the system that let them do it.

The question is not whether we will lose our democracy. The question is whether we will fight to take back what has already been stolen.

I learned in recovery that you can’t heal what you won’t name. Neither can a country.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Holy shit: ICE gave a gun and a badge to a man who threw his 13-year-old daughter through a coffee table and threatened to slit her throat!

[David Pepper @DavidPepper]

People ask me this all the time, and it’s the right question.

Why would billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, who has never done any public service (except DOGE, from which he was fired), moved his business and jobs to Texas, declares that Ohio isn’t the best state, won't even drive our roads, has an out-of-state area code, and thinks Ohioans are lazy and mediocre and envious of his riches, run to be Governor of Ohio?

To help everyday Ohioans? To protect our communities from his billionaire class and their big investments? To end the corruption? To lower the costs everyday Ohioans face as the big shots buy off the politicians and make out like bandits?

Of course not.

And why would a billionaire like Musk, with no ties to Ohio, support this guy and ads smearing his opponent?

To help everyday Ohioans? To protect our communities from his billionaire class? To lower costs?

Of course not.

It’s to keep selling Ohio and its assets off for parts to the billionaire class.

While we suffer the consequences of failing outcomes and higher costs.

This isn’t complicated, folks.