Gerald Bristow

Physicist. Worked in Paper Industry. Electron Microscopy. Now Photography from the Micro to the Universe. Living in Northcote, Melbourne Australia.

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

RETWEET if you support Rep. Ilhan Omar.

[Gerald Bristow @gerkybrasstoe]

@DMiller52325459 @AlphaAstro2 Just woke up and with my bleary eyes thought I was looking at the Milky Way and it’s reflection! Lovely!🤗

[Prof Kathy Eagar AM @keagar.bsky.social @k_eagar]

@Jimmyaus39537 Australia is being manipulated by a foreign power that none of us voted for. Being Jewish is not the issue. Being a Zionist committed to stifling criticism of Israel is the issue. Israel is now a rogue state repeating the terrible crimes committed by the Nazis.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: A new video out of Minneapolis shows the truth ICE doesn’t want you to see… compliance does not protect you.

In this video, ICE agents pull up to a vehicle and immediately demand the driver’s ID.

The man calmly asks the most basic, legally protected question: “Why am I being pulled over?”

They never answer… because they don’t have a legal reason to stop him.

Even so, the man begins to retrieve his ID anyway.

An agent then orders him to turn off the vehicle. The driver says, “No problem, sir, I’ll get out.”

The agent refuses, then immediately changes commands again: “I need to see your ID.”

Suddenly, an agent on the passenger side pounds on the window. Then he strikes it with a hard object, clearly threatening to break it.

At the same time, the driver-side agent again demands the ID.

This is not confusion. This is intentional command overload… a tactic used to manufacture “noncompliance” so force can be justified.

ICE’s own training materials explicitly state:

“Noncompliance or refusal to cooperate with officer commands, without fighting back, does NOT violate 18 U.S.C. § 111.”

In plain English: not immediately obeying commands is NOT a crime.

And here’s the key legal issue:

Unless agents have:
• a valid arrest warrant, or
• probable cause that a specific crime has been committed

they cannot:
• use force
• break windows
• issue violent threats
• detain or arrest someone

Probable cause means specific, articulable facts that would make a reasonable officer believe a crime occurred… not vibes, not attitude, not silence, not filming, not asking questions.

Back in the video, the passenger-side agent escalates further, shouting:
“First time I ask you to roll your window down, you do it.”

The driver responds:
“Are you in danger, sir? Are you escalating this?”

The agent replies:
“I don’t know. Hands up.”

Despite the driver repeatedly attempting to comply and hand over ID, agents continue shouting conflicting commands.

At one point, the agent orders the driver to “talk to the original agent”… which is exactly what the driver was doing before the window-smashing threat.

Then the man asks, “Are you feeling unsafe or uneasy?”

The agent responds, “I don’t know, man.” while standing on the passenger side of the car, smirking.

The driver finally says what anyone would say surrounded by armed men:
“How many guns do I have around me? I need you to calm down. I’m asking him to stop banging on my car. Is that too much?”

He even offers… again… to step out of the vehicle.

This is not law enforcement. This is intimidation fishing for an excuse.

No probable cause.
No warrant.
No lawful basis for force.

And yet, the escalation came entirely from the agents.

This video proves something chilling: you can comply, stay calm, ask lawful questions… and still be threatened with violence.

So, the question isn’t “Why didn’t he just comply?”

The question is how many people have already been assaulted under this exact playbook… and how many more will be, before this stops?

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Trump’s persecution of Jerome Powell and his political opponents must end.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Just saw a video of a lifeless boy who was shot in the neck while attempting to get food aid. Every time you think it can’t get any more depraved, the Israeli army manages to come up with fresh horrors.

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

Why is Israel bombing half the planet with US hardware.

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

There is no internet.
No signal. No sound. No world beyond this cage.

I walked thirty minutes through ruins and dust. Not in search of escape, but for a fragment of signal, just enough to whisper, “We are still alive.”

Not because anyone is listening,
but because to die unheard is the final death.

Gaza is silent now.
Not with peace, but with obliteration.
Not a silence of stillness, but of smothering.

They severed the last cable.
No messages leave. No images enter.
Even grief has been forbidden.

I passed the corpses of buildings, of homes, of men, some breathing, some not.
All of them erased by the same hand that erased our voices.

This is not a siege of bombs alone.
It is a siege of memory: a war against our ability to say, “We were here.”

The bombing never stopped, especially in Jabalia.
They shell the streets where children beg for food.
They shell the lines where mothers wait for flour.
They shell hunger itself.

No food. No water. No exit.
And those who try, those who reach for aid, are struck down.

People die here, and no one knows.
Not because the killing paused, but because the killing of connection succeeded.

The internet was our final breath.
It was not a luxury; it was the last evidence of our humanity.

Now it is gone.
And in the dark, they massacre without consequence.

I found this faint eSIM signal as a dying man finds a flicker of flame.
I stood beneath a broken sky, risking death, not for rescue, but to send this.

A single message.
A last resistance.

If you are reading this, remember:
we walked through fire to say it.
We were not silent.
We were silenced.

And when the cables are restored,
the truth will bleed through the wires,
and the world will know what it chose not to see.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

The Israeli regime is now attacking Iran, in a blatant act of aggression. The world must unite to isolate and contain the Israeli regime, which, drunk with US-guaranteed impunity, armed to the teeth by the West, and driven by a deeply racist and fundamentally violent ideology, is leaving a blood-soaked trail of genocide, occupation, aggression, and destruction across the region. The Israeli apartheid regime must be stopped before it drags the entire world into darkness.

[Steve Wall @stevethewall]

It’s an absolute affront to humanity if Israel is allowed to participate in Eurovision or any international sporting event. Sanction Israel NOW! #Eurovision #UEFA https://t.co/dF4UoxDjB9

[Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

Watching #TheSettlers, the thing that shocks me the most is that it is only now Palestine has mainstream public support in the West. This is, for a long long time, the most open & shut case of apartheid & settler colonialism the world has ever seen.

[Doug Cameron @DougCameron51]

I don’t agree with every Labor policy. Nevertheless @AlboMP and Labor are light years ahead of Dutton and the LNP.
Labor should have the opportunity to build a good society and ensure that no one is left behind, particularly battling Aussies who rent and will never own a home.

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

In Wagga Wagga today talking peace and cancelling AUKUS. It’s an extraordinarily popular platform around the country. It’s remarkable only the Greens are proposing we don’t give Donald Trump $375 billion!

[Labor Against War @LabAgainstWar]

On the eve of the federal election, a retired Australian Army Major General calls on the incoming government to review of AUKUS, warning of being 'embedded in the US war machine'.

https://t.co/PQT32RSrnQ

[Sara Rey @SaraReyi]

Like if you Agree

[Patrick Henningsen @21WIRE]

🇮🇪🇵🇸 Excellent and bold statement by Michael Higgins, President of Republic of of Ireland @PresidentIRL, in Rome at funeral of Pope Francis, pushing back against the “antisemitism” smear leveled at anyone who dared criticize Israel and its wanted war criminal PM Netanyahu….

[Clare Daly @ClareDalyIRL]

The 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 enablers of war and 🇮🇱 genocide, brazenly attend Pope Francis funeral, having ignored his calls for peace, & justice for🇵🇸! We stand for him today knowing the struggle against war & zionism has lost an inspirational ally - But La Lucha Continua! VIVA Pope Francis!

[Casual Geopolitics @Casualgeopol]

Is this accurate?

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

I’d never seen a child’s body ripped in half before. I’d never seen a baby without a head. I’d never seen people being burned alive. Or children’s eyes burst from their skulls. Or remains of the dead packed in plastic bags.

Till Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Never forget.