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Bodycam footage just came out of a farmer speaking against a planned data center, being handcuffed at a city council meeting for going a few seconds over the 3-minute public comment limit. Darren Blanchard was speaking in Claremore, Oklahoma when two officers told him to leave, followed him to the front as he tried to hand documents to the council, and cuffed him as the crowd booed. He's charged with criminal trespass, a $200 offense, and is fighting it as retaliatory. The case has become a marker for the wider fight over data center construction, where residents increasingly clash with developers over water, power, utility rates and farmland. Blanchard's sharpest point is about democracy itself: if attending a public meeting can get you cuffed, the chilling effect reaches well beyond one Oklahoma town.

🚨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.

They always scream “it’s for the children”, but look at what they’ve actually done to them. Now the same leftists are using that lie to push new surveillance and control systems on American social media and they just took a major step forward this week. The House just passed a bipartisan deal on the Kids Online Safety Act package. It requires pornography and sexually explicit sites to use “technology verification measures” to block minors, and explicitly says a user simply claiming to be an adult is not enough. For social media platforms, the bill creates strong practical pressure to determine every user’s age so they can apply different safeguards and defaults to minors. Critics warn this will push platforms to adopt the same ID uploads, face scans, and third party verification systems already used in Europe. Once those systems exist, expanding them is trivial. But remember the left’s real record on children >they abort them by the hundreds of thousands and call it healthcare >they traffick them through open borders they refuse to close >they chemically castrate and mutilate confused minors and call it “gender-affirming care” >they run schools that push radical gender ideology and historical lies over reading and math >they turn universities into indoctrination camps and use DEI to teach kids to hate their own heritage This is a movement that uses children as tools for power, while the “for the children” argument is the trojan horse. They’ve already used it to reach into your home, your doctor’s office, and your classroom. Now they’re coming for your screen. The new House package gives platforms powerful incentives to build age determination and content control systems under the banner of child safety. Those same systems can, and likely will be used to restrict speech that challenges their agenda on gender, borders, schools, or anything else they label “harmful.” Reject the pretext and defend the First Amendment. Because the children they claim to protect are the ones they’ve spent years sacrificing.