J. B.

She/her

[J. B. @j_baller48]

Don't tell my mom.

[James @ScriptsByJames]

I legit remember people deadass telling us “you’re overreacting” about the danger of Trump being elected again.

yeah. we were not.

[Rex is in the ruins of Raccoon City @TsaiMeLemoni]

"If we get rid of ICE how will we enforce immigration?" I simply do not give a fuck about doing that. Countries and borders are fake and regulating human movement is violence.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Let's be even more clear about this:

-ICE's jurisdiction is ONLY on matters related to immigration.

-They do NOT have normal police powers or authorities.

-To stop a vehicle they MUST have reasonable cause to believe it contains an undocumented immigrant.

-To draw their weapon on someone they MUST have reasonable cause that their lives are in *DIRECT* danger.

-They CANNOT detain you with out reasonable cause to believe you are undocumented.

-They CANNOT detain a US citizen for passing-by the area.

Ice had NO jurisdiction to stop or interact with this woman at all, never mind pull out a gun.

[Jenin Younes @JeninYounesEsq]

I'm a former defense attorney and currently a civil liberties attorney with no political dog in this fight. I watched the video at least 10 times from different angles and at different speeds and waited to offer an opinion, which I still reserve the right to change if additional information changes the calculus.

It is very clear that the officers instigated the confrontation. The woman initially tried to wave them past her.

ICE officers have no authority to search a US citizen or arrest her (unless there's probable cause to believe she's harboring undocumented individuals, not a contention here). A woman surrounded by masked, armed men who have no law enforcement authority over her has every right to try to escape. Video shows her steering wheel is turned to the right, clearly an attempt to leave WITHOUT hitting anyone and steer clear of the officer standing towards the front of her car. That officer had time to step to the side, which is where he was when he shot her.

Even a real police officer would not have the right to shoot at her for trying to flee. This is well-established in the case law; deadly force may not be used simply to prevent someone from getting away. Given that the ICE officers had no law enforcement authority to begin with, AND the video footage shows she was trying to escape a perceived threat, not to kill anyone, the crime is all the more inexcusable.

I'm praying for the victim's family, especially her children. I'm also praying for all the conservatives who are so unprincipled and lost they're excusing this terrible crime, and gloating over a death that will leave three young children motherless, because of the victim's politics.

[DSA International Committee @dsa_intl_comm]

ICE killed a woman in Minneapolis. This is the deadly reality of militarized immigration enforcement. We demand accountability, justice for the victim, and an end to state violence against our communities.

[J. B. @j_baller48]

Absolutely sick burn 🔥

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated , uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the “most wealthy person in the world.”

[We told you So @terri4436166795]

You’re a lot closer to needing SNAP benefits than you are to becoming a billionaire
Remember that
#snap

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

All this talk of a ballroom to service the super wealthy while the rest of us continue to pay more for healthcare and basic essentials makes me think of this powerful political cartoon from 1906, the artist is William Balfour Ker.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

🗣️A word from my mother about a few of the many forms of violence:

“Starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and child is violence. Discriminating against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical needs is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence. Even the lack of willpower to help humanity is a sick and sinister form of violence.”

#CorettaScottKing #BeLove #King100 #ChampionsForChange

[Taniel @Taniel]

NEW: November’s almost here, so time to launch my cheat sheet of what’s on the ballot this fall!

I guide you thru the *185* elections I'm watching, & why: lawmakers, governors, judges, DAs, mayors, school boards, & many measures.

Explore, share, save: https://t.co/DB1AZQsB9e

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel.

Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣

This is a must-watch. 🔥

[David Grossman @davidgross_man]

Man, to write like this

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

It's here: The @WABJDC, in partnership with the Black and Missing Foundation, has launched a first-of-its-kind media guide to help newsrooms properly cover missing Black people

https://t.co/8jddEDxE7q

[Zito @_Zeets]

Getting fired for quoting him directly. The fact that the American government and the media in this country have gone on an all-out suppression blitz for anyone who doesn’t praise and lionize a bigot really shows how dystopian it’s all become.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Every word…

[NickFrank40 @NickyFrank30]

My grandfather used to say “and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel” and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her strudel recipe and my grandfather, who hated the Nazis with the passion of 10,000 suns, thought it was an example of the media sanitizing evil people and he would use the phrase when someone asked him to overlook a bad person doing bad things and focus on the good.

[Aaron West @oeste]

not too many things i hate more in sports than the mid-game coach/player interview