🇺🇦Calming Influence 🇺🇸

Laborer, scientist, builder, artist, general life enthusiast.

USAF, PSD, 9th SRW, Beale AFB, 75-79, sneaky.

[🇺🇦Calming Influence 🇺🇸 @jexter]

@JohnLyonTweets I struck a match on the bulge in my trousers and lit a Lucky. "Say, Doll Face, what's prime real estate like you doin' in this neighborhood?" She just smiled and glanced down to my waist. I looked down. My pants were on fire.

[Shannon O'Donnell @ShannonODKOMO]

A nice summer stretch into mid-July for Puget Sound. My @komonews forecast and blog: https://t.co/NWGB8ClRIr #WAwx

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Donald Trump is still REFUSING to release billions in fire disaster aid OWED to victims in California.

Now he's doing the same to Democratic-led states while fast-tracking Republican-led ones.

Americans deserve better than government by political retribution.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Another day another MAGA Insurrectionist who was pardoned and is now being sentenced to 19 years for sexually assaulting a 7 year old child.

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

@ScottJenningsKY Scott's conversation with Mitch

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Hayes: “It’s not just that he’s getting wealthy, it’s that there is this crew of people that the whole U.S. is explicitly being RUN FOR. It is for them…for the people at Maralago and the people around the White House and the oligarchs that lavish Trump and his family with gifts and contracts and contributions—The foreign emirs, and the crown princes, the Ellisons, and the Bezos, and the Zuckerbergs, and the Musks, the Lutnicks, and the Witkoffs and the Kushners. Our government is being run explicitly for this Oligarch class. Full stop. That’s what he cares about. That’s who he’s looking out for. He’s part of that class and you ain’t, and it’s a total, complete desecration of what makes self governance, our very birthright as Americans, so precious.”🤦‍♀️

[The Day Warrior @thedaywar90]

Literally every military person in this room has turned their back to the Commander In Chief....while he wanders around like a guy at the prom who no one wants to dance with.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

This is very disturbing. https://t.co/WRpRpDdUIa

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨Another day, another video of ICE agents illegally demanding a U.S. citizen prove their citizenship, in Brownsville, TX.

In the video, ICE agents have a U.S. citizen boxed in with their vehicles.

After demanding that he show his ID, the U.S. citizen asks if he is free to go, and then tells them to get the F away from his car.

Instead of going back to their own cars, the agents tell him to “chill”… after they had already illegally detained him and demanded identification.

The U.S. citizen then gets out of his car, to record the agents’ license plates, and one of the ICE agents has the audacity to say:

“Sir, please don’t interfere with our investigations.”

Interfere with what investigation?

He WAS the investigation.

If they’re letting him leave, then there is nothing left for him to “interfere” with.

Recording government agents, in public, is protected by the First Amendment, and they don’t get to invent an “investigation” to discourage someone from filming.

And this is becoming a pattern.

ICE agents are stopping whoever they want… and demanding papers.

But that is not how constitutional rights work.

ICE didn’t have reasonable suspicion that he had committed an immigration violation… since he is a U.S. citizen. So, detaining him, and demanding that he identify himself, violates his Fourth Amendment rights.

U.S. citizens are not required to prove their citizenship, to any law enforcement, simply because they were stopped and questioned.

And that’s what makes these encounters so dangerous.

When U.S. citizens refuse to comply with these unlawful demands, we’ve repeatedly seen ICE agents escalate the situation with physical force.

Citizens have been shoved, dragged from vehicles, pinned to the ground, and pepper sprayed after refusing unlawful demands, or asserting their constitutional rights.

And a right isn’t a right if exercising it means you risk being assaulted by the very government that’s supposed to protect it.

This isn’t just about immigration anymore. It’s about whether every American can exercise their constitutional rights without fearing they’ll be met with intimidation, violence, or retaliation from federal agents.

If federal agents can stop U.S. citizens, demand they prove who they are without lawful justification, and then escalate when people refuse…

Then nobody’s constitutional rights are safe.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

"In at least 22 cases, CNBC has written about Kalshi and not disclosed its financial conflict. In recent weeks CNBC has more frequently failed to include its Kalshi disclosure, including two pieces on June 10, one each on June 11, June 15, June 16, and June 23, three pieces on June 26, and one each on July 1, and July 2." https://t.co/bjBKbPyRBW

[🇺🇦Calming Influence 🇺🇸 @jexter]

@Ian_OConnor It's fucking TAINTED now. They play the best game, they win, it'll be "It's not a win, they cheated". They lose, it'll be "they got what they deserved, the cheaters."
It's Cheaters against Belgium, and it's a damn shame for the US team. It's not the players fault.

[🇺🇦Calming Influence 🇺🇸 @jexter]

@Ian_OConnor Fuck off

[Seattle Weather Blog @KSeattleWeather]

73° in Seattle today.
103° in D.C.

Pretty clear which Washington is cooler

[🇺🇦Calming Influence 🇺🇸 @jexter]

@KSeattleWeather Summer has started. YAY!

[Seattle Weather Blog @KSeattleWeather]

Pitch-perfect ⚽️ weather for tonight’s big #ussoccer game. ☀️

Plan on temps near 80 & a pleasant breeze at times. #FIFAWorldCup

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Both German immigrant Peter Thiel and South African immigrant Elon Musk have now publicly stated that not every American citizen should have the right to vote.

Thiel said women shouldn’t vote.
Musk says “takers” shouldn’t vote.

They should both be denaturalized and exiled.

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

Elon Musk, enemy
of open borders, launched his career working as an “illegal alien” here after ditching a graduate studies program in California, according to court records & company documents via @washingtonpost https://t.co/474xkhF18y…

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

American citizens across the country are physically cutting down Flock cameras as authorities are losing control as more people are viewing the technology as an unconstitutional form of mass surveillance.

The incidents are being described as part of a growing trend where cordless, battery-powered tools are used to quickly cut down Flock camera poles because they are highly portable, fast, and quiet.

Mass surveillance must be stopped everywhere.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

That was not the definition of a red card.

[Bob Cobb @burnthair]

Americans eat hotdogs to celebrate the 4th of July because the King of England raised taxes on hotdogs, and the colonists were like "aw hell naw!" and they broke into Aldi's and stole all the hotdogs and dumped them on Plymouth Rock.

[🇺🇦Calming Influence 🇺🇸 @jexter]

@burnthair @fightgeek Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs was founded by Nathan Hale.