jitterbugging

💙🇺🇸 #legalizeit Trump-hater since the 80s 🦅🏈🦅#gunreformnow retweeter 🚫crypto 🚫MAGA 🔥🔥Atheist-not afraid of burning in hell 🔥 🔥.

[jitterbugging @jittterbugging]

“I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”

[Rod (Izzy) 🇺🇸🦅 @1zzyzyx1]

Listen to Matthew and take decisive action to fight back. The signs are everywhere: a massive tech takeover, expanding data centers, the invasion of Flock cameras, and our privacy steadily eroding. Visit https://t.co/0OFtxM7hlg and stand firm. #DemsUnited

[Brian Cardone 🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 @cardon_brian]

Gary Chambers Jr ain’t wrong, we don’t have a voter registration problem we have a voter turnout problem!! We have to engage voters where they are and stop the apathy or we will not win back our country, so get involved and help anyway you can to turn the vote out. Preach‼️

[Dittie @DittiePE]

A family called 911 because their son was having a mental health crisis.

A federal agent showed up. Their son is dead.

There’s no camera footage — because that’s exactly how this administration wants it.

This isn’t an accident. On his first day back in office, Trump revoked Executive Order 14074, the Biden-era order requiring federal law enforcement agencies to maintain body camera policies. DEA’s own internal email, obtained by ProPublica, said the agency ended its body camera program specifically to stay “consistent” with that revocation. There is still no federal law requiring any agency to use cameras — H.R. 5070, the Federal Police Camera and Accountability Act, has sat in committee for a year. Everything below happened inside a vacuum this administration created on purpose.

A #SheShed 🧵

[Jas 🪶🐻🦉🐀🇨🇦 @ItIsTheRealJas]

Ah, Monday! Okay now, here we go! You've got this down pat. Your path is solid.Your goal is set. Your eye is steady. You just need to start. You know the drill. Lift that foot & lean forward, & the momentum will carry you. Let's go!

Be careful. Be safe. Be shiny. Be glimmer.

Be you.
Take no shit.

[Dittie @DittiePE]

Following up on the FBI-stepping-back story I just did: here’s what “self-policing” already looks like in the case that prompted it.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo — the Mexican immigrant with no criminal record shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston on July 7 while driving to work — had a search warrant for his van filed under seal, standard for an active investigation.

A day later, it was unsealed. While the investigation was still ongoing. Former law enforcement officials are calling that move “baffling.”

The affidavit describes a white crystal substance in plastic bags as “consistent with methamphetamine.” Media ran with it immediately.

The Salgado Araujo family’s attorney says it’s granulated salt — the electrolyte mix construction workers use to survive Texas heat. The Harris County DA has also said he doesn’t believe it’s drugs, and noted publicly it shouldn’t matter either way to whether the shooting itself was justified.

The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas won’t say who unsealed the warrant, or why.

This is what happens when the same system investigating a killing also controls what gets leaked about the victim. Now imagine that system with even less outside oversight.

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.” — FDR

https://t.co/THYpLPCwpq

[Dittie @DittiePE]

The FBI was just told to stop investigating assault claims involving ICE agents.

Sounds procedural, right?
It’s not.

Those investigations were supposed to check whether an agent actually got attacked before opening fire — and they kept turning up evidence against the agents instead. So now that function moves to Homeland Security Investigations. Which is part of ICE. Investigating ICE.

This isn’t theoretical. An FBI supervisor in Minneapolis, Tracee Mergen, tried to open a civil rights inquiry into the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good. She resigned after DC leadership pressured her to drop it. That’s the exact case this new policy formalizes into standard practice. And HSI doesn’t even have jurisdiction to investigate civil rights violations — so it’s not just a friendlier investigator, it’s an investigator that structurally can’t go there.

Timing matters: this comes right after ICE agents fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine — with protests now spreading across NC, Oregon, Utah, Arizona, Texas, and Maine. DOJ and DHS deny anything changed. The internal notice FBI managers got in writing says otherwise.

Someone put it best: the fox is guarding the henhouse.

🎁 https://t.co/QY2guhXqn5

[Dittie @DittiePE]

Border Patrol pulls over a 20-year-old in Slidell, LA for “white lights on the back of your vehicle… your reverse lights are on the whole time.”

Then, before writing a single ticket, the agent asks: “What’s your citizenship?”

The driver, Alan Laureano, was born in Slidell. His passenger — his 13-year-old stepbrother — was born in Pearl River, Louisiana. Both are U.S. citizens.

Didn’t matter. Twice, on camera, the agent tells Laureano he’s going to “check” the kid and “if he’s illegal, I will take him.”

He tries to open the 13-year-old’s car door himself. Laureano locks it and rolls the window down instead.

The agent then interrogates the child directly — full name, spelling, date of birth, birthplace — while Laureano stands his ground and refuses to hand over his own ID, telling the agent he doesn’t have the right to stop him over a taillight.

Immigration attorney Michael Gahagan reviewed the video and called it what it is: “an illegal detention.” Border Patrol isn’t authorized to detain someone over a traffic violation — they need independent reasonable suspicion of an immigration violation, and that has to come first, not get invented after the stop.

DHS’s after-the-fact statement claims the stop was based on “reasonable suspicion or probable cause of federal law violations” — but doesn’t say what that violation was. WWL Louisiana asked twice. No answer either time.

This is the pattern: pretext stop, pivot to citizenship, threaten a kid with removal before confirming anything. It only looks “routine” until you’re the one being asked to prove you belong in the country you were born in.

[Dittie @DittiePE]

CENTCOM says remains were recovered at the site in Jordan where a service member has been missing since Friday’s attack — confirmation is still pending, so nothing is final yet.

Separately, another American service member was killed in Iraq Saturday while disposing of an unexploded Iranian drone.

Two more families now waiting on word, in two different countries, in the same week.

18 service members now gone in Trump’s illegal war. Republicans could have prevented every one.

https://t.co/jvmIoczibk

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Excellent

[Damaan, AKA 'Philly's Finest!' @Damaan4u33]

Donald Trump got soundly booed at the World Cup by the world! 🌎

The entire world hates Trump! 👎

You gotta love it! 💙

[Brown Eyed Susan @smc429]

When they run out of wall space to put more gold...

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

FACT!

[jitterbugging @jittterbugging]

He wants us to act the way we acted when Obama took down Osama bin Ladin. Obama was a force. Trump is a farce.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Holy shit, this dude is medicated out of his gourd... trump"s opening statements about the Venezuela bombing and Maduro kidnapping.

[Tim Hannan @TimHannan]

Donald Trump just kidnapped another country’s leader so you’d forget he raped kids with Jeffrey Epstein. This is fucking insane.

[Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @RepJasmine]

Trump promised no “new stupid wars,” yet he’s starting one with Venezuela without congressional approval.

People can’t afford groceries and millions are losing healthcare, but this is where his focus is.

This is unconstitutional and not what the American people asked for.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

AGREED 🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️

[jitterbugging @jittterbugging]

@FrankenforIowa Don’t threaten me with a good time…

[Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin]

IMPEACH DONALD TRUMP!!!!!!!!!

[jitterbugging @jittterbugging]

Trump can’t keep Biden’s name out of his mouth.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

❤️ if you think Trump will go down as the worst president in history