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[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨This is exactly how ICE agents create the very situations they later use to justify murdering citizens.

In the video, they box in the vehicle of a U.S. citizen. They approach with guns already drawn, and try to open her car door… while repeatedly ordering her to unlock it, and ignoring anything she says.

And notice how they don’t identify themselves. They don’t explain why she’s being detained. They don’t tell her what crime they suspect her of committing.

To the person inside the car, it’s just a group of masked, armed men surrounding her vehicle and trying to force their way in.

That’s how panic starts.

And when people panic, move their car, or try to get away from what they reasonably perceive as a violent threat, ICE agents open fire, and later claim the vehicle was “used as a weapon.”

Law enforcement cannot detain people without legal justification. The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures, and officers are expected to clearly communicate their authority, and the basis for their actions.

They are supposed to de-escalate situations.

Instead, they use tactics to create fear and confusion… making it more likely someone will panic, and easier for agents to claim deadly force was necessary, while they violate the person’s constitutional rights.

When these tactics become standard practice, accountability becomes nonexistent.

[dead domain @DomainDead]

They cut funding for your healthcare, your children’s schools, and disease control.

But they can fund flock, data centers, wars that make everything harder. ICE can kill with impunity.

And if you dissent to any of it, you’ll be called a “commie” and they want to kill you too.

[Fergenstein @BiigRED_95]

How do you read things like this and not want them GONE

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

Jewish troops will be looking for Muslims hidden in the attics of Christians. Let that sink in.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Some of us never forgot.

[mackenzie✨️ @meatsweatmcgee]

do we have the picture taken by the guy in this photo yet

[JT HOLMES @RealJtHolmes]

The face reveal caught me off guard 😂😂😂

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

For years she was on the shortest chain in the jungle in Thailand.

Today she arrived in America. Look at Bianca go! 🤎

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

🎯

[i like food @messedupfoods]

Something bad is about to happen

[John Summit @johnsummit]

every great bender leads to an epic lock in

[i @pacnavial]

Crazy how fast life can change!

[Home of Fight @Home_of_Fight]

🥺❤️ Ben Askren speaks out for the first time.

He saw all of the support 🎥 @Benaskren

[Ari @tgirlfag]

not a single person on that stage was joking

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: Trump now openly calling for the deportation of U.S. citizens.

“We have a lot of bad people … many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too.”

That’s not immigration policy.
That’s fascism with a passport scanner.

He’s not talking about “illegals” anymore.
He’s talking about you. About anyone who disagrees. About journalists. Activists. Protesters. Citizens.

[Dj @DjsokeSpeaking]

this is how our government is being run rn

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

8 days ago Maximus was on the 3 foot chain he had spent his entire life on.

His turnaround is the stuff of dreams… (1/7) 🧵

[greg @greg16676935420]

This might be an unpopular opinion but if you’re in Congress you should probably read the bills you’re voting on