Sam Lomeli

Curious human being. Personal profile: expect posts about weight lifting, stand-up comedy, politics.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A father in Amarillo, Texas says he had to MOVE WHERE HIS KIDS SLEEP because a police officer used the city's Flock cameras to STALK him 76 TIMES over a woman the officer wanted for himself...

...prosecutors only gave the cop a MISDEMEANOR and a $4,500 bond.

This is Amarillo, Texas, the officer's name is Christian Eder.

Eder had a thing for a female officer. That officer had once dated a local dad. So Eder went hunting.

From February to June, he ran that father's license plate through the city's FLOCK cameras 76 times. Every gas station. Every school pickup. Every daycare run.

Police confirm there was NO case at all, no assignment.

When the system asked him why, he typed "city planning." and dozens of times, just one word: "want."

The victim's words: "I'm a creature of habit. I pick my kids up from the same school, the same daycare. It hit me: this guy knows exactly which way I go."

The father said he knew something was wrong when he walked out to his car at 1 a.m. and saw a MARKED PATROL UNIT crawling through his parking lot behind him.

He texted Eder and asked him to stop and here's the reply, word for word:

"lol, tough guy. Whatever y'all got going on is between y'all. Keep it that way. Have fun, my dude." 😉

He says Eder used his department phone to pull up the female officer's LIVE body camera feed to track her and the county attorney told him the department said that wasn't unusual.

So this man did everything right. He went to Internal Affairs. The department investigated and to their credit, they fired Eder.

Then the system took over, and it protected the cop.

Prosecutors REFUSED to file felony stalking charges.

Instead: 78 counts of "tampering with a government record." A misdemeanor.

One $4,500 bond for all of it.

Think that's not enough? Here's the part that will make you sick.

Under Texas law, the "victim" of that charge is... the City of Amarillo. Not the father. Not his kids.

He was told he might not even qualify for victim services.

"How, all of a sudden, am I not the victim?"

He asked police for a description of Eder's personal vehicles so he could watch for him. They said no.

The stalker has every piece of his information, but the dad... he isn't allowed to know what car to look for.

"I've had to change where my kids sleep in my house. I've had to change everything."

The chief admitted to City Council that officers could run these cameras off-duty on their WORK PHONES, with no alerts for high-volume searches, and the department's audit never flagged 76 hits on one plate.

The only reason we know about this one is that the target found out.

THIS IS PURE INSANITY!!!!!!!

[Brad LaPlante @bradlapgov]

Yale University researchers who analyzed how much “Medicare for All” would cost:

“A universal healthcare system in the U.S. would not require the country to spend more on healthcare. It would require it to spend less.”

[Sam Lomeli @samlomeli]

@DrCryptopoet @gtconway3d

[Jen Rice @jen_rice_]

They're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses

Not hard to guess why.

https://t.co/6FqThvqjJL

[Sam Lomeli @samlomeli]

@pokerbrat77 @JoJoFromJerz Yep. https://t.co/0fGACP01UK

[Sam Lomeli @samlomeli]

@pokerbrat77 @JoJoFromJerz Yep. https://t.co/nuQfD70T3G

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

The billionaire class wants you fighting immigrants, teachers, trans kids, students, and your neighbors so you never look upward.

[𝙕𝘾𝙝𝙪𝙢 @ZChumYT]

I feel ashamed of myself for how silent I have been and for that I am sorry. If you support an ICU nurse getting gunned down in the street by anonymous masked men just fucking unfollow me. I don't care anymore and I wont go on pretending this isn't happening.

He never drew his weapon. A federal agent disarmed him of his legally registered and lawfully carried/holstered firearm, and then dumped 11 rounds into him.

Our rights as Americans are being stripped away in real time. Fuck anybody who tries to gaslight you into believing this is okay, or that these people are in some way heroes.

[Ronnie Evans @RonnieAEvans]

I’m sorry. I try not to post political stuff.

But I just watched a video of ICE officers attack a man who was helping a woman up, pin him on the ground, take his (legally owned) gun he NEVER attempted to holster, and then 6 officers shot him to death.

He was white (not important to me but def to MAGA assholes).

He was a citizen.

He was simply helping another citizen get up.

And he was pinned to the ground, disarmed and THEN ecexuted by masked agents working for Donald Trump’s gestapo.

Fuck you if you support this.

[Sam Lomeli @samlomeli]

@rsergio83 @JimmyMazzie @TheMaineWonk Yes they did.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

For years, we watched and listened to MAGA screeching about Epstein files, demanding they be released and for accountability.

That's when they believed it was only Democrats in the files.

Once they learned their lord and savior trump was in there, they changed their tune drastically.

Pam Bondi went from "the list is on my desk" to "there is no list."

trump went from "I will release the files" to "the files are a Democrat hoax" to having 1,000 agents scrub his name and redact the shit out of the partially released files.

If MAGA really cared more about "protecting kids" than "protecting pedophiles," they'd be outraged.

Instead, they're doing a victory lap because they think we're triggered by context-free pictures of Bill Clinton amidst thousands of blackened pages.

We're not. We don't give AF about that dude, especially if he hurt kids. But we DO give a shit about accountability and transparency, and protecting kids.

That's why we're different.

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

"When 8 men have more money than 4 billion people combined, folks relying on food stamps or Medicaid aren't the problem."

[Heather @heathem1221]

@DemocraticWins @Teawhalem The ACA was passed in 2010.

It's now 2025.

In 15 years these feckless assholes haven't come up with an alternative.

[Sam Lomeli @samlomeli]

@Protect_Wldlife @rickygervais I need this poster to complete xmas shopping 😅

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

The Trump administration is REALLY allowing Qatar to build an air base in the US after they did a $5.5 billion golf resort deal with Trump and gave him a jet.

MAGA can take their ‘America First’ flags and wipe their asses with them. He is Trump First, and you are suckers.

[Linda @Lindademocat]

@MaryLTrump

[Owain Harries @Owainbro]

@SaraForTexLege “No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means,” Aneurin Bevan, 1952

[Sam Lomeli @samlomeli]

@BPolasik78102 @joe_jo9 @WhiteHouse False. https://t.co/GTCyqZix2X

[Jared Ryan Sears @JaredRyanSears]

Three things to know about this shutdown:

-Undocumented immigrants are barred from Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act subsidies.

-ACA subsidies will expire at the end of the year, increasing healthcare costs for millions of Americans.

-Republicans are lying about the first point to distract you from the second, and would rather the government shut down than make sure people can afford healthcare.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven. The degree to which those comments can undermine public health, do harm to women who are pregnant, create anxiety for parents who do have children who are autistic – is violence against the truth.