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[medicine @sbbyyoda]

took my kid to @WaltDisneyWorld and met the queen and snow white. when we came home, me and my wife asked her about it. good to know my daughter truly knows where her loyalty lies. because when we asked who she was the prettiest she immediately said “the queen” with a duh look.

[ꪝe @_wej01]

in a class in college one time this dude fully repeated something I had said almost word for word but changed slightly, and after he did, a girl rose her hand and said "I don't have anything to add but I wanted to point out he just said exactly what Katie said like it was his idea" Happy International Womens month to her..

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: Greg Bovino and his Border Patrol agents deployed toxic green chemical gas right outside a PARK AND PLAYGROUND, down the street from an ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in Minneapolis… immediately after dismissal.

And a school bus was forced to drive straight through the gas.

Sit with that.

Agents fired multiple canisters of green chemical irritant gas at Mueller Park, right down the street from Ella Baker Global Studies & Humanities Magnet School, just minutes after school let out…

As children were heading to the park and buses were actively transporting students home.

The gas spread across the playground, through the park, and into the surrounding residential blocks, while families and kids were on their way home from school.

And this wasn’t “normal” crowd control smoke, or even normal pepper spray.

This type of gas is linked to burning skin and eyes, coughing, vomiting, chest pain, and serious respiratory injury, with the risk of delayed and long-term lung damage.

It is especially dangerous for children, infants, pregnant people, and anyone with asthma or other respiratory condition… which is exactly why the U.S. military stopped using it decades ago.

And yet, it was deployed here.
In-front of a park.
Near a school.
At dismissal.

Instead of driving away from protesters, Border Patrol chose to stop. They got out of their vehicles, escalated a non-situation, and deployed chemical gas in a public park surrounded by homes, and an elementary school.

In the video, you can hear Bovino ordering people to “get back,” warning he would deploy gas…

Not because anyone was in front of their vehicles.
Not because they were blocked.

But because protesters were standing on public sidewalks, filming.

And Greg didn’t deploy the gas into the street…

Oh no.

They threw it toward the park. Agents threw it up next to the playground, forcing people to run.

Later forcing a school bus to drive straight through the smoke.

After gassing the area, agents walked onto the public sidewalk, assaulting people who were simply recording, then got back in their cars and drove away… leaving residents coughing and scrambling to escape the toxic chemicals.

And, to make this even worse…

Border Patrol has no crowd-control authority.
They were not executing an operation.
They had no legal justification to stop, escalate, or use chemical force.

Unless their “mission” was terrorizing a public park near a school, they had zero authority to stop and gas civilians.

This is what reckless, unlawful federal force looks like.
This is how communities are being terrorized, poisoned, and children traumatized.

And this is what happens when agents believe there will be no consequences.

They deployed toxic chemical gas at a public park, near a school, at dismissal, and drove away like it was nothing.

That should alarm everyone because nothing is stopping it from happening to you next.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

This is what they are doing, and they are now stopping anyone they want. People will be shot every day if things do not change. https://t.co/8CXDpV0wmP

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: A new video out of Minneapolis shows the truth ICE doesn’t want you to see… compliance does not protect you.

In this video, ICE agents pull up to a vehicle and immediately demand the driver’s ID.

The man calmly asks the most basic, legally protected question: “Why am I being pulled over?”

They never answer… because they don’t have a legal reason to stop him.

Even so, the man begins to retrieve his ID anyway.

An agent then orders him to turn off the vehicle. The driver says, “No problem, sir, I’ll get out.”

The agent refuses, then immediately changes commands again: “I need to see your ID.”

Suddenly, an agent on the passenger side pounds on the window. Then he strikes it with a hard object, clearly threatening to break it.

At the same time, the driver-side agent again demands the ID.

This is not confusion. This is intentional command overload… a tactic used to manufacture “noncompliance” so force can be justified.

ICE’s own training materials explicitly state:

“Noncompliance or refusal to cooperate with officer commands, without fighting back, does NOT violate 18 U.S.C. § 111.”

In plain English: not immediately obeying commands is NOT a crime.

And here’s the key legal issue:

Unless agents have:
• a valid arrest warrant, or
• probable cause that a specific crime has been committed

they cannot:
• use force
• break windows
• issue violent threats
• detain or arrest someone

Probable cause means specific, articulable facts that would make a reasonable officer believe a crime occurred… not vibes, not attitude, not silence, not filming, not asking questions.

Back in the video, the passenger-side agent escalates further, shouting:
“First time I ask you to roll your window down, you do it.”

The driver responds:
“Are you in danger, sir? Are you escalating this?”

The agent replies:
“I don’t know. Hands up.”

Despite the driver repeatedly attempting to comply and hand over ID, agents continue shouting conflicting commands.

At one point, the agent orders the driver to “talk to the original agent”… which is exactly what the driver was doing before the window-smashing threat.

Then the man asks, “Are you feeling unsafe or uneasy?”

The agent responds, “I don’t know, man.” while standing on the passenger side of the car, smirking.

The driver finally says what anyone would say surrounded by armed men:
“How many guns do I have around me? I need you to calm down. I’m asking him to stop banging on my car. Is that too much?”

He even offers… again… to step out of the vehicle.

This is not law enforcement. This is intimidation fishing for an excuse.

No probable cause.
No warrant.
No lawful basis for force.

And yet, the escalation came entirely from the agents.

This video proves something chilling: you can comply, stay calm, ask lawful questions… and still be threatened with violence.

So, the question isn’t “Why didn’t he just comply?”

The question is how many people have already been assaulted under this exact playbook… and how many more will be, before this stops?

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist in a 1989 interview on CNN. Sagan’s response avoided ideological labels, instead focusing on the moral responsibility of a government and the basic standards of a civilized society.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Ronn Easton is a legend 🫡

"My oath impels me to be here. I took an oath in 1969 to defend this country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I had to be here to make sure that no one else was killed the way Renee Nicole Good was killed yesterday."

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: Border Patrol just illegally arrested a U.S. citizen… a TEENAGER… in Richfield, Minnesota.

The teen was working at Target when agents tackled him and arrested him, while his passport was in his pocket, fully identifying himself as a U.S. citizen.

None of it mattered.

Why? Because he looked Latino.

When a coworker asked who to call, he said, heartbreakingly: “my mom.”

Think about that. Your teenage son goes to work, and Border Patrol kidnaps him.

This isn’t an isolated incident. ICE and Border Patrol have repeatedly illegally arrested U.S. citizens, especially in Minnesota. And after agents murdered a U.S. citizen who tried to drive away from illegal detention, this should outrage every single American.

U.S. citizens do not have to prove their citizenship. Yet, ICE and Border Patrol agents are routinely violating the Constitution, demanding proof anyway… and even refusing to accept drivers licenses or real IDs.

And now? Even a passport doesn’t matter.

This isn’t enforcement… it’s targeting Americans based on fear and appearance, treating citizens like criminals in their own country.

When will this end? When will the government stop stripping citizens of their rights and labeling them terrorists for simply existing?

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism.

Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jasmine Crockett: “A woman was killed. She was shot in her head and yall are pretending like nothing happened. Is it okay because you have a badge? Can yall not just have a little bit of courage and humanity? A child has lost her mom and yall want to pretend that it is okay. You tell us things like well the immigrants are bad. The Mayor of Minneapolis told yall to get the fuck out. It is this administration that is bringing crime to their streets.“

[Status Coup News @StatusCoup]

"They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks... if you came in and beat up a bunch of people, they would hit back...Americans are just very nice," -U.S. war veteran protesting ICE in Minneapolis. Via our @JonFarinaPhoto ⬇️

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Holy shit.

Police just arrested a woman for protesting and saying, “This isn’t just a foreign issue, it’s our tax dollars being used to commit war crimes,” in reference to Venezuela.

If that speech is enough to put you in handcuffs, then the problem isn’t public safety.

It’s dissent.

The First Amendment doesn’t die all at once.

It gets strangled in moments like this.

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

During the moment of silence the Minnesota Timberwolves held before their game with the Cavs tonight a fan yelled “Go home ICE,” and everyone else started cheering.

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

BREAKING: Jessica Tarlov leaves Fox speechless after debunking the lies Trump and his regime have been spreading about the murder of Renee Good.

She brought receipts.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Imagine being horrified by a toilet but ok with starving children.

[medicine @sbbyyoda]

@clhubes Just curious people do you also get pissed to an irrational level like this at adults who have never flown before and are learning for the first time and take a little longer?

[Demonrat Anna @vegannabananna]

You can’t learn about safe sex and consent and you can’t access safe abortion and you can’t become a single mom and you can’t use welfare and you can’t put your child up for adoption bc what mom would do that but don’t worry there’s so many families that will adopt but there’s thousands of kids being abused and not adopted in foster care but queer couples can’t adopt them and if you decide you do want a baby you can’t use ivf or surrogacy bc frozen baby lives matter oh but also can’t have drag queens protect our children but if that child gets pregnant she’s not a child she doesn’t count and good luck if your child is born with medical issues because again welfare is bad no handouts struggle under medical debt for the rest of your life bc you don’t make enough to live bc min wage isn’t livable and….i could go on forever with the hypocrisy of the Republican Party.

[Allissa @agraciekc]

Unless she literally wants to be?????

[Lonty @Lontar_On_Here]

Garbage collector was training a new guy today and told him "this house usually has a kid in the window, if he's there make sure to wave"

Guys,