Peña Sarmiento

City Commissioner & Community Advocate for the City of Santa. For Border-Pop Arts, Film & Culture, visit my @La_Pocha twitter. Gracias! 🌸

[Peña Sarmiento @unapocha]

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[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

Sen. Jim Banks has voted in support of continuing the unprovoked and illegal U.S. war on Iran.

When we asked him about it, though, he could only deflect with lies about CODEPINK's funding.

Meanwhile, his campaign has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from AIPAC.

Banks knows he can't defend one of the most unpopular wars in U.S. history, so he doesn't even try.

[Nabeel Rajab @NABEELRAJAB]

@allenanalysis These schoolgirls were all killed all in a classroom at an Iranian elementary school.

[Peña Sarmiento @unapocha]

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[ⲈⲘⲀⲆ ⲀⲚⲎⲤ @anisem001]

@allenanalysis Marine sgt Brian McGinnis dragged out of senate hearing attacking #Israel as war responsible 😔😔

[Peña Sarmiento @unapocha]

Land of the Free? 👁🔥👁

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents are now threatening to violently assault U.S. citizens for the crime of sitting in their own car, in a parking lot…

Yes. Literally that.

ICE agents are now claiming U.S. citizens are not allowed to be in the same parking lot as them.

In the video, you can hear an agent approach a person sitting quietly in their car and announce that he is ICE, and that other ICE agents are also in the parking lot…

Then the agent immediately issues what he calls his “one and only warning.”

The person responds, “I was just on the phone.”

The agent responds, “No. No you’re not.”

The agent then escalates to a direct threat of violence, saying…

“This is your one and only warning. I catch you here again, I’m yanking you out of that fucking car because you’re taking pictures on your little GoPro.”

So, to be clear… a U.S. citizen is being threatened with assault not for impeding, not for interfering, not for committing any crime…

…but for having a dash cam.

The agent then adds, “If anything happens to our vehicles, or anybody in here, I’m coming straight for you.”

Then more threats…

“I will yank you out of that fucking car, and I will fucking put charges on you.”

Charges for what? He never says. Because there are none.

And then he admits the quiet part out loud…

“I’ll put you in the fucking domestic terrorists app.”

A federal agent threatening to label a U.S. citizen a “domestic terrorist” for sitting in a car while having a dash cam.

And then the agent illegally orders the U.S. citizen to “get the fuck out” of the parking lot and tells him he is not allowed to return.

To break that all down… an ICE agent used intimidation, retaliation, and threats of violence against a U.S. citizen for exercising their First Amendment rights, and existing in a public space.

And then banned the U.S. citizen from returning to the public space.

So, just to be absolutely clear…

The Trump administration is conditioning the public to obey masked federal agents, without questions and without rights.

[Bobbie Dooley in for Phil Hendrie @realphilhendrie]

Turning Point USA Halftime Show

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

This street art in Downtown Los Angeles is fucking brilliant. 🙌🙏💪👏✊️👇

[Steve Martin @UnrealBluegrass]

Political philosophy supporting democracy makes clear the ultimate check on dictatorships. It's us.
The real sovereign is the people. Let me say this,to the politicians who could not find the time to do the right thing...we are doing it without you.
We ,the sovereign,will continue to form a more perfect union so you can continue to raise funds for re- election even without an election.
Those campaign funds go into your pockets and into investments guided by your insider knowledge, i.e. your committee memberships.
We'll need new leadership after Trump is turned out.
My guess is you won't be a part.

7:35 AM · Jan 28, 2026

[Peña Sarmiento @unapocha]

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[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents are now pulling people out of restrooms, refusing ID, and taking them without identifying who they are.

In Clearwater, Minnesota, a video shows a group of agents waiting outside a men’s restroom inside a truck repair shop.

Seconds later, you hear a man yelling, panic and fear in his voice. Then about five agents rush toward the restroom.

An agent says, “Let’s go.” Agents pull a man out of the restroom, handcuffed.

The man pleads, “I’ll give you my ID!”

An agent responds, “Right, right, right…” as they push him out the door and take him away without verifying who he is or checking his ID.

Everything about this video is alarming…

Law enforcement is not allowed to detain people arbitrarily. ICE agents must have legal authority to seize someone, and restrooms, inside private businesses, are non-public spaces.

Entering or removing someone from that space generally requires a judicial warrant or consent, absent an actual emergency.

Ignoring an offer to provide identification while forcibly detaining someone raises serious due process and Fourth Amendment concerns.

This isn’t about immigration status.

This is about the government ignoring the constitution, racially profiling, and grabbing anyone who doesn’t immediately comply with their illegal demands.

When federal agents can drag someone out of a restroom without verifying who the person is, and without accountability, no one’s rights are safe.

[Peña Sarmiento @unapocha]

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[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?

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

In other news….

[💕 Brittany Belle 💕 @BrittanyinTexas]

Trophies will be accepted tomorrow at the White House from 9–5.

[rat 🐀 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🍉 @lildoge18]

@AwesomeNewsom What she really gave Trump

[Peña Sarmiento @unapocha]

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[Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) @AwesomeNewsom]

CONGRATULATIONS TO DONALD ON WINNING THE "I CAN'T WIN THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE BECAUSE I'M WARMONGER AND A CLOWN SO I ATTACKED VENEZUELA AND FORCED THEM TO GIVE ME THEIR PRIZE WHICH I WILL BRING TO ALL MY MEETINGS AND WATCH MY CABINET MEMBERS CLAP LIKE CYMBAL-BANGING MONKEY TOYS."

[Peña Sarmiento @unapocha]

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[il Donaldo Trumpo @PapiTrumpo]

OK, WHO DID THIS???🤣🤣🤣

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

Here’s a pic of Northern Lights from last night.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

JD Vance was the deciding vote to cut Medicaid across the country.

An absolute and utter betrayal of working families.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Can someone please explain this to me?

[cam 🕊️ @sisterofnight_c]

I’m going to keep posting this. Do the right thing

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

I don’t know who woke up at CNN and said “you know what? We’re just going to tell the truth today” but WELL DONE