The Coast Guard released new video from Op. Pacific Viper. What stands out in this footage is the method used. Instead of blowing up the vessel that would have guaranteed fatalities, CG sharpshooters disabled the boat with precision sniper fire, targeting the engines to bring it to a safe stop.

Back to my happy place… This is why I get so mad at large companies that just screenshot our stuff & print it out by the droves. Small businesses are doing most of the work (if not all) by hand. It takes time. It takes skill. It takes patience. The worst part…they’re charging the customer more.

This is down the street from my house. Proud of my neighbors for defending the vulnerable. Thanks to a fast-growing network of community alerts tracking & livestreaming of ICE, residents quickly arrived at Lafreniere Park Friday & confronted the commander. ICE left. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

There are so many holes in DHS’s story it’s nuts. They say this woman was driving her boyfriend’s car, who they claim is undocumented. ICE pulls her over, see she’s alone, know they are looking for a man, and still handcuff her while she screams “I am a US citizen,”. Why is ICE harassing women?

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Saturday Sweetness Some shelters do something I love. They let the dog choose. You sit in a quiet room. One dog walks in. No pressure. No scripts. The dog decides who feels safe. A tiny reminder that sometimes the best connections happen when we let ourselves be chosen 🥹🫶🏻

These videos are ABSOLUTE PROOF that the people being attacked have DONE NOTHING WRONG. In the event that actual law enforcement had a proper warrant, signed by a judge, there is no amount of citizens protesting that would make them shrug their shoulders and leave.

I retraced Trump's week from his daily schedule, showing his obvious decline, AND why this matters! Where is our media on this too? open.substack.com/pub/theweekl...

#ICE isn't "deporting" immigrants, it is kidnapping them. #DOGE isn't "fixing" the government, it is dismantling it. #Trump isn't "helping" Americans, he is retaliating against them. #PamBondi isn't "upholding" the Constitution, she is ignoring it. #CivilRights @aclu.org

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The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program) was a U.S. initiative after World War II, providing over $13 billion in aid (1948-1952) to rebuild Western Europe's devastated economies, preventing famine, chaos, and the spread of communism by restoring industry…

Just phrase “ remove the threat of a third Russian invasion” should make you all think. You cannot negotiate peace with someone who wants only to kill you. Disarmament of Russia is the only permanent solution. Germany and Japan eventually thrived under The Marshal Plan…..

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” - Garry Kasparov

It took dozens of special agents the best part of a decade to bring Juan Orlando Hernández to justice for flooding US cities with cocaine. Then, in a single social media post last week, Donald Trump set the former Honduran president free. on.ft.com/4oA2Km0

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@borowitzreport.bsky.social nails it!

Elon Musk is so fucking racist he wants to abolish the EU because it won't let him peddle white supremacist drivel to European citizens.

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

Worth thinking about it in these terms. You don't have to trust or like Dimon or JPMorgan Chase but if they're publicly saying a future DOJ won't look kindly on bribing Trump now, that's a good thing and gives other companies pause, too. www.ibtimes.co.uk/wall-street-...

NEW! Free links/subscriptions "We all know flattery gets you everywhere with Trump. It turns out it’ll even spring you from prison for trafficking 500 tons of cocaine to the United States – even while Trump is having alleged drug-smuggling boats blown out of the water in the Caribbean and Pacific."

Here is the whole Trump, Brexit, Russia story neatly summed up for you The battle started about Ukraine, now it’s about big tech monopoly power

This!

And speaking of caskets. Not only did they give $2B Jared a pass, his lovely wife got Chinese trademarks on voting machines during an election year and caskets during a pandemic. Nobody went after either one

15 men are struggling to carry a casket that has a cremated first wife of Trump in it, at the same time the intel was seen being dropped off at Bedminster. Don't look into it, you'll never get to the truth. They're no longer called conspiracies, but possibilities

Ear shot on 7/13 Ear is in pristine condition on 7/31 Journalists: It's a physical impossibility. There's 2 dead people and it doesn't make sense. Get off your asses and start looking into it.

“.. Federal data shows corporate investment levels are roughly in line with last year, with companies on track to invest over $5 trillion in 2025. The $20 trillion surge Mr. Trump has claimed does not appear in the available data.” @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-2...

Trump said last year that he would focus on deporting immigrants who were violent criminals. But a study of arrests in major operations in DC, LA, Illinois and Massachusetts shows that the vast majority of those swept up by ICE have no criminal record. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

people died for birthright citizenship. i get that it’s more fun to be a pundit when your team has the white house and you get to brag to friends about visiting the oval office; but what i’m wondering is if maybe that’s actually not a good reason to throw away something we fought a civil war to win?

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Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏

Minneapolis stands up to ICE Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

This entire thread. (Yes.)

I don’t quite get what the alternative to the citizenship clause in the 14th amendment is. How else does one determine citizenship?

The original intent and meaning of the 14th Amendment is crystal clear. So where are all the originalists and textualists calling out Trump for trying to nullify it?

I still don’t understand how those of us who are citizens because we were born to citizens wouldn’t be affected by this. If you go back to your first ancestor who came to this country, if they weren’t born here and weren’t naturalized in some fashion, how would any of their descendants be citizens?

If someone is telling you this is the only option for your child, or yourself, they are lying to you. Find a neuro-affirming OT who believes in autism rights and get their advice instead. We are all in this together—protect each other.

… but I don’t buy the so-called “reward” based model either. Having the “reward” denied every time someone doesn’t comply or perform the demanded behaviour is utterly destructive of the subject’s self-confidence and capacity for self-expression. I will not fight anyone about this. ABA is cruel.

Applied Behavioural Analysis came from the same horrible quack who launched gay conversion therapy—both have led to innumerable suicides. ABA practitioners have a monopoly on autism specific therapy in some places— absolutely horrific. They may not electrocute or beat people now, though some do…

Absolutely. This is utterly disgraceful. At some point, the perpetrators need to be brought to justice.

Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders— By Ana Claudia Chacin and David Goodhue www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Brilliant. We need this everywhere. [Florence, Italy]

If Virginia Democrats follow through with a new 10-1 congressional map and a couple of other Dem states make small changes, Trump's gambit to rig the 2026 maps will be remembered as an epic blunder.

I grabbed this from the Fox News Facebook page. When a picture tells a million words. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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^ how it started.... how it's going: