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@justinsytsma Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me-- a prayer to the God of my life.

🚨BREAKING: An ICE agent just assaulted a TEENAGER in St. Charles, IL. In the video, ICE agents are seen running to their car while trying to cover their faces from U.S. citizens filming them in a parking lot. A teenager is calmly filming them, exercising his First Amendment right to record federal agents in public… when one of the agents suddenly shoves him into a car for absolutely no reason. The teenager immediately backs away. But instead of getting into the car, like the agent was originally about to do, he walks PAST his own car door, TOWARD the teenager, points his finger at him, and starts threatening him while the teen continues filming. The agent keeps screaming at the teenager to “get out of the way”… Except the teenager is literally standing BEHIND the vehicle, not blocking anything whatsoever. Then, while the agent himself is the one aggressively moving toward the teenager, he points his finger inches from the teen’s phone and says, “Do not step closer.” The teenager calmly responds, “I’m not in your way.” Because he wasn’t. Federal agents do not get to shove people because they’re uncomfortable being filmed. And contrary to what ICE seems to believe lately, the Constitution does not disappear the second they step in public. The agent violated the teenager’s First Amendment rights, by retaliating against him for filming law enforcement in public… something courts have repeatedly ruled is constitutionally protected. And the physical shove could also constitute unlawful battery and excessive force under color of law, because officers cannot legally use force against someone who is not threatening them, resisting, or obstructing anything. This teenager wasn’t attacking anyone, wasn’t blocking anyone, and he wasn’t resisting anything. He was filming. That’s it. ICE agents are now openly assaulting and trying to intimidate teenagers for recording them in public… and everyone should not be okay with that.

My grandmother: Why are young people always tired now? Me: Because life is expensive. My grandmother: Life was expensive before too. Me: Yeah but now everybody also has emails. My grandmother: suspicious pause What is an email exactly? Me: Like a letter except people expect answers immediately. My grandmother: Horrifying. Me: Correct. My grandmother: When your grandfather was angry at work he had to physically carry his anger home first. Me: That's actually a really good point. My grandmother: Now sadness arrives instantly. long pause Me: You ever think technology made everybody emotionally available all the time? My grandmother: Of course. Me: That seems bad. My grandmother: It is terrible for soup. Me: What does that mean? My grandmother: People do not sit quietly while cooking anymore. Honestly old women really will explain modern society through soup metaphors.

The Hilton donated the ~2600 dinners that went unserved at WHCD. They freeze dried the steak and lobster for longer shelf life before giving them to 2 shelters for abused women and children. HUGE thank you to the staff that worked through the night under terrible circumstances.

We need to talk about “case by case.” Alicia learned she was pregnant in ICE detention in Louisiana. She reported malnutrition and medical neglect, miscarried after a procedure she says was done without consent, and was kept for two more months. Lucia showed up for her regular ICE check-in. Two months pregnant. They detained her. That night she started bleeding — heavy. She begged for a doctor. For hours. When they finally moved her, it was to a room. Alone. No food. No water. No pain meds. Just blood. Hours later they shackled her — arms and legs — and drove her to the ER while she was actively miscarrying. She needed a blood transfusion when she got there. Jenny was visibly pregnant when ICE detained her in February. They restrained her for transport. She started vomiting, had diarrhea, started bleeding. They limited her water. This is what the ACLU documented on 10/22/25 after interviewing more than a dozen women. Six stories made it into their letter to ICE. The attorney who worked on it said these cases are “just the tip of the iceberg.” ICE ended the presumption of release for pregnant people in 2017. Now it’s “case by case.” These are the cases. So when you hear “we don’t detain pregnant women” or “they get adequate care,” remember Lucia’s shackles, Marie’s vitamins, and Jenny’s water bottle. These are the cases. Is this acceptable to you? #DemsUnited #Immigration

BREAKING🚨 A man was choked to death by ICE guards and DHS hid his body at a military base to block the autopsy. His name was Geraldo Lunas Campos. When the county medical examiner finally performed an autopsy, the conclusion was devastatingly clear: his death was ruled a homicide. But here is the detail that should make your blood run cold. When another man recently died at that exact same ICE facility, DHS didn't call the local medical examiner. Instead, they moved his body to a nearby U.S. Army base. And that Army base is now flat-out refusing to release the results of the autopsy. This was revealed by Senator Dick Durbin in a horrifying congressional hearing about the explosion of deaths in ICE custody under the Trump administration. At least 17 people have already died in ICE custody in just the first three months of this year alone. Many of them died from easily treatable illnesses. 911 logs show ICE facilities are completely overwhelmed, ignoring basic human rights. But moving a body to a military installation to dodge a local homicide investigation? That isn't just negligence. That is a coordinated, state-sponsored cover-up. They are operating mass detention facilities with zero accountability. They are treating human beings like they are disposable. And when their guards cross the line, they use the full weight of the federal military apparatus to hide the evidence. We are watching human rights abuses happen on American soil, funded by our tax dollars. We must demand the autopsy report. Share this. Do not let them sweep these deaths under the rug.

BREAKINGNEWS: The Alantic Reporter that broke open the story regarding FBI Director Kash Patel @S_Fitzpatrick says her reporting is accurate and the Alantic has excellent attorneys. 🚨

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🚨 let me tell you what just happened because I'm sure most people completely missed this.. Kamal Kharazi was Iran's lead negotiator.. the man actively working through Pakistan to arrange a backchannel meeting between Iranian officials and JD Vance.. the only active diplomatic channel that existed to prevent what Trump called a "2 to 3 week" strike window.. Israel just bombed his house.. his wife is dead.. Kharazi is in hospital.. and you need to pay attention to the timing.. this isn't the first time Iran's negotiators have been killed right before a deal could be made.. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was Iran's top nuclear scientist and the man considered most essential to any future nuclear negotiations.. he was assassinated in November 2020, widely attributed to Israel.. the nuclear talks were set back by years.. in 2012, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan.. a senior figure at Iran's Natanz enrichment facility.. was killed in a targeted car bombing in Tehran, also attributed to Israel.. the pattern holds every single time.. every time Iran and the US get close to talking, someone removes the people doing the talking.. Trump said 2 to 3 weeks.. someone in Iran was actively building the exit ramp from that window.. and today the man building that exit is in hospital and his wife is in the ground.. whoever bombed that house wasn't trying to win a war.. they were trying to make sure there isn't a peace.

In 1930, rural Virginia, a Black girl born into sharecropping poverty wasn't supposed to leave the tobacco fields. But Gladys Mae Brown had other plans.... Her hands picked crops. Her mind solved equations no one asked her to solve. Her parents, despite barely scraping by, made a choice that defied every expectation placed on them. They kept her in school. She became valedictorian at a segregated high school with torn textbooks and broken windows. She earned a scholarship to Virginia State College in an era when being Black, female, and intellectually brilliant meant the world tried to crush you three different ways. In 1956, she walked through the doors of the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren as the second Black woman they'd ever hired. Four Black employees. Hundreds of white men. Most didn't think she'd survive the week. They were catastrophically wrong. Gladys calculated weapons trajectories by hand. Complex differential equations that consumed hours of meticulous work. Her accuracy became legendary. When computers arrived, she didn't resist the future. She learned Fortran. She mastered programming languages. She transformed weeks of calculations into hours. Then came Seasat in the 1970s. The first satellite studying Earth's oceans from orbit. She became project manager. But her true contribution remained hidden in the mathematics. For GPS to function, you need Earth's exact shape. Not close. Exact. Earth isn't a smooth sphere. It's an asymmetrical, gravity-distorted, irregular mass of mountains and ocean trenches. Gladys spent years constructing mathematical models describing every deviation, every curve, every gravitational anomaly of our planet's true form. She analyzed satellite data. She built geoid models. Tedious, invisible, revolutionary work. That mathematics became the foundation of GPS. Every navigation app. Every emergency rescue. Every autonomous vehicle. Every precision farming system. Her equations make it possible. Forty-two years at Dahlgren. Retirement in 1998. GPS fully operational worldwide. Billions of users. Almost nobody knew her name. She raised three children. Earned her PhD at seventy after surviving a stroke. Lived quietly. Until 2018, when someone at a sorority event read her biography aloud. The room went silent. The story exploded. At eighty-eight, Gladys West was inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame. The world finally learned her name. She mapped the entire planet. Then everyone forgot. Until they remembered. Gladys West worked alongside her husband Ira West, who was also a mathematician at the Naval Proving Ground. They met at Dahlgren and built both a family and parallel careers in an environment that actively discriminated against them. After retirement, she didn't stop. She earned her PhD from Virginia Tech at age 70, proving that intellectual curiosity doesn't have an expiration date. The GPS system relies on something called the geoid, a mathematical model of Earth's shape that accounts for gravitational variations. Gladys West's calculations helped create these models by analyzing millions of data points from satellite altimetry. Without accurate geoid models, GPS coordinates would be off by hundreds of meters, making the technology essentially useless. Her story remained hidden partly because classified military work doesn't generate headlines. Many pioneers of satellite and navigation technology worked in obscurity for national security reasons. The sorority member who recognized her contribution was reading through Alpha Kappa Alpha biographies when she noticed the GPS connection and brought it to public attention. © Women Stories #drthehistories

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🚨BREAKING: ICE agents, working with state police, pulled over a vehicle, in Ogden, Utah… and smashed their car window because he wouldn’t roll it down all the way. Watch the shift… because this is where it goes from aggressive to completely out of control. The driver already has the window partially open. The ICE agent is yelling, giving a countdown, threatening to break the window… while another officer is trying to open the door from the other side. No explanation, or clear threat… Just escalation. Then, someone inside says, “I’m a U.S. citizen… you pointed a gun at me.” And that’s the moment everything changes. Instead of pulling back… instead of correcting… instead of even acknowledging it… The ICE agent snaps. “I don’t give a shit who you are, I don’t know you.” And then he immediately escalates further… raises the metal bar… and starts hitting the window… doubling down on force. A person says you pointed a gun at them… and your response is not to de-escalate… It’s to get MORE aggressive. That’s retaliation. They call them “non-compliant”… and within seconds, the window is smashed and the driver is dragged out. And it doesn’t stop there. The passenger… who is recording… gets told to “stay there” while the officer puts his hand on his gun. He responds, “I’m recording for my safety.” The officer shuts the door on him anyway. When he opens it again and steps out… and then the officer physically shoves him back into the car. This is what needs to be understood… The escalation didn’t come from a threat. It came the second someone spoke up… the second someone said, “you pointed a gun at me”… The second someone started documenting it. That’s when it got worse. That’s when it turned physical. That’s when the window broke. And that’s what should alarm people… because that’s not about safety anymore. That’s about being challenged… and responding with more force.

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This is truly insane, and it should be front page news across America.  Denmark secretly deployed soldiers to Greenland prepared to blow up airport runways to stop a U.S. invasion. They brought blood supplies to treat the wounded. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden quietly coordinated against us. This was not a drill. This was our closest allies preparing to fight Americans. Let that sink in. NATO allies. Countries whose soldiers have fought and died alongside ours for decades. They looked at this president and decided they had to prepare for the worst. Fewer allies does not make America great. It makes us more isolated, more vulnerable, and it hands Russia and China exactly what they have always wanted: an America abandoned by its friends. The American people deserve to know how badly this president has damaged our standing in the world.  bbc.com/news/articles/…

@YossiGestetner @BarackObama Per KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey: average family premium $13,375 in 2009, $25,572 in 2024 (+91%). Single: $4,824 to $8,951 (+86%).

@Angry_Staffer It's really just a poll tax. Meant to restrict votes.

@Matt_Pinner Yep. I remember that we only had to dial 4 digits in our area.

Does anyone who grew up before social media still remember their parents’ landline number??!

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