Sounds like @SenatorCollins is gearing up to be "Concerned"

Border Patrol pulls over a 20-year-old in Slidell, LA for “white lights on the back of your vehicle… your reverse lights are on the whole time.” Then, before writing a single ticket, the agent asks: “What’s your citizenship?” The driver, Alan Laureano, was born in Slidell. His passenger — his 13-year-old stepbrother — was born in Pearl River, Louisiana. Both are U.S. citizens. Didn’t matter. Twice, on camera, the agent tells Laureano he’s going to “check” the kid and “if he’s illegal, I will take him.” He tries to open the 13-year-old’s car door himself. Laureano locks it and rolls the window down instead. The agent then interrogates the child directly — full name, spelling, date of birth, birthplace — while Laureano stands his ground and refuses to hand over his own ID, telling the agent he doesn’t have the right to stop him over a taillight. Immigration attorney Michael Gahagan reviewed the video and called it what it is: “an illegal detention.” Border Patrol isn’t authorized to detain someone over a traffic violation — they need independent reasonable suspicion of an immigration violation, and that has to come first, not get invented after the stop. DHS’s after-the-fact statement claims the stop was based on “reasonable suspicion or probable cause of federal law violations” — but doesn’t say what that violation was. WWL Louisiana asked twice. No answer either time. This is the pattern: pretext stop, pivot to citizenship, threaten a kid with removal before confirming anything. It only looks “routine” until you’re the one being asked to prove you belong in the country you were born in.

Democrats, you might want to amplify this a bit more, or you could just keep attacking Abdul El Sayed.

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#BREAKING: Soboroff: “According to the climate newsletter, HEATED, nearly one third of Alito’s individual stock, the whole portfolio is tied to fossil fuel companies. There are watchdog groups who have asked him to step aside. There’s a coalition of organizations that asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate this. The court’s response was basically to shrug. This is what they said: ‘Justice Alito does not have a financial interest in any party therefore recusal is not required.’ In other words, because neither company is actually a party in the current case, there’s no conflict. But, is there really a meaningful distinction? This is the question between profiting from a company directly before the court, and profiting from the industry’s overall success. Do they honestly…believe that we cannot tell the difference?” 🙄

Thank you @davematthewsbnd

Suddenly, a bunch of accounts are using the exact same language about how Haley Stevens is “growing on them.” That doesn’t happen organically. It feels like the MAGA ballroom campaign all over again: coordinated messaging from a campaign that can’t get actual high-profile voices excited about its candidate.

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Just a reminder: This Oklahoma Plumber (pictured here hiding from Jan 6 terrorists) is the Secretary of Homeland Security.

Don't Drink The Water" by @davematthewsbnd is a song that can totally encapsulate what #trump and #ice is doing to our communities. Made a political commentary video on it. Full video : rcweb.co/ddtw

A Fox host joking about US soldiers raping women. Well done Rupert Murdoch, well done.

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I respect WIRED so much. Tech companies are FUMING because they thought it would be positive PR for their products. Instead WIRED is publishing articles which expose the downsides of AI and tech surveillance. And now they’re getting sued for it. Support them!

At this moment in history - @WIRED has been amazing. So thankful for that.

Pete Hegseth’s senior yearbook pic has me cackling because he looks like the lead singer in a 90s pop punk cover band called All Time Low-T lol nice alpha male guyliner, @PeteHegseth 😂😂😂

Trump just confirmed ‘Russiagate’ was real, lol

NEW: John Solomon acknowledges no votes were changed in the 2020, 2022 or 2024 elections. He also, when asked if the 2020 results showing Biden won the presidential election are accurate, said, “I'm researching.” And says no intell that Venezuela tempered with US voting machines.

The declassified documents Trump just released tonight to “prove” the 2020 election was “rigged” actually show that Russia tried to interfere to hurt Biden and help Trump.

This is really incredible. Docs released by Trump tonight confirm RUSSIA tried to spread claims Biden was engaged in criminal activity vis-a-vis Burisma and that it advanced those narratives "with US officials" and planed a "high-profile corruption scandal... at the peak of the 2020 US presidential campaign."

For anyone interested in doing their own research before Trump’s speech tonight… you can read the full declassified report on foreign threats to the 2020 election here. There was NO foreign interference in the 2020 election. dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents…