Epiphany's Ramblings

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He urgently needs medical treatment that is no longer accessible in Gaza.

They bashed in his door with a battering ram, so by all accounts, they were not let into the home.

He’s a US citizen, so they obviously could not have had a judicial warrant to arrest this guy.

Most POC are sheltering in place if they can. Those that have to go to work/school or have just braved going out, have been followed home and their whole families arrested. ICE are driving in a deliberately unsafe manner to cause as many accidents as possible. If they see a POC driving they will just smash into them.

All of this has been documented.

Here is a MN State Senator from Apple Valley talking about this:

Making him stand in the cold for hours literally could have killed him.

“I was shaking,” [Thao] said. “They didn’t show any warrant; they just broke down the door.”

Amid a huge surge of federal agents into the Twin Cities, immigration authorities are facing backlash from residents and the local leaders for warrantless arrests, aggressive clashes with protesters and the fatal shooting of mother of three Renee Good.

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Thao, who has been a US citizen for decades, said that as he was being detained he asked his daughter-in-law to find his identification but the agents told him they didn’t want to see it.

Instead, as his four-year-old grandson watched and cried, Thao was led out in handcuffs wearing only sandals and underwear with just a blanket wrapped around his shoulders.

Videos captured the scene, which included people blowing whistles and horns and neighbors screaming at the more than a dozen gun-toting agents to leave Thao’s family alone.

Thao said agents drove him “to the middle of nowhere” and made him get out of the car in the frigid weather so they could photograph him. He said he feared they would beat him. He was asked for his ID, which agents earlier prevented him from retrieving.

Agents eventually realized that he was a US citizen with no criminal record, Thao said, and an hour or two later, they brought him back to his house. There they made him show his ID and then left without apologizing for detaining him or breaking his door, Thao said.

They claim there were two convicted sex offenders in the house who they were looking for—trying to do guilt by association. Nobody on the sex offender registry was there or even in the neighborhood, which public records should have told them—the homeowners and residents of the home were not on the registry. But they’re still lying that there “were sex offenders in the house” to smear this man and his family and retroactively justify this violence.

The Cat has its Heart on the Outside

I just wanted to make a post showcasing some of my favorite illustrations by Keith Thompson for the Leviathan Trilogy.

The art went so hard in these books, it’s crazy. The plot is basically an alternate universe WW1 about the major two powers, the Darwinists, and the Clankers. The Darwinists genetically engineered animals to fight for them creating huge flying whale battleships, while the Clankers made huge robot mechs and powerful guns. A few historical people and places show up in these books, like Nikola Tesla.

I have been informed that the House is going to have a committee hearing (energy and commerce committee) on the Take It Down Act. This is a bill that Trump has pushed hard to get passed so that he can abuse it and use it to take down social media posts criticizing him. Its another mass censorship tool disguised as "protecting kids".

Fight for the Future has provided both an explanation for why this bill is extremely dangerous, as well as a call script and direct link to your lawmakers! They couldnt make it easier. Its here:

Here is a link to the committee members. It is a full committee hearing.

This is the number for energy and commerce (202) 225-3641 please call their secretary and tell them to spread the message to say no if your rep isn’t on the committee