All rules are made up.

Some rules may be useful and good, some not.

But ALL of them are made up.

And we can always make up new ones.

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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, #LegallyProtected 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

#ProbableCause
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?
#uspol #Ripped

New on my blog: How to safely shower with a Zio heart monitor

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@ttscoff I can accomplish the same thing today by applying a local style sheet that strips all the cruft. (And breaks everything.)

The idea of using only Markdown will work for a year or so, then somone will introduce Markdown Interactive which junks it all up again. The genie has left the bottle in this regard.

Trump Administration pivots from killing people internationally to killing people domestically.

Ding dong the witch is dead! Having worked with Lemay many times over the years, this is good news indeed.

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Read the #airbnb review that was banned ! If you’re looking for a luxury rental near Dollywood or Pigeon Forge, check out the Luminary Lodge.

https://gordonmeyer.com/blog/a-luxurious-gatlinburg-airbnb.html

Apparently they’ve run out of idea for features

Solved my #1 frustration with the Files app in iOS 26. Stopping Preview.app from overriding Quick Look. https://gordonmeyer.com/blog/how-to-stop-preview-from-opening-files-in-the-ios-26-files-app.html

Here’s how the media amplifies Trump’s lies about #chicago.

The headline:
Chicago sees 100% spike in weekend violence, driven by Christmas tree lighting chaos

The facts:
- a spike is a data point, not a trend.
- the tree lighting was 4 hours earlier and 5 blocks away.

Pure sensationalism.

Still one of the greatest parenthetical clarifications ever published.

Best sign I’ve seen today. 😂🙏 #NoKings

For the record, the Apple 17 Pro Clear Case is NOT compatible with their crossbody strap. The Support documents won’t tell you this, the Apple Store app won’t tell you, and if you ask Apple via chat, you’ll get an incorrect answer!

Cox’s “smart help” AI is neither. I ask an iPhone specific question and the bot tells me how to do it with a Samsung. SMH

WaPo - Trump administration unveils a new crackdown on Pentagon journalists, requiring them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke press credentials of those who don’t obey. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/19/pentagon-hegseth-press-unauthorized-material/

Assigned Male Comics by Sophie LaBelle hits the bullsye again:

Politics have no place in Football so it was unacceptable for Colin Kaepernick to peacefully take a knee to protest systemic racism, but the NFL proudly held a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk because we must honor a man who denied systemic racism even exists.

This is America.

Clearly Utah is a hellhole of uncontrolled violence. Send in the National Guard!!