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Yes, ICE officers have the legal power to arrest U.S. citizens who physically interfere with or obstruct a deportation.
While Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not have the jurisdiction to arrest or detain U.S. citizens for civil immigration violations, its
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While Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not have the jurisdiction to arrest or detain U.S. citizens for civil immigration violations, its
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agents are sworn federal law enforcement officers. Under federal law, interfering with their official duties is a criminal offense.
Sources of Arrest Authority
Crimes Committed in Their Presence: Under 8 U.S. Code § 1357(a)(5), ICE officers have the statutory power to
Sources of Arrest Authority
Crimes Committed in Their Presence: Under 8 U.S. Code § 1357(a)(5), ICE officers have the statutory power to
make warrantless arrests for any federal crime committed directly in their presence, regardless of whether the suspect is a citizen or a non-citizen.
Assaulting or Resisting Federal Officers: Under 18 U.S. Code § 111, it is a federal felony to forcibly assault,
Assaulting or Resisting Federal Officers: Under 18 U.S. Code § 111, it is a federal felony to forcibly assault,
🚨 A 69-year-old woman was violently beaten while doing a solo protest on a Texas overpass.
Patty Anderson was holding a banner protest on the Loop 336 overpass over I-45 in Montgomery County when she was allegedly approached and brutally beaten.
She suffered a broken nose and concussion. A nearby police officer stepped in and is credited with possibly saving her life.
The suspect has been identified as Christina Michelle Hiller.
Patty Anderson was holding a banner protest on the Loop 336 overpass over I-45 in Montgomery County when she was allegedly approached and brutally beaten.
She suffered a broken nose and concussion. A nearby police officer stepped in and is credited with possibly saving her life.
The suspect has been identified as Christina Michelle Hiller.
This wasn’t a clash between opposing protest groups.
Anderson was reportedly protesting alone when she was attacked without provocation. The assault left her with facial fractures and a concussion.
What stands out is how quickly a peaceful, solo act of protest turned violent and how important the officer’s quick intervention was in this case.
Anderson was reportedly protesting alone when she was attacked without provocation. The assault left her with facial fractures and a concussion.
What stands out is how quickly a peaceful, solo act of protest turned violent and how important the officer’s quick intervention was in this case.
This incident raises some serious questions:
• How vulnerable are people who protest alone in public spaces?
• What leads someone to physically attack a 69-year-old woman simply for holding a banner?
• And are these kinds of unprovoked attacks becoming more common?
Peaceful protest should not come with the risk of being beaten.
• How vulnerable are people who protest alone in public spaces?
• What leads someone to physically attack a 69-year-old woman simply for holding a banner?
• And are these kinds of unprovoked attacks becoming more common?
Peaceful protest should not come with the risk of being beaten.
The second set of the Mandelson Files will reveal his cosy relationship with senior Labour Party officials.
But did you know that the co-chair of his “think tank” once lived on an Israeli colony?
This is the story of Patrick Diamond:🧵
But did you know that the co-chair of his “think tank” once lived on an Israeli colony?
This is the story of Patrick Diamond:🧵
Patrick Diamond is a former Special Advisor to Peter Mandelson, the ex-Labour Party peer and “best pal” of Jeffrey Epstein.
In the early 1990s, Diamond spent time living and working at an Israeli colony called Lahav.
Lahav is 5km from the illegal Eshkolot settlement.
In the early 1990s, Diamond spent time living and working at an Israeli colony called Lahav.
Lahav is 5km from the illegal Eshkolot settlement.
Lahav is marketed as the Israeli state’s “only pig farm”.
The colony was originally set up in 1952 by the Nahal, an IDF program that combined military service with the establishment of settlements.
The colony was originally set up in 1952 by the Nahal, an IDF program that combined military service with the establishment of settlements.
The first World title of Pauline Ferrand-Prevot. 1/28
#cyclingiceberg
#cyclingiceberg
The 2014 road WC was held in Pontevedra, Spain. The course was hilly, but not too selective. The first climb, Alto de Montearenas, was 5km at just 3.5%. The Alto de Compostilla (1k 6.6%) was tougher, but with 5k to the line, a sprint from a select group wasn't ruled out. 2/28
For the 120km womens race, Marianne Vos (Netherlands) was the clear favourite. She dominated for years, and was on the hunt for a 4th world title; her third in a row.
Beating Vos wouldn't be easy. At 8 attempts, she never finished lower than 2nd at the World Championships. 3/28
Beating Vos wouldn't be easy. At 8 attempts, she never finished lower than 2nd at the World Championships. 3/28
I walked into the Apple Store last week with an iPhone too hot to hold.
"Is something wrong with it?"
The technician ran every test. Everything came back normal.
Then he leaned in and said something I'll never forget:
"There are 2 settings turned ON inside your iPhone right now that are slowly cooking it. Apple turns them ON by default. They quietly shorten your iPhone's lifespan."
I asked the obvious question: "So Apple is wearing out my own phone on purpose?"
He didn't answer.
Here's everything he showed me in the next 5 minutes (save this, your iPhone will thank you):
"Is something wrong with it?"
The technician ran every test. Everything came back normal.
Then he leaned in and said something I'll never forget:
"There are 2 settings turned ON inside your iPhone right now that are slowly cooking it. Apple turns them ON by default. They quietly shorten your iPhone's lifespan."
I asked the obvious question: "So Apple is wearing out my own phone on purpose?"
He didn't answer.
Here's everything he showed me in the next 5 minutes (save this, your iPhone will thank you):
Your iPhone is not supposed to feel hot.
Apple's own engineers say the safe operating range is 0°C to 35°C.
Above that, the battery starts taking permanent damage. Every hot day shaves months off your iPhone's life.
But here's the twist: most of the heat doesn't come from the weather. It comes from inside.
Two default settings keep your processor running 24/7. Even when your phone is in your pocket. Even at night while you sleep.
The technician circled both of them on my screen.
Apple's own engineers say the safe operating range is 0°C to 35°C.
Above that, the battery starts taking permanent damage. Every hot day shaves months off your iPhone's life.
But here's the twist: most of the heat doesn't come from the weather. It comes from inside.
Two default settings keep your processor running 24/7. Even when your phone is in your pocket. Even at night while you sleep.
The technician circled both of them on my screen.
Heat Bomb #1: Background App Refresh
Open Settings → General → Background App Refresh.
Every app with the toggle ON is running silently in the background. Right now. While you're reading this.
Instagram refreshing. Gmail syncing. WhatsApp pulling messages. Uber checking your location. 40 to 60 apps. All quietly using your processor at the same time.
It's like leaving every burner on your stove turned to low. The kitchen feels fine. The pan is slowly melting.
The fix: Tap "Background App Refresh" at the top → set it to OFF. Or pick "Wi-Fi" only.
Your phone instantly cools. Battery jumps 2 to 3 hours.
Open Settings → General → Background App Refresh.
Every app with the toggle ON is running silently in the background. Right now. While you're reading this.
Instagram refreshing. Gmail syncing. WhatsApp pulling messages. Uber checking your location. 40 to 60 apps. All quietly using your processor at the same time.
It's like leaving every burner on your stove turned to low. The kitchen feels fine. The pan is slowly melting.
The fix: Tap "Background App Refresh" at the top → set it to OFF. Or pick "Wi-Fi" only.
Your phone instantly cools. Battery jumps 2 to 3 hours.
It's Memorial Day, and so I want to remember some of my family that fought for their country.
My grandfather, Jack Ousey, emigrated to Canada from Wales, and joined the Canadian Army around 1915. His one and only battle in WW1 was the Somme! He got shot in his arm and leg and lay in a mud puddle for three days. The German Red Cross found him and saved his life. He spent the rest of the war in a prison camp, working on a farm during the summer, and at a lumber camp in the winter.
When he got home, his wife was living with another man. Yes, she knew he was alive - the Red Cross sent letters. So remember, military members. Josey is always waiting, in every time, every age. Eventually they split and he went to Chicago where he found my grandmother. He was an incredible man with many more parts to his story, but today I wanted to focus on just his military career. Also may Douglas Haig rot in the lowest circle of Hell for his arrogance, incompetence, and condemning so many good men to death and crippling. My grandpa did manage to survive his ineptitude, but so many did not.
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My grandfather, Jack Ousey, emigrated to Canada from Wales, and joined the Canadian Army around 1915. His one and only battle in WW1 was the Somme! He got shot in his arm and leg and lay in a mud puddle for three days. The German Red Cross found him and saved his life. He spent the rest of the war in a prison camp, working on a farm during the summer, and at a lumber camp in the winter.
When he got home, his wife was living with another man. Yes, she knew he was alive - the Red Cross sent letters. So remember, military members. Josey is always waiting, in every time, every age. Eventually they split and he went to Chicago where he found my grandmother. He was an incredible man with many more parts to his story, but today I wanted to focus on just his military career. Also may Douglas Haig rot in the lowest circle of Hell for his arrogance, incompetence, and condemning so many good men to death and crippling. My grandpa did manage to survive his ineptitude, but so many did not.
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My wife's father served in Germany in the 103rd Infantry during World War 2. He was actually part of a so-called tank destroyer battery. I say "so-called" because his unit only ever had towed guns. When they first landed in France they had 37mm and they knew these were worthless. They got upgraded to 57mm pretty quick. Not a lot better. Granddad wasn't on a gun crew though. He carried a rifle and stayed in foxholes.
His unit fought through the Vosges, stormed both the Maginot and the Siegfried Lines, and eventually liberated one of the Dachau camps. As far as I know his unit never encountered a German tank, though they saw StuGs and trucks.
One of his stories was about going through the famous Dragon's Teeth of the Siegfried Line. He said as he was walking, he heard a voice cry out, "Duck!" and he jumped behind a "tooth" just as machine-gun fire spattered the place he stood. No one else was around so he attributed it to heaven warning him.
In another story, they were taking mortar fire so he and a friend jumped under a truck for cover. When the bombardment ended, they crawled out from under the truck, and looked at it. It was an ammunition truck! Worst cover ever.
He said as they advanced, sometimes instead of digging their own, they got to occupy a German foxhole. He said German holes were the best - neatly dug, with shelves for storage cut into the walls. Much better than American foxholes.
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His unit fought through the Vosges, stormed both the Maginot and the Siegfried Lines, and eventually liberated one of the Dachau camps. As far as I know his unit never encountered a German tank, though they saw StuGs and trucks.
One of his stories was about going through the famous Dragon's Teeth of the Siegfried Line. He said as he was walking, he heard a voice cry out, "Duck!" and he jumped behind a "tooth" just as machine-gun fire spattered the place he stood. No one else was around so he attributed it to heaven warning him.
In another story, they were taking mortar fire so he and a friend jumped under a truck for cover. When the bombardment ended, they crawled out from under the truck, and looked at it. It was an ammunition truck! Worst cover ever.
He said as they advanced, sometimes instead of digging their own, they got to occupy a German foxhole. He said German holes were the best - neatly dug, with shelves for storage cut into the walls. Much better than American foxholes.
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My wife's uncle was a Marine in WW2 and his one and only battle was Iwo Jima! He said that every Marine on the island was able to see the famous flag raising - the island was only 5 miles across and the flag was on the highest point. He said it was exceedingly heartening. He was not on Mount Suribachi - he was down in the ash plains in a hole getting shot at and mortared by the Japanese.
During a banzai charge at night, he shot a sword-waving Japanese officer only a few yards from his hole. When things were still again, he crawled out to the dead officer, and retrieved some of his papers. The officer's paybook had a picture of his wife in a kimono and his child. He couldn't read Japanese of course, but always felt kind of bad about shooting the guy. On the other hand, what could he do? He didn't want to get killed by the sword! He determined he wanted to give the paybook back to the officer's family post-war.
Sadly later he was carrying some coffee up to the front line for his buddies, and a machinegun shot him in both legs, so that was the end of the war for him. In the hospital ship, he lost the Japanese officer's paybook or it was taken away, so he was never able to return it or find the family. So not a Hollywood ending. Just a tragedy, like tens of thousands on Iwo Jima. At least he survived. Thousands didn't.
Curse the Japanese High Command for throwing away their men to preserve their diseased honor.
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During a banzai charge at night, he shot a sword-waving Japanese officer only a few yards from his hole. When things were still again, he crawled out to the dead officer, and retrieved some of his papers. The officer's paybook had a picture of his wife in a kimono and his child. He couldn't read Japanese of course, but always felt kind of bad about shooting the guy. On the other hand, what could he do? He didn't want to get killed by the sword! He determined he wanted to give the paybook back to the officer's family post-war.
Sadly later he was carrying some coffee up to the front line for his buddies, and a machinegun shot him in both legs, so that was the end of the war for him. In the hospital ship, he lost the Japanese officer's paybook or it was taken away, so he was never able to return it or find the family. So not a Hollywood ending. Just a tragedy, like tens of thousands on Iwo Jima. At least he survived. Thousands didn't.
Curse the Japanese High Command for throwing away their men to preserve their diseased honor.
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BEST OF YOOKAY AESTHETICS 2026
Thread of the best ‘Yookay’ images from 2026 so far 🧵
Thread of the best ‘Yookay’ images from 2026 so far 🧵
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL
THE VISITOR
@mistressdivy All I can conclude is that @realDonaldTrump is ushering Communism in America with the help of the CIA so that he can be a forever leader of the Republic, like a King. I am shocked that the Military is on board with this... but the reality says they are. It's shocking.
@mistressdivy @realDonaldTrump I cannot dismiss how H-1B and AI have displaced so many Americans and how the value of dollar has been defeated and the price of gas has exploded. Groceries are still 500% more than they were 10 years ago and it's an embarrassment. The pandemic exposed America. Now judgement.
@mistressdivy @realDonaldTrump Communism took decades to be defeated in Romania, and the weak Americans ushering Communism here are going to suffer for decades to come if they don't smarten up and stop the insanity. Why is AI being put in EVERYTHING all at once and displacing HUMANS in our own society?
One final thread on why the gender, race, appearance of actors in the #Odyssey shouldn’t matter, and, moreover, why appearances are more complicated in this epic than any other
Athena repeatedly makes him ugly and nobler again, so much so that there’s no sense of what he truly looks like: is he the pirate man in book 8, the withered beggar in book 16, the godlike man before Telemachus in book 16, or the cleaned up beau of Penelope in book 23?
Athena repeatedly makes him ugly and nobler again, so much so that there’s no sense of what he truly looks like: is he the pirate man in book 8, the withered beggar in book 16, the godlike man before Telemachus in book 16, or the cleaned up beau of Penelope in book 23?
ALIEN was released 47 years ago today. One of the definitive science fiction/horror movies, and among Ridley Scott’s best, the behind-the-scenes story is like the perfect organism…
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When Alejandro Jodorovsky’s ill-fated Dune project collapsed in 1976, effects supervisor Dan O’Bannon was left homeless. Living with his writing pal, Ronald Shusett, they came up with the idea for a science fiction/horror film. One which would change their lives forever.
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O’Bannon and Shusett wrote a script called Memory. That changed to They Bite and then Star Beast. They didn’t like those titles and, after reading through the script, they realised how many times they’d used a specific word: ‘Alien’. Nobody wanted to buy the script though.
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A Mumbai-based portfolio manager who's seen 4 market crashes says:
80% of Indian investors lose money because of a single morning mistake, and almost everyone makes it.
Thread 🧵
80% of Indian investors lose money because of a single morning mistake, and almost everyone makes it.
Thread 🧵
1/ He observed this pattern across Harshad Mehta, dot-com, 2008, and COVID.
Investors who look smart on paper:
- Good salary, IT or finance job
- No EMIs, no credit card debt
- Read Morgan Housel, follow finance YouTubers
- SIPs running on autopilot
Yet they still end up with:
- Blown-up portfolios in their 30s–40s
- One bad F&O year that wipes out 5 good ones
- A demat full of Yes Bank, Vodafone Idea, Suzlon… bought "for the long term"
Investors who look smart on paper:
- Good salary, IT or finance job
- No EMIs, no credit card debt
- Read Morgan Housel, follow finance YouTubers
- SIPs running on autopilot
Yet they still end up with:
- Blown-up portfolios in their 30s–40s
- One bad F&O year that wipes out 5 good ones
- A demat full of Yes Bank, Vodafone Idea, Suzlon… bought "for the long term"
2/ The usual suspects were investigated
- Wrong stock picks
- Bad market timing
- Too much leverage
- Greed in small caps
None of them fully explained it.
The real problem wasn't what they were buying.
It was what they did the moment the alarm rang at 7 AM.
- Wrong stock picks
- Bad market timing
- Too much leverage
- Greed in small caps
None of them fully explained it.
The real problem wasn't what they were buying.
It was what they did the moment the alarm rang at 7 AM.
LEAKED: Amnesty’s unused “ongoing genocide” posters. 🧵
1: Palestinian surfs on the beach in Gaza City, May 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Amnesty: “STOP THE ONGOING GENOCIDE
1: Palestinian surfs on the beach in Gaza City, May 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Amnesty: “STOP THE ONGOING GENOCIDE
2: Palestinian women take part in 5-kilometer Palestine Marathon along the coastal road near Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, May 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Amnesty: “STOP THE ONGOING GENOCIDE”
Amnesty: “STOP THE ONGOING GENOCIDE”
3: Wedding ceremony in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, April 24, 2026. (Photo: Saeed Jaras)
Amnesty: “STOP THE ONGOING GENOCIDE”
Amnesty: “STOP THE ONGOING GENOCIDE”
