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USAF vet. Militant 99%er. OWS. Author of An American Story and The End of Blackness. If I block you, please take it very, very personally.

A holding pattern
Joined December 2008
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Walking her purse dog at 3am! Alert the media!
NYPD Officers Stop Woman Walking Her Dog at 3 AM in Manhattan Bystanders Intervene Around 3 a.m. in Murray Hill, two NYPD officers stopped a woman walking her small leashed dog. She said she had the walk signal and repeatedly asked what law she broke. One officer briefly held her arm while they discussed a possible summons. Bystanders filmed, called 911, and demanded a supervisor. The dog was never taken. The long clip shows officers struggling to clearly state the exact violation. No official statement has confirmed the basis for the stop. Claims about the officers’ religion or motive come only from appearance and captions, not the footage itself take a look what do you see? When a 3 a.m. stop requires bystanders to step in and officers can’t immediately explain the law do they make them up as they go?
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Proof, for those stupid few who need it, that homosexuality is a not a choice.
Intimidation just didn’t work!
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Power corrupts.no matter how little power.
“We’re here to have a chat with you…” Police have the dumbest lines. There are two of you harassing this man…talk to each other if you so want to have a conversation.
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Her. I wonder who’ll win.
A 72-year-old woman hit a $2.55 MILLION jackpot on a slot machine at an Atlantic City casino. Other players celebrated and called her a millionaire. Then security arrived, the machine displayed an error message, and the casino offered her $350 instead. – Roney Beal was a regular casino visitor from Shamong Township, New Jersey. – On February 25, 2024, she visited Bally’s Casino in Atlantic City and started playing a Wheel of Fortune slot machine. – She had already put hundreds of dollars into the machine. – Suddenly, the machine announced that she was a winner. Gold coins appeared on the screen. – The jackpot showed more than $1.27 MILLION. – But she had also hit a 2x multiplier, which brought the total to $2,555,908.70. – Another player standing nearby celebrated and told her she was a millionaire. – Beal was excited. She believed she had just won the money that could change her life. – She pressed the service button to call an attendant. – That’s when things changed. – Security personnel arrived, and the machine displayed a message reading “REEL TILT.” – Casino employees told her the machine had malfunctioned and that she had not actually won the jackpot. – An attendant then opened the machine, pushed several buttons and spun the reels again. – Beal objected to what the employee was doing. She later accused casino staff of interfering with the machine before anyone else could independently inspect it. – The casino eventually told her that her actual winnings were only around $350. – She refused to accept that as the answer and hired attorney Michael DiCroce. – Beal filed a lawsuit against Bally’s and the slot machine manufacturer, International Game Technology, seeking the jackpot she believed she had won. – Her lawyer argued that the casino should preserve the machine and its surveillance footage so independent experts could investigate what happened. – Bally’s referred questions to IGT, while IGT said it was cooperating with the investigation. – In August 2025, a federal judge ordered the lawsuit to be put on hold while New Jersey gaming regulators completed their investigation. – The judge did NOT rule that Beal had lost her case. The lawsuit was administratively terminated, not dismissed. Roney Beal went to a casino, watched a slot machine announce a $2.55 MILLION jackpot, celebrated with other players, and then watched the casino turn around and tell her she had won just $350.
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Florida deputy arrested a woman, developed a romantic interest in her, and ran her plates through Flock to track her more than 300 times. State's attorney is refusing to charge him with a crime. tcpalm.com/story/news/crime/…
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One of my favorite examples of some big shot throwing away her career because she just didn't understand that the rules apply to her as well.
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One of my favorite examples of some big shot throwing away her career because she just didn't understand that the rules apply to her as well.
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Stephen Miller: This whole period that happened after World War II where the West began apologizing and groveling and begging— Host: I don't even know what you're talking about right now. I asked you if there would be an election in Venezuela.
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Yay! I’ve been so afraid they might be forced to dial down the crazy and edge back towards political viability— but no!
I think we all know what this means and who Stephen Miller is and that’s insane.
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Do you know what men do when women lose their rights? Nothing.
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The envy of the world: America’s crack police force! (And I do mean “crack”.)
Police raided the wrong house and realized their mistake too late. The woman inside was naked, and officers allegedly didn’t wait for her to put on clothes before badging in
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Everyone is bewildered as to why. I have a theory. Check the racial demographics of the bar exam takers whom she took points away from. This IS the Deep South. She didn’t even need to get paid off. Ppl are racist for free😭😭
Wow. For years, an official in Arkansas allegedly tampered with bar exam scores, pulling points from some test takers and giving them to others. This caused numerous failing exams to pass, and resulted in "at least one instance" where an otherwise passing exam fell below the requisite threshold. cc: @BarExamTutor
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A 124-year-old voting ban designed to silence Black Virginians is finally gone. While Democrats took control of both chambers of Congress, governors’ mansions, and state legislatures across the country, Virginia overturned its “Jim Crow-era lifetime ban” on voting for people with prior felony convictions. motherjones.com/politics/202…
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The family court is more than just an old boys club. It's the high temple of the patriarchy. It takes a mother who has left an abusive man and forces her to hand her children back to him. It silences her. It blames her for protecting them. It treats his desire for control as a right and her resistance as the problem. This is not justice. It is social engineering. A system designed to maintain male authority over women and children long after the relationship has ended. The family court doesn’t just fail to protect. It actively reinforces who is allowed to have power inside the family. 📚The System Is The Weapon amzn.eu/d/0fMYKCDT 🆘️ If you're in court or at risk of being in court instruct me directly: nataliepage.co.uk/cases/
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Déjà vu.
Halle Berry's Ex Demands $240K in Legal Fees, Claims He Makes Just $776 a Month Details: buff.ly/12O0X7A
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No one to blame but herself.
Monica Lewinsky was 22 when she slept with her boss, the president of the United States. A supposed friend taped 20 hours of her phone calls. Then she had to sit in a prosecutor's office and confirm every one. Seventeen years later she said who got paid for it. The story broke online in January 1998. She calls herself patient zero of losing a reputation on a global scale. That September, in the Independent Counsel's office, she listened to every minute of the tapes. She was legally required to authenticate every call. A few days later the transcripts were released to Congress. Weeks after that the audio aired on TV. Her parents feared she would be humiliated to death. Her mother made her shower with the bathroom door open. She says she lost her reputation, her dignity and almost everything. She says she almost lost her life. On a TED stage she named who got paid. Public humiliation has a price, she says, and the internet jacked it up. The people who prey on victims collect it. Her word for the business is shame. The mechanics are simple: the more shame, the more clicks, the more advertising dollars. One gossip site, she notes, logged over five million hits on a single story about hacked photos of actors. Someone was making money off the back of someone else's suffering. She lost her name at 24. The sites got paid in clicks. The traffic was us. Is clicking on someone's worst day just curiosity, or is it paying the people who profit from it?
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Life without parole for murdering his first wife, but the Minnesota family court is pushing joint legal custody and prison visits. The mother is even ordered to mediate with him. If a wife-murderer keeps parental rights, the system isn’t broken. It’s working precisely as designed - for abusive men. Read the article here:🔗📰womenscoalition.substack.com… Book: 📕The System Is The Weapon amzn.eu/d/0fMYKCDT 🆘️If you need case support instruct me direct: nataliepage.co.uk/cases/
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You escaped the abuse. Then the family court handed him the power to continue it. Forced contact. Mother-blame. Silence. Proximity. The system is not failing by accident. It is working exactly as it has been allowed to - as a weapon. The System Is The Weapon amzn.eu/d/0fMYKCDT
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Trump supporter: “Stop making racism a issue. This country is not racist. Some people are racist, you’re never gonna stop that. Majority are not so stop pushing it like it’s a big issue” Jason Selvig: “And what are your thoughts on Muslims?” Trump supporter 2: “I think they should be deported and go back to their own country”
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I just can’t tell you what this vid means to me. I keep it running on a loop in the background of my daily life. It makes its own gravy on so many different levels!
🚨 Meet Joseph Joffrion, the Mississippi cop whose deposition became internet legend (wait for it.) This is the now-famous deposition of the former Waveland PD sergeant, who repeatedly answered basic questions about policing, constitutional rights, and his own actions with some variation of: "I don't recall." The deposition stemmed from a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by First Amendment activist Jeff Gray after Joffrion threatened him with arrest while Gray was peacefully standing on a public sidewalk outside Waveland City Hall holding a sign reading "God Bless the Homeless Veterans." The lawsuit was ultimately settled, and the settlement included First Amendment training for officers. Joffrion has left the Waveland Police Department. According to reports, he is now working for another law enforcement agency in Mississippi. The officer moved on. The taxpayers paid. And the deposition lives forever.
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