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John Foot
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Historian specialised in contemporary Italy - has published books on Italian football, radical psychiatry (Franco Basaglia), Fascism. Book on the Red Brigades out in 2025. John-foot.com

John Mackintosh Foot is an English academic historian specialising in Italy.

Source: Wikipedia
Political science 38%
Sociology 32%

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said the city has only had three homicides so far this year. “Two of them were ICE," he added.

“The relief we are asking for is stopping this Operation Metro Surge” immediately, he said.
Live: State officials decry fatal shooting. ‘We can’t live like this,’ Walz says
Protesters have swarmed the street where a man was shot and killed by federal agents Saturday. Republican Tom Emmer said Walz’s response was “dangerous.”
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Fuck the tone and language policing pseudo-intellectual pedants who paved the road for fascism with their “don’t call them fascists” bullshit.

They were fascists then and they sure as hell are fascists now.

The new video is clear. Miller and Bovino are lying.

Miller is the assassin.

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TV tonight: flawless prison drama is the first must-watch show of the year
TV tonight: flawless prison drama is the first must-watch show of the year
Josh Finan continues to be brilliant in Waiting for the Out. Plus: buckle up for the final double bill of Heated Rivalry. Here’s what to watch this evening
www.theguardian.com

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Clearest video yet and you can clearly see one of the ICE agents running off with the Gun they revealed to be the victims right b4 they executed him!

He was UNARMED & EXECUTED!!

I’m sure we can rely on Kristi Noem for a fair and balanced assessment of events.

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Just ignore all the videos that refute this headline and run whatever. Assholes.

According to Steven Miller, a domestic terrorist

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“Ice has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished”

Re-upping this piece of mine from last year, when things weren’t even half as bad as they are now.
Ice has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished | Mehdi Hasan
Violent apprehensions, warrantless arrests, deported children: how many more abuses of power will it take for Democrats to speak up?
www.theguardian.com
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 25, 2026

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‘Ethan Nwaneri scores 13 minutes into his Marseille debut!!

#Arsenal #AFC #Gunners #Marseille

Boycott the World Cup and the Olympics.

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Walz criticized the narrative put out by the federal government about the shooting.

“Thank God we have video,” Walz said. “Because according to DHS, these seven heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against them, or something.”
Live: Federal agents shot and killed Minneapolis man, DHS officials say he was armed
A bystander video shows several agents wrestled with man on a city sidewalk moments before the shooting. Police chief Brian O’Hara issued a plea for calm, as protesters gathered at the scene: “Please do not destroy our own city.”
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I wonder where that gun came from?

The Department of Homeland Security said the episode began after a man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and they tried to disarm him. But footage from the scene shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him.

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His name was Alex Jeffrey Pretti. He was
37 years old, a licensed nurse and a federal government worker. He was executed.

Murdered for filming federal police operations.

Trump of course pardoned all the domestic terrorists from Jan 6.
Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position,

Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

Surprise surprise Steven Miller has already called the victim a ‘domestic terrorist’.

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Spurs fans letting Thomas Frank know he's getting sacked in the morning.

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James Harden’s all-time ranks are CRAZY

…and he’s still climbing every day

I thought the MAGA people wanted everyone to have a gun?

The official version of the Minneapolis killing is obvious bullshit.

If the NEC blocks Burnham that is political suicide, and Labour will lose the seat.

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At least five of the ten shots were fired into his dead corpse. This was an execution following a brutal and bodged arrest.

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I’m a historian of fascism. What is happening in Minneapolis is fascism.
Fox News is defending feds killing another Minnesotan: "They are literally enforcing the law. These are targeted interactions, these are targeted operations. They are simply doing their jobs."