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Trying to do the next right thing.
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I say again, this does not even approach a scintilla of the accountability that is required. These are PR moves.
January 26, 2026 at 11:49 PM
They are still out there wreaking havoc in other communities. Keep up the pressure! Call your Congressman and Senators!!
The Department of Homeland Security said that federal agents have arrested more than 200 people in Maine over the last week as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration operation.
Maine ICE operation leads to more than 200 arrests in five days, and some are ‘worst of worst,’ DHS says - The Boston Globe
Advocates protesting the operation said that many of those targeted have no criminal histories at all.
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January 27, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS.

Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies.

AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS.

Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.
January 26, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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ICE is leaving Vietnam-style death cards in the wake of their kidnappings because they are the saddest, most embarrassing military wannabes to ever live

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January 26, 2026 at 5:35 AM
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Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔
January 26, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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January 25, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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“Please get the truth out about our son.”

Alex Pretti, a VA ICU nurse, was killed by ICE while trying to protect a woman being assaulted.

Trump calls him a “monster” and “domestic terrorist.”

Trust your own eyes. Unlike Trump, the video doesn’t lie.
January 25, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Non violence works when the aggressor respects the rule of law. America's laws seem to disappear when one party is power
January 24, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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A completely insane take.

Also, guess what gun ICE issues to it's officers? That's right, the same Sig P320 Pretti was carrying.
From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
January 25, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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I think one of the wildly disorienting parts of this is that when you try to "look for the helpers," you end up looking at the guy they shot.
January 25, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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Nobody should listen to me particularly, but I do think it’s true both that even people who are assholes shouldn’t be murdered by state actors, and that it’s good politics to point out when state actors murder someone who is, by all accounts, an amazing guy
January 25, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration.

Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction

It can be done.
January 25, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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Call the piece of legislation that ultimately abolishes ICE the Pretti-Good Act
January 25, 2026 at 7:06 AM
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So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.
Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened
January 25, 2026 at 12:05 AM
I wish @amightygirl.com posted here on Bluesky more often.

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January 25, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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Pro tip: If you are attending a rally or action, wear a N95 mask & bring extras to give to others.

High quality masks can serve triple-duty: they prevent you and others from getting sick from airborne viruses, they keep your face warm in the freezing cold, & they can protect against surveillance.
January 23, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Anyone who says the protesters are “pAiD aGiTaToRs FrOm OtHeR CitiEs” is Full. Of. Shit!

Full stop.

Those who are hardy enough to be out in -9*F weather this long are people who have adapted to cold like this over many years.

These are Minnesotans.

We love you! Please be safe! And thank you! 🩵✊🏼🩵
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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This is what love looks like.
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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It really is amazing to listen to a guy who faked bone spurs to avoid serving in the military denigrate combat veterans of our allies while also using “we” when referencing the historical sacrifices and bravery of our own soldiers.
January 23, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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January 22, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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Really can't stand the self-abasement of takes posing as the reasonable middle by conceding it'd be a sensible policy to purchase / annex Greenland so long as it wasn't by force, as if any of the nonsense reasons are compelling. Stop it. There is no reasonable version, that would still be idiotic.
January 20, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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"How do you hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope? How do we bring a nation together when we have lost the decorum of civility?" Martin Luther King Jr
#MLKDay2026
#CivilDisobedience
#StandUpToOppression
a large group of people marching down a street with a sign that says " equality for all "
Alt: a large group of people marching down a street with a sign that says " equality for all "
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January 19, 2026 at 2:12 PM