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Damn
cwebbonline.com Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19h
Holy shit. This speaks volumes about the midterms ahead.
January 25, 2026 at 5:10 AM
anniem263.bsky.social
This right here.
sarahlongwell25.bsky.social Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 20h
Hegseth suggesting ICE and Minnesota are in competition should nullify all of the administration’s posturing about protecting the state and its people.
January 25, 2026 at 5:02 AM
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atrupar.com
All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
anniem263.bsky.social
I weep for Pretti’s family and I weep for my country
badideas.bsky.social Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 19h
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting. 2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value. 3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE. 4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on. 5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle." 6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground. 7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack. 8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video. 9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk. 10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun. 11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him. 12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes. 13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. 14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him. 15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1. 16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground. 17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building. 18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values. I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct. Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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pbump.com
“They will lie about you and then kill you and they will kill you and then lie about you.” www.pbump.net/o/the-killin...
The killing in Minnesota
They will lie about you and then kill you and they will kill you and then lie about you.  And I don’t mean some ambiguous, imaginary “they” like the one the right invented and blamed for trying to kil...
www.pbump.net
January 25, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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justsecurity.org
What a Proper Investigation of Alex Pretti's Killing Would Look Like

By Julia Gegenheimer, former prosecutor in the Criminal Section of Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division
What a Proper Investigation of Alex Pretti's Killing Would Look Like
Former prosecutor in Criminal Section of DOJ Civil Rights analyzes evidence and need for proper investigation of Alex Pretti's killing.
www.justsecurity.org
January 25, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
January 24, 2026 at 9:37 PM
anniem263.bsky.social
End ICE now!
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "I just saw a video of more than 6 masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death. How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?"
January 24, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d
What we are watching is a paramilitary force learning that they can kill with impunity, that the regime will smear the victim and defend them. Unless politicians and the legal system exerts accountability, it will not stop. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
And what are they learning? Experts on the formation of internal security services in authoritarian regimes point to a sense of impunity as a warning sign. Regime officials abuse their power when they know they will be protected, and even praised, for doing so. Over the course of weeks and months, we have seen images of DHS officials abusing American citizens and immigrants alike, including killing them. What we do not hear is regime officials calling for credible investigations into such abuses, or even expressing any concerns. Renee Good’s killer was announced innocent, and both Good and her wife was instead the subject of an investigation, a perversion of justice so obvious that an FBI agent and half-dozen career Department of Justice prosecutors assigned to Minnesota resigned.
January 24, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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atrupar.com
Gov. Janet Mills: "If they have warrants, show the warrants. In America, we don't believe in secret arrests or secret police."
January 24, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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apnews.com
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
bit.ly
January 23, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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muellershewrote.com
FYI: Dems in the senate can't defund ICE. ICE is funded by the Big Ugly Bill. Shutting down DHS on this vote wouldn't touch ICE, but it would shut down FEMA, TSA, Coast Guard, etc. Shutting down ICE requires taking back Congress in the midterms. Dismantling DHS requires the White House in 2028.
January 23, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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adamkeiper.com
Renée Fleming cancels Kennedy Center engagements
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Renée Fleming cancels Kennedy Center appearances
Fleming previously resigned as "Artistic Advisor at Large" a year ago after the forced departures of the Kennedy Center's chair and its president.
www.nbcnews.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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razzball.bsky.social
Minnesota is the best of us.
January 23, 2026 at 10:52 PM
anniem263.bsky.social
Despicable
January 23, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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saletan.bsky.social
"Trump has been taking on ... behaviors that define a fascist. He has seized authorities from Congress, ordered prosecutions of his critics, led a violent coup ... and built a paramilitary force that kills civilians with 'absolute immunity.'"

And now, in echoes of 1938, he's threatening Europe.
Trump Sounds a Lot Like You-Know-Who
He’s no Hitler. But his speech in Davos about Greenland eerily echoes 1938.
www.thebulwark.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
During the Bicentennial Celebration at Independence Hall on July 4, 1976, President Gerald Ford sat symbolically behind Marian Anderson as she read the text of the Declaration aloud. On this 250th anniversary, the President is ordering factual information about slavery to be removed from that site.
farfarraway.bsky.social Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 2d
Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.

How far we have not come in 250 years.
January 22, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
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January 22, 2026 at 11:36 PM
anniem263.bsky.social
Why so many people buy Trump’s schtick is beyond me
ofthebraveusa.bsky.social Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 3d
Trump: "We will cut your energy prices in half. Mark it down. And you can get very angry at me if we don't do it. Within 12 months your energy prices will be cut in half."

Trump's been president for more than 12 months. Has your energy bill been cut in half?
January 22, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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ardenthistorian.bsky.social
Abuser logic.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Bessent: "Everyone take a deep breath. Do not escalate. Do not escalate. President Trump has a strategy here. Hear him out and then everything will be fine."
January 22, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
Anyway, once again, this could all stop if a small handful of Republicans in Congress grew a spine
January 21, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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muellershewrote.com
NEW: I'm releasing tomorrow's show tonight. It's too important. An internal DHS memo instructs ICE to kick your door in without a proper warrant. Please share widely: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsZY...
Beans Talk | Bombshell ICE Whistleblower Report
YouTube video by MSW Media
www.youtube.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
Let’s be clear — if Trump doesn’t end up invading Greenland, or doesn’t end up doing any other of his seemingly unlimited batshit insane, illegal and corrupt crimes, it WON’T be “evidence that we were overreacting.” It will ONLY be BECAUSE WE DIDN’T UNDER-REACT.
January 21, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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cwebbonline.com
This is rejection. And you can’t spin numbers this bad.

But Trump isn’t on the ballot in 2026, so Dems need to hang his policies around every Republican’s neck and make them own every single one.
January 21, 2026 at 5:31 PM