Meg Martin
@megster67.bsky.social
Maryland 🔹 knitter 🔹 foodie 🔹 alto 🔹 boy mom (x3) 🔹Wordle🔹resume writer 🔹 I love to laugh
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Brandishing is a legal term that means to display all or part of a firearm, or otherwise make its presence known to another person to intimidate them, regardless of whether it's directly visible to that person. Given the video, that's not what Alex Pretti was doing when he was shot & killed.
Important context, this is the victim’s behavior BEFORE being tackled
He’s not threatening, he’s not brandishing, he’s filming
He’s not threatening, he’s not brandishing, he’s filming
Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.
January 24, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Brandishing is a legal term that means to display all or part of a firearm, or otherwise make its presence known to another person to intimidate them, regardless of whether it's directly visible to that person. Given the video, that's not what Alex Pretti was doing when he was shot & killed.
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WSJ says ICE is lying.
Read that again…. The Wall Street Journal is calling out the lies
Read that again…. The Wall Street Journal is calling out the lies
January 25, 2026 at 3:03 PM
WSJ says ICE is lying.
Read that again…. The Wall Street Journal is calling out the lies
Read that again…. The Wall Street Journal is calling out the lies
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Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun.
Any second now, I'm sure.
He was a white guy, if that helps?
Hello? NRA?
Any second now, I'm sure.
He was a white guy, if that helps?
Hello? NRA?
January 24, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun.
Any second now, I'm sure.
He was a white guy, if that helps?
Hello? NRA?
Any second now, I'm sure.
He was a white guy, if that helps?
Hello? NRA?
I MEAN 😡😡😡😡
So far in Minnesota
They Shot a 37-year-old mother Renee Good four times, killing her, right after she dropped off her son at school.
Then Ice kidnapped a five year old.
Then ice kidnapped a two year old
Then border patrol murdered Va nurse.
Then Sec Noam went on tv and lied about it
They Shot a 37-year-old mother Renee Good four times, killing her, right after she dropped off her son at school.
Then Ice kidnapped a five year old.
Then ice kidnapped a two year old
Then border patrol murdered Va nurse.
Then Sec Noam went on tv and lied about it
January 25, 2026 at 12:19 AM
I MEAN 😡😡😡😡
So maybe detain and “capture” versus overpower, beat to death and shoot while already down and defenseless? I dunno, the undercurrent of anger and rage that’s visible in the video is… obvious. This isn’t law enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 12:18 AM
So maybe detain and “capture” versus overpower, beat to death and shoot while already down and defenseless? I dunno, the undercurrent of anger and rage that’s visible in the video is… obvious. This isn’t law enforcement.
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
Weather channel just mentioned Milford PA as “close to the Connecticut border” and I don’t think that’s the case? I mean define “close” I guess
January 25, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Weather channel just mentioned Milford PA as “close to the Connecticut border” and I don’t think that’s the case? I mean define “close” I guess
What do you mean we’re about to head into a full week where the temps never get above freezing on Delmarva????
January 23, 2026 at 5:12 PM
What do you mean we’re about to head into a full week where the temps never get above freezing on Delmarva????
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Huge looming crisis at airports this weekend due to major storms but we are paying Sean Duffy to do a media tour today to talk about Gavin Newsom.
January 23, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Huge looming crisis at airports this weekend due to major storms but we are paying Sean Duffy to do a media tour today to talk about Gavin Newsom.
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“This is an image of universal moral urgency…” wapo.st/45VMjKe
Column | The abhorrent power of the photograph of a 5-year-old held by ICE
An image like this could once change history. Can one still?
wapo.st
January 23, 2026 at 2:07 PM
“This is an image of universal moral urgency…” wapo.st/45VMjKe
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I don’t ask for much, and today, besides asking for the one thing we all ask for on a daily basis, I’m asking for folks to learn how to wield “rein” and “reign.”
Correctly, that is.
Correctly, that is.
January 23, 2026 at 2:06 AM
I don’t ask for much, and today, besides asking for the one thing we all ask for on a daily basis, I’m asking for folks to learn how to wield “rein” and “reign.”
Correctly, that is.
Correctly, that is.
Someone needs to explain to Vance that blaming the victims is not the best way to turn down the temperature 👀. It’s like telling someone to calm down. Never works.
January 23, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Someone needs to explain to Vance that blaming the victims is not the best way to turn down the temperature 👀. It’s like telling someone to calm down. Never works.
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Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)
January 22, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)
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This is a list of businesses across Minnesota that are closing tomorrow in solidarity with the economic shutdown. Huge thanks to every one of them for stepping up. If your business is also closing, drop it below.
List of Minnesota businesses closing for Jan. 23 anti-ICE strike
First announced by faith leaders and unions on Jan. 13, Minnesota businesses have begun announcing plans to join the action.
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January 22, 2026 at 1:51 PM
This is a list of businesses across Minnesota that are closing tomorrow in solidarity with the economic shutdown. Huge thanks to every one of them for stepping up. If your business is also closing, drop it below.
OUCH
January 21, 2026 at 8:24 PM
OUCH
Maybe they’re trying to corner the “office party” market? Maybe they should buy the rights to that cupcake company that just folded- one stop shop?
Inside Staples, grasping to stay relevant with a new Party City collab
January 21, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Maybe they’re trying to corner the “office party” market? Maybe they should buy the rights to that cupcake company that just folded- one stop shop?
Inside Staples, grasping to stay relevant with a new Party City collab
January 20, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Inside Staples, grasping to stay relevant with a new Party City collab
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Ignoring the 17-21” of snow my app says we will get here this weekend… at least until 48 hours out.
January 20, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Ignoring the 17-21” of snow my app says we will get here this weekend… at least until 48 hours out.
Wait, has anyone told congress about this
January 20, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Wait, has anyone told congress about this
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2026 is three weeks old and already Billy Joel could write an entire We Didn’t Start the Fire about it
January 20, 2026 at 3:34 PM
2026 is three weeks old and already Billy Joel could write an entire We Didn’t Start the Fire about it
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January 20, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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THIS. It’s abundantly clear he is not well. Everyone has to stop treating him like this is some shade of normal.
It's bizarre that some politicians are trying to behave as if the US president were sane, or capable of reason or moral judgement.
January 19, 2026 at 5:59 PM
THIS. It’s abundantly clear he is not well. Everyone has to stop treating him like this is some shade of normal.
Water balloons!🎈 so smart!
January 18, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Water balloons!🎈 so smart!