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"Minnesota may be the first test of whether constitutional limits on domestic military force still hold – or whether the United States is about to cross a line from which it cannot easily return." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start | Claire Finkelstein
Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, which I direct
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January 26, 2026 at 3:48 AM
"Minnesota may be the first test of whether constitutional limits on domestic military force still hold – or whether the United States is about to cross a line from which it cannot easily return." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Amount of time devoted to MN and fallout Sunday on network newscasts:
NBC: 8.5 minutes
ABC: 7 minutes
CBS: 4 minutes
Only NBC led with the news from MN
NBC: 8.5 minutes
ABC: 7 minutes
CBS: 4 minutes
Only NBC led with the news from MN
Two and half minutes. That’s all the time the CBS Evening News thought today’s events in Minneapolis were worth. Not even time to tell viewers what Alex Pretti did for a living.
The winter storm got 8 minutes.
NBC Nightly News spent 8 minutes, nearly half the show, on Pretti’s killing
The winter storm got 8 minutes.
NBC Nightly News spent 8 minutes, nearly half the show, on Pretti’s killing
January 26, 2026 at 6:17 AM
Amount of time devoted to MN and fallout Sunday on network newscasts:
NBC: 8.5 minutes
ABC: 7 minutes
CBS: 4 minutes
Only NBC led with the news from MN
NBC: 8.5 minutes
ABC: 7 minutes
CBS: 4 minutes
Only NBC led with the news from MN
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ICE, CBP, and Border Patrol have proven themselves incapable of obeying the law, let alone enforcing it for others; unable to self-soothe, let alone keep the peace. Why must ordinary people be asked to stay calm and not upset them? www.theverge.com/policy/86745...
It doesn’t matter if Alex Pretti had a gun
Nonviolence is a double standard.
www.theverge.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:43 PM
ICE, CBP, and Border Patrol have proven themselves incapable of obeying the law, let alone enforcing it for others; unable to self-soothe, let alone keep the peace. Why must ordinary people be asked to stay calm and not upset them? www.theverge.com/policy/86745...
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Bessent: I'm sorry he is dead, but he did bring a semiautomatic weapon to what was supposed to be a peaceful protest.
Karl: There's no evidence that he brandished the gun whatsoever
Bessent: But he brought a gun!
Karl: We do have a second amendment in this country.
Karl: There's no evidence that he brandished the gun whatsoever
Bessent: But he brought a gun!
Karl: We do have a second amendment in this country.
January 25, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Bessent: I'm sorry he is dead, but he did bring a semiautomatic weapon to what was supposed to be a peaceful protest.
Karl: There's no evidence that he brandished the gun whatsoever
Bessent: But he brought a gun!
Karl: We do have a second amendment in this country.
Karl: There's no evidence that he brandished the gun whatsoever
Bessent: But he brought a gun!
Karl: We do have a second amendment in this country.
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We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
January 24, 2026 at 6:02 PM
We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
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Yesterday, we joined tens of thousands to march.
This am, ICE responded with violence.
Alex was an ICU nurse, a union sibling, & an observer who stepped in to help.
This is a union state. We will continue to show up, to watch, to document, and fight
ICE is not welcome here.
This am, ICE responded with violence.
Alex was an ICU nurse, a union sibling, & an observer who stepped in to help.
This is a union state. We will continue to show up, to watch, to document, and fight
ICE is not welcome here.
January 25, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Yesterday, we joined tens of thousands to march.
This am, ICE responded with violence.
Alex was an ICU nurse, a union sibling, & an observer who stepped in to help.
This is a union state. We will continue to show up, to watch, to document, and fight
ICE is not welcome here.
This am, ICE responded with violence.
Alex was an ICU nurse, a union sibling, & an observer who stepped in to help.
This is a union state. We will continue to show up, to watch, to document, and fight
ICE is not welcome here.
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This type of talk is all over r/nursing on reddit. They've even changed the picture of the subreddit to one of Alex in his scrubs.
I am seeing quite a few nurses calling for a nationwide strike over the killing of Alex Pretti. I think we are seeing one of the largest workforces being radicalized before our very eyes.
January 25, 2026 at 2:48 PM
This type of talk is all over r/nursing on reddit. They've even changed the picture of the subreddit to one of Alex in his scrubs.
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I cannot imagine how hard the last year for an ICU nurse and active union member at the VA has been. Everything Trump has done over the last year has made Alex's life meaningfully harder, until, ultimately, his own government killed him in cold blood in the street.
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 PM
I cannot imagine how hard the last year for an ICU nurse and active union member at the VA has been. Everything Trump has done over the last year has made Alex's life meaningfully harder, until, ultimately, his own government killed him in cold blood in the street.
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Really good piece. This is not a particularly promising path for authoritarian consolidation, but the ride until they are out of power is looking bloodier and more traumatic by the day.
This is a clarifying moment: one that reveals the particularly vicious form of authoritarianism taking root in America today www.vox.com/policy/47639...
The killing of Alex Pretti is a grim turning point
Trump’s authoritarianism is becoming less subtle — and more vicious.
www.vox.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Really good piece. This is not a particularly promising path for authoritarian consolidation, but the ride until they are out of power is looking bloodier and more traumatic by the day.
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“.. It was the first time Evans could recall state investigators with jurisdiction over a crime scene being denied access by federal officers. ‘We’re in uncharted territory here,’ he said.”
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January 25, 2026 at 1:17 PM
“.. It was the first time Evans could recall state investigators with jurisdiction over a crime scene being denied access by federal officers. ‘We’re in uncharted territory here,’ he said.”
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GOP Governor of Oklahoma
"What we're seeing on TV, it's causing deep concerns over federal tactics and accountability…We believe in federalism and state rights, and nobody likes feds coming into their state...Is it to deport every single non- U.S. citizen? I don't think that's what Americans want.”
"What we're seeing on TV, it's causing deep concerns over federal tactics and accountability…We believe in federalism and state rights, and nobody likes feds coming into their state...Is it to deport every single non- U.S. citizen? I don't think that's what Americans want.”
January 25, 2026 at 6:37 PM
GOP Governor of Oklahoma
"What we're seeing on TV, it's causing deep concerns over federal tactics and accountability…We believe in federalism and state rights, and nobody likes feds coming into their state...Is it to deport every single non- U.S. citizen? I don't think that's what Americans want.”
"What we're seeing on TV, it's causing deep concerns over federal tactics and accountability…We believe in federalism and state rights, and nobody likes feds coming into their state...Is it to deport every single non- U.S. citizen? I don't think that's what Americans want.”
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"So it’s not only that federal agents kill an American citizen like authoritarian thugs, but their superiors in Washington justified that killing with the kind of bald-faced lie that recalls Tehran and Moscow."
Trump is an authoritarian regime, but increasingly more like the on in Iran than Hungary.
Trump is an authoritarian regime, but increasingly more like the on in Iran than Hungary.
This is a clarifying moment: one that reveals the particularly vicious form of authoritarianism taking root in America today www.vox.com/policy/47639...
The killing of Alex Pretti is a grim turning point
Trump’s authoritarianism is becoming less subtle — and more vicious.
www.vox.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:06 PM
"So it’s not only that federal agents kill an American citizen like authoritarian thugs, but their superiors in Washington justified that killing with the kind of bald-faced lie that recalls Tehran and Moscow."
Trump is an authoritarian regime, but increasingly more like the on in Iran than Hungary.
Trump is an authoritarian regime, but increasingly more like the on in Iran than Hungary.
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Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)
January 25, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)
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Alex Pretti was already restrained when federal agents shot and killed him in Minneapolis, a New York Times analysis of video shows. The footage contradicts the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the shooting.
Timeline: How the Shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti Unfolded
A moment-by-moment analysis of video from the scene shows that Mr. Pretti was already restrained when fatal shots were fired, which appears to contradict the federal government’s account of the event.
trib.al
January 25, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Alex Pretti was already restrained when federal agents shot and killed him in Minneapolis, a New York Times analysis of video shows. The footage contradicts the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the shooting.
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Hundreds marched through San Francisco Saturday evening in solidarity with Minneapolis after federal agents shot and killed 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti. It was at least the third shooting involving federal agents in the city in three weeks.
🎥: Travis Monson
🎥: Travis Monson
January 25, 2026 at 5:17 AM
Hundreds marched through San Francisco Saturday evening in solidarity with Minneapolis after federal agents shot and killed 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti. It was at least the third shooting involving federal agents in the city in three weeks.
🎥: Travis Monson
🎥: Travis Monson
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All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.
January 25, 2026 at 4:59 PM
All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.
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“After Trump introduced the tariffs in April 2025, Cruz and a few other senators had a call with Trump in which they urged him to stand down. Cruz says the lengthy call, which stretched past midnight, "did not go well," and that Trump was "yelling" and "cursing."
That’s the tape I want to hear!
That’s the tape I want to hear!
EXCLUSIVE: In secret recordings, Sen. Ted Cruz trashes Trump, Vance
"You're going to lose the House, you're going to lose the Senate, you're going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week."
"You're going to lose the House, you're going to lose the Senate, you're going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week."
Exclusive: In secret recordings, Cruz trashes Trump, Vance
The comments to donors last year are some of the harshest criticisms of Trump and Vance by a fellow Republican.
www.axios.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 PM
“After Trump introduced the tariffs in April 2025, Cruz and a few other senators had a call with Trump in which they urged him to stand down. Cruz says the lengthy call, which stretched past midnight, "did not go well," and that Trump was "yelling" and "cursing."
That’s the tape I want to hear!
That’s the tape I want to hear!
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As ICE terrorizes our communities, farmworkers are still feeding this country — every single day.
#WeFeedYou
#WeFeedYou
January 25, 2026 at 4:46 AM
As ICE terrorizes our communities, farmworkers are still feeding this country — every single day.
#WeFeedYou
#WeFeedYou
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A person who said they witnessed federal agents shoot and kill Alex Jeffrey Pretti submitted a sworn statement in court disputing the federal government’s account of the shooting. “I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong,” the person said in the statement.
In Court Filings, Witnesses Describe Fatal Minneapolis Shooting of Alex Pretti
The filings raise further questions about the federal government’s narrative of what happened before federal agents shot Alex Jeffrey Pretti on Saturday.
nyti.ms
January 25, 2026 at 4:47 AM
A person who said they witnessed federal agents shoot and kill Alex Jeffrey Pretti submitted a sworn statement in court disputing the federal government’s account of the shooting. “I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong,” the person said in the statement.
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Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
How's your non-violent working Mr Gandhi stancil? They will kill each and everyone of you right if they had the chance and you will still be writing Kumbaya.
January 24, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
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This is Alex Pretti.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 AM
This is Alex Pretti.
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Minnesota shifting narrative from "rabble rousing protesters" vs "law enforcement" to "people of conscience" vs "evil regime." This is essential to defeating authoritarianism - exposing who, what & why they are by demonstrating who, what & why we are.
And MAGA knows it.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...
And MAGA knows it.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...
Trump privately frustrated that he risks losing control of immigration message amid Minnesota chaos | CNN Politics
The ongoing protests and images coming out of Minnesota have prompted concerns from some Trump administration officials over the optics of the immigration crackdown as Americans grow alarmed by the ch...
www.cnn.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Minnesota shifting narrative from "rabble rousing protesters" vs "law enforcement" to "people of conscience" vs "evil regime." This is essential to defeating authoritarianism - exposing who, what & why they are by demonstrating who, what & why we are.
And MAGA knows it.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...
And MAGA knows it.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...
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Check our map plotting over 300 Minnesota General Strike solidarity actions across the US and overseas.
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Donate to Track the Growing Minneapolis General Strike Movement Nationwide
The Minneapolis General Strike movement has come to 250 cities, and we need your help to cover it.
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January 24, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Check our map plotting over 300 Minnesota General Strike solidarity actions across the US and overseas.
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