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Lauren Sabina Kneisly

@sabina.kneisly.org

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Activist: Queer Nation, ACT-UP, WHAM, BARF, clinic escort, Feminist. Queer Femme, Bastard/adult adoptee, T2D, Covid infuriated, masking. Spent the last couple decades researching wingnuts. A cranky Cassandra at times

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Lauren Sabina Kneisly @sabina.kneisly.org · Nov 12

Yeah, so that intro post.

Where do I even begin, with what's post pertinent, I suppose. In the mid 90's, my partner and I began doing amateur research work as the "Biblical America Resistance Front" (www.barf.org) working against those we termed "Biblical Americans" (Defined as "the social ...

Biblical America Resistance Front - Resisting The Biblical America - Home Page

Biblical America Resistance Front - Resisting The Biblical America.

www.barf.org

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Better Things Are Possible

@internethippo.bsky.social

34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d

More than 34,000 Minnesotans signed up to be trained as ICED observers with various activist groups in recent weeks, many of them since Jan. 7, when a federal agent shot and killed Renée Good.

Thousands of new ICE watchers hit the streets after two killings

Minnesotans outraged by the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti have signed up in large numbers to monitor and protest ICE with other activists.

www.washingtonpost.com

February 1, 2026 at 1:13 AM

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dell cameron

@dell.bsky.social

"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...

Philly DA vows to prosecute ‘wannabe Nazi' ICE agents who violate the law

YouTube video by NBC10 Philadelphia

www.youtube.com

January 29, 2026 at 3:50 AM

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CHOAM Nomsky

@samthielman.com

Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you

January 28, 2026 at 11:44 PM

Lauren Sabina Kneisly

@sabina.kneisly.org

For Holocaust Remembrance Day, because there are children hiding in Minnesota.

(Speaking of Anne Frank's words) "the lesson of the diary is precisely that we must see ourselves in the hunted, whoever they are, and act before it is too late."

It's not an abstraction, I've family who survived.

The Crisis, No. 4

On the uses of memory

www.notesfromthecircus.com

January 28, 2026 at 4:13 AM

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digby

@digby56.bsky.social

China is writing legislation now? Wut?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump: "China will be sending me a bill very shortly supporting year round E15 to my desk, and I will sign it without delay"

January 28, 2026 at 2:01 AM

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Mattie with an E

@mrbtx.bsky.social

get these jackasses out of my town

James Croxton @jwcroxton.bsky.social · 8d

Today, DHS has escalated its response to protesters in #EugeneOR.

I have received further reports that tear gas was deployed within the past hour.

Article from the Daily Emerald ⤵️

Live updates: Officers deploy pepper balls, detain protesters at Eugene Federal Building - Daily Emerald

dailyemerald.com

January 28, 2026 at 3:55 AM

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

“If you raise your voice, I’ll erase your voice.”

January 28, 2026 at 1:47 AM

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Texas Observer

@texasobserver.org

January 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM

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Chris DeLeon ⓥ DevPods.gg gamedev collabs

@chrisdeleon.bsky.social

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here

> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility

that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

404 Media @404media.co · 10d

And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.

ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued

The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."

www.404media.co

January 25, 2026 at 5:26 PM

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Rev. Prof. Matthew J. M. Coomber

@mjmcoomber.bsky.social

My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti

Absolutely heartbreaking

Photos of Alex Pretti with Sara’s caption:

On August 16th at approximately 10:00 pm
I received a call from the ICU at the VA saying my Dad had sepsis and needed to be intubated to stay alive so Josh and I headed in. We were greeted by the kindest, most calming and warm soul who helped us understand what was happening and showed deep care for us and my Dad. He continued to show utmost patience and kindness over the next few days as my Dad remained in the ICU and we were there continually. It was Alex Pretti, the man shot today by ICE. If you see this video and don't think it's murder, I don't understand your thinking and ask you to question your heart. He was out there trying to help and protect and from the little we knew of him, it doesn't surprise me he was not afraid to be on the front lines of this horrible scene in our Minneapolis. Weeping for his family and all those at the VA who no longer get to work with him or receive his care.

January 25, 2026 at 4:19 PM

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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة

@msentropy.bsky.social

We’ve just hit fascism level DEFCON 0 - Pam Bondi just said ICE will pull out if Minnesota hands over voter databases.

DOJ has now told you immigration was always their excuse and attempt to distract you from the broader goal:

Fascist power consolidation by brute force and fear-mongering.

The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 Remember what I said about how immigration / ICE is just an excuse for something way worse? 🚨

That far bigger horror of fascist consolidation through criminalization of political dissent via domestic terrorism charges under NSPM-7?

If not, see my pinned thread - and catch the fuck up NOW.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 12d

ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."

January 25, 2026 at 1:04 AM

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Marc Elias

@marcelias.bsky.social

I have been warning for weeks the administration will do anything to get these records. They want to rig the midterms

🚨“The letter adds the state’s unwillingness to share voting data to a litany of grievances the Trump administration has leveled against Minnesota.”🚨

AG Bondi demands access to Minnesota voter rolls after fatal Border Patrol shooting

Her demand came as Minneapolis was reeling from a second fatal shooting by a federal agent this month.

www.democracydocket.com

January 25, 2026 at 1:23 AM

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸

@kdnerak33.bsky.social

Let’s not sugarcoat what’s happening.

They want voter data in exchange for not shooting protesters.

January 25, 2026 at 1:45 AM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@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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Jeff Rueter

@jeffrueter.bsky.social

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."