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Travis
@travislankow.bsky.social
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SecOps, detection engineering. Posts about security thoughts mostly. Photographer, cat herder, and overall nerd. He/him. Opinions are my own.
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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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brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
January 24, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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dimitridrekonja.bsky.social
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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bellingcat.com
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
January 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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travislankow.bsky.social
Red zone is red
Packers fans will mope
Bears got the win
Someone wake up the pope
January 11, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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zachweinersmith.bsky.social
Just because it's being passed around a lot: NO, data centers in space do NOT benefit from space being cold. Space is cold in the formal sense we use to define temperature. But it is very bad at cooling. What would you rather have to cool hot metal: a lukewarm water tub or a giant cold atmosphere?
December 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
The Valley of Death: Why $100,000 Is the New Poor

www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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lorak.bsky.social
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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caitlingilbert.bsky.social
I’m crying

www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s policies. “I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida. “I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” DeBlasio told Semafor Wednesday evening. “So I just gave him my opinion.”
October 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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ericjgeller.com
New: The recent layoffs in CISA's Stakeholder Engagement Division have virtually shuttered SED, eliminating teams focused on critical infrastructure support, nationwide partnerships, and international coordination.

My story with details cuts and impacts: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-st...
October 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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pookleblinky.bsky.social
This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on.

They've outlived dozens of ships.
June 20, 2024 at 4:00 AM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
"HOW come can't breathe at home and y'all get tO breathe at home?""I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside," Boxtown resident Alexis Humphreys said through tears, holding up her asthma inhaler during a public hearing about the turbines on A April "HOW come can't breathe at home and y'all get tO breathe at home?" Alexis Humphreys holds out her asthma inhaler while asking the Shelby County Health epartment rO deny a permit for XAl'S methane gas turbines. | Ariel Wittenberg/POLITICO's E&E News
May 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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jeremiah.sounderatheart.com
Amazing
May 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
travislankow.bsky.social
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jeremiah.sounderatheart.com Jeremiah Oshan @jeremiah.sounderatheart.com · May 4
@proreferees.bsky.social Any chance you could help us out? Our contact is not around and we need to submit a question…
May 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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diya25.bsky.social
Bearing witness hurts. It is easier to look away. Please don't.

www.cbsnews.com/news/viktori...
Ukraine journalist who died in Russian captivity was tortured and had her organs removed, joint media report says
Russia returned Vicktoriia Roshchyna's emaciated body with signs of torture and some organs removed, possibly to hide further traces of torture, the report said.
www.cbsnews.com
April 30, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Very excited for this year's RiotFest aka Geriatric Millennial Live Aid.
RiotFest 2025 lineup including Blink 182, Weezer, Green Day, Jack White and Weird Al Yankovic.
April 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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euromaidanpress.bsky.social
The first moments after the Russian missile attack on central Sumy, Ukraine, that killed 35 people.

"Please, save my mom! Don't worry about me!" one wounded boy cries while calling his dad.

The footage is captured by body cameras of patrol officers who rushed to help victims amid ruins and smoke.
April 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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paulwaldman.bsky.social
Read this thread. "Kids today!" complaints are usually overblown, but when every professor I know is reporting the same thing, there's something real going on.
dannagal.bsky.social Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · Apr 11
Hi! Political science prof here. These essays - both @willbunch.bsky.social's and the one about the illiteracy of college students-are consistent with my experience. I've been at a large R1 state university for 20 years. Earned excellence in teaching award in 2014.
Love these students. And yet...
willbunch.bsky.social Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · Apr 10
Here's a real "national emergency": College kids won't, and often can't, read a book from cover to cover. The rise of what one prof calls "functional illiteracy" in the iPhone Age is happening right when our imploding democracy needs critical thinkers

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/stud...
April 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?

Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵
A photo of a bunch of Nike shoes.
April 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM