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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Easy to be cynical but this seems like it’s heading in the right direction
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AltTherapist @alttherapist.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Two things: #GovernmentShutdown and #GeneralStrike #FreezeOutICE
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Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · 26/01/2026
Yes it is time my people! generalstrikeus.com
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The General Strike
The General strike -the people united shall never be stopped. If we strike together we can make true real change. Sign the strike card today.
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humboldthunnybunny.bsky.social @humboldthunnybunny.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Use words we don’t like and we will kill you.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Reminder. Here are the House Democrats who crossed party lines and voted to fund ICE. House Democrats who voted to fund ICE: - Tom Suozzi (D-NY) - Henry Cuellar (D-TX) - Don Davis (D-NC) - Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) - Laura Gillen (D-NY) - Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) - Jared Golden (D-ME)
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The 7 Democrats who voted to fund Homeland Security amid ICE crackdowns
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/01/2026
As federal agents stormed Minneapolis and residents banded together to protect their own, Charles Homan saw a dystopian future become reality. “The federal agents looked more like a platoon of soldiers navigating a hostile foreign capital than conventional law enforcement in an American city.”
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Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It is important to read writers like M. Gessen. They teach Americans what many are still having trouble grasping. This is not just an unhinged president and untrained agency. Not “bad politics.” Not random. It is a systemic approach followed by authoritarians the world over as they grasp power.
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Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Tick tock… accountability is coming.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Who has Alex Pretti's phone? Where is that video?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Walz: "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write that children's story about Minnesota."
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Need federal law that says that in event of a medical emergency, if no danger to the public, nobody (even law enforcement) can delay, hamper, prevent a licensed medical professional from victim access when the medical professional verbally IDs themselves. Make it a felony.
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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‘Alex Pretti was murdered’: NBA’s Haliburton among sports stars to condemn Minnesota killing
A number of prominent US sports stars have condemned the killing of a registered nurse, Alex Pretti, by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Christi Noem should testify under oath in Congress and explain why she lied about the facts around the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
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Attorney General Keith Ellison @ag.state.mn.us · 25/01/2026
Tonight, on behalf of Minnesota law enforcement, I filed a lawsuit against DHS to prevent the destruction of evidence related to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti. DHS is not above the law, and Alex sure as hell is not beneath it.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment "I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim. At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 25/01/2026
Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.
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Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota
Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.
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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 25/01/2026
Map of USA. Key at bottom - Red square - labelled  Occupied by fascists. Minnesota shaded red with other states in the Union colored in light yellow.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans says his team arrived on the scene of the shooting to conduct an independent investigation and "were blocked by federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security."
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 24/01/2026
Tin soldiers and fascists coming. We're finally on our own This winter I hear the drumming Two dead in Minnesota. Gotta get down to it, soldiers are cutting us down Should have been gone long ago What if you knew them and found them dead on the ground How can you run when you know?
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Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Music And Song Courtesy:Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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 bearwitness, 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.
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Coyle "Barricade Material" Boron @fack.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
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Hundreds of immigrant mothers and children detained at a South Texas facility on Saturday protested the killing of a 37-year-old man in Minneapolis, chanting "Let me out" and "Libertad," or "Liberty," according to an immigration lawyer who witnessed the demonstration.

Eric Lee, the lawyer, said he had been waiting for his client in the visitation area of the family detention center in Dilley, Tex., when detention officials abruptly asked him to leave. Once outside, he peered through a chain-link fence and saw hundreds of women and children walking out of the facility and chanting in protest.

Lee said his client later told him on the phone that he and other detainees were outraged over the latest killing in Minneapolis and the detention of Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy from Ecuador detained with his father in Minneapolis and sent to Texas.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/01/2026
Our @samveep.bsky.social is at the scene where 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis. Read his heartbreaking dispatch from on the ground.
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"It's a horror show": Anguish sweeps Minneapolis after federal agents kill another neighbor.
We're on the ground covering the aftermath.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Walz: Minnesota's justice system will have the last word on this. As I told the white house in no uncertain terms this morning, the federal government cannot be trusted to lead this investigation. The state will handle it. Period.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We were just sent Alex’s GoFundMe.
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Donate to Alex Pretti is an American Hero, organized by Keith Edwards
On January 24, 2026, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a Minneapolis resident and American citizen wa… Keith Edwards needs your support for Alex Pretti is an American Hero
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 24/01/2026
It’s not law enforcement. It’s ethnic cleansing.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 24/01/2026
At this point MAGA has actually gone far beyond the level of human rights abuses we took the trouble to document in other countries. Keep hold of your moral compasses, and continue to #resist #AltFam
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.
An office building lit up in the dark with a crowd of people holding signs in front of it.
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AltTherapist @alttherapist.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Just learned about PDOOM tonight. How do I get a Kalshi started?
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Armin Samii @arminsamii.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Holy shit. Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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Live Updates: Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
María Corina Machado has given her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump.
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 16/01/2026
And since choking someone to death is neither accidental nor necessary, it’s murder … again.
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AltTherapist @alttherapist.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Anyone have word of whistleblowers at ICE? One way or another, journalists, and the American public need to get eyes inside the recruitment, training process, and daily operations of these masked gestapo fucks. #resist #ice #fuckice #iceoutforgood #iceoutnow #iceout
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AltTherapist @alttherapist.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The McCafe at McDonalds just got a whole lot more fun!
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AltTherapist @alttherapist.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Learned today that humans will eventually evolve away from growth of our wisdom teeth. In the hopes that we will become more wise as eons continue to pass, I want to suggest renaming them Hubris Teeth.
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AltTherapist @alttherapist.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Dental cleanings are, in a way, a very primal and tribal thing. I need inside bones clean. You clean inside bones good. I open my mouth and you use hand tools for groom me. But also there’s insurance.
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AltTherapist @alttherapist.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Hey yall I may have found the least insightful headline ever
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M-A.Stay’Legit™️🇨🇦 @bagdmilksowhat.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
“He said he will target & punish those who disagree with him or refuse to bend to his will. He calls these Americans ‘The Enemy Within’, including journalists & judges. He says he would use the American Military to go after American Citizens.” -Kamala Harris. She Was Right About Everything.
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AltTherapist @alttherapist.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Know of any #AltGov folx associated with NIST? Union forming, would be great to get word out there metrologists-united.org #AltFam #AltCitizen
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Metrologists United · Organizing for a better future for all workers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Organizing for a better future for all workers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
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AltTherapist @alttherapist.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Me in my own first therapy session after nearly a year:
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ALT: a cartoon of a woman with a netflix logo on the bottom
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AltTherapist @alttherapist.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
JFC www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Strengthening and Unleashing America's Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1.  Purpose and
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
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AltTherapist @alttherapist.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Palazzo Bianco: Partito Nazionale Fascista
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AltTherapist @alttherapist.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Classic fascist talking points right here. Way to go by the book, Seb!
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AltTherapist @alttherapist.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Looking at my phone when it buzzes in DND as I wrap up a session only to see this obviously crucial information from daycare. #TherapistSky #TherapistsWhoParent
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The Senator will be my guest tonight on @allinwithchris.bsky.social
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Alt U.S. Department of Labor @alt-dol.altgov.info · 16/04/2025
The #AltGov crew's answer to the White House Easter Egg Roll: ovaryroll.com Play to get #resistance tips on equal employment, women's healthcare, repo rights and voting rights. Yolks on you, fascists. #OvaryRoll
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Ovary Roll - Roll for Reproductive Rights
The bad eggs in the White House are rolling over our rights, but we say 'Shell no!' to their freedom seeds. Roll with us to show your support for women's rights and health.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
They’re using the hostages to try and justify their anti-democratic movement. Not in our name
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