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bbtoc.bsky.social @bbtoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
here in MA people at a cafe were just griping about their first oil deliveries of the year. prices are 74% more expensive than last year.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I don’t like bringing the personal into the posting but if you feel comfortable publicly commenting (nicely, no fed posting) on the “let’s make employers pay 100K for H1-B visas” rule proposed by DHS, I’d appreciate it. My significant other would be effected by this and I love her very much
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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"What the Wounds Tell" just won this year’s European Press Prize. "Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted." www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
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Gunshot wounds in Palestinian children indicate targeted fire
Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, ...
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bbtoc.bsky.social @bbtoc.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
this would work in the timothy zahn-iverse
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bbtoc.bsky.social @bbtoc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
finally we have a name for those 6 persons on the supreme court
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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito
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bbtoc.bsky.social @bbtoc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
pass a law that explicitly lists the court’s bad VRA decisions and proclaims them null and no longer valid, makes their dissents valid law, and prescribes penalties to any government official who attempts to implement or enforce said bad law
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 30/04/2026
Suspension of elections in order to rig them sounds like something Grant would've sent troops to quell in the 1870s.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 29/04/2026
a really cool proposal here from justin briley to not just break the court, but break it up--to reconstitute it as a random panel drawn from the circuits for each case www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...
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Break Up the Supreme Court
The federal court suffers simultaneously from lawless leadership and chronic understaffing. Let's fix both problems at once.
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bbtoc.bsky.social @bbtoc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The fact that professors in math, chemistry, and biology are all 80-90% Democrats -- disciplines where the vast majority of research & teaching content is apolitical -- reinforces this point. www.nas.org/wp-content/u... (registration ratios from: www.nas.org/blogs/articl...)
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bbtoc.bsky.social @bbtoc.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The Mar 2026 CPI-U sure looks like a blip upward. at least for now (fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAU...) lines shown for some manually chosen breakpoints,
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bbtoc.bsky.social @bbtoc.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
if any of the following were to happen, would it cause congressional republicans to remove trump? which ones, if any? 1. trump does nuclear strike on iran 2. trump does nuclear strike on cuba 3. trump does nuclear strike on denmark or canada
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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bbtoc.bsky.social @bbtoc.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
US not veering into a new, endless war, P̶e̶n̶t̶a̶g̶o̶n̶ my t-shirt says
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bbtoc.bsky.social @bbtoc.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
best comment i've seen so far on how terrible dem leadership is on iran and war www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
My thoughts open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...
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An Unpopular, Doomed, Bloody War
People will die and nothing will be accomplished
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bbtoc.bsky.social @bbtoc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
another person congressional dems should question at public hearings. especially these private sector fascism enablers - they will look bad and be unable to defend their actions. the goal is to learn and show how bad they are and deter others.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/02/2026
NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
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Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories
Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.
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bbtoc.bsky.social @bbtoc.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
with trump v us, john roberts is our own carl schmitt
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/02/2026
Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 10/02/2026
Blackouts, gentrification, Trumpian corruption, Puerto Rican snow-cones, and other stuff you might have missed in Bad Bunny's Super Bowl spectacular. New Racket. theracket.news/p/the-most-a...
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The Most American Halftime
Decoding Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl for the haters
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bbtoc.bsky.social @bbtoc.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
god lataco.com/captive-loti... via www.forever-wars.com/the-war-on-t...
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Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
4/ “Mi Familia,” by 5-year-old Luisanney Toloza from Venezuela, who had recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border
A child’s illustration, made in what appears to be crayon, of more than a dozen figures standing together. It’s titled “Mi Familia” and credited to “Luisanney Toloza, 5 años.”
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bbtoc.bsky.social @bbtoc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
www.startribune.com/mn-feds-hara... the complaint includes intense death threats / harassment against an FBI agent's family, which is bad. but the home drive-by harassment sounds identical to ICE/CBP's own intimidation tactics they use against Minneapolis civilians. it's ok when the feds do it?
“After the employees’ personal information and documentation was compromised,” the complaint read, “several of the documents, including residential addresses, phone numbers, and emails, were posted publicly online on social media.”

It would not be long, the complaint continued, before “approximately 10 to 15 FBI agents and employees ... began receiving multiple harassing and threatening phone calls and emails and suspicious drive-bys to their residences, where vehicles would slow down as they passed the employees’ residences before driving away.”
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bbtoc.bsky.social @bbtoc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Abolish state terror, abolish ICE www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
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A Winter of Anguish for Minneapolis Children
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bbtoc.bsky.social @bbtoc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
she was featured as an example of the immigrant american dream, and MN community, and now… representing ICE
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bbtoc.bsky.social @bbtoc.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
there's an interesting implicit assumption about the "don't talk about immigration" moderate Dem strategy, that political opinion change is based on fixed reactions to topics, and thus population opinion shifts based on topic salience (mention frequency in media),
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bbtoc.bsky.social @bbtoc.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
they're evil
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bbtoc.bsky.social @bbtoc.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
need to make a Resistance 2.0 playlist and this is on it. what else?
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bbtoc.bsky.social @bbtoc.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
only 2 of 9 had video evidence. imagine how much more unseen terror is coming if we don’t stop this madness
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bbtoc.bsky.social @bbtoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
from @jamellebouie.net's newsletter today. makes you wonder about the judge who signed off on said warrant! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
Jamelle Bouie, 1/31/26:

The arrest of Don Lemon, a former CNN anchor, and several others (including another independent journalist, Georgia Fort) for their presence at the protest of a Minneapolis church — Cities Church, where a pastor serves as a senior official for Immigration and Customs Enforcement — is another instance of this blunt force approach to the use of power. There is little chance these arrests will lead to a viable prosecution. Justice Department officials struggled to find a judge who would authorize the arrests since protest, and the journalistic coverage of a protest, are among the activities explicitly protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.
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bbtoc.bsky.social @bbtoc.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
so terrible this article is necessary www.startribune.com/how-to-talk-...
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How to talk to kids about ICE
Experts explain why hard conversations can be reassuring, suggest age-appropriate information to share.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 27/01/2026
www.cnn.com/videos/us/20...
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‘They killed her little by little’: Parents speak out after daughter died in border patrol custody | CNN
CNN’s Rosa Flores speaks to the parents of the 8-year-old who died in the custody of US immigration authorities in Texas in May, 2023 after the family made repeated requests for medial care for the gi...
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Pine Tree Activism @pinetreeactivism.org · 27/01/2026
MAINE: -Report ICE/CBP activity: Maine ICE Watch Hotline: 207-544-9989 -Report “intimidating or excessive behavior used by federal agents” to CitizenReporting.OAG@maine.gov #ORGANIZE #RESIST #OPPOSE #NonViolenceIsPower #ICEoutOfMaine BELIEVE YOUR EYES - NOT THEIR LIES #Maine #MEpolitics
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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Kids love Philip Glass youtu.be/4JWwOzEDGss?...
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Philip Glass - Sesame Street - Geometry of Circles.mp4
YouTube video by SamCam2011
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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This is an excellent source. They have a list of places to donate to help plus they run Maine Ice Watch. maineimmigrantrights.org/mirc-resourc...
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WELCOME TO THE MAINE IMMIGRANT RESOURCE HUB & HOTLINE – Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition
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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/01/2026
NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Dems should introduce legislation now defunding ICE and CBP operations in Minnesota, so they have to leave the state. One sentence bill. Demand an immediate vote. Maybe refuse to vote for cloture on any funding bills (or other bills) until a vote. Make the GOP Congress break w/ Trump or own it all.
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Vibes only @brazuca.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Here is a good opinion:
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
NEW: Another declaration you have to read! Alex Pretti was shot near the apartment of a doctor, who saw the shooting occur and rushed to provide emergency aid as he lay dying on the street. They describe what they saw: "The victim had at least three bullet holes in his back."
declare as follows:
1. 1 am a 29-year-old resident of the in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I have lived in Minneapolis since 2024, when I moved to the city to begin my medical residency. I am a licensed pediatrician, and I have been practicing pediatric medicine in the city since I moved here.
2. On January 24, 2026, at approximately 9:00 am CST, I was awoken by the sound of cars honking and whistles blowing. Shortly after I awoke, I heard screaming from outside my window. I ICE agents and civilians yelling at each other. saw several
3. One civilian was standing in front of a parked car on the side of the road.
I saw him yelling at the ICE agents, but I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind.
4. Suddenly, an ICE agent shoved him to the ground. My view of the altercation was partially obstructed, but after a few seconds, I saw at least four ICE agents point guns at the man. I then saw the agents shoot the man at least six or seven times.
5. Initially, I was stunned. From what I could see from my apartment, there was absolutely no need for any violence, let alone lethal force by multiple officers. I immediately put on my boots and coat, ran outside, and approached ICE agents who were near the victim.6. The scene was chaotic. Many civilians were screaming and honking. Over the noise, I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim.
7. At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. They repeatedly asked me for my physician's license, which I obviously didn't have. But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, and I could tell that the victim was in critical condition. I insisted that the agents let me assess him. Normally, I would not have been so persistent, but as a physician, I felt a professional and moral obligation to help this man, especially since none of the agents were helping him.
8. Finally, one agent agreed to let me assess the victim. He patted me down to "make sure I didn't have a weapon" and then let me approach the victim.
9. As I approached, I saw that the victim was lying on his side and was surrounded by several ICE agents. I was confused as to why the victim was on his side, because that is not standard practice when a victim has been shot. Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard practice. Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds.
10.I asked the ICE agents if the victim had a pulse, and they said they did not know. I then asked the agents to make space so I could assess the victim.CASE 0:25-cv-04669-KMM-DTS
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11. The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back. I asked the ICE agents to turn the victim from his side to his back. From that position, I saw an additional gunshot wound on the victim's upper left chest and another possible gunshot wound on his neck.
12. I checked for a pulse, but I did not feel one. I immediately began CPR. Shortly after I started compressions, EMS personnel arrived and took over.
13.I remained at the scene for about five more minutes, but protesters began to gather and the situation seemed to be escalating, so I left and returned to my apartment.
14. When I returned to my apartment, I was extremely distraught. I was sobbing and shaking uncontrollably. Eventually, I called my sister, who lives in a nearby suburb. I called her for comfort and because I did not feel safe in my apartment; I wanted to see if I could stay with her for the day and maybe even a few days.
15.I also sought advice from a friend who works for the City of Minneapolis.
He recommended that I shelter in place because the situation outside my apartment was so dangerous. I was going to follow his advice, but then ICE agents deployed tear gas on the crowd that had gathered below, and the tear gas began seeping into my apartment.16. At that point, I did not feel like I could stay in my apartment any longer. I packed an overnight bag, took the elevator down to the parking garage, and drove about six blocks to a friend's house. I was still crying and shaking at this point, and I was barely able to speak. I drove to my friend's house because it was close, and I wanted time to collect myself before driving 30 minutes to my sister's house.
17.I am devastated by the killing of a Minnesotan by multiple federal immigration agents. From what I could tell, the victim was not actively threatening ICE agents or the public he was just yelling at the agents because he objected to ICE's presence in our city. A person should not be shot and killed for lawfully expressing their opinions.
18.I am not sure when I will return to my apartment. I do not feel safe in my city. In less than one month, ICE agents have shot and killed two people for protesting and observing their actions. I worry that I or someone I love will be shot and killed for voicing their displeasure and being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.
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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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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This is a white supremacist paramilitary operation. Their goal—their stated goal!—is to force America to submit to the President's racist domineering vision for the country. The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.
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KPD Max von Sydnow @mpdeejay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Democrats can and must make it clear there will be trials and anyone even somewhat associated with ICE will face them. Maybe give a quit-your-job deadline on appeasement and give people 72 hours. I don't know. But currently the plan is to let them murder us in the street and get away with it.
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