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Carrie Pastoria

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Did NOT vote for the rapist ever

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No matter what side of the aisle you’re on, this argument should be chilling. Trying to limit freedom of the press under the guise of national security is what tinpot dictators do. That’s not how a functioning democracy works.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/09/2026
Breaking News: A whistle-blower at the U.S. Postal Service said Trump officials were defying court orders with a “secretive, rushed” effort affecting voting by mail.
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Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This isn’t going to work. But the American people also shouldn’t tolerate this nonsense, no matter what side of the aisle you’re on.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Parnas: How much money was funneled through these banks to Epstein? Wyden: I think it’s certainly well over a billion dollars. One of the things we pointed out yesterday is that Deutsche Bank failed to properly report to the Treasury Department more than $250 million in suspicious transactions
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The GOP is desperately trying to rewrite history, but just a reminder that Donald Trump was president during the lockdowns, and he awarded Fauci a presidential commendation for his work on COVID. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“Iran is a country run by religious extremists, y’all!!!”
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Big Ernie McCracken @bigerniemccracken.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
You would think Potus falling into a deep slumber, every day, on TV, would be a bigger story.... ....but Sleepy Joe.... Our media is hopelessly broken.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Folks seem surprised that Trump would lie about election interference while simultaneously releasing documents that prove he was lying. When you have followers who will regurgitate whatever you say regardless of the evidence, the truth doesn’t actually matter.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Stock trades by President. The blatant corruption is just staggering
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Fun fact: North Carolina still hasn’t recovered from hurricane Helene, and Trump wants $2 billion to give people who smeared shit on the walls of the Capitol.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
D+11 on a generic ballot probably looks something like 40 seats gained in the House - IF we don’t get complacent. Have you registered to vote yet? Have you double checked to make sure you’re still registered? Do you have any documentation you need to vote? Start planning now.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Yep.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/04/2026
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 26/04/2026
A Farce in Four Acts: 1. Trump skipped the WHCD every single year. 2. Except this one. 3. All of a sudden there’s a shooter in the lobby. 4. Trump: “This shooting is a clear example of why we need a new ballroom!” It hardly gets any dumber than this.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Ballrooms for them. Thoughts, prayers and Kevlar backpacks for the rest.
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I did NOT vote for the rapist @sarahgies.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
SUPPORT THESE DATA CENTERS
SCHOOLS LIBRARIES BOOKSTORES
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just to recap: Russia is currently helping Iranian forces try to kill US troops. In response, Trump is… lifting sanctions on Russia and threatening to pull out of NATO, which are the #1 and #2 items on Putin’s wishlist
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Massive No Kings rally in Washington, D.C.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
No Kings. Find your event for this Saturday, March 28th. www.nokings.org #NoKings
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Oh. So they want Obama’s nuclear deal minus Obama’s signature. Got it.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/03/2026
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Defiance Dispatch @defiancedispatch.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Have you heard of Citizens Bank? No? Well Citizens Bank happens to finance ICE detention centers through CoreCivic & Geo Group. Citizens Bank might need to learn the lesson that the public taught Target! Surely mass closing of bank accounts isn’t good for a bank
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The FBI hard at work investigating the Epstein Network; this picture cost $400,000 U.S. tax dollars to produce.
Kash Patel drinking beer on your dime, drunk and in the Olympic Hockey man's locker room, wearing USA shirt
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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
"UK confirms Russia poisoned Navalny in prison with rare toxin" www.gov.uk/government/n...
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UK confirms Russia poisoned Navalny in prison with rare toxin
UK and partners are today exposing the tragic circumstances surrounding Alexei Navalny's death and have confirmed there was poison found in samples from his body.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 14/02/2026
I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12/02/2026
NEW: An election denier who tried to help Trump steal the 2020 election is taking credit for writing most of the SAVE America Act, a measure seeking to impose strict voter ID requirements. The claims come after the bill passed the House last night.
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Election denier involved in fake electors plot wrote much of SAVE America Act, Trump-aligned think tank claims
“I’m here to do everything I can to make this work,” Thomas Lane wrote in a December 2020 email to other organizers of the Trump campaign’s fake electoral plot in Arizona.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It’s the Epstein Administration. No wonder Bondi spent the entire hearing screeching and deflecting. H/T: @aaronparnas.bsky.social
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Bondi has spent this entire hearing crashing out, talking about the stock market, and trying to do anything but talk about Epstein. The American people see through this bullshit. Innocent people don’t act this way.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I think it’s hard for most people to fathom the answer to the question, Why Minneapolis? because most people aren’t acquainted with white nationalist twitter, which has been fixated on terrorizing MPLS’s black population for at least a decade. And now it’s an assignment editor for the Trump admin.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We need as much video as possible. Like this story about a citizen protester being arrested by ICE for following their instructions.
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ICE is cracking down on US citizen protesters with charges, tracking
YouTube video by Reuters
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Good. Hiding the names of people asking for 10 year old girls is fucking disgusting.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse. Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch." Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...
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Trump Using A ‘Softer Touch’ With ICE In Minnesota? Residents Say Don’t Be Fooled.
Two weeks after Alex Pretti’s killing, federal agents have shown no signs of backing down. The resistance definitely hasn't.
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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
BREAKING: New reaction from Leader Jeffries to the racist Trump video: "This disgusting video posted by the so-called president was done intentionally. Fuck Donald Trump and his vile, racist, and malignant behavior. This guy is an unhinged bottom feeder."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This mid-afternoon Alex Pretti vigil at the Portland VA was not heavily promoted. But the crowd probably stretches a quarter mile or more. Americans are galvanized and grieving.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2026
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Bernice King has it absolutely right. We are facing a moral crisis in this country. And we must all act together to end it.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/01/2026
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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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.
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 25/01/2026
Just when you thought it could not get worse: extortion on the table?
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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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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/01/2026
Videos verified by The New York Times show Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday, was holding a phone, not a gun, when the agents took him to the ground and shot him. In total, at least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds.
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Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis
Federal authorities said the slain man, Alex Pretti, had approached agents with a gun. But videos show Mr. Pretti was holding his phone, not a weapon, when they pulled him to the ground.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
Morrison: "Congress cannot be complicit in facilitating these lethal operations & occupation of our cities. We're standing here as a united front today, pleading for our Republican colleagues who control the Congress & who took the same oath to defend the Constitution we did to stand up & stop this"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
Q: They defied a search warrant this morning. Do you think they'll abide by a federal court order? FREY: Everybody listen to that question. The question is 'will this administration abide by a court order.' These are the underpinnings of our democracy and Constitution. The answer better be yes.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
When one side says it's raining, and one side says it isn't, your job isn't to quote both sides. Your job is to look outside and see if it's fucking raining.
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
"Videos contradict the federal government’s description of the shooting, a New York Times analysis found." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...
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Live Updates: Federal Agents Kill a 37-Year-Old Minneapolis Man
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Deadly Minneapolis shooting today. My full take on Substack: substack.com/@thefrankfig...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun. Any second now, I'm sure. He was a white guy, if that helps? Hello? NRA?
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