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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

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."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Things are accelerating. The end of our democracy and start of the Trump dictatorship isn't happening at a consistent pace—nor is it intended to. The way they end America is to move so quickly that neither institutions nor the masses can react in time. I'm not sure democracy makes it to Christmas.

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Mr. Bea Arthur, Batshit Crazy™️ @steamymac.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Big Beautiful Death of American Democracy

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/08/2025

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

A guy whose fraudulent university was shut down is telling the Ivy League what to do. A guy whose businesses went bankrupt multiple times is telling the Fed what to do. A guy whose best friend was a child sex trafficker is telling the DOJ what to do. That it’s all the same guy is pretty wild.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Germany used to lead the world in science. The language of science was German—until the Nazis came to power and chased out, imprisoned, or killed all the non-Nazi scientists. Fascists break good things, and it is happening here. (2/2)

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The U.S. has led the world in science since the mid-20th century for two reasons: funding & welcoming students and researchers from around the world. The Trump administration is destroying both advantages (1/2)

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 called for dismantling the NOAA, which provides warnings of natural disasters, such as the deadly floods in Texas. The irony is that Heritage wanted these cuts because it’s angry that NOAA helps prove the reality of climate change--the thing causing floods.

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M. Douglas Wray @mdouglaswray.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

@amsickofpollies.bsky.social - thanks for spotting this. I reformatted it and also have a four-up PDF if anyone wants it.

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Candace Avalos @candaceavalos.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it. They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory. Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human. Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/07/2025

Wow! France gifted her to us, and now they’ve captured what so many Americans are feeling on Independence Day. The values the Statue of Liberty stood for are no more. 📌 A stunning mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her face was unveiled in Roubaix, France, on July 3, 2025.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Republicans in Congress have structured the most painful benefit cuts in their budget bill to kick in AFTER the 2026 midterms. But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately. Remember this.

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🦋🕊️🦋GinLy47 @ginly47.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

It took less than a year to get from “they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats” to “let’s feed them to alligators” All paid for by your tax dollars.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

With your silence as much as with your volume, you show me you are more with him than you are against him, that you are more like him than different from him, and that you and I are increasingly morally incompatible. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-dont-gri...

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I Don't Grieve His Hatred, Trump Supporter, I Grieve Yours.

Trump Supporter, this isn’t about him.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

In the past 24 hours, Trump’s threatened Elon Musk, Thomas Massie, Japan, a judge in Israel, the CEO of AT&T, Jerome Powell, Canada, Thom Tillis, a Forbes reporter, Harvard, & migrants with being eaten by Burmese pythons in the Everglades, while releasing a new line of colognes.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

My state has had a legislative GOP supermajority for 22 years. Missouri is ranked: 50th in classroom funding 49th in starting teacher pay 7th highest in gun deaths 6th highest in maternal mortality Republicans can’t govern and you can look at every red state to come to that conclusion.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Six former CDC vaccine chairs are sounding the alarm—and we better listen. The U.S. is on the brink of losing access to life-saving immunizations. When science is attacked and trust is eroded, lives will be lost. This is not a drill. This is a national emergency.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

While Trump blusters about "law & order," a reminder that his administration has dropped or halted nearly 150 corporate enforcement actions. And Trump himself has pardoned dozens of his supporters convicted of crimes like money laundering and bribery. The hypocrisy is staggering.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The President of the United States is advocating for arresting the duly-elected Governor of California for his SPEECH He thereafter admitted that the Governor of California had committed NO CRIME—but he still wants him arrested Spend as much time as you need processing what that means for America

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

If you watched Andor, you know what's going on right now in Los Angeles.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

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Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant

Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The CBO estimates that Trump's Big Ugly Bill, which is stuffed with tax cuts skewed to the wealthy, will explode the deficit by $2.4T and kick 10.9M people off their health insurance. This has always been the GOP strategy: socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe

This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

This morning, like every morning, US President will wake up: paint his face orange, clip on his comical wig, put on a big floppy tie & oversized suit & weird platform shoes, and will go out in the world to steal as much money has he can while undermining US national security & economy & democracy.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 29/05/2025

Trump gets bullied by Wall st, Elon ran for the hills, Stephen Miller’s wife ditched the White House, Bongino is a shell of himself, and Hegseth is anxiously wiretapping his own office. All while Putin and Xi eat our lunch. MAGA’s “Alpha Men” are nothing more than a pack of cowardly sissies.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.

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Judge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

The Memorial Day Message from the President of the United States of America, in memory of those who have given their lives defending America, the Constitution, and the freedoms that we Americans enjoy on this Memorial Day 2025.

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Speak Truth to Power.....

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Rep. Jacob Rosecrants @jacobrosecrants.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

It’s a little-known fact that public education in America was fine before we were sold a lie that it was broken, in the mid 90s-2000. So what did we choose to “fix” the “broken” system? An over-reliance on standardization & tests, which ironically, HAS broken public education in the U.S. *Sigh* 😮‍💨

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Shame on West Point for inviting a draft dodger, who views the US military as merely props to be used for his own glory, to give its commencement speech. With no respect, the tacky wheezing fool wore a campaign ball cap and rambled on about yachts and trophy wives to the bored graduates.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles

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GroovyShelly @groovyshelly.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Here is the official Harvard University website! www.harvard.edu Here is their # if you'd like to speak to someone there!! +1 617-495-1000 The link to the Free Government courses is ... pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

When someone as evil as Dick Cheney openly calls the orange felon the greatest threat to the United States, you know we are in some terrifyingly serious shit.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This is from The Atlantic. This is exactly how Democrats should message Trump‘s bill. 👇🏻

A screenshot from the Atlantic stating the largest upward transfer of wealth in American history.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/05/2025

And if you think it's bad now, the Billionaire Bailout Bill that passed the House this morning will be the biggest transfer of wealth in history if enacted.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/05/2025

Imagine how massive the tax breaks for billionaires must be when cutting $700B from Medicaid, $500B from Medicare, and $300B in food assistance STILL leaves a $4T deficit.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

You're seeing America kamikaze itself into a brick wall. It didn't have to be this way. But greed and racism, our two sins, will be our downfall. Too many people still with their hands in the sand.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Succinctly states where we are and what's happening. These three things, in addition to doing much else, are the sheet anchors of American wealth and power.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Whenever you hear conservative politicians preach from the gospel of "fiscal responsibility," remember that one of the biggest drivers of deficits lately are the Bush and Trump tax cuts, which have added nearly $10 trillion to the national debt.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Who wants to be the one to tell Pee-Wee German that the "boys at Normandy" weren't all white, non-immigrants, or American citizens, but they *were* all fighting people like Stephen Miller--people called fascists.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

When he typed this, S&P had just downgraded the US bc of GOP govt shutdowns. Yesterday, Moody’s downgraded the US bc of GOP govt policies.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It is so tragic and highly embarrassing that someone so vile, petty, and bereft of decency is the president. I will never understand or have peace with it.

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