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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/02/2026
Don Lemon would like a word.
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Kenny Akers @keneakers.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The bigoted white right, if you attack ICE, that is seen as bad; they are highly vocal and demonize anyone who doesn't agree with them. Attack representative Ilhan Omar, who's ethnically Somali…………….. Every one of them, silent.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
His name was Alex. He was a nurse at the VA. He was beaten and murdered by Trump's violent criminal paramilitary known as ICE.
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Artie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“They want violence” no they very explicitly want compliance and acquiescence and if you don’t give it to them they will fucking murder you
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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I think it’s weird that news agencies aren’t reporting that, on video, it appears an agent took a gun from (or near) Pretti’s person before he was shot and killed. My worry is that many of us have lost our ability to see things for what they are.
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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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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/01/2026
Holy shit. This speaks volumes about the midterms ahead.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Beyond helping establish DHS itself in 2003, Mr. Mitnick was a senate-confirmed Trump choice for General Counsel for DHS in his first term. I've talked with him a few times, and he's not a man for hyperbole. So bear that in mind when you see him calling out DHS's "lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty."

John Mitnick
@JohnMitnick
I helped to establish DHS in 2002 and 2003 and later had the homeland security portfolio as a White House Counsel and served as General Counsel of the Department.

I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty.

Impeach and remove Trump—now.


George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
@gtconway3d
The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts. 

The thugs wrestled him to the ground.  They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times.  They murdered him.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/01/2026
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
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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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Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Don't act or they'll start shooting people Don't call in the national guard or we're going to be at war Motherfucker they're shooting people in the streets. The war has already started. Shots have been fired
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE officers fired multiple shots and killed an American who was on the ground. It has become a rogue, militarized police in our communities. Democrats can't vote for Laken Riley or tripled ICE budgets and pretend to be an opposition party. Tear it down & build a new agency.
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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The trigger pullers so far haven't been the raw Proud Boy recruits with 47 days of "training." They've been Jonathan Ross with years of military and law enforcement experience, and now reportedly an 8 yr Border Patrol vet. These men knew it was murder. They're following orders to kill from above.
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Der Geisterfresser @lighter.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
At this point all the people who claim self defense don't actually believe it and simply know it still is tactically bad to say "I like when innocent people die, I am having fun right now. More please." If anyone tries to justify this to you, you are talking to someone who enjoys watching people die
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/01/2026
Kristi Noem and DHS don’t want us to see this video. 📌 Alex was disarmed BEFORE he was shot. This was murder.
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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The left is a terrorist training a high powered semi-automatic rifle at federal agents during the Cliven Bundy insurrection in 2014. The right is a legal observer pointing a camera at federal terrorists in Minneapolis in 2026. Guess which one was executed.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is
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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“Hundreds of immigrant mothers” in Texas concentration camp uprising
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Why are they sending witnesses to Whipple? WHY ARE THEY SENDING WITNESSES TO WHIPPLE?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/01/2026
wrote about the camps for my newsletter this weekend www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
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Opinion | The Cruelty Is the Point for ICE
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Alyssa MacKenzie @alyssamackenzie.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
You know why we’ve spent the last 10 years hearing republicans telling us, ‘they’re coming for your guns’? Because, as it turns out, republicans were coming for your guns.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 24/01/2026
I just responded to the scene at 26th and Nicollet shortly after the observer was shot. They teargassed and/or pepper sprayed Jana Shortal of KARE11 at the scene and she was being treated when I walked up. ICE have a fancy camera they are using to scan the faces of the crowd.
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✨trash✨ @dollarpbr.gay · 24/01/2026
“don’t give them what they want” they are manufacturing their justifications post-hoc. they are already doing what they want. you are not responsible for the actions of your oppressor. you are only responsible for keeping your neighbors safe and that will always be seen as defiance
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This was BEFORE ICE murdered Alex Pretti.
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Chelle ✊🌻 *fElon hacked the election* @blueallylove.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ONE LITERALLY CLAPPED WHILE MURDERING HIM bsky.app/profile/blue...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
the president has declared war on an american state and the leaders of the opposition wont shut the fuck up about retraining the stormtroopers
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The Insurrection Act is not "martial law." It doesn't displace civilian law, it doesn't suspend habeas corpus, it doesn't alter or suspend state and local government, and it doesn't make anything newly illegal. It allows using the military to enforce existing law, it doesn't change what the law is.
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Freethinker @69eerrr.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
It seems painfully obvious that the ICESTAPO are the ones that are instigating the violence. Yet the democratic "leaders?" are not out screaming this narrative. WHY? instead all the reporting is what the lying regime is spouting.
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 15/01/2026
Today, it’s not your vote that determines whether the government brutalizes you or sends officers to your door. It’s your neighbors’ vote. If you’re ok with this happening to Minnesotans, don’t get comfortable. You won’t be exempt for long. In the end, a lawless administration comes for everyone.
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male to fujoshi transsexual @foxglove.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Telling protesters who are having grenades launched at their faces that they're "taking the bait" is fundamentally not very different than telling someone like me that I shouldn't "provoke" violent randos if I don't want to be gay-bashed or raped, and I think liberals should think on that.
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Tommy Hough 🇺🇸 @tommyhough.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Wow, Hilton, you just blew the greatest public relations coup and bout of goodwill and relevance your brand could've ever hoped to score. You've chosen to stand against your own employees on the wrong side of history. I'll never understand why corporations make such dumb moves. Read the room.
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Three Cheers for Hilton Hotel Workers Who Banned ICE — Until Their Corporate Bosses Stomped Them Out
Big businesses like Hilton will always side with fascistic forces like ICE, so we need to stand up for the workers who push back.
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Literally no mention in the mainstream news of the 5th Anniversary of Trump supporters attempting to violently overthrow the U.S Government.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Jared Kushner has somehow found a place at Coalition of the Willing press conference with Scholz, Zelensky, Macron, Starmer and Witkoff. Kushner has no official position in the US government.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 03/01/2026
Pretty cool www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The invasion of Venezuela is bandit politics. It is also a direct attack on international law. Trump, Putin, Netanyahu are working to dismantle the international rules based order. Canada must get ready for what comes next. @meidascanada.ca @meidastouch.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYqU...
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VENEZUELA SMASH & GRAB - CANADA MUST GET READY !!!
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Keep in mind that half of the Conservatives in Canada are Trump supporters, including Pierre Poilievre.
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Zelensky on Venezuela: “About Venezuela? How should I respond to that? Well, what can I say? If… If it is possible to act with dictators like this, it means the United States knows what to do next. Thank you” Omg I love it.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
A+ trolling from Zelenskyy
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from federal immigration detention, his attorney's office says
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania following an order from a federal judge issued Thursday, according to his attorney’s office.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The US government is now a mafia organization.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Ted Cruz: "Jasmine Crockett said every Hispanic in Texas who voted for Trump has a slave mentality — Well, I happily voted for Trump" Rafael with the self own
Ted Cruz speaks during a Senate Committee hearing
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I will NEVER forgive the way Big-Boy Voice Josh Hawley, Temu Wolverine Ted Cruz and their ilk treated then-Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings. It was so despicable. They tried to make her appear light on child abusers, traffickers and more. Foul people.
Photo of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, looking stoically
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☆Jennїe S Jonzen☆ Is He Dead Yet?! 🖖LLAP🤟🍀✴️✳️🌟☘️🗽🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🌈🗿🌻💙💛⭐️ @astartiel.substack.com · 10/12/2025
Here's hoping the ICC takes this up. Neither the world nor the USA can take these criminals who have taken over the White House for 3 more years.
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Madison @madison8.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Trump knows it’s illegal. Why else would he send the threat to the ICC the morning of the piracy?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/12/2025
Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”. If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 09/12/2025
After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family. No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
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