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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Y'all do realize ICE "backing down" means they're just gonna stick to terrorizin' minorities, right?

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

okay i have the go ahead to say that ahhh i'm so excited Hello Sunshine won first inaugural Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table (GNCRT) Outstanding Comics Award from the American Library Association!! I FEEL SO HONORED THAT LIBRARIANS LIKE MY BOOK ❤️‍🔥

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Outstanding Comics Award

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

MAGNIFICENT NEWS!!!!!! Love you, @laurelsnyder.bsky.social and love everything you bring to the world!

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Adib Khorram @adibkhorram.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

sending out love to everyone in kidlit today, award winners, authors, illustrators, readers, librarians, booksellers, teachers...books for children matter.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I LOVE TO SEE THE RIGHT CHOICES BEING MADE I SIMPLY LOVE IT!!!!

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Becky Spratford @raforall.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The Bram Stoker Award preliminary ballot for this year just went out, and congratulations to everyone whose work appears on it, be it under their name or their editor!! I am glad to see WHY I LOVE HORROR on there but I am also excited for 4 of my authors to make the Short NF list.

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Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Renée Watson wins the Newbery! She is a treasure and so is this book. I just gifted it to a young reader friend. It's a book in verse, so accessible, about grief.

Cover for All the Blues in the Sky by Renee Watson, blue background, African American girl looking to the side, unsure and hopeful

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Karuna Riazi @karunariazi.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Congratulations to all the wonderful #ALAyma winners today - and for everyone else who had a book out in 2026 that didn't get a nod, hold fast (as I am) to how many names are there who have worked hard for so long to reach this point, and turn the next page. ❤️

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 24/01/2026

Cuz the fash definitely don't

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🎃trash🎃 (haunted) @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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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

“There is no remedy but abolition.”

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

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Daniel Mauleón @mauleon.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The actions required to fight fascism only get more challenging the further along we are. If two executions in broad daylight in two weeks doesn't cross your line, what will?

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Karuna Riazi @karunariazi.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The bravest, kindest men of my generation are being killed. Here. Palestine. Sudan. Congo. Point to a wound on the globe. They are there, and they are being killed by the same vicious system. Enough. Enough. Divest from the system. Uproot it from your mind and heart. Abolish it. Burn it down.

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Becky Gallagher Swadner @beckysrn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I was one of Alex's nursing faculty at MCTC. This is simply devastating. He was a good student and I knew he'd be a good nurse. Im so sorry for you and his VA family. May his memory be a blessing and an example of what a nurse is.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Does everyone have a warm bed? Does everyone have enough to eat? Does everyone have a place to be safe? Whose getting snatched in the night? - Junauda Petrus, "Ritual on How to Love Minneapolis Again"

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 24/01/2026

these are the last people I want being “better trained”

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026

All we needed was 50% of white folks two years ago. We didn't have it then. We likely don't have it today. And yes, I know about marching, boycotts, strikes, and suffering. Have done all of the above. I'm not feeling self-righteous today. I am feeling SAD that bigotry is leading to more death.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026

When people tell Black folks that we're being sanctimonious instead of a light bulb going off, it is quite telling. Black people didn't want to be right about murderous fascism. We wanted none of this to happen in the first place. Minnesotans are not new to this. They have BEEN on the vanguard...

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Sara Solara @sarasolara.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

If you need to ground yourself in the fight ahead and deep care for your community, I can't recommend @yaffasutopia.bsky.social's offerings enough Abolish ICE & free Palestine 🔥

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Carli Boo-locci 👻 @carlivelocci.com · 24/01/2026

Video games do not cause violence. But we as an industry are clearly not ready to have a conversation about how we've normalized a military fantasy

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026

All the ways ICE is going to rationalize an execution in the streets will be how cops always do it. They had a gun. They were no angel. They had health issues. All common tactics used by cops for years to discredit someone after they killed them.

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026

Public execution as retribution for the very public resistance yesterday.

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Anne Ursu @anneursu.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

constitutional observers are not protestors

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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 24/01/2026

Experts who have followed authoritarian regimes abroad can tell you a lot about day-after reprisals to mass movements, which look a hell of a lot like today's killing

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Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. — Frederick Douglass

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Killing whoever they want with impunity has always been the goal. The poor, the sick, the Black, the brown, the indigenous, the queer and trans, the loud and silent.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

it feels a lot like today's murder is in response to the mass protests yesterday, as if to tell us we're powerless, that our solidarity won't protect us.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

to do a national strike

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

America has slaughtered literally tens of millions of not just my people, but Black Americans and other Indigenous people too. It has been sacrificing children. Women. Everything. All animals. Bison. Water. Life. All of it. Maybe... just maybe... it needs to fall.

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I'm gonna say it again: America and Americans have been propping up a genocidal, slave-based system here the last 250 years. It is the most successful long-term fascist campaign in history. It puts Nazis to shame. Cause Nazis were inspired by it, but failed.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 24/01/2026

They’re fighting for their city but they’re also fighting for all of us

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Oh, my city. Oh, my beautiful city.

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Anne Kosseff-Jones @annekosseffjones.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This is so important. They were battering at doors in the hours after Renee Good was killed, in the same general part of the city. We can’t let our guard on our neighbors down.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.

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