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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

“.. The U.S. is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure, according to new Census Bureau figures out today.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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KNKX Public Radio @knkx.org · 26/05/2026

At least one person is dead and eight people are being treated for injuries after a chemical vat imploded at Southwest Washington paper mill Tuesday morning. From our partners @opb.org

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Longview industrial implosion causes fatalities, critical injuries, officials confirm

At least one person is dead and eight people are being treated for injuries after a chemical vat imploded at Southwest Washington paper mill Tuesday morning.

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KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 15/05/2026

A University of Washington student killed Sunday night has been identified as Juniper Blessing. She was 19. A suspect is in custody after turning himself in on Wednesday.

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Medical examiner identifies UW student fatally stabbed on Sunday

The King County Medical Examiner's Office has identified a University of Washington student who was killed on Sunday as Juniper Blessing. She was 19.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

This entire thing is ridiculous.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

pope leo is weak on crime lmao. sometimes priests wear a cape type situation but he’s not batman, dude.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

undefeated since the ichiro statue broke its bat

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

If he was holding a gun to a child's head would anyone in congress try to stop him from pulling the trigger?

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 16/03/2026

“No to war and Free Palestine.” — Javier Bardem while presenting at the #Oscars .

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nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 01/03/2026

Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams on SNL.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, Iranian state media reports.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

i woke up from a weird dream at 4:30am. i know better than to look at my phone when i’m trying to go back to sleep. i looked anyway & then spent the last three hours scrolling through news of the war that started while i was sleeping.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I don’t even know anymore. War, the senseless murder of civilians, pedophiles in power, just a whole lot of fuckshit.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

That’s my first baseman. 🫡

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Washington State Department of Health @doh.wa.gov · 24/02/2026

“I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.”

A man in a suit drives a car while speaking into a handheld recorder. Text reads: “Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks.”

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times. I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

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a man in a suit and tie is wearing a crown and saying yeah boyy !

Alt: Flavor Flav says YEAH BOOYYYEEEE,!!!

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 19/02/2026

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. He also turns 66 today. (www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...)

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David Kroman @kromandavid.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The Seahawks' parade will be Wednesday, per city spokesperson. Details to come in the morning.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

🚨Marshawn Lynch commercial🚨 "Nothing tastes as good as getting your lick back"

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The billboard behind Bad Bunny during this halftime performance reads: "The only thing more powerful than hate is love." #SuperBowl

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

judge a quarterback by whether or not he defrauds millions of dollars from poor people

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 25/01/2026

signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.

Woman on the right was using her walker to advance into the tear gas

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The nurses are pissed

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Let us not forget, it was the same administration that reduced us to wearing trash bags as protective gear while we watched the hospital go up in flames around us during the pandemic that just murdered one of our own on the streets in broad daylight. As a nurse & as a person, I will never forgive. I will never forget. I will never back down. This was never about border control.
This is about total control.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

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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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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 bear

witness, 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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matt oak @mattoak.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

No notes. The target audience of this post are cowards and clowns.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.

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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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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 24/01/2026

It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you free to abandon it

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026

I've been informed that the man in this video is Matthew James Obadiah Allen, better known as Twin Cities hip hop artist Nur-D

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

A nurse. A researcher. A helper.

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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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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

every single one of them should spend the rest of their fucking lives looking over their shoulder for the guy who's coming to kidnap them and drag them in front of a tribunal.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

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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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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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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

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Claire @baseball-broad.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

We have to get rid of Jeffries and Schumer. We have to. It’s unendurable that these men are the most prominent Democrats of the moment. They are two of the most broadly undistinguished men I could imagine in politics, zero fire, zero fight, zero zeal, machine politicians with sinecures.

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Allison Good @allisonwgood.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

If you’re a sitting member of Congress and not reacting to this speech by calling for immediate impeachment, removal and conviction, why are we paying you?

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