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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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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

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Hosea Sheen 신승헌 @shsheen.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

We all have finite emotional capacities, and we can mourn for only so many people. If anything, Christians should focus on grieving the suffering of the poorest and the most vulnerable, such as the 72 people killed in Gaza today, especially when we know dozens will be killed again there tomorrow.

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Hosea Sheen 신승헌 @shsheen.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

What is the point of a Christianity that can't even get its adherents to empathize with mothers holding their starving and dying children in a genocide enabled and encouraged by their governments?

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Hosea Sheen 신승헌 @shsheen.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

A "God" that can be invoked as a leader of an Empire self-congratulates its bombing of another people is a god that is entirely antithetical to the true God who was revealed in the crucified Christ.

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Hard to choose just one Bible verse for this huh

1 John 4:20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 Those who say, “I love God,” and hate a brother or sister are liars, for those who do not love a brother or sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.

Isaiah 1:15-17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 When you stretch out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove your evil deeds
from before my eyes;
cease to do evil;
17 learn to do good;
seek justice;
rescue the oppressed;
defend the orphan;
plead for the widow.

Titus 1:16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

16 They profess to know God, but they deny him by their actions; they are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.

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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

"For this reason, in the name of human dignity and international law, I reiterate to those in positions of responsibility the frequent warning of Pope Francis: 'War is always a defeat!' And that of Pope Pius XII: 'Nothing is lost with peace. Everything may be lost with war.'”

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Hosea Sheen 신승헌 @shsheen.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Whether or not to support a potential war with Iran should be an unambiguous and obvious moral question, if there ever was one. I genuinely don't know what to say to people who cannot see how this is a terrible thing.

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Hosea Sheen 신승헌 @shsheen.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

AI companies ought to be held accountable for rendering education essentially impossible for future generations. Nobody asked for this, yet we are being forced to accept and cope with this new crappy reality.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 15/06/2025

Big tech is here to derail and destroy education GenAI is a problem and not a solution to anything

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I really really really loathe how “my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” gets weaponized by these crude, vice-loving pagans. This woman spends half this video mocking the sincere concern raised by her constituents, then the second half trying to turn it into an altar call, and it’s plain old Blasphemy.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/05/2025

The fundamental flaw of broken authoritarian narcissists (the core of the right-wing coalition) is that they view empathy as a finite resource, such that, if you extend it to one group, you can't extend it to another. They see all of life through a lens of scarcity, competition, & selfishness.

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Hosea Sheen 신승헌 @shsheen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

"we have to recognize the end of Christendom as something on the order of a historical destiny, one paradoxically prompted by the lingering power of an ancient Christian revolution against the ancient order, and one that could not truly prevail until it had overthrown Christendom as well." - DBH

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Hosea Sheen 신승헌 @shsheen.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Absolutely loved my first time at NAPS. Leaving very encouraged and inspired. Hope to be here again next year!

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

People who oppose using generative AI to produce content in contexts where expertise *exists* and accuracy *matters* are not “uncomfortable with uncertainty.” They’re people who would rather see a doctor than read a horoscope.

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Amigo de Frodo @bpdflores.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

S Augustine, Sermon 103 «Do not grieve or complain that you were born in a time when you can no longer see God in the flesh. He did not in fact take this honor from you. As he says: Whatever you have done to the least of mine, you did to me.»

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Hosea Sheen 신승헌 @shsheen.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This is genuinely terrifying. Even more terrifying is that people involved in this thought this was okay.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 04/05/2025

I hope everyone working on LLMs has reckoned with their role in building a technology that, so far, has offered little to no benefit to humanity — while causing real harm by degrading art, undermining labor in creative industries, and straight up automating political propaganda

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Hosea Sheen 신승헌 @shsheen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The idea that we should be thinking about "AI rights" or "AI welfare" when the most basic rights are being denied to so many human beings in the world at the moment is just baffling.

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Hosea Sheen 신승헌 @shsheen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Of course they can be useful. But the problem with LLMs is that they aren't even close to being useful enough (and probably will never be) to justify the immense social, economic, and environmental cost.

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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 23/04/2025

The difference between #AI errors and confabulation in humans is that in producing false or misleading information, the LLM is functioning precisely as intended. Nothing has gone wrong because nothing in the mechanism regulates alignment with the truth. We might as well say #LLMs always confabulate…

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RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

All the academic disciplines are important, of course, but I honestly don’t understand how a university can claim to be a university without a philosophy department. That’s just a trade school.

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Hosea Sheen 신승헌 @shsheen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

An incredibly beautiful obituary of a Pope who was, before anything else, a human being.

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Hosea Sheen 신승헌 @shsheen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

What a great loss to Christianity and the world at such a crucial time... I hope we can all carry Pope Francis' incredible legacy.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It's the most right-wing evangelical thing ever that they set up a concentration camp in a country named after Jesus.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I'm not the most avid Christian, but even I find the use of the cross as a prop when engaging in blatant falsehoods in the name of extraordinary cruelty to be offensive.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”

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dame @dame.is · 15/04/2025

it would be a net-positive for everyone if OpenAI and ChatGPT ceased to exist

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Walter MOONdale @dabenner.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

He is a union apprentice and raising three special needs kids, two of them from his wife's previous relationships so yes he is certainly in the running.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Loved talking w @parismarx.com for @zeteo.com about the AI Coup and the vampiric nature of this technology. It's us or the machines, my friends. And thought we are far from perfect, I choose us over the bots. Stay for Charlie Chaplin's anti-fascism at the end! zeteo.com/p/silicon-va...

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Silicon Valley’s AI Coup: ‘It’s Draining Our Real World’

Tech reporter Paris Marx joins Naomi to discuss the threat posed by artificial intelligence to democracy.

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Hosea Sheen 신승헌 @shsheen.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I am being more and more convinced that "Generative AI" is inherently fascist. It is fundamentally opposed to human freedom and the creative spirit, hence it is a totalizing force against life itself.

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Hosea Sheen 신승헌 @shsheen.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The "Christian" Nationalists reduce even the theology of the Cross to nothing more than an empty signifier. By invoking the Cross to satisfy their lust for power, they crucify Christ once more.

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

"Jesus willingly suffered pain and death because he loves all of Creation... and therefore we are going to use coercion and force to defend the Christian faith and protect God." Missed it by THAT much.

The White House's Holy Week announcement, broken down into "Theology of the Cross" sections and "Theology of Glory" sections.

Of note is how, right after a paragraph about how Jesus "willingly endured excruciating pain, torture, and execution on the cross out of a deep and abiding love for all his creation," the very next paragraph talks about how we will "defend the Christian faith" and "protect God."

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Joshua Peters (Chase the Ghost) 👻 @joshuachase.mothwin.com · 14/04/2025

One of the things that bothers me most is that being kind, empathetic, or concerned for another life to me isn't some sort of "moral high ground". It's the gosh damn floor. The basic mode. The default character type. I'm not taking a grand stand, this is just how we should all get through the day.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Wouldn't it be nice if every news outlet that covered the Bukele Oval Office meeting noted: District court wrote: Abrego Garcia "has never been charged with or convicted of any crime."⤵️ Fourth Circuit: The government presented "NO EVIDENCE" of MS-13 affiliation. Abandoned argument before court. ⤵️

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Every single person in this room, other than press, deserves to face an international criminal tribunal.

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Hosea Sheen 신승헌 @shsheen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Palantir is just about the most evil organization I can think of. An institution of demons.

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Hosea Sheen 신승헌 @shsheen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

What's being done to Abrego Garcia is just pure and transparently evil. There's absolutely nothing ambiguous about it. There's no excuse for thinking this is okay. It's an indictment upon your soul.

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