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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Need to disengage for my own sanity, but before I crawl back under my rock, let me say this…it seems every day I find myself thinking I couldn’t possibly be more enraged or more ashamed of the government I once served. Then we have days like today, and it unlocks a whole new level of shame & anger.

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Affidavit filed in federal court by the woman standing and filming just behind Mr. Pretti on the sidewalk. On the record.

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

19 seconds. From the time Alex Pretti puts his hands up, turns his back, and grabs the woman pushed to the ground--while being pepper sprayed--he's murdered. 19 seconds.

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Kristi Noem at a press conference right now, repeating the lie verbatim. Seems a pretty light lift to add her statement and actions, just today, as the first charge in her impeachment: obstruction of justice. Blames the victim. Blames the mayor. Blames the governor. Blames Minnesota.

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

That’s it. That’s all that needs to be said. Abolish. Prosecute. Impeach.

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Say what you will about the prediction market bros, but even they can see the writing on the wall. This is the way.

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Fredricka Whitfield @cnn.com is either being willfully obtuse, or her producers have failed her, because as recently as 30 seconds ago, she repeats the phrase “We still don’t know what preceded this altercation” as if there’s not crystal clear video of just that. Again, do your fucking job.

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Tired: Abolish ICE Wired: Prosecute ICE Hired: Impeach DJT + entire Cabinet.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

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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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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

U.S. Customs & Border Patrol is on national television right now, lying to the entire country. THERE. IS. VIDEO. Multiple videos, even. Where is the 4th estate? Where is Congress? Where are the self-proclaimed "leaders" in this country? This is insanity.

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The facts couldn't be clearer. This man was murdered for having the gall to lift a fellow citizen from the ground after being assaulted by ICE. To @cnn.com, @ms.now, @nytimes.com, and @washingtonpost.com, DO YOUR JOB. And to @governorwalz.mn.gov, this moment will define you. Stand up or resign.

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

On another timeline, @governorwalz.mn.gov calls in State Police + MN Guard to force a standoff & expel ICE, @schumer.senate.gov whips Senate Ds for NO vote on ICE/DHS funding bill, and TV outlets like @cnn.com stop equivocating & start flooding the zone w/ video evidence we can all see w/ our eyes.

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Respect. “Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors.” (Credit: David Guttenfelder/The New York Times)

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The first time I ever visited the state of Wisconsin, I was in a dive bar bathroom and noticed all the urinals had Chicago Bears logos on the piss-pucks. Now I know why.

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

“This isn’t complicated.” If only we had more Stans.

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Minority Report, but for the globe. What could possibly go wrong?

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13/09/2025

New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social: ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday. Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events. Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:

unraveledpress.com

What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez

Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

In my nearly 50 years I’ve never seen a group of people who love the first amendment so much hate the first amendment so much.

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I don't know who in media needs to hear this (actually yeah I do) but just b/c someone uses Words when they drop that hard-R doesn't mean they get the social protection of "inclusive disagreement & debate." It's ok for civilized society to reject them--b/c there's no right way to be a fucking bigot.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 12/09/2025

Pivoted so hard they affected the earth's rotation

headline from The Telegraph featuring a smiling, clean cut photo of the alleged killer

The scholarship student with an all-American upbringing accused of killing Charlie Kirk
Tyler Robinson, 22, grew up in a middle-class family in Utah, with both parents registered Republicans

Connor Stringer
Deputy US Editor
Connor Stringer
Related Topics
Utah, Crime
12 September 2025 9:34pm BST

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

All this talk about d-pad arrows and video game cheat codes is making me nostalgic IYKYK

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Tragic situation, and I hope for a swift recovery by the officer, who was reportedly struck and sustained "severe injuries." But this raises the obvious question; were the officers in uniforms and driving marked vehicles, or were they wearing plainclothes and facemasks and driving unmarked cars?

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

If you’re like me and haven’t laughed all week, you’re welcome.

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This seems bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/t...

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Admittedly falls in the impotently whining category, but this is something we should’ve thought about before we let tech companies make all of *us* the media—but w/out the guardrails. Toothpaste is all over the countertop and on the floor, and I don’t see how it gets back in the tube.

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Today, peak anxiety is having a trans college kid at a school 500 miles away in the Wake of Everything. Spent a solid hour on the phone w/ him this afternoon having the talk, not unlike the one Black families have been having for generations--only for us new to the practice--and now I'm just angry.🧵

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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...

apnews.com

Law enforcement officers remember police officer killed in CDC shooting in Atlanta

Weeks after David Rose was killed while responding to a shooting this month at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, officers are remembering the DeKalb County police officer as a courageous leader who pri...

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Not getting on-board the AI train here, but definitely 2 clips stitched together. Cant have any more close-ups of that hand, I guess. On an unrelated note, I seem to recall someone having an issue with this sort of “deceptive editing.” Wish I could remember who…

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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The same people putting Bari Weiss in charge of CBS want to run CNN too www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Photojournalist Bill Biggart died when the second tower collapsed on him on 9/11, but the film he shot that day and his flash card were recovered from the debris and developed, along with his flash card. You can see his amazing photos of 9/11, the last photos he took while alive, here:

billbiggart.com

September 11th — Bill Biggart Photographer

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I’ll be the first to admit the term “unhinged” has been assigned to so many demonstrably not-unhinged things that it’s lost all meaning. But, this is fucking unhinged.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

NYT on the alleged messages on the shooter's weapon:

According to a preliminary internal report circulated inside the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, federal and local officials recovered ammunition with the shooter’s rifle that appeared to be engraved with statements “expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology.”

But a senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation cautioned that report had not been verified by A.T.F. analysts, did not match other summaries of the evidence, and might turn out to have been misread or misinterpreted. In fast-moving investigations, such status reports are not made public because they often contain a mixture of accurate and inaccurate information.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Not so gentle reminder that “transgender ideology” isn’t a thing - it’s a way of negating the existence of trans people

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West Side Rob @westsiderob.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

FBI just dropped person of interest photos.

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