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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Good grief. In all the times in my bar-going days that I heard that someone was being 86’ed from the bar, I never heard that the bar owner killed or threatened to kill that person. This is not a thin reason to indict — it’s a non-existent reason.

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Justice department claims Comey made ‘threat to kill’ Trump as it announces charges against former FBI director – live

Charges appear to stem from photo posted on Comey’s Instagram account last year; former FBI director expresses faith that he will be exonerated at trial

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

JD Vance is on a historic roll: He campaigns for AfD in Germany - they lose. Invited the Pope to come to US for Trump’s big event - Pope refuses. Leads peace negotiations with Iran - fails miserably. Campaigns in Hungary for Orbán - who gets smoked.

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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Congratulations Hungary on tossing the autocrat. May the U.S. follow your anti-authoritarian lead. 🇭🇺

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Cheeky D. @dakgirl.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

#NoKings Anchorage, #Alaska FUCK YOU, #Trump!

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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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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Your murderer was found guilty, John. I'm glad for that, though it won't bring you back. You made some big mistakes in your life, but I'm glad to have known you. Rest in peace. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

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Anchorage man convicted of murder in homeless advocate’s death

A jury on Tuesday found Ryan Dummler, 34, guilty of first- and second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of John Martin III in June 2023.

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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

WaPo: “In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols” — this reversal came about because of the outcry from yesterday’s policy announcement giving leeway for antisemitic & anti-Black hate symbols in the U.S. Coast Guard. RESISTANCE WORKs.

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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The further Nazification of the United (so-called) States of AmeriKKKa.

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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Why would anyone ever listen to this guy in the first place? Quack quack. 🦆

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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Turns out he agrees with us that he's a shitty president. And an even shittier would-be king.

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸

Date: Monday, January 13, 1992, 5:26 pm
To: Byron Preiss
Dear Byron,
Thanks for the script of the novel. I don't know what happened to the
first one. It may have been a victim of the office move (see above).
I'll respond as quickly and briefly as possible.
One general point. A thing I have had said to me over and over again
whenever I've done public appearances and readings and so on in the
States is this: Please don't let anyone Americanise it! We like it the
way it is!
There are some changes in the script that simply don't make sense.
Arthur Dent is English, the setting is England, and has been in every
single manifestation of HHGG ever. The 'Horse and Groom' pub that
Arthur and Ford go to is an English pub, the 'pounds' they pay with

are English (but make it twenty pounds rather than five- inflation) So
why suddenly 'Newark' instead of 'Rickmansworth'? And
'Bloomingdales' instead of 'Marks & Spencer'? The fact that
Rickmansworth is not within the continental United States doesn't
mean that it doesn't exist! American audiences do not need to feel
disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US or that
people might suddenly refer to them in works of fiction. You
wouldn't, presumably, replace Ursa Minor Beta with 'Des Moines'.
There is no Bloomingdales in England, and Bloomingdales is not a
generic term for large department stores. If you feel that referring to
"Marks & Spencer' might seriously freak out Americans because they
haven't heard of it (or because Marks and Spencer owns Brooks
Brothers) we could either put warning stickers on the cover ("The text
of this book contains references to places and institutions outside the
continental United States and may cause offence to people who haven't
heard of them") or you could, I suppose, put 'Harrods', which most
people will have heard of. Or we could even take the appalling risk of
just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and
see if they survive the experience. They probably will - when people
are born they haven't heard of anything or anywhere, but seem to get
through the first few years of their lives without ill-effects.

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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Be glad, Russian journos, that your temporary accommodations aren’t like those of the actual Russian journos imprisoned for countering your overlord’s lies. (Look out, American journos, that’s coming for you too — unless you’re MAGA mouthpieces.)

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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Don’t forget that Israel’s genocide of Gaza civilians is made possible by American bombs made with the taxes of American taxpayers & authorized by a president & members of Congress elected by American voters.

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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Next on my reading list. As in: today. Now.

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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

This year it feels more like the Farce of July.

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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Here’s a one-screenshot master class on how to create an easy-to-spot scam. Count the errors. Seriously, what does item 4 even mean?

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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Trumps to see Les Mis tonight. 45/47 wont like it. He’ll be rooting for Javert & will be displeased that Jean Valjean finds some happiness before his death.

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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

On this Memorial Day, honoring my great-great granduncle Charles F. Renneker (1843-1862), 24th Missouri Infantry (Union), who died on 14 Nov 1862 of wounds sustained at the 2nd Battle of Corinth (3-4 Oct 1862). He died in service of freedom for all.

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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I carried some of those flowers to lyin’ Nick Begich’s Anchorage office. He cares more about tax cuts for billionaires than for the health of his Alaska constituents.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Best cat video of the day

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 05/04/2025

A mountain bluebird has perched on the tallest frozen rose stalk and is just hanging out in the snow, being blue.

A small blue and white bird sits atop a frozen rose stem.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

US tourism is in for some things. (via @jeffasher.bsky.social) 🇺🇸

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I am obsessed with the penguin Gadsden flag

The Don't Tread on Me Gadsden flag with a penguin

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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

#HandsOff #Billings. I’m an Alaskan now but I still love my home state of #Montana

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Christopher Swartout @chrisswartout.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

My favorite sign from the Albany #HandsOff rally.

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Westchester Citizen Therapists Indivisible ❌👑 @wctindivisible.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

When the press says "Hundreds" or "Thousands" of protesters were out today across the country, take a look at these images and know that they are vastly undercounting. #HandsOff!

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