Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

Without death as a prosecutorial bargaining chip, Mangione has every reason to take this to trial rather than plead. And prosecutors, especially the current DOJ clown car, may struggle to seat a jury that doesn’t have at least one person who secretly thinks he’s a hero. It could hang again & again.

Courts have sanction powers and Bars have disciplinary hearings and both should be used against lawyers who pursue sham prosecutions for purposes of political intimidation.

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.

One of the greatest fears for facial recognition tech is its use to suppress dissent. Congress has been talking about creating laws for facial recognition since the "Snooper Bowl" in 2001, when it was unknowingly used on football fans (wrote about it in my book). But lawmakers never got it done.

“in theater” is a crazy way to describe minneapolis

This is sort of a throughline in cases of excessive force used by law enforcement. The civilian is supposed to perfectly adhere to some unwritten code of conduct; the armed professional supposedly trained for such situations is only human & must be given lattitude if they succumb to fear and rage.

The ACLU is raising alarm over a facial recognition app loaded onto the smartphones of immigration agents to identify and arrest people. "It's being used on the street in ways that are dangerous, that are totally unprecedented in this country, and that are, frankly, blatantly illegal."

This is what we have — a team of militarized cosplayers — instead of basic healthcare for all. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

This needs to happen at the very least

God only knows what's happening in these gulags

The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame.

Naming someone is not doxxing. They aren’t undercover. They aren’t intelligence agents overseas. This is outrageous - we are supposed to be a free Republic and these people want an authoritarian police state. Lawsuits should be filed & ranking Dems in Congress should act.

cut off funds to the Minn deployment absent a request from the governor; limit CBP operations to the border (as used to be the case); require body cameras, immediate suspension of any agent after firing his/her weapon; eliminate masks; install an IG; etc. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

It’s hard to overstate how freakish it is for law enforcement who just shot someone to be shuffled off to other assignments with no investigative period at all.

“Supercharging this law enforcement agency and at the same time you have oversight being eliminated?” said a former DHS official. “This is very scary.” (Published Oct. 2025)

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

Remember kids, nobody has to give the other 11 jurors a speech about what jury nullification is, they can just say “I dunno, prosecution’s story isn’t adding up,” and “sure, maybe, but the judge said ‘beyond reasonable doubt,’ does anyone else have reasonable doubts this was the guy?”

Holy shit. Like Tiananmen Square levels of bravery.

Local police chiefs* breaking publicly with ICE and distancing themselves from it is an absolutely good and important development. * who, yes, still have many of their own real problems, thank you, no one hear needs this lecture right now, thank you, yes, I'm glad you took a class on it, thank you

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Q: They defied a search warrant this morning. Do you think they'll abide by a federal court order? FREY: Everybody listen to that question. The question is 'will this administration abide by a court order.' These are the underpinnings of our democracy and Constitution. The answer better be yes.

Understand that 370 days ago even bringing a motion like this would probably have been treated as sanctionably frivolous Today it was granted ex parte

It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

This is not the first time the NRA has been asked to weigh in on the killing of a law-abiding Minnesota gun owner. They failed to step up last time. Google “Philando Castile.”

🚨 Breaking from the US Senator for Connecticut. 👇 There you have it. ICE has never been about immigration enforcement. It's a weapon used to brutalize Americans and stoke enough fear so that Trump can rig the elections and usher in dictatorship.

This is the man they want you to think, in defiance of a video you can see with your own eyes, was a murderous assassin.

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.

"[A]s for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief [before gunshots are fired]"

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."

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

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

Witnesses are being taken to Whipple. From a lawyer friend: “They’re trying to keep local PD and BCA from getting statements and confiscating any phones with video.”

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)

Border Patrol has no business being on the streets of American cities. They aren’t trained for it and their leadership encourages them to engage in lawless behavior while the WH policy director repeatedly tells them they have immunity for everything do whether it’s legal or not.

Walz: Minnesota's justice system will have the last word on this. As I told the white house in no uncertain terms this morning, the federal government cannot be trusted to lead this investigation. The state will handle it. Period.

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.

This has been normalized in our country because this is how police might look responding to one of our incessant active shooter situations. But this is not how street policing, much less CIVIL IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT, should ever look.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "To everyone listening: Stand with Minneapolis. Stand up for America."

O'Hara refusing to step away from the scene is something to keep an eye on

Watch the video below with your own eyes.⤵️ Note: DHS had earlier come out claiming, "an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun." Does DHS mean? "approached" = came toward with a camera? "with" = on his person while filming?

🚨🚨🚨 "At least 63 times since 2007, data from some of the 28 human genomic repositories that the N.I.H. controls was improperly released to researchers, used for unapproved purposes or made vulnerable to theft..." (Gift Link) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Nothing complicated or subtle or hard to understand about what is happening: -"forcibly entered homes without a judge’s warrant" -"interrogated people because of their ethnicity or accents" -"broke windows and dragged occupants from their cars" -"used force on people who were already restrained"

This misuse of children's data has been known for years by NIH. Accountability is overdue. We need real enforcement and an honest reckoning with how genomic data can be weaponized. We are witnessing a renaissance of scientific racism--federal institutions are both ignoring and encouraging it.

Within weeks of Mr. Trump taking office, the NIH made a little-noticed revision to the guidelines on access to a large genetic database. Its description of what constituted stigmatizing research no longer included any reference to skin color, ancestry and ethnicity. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Don't forget the Supreme Court's role facilitating ICE's brutality and racism in Minneapolis. SCOTUS lifted an injunction that limited racial profiling in immigration enforcement on Sept. 8. The federal assault on Chicago began the next day. Then came the Twin Cities. SCOTUS greenlit these horrors.