Killing him twice.

Another entry into the "showing us who they are" file

Hit the Trump regime with everything! Immigration terror, inflation, housing, health care, NATO/Greenland, Venezuela, whack job executive branch administrators, his rapidly decomposing body, Stephen Miller is the acting president...

Federal #ICE agents executed a bystander in broad daylight this morning in Minneapolis. This horrific violence is precisely why I voted NO to more funding for ICE. Impeach Kristi Noem. Dismantle ICE.

Imagine this in a trial. Devastating first-hand witness to Alex Pretti's killing Declaration filed in federal court: "I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him."

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

"Pete Hegseth might consider adding another task to his many duties, one that would be of immense help to the nation and to the armed forces: He should shut up." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I helped with credible fear interview prep there as an interpreter back in 2016-17. It was women and their minor children back then. No men, and if you were 18 or older you went to the adult detention center even if you crossed as a family. 1/2

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."

They put Geraldo Lunas Campos in a chokehold and compressed his chest until he stopped breathing. And then they lied through their Nazi teeth. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

Everything Stephen Miller and DHS say should be presumed to be a lie, without exception.

The first Minnesota murder, they refused to let a medical professional help the woman they shot. The second Minnesota murder, they simply shot the medical professional.

Multiple officials of the US federal government are spending their day rather blatantly obstructing Minnesota law enforcement and covering up a murder.

We are horrified by the shooting of Alex Pretti by Department of Homeland Security agents. Alex was a nurse who served veterans at the Veterans Affairs hospital and a member of AFGE Local 3669. His death is a tragedy for his family, his coworkers, and the community he served.

The Trump-Vance regime is unleashing evil onto our streets. Make no mistake. To see this kind of state violence is not only to witness the killing of a human being but the spiraling spiritual death of a nation. They did this in our name. - Sen. Raphael Warnock

Walz, Newsom, and especially Pritzker have been consistent in emphasizing that *history doesn't end with Trump.* (Unless, in ways we don't want to think about, it does.) There will eventually be a reckoning. Pritzker has said that he will make accountability his cause. ICE and CBP are today's KKK

Seth Moulton is nobody's idea of a left-wing Dem. (Four-tour USMC veteran of Iraq; multi-term Congressman from MA; now running against Ed Markey for Senate this year.) The righteous fury in this message is how decent Americans should feel.

Pretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry. It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.

The gun was removed by agents from his waistband - he was never pointing it at them. He was already disarmed when they fired "defensive shots," killing him. They then fired several shots at his lifeless body.

597.

Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope. To you do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To you do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.

Footage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.

What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?

real soul of the nation stuff do you want a state made up of masked guys doing murder in the street or civil servants researching cancer at the va

Our initial analysis is up. The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot. He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.

"The apotheosis of conservatism."

There were six or seven agents, trying to harm a man who looks unarmed and still they murdered him in broad daylight. These ICE agents are venal, incompetent, cowardly and this type of execution will keep on happening because they are an unchecked paramilitary force of scared men who crave power.

The man fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis this morning has been identified as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

1) Doesn’t say he was wielding it, just that he had it. 2) Doesn’t match the video anyway. 3) DHS has lied in exactly this way after shooting someone before. bsky.app/profile/ms.n...

The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...

Not just the gestapo, now a death squad.

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

DOGE is behind the plans to shut down NCAR... so billionaires don't care about NCAR because they have private meteorologists, but what does that mean for everyone else? Use this link to help #saveNCAR! : tr.ee/save-ncar www.today.com/video/meet-t...

Many of us have been pointing out that the readiness with which these agents have drawn weapons, and gotten their fingers anywhere near the trigger, is WILDLY contrary to best practices and the sort of thing that inevitably leads to people getting shot.

Five or six men on one, wrestling a man to the ground, shooting him when he’s restrained and prone…

And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall. Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

Arbitrary and impune.

"Vance’s position is that even if they’re doing things by the book, they’re nonetheless here illegitimately. Period. We’ve seen this in other contexts: In 2024, he claimed that those 'dog-eating' Haitians were also here illegally. Most were here lawfully under a form of humanitarian protection."

"Experts on the formation of internal security services in authoritarian regimes point to a sense of impunity as a warning sign." - @donmoyn.bsky.social, quoted in this piece. As I try to show, Vance has contributed heavily to ICE's sense of impunity while spinning it all in "reasonable" tones:

So, on the one hand, lying, and on the other hand, lying.

“It appears to be the first time in Oregon that Trump administration immigration authorities have detained an entire family unit, and is one of a few rare cases of immigrants being detained while seeking medical care.”

It's very cold across most of the country, so to counteract that, quote-post a favorite photo from a summertime baseball game. At San Antonio Missions.

WHO removing Us Flag

There is evil and then there is this

It isn’t healthy to be this angry all the time. But it also isn’t healthy if this doesn’t make you angry.

Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.