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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

And guess what? We've got a criminal statute for that:

A good and useful video, to be prepared. Because Republicans are making the USA a fascist police state.

Thank you, Citizen!

I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis. If not, why not?

The American state media attacked President Biden more fiercely over his age whilst he was doing good work than they have with orange felon murdering citizens, arresting journalists, terrorizing immigrants and robbing the country blind. They deliberately failed humanity.

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

Dems should call out Republican support for Trump's fascism project. It's not just Trump. The entire GOP is corrupt to the core. Let's not permit them to act like victims down the road, or to rehabilitate their party image. The Republican Party is a fascist party.

There's video of Don Lemon outside the protest stating explicitly: "I'm just chronicling. I'm not with the group." Bondi went to grand jury for an indictment after the courts declined to approve arrest warrant *twice.* Legal experts explain here why this is so ugly: newrepublic.com/article/2059...

Gift link. Journalists Georgia Fort, Don Lemon among 4 arrested over protest during St. Paul church service Republican fascists continue their war against the US Constitution, today trampling further upon the First Amendment. www.startribune.com/journalists-...

Federal agents cornered Marimar Martinez, shot her several times, boasted about it, arrested her, lied about her to the public and in the police report, and falsely charged her with assaulting them. Now the government wants to keep evidence of their lies secret to protect these agents' "privacy."

Yet the TSLA stock price somehow remains near an all-time high! Looks very fishy. #TeslaTakedown

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Stella Carlson - known as "Pink Jacket Lady" - is a hero! Anderson Cooper is gentle as she recounts how her phone & whistle don't feel like enough. And yet, with them, she created irrefutable evidence of Alex Pretti's murder. And now gives a sincere & articulate call for justice.

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

The contrasts in Thomas Nast's work on this front are incredible

Kaine: "I'd like to talk about the complete weakness of the legal rationale about the strikes on boats, but I can't because the administration has only shared it in a classified setting. I can't tell you why the rationale for attacking VZ is hollow because again it was shared in a closed setting"

Apple sucks.

Look, if you had a party scheduled at your house, and the pipes broke and the floor was covered in raw sewage, you’d tell your friends not to come over. In that spirit: world, skip the World Cup until we get this sewage worked out. And don’t be too sure about the Olympics.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Rep Omar showed courage and poise. And Republican hatemongering is dangerous.

Shoot first; don't ask questions later.

This man should be president.

Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan. Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”

Mike Johnson was covering up child rape a full year before Pam Bondi made it trendy.

Any NFL stadium do a moment of silence for Alex Pretti today? No? Multiple stadiums did one for Charlie Kirk. Hmmmm. I wonder why. 😡 ABOLISH ICE

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

"People who talk about themselves are boring. People who talk about other people are interesting. People who talk about YOU are FASCINATING!" -Ann Landers

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Good news. State and local prosecutors are suing the Trump gang to secure evidence from the killing of Alex Pretti. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Lock them up. All of them. Now.

Set phones to automatically backup pics and video to a cloud. Let's improve our tactics. www.popularmechanics.com/technology/g...

How about looking at some tactics from the Hong Kong protests a few years ago? They were sophisticated and well organized. www.popularmechanics.com/technology/g...

Caught directly in a lie

#TeslaTakedown Or, Tesl taking down itself.

Here’s the report www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Harrowing NY Times expose of the FBI, with some operational details of Minneapolis investigations & comments from ex-agents on the current federal occupation. The FBI is more fucked than you expect, which makes them less effective AND more dangerous. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... (gift link)

"Start arresting federal officers who are committing state crimes." @glennkirschner.bsky.social told @deanobeidallah.bsky.social that local police and national guard members need to be standing up and protecting residents from ICE.

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers. I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide.

@baldwin.senate.gov I don't understand why you cannot speak as plainly about the threat posed by ICE. Where are you? Wisconsin's Hmong are in the crosshairs. Where are you?

I spoke to a friend on the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota board. They need financial donations to keep up with the heightened demand for their services: www.ilcm.org ILCM is a nonprofit that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in MN & ND

🚨"I'm a nurse...my brown patients are choosing to stop chemo because they do not want to be abducted." -ICE protester tells JT Cestkowski about sick Minnesotans foregoing cancer treatment because of ICE terror. LIVE NOW ⬇️

This is pure, unabashed bigotry. If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party. But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence. A stain on our Congress.

Gift link for good commentary. "They have been given limitless license to abduct anyone — not just the undocumented immigrants, but American citizens who happen to look foreign, whatever that might mean. Even Native Americans..." From @polgreen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Trump serves Putin. Repeatedly, Trump's actions benefit Putin.

“I started screaming with everything I had, because I couldn’t even breathe,” 10th grader Arnoldo Bazan told ProPublica, showing where the agent’s hands had closed around his throat. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die.” By @nicolefoy.bsky.social and @mckenziefunk.com