One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Honestly never thought about buying a gun to protect myself from a federal government goon squad until today.

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.

I’m trying to understand Republicans’ latest interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. You can now be executed by federal agents if you possess a firearm? Even after you are disarmed? I’m just trying to keep your position straight on this “shall not be infringed” stuff.

All of these people turning up in Raleigh, North Carolina to see Buddhist Monks walking for peace. Whilst the United States government is executing people on the streets. And Christians with crosses in their profiles cheering on the executions, saying FAFO!!

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This is Alex Pretti.

For tyrants, cruelty and dishonesty are necessary to control people through fear and ignorance.

🚨 NEW — Statement from the family of Alex Pretti: "We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital... 1/

The seven Democrats who sided with Republicans on ICE funding were Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas), Jared Golden (Maine), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Laura Gillen (N.Y.), Don Davis (N.C.), Tom Suozzi (N.Y.) and Vicente Gonzalez (Texas). The 8 you posted voted against the ACA extension. Fuckemall

Republicans, who have the power to stop this, do nothing.

The reality is that 2024 was a fundamental test of the moral character of the nation and we failed spectacularly. We’re living with the consequences now. Maybe we improve. I hope so.

no white man is going to convince me that I—the target of white nationalist aggression—am the cause of white nationalism

Donald Trump and Kristi Noem have transformed ICE into their own secret police. They tear gassed kids on Halloween in Chicago, snatched mothers from their children in Connecticut, and executed an American citizen in Minneapolis. This culture of lawlessness needs to end NOW. @RepJohnLarson

Cowardly ICE thugs attack people exercising their 1st amendment rights. Waiting for them to attack people exercising their 2nd amendment rights. Where is that mythical “good guy with a gun”? There’s always a coward with a gun ready to kill. Never a hero with a gun ready to protect.

Don’t accept evil in your life #MLKDay

#MLKDay ✊🏾 #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory

Americans Should Understand MLK, Jr.’s True Legacy open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

☮️ and 💟

This is how authoritarian systems operate. Create a false problem, amplify fear, then use enforcement to suppress opposition. Different label. Same playbook. #SurvivorMusic #PathologicalAbuse #PathologicalPlaybook #DecodeIt #NameIt #RecordIt #TruthWarriors #NoKings #Resistance #Awareness

Sorry, but I’m not mad at this. Are you? Or is it, “2A for me, but not for thee”?

If ICE was doing nothing illegal then they wouldn’t care if you recorded them. If ICE were really being assaulted by “violent rioters” then they would welcome people recording it. Everyone knows the reason they hide their faces and stop bystanders from recording is because they are lawless goons.

Meanwhile on Twitter.

For Pierce Morgan to know what evil is speaks volumes!

Those who don't push back will be trampled. Anyone who doesn't realize this after five years of Donald Trump's presidency would do well to wake up and take up the challenge.

As you already well know by now, it's all lies. Every single thing anyone in this entire administration says is a lie. All of it. Every time.

👹 Fred Trump (Trump's dad) destroyed a black community & caused several deaths at Coney Island. Destruction & exploited resources www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6XC...

I found this very interesting perspective thread on FB.

Please post this at your door and never answer your door to these domestic terrorists

Every single military personnel, retired, veteran, currently serving must adhere to the oath they took. Defend the Constitution against ALL ENEMIES foreign and DOMESTIC. We have an enemy residing in the WH.

Imagine claiming you hated a vile pedophile so much that you flew around in his old plane for your campaign (it says "trump 2024") FIVE YEARS AFTER HE DIED... ... and STILL can't bring yourself to call him anything worse than "creep."

Trump threatens the people of Minnesota just days after his ICE agents murder a woman and as federal agents continue to terrorize communities: “FEAR NOT, GREAT PEOPLE OF MINNESOTA, THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING!”

Looks like the regime has put JD in charge of bullshit.

This video is the perfect encapsulation of the illegal, thuggish, unprovoked, violent conduct of ICE. Rep. @benniethompson.bsky.social, I trust that you and the House Homeland Security Committee will have interest in this.