I am asking you, at 11:15 Eastern time, to watch to the end of this clip from WE RATE DOGS. I wasn’t ready (even though I fully agree…)

Keep talking to your not-terminally-online friends & family!

Gift Link. 🎁 Worth the read/listen.

another laudable headline, and the first time i’ve seen this: “While Pretti was legally licensed to have a gun, it is unclear whether he had one on his person at the time of the incident, and the videos do not show him ever having one in his hand.”

Timeline: How the Shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti Unfolded (Gift Article). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The US government is at war against its citizens.

He was helping people until his last breath. That’s what healthcare providers do. It’s not just a job, it’s about caring for your fellow humans on the worst days of their lives. and Alex was executed for it.

We are calling our senators right now and demanding that they vote no on the omnibus with DHS funding We are explicitly mentioning ICE’s murder in cold blood of a man on the streets of Minneapolis this morning

If you're in New York, please take two minutes right now to call Governor Hochul and tell her to support and sign New York 4 All, which would prevent state and local agencies from collaborating with ICE. 518-474-8390. This is important.

I have a gas mask because I got tear gassed multiple times as a totally nonviolent observer and thought “not next time.” When you launch billowing clouds of tear gas in my city EVERY SINGLE DAY it’s not really rocket science.

Even now, even through all of this, the rapid responders in Uptown have continued to locate, pursue, and monitor ICE vehicles. They never stop. Heroes one and all

that's right big man

tonight:

They lied at Kent State in 1970. It was all the same fabrications and exaggerations and misinformation. The difference between then and now is that there will be more than one photo for evidence as long as these courageous people keep turning up to document everything.

We were/are told by Trump1/Biden/Trump2, the media, & business that there's nothing to fear (any longer) from Covid. Being told to NOT fear ACTUAL dangers (& removing protections like free PCR tests) is also a huge threat to our society that hurts BIPOC, poor, & disabled folks the most....

Once again, observers are not protesting. This wasn’t during a protest. He was murdered while being in his community and observing the out of control federal occupation of our city.

living sainthood, in a real way, is walking out to do the ordinary, dangerous thing of insisting on your neighbor's dignity in a world that will kill you for it. holy holy holy

This was Alex J. Pretti. Like me, he was a career #VA employee; I wear a PIV card on a lanyard just as he does in this photo. He was an ICU nurse, someone who kept #Veterans alive. And his own government murdered him in broad daylight. #AlexPretti #ICE #Trump #Murder #Terrorism #DHS #Bovino #Noem

I think there's a gender element in this murder, too. In new vid, we see victim try to shield a much smaller woman a male ICE goon has violently knocked down. Goon enraged, focuses his attack on man shielding woman. As if enraged for showing up his masculinity, for revealing his hysteria.

Not only are you complying in advance when you watch them lie from behind a podium and conclude “everybody is going to believe this,” you’re also just wrong. Stop concluding that the 10 dumbest people you went to high school with who you still follow on Facebook are representative of public opinion.

they don’t even have the “she was driving a car” horseshit they used to smear Renee Good, they just wrestled this guy to the ground and shot him and it’s all right there for anyone to see

in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission

Once again the people who wave the Gadsden Flag will be cheering the murder of someone who did more to live up to the ideals of "Don't Tread on Me" than any MAGA bootlicker ever has

A reason Black people told everyone to take police shootings seriously is because government sanctioned violence doesn’t occur in isolation. Every justification/defense emboldens them and pushes them towards widespread sanctioned violence knowing society will justify its use no matter how egregious.

I recommend not watching the videos, which are chaotic and gut-wrenching, and instead going through Bellingcat's analysis. This man appeared to be zero threat, while the officers were overly-aggressive, agitated, and clearly primed to used lethal force.

Yes, that’s exactly it. The whole reason they’re there is they want revenge for the George Floyd protests

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

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You can get details from this thread without watching any video

Google Scholar has at least two posters, both relating to RNA cancer therapies, co-authored by an Alex J. Pretti affiliated with a gene therapy company headquartered in the MSP suburbs.

they murdered a VA nurse. he provides health care for vets and they shot him on the sidewalk like a rabid dog. like he was nothing, like he meant nothing. he saved lives and that’s what he was out there to do, and for it, they took his.

I work for a state agency and literally every single day our HR is disciplining employees for minor and major violations of policy and rules, and I have to declare if someone buys me a coffee, but if you work for ICE/DHS or are in cabinet, you can murder and take bribes and it’s all cool.

Another fact that people outside of MN might find hard to believe: I cannot participate in any kind of observation of ice activities because they will put me in a database, and follow me when I make deliveries of supplies to vulnerable people, so they can abduct them.

“Covid testing has declined. We can therefore no longer be sure who has had Covid-19. That creates methodological problems…When very few people test, it becomes much harder to link symptoms to Covid-19” As govts worldwide intended when they made testing vanish—eliminating accountability & liability

I blame all the Covid minimizers. Your actions have consequences.

These signs bring me joy. 😂💜🔥

emily oster hasn't mentioned minnesota or ICE's occupation induced school absences at all on The Everything App btw

This will be a defining moment for the ordinary liberal. It’s an incredible opportunity to shift well-meaning people away from credulous analysis based on what people in power *say* to analysis based on what systems, structures, and institutions *actually do.”

It's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason

This is the giveaway that it has zero to do with criminals. Cops aren't about to stop arresting a serial killer if there was a large crowd booing them and honking. ICE is trying to menace a community. Inflict violence and terror.

A pregnant woman with two American-born children — including a breastfeeding infant — is awaiting deportation in a Louisiana immigration detention facility. She has been separated from her family for more than three weeks — she is bleeding, and has not seen a doctor: 19thnews.org/2026/01/preg...

Here is the newly-unsealed State Department memo confirming -- finally -- that the detention of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk was based on an op-ed. No antisemitic activity. No support of terrorism. An op-ed in a student newspaper. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

Shocked at how big the crowd is in Minneapolis. Don’t know an exact number but it’s in the many, many thousands. It is so cold your tears freeze to your face and your hands ache and yet people are here.

All of this. Disrupt the “violence comes from emotions running too high” narrative whenever you can. Patriarchal violence doesn’t come from someone losing control. It comes from someone using a very specific set of tactics to seek more control than they already have.

The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

This is the real story.

"NPS dismantled exhibits about slavery at President’s House. Most passages that were flagged seemingly respond to “disparagement of historical figures” part of Trump’s order. Employees flagged use of words “profoundly disturbing” to describe Washington transporting enslaved ppl between VA & PA."

Given the news about erasing the history of slavery, this story is a must-read about why learning and studying history matters. @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social