Counterpoint: They were trained to be this way. More training is not the answer. Defund and abolish is the only option.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Yup, get rid of the whole rotten apparatus. Rip it out from the ground up.

There's apparently body cam footage of Alex's murder. Do people know this? This lets you know that a demand for body cams is USELESS and in fact just a way to give more money to the killers.

Fucking nightmarish that this I’m reupping this, but reports are now coming out that it was Border Patrol Officers, members of CBP, working under little-Nazi-trench-coat-Greg-Bovino who murdered Alex Jeffrey Pretti today. ICE =/= CBP, although they are both under DHS. This is why it matters.

we are learning but so are they and we have to be vigilant and keep preparing

A very short list and the league with the biggest balls is the WNBA, as usual.

If you choose not to take a stand, you've taken a stand. And it's an absolute garbage one.

Both Good and Pretti were pretty clearly killed as a result of violent brutes freaking out but they should also be understood in the context of someone the feds failed to kill living to prove them liars

This isn't changing my mind about the team

"We are literally named after the magic orbs Sauron used to spy on the elites of all nations, to feed them propaganda, and to ultimately mind control them, what did you expect"

Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."

Hard to care about a very silent USWNT

As Thomas Ricks showed in WAGING A GOOD WAR, social protests like the civil rights movement often adopt the same strategies as military insurgencies -- raids, campaigns, sieges, etc. I agree that anti-ICE protesters "clearly studied the playbook" but it's histories of MLK and SNCC they're studying

this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming. no, those people shouldn’t get a break.

Two weeks ago this guy announced he was providing legal help to the agent who shot Renee Good. That's how quickly the winds are shifting.

Make no mistake, we are now seeing white American citizens being murdered by law enforcement because we never truly addressed the way our law enforcement treats Black Americans. If we do not help each other, it’s only a matter of time before we all lose. Our liberation is tied together.

Heyo, Chicago pals: Quick note that the executive vice president of the Bob Loquercio Auto Group is vociferously defending the murder of Alex Pretti. The auto group has 16 locations in and around Chicago, listed below. Please take your business elsewhere. www.blautogroup.com/locations/in...

We silently held up ABOLISH ICE signs during the anthem, and security came to our seats and said if we didn't hand them over they would have LASD remove us from the game. I asked if it was the stadium rules, and security said it was the team's decision. So there's that.

I think about Philando Castille often. He did everything right, he was driving with his family, he was a good man who did food nutrition work for schools. It was a clear cut racist stop and use of his owning of a firearm as a posthoc justification to murder him, and the NRA said nothing about it.

The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons | HISTORY share.google/MKqqnmqTwNNP... Rights in this country are always contingent on who they apply to.

When the bad ideas make it out of the group chat

The only thing safe in America right now is the Epstein Files.

thankfully, these two are still around the game and setting an example that i hope will one day click with someone from the new generation

Our thoughts are with the people in Minnesota and across the country who are bravely standing up for their neighbors despite violence committed by ICE. If you are looking for a way to support the people of Minnesota, we want to highlight the work being done by the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund.

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

She walked right into the church and challenged the people doing harm directly But supporting her means admitting we’ve been doing this wrong for the past five years And people would rather America explode than admit that STILL

Democrats, retired or in office, who act like only the 7 who voted for the ICE funding bill are to blame need to shut the fuck up. House Dems *didn't whip the vote.* That is a profoundly clear statement of support for ICE. People are being executed in the street and you didn't whip the fucking vote.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...

An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting. Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi... 📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune

New Coach Mak Lind: “I would say, first of all, we need to score more goals,” Lind said Friday. “My coaching philosophy has been that: Try to score many goals. I’m obsessed with scoring goals, so that’s going to be a main focus … and I’m confident enough that we’re going to play [in the] playoffs."

What an amazing group of people. A fantastic panel to start day 2

The people whose racism took them far too long to acknowledge this was fascism are being rewarded for it. And they are more concerned with cementing their positions and hiding their enabling than actually fighting the fascism

We certainly hope so

Mak Lind officially joins the Courage as has coach.

FURTher

How many woso supporters can fit in a Photo Booth at once

locked in? bro i’m tucked in

It’s getting harder and harder each year to get every NWSL representative in a single photo. What a great problem 🖤 #MileHISC

The Trump administration tries to downplay protests -- No Kings, no-ICE -- but I don't remember protests against any other administration even close to these since anti-Vietnam protests against LBJ in 1967-68.

Holy shit

It’s really a shame to see NWSL teams not reschedule a Juneteenth game in the same way they do for Pride night

What they were willing to do to Black people, and immigrants. They saw accepted and now they think they can do go everyone And they will make sure one of the targets demographic always gives them clearance

Wow, I'm glad everyone complied in advance

Stop embarrassing me, NC

Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since. That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.

Everybody shut the fuck up and pay attention to the most important thing happening at this moment.