BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Keep the cameras rolling. Stay on the edge of the crowd. Safety first, story second. Here are 25 guidelines for journalists to safely cover unrest: www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

Greenland's mining minister has rejected US attempts to carve up her island's mineral resources, saying no external power should decide the fate of its vast natural wealth. "Everything is on the table except [our] sovereignty," the minister said, contradicting Trump. www.politico.eu/article/gree...

“Air Force veteran, who was Alex Pretti's patient 2 weeks ago, recalls how the nurse ‘comforted' and ‘helped' him. "'I'm saddened to the deepest part of my heart,’ veteran Sonny Fouts, 71, tells @people.com of Pretti's death.” people.com/alex-pretti-...

One of my tasks this week has been compiling statements of small businesses who chose to close on Jan. 23 in solidarity with the General Strike. Here are my take-aways after reading more than 1000 of these statements from 79 cities and towns across Minnesota:

New York City's swift snow removal under Mayor Zohran Mamdani is harkening back to the days of a so-called "sewer socialism" that wielded government services to combat day-to-day problems for city residents.

Freelancers continue to provide some of the best, most innovative coverage of communities' fight against the Trump administration's deportation forces. Today, for @prismreports.org, freelancer Ankur Singh wrote about the role workers played organizing Minneapolis' citywide shutdown.

So we know how far off the mark the center-left intelligentsia has been on the issue we're seeing unfold, the Center for American Progress's immigration framework doesn't mention ICE a single time. www.americanprogress.org/article/a-ne...

Just one day after tens of thousands of Minnesotans peacefully protested ICE’s operations, our AFGE union brother Alex Jeffrey Pretti was killed by federal agents. ICE must immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed.

On Friday, many in the labor movmement celebrated the success of the Minnesota General Strike! On Saturday, we mourned the execution of one of our union members

A number of responders were quite opposed to the idea of giving ridealongs to The Atlantic (I understand their frustration with the outlet). But I drove these guys around for two hours and they witnessed abductions, confrontations with the public, tear-gassings. The lesson: let the world see.

This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.

Before speaking with two armed men at the Pretti vigil last night, a man approached & asked if I was going to tell the truth. I said yes. He told me how frustrated he was at the media & the harm it’s causing to his community. I asked if he wanted to share words for the media on camera, & he did:

We are now seeing the highest gold and silver futures prices ever. This links directly to heavy speculation against the US dollar based on a sense that the US is now experiencing its worst economic misadministration in the period after World War II.

Things not slowing down in Minneapolis

Minneapolis police are facilitating ICE and making it more difficult for protestors by arresting people

COACH KERR: “Their group (the Minnesota Timberwolves) was suffering. It was one of the most bizarre, sad games I’ve ever been a part of.” (From Anthony Slater)

Pittsburgh Regional Transit had to suspends bus cuz they are no snow plows in Pittsburgh. We are 60 plows short of where we need to be. Mamdani got 2,000 garbage trucks and put plows on them. Instead, Corey O’Connor is focused on cutting rules to help developers. www.wpxi.com/news/local/p...

NEWS from inside the Senate Dem meeting tonight: 1-Schumer has the votes to block the DHS funding bill 2-They're going to ask for real investigations into the murders (including an end to impeding the state/local investigations), an end to masks and arrest quotas. (cont'd)

WaPo to lay off 300 - just wow!

On Friday, many in the labor movmement celebrated the success of the Minnesota General Strike! On Saturday, we mourned the execution of one of our union members

The senseless murder of Alex Pretti is finally showing everyday folks that the Trump regime is beyond any redemption. And in an anti-religious age, it's sparked a quest for a new American morality It's beyond politics now. This is about good vs. evil My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/minn...

ICE has killed 9 people so far in the first 25 days of 2026. Alex Pretti Renee Good Keith Porter Heber Sanchaz Domínguez Victor Manuel Diaz Parady La Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres Geraldo Lunas Campos They all deserve remembrance and justice.

HEY MEDIA: I think when pro sports teams are holding memorials for the people the administration has declared terrorists, it’s safe to drop the “accounts differ” pretense and move on to “the administration attempts to smear the man it murdered”

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."

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

When ICE is killing Minnesotans left and right, everyone's voice matters. This is no time to sit on the fence.

"As governors, we urge leaders at all levels to exercise wisdom and consider a reset of strategy toward a unified vision for immigration enforcement." www.nga.org/advocacy-com...

Minneapolis labor leaders & Alex Pretti’s neighbors holding a meeting today to discuss extending the general strike at the United Labor Center!

loring park vigil for alex pretti, who was killed by ICE in minneapolis this morning

This is what bias looks like. Shutdown enjoys the presumption it’s worse than funding DHS... so “objective” media describe a possible shutdown as a risk. PS It wouldn’t even be the entire govt shut down.

AP reports on how an ICE agent, after the shooting, told “Boo hoo” to protesters. apnews.com/article/immi...

so I went to r/climbing to check the reaction to Honnold free soloing Taipei 101 and the top post on the subreddit is a picture of Alex Pretti outdoors next to a rock face with the title “ICU nurse Alex Pretti, killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis today” it has 56000 upvotes

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

"​If NBA players refuse to play tomorrow, it could create even more momentum for those advocating for a general strike."

Martyr for democracy

The ICE and Border Patrol unions are both part of AFGE, as is the ICU nurse from the VA murdered today. The civil war has come to the labor movement and the @AFLCIO will have to make a choice. AFGE is the largest federal union by far.

A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN: "I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind." and "The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back." Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Alex Pretti was a union member of AFGE Local 3699 His murder increases the likelihood of another general strike in Minneapolis. My newsletter looks at what’s next as labor responds to his murder by ICE agent

Mood in minneapolis right now

Alex Pretti was a union member of AFGE Local 3699 His murder increases the likelihood of another general strike in Minneapolis. My newsletter looks at what’s next as labor responds to his murder by ICE agent

Minnesota’s justice system will have the last word.

I found this bit, by a journalist who has written about CBP and ICE for many years, to be really instructive on how shockingly and persistently lawless those agencies, and especially CBP, have been for their entire existence, for more or less the same reason. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...

Indeed. prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...

We need a NATIONAL general strike.

Alex J. Pretti was a member of AFGE Local 3669, according to a statement brought by AFGE. The murder of a union member is only likely to increase calls for a general strike.