Trump’s illegal domestic deployments cost taxpayers $496 million—and counting. Including $21 million in Illinois. There’s no money for health care. But half a billion to waste on intimidating Americans in their own communities.

Ilhan Omar: “He was saved by security”

News Movement posted this video of Alex Pretti on Jan 13, showing him spitting at ICE agents and kicking their taillight. Now conservatives are suggesting this changes things. That would mean they are suggesting he deserved to be target of an extrajudicial execution. The video changes nothing.

Warren: "I know there are Republicans right now who are seeing what we're seeing in MN, and they know it's wrong. It's time to speak out. Silence is complicity. Grow a spine, show some backbone. Being 'disturbed' doesn't change anything and the ICE agents who are waving around loaded guns know it."

"According to Paweł Sawicki, the TikTok algorithm is so polarizing that any users who viewed truthful material about Auschwitz would likely be served denialist content in relatively short order."

America must remain unbreakable. Trump and his enablers have bent us out of shape and stressed the very foundation of this Republic to appease our most aggressive foreign adversaries, but I’ve always believed in our darkest hour, Americans will be unbreakable.

Given the earnings Tesla just reported, it makes sense to shift money they don’t have out of making cars they can’t sell and into a speculative AI venture focused on hallucinatory non-consensual nude image generation.

"Allowing the crime scene to be contaminated then covering the victim’s weapon with fingerprints will make it much harder to investigate the case, much less prosecute it. But of course federal officials never intended to do either. Indeed, the coverup was underway immediately." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Compare Ilhan Omar to the cowardly white men of the GOP...

That's a brave human being.

[hushed david attenborough voiceover] watch closely for a rare sighting of the elusive head of the Leopards Eating Faces party

I’m glad that Congresswoman Omar is safe. Our state has been shattered by political violence in the last year. The cruel, inflammatory, dehumanizing rhetoric by our nation’s leaders needs to stop immediately. www.startribune.com/man-tackled-...

"Senator Chuck Grassley, a lifelong Iowan, has served on the Senate Judiciary Committee since 1981, when he was first sworn into the U.S. Senate." www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/chair He questioned and voted on every single justice on the U.S. Supreme Court during their confirmation hearings.

Trump did this. Measles is deadly.

People lost their jobs for not expressing appropriate sympathy for Charlie Kirk.

Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.

Uh. So ICE just technically tried to invade Ecuador. Cool new international incident dropping.

It would be better to investigate actual crimes, such as public executions. Also: whenever these characters use the term “law enforcement” it is a tipoff that they are talking about an act that is questionable or downright illegal. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

But it's so unlike the Trump administration to prey on children

No one’s shocked the Trump Administration isn't pursuing a civil rights investigation into the killing of Alex Pretti. But everyone should be deeply disturbed. There is no lie they won't tell to evade accountability. Congress must force our watchdogs to hold independent investigations immediately.

He spent decades bringing the religious right to power. Now he's marching to undo it. Rev. Rob Schenck spent decades helping build the Religious Right—commingling church and state to advance conservative causes. Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause.

No matter how you slice it, ICE’s actions are the preeminent kitchen-table problem for everyone, whether you are balancing your books or sheltering your family from their latest campaign of brutality. trib.al/KVaTqwu

He made sure to get the regime’s tagline in there. Anyone who doesn’t like the violent abuse along with the suspension of constitutional rights is “refusing to cooperate” with the abusers.

Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.” Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.

these guys are LARPing like siege commanders talking about "supply lines" rightoids literally cannot comprehend the idea of a community caring for their own; these people live in Minneapolis their supply line is a five minute drive to the grocery store

Dana Bash grills Bovino to provide any evidence that Alex Pretti "assaulted law enforcement" and Bovino has absolutely nothing

Be on the lookout for these violent murderers. They are Armed & Dangerous and impersonating Law Enforcement. Past interactions show aggressive, erratic and violent behavior. Protect yourself and your neighbors.

“Today is a dark day. You may feel afraid. You may ask yourself: could I be next? And if you have to ask, the answer is yes So relieve yourself from the slow-motion uncertaintly of the inevitable. And join together in a collective rage To stop these motherfuckers.” kevinjamesthornton.bsky.social

“We should also call what happened to Alex Pretti an execution because, as we learned in the hours that followed, the monstrous Trump regime essentially sanctioned this killing in the rush to exonerate the perpetrators and blame the victim.” www.americaamerica.news/p/the-execut...

Increasingly inclined to believe that the first civil defense against the ICE Boys invasion will need to happen in a Red state to make enacting the Insurrection Act a more difficult choice for the Trump Regime.

1/8 I'm noticing something in the online discourse. There was plenty of discussion about the shooting of Renee Good in conservative spaces, but not much disagreement about whether it was lawful. That is not the case with Alex Pretti.

Paul explains here that if he did this to a Taliban combatant in Afghanistan, after having clearly disarmed him, he would have been court-martialed and gone to jail. Worth listening to him. He's angry. Everyone should be.

cosigned. this is def worth watching. very good, methodical breakdown of what happened from a person with a military/DHS background.

This is Alex Pretti.

ICE officer seen clapping in applause after another street execution.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an ICU nurse. 😢💔🙏 He spent his life helping people, and now our government is peddling lies in an attempt to make you believe them.

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

once again i am asking literally anyone in a position of power to do literally anything so that our neighbors stop getting fucking murdered in the street

Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara: "The video speaks for itself. We have identified this person - 37-year-old, white male, resident of the city. The only interaction that we are aware of with law enforcement has been for traffic tickets and we believe he is a lawfully gun owner with a permit to carry"

I go on this great republican principle, that the people will have virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom. Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks - no form of government can render us secure. James Madison, 1788

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

Why is Dem leadership not on the ground in MN? If the answer is “polls show Trump’s disapproval is only -15 on deportations, but -25 on prices,” thats a Bad Use Of Polling and a complete failure in their capacity as leaders to lead public opinion and fight for democracy and the rule of law

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

ICE is just Proud Boy domestic terrorists equipped and deputized by the lawless thug in the tacky, gilded Oval Office.

The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."

I think they might mistake our courage and our solidarity for a lack of fear, and that if they can make us scared enough we'll make ourselves small. That won't work, because we're all terrified and we're SHOWING UP ANYWAY with love and compassion and joy and care.

Interesting how all the gun rights absolutism melts away in defense of federal death squads -- who are allegedly the reason for gun rights absolutism.

This is apparently on X. I have a few concerns: 1) why is DHS sending photos of (alleged) evidence that should be in a secure chain of custody that is now lying on a car seat??? and 2) being armed does not on its own justify the use of deadly force — there has to be evidence he was trying to use it

Even presuming this is true, possessing a gun is completely legal if he had the appropriate permit. They're not even claiming he pulled it or brandished it, just that he had one. That's no reason to execute someone.