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.

He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.

ICE thinks Minnesotans will eventually give up, it’s like they’re unfamiliar with Vikings fandom

This is about immigration enforcement like Montgomery was about transit policy

The killings will continue until you give us the state voter rolls

That is because it was mostly women and Black people pointing it out

As it happens, Alex Pretti apparently had a carry permit. THAT DOESN'T MATTER, because he *didn't draw a gun.* Even had he possessed an illegal gun, this would still be murder. His alleged gun is a DHS red herring; it doesn't matter. We do not need to debate it one way or other.

this is it. this is the level. this is the standard for democratic officials. anything less is intolerable.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

The federal government is gunning people down in the streets, lying about what happened and then preventing any independent investigation of the killings

American survived without ICE from 1776 to 2003

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

This would be a really good moment for Democrats to start acting more like a political party than a Ponzi scheme.

"We have to help people understand what is (the current, shared reality), we must collectively imagine what can be (a future possibility), & we have to diligently labor for what must be (organizing to sustain life/​livingness & for liberation)." @prisonculture.bsky.social on how to move forward.

Kyle Rittenhouse says hi.

this PAC, “democratic youth wave,” has poured over $100,000 into a single delaware based corporation with a generic sounding name that came into existence shortly after the PAC was formed in 2024. they’re using this man’s murder to fundraise for some vague fucking grift.

Multiple officials of the US federal government are spending their day rather blatantly obstructing Minnesota law enforcement and covering up a murder.

My kitchen table issue is “don’t shoot people at their kitchen tables”

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

alt headline: “the immigrant wife of an american president with armed gangs of thugs killing citizens on the streets is screening her vanity project funded by a massive political bribe from one of the wealthiest men in the world”

@markwarner.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov we don't want any funds going to ICE for any reason. This isn't about a lack of training, it's about an excess of cruelty and hatred. We need to stop funding these lawless murderers and start prosecuting them.

Walz: "There's a whole lot of Republicans who for whatever reason cannot find their spine, but they might find the ability to know they're not gonna win another election as long as they live unless they stand up for what's right, the rule of law, and human decency."

The package with ICE funding will be in the Senate this week and will need Democratic votes to advance.

Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.

The man killed by ICE was Alex Pretti, a 37-year old Minneapolis resident, UMN graduate, and licensed nurse. The Star Tribune with information we know at the moment: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

What's making me really livid right now is thinking back to the years of commentary lecturing us that the rise of MAGA was rooted in a sense of righteous victimization by overbearing liberal elites, and sneering at those who insisted that it was fundamentally about domination and sadism all along.

I attempted to go to an ICE patrol training here in LA this morning and they had to turn most of us away because of capacity issues and even as I was leaving I saw a ton more folks showing up so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

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.

Should be noted that there was another person there and ICE assaulted her - you just can't see it because it was behind the car.

You can get details from this thread without watching any video

It’s funny that there was bipartisan consensus to do this.

Appears this is also true for fascism.

Extrajudicial killings are not the sign of a strong regime but they may be the portent of a bloody one.

Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.

At the very least every Democratic officeholder or candidate should be calling for the impeachment and/or arrest of Noem, Homan, and Bovino. Bare minimum.

Criminal tribunals will be the bare minimum, and are the modest response under the circumstances

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

All those people downtown yesterday, no ICE involvement, and not one incident. ICE shows up in a neighborhood and now another Minnesotan is dead. It's pretty obvious who the violent outside agitators are.

"It's like Call of Duty! So cool, huh?"

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

Super-rich chatgroups (and their own posts) have shown they have a whole universe of petty / inexplicable / bigoted / eugenicist grievances that they consider sufficient cause to justify burning down the rule of law, civil order, and international stability that made them rich in the first place.

How regimes behave

Showing cross-racial solidarity is a potential death sentence. There are few things white supremacists hate more.

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street