Jim Hammerand
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Journalist and photographer in the Pacific Northwest (Edmonds, WA)
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Nick Benson
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ICE agents in Eagan, MN, just told me I was “helping criminals” by driving journalists around. What a country!
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Former FBI Deputy Director “Big Nick” Lutsko
1 day ago
RIP Greg Bovino
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Jon Seidel
2 days ago
The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force.
@chicago.suntimes.com
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chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidence
Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's “become an albatross” around her neck and “keeps the en...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/01/26/marimar-martinez-shot-border-patrol-chicago-asks-judge-release-evidence
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Michael Sainato
2 days ago
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
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Elle Ess
2 days ago
They radicalized a full population to understand what a real mutual aid network could be. We won’t stop.
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Minnesota Star Tribune
2 days ago
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota.
bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Casey Martin
2 days ago
Happening now: nurses and staff at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle are holding a vigil for Alex Pretti. Some are out here in their scrubs. People have brought flowers and are writing notes to add to the candles.
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Eileen Clancy đź§ż
3 days ago
Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!
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Tina-Desiree Berg
3 days ago
Federal officers just came in and cleared the protest with tear gas. One officer asked press why we didn’t call 911 when the protesters were destroying the hotel and told us that we are bad Americans. Full video to come on
@statuscoupnews.bsky.social
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Ana Marie Cox
3 days ago
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News
4 days ago
Please note that NYT is leading with what the videos show, not the lies from the feds. This is what every news organization should be doing. This is how you cover a government that lies as it breathes.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice
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Minneapolis Live Updates: Man Killed by Federal Agents Was Holding a Phone, Not a Gun
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice
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unraveled
4 days ago
"Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard. Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds."
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Joanne Freeman
4 days ago
Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.
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Eric Michael Garcia
4 days ago
Pam Bondi said ICE can leave Minnesota if the state government allows the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to access Minnesota’s voter rolls to confirm the state’s voter registration policies comply with federal law.
www.fox9.com/news/minneap...
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Minneapolis shooting: AG Pam Bondi gives Gov. Walz conditions for ICE to leave Minnesota
The United States Attorney General is urging Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to support federal law enforcement efforts and immigration policy, hours after a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident was fatally shot ...
https://www.fox9.com/news/minneapolis-shooting-ag-pam-bondi-urges-gov-walz-support-ice
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Minnesota Star Tribune
4 days ago
Vigils were held around Minneapolis and beyond Saturday night in the wake of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents. Photo and video: Jeff Wheeler, Anthony Souffle, Simon Peter Groebner/The Minnesota Star Tribune.
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Kyle Cheney
4 days ago
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Elle Ess
4 days ago
I was telling someone there is no chance in hell I’d ever go back to prosecuting today. However….there is ONE chance.
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Vince Mpls
4 days ago
Street corners in every neighborhood tonight across Minneapolis. This is Prospect Park, and the wind chill is -16.
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Minneapolis is showing the world how to oppose tyranny and the tide is turning.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
4 days ago
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
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Mehdi Hasan
4 days ago
Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.
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Julia Shumway
4 days ago
Published this
@stateline.org
piece a few hours before feds shot and killed another person: The Department of Homeland Security repeatedly insists its officers acted in self-defense in violent encounters, despite contradicting video and witness statements.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/01/24/r...
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Footage, documents at odds with DHS accounts of immigration enforcement incidents • Oregon Capital Chronicle
As a growing number of encounters between civilians and Department of Homeland Security agents — including the widely scrutinized fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis — are scrutinized in court...
https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/01/24/repub/footage-documents-at-odds-with-dhs-accounts-of-immigration-enforcement-incidents/
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Nick Benson
4 days ago
… and if you’d like to send money so we can buy wholesale, we’ve got that setup now too:
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Brad Lander
4 days ago
Looking for something to do while snowed in tomorrow to respond to the horrors in Minnesota? Join Pramila Jayapal’s virtual
#ResistanceLab
training with
@keithellison.bsky.social
to learn nonviolent resistance tactics that we urgently need in this moment.
www.mobilize.us/pramilaforco...
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Pramila Jayapal's Special Edition Resistance Lab: Stand For Good · Pramila for Congress
Join our special edition Resistance Lab: Stand For Good to honor Renee Good and the communities and individuals brutalized by ICE’s reign of terror. A virtual organizing training led by Congresswoman ...
https://www.mobilize.us/pramilaforcongress/event/876261/?utm_source=pj-social-20260123
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Rebecca Cohen
4 days ago
Alex Jeffrey Pretti, licensed nurse
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Elle Ess
5 days ago
Al’s 4ever
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Doug Mack
4 days ago
Minor point here but Eat Street, where this happened, got that official nickname because it's lined with restaurants from all over the world. It's a beloved symbol of immigrant cultures and a place that showcases pluralism in a state (wrongly but frequently) stereotyped as a land of low-key Swedes
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Nick Benson
4 days ago
We need all of the dashcams we can get in Minnesota ASAFP for ICE observers. You can shoot us cash with a few taps via this link and we’ll order them wholesale and get them deployed to Minneapolis, the suburbs, and beyond:
ottergoose.net/dashcam/
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Dash cams for Minnesota
A crowd-sourcing effort to collect and distribute dash cams in Minnesota to help ICE observers stay safe.
https://ottergoose.net/dashcam/
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Tyler Kingkade
4 days ago
DOJ going to extraordinary measures trying to charge people who protested in a church against a pastor’s affiliation with ICE
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Joshua J. Friedman
4 days ago
"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ... "Next thing I knew, they shot him."
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Taniel
4 days ago
The chief judge of the federal Minnesota district court writes a startling letter — to explain why he hasn't responded to the U.S. government's request that he override a magistrate judge's refusal to arrest protesters.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Jesse
4 days ago
and all it took was crystal clear footage of the entire incident to be filmed and disseminated widely on social media
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Brad Tabke
5 days ago
If you like people that get shit done, help my friends at Mi Casa feed and help Shakopee during this ICE occupation. Donate food and $$ ->
www.givemn.org/organization...
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Support Mi CASA on GiveMN
MI CASA is a non-profit organization founded by a group of six Latina women. They are dedicated to promoting and enhancing healthy lifestyles by raising awareness about mental health, encouraging heal...
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Micasa
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Brad Tabke
5 days ago
Just got off the phone with Opus - we stepped up and prevented an ICE facility in our community which would have harmed Minnesotans. Great work, all!!!
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I’ll personally vouch for Nick if you’re thinking about supporting his project to keep cameras rolling on ICE.
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Andrew Couts
4 days ago
Star Tribune confirms the man shot by ICE this morning is dead. ICE reportedly tried to order MPD to leave the scene but the chief of police refused and preserved the scene. BCA reportedly en route.
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Norm Charlatan
4 days ago
Only speaking personally, but today’s execution isn’t scaring me from protecting our neighbors, as some suggest is ICE’s goal. Nor am I angry with incandescent rage, in that I know such rage is unhelpful. Rather, I feel like it has forced me to truly accept that the same fate might befall me.
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The Onion
5 days ago
Stand With The Sinister Minnesotans Against ICE
https://store.theonion.com/products/sinister-minnesotans-t-shirt?variant=44569654984773
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Kyle Griffin
5 days ago
Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.
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F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/fbi-agent-ice-shooting-renee-good.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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David Brauer
4 days ago
We need sustained national coverage to amplify pressure on ICE thuggery. Your legal observing and videoing is really helping with that, as this pithy New York Times compendium shows:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Videos From Minnesota Show How Aggressive ICE Has Gotten During Arrests and Encounters With Protesters (Gift Article)
For weeks, residents have documented the impact of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign and captured many violent confrontations on camera.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/24/us/minnesota-ice-violence-tactics-videos.html?unlocked_article_code=1.G1A.4piY.iOVuFHXWc5oc&smid=url-share
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Just watched video of the latest ICE killing in a Minneapolis neighborhood I frequented when I lived there. It looks like an execution. Abolish ICE and bring wrongdoers to justice. This has got to stop.
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Nick Benson
6 days ago
Today was MSP's 31st ICE flight of the year; MN50501 observed 58 deportees boarding, bringing the estimated total for January to 2,021. The photo below, at 1:28 PM, was the 2,000th estimated deportee of the year was hobbling up the steps. Please join us at MSP's Terminal 1 tomorrow to protest.
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Brendan Nyhan
6 days ago
The director of the FBI: "I don't read." His staff (paraphrased): "he doesn’t like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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STAT
6 days ago
The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday, suggesting the public might want to reconsider the use of polio vaccines.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/v...
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Top CDC vaccine adviser questions need for polio shot, other longstanding recommendations
The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday, questioning longstanding recommendations.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/vaccine-policy-adviser-kirk-milhoan-individual-rights-trump-public-health/
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Jonathan Cohn
6 days ago
"The lies this administration is telling about Ms. Good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything. They’re a projection of power."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
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Opinion | I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/opinion/ice-shooting-renee-good.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GlA.pQeZ.D6yETUYhFppc&smid=url-share
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Steve Herman
6 days ago
Front page of tomorrow's Star Tribune.
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David Brauer
6 days ago
Harrowing NY Times expose of the FBI, with some operational details of Minneapolis investigations & comments from ex-agents on the current federal occupation. The FBI is more fucked than you expect, which makes them less effective AND more dangerous.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Kash Patel’s FBI Is Making America Less Safe, Current and Former Employees Say (Gift Article)
Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/22/magazine/trump-kash-patel-fbi-agents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GVA.YXna.rNCSBW6JrCYU&smid=url-share
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David Brauer
7 days ago
It is a weird thing I never expected but scrolling here between actions during the day’s terror knocks the stuffing out of me, but as evening rolls people gather their strength, share their condemnation, hope, bravery and commiseration and it’s like a battery charging me for the next day
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