I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Democrats are suggesting reforms for ICE, but the reality is: abolition is the way forward, not reform. Read the latest from our co-founder Andrea J. Ritchie in @thenation.com!

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

there were multiple different countdown clocks until the Olsen twins turned 18 reddit had its infamous 'jailbait' community online until late 2011 all of this shit was just out in the open, it was awful

Guys maybe the number one obstacle to organizing here in Minneapolis is the unfounded fear that if you get involved, DHS will put you on a list and assassinate you. It leads people to avoid organizing or act in ways that are completely detrimental to organizing. Please please do not spread that fear

there were people scolding others this morning that we weren’t celebrating Bovino’s reassignment enough, I gotta stress we need to keep our eyes on the ball and not be swayed by the superficial

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

When we say that ICE is un-American it's because this, instead, is American.

Alex Pretti was a working class hero.

The tsar must dismiss his ministry and recall the duma

That Alex Pretti was a nurse speaks to his character (seriously, the kind of person who becomes an ICU nurse in 2021 is special) but I don’t think we need a “public health response” as much as we need public health, health care, and scientific workers to get on the winning team: team socialism

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

As someone who’s spent nearly 2 decades in the content mines: they’re doing these stories critical of the regime because people are clicking on them

My sister-in-law's dad died last week, in hospice in the VA hospital in Minneapolis. I just learned Alex Pretti was part of his care team. They shot Alex less than 1/2 mile from my niece's house while doing the same observation work that my niece is doing. These are real people. Step up folks!

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

"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

Heartbroken. Help the Pretti family tell the truth about Alex. “The sickening lies told by the administration about our son are reprehensible and disgusting.” Help Alex’s family as they grieve. Share this.

I think this is a good idea but also everyone would understand this would pretty irreversibly put us in The Cool Zone. I think it's a risk we should probably take, but like all bets would be off about how the administration responds and where this goes.

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.

the "and you're surprised by this?" guys have never been less vital than they are right now

declaration by a physician at the scene: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

I'm gonna tell all you fascists you may be surprised People all over this world are getting organized You're bound to lose You fascists are bound to lose

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

this is shit they never want you to see.

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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."

It’s corny as shit, but I genuinely love the rebel loon

Guys we're not doing this with Seth fucking Moulton. Terfs are not our allies.

The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

I recommend not watching the videos, which are chaotic and gut-wrenching, and instead going through Bellingcat's analysis. This man appeared to be zero threat, while the officers were overly-aggressive, agitated, and clearly primed to used lethal force.

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

UPDATE: @startribune.com reports that state records show Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old U.S. Citizen executed by ICE agents this morning in Minneapolis, was issued a nursing license in 2021, and it remains active through March 2026. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

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

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

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.

It's always the people who are not willing to take any risks that think that other people's risk-taking is not radical enough.

Feds retreating up 27th followed by whistles and shouts of “Shame” detain 1, then another person going to their car.

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

I'm so tired of working through the apocalypse.

Quick question: who was the MA Atty Gen a decade ago?! 🤔 Hint: current governor!

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When you focus on the regular people showing up magnificently in all of their flawed beauty, it helps you to keep going.