The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

Always read @sulliview.bsky.social “With what amounts to civil war raging in the United States, we desperately need clear, fearless truth-telling that doesn’t pull its punches and doesn’t hand a megaphone to lies and propaganda in the name of supposed fairness.”

Ackman donates $10,000 to Minneapolis shooting victim Alex Pretti's family, WSJ reports reut.rs/3LCrVah

My "Not involved in destroying evidence" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

This is a tough thing to face. But on the left we *must* uphold the standards we preach. It concerns me that this is the only article by a leftist I've yet read that handles the issue honestly. Otherwise I've seen only tortured apologetics & gross hypocrisy. www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?art...

A wonderfully incisive, and deeply poignant, piece by @arthursnell.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

Heads Up Minneapolis! MAGA propagandists Cam Higby, Kevin Posobiec & Hailey West have been spotted undercover otg & filming people today. They mean to twist your anger & sorrow into demonization. Avoid or nonviolently, but firmly, demand they leave. The less content you give them, the better.

You don't shoot someone who isn't a threat ten times unless your intention is to commit murder and incite terror.

Eleanor Holmes Norton’s campaign has filed a termination report with the FEC, signaling the 88-year-old civil rights activist won't seek a 19th term as DC's nonvoting delegate in the House. wapo.st/4biMBhY

I was very lucky to study the sociology of war crimes at A&M under Dr. Stjepan Mestrovic, who was an expert witness in the Abu Ghraib trial. Just absolutely harrowing shit.

ICE is leaving Vietnam-style death cards in the wake of their kidnappings because they are the saddest, most embarrassing military wannabes to ever live coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...

I wish North American media would read Israeli media. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

“I just checked—it turns out that Art. II, Sec. 1 of the Constitution of the United States does *not* say ‘The executive Power shall be vested in a bunch of sociopaths who think they can do whatever the f*ck they want and make sh*t up as they go along.’” — George Conway

Judge to hear case on Minnesota’s ICE crackdown after killings by federal agents – US politics live

“Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come. This is one of them. If we give our freedoms away after 250 years, we might never get them back.” — President Bill Clinton, 1/25/26

The person who publishes the Free Press — where the words “Minneapolis” and “Minnesota” never appear tonight — also runs CBS News.

Just found out this dude’s store is called Dreamhaven Books. dreamhavenbooks.com

Hugo Lowell told MSNOW that the Trump administration expects that the murder of Alex Pretti will "blow over and go away." They believe that Americans will forget about it in a week or so.

Seven reporters bylined this.

You don’t what?

If it is fascism now it was fascism then but if you were wrong no need to pause to make a special effort to admit your error -- we don't have that much time now, please act right away, get organized, and then tell your followers what you are doing to stop fascism and what they too can do.

Bovino: “ICE are the victims”

I’m sorry I know that this isn’t serious but something about him just looks like a little fascist labubu that should be hanging off someone’s purse

Yesterday, AG Pam Bondi sent a remarkable & telling letter to MN Governor Tim Walz in response to his plea that the administration stand down its mobilization of ICE in the wake of the violent killing of Alex Pretti. Bondi’s letter underscores clear abuses of power. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

They owe her, and all of us, an apology.

‘Working in the deepfake factory of a fascist foreman’

“de-escalate tensions” is a phrase institutions use to normalize existing power arrangements by pretending they’re concerned about public safety.

Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands…. Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those

Crowd is massive, now overflowing Congress Plaza and taking up a block-long stretch of Michigan Avenue. Reminder: this event was only announced yesterday.

Hundreds of people (and still growing) at this snowy, balmy (17 degrees) protest in downtown Chicago. We stand with Minnesota against ICE.

The gaslighting is not effective. It doesn’t work on this, especially when it’s coming from the likes of JD Vance, Kash Patel, Kristi Noem, and Todd Blanche. Disgusting liars, all of them.

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...

"Protest isn't a win button, it's a process" Yes. This. Exactly this.

My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking

The green line is how much $ farmers make from selling crops & livestock. Goes up in D administrations, down in R ones. The blue line is free money farmers get from the gov't. Goes down in D administrations, up in R ones. It ain't rocket science. Source article btw: www.agweb.com/news/policy/...

The National Rifle Association has joined other gun lobbying and advocacy groups that are typically aligned with #DonaldTrump in calling for the Republican president’s administration to conduct a “full investigation” into the killing of #AlexPretti www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #Republicans

If you, like me, have been wondering why Minnesota leaders can't seem to do more than beg Trump to leave... @vermontgmg.bsky.social lays out the stakes www.wired.com/story/why-mi...

ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.

You. Don't. Need. To. Platform. The. Lying. Authoritarians.

Remember the Bundy insanity during the Obama years? Armed guys occupied a federal office and one of their buddies took position with a sniper rifle aimed at federal agents? Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?

So much of this regime's playbook recycles Kremlin tactics and rhetoric.

Lying is official Republican Party policy. You get drummed out of the gang if you don't lie.

After admitting Alex Pretti's gun appeared to be removed prior to the shooting, a Fox host speculates on what the officer could say to make the shooting “legally justifiable”

Chris Murphy: "This is really scary because what Bovino essentially told you is that if you just happen to be present when they are undertaking an operation, if you pull out your phone to record it, the use of force against you is justified. That is not true, it's not what the law says."

In Greenland

Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him. The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/

This is the story, not some both sides bull sh*t that gives equal weight to the DHS lie. It took the NYT a few tries to get here but it did. Other news outlets need to be just as blunt & honest. That goes for Sunday shows, etc. Do journalism, not propaganda. Alex Pretti deserves it, we demand it.

Tibetan Buddhist leader with provincial-level senior positions Lobsang Lungrig reported held and disappeared – Tibetan Review: ‘the head-lama of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Yushu prefecture of Qinghai province’ ‘for having allegedly helped a fugitive monk’

‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war