There’s nothing more frightening or demoralising to a dictator than the sight of his own citizens gathering in their masses to show the world they reject him.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

“We know what we saw.”

Amongst the worst atrocities during Stalin’s reign of terror were local bylaws that prevented motorists from driving down certain residential streets. Those responsible have never been brought to justice.

Here's a gift link to the New York's Times' timeline of Homeland Security's killing of Alex Pretti. It shows clearly what actually happened and makes it abundantly clear that the Trump regime is lying to cover up a murder.

The murder of Alex Pretti is now seen in at least 5 videos. The incident unfolded over less than a minute. One agent instigated. One shot. Pretti held only a camera. He had a gun is his waistband, but never touched. it. The shooter saw him get disarmed, then shot him in the back, point blank. 1/

Hey Kristi. You want Walz and Frey to support ICE operations in Minneapolis? Then tell your goons to stop doing this - 2,300 illegal detentions and counting. Oh yes, and tell them not to execute laws abiding citizens in the street while you’re at it. A pogrom is not law enforcement.

Do the unserious people, who think that waving flags and annoying liberals is a substitute for serious thought, understand just how miserable their actual, real lives would become under a Reform govt? Minds need to be focused now before it’s too late.

“Did any of that seem ‘defensive’ to you?” @barelyinfo.bsky.social shows how absurd DHS & Bovino’s lies are about the killing of Alex Pretti. (He thinks the ICE agent who took his guy accidentally shot it and started the shooting… at which point they shot Alex 10 times in cold blood)

Today is the tipping point. youtube.com/shorts/LDETj...

Alex Pretti, 37, murdered by the Republican Party.

Bovino is lying

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...

ANOTHER ANGLE. This man was NOT brandishing a firearm. He was holding his phone. He then put his body between ICE thugs and woman. He was then sprayed with a chemical agent, tackled, disarmed, and executed. Plain as day. DO NOT let them tell you otherwise.

They murder a man in cold blood and wait around to watch him die. There is no hell hot enough. Abolish DHS. Impeach, convict, remove. Trials as soon as possible.

There is no defending this. This is cold-blooded murder.

UPDATE: A video taken by a driver shows that the victim was simply filming the Border Patrol thugs. They executed him for filming them standing on the street.

I'm launching a new show. Each episode is a longform video investigation seeking to answer a big question about our world. Our first: What is Trump's real agenda behind building ICE into a masked force with the power to detain, surveil, and kill with impunity? www.youtube.com/watch?v=rThh...

And there it is. A public execution.

There is video circulating on social media of a group of ICE agents beating a man near 26th and Nicollet in south Minneapolis, then one of the ICE agents shoots the man while he's on the ground numerous times. A witness can be heard yelling that the victim is dead.

The administration’s stock response to any objections to ICE’s behaviour in Minneapolis is ‘oh, they don’t want to talk about the fraud’. Damn right we don’t. We want to talk about this. ‘Depravity beyond words’. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The guy should get a medal. He’s trashed Labour’s natural support base, sunk them to a distant second or third in the polls and made Starmer the most unpopular PM in history all for the grand reward of 0% of Reform voters switching to Labour. Quite an achievement.

All of them traitors.

photo 1/23/26 by Alex Kormann for The Minnesota Star Tribune www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

HOLY CRAP! Minneapolis Protests right now as Temperature sits at -16.

All of them traitors.

You want to know what evil looks like? Look no further than these two masked goons abducting a child to god knows where.

ICE/Border Patrol agents are now hitting unaccompanied minors with their vehicles, detaining and disappearing them, even after being shown a U.S. passport.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Well this seems good.

Accurate

Just walking up to where the guy is lying pinned to the ground and spraying him full in the face. Violent psychopaths in uniform.

"[M]asked agents apprehended 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos in his driveway on Tuesday...[the agent] led him to the door and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home, essentially using a 5-year-old as bait.”

Whether you’re MAGA in the US or a Reform voter in the UK, if you see this and you still think mass deportations are the way to go, then I’m afraid there’s no helping you.

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

“I’m sorry it just slipped my mind (17 times).” www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

MN Doctor: I learned that Renee Good still had a pulse 8 minutes after she was shot by an ICE agent. Yet the offer to administer aid from a physician on the scene was denied. I can't say how much that stirs the blood of everyone here as we try to fulfill our oath to care for the people of Minnesota

More courage in her little finger than all the congressmen, corporate media hacks, CEOs and billionaires put together.

The inevitability of AI is now under threat from no one wanting to use it.

Just in case anyone was thinking that calling ICE detention centres concentration camps was overdoing it.

This is what historian Robert Kagan on what it means for the world. We’re responding to this crisis as if it’s just another crisis. It’s not. This is it. It’s the political crisis of our lifetimes. And how we respond in the US & UK & Europe is critical. 4/

I feel like America plotting to annex Greenland while masked state goons terrorise their own communities at will should encourage British press and politicians to reflect on what happens when you act like "far right" is an unfair slur rather than a necessary descriptor of a real political position.

“I’m still shaking from the aftermath” Racial profiling is all they do (H/T @somalisnaps )

Per @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social this Hmong man Trump’s goons humiliated & dragged out in the cold (after trashing his apartment and putting a gun to his daughter-in-law’s head) was a naturalized 🇺🇸 CITIZEN with no criminal record. He was eventually released. More: www.instagram.com/p/DTrblZ2jmT...

Literally traitorous

Those of us saying 'Trump is crazy' for years (based on incontrovertible evidence all in the public domain) have been dismissed as over-reacting. Sorry, but a lot of 'very serious people' have egg on their faces and we are all now about to pay the cost...