i do not want air traffic controllers getting paid until they all, every single one of them, agree to a ban on handling deportation flights. anyone participating in ice flights, granting them clearance or fueling up their jets, is an enemy of mine and i refuse to let my taxes fund their immoral work

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."

it can always get worse, and it will get worse the longer we let the trump administration play president

I had a tweet at the time saying Blue Lives Matter was the most openly fascist thing I'd seen in America in my lifetime bc it was responding to Black Lives Matter by saying "no they don't, and in fact your murderers are our heroes" with a little sticker you could put on your fucking pickup truck

if moulton gets right with god, re: being normal about trans people, i will fully get on board, but until then, he’s still a wet pile of shit

i hope it lasts for a long time. i don’t want air traffic controllers to get paid until they stop granting takeoff clearance for deportation flights

One reason why Miller and co. are so deranged (and I posted about this at the beginning of Trump 2.0) is that the entire DC area fucking hates them and they can't do any political hobknobbing. The whole Trump hotel thing from no. 1 is gone, and the rest of the city refuses service.

it's maybe a small point of contention, but this is the THIRD shooting by ice in minneapolis this month. yes, only two resulted in death. but the other one matters. esp bc the feds are lying through their teeth about it, just like the others, but it was an immigrant doing all the right things.

if you haven’t made your calls today, now is the perfect time to do it

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

People had been telling stories about things like that happening forever and it was always dismissed as hyperbole or worse and then, suddenly, people had to confront the reality that, yes, shit like that happened. There it was.

Poor Patty Murray. Helped negotiate money for the death squads and was hoping she could just let it sail through without much fuss.

How can you help Minnesotans right now? Call your goddamn Dem Senator and tell them you will never vote for them again if they do not shut the government down over this. If you have a republican, call them and call them fucking cowards.

love 2 live in the land of the free

the mood is not subtle

Reminder that if you're arrested in Illinois for protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

Nekima Armstrong's gofundme for her legal defense only got $2646 so far, so please spread the word: www.gofundme.com/f/support-ne...

Massachusetts is unused to having to hand it to Seth Moulton, but I for one am okay with starting to if this keeps up

Today I'm remembering Philando Castile, shot in 2016 by police in the Minneapolis suburbs after being pulled over for a broken brake light. "Sir, I have to tell you that I do have a firearm on me," he said. Ten seconds later one of the cops had shot him five times. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...

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.

so the dem party isn’t goin to keep voting for the agenda that enabled this… right?

if any ICE agent’s next of kin feels comfortable acknowledging their relationship we have not done enough

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.

Alex Pretti and I became nurses the same exact week, we live in the same city, and we both watch out for ICE, although I did not know him the difference between us is Alex is dead and I am not And now I have to go clock in for a hospital shift Just feels like there is no limit to the horror

Rest in Power Alex Pretti, may your name ring as a shining light of what American can be

i'm so sick of this shit. so fucking tired of every single fucking day being a new atrocity perpetuated by the cruelest motherfuckers for no reason other than they wanted to maim and kill because of some percieved otherness

Unsubscribe freetext: "Gavin Newsom is an amoral sociopath whose only objection to the DHS brutalizing Americans is that he's not in charge. I am going to break my piggy bank to make sure he never even *sniffs* the Presidency. Whoever you paid to get my e-mail address owes you a refund."

The media is going to treat the inevitable brick through the Target window like it is 9/11 and I pray even the American people can’t be stupid enough to buy the reframing.

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.

the history books will not be kind to this worm. his legacy will be one of cowardice and failure

holy crap youtube.com/shorts/hyqtA...

I don’t say this to be glib, I’m just observing that Bluesky is packed to the brim with 37 year old white men who regularly attend protests, so I think this event is going to play out a little differently On Here than most.

Observers have been working day and night to protect these neighborhoods from ICE, make the streets safe so kids can go to school and people can go to their jobs. Burning down the street undoes all our work. The people setting fires haven’t been putting in long hours watching plates or doors.

they murdered a VA nurse. he provides health care for vets and they shot him on the sidewalk like a rabid dog. like he was nothing, like he meant nothing. he saved lives and that’s what he was out there to do, and for it, they took his.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti. Good and Pretti. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

i want the government shut down because i do not want air traffic controllers who are clearing deportation flights to takeoff to be paid. if you work for air traffic control, and allow a deportation flight onto a runway, you are a collaborator

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

americans can only avail themselves of one amendment at a time. free speech, or gun ownership. pick one. if you try to pick both, the federal government will murder you in the street

the failure of democratic leadership to fight back against this tyranny is wholly disqualifying. jeffries refusing to whip votes against ice funding is effectively a tacit approval of the street executions of americans by an unaccountable federal paramilitary. I dunno, man. they’ve abandoned us

Flashbangs going off all around my home. Incidentally, whoever named flashbangs. Nice job. Same guy who came up with fireplace. or space. Keep up the good work

You have to make peace with the fact that every executed neighbor, every kidnapped five year old, and every abused prisoner is "promises kept" to Republican voters

FWIW the whipple building is the site of a concentration camp for indigenous people. If the lineage to fascism in Europe isn’t clear , that’s out of ignorance on tappers part

Every single Trump voter is pissing and shitting on the graves of their Greatest Generation family members who they claim to revere.

Confidential to the "ok so put your money where your mouth is" folks: I'm a third of the way through Pennsylvania and racing this winter storm to get to Minneapolis by tomorrow morning. I have my 2020 gear in the trunk. I'll be doing journalism stuff there for the next week at least

They are performing street executions. This is what war looks like. I don't know what the fuck to tell you

if you aren’t in minneapolis, the last you can do is work the phones for an hour or two