Mirror-imaging. They could never imagine putting themselves on the line for another person or their community (remember JD Vance's theory of love, that it extends only to your family and no one else?) and they know any "resistance" on their end would be purely transactional - so they assume the same

we don’t have time to wait around for midterms?

It's hard to overstate how Not Normal this is both in substance but especially in speed.

i was fucking floored — i posted video of when it was being discovered earlier

speechless

I keep thinking about statements like these. I suspect a significant portion of ICE—perhaps most of it—believes Vance / Miller / et al that they have total legal immunity for anything they do. This is (1) not true as a matter of law and (2) a lie intended to incite the violence we've seen from ICE.

I get the impulse to push for more, harder, faster, but it's worth noting here: the lawyers for both the state and various other plaintiffs have been working their asses off at absolute breakneck speed today.

my mind also connected them ↔️

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

This is a (poorly worded) comment dated Fri Jan 23 that I contributed to a thread about the regime’s goals - approximately 12 hours before DHS/ICE executed Alex Pritt and 18 hours before AG Bondi used his murder to further these goals. They’ve been doing all of this in plain sight.

the law hasn’t figured out how to deal w the homeschooled mormon vloggers of this century and it’s actually killing us.

Watching her and the other women run back up to where he was shot to yell at them some more, maybe a minute later, was incredible

what a fucking nightmare that brave, brave woman

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.

I’m not downplaying the message in this letter; I genuinely don’t understand how people are surprised by the message. Have we lived in different realities for the last year? Trump’s DOJ is actively suing multiple states over access to their voter registration info, AND fighting sanctuary policy.

if we are doomed regardless, why would one not make every inch as painful to enact as possible, there's no downside at that point if it truly is inevitable.

I have lost all patience with self-proclaimed cynics desperate to pretend that their quisling cowardice in the face of evil is wisdom.

This is the hardest I’ve laughed all day 😂😂😂😂 I’m sure Kristi Noem is shaking in her boots at the prospect of facing Dick Durbin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard Blumenthal, Amy Klobuchar, Chris Coons, Adam Schiff, Peter Welch . . . What are they gonna do? Whisper at her??

cough, matriarchy, cough

yeah, REMEMBER ADRIANA SMITH

And please follow James’s thread here:

the post about this on r/nba, which is an enormous forum that gets millions of visitors a week, is full of comments from people who have seen the videos about how this was “an execution” or “murder” in case you wonder how this is playing outside of here

Hello habibis I’m at the big anti-abortion “March for Life” with LCRW managing editor @jwcroxton.bsky.social today. Follow along for my unhinged running commentary about this yearly bussed-in publicity stunt for people who want to take women’s rights away

I just want to take a moment and apologize to anyone who comes across my flurry of reposts and feels inadequately warned of their graphic nature. I’m going to go through and delete the superfluous ones. I’m heartbroken by what happens every day in this country, but I also hate inflicting more pain😔

ICE executed Alex Pretti. Anything else you’re told is a lie.

not my legal take, just my human take - the “gun” was in fact his phone, right? the 37 year old white man was recording ICE with his phone. only his phone was in his hand as he “approached” ICE.

someone like this is either not following the news at all, a troll, or legitimately illiterate. there’s no reason to let this stuff bait you in any case.

I know the idea of “better” policing is as old a demand as civil rights movements in this country, the impulse to call for it at this moment is so terribly cruel that it can only be understood as aligned with the terrorists.

Where are all those all so righteous "Second Amendment Scholars" right now given that this appears to have been a white, licensed carry person that was summarily executed in Minnesota?

everything they say is a lie and we know it’s a lie and anyone who repeats it credulously is telling you exactly where they stand

37 yr old Minneapolis white male resident and American citizen executed by ICE in Minneapolis today.

Anti-abortion in the sheets. ICE killing people in the streets “Pro Life” is a scam.

what did we watch happen in Minneapolis??

printing tricia mclaughlin’s justification for murder is spreading propaganda. do not listen to a word these people say.

"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...

🚨“You’re gonna have to kill me!" Minneapolis protester SCREAMS as swarm of Border Patrol agents pin him to the ground. "I have done nothing at all! I am a United States citizen! You're gonna kill me! That's what you want! You want to kill me on this street!" LIVE NOW ⬇️

NJ Senator Zwicker

Just got called “the fucking Forest Gump of American fascism.”

I just read Lila Rose’s Jan 22 letter to HHS/FDA and it isn’t *just* a letter. Like every other antiabortion group, she’s laying the groundwork for a challenge to mifepristone. While hanging w RFK. 🤷🏻‍♀️ The letter alleges an almost verbatim cause of action under the Administrative Procedure Act lol.

As always, before I post my Platner takes, I check w my Maine friends to confirm my takes are accurate. We also talked about how many of our friends have endured IVF and none of them took off with their husband for parts unknown. And um, not while saving their country. So. Fuck Graham.

That’s funny because I’ve been “reporting” on this for weeks. I started posting about the challenge to the post-Habba exec board WAY before @politico.com. I was waiting for Politico to wake up & notice. I can also tell you about the other crim defendants challenging the validity of the office. 🥱

my moms neighbor informs me Alex Honnold is free soloing tomorrow night, so fear not, my palms are dry once again.

oh, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is a great guest!!!! i’m definitely tuning in, and hope to find out more about how we (lawyers and non-lawyers alike) can help moms and children, specifically.

apparently Senator Ossoff is interested in abuse against pregnant women in detention. @ossoff.bsky.social @ossoff.senate.gov please help Cecil Elvir-Quinonez in Louisiana.

According to the article, this woman doesn’t have a lawyer. Her name is Cecil Elvir-Quinonez, she’s being detained at Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana. She’s pregnant + she has a 5 month old and a 5 year old. Can anyone help her?? @immigrantjustice.bsky.social @immcouncil.org

i think chief judge brann will issue a narrow ruling, w a stay pending appeal again. the 3man exec board is unlawful but the indictments won’t be dismissed. he’ll split the baby but won’t throw it out w the bath water 🙃; he wont blow up the nj usa office. & he wont hold back his displeasure w DOJ.

🚩for those of you who don’t know, Lila Rose is *the* reddest flag. she’s the founder & president of LIVE ACTION. she’s the bitch who goes “undercover” at planned parenthood. she’s behind baby Olivia, baby Oliver and “window to the womb.” if you value human lives, you must oppose RFK 🤝Lila Rose.

Arresting clergy. This makes nonsense.

“now, my purpose in life is to punish every woman for even thinking about making the choice my mother could have made, but didn’t.”