Rest in peace Alex Pretti. You will be remembered as a hero. I saw my immigrant neighbors out tonight mourning. You’ve touched the hearts of our immigrant community. We will not rest until justice is served.

They made the ghostbuster WOMEN. That’s the reason.

A state government is having to file an emergency lawsuit to be able to ensure that the federal government is not actively obstructing justice.

We're mourning yet again in Minnesota — and struggling to square the gut-churning video of Alex Pretti's final moments with official accounts. I'm teaching techniques of neutralization this term, so I made this quick slide on the DHS statement. Share if it's useful. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...

i think about this picture of fred shuttlesworth looking at his bombed out house every day because it is in my classroom and so i see it five times a week. tired and defiant. a face that says well, on we go

We had action outside ICE here in #Detroit yesterday. More activities today but my hands took too much damage from the cold (photographers can't keep their hands in pockets) to take part today. Will heal up and be part of the next event. Pics from yesterday.

HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.

Hilton hotel is complicit.

So... - ICE was staying in a hotel - The hotel management worried they might go after an employee - They informed ICE of the legal status, which permitted the employee to live and work in the US - ICE promises they'll leave him alone - Then they arrest the guy anyway

So my unemployment stopped and I’m not getting any answers which was previously calculated into this so I’m sharing this again. It would be super cool if things could just be easy! I’m literally sitting at home sad that I can’t be with my sister in labor because I can’t afford it gofund.me/3127da13c

Minnesota is the front line and we will hold it. We are heartbroken, we are afraid, we are exhausted but we will not fall. Please support us. linktr.ee/mplsmutualai...

I am okay. Thank you for all the well wishes. We are in scary times. Please stay safe and do not let these people silence you. Onwards.

It's amazing how many 2nd Amendment "defenders" are suddenly twisting themselves into pretzels to justify the execution style killing of a man who happened to be open carrying, but was disarmed AND made no attempt to draw or discharge his firearm.

If they can't just shoot us in the street, how can they protect us from the five year old boy whose dad was waiting patiently for a hearing?

Sorry for Xposting today, but the president of the Minnesota Gun Owners Law Center and the general counsel of the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus not only says Alex Pretti never touched his firearm, he was disarmed before he was shot. Big, since he has a media megaphone. x.com/robdoar/stat...

An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting. Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi... 📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune

One thing I’m thinking about today is the hollowness of all the “Don’t Tread on Me” extremists, who turn out to be just far-right extremists. Dems should retake the Gadsden flag. Is there a good blue maker of Gadsden flags that doesn’t support far-right causes?

Just curious what our media thinks life is like in brutal fascist violent repressive regimes, if they still won’t call this *any* of those words

"He has ... sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people ... He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power." 1/

"For Quartering large bodies of troops among us: For protecting them ... from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States." US Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

This is pretty much a bill like the one Governor Murphy just vetoed in New Jersey a few days ago: boltsmag.org/new-jersey-g...

You're never going to outshoot them. It will never happen. The only way the gun comes into our militancy is to dramatize their villainy and exert mass power at points of strategic control such that shooting us makes no difference and some section of the shooters split from the others.

Senate Democrats must vote against more funding for ICE this week. Call your senator: (202) 224-3121

You can’t “we need our guns” your way to perpetuating school shootings while “he had a gun” your way to justifying public executions. A nurse. Someone who’s actually saved lives.

Like, ICE is still here in LA and people are organizing, supporting community, protesting. Still. When things were really bad last year we did NOT want a bunch of people from other states here, in such a dense city, with no idea what we need or how to get things done here.

Love that they think a lot of people from outside MN suddenly descending on it without any resources or ability to be housed in deep cold, amidst a hostile gov't takeover, will "help". This is why we listen to the people actually in the places being harmed.

blaming the oppressed for not immediately stopping their own oppression is wildly arrogant & reactionary political rhetoric.

Woof, op accounts are out in force right now. I'm seeing a lot of weird shit from non US accounts (like that weird Canadian woman's lecture that seems real sus now) and accounts with very few followers, started not long ago, using wild terms and language and misinfo. Be careful.

AOC: "It is reported he had a permit. And this administration's response is that the very that he was a legal firearm owner was reason for them to shoot him in the street ... if we do not do something now, I do not what can happen afterward. We have to contain this chaos."

seeing a lot of comments along the lines of “they’ll just lie and it’ll work” and I cannot stress enough that you do not have to preemptively hand it to their propaganda efforts

they don’t even have the “she was driving a car” horseshit they used to smear Renee Good, they just wrestled this guy to the ground and shot him and it’s all right there for anyone to see

the extent to which this administration is out of control is really summed up by the fact that they immediately went with “this was an armed terrorist there to kill law enforcement” knowing that video from multiple angles completely disproving them was out there and would be seen by everyone

something else that’s really clear is the extent to which Trump himself is checked out and declining and Miller is running the show Trump used to have some lizard brain sense of optics - not an understanding that things are bad but an understanding that they looked bad that’s completely gone now

This is why I don't have a huge amount of faith that if It Happens a lot will change. Then, what, we just have president JD Vance with Stephen Miller still running the show?

I have been thinking all day about the number of times unarmed Black people were killed by police on the pretext that their cell phone looked like a gun. And people would say “oh but you just don‘t know what the truth is.” Well here it is.

Because of this, the United States wants to conquer Canada and Greenland and stormtroopers are shooting innocent people dead on the street. However, some people support this because I started growing boobs. Did I miss anything?

The tradcath Illuminati then said the law isn‘t real because they wanted to help evangelical Protestants kick out the Irish Catholic in the White House. Voters then got so mad over inflation they voted for higher tariffs so goods would cost even more because they forgot 2021 came after 2020.

The guy launches an insurrection after he loses the election but can’t be prosecuted because the 19th century know nothings were right all along and the tradcath Illuminati took over the Supreme Court.

The guy wins and shuts down the pandemic response team and does a bunch of crimes. He gets caught doing crimes which get written down in a big report but his attorney general said he’d read the report for the news so they shouldn’t worry about it and they said okay. Then a plague happened.

Russia thought it would destabilize the United States if the guy won so they hacked his opponent after he asked them to. Because of this, the FBI intervened to help Russia because people might think they were biased if they didn’t help the other guy win.

Let me get this straight. In 2007, Hollywood writers went on strike so the networks made more reality TV. One of the guys in this show said Obama wasn’t born in America, so Obama made fun of him at a dinner once. TV guy got so mad he passed up the role of president in Sharknado 4 to run for real.

but wait, I was assured by some of the dumbest assholes in the history of the world that it can only be fascism if its practitioners can state, in the king's english, their precise rationales for acting as they do, and cite their historical precedents by name and year

I drove by the crime scene an hour ago and already a LOT of people assembling, But I wish our Democratic leaders would grow a spine. ICE is getting more violent because they get away with it. Funding needs to be cut off NOW.

Don't let this post distract you from the fact that ICE existed during the entirety of the Obama and Biden terms. The Democratic Party simply increased funding to the department every year; there was no effort to abolish or even keep it in check. What do we call someone who feeds the "monsters?"

I don’t really know how to process the news right now. I’m so scared for my friends in MN. I’m scared for all my immigrant friends and all the immigrants in my community. We all knew this level of violence and impunity was brewing, but it’s so terrible to be right about something like this

you better stay covered up, buttercup you have no idea how many honest, serious, good people you've chosen to make your enemies, or how many of the people you think are on your side will abandon you in a heartbeat because you share no principles worth anything god help you when you find out

every federal agent who ever put on a mask did so because on some level they knew this moment was coming they knew they were setting out to do things that would deserve profound shame at the least, and righteous retribution at the most