signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association

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.

Exactly right. Carney's diagnosis may be right, but his actions are self-inflicted wounds. He seems aware that it's a new world, but running the same plays that didn't work in the 1990s or 2010s. Foolish.

What strikes me about this is that everyone in an interaction with ICE should assume that you are interacting with someone who has committed a homicide without even having to take a day off.

I cannot say with more emphasis how much you should not watch this video

Minnesota is the best of us.

Statement from the entire Minneapolis City Council in support of a General Strike and Day of Truth & Freedom on January 23rd.

How is this obvious threat being reported as a promise to not use the military?

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Canada needs to get in on this in a robust way, and show support for Greenland, Denmark, and other northern European allies, for two important reasons: 1) It's the right thing to do. 2) We could very well be next.

Having lived in the US and Canada, I’d never want to be under the US system again. (Canada needs improvement too)

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

This video shows ICE holding children hostage to bait parents out of their homes. Just unspeakable levels of cruelty and inhumanity.

Utterly depraved. To turn hospitality around like this is deeply wrong and against thousands of years of human ethics.

ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it. We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

The tension between the right of all children to an education regardless of legal status and the fascist desire to purge some kinds of people—well it was always going to eventually make schools a fracture point.

"If the Government of Canada can’t be bothered to do the easy things, to preserve the most basic sense of principle and dignity in the face of glaring red line offenses, then we can’t possibly trust it with the more difficult and complex issues." emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/is-canada-...

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

Hannity has a Fox reporter in Minneapolis talk to a random protester walking through the city who goes on to spit bars for 2 minutes

If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.

If our authorities exist for the protection of the people, then the laws should exist for the protection of the people, not the protection of authorities. If the law exists for the protection of authorities, then the authorities do not exist for the protection of the people.

Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Article 1 give Congress the power of the purse, unless the President engages in literal piracy, apparently.

It is past time for Dems to stop saying this bit about "Trump ran on lowering costs", and to start saying that he lied when he said those things in order to do these otehr things. Trump said he'd lower costs, but really he wanted to plunder.

Anyone not actively involved in impeaching and no other activity should just resign. There is no government until he is gone. Pretending otherwise props up him, not government.

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Trump Doctrine: making the world safe for US Pirates Trump Doctrine: defeating the axis of nations making money without giving a cut to Trump. Trump Doctrine: Not rolling back and containing the pirates so much as joining and leading them. Trump Doctrine: America First in Cutting the Line

The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil. The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

Shumer calls on Trump to "brief Congress immediately." Asking for liars to tell you lies? Deeply unserious and useless "leadership." Ultimately, Thune is the conspirator in the Senate, but by never having any idea about how to lead, Schumer will go down as as a co-conspirator.

Mark Carney turns off geolocation on phone just in case

Gotta say, if I were a Canadian politician, I would be very careful about praising Donald Trump for illegally bombing an oil-rich country and arresting its leader on what are pretty much imaginary allegations of narco trafficking

A weak and fearful statement that cannot even name The United States as the aggressors.

4. Still, if you had told the Constitutional Convention that the president’s title as commander-in-chief would eventually supersede Congress’ enumerated power to declare war, the delegates would’ve been rushing for the exits. What’s happening now is a gruesome inversion of the constitutional design.

As I was saying…. bsky.app/profile/atru...

The thing missing from all of these statements seems to be the awareness that if he can come for the head of one state, Trump can come for the heads of others. That must be the context, particularly in Ottawa & Mexico City but also across the world.

regarding all the skeets tonight about football: one of my core beliefs is that very little will change in the United States until good people reflect deeply on the immorality and cruelty of college football. things might get better, but they won't get good as long as that system is in place.

Please read. www.startribune.com/mn-daycare-f...

This is not a hard message. Localize it. Embrace it. Win.

6 people on the "Supreme Court" decide who has rights & who doesn't, who dies & who lives, & they justify this not by claiming to be a court of law, but by describing themselves as an oligarchy. A Court of law might perform a "counter-majoritarian check", but it isn't what a court of law *is*.

South Dakota named their immigration crackdown "Operation: Prairie Thunder." 98% of arrests: Hispanic men. The Latino community is so terrified they CANCELED their own festival. Meanwhile, the governor brags about "keeping South Dakota strong, safe & free." www.kotatv.com/2025/12/25/i...

CNN becomes the first US outlet to confirm Trump's attack on the Venezuelan mainland. He apparently did report it to Congress. This is an act of war and a violation of the UN Charter. www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...

My dad had this built when my mom couldn’t cycle anymore - due to dementia. They used to ride tandem.

You can’t fix this without real accountability. Biden’s failure was thinking normality would reassert itself, but the plunderers need justice