Without providing any context, ask them to watch a video of a nurse paying tribute to a veteran, then ask them how the nurse's tribute makes them feel. Ask if he's a patriot. Then ask how they would feel if he were killed why trying to protect someone being attacked. bsky.app/profile/badi...

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) on CNN: “I think the death of Americans, what we're seeing on TV, it's causing deep concerns over federal tactics and accountability. Americans don't like what they're seeing right now. … [Trump’s] getting bad advice right now.”

Grokipedia, which was purpose-built to poison the training data of LLMs, working as intended.

anyone heard from Speaker of House? in witness protection? trying to come up with "didn't see it" lines?

In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.

Kyle Rittenhouse traveled to another community with an assault rifle and the cops threw him a bottle of water and said they were glad he was there.

In this thread I’m providing you links to the names of photographers who are on the ground with me, who I trust and like, and whose work I admire. If you don’t like Instagram, I don’t really know what to tell you but there’s nothing I can do. Sorry. You’ll have to figure that one out on your own!

Straight into my veins…

The IRA launched a manufacturing renaissance, Trump is working hard to cancel it.

The civil rights movement called its protests "demonstrations" because they were meant to demonstrate to the general public just how evil the status quo was and how depraved its defenders were. ICE is actually worse than Connor -- he had to be goaded into overreaching, they're doing it on their own

i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Little flashback to what JD had to say about Kyle Rittenhouse

Trump posts an unhinged rant about his $400 million ballroom the day after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minnesota.

The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.

The mellow surf shops I follow on IG are printing stacks of anti-ICE posters on heavy cardstock and giving them away, this ain’t going back in the bottle.

Broken again by this post from the cute brunch spot a block from where ICE killed Alex "We have a medic and eye wash stations on site"

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

we're seeing here that objective reality still matters -- the number of people on the right willing to lie and defend the indefensible is both terrifyingly high and also not even a majority of professional right-wingers and voters' minds are changing quickly in response to these facts

It was literally founded on rebellion. Against tyranny. This isn’t hard.

CNN: "As Pretti’s body laid motionless on the street, another officer can be heard in one video asking, 'where’s the gun?' The officer who retrieved the weapon walks over and responds, 'I got the gun.'" These bastards .. Pretti didn't pull his weapon on them! www.cnn.com/2026/01/24/u...

Bookmark that Vice President and future presidential candidate JD Vance retweeted a post that said Alex Pretti was “an assassin who tried to murder federal agents.”

Moral depravity comes instinctively from JD Vance. This immediately after he traveled to Minneapolis to incite ICE and CBP officers to use lethal violence against innocent protesters.

They have not released Alex Pretti's cell phone video Fairly certain it is awful for them. Gonna predict he can be heard telling the officers he has a legal weapon on him

It was an extrajudicial execution. Anyone who defends this is defending a police state.

What are their names?

From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.

WELKER: Did at any point Mr. Pretti brandish a gun? BLANCHE: There's obviously an investigation that's ongoing. WELKER: But did he brandish a gun? Video shows he's holding up a phone BLANCHE: We don't know what ICE saw (That's a no!)

“I feel like we’re performing CPR on what may already be a corpse…” Woke Hoth guy isn’t lying.

Chris Murphy: "This is really scary because what Bovino essentially told you is that if you just happen to be present when they are undertaking an operation, if you pull out your phone to record it, the use of force against you is justified. That is not true, it's not what the law says."

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As predicted: the stabilized footage has pretty much immediately become a significant issue for the federal government here.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Journalists need to ask, “What made Pettri a ‘suspect’?” He was ‘seized’ under the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, which requires *probable cause that he was committing a crime* MAKE THEM ARTICULATE THE BASIS FOR THE SEIZURE

I have never seen a case where state law enforcement had to file a lawsuit to obtain evidence of a police shooting within its jurisdiction. Until now. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Why are the ICE agents still on duty if they are conducting an “investigation”? Of course we all know the answer is that the propaganda findings were determined right after the murder occurred

"The victims are the Border Patrol agents"

"working with local authorities" seems like putting cards on the table

We sometimes think about the martyrs of the Boston Massacre as the first deaths in the American Revolution. But an 11yo boy named Christopher Seider was killed by a customs informer the week before. Boston gave him a huge funeral. Tensions were snapping. And then soldiers fired into the crowd.

nearly 20% of republicans in support of abolishing ICE should be a major alarm for this administration

My buddy's 15 year DnD group is imploding because a couple of the long time players are defending the ICE murders and everyone else is appalled. This is a red line for normal people in a "get the fuck out and never talk to me again" way. The evil and injustice is instantly recognizable.

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

Here is a good opinion:

There's a stabilized video on Twitter of what happend. Victims gun didn't discharge. First shot was fired by agent into victims back after he witnessed the other agent remove the victims gun.

Two and half minutes. That’s all the time the CBS Evening News thought today’s events in Minneapolis were worth. Not even time to tell viewers what Alex Pretti did for a living. The winter storm got 8 minutes. NBC Nightly News spent 8 minutes, nearly half the show, on Pretti’s killing

ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.

And as cynical as I am, I believe Americans are gonna take to heart Janis Joplin’s immortal words, “Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.” Soon, a tipping point will come. I believe Americans have the fight in them. But they’re gonna be pushed to the brink before they push back.

Doug Stafford is the chief strategist for Senator Rand Paul (R-KY). He tweeted this earlier in the evening and then deleted it. No apparent follow-up or comment on the deletion.