Guy literally says "trayvon martin was armed with the entire planet earth" when defending the murder of Alex Pretti. Now if you're anything like me you're wondering to yourself "burn in hell you cracker cocksucker"

i continue to ask what people are still doing on the fascist white supremacy platform that generates child pornography

JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled

If you're wondering what happened here, you will be wholly unsurprised to learn that Trump replaced 8 members of the board last year.

Reminder that, in recent days, children have rallied and protested for their freedom inside an ICE detention center where water has been described as "putrid" and meals reportedly contain “bugs,” dirt, and debris. This is where the kidnapped 5-year-old Liam Ramos is being held.

. @jeffrueter.bsky.social's column gets to the heart of the matter. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Great PR there, Tim Apple.

I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.

PublicSquare seems to have memory-holed its marketplace pages, but I just scraped 40k of them from the Wayback Machine and extracted JSON data for 37k businesses, including 34k distinct email addresses, 31k phone numbers, physical addresses, etc.

We call for a deescalation of tensions from both sides, the murderers and the people being murdered

“Keeping our streets safer” by…holding my riot gun in between my fucking knees at a crowd of unarmed media so I can struggle to pull the pin on my smoke grenade

this is a beautiful video 🖤 reminiscent of the ‘56 Hungarian & ‘68 Czechoslovak revolts. people are fearless

Very difficult to read this as anything other than CEOs telling Walz that he should cave to what the administration wants so they’ll go away

How many of these ICE and Border Patrol goons do you think were also trained to kill at will with no repercussions in war zones? We don’t know exactly who killed Alex Pretti yet but the POS who killed Renee Good definitely was.

Thread from the ICE facility in Portland last night: People rallied after border patrol executed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Early in the night some barricades were put up against the gate where the feds typically come out of, including a dumpster that got rolled over.

counterpoint: they’ve allowed the murders of hundreds of schoolchildren to preserve this right specifically

If you are in Tampa, I have projectors. DM me and let us make a plan because ICE is already there

All of the policing around organizers’ tactics are rooted in the ideology of the “perfect victim,” which… - Is full of contradictions, making it impossible to be a perfect victim - Blames victims for their oppressors’ violence - Fails to recognize that our oppressors just lie anyway

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

"Y'all, nobody is coming to save us. We made history yesterday. We went on general strike. We shut down this whole fucking city. That's the best weapon people have. We're the ones who make the world run, and we're the ones who can make it stop. But one day's not enough. We gotta keep it going."

the children are protesting from inside the camps. i hope they know that we hear them.

If you can’t explain the morality behind the actions of ICE or the police to your young children. Then Maybe those entities …. shouldn’t exist. 👀

Get a brass band out in front

Despite this evidence, grants will be issued, focus groups convened, conferences will be held, narratives debated, toolkits constructed, and in the end, very highly paid consultants in DC & NYC will still find reasons to blame the current situation on "groups" and activists. Again. #NicheSubTweet

This is Minneapolis. Literally every corner along Lake St. packed with people holding candles, many singing, honoring a person who by all accounts was an absolute gem of a human, whose life was tragically stolen by a fascist, paramilitary occupation force.

Link for Massachusetts folks: nlgmass.org/street-law-c...

Point is, liberals who (understandably) want justice and a meaningful transition when this regime finally falls need to get serious about what their actual demands are. Our existing opposition party is going to pardon everyone in the name of "healing," and suppress demands for actual deplatforming.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

I'm not asking for reform because arguing on paper about what ICE has to do is not the fucking point, because--and this is important--they are not following the fucking paper. I said "abolish" and I did not stutter, because if fascists goons can take over every four years, there is no paper reform.

They're doing this because they think Walz will fold because he's not standing up to them at all. If he was forcefully out there promising to defend the people of Minnesota they wouldn't think he might give up your voter info

Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.

In household drama news, it's so cold that the humans need to bundle up in layers before we take out the dogs. This traumatizes the not-smart dog every single time, as she wonders where her people went and why they were replaced with murderers in hats.

As the winter storm rolls in, remember: NYC landlords are legally required to provide heat and hot water. If yours isn’t fixing the heat within 24 hours of notice, they’re breaking the law. Call 311 to report it.

Well, no…

The aggression with which this government lies about its victims is very important. In this case, Alex Pretti is a "domestic terrorist," an "assassin," and an "armed suspect" who was "attacking" feds. All lies, as we can all see. But they're crucial for the project of consolidating power.

I hope that if I’m killed like this my union will put out a hell of a lot stronger statement than this

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

Mood in minneapolis right now

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

if they’ll shoot an ICU nurse point blank what’s happening inside the detention centers

Philando Castile informed the police that he was lawfully carrying. He was killed.

Hundreds of people gather for a vigil at the site where 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse and member of AFGE 3669, was shot and killed by federal agents.

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."

We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Remembering how cops tossed Kyle Rittenhouse - who was open carrying a semiautomatic rifle - a bottle of water and told him, “We appreciate you… we really do”