"This is the most interventionist government of my lifetime," Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan, told MeidasTouch in an interview released Sunday. "It’s the least conservative government of my lifetime."

The execution of Alex Pretti is playing so badly because you can look at his actions and life story - his last act was helping, boy scout, athlete, health care worker to veterans - and compare those to the men who killed him and know which you would want to be your son, brother, father, uncle.

People are commenting that the church's child molestation scandal makes it ineligible to be seen as moral. But I think acting immorally in the post makes you ineligible to scold others now, not to course-correct your own morality.

In evaluating the whining about “doxxing” — by which they mean identifying federal employees who killed someone under color of law - remember this administration cooperates with a large cadre of obedient bootlicker Right media that leaps to the tasks of viciously lying about anyone they kill.

Remember folks, Stephen Miller said Alex Pretti was “an assassin who tried to murder federal agents" and J.D. Vance retweeted it

People at the Prairieland ICE Concentration Camp outside of Dallas, TX are freezing to death as ICE refuses to turn on the facilities heating despite it being 13°F (8°F with wind chill) #DeathCamps

Truly remarkable.

Right-wingers think a box of free hand warmers is a conspiracy because they don't understand what being part of a community is like.

picturing her gnawing on a conference table full of severed hands

“As the Michigan-based attorney walked toward his car, he said he heard what sounded like ‘hundreds of children’ shouting, with voices he described as ‘high-pitched’ and ‘urgent.’ He said he could see children streaming from dormitory areas behind a chain-link fence and chanting ‘Libertad.’”

This sums it up.

Really good day for your reps of either party to hear from you. If they don't, they assume you don't care, so they might as well take the easy way out. Make sure they know you care.

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ABOLISH ICE. They’re actually shit at what they do.

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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So, you can carry firearm across state lines to a protest and if you shoot two people Kash Patel will advise you to sue the media and the Biden Administration. If you are in your home state and never draw your gun, and get shot by ICE Kash Patel says its "illegal" to carry a gun to a protest. 🙄

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Kash Patel today: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want." Really?

"Alex Pretti grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he played football, baseball and ran track for Preble High School. He was a Boy Scout and sang in the Green Bay Boy Choir." wisconsinwatch.org/2026/01/man-... (via @apnews.com)

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The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI

Trump’s Heritage friends justifying a state execution for exercising your 2A rights This isn’t conservatism, it’s fascism

Tim walz needs to active the guard under state orders to protect citizens from ICE. If Trump federalizes them from under the Governor, this needs to go to court immediately as proof that the militia clause of the second amendment is violated

THE UTTER FUCKING NERVE OF "POCKET NAZI" GREG BOVINO AND ICE BARBIE CALLING THEIR MASKED AND MURDEROUS THUGS "LAW ENFORCEMENT." THESE LAWLESS SHITPIGS ARE ANYTHING BUT. I EXPLAIN IT ALL IN TODAY'S SUPER-ANGRY POST. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER, LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/4rau7ol

Instead of fixing the tech, they policed recipients and fed the fraud myth. The real fraud problem is criminals skimming benefits from outdated magnetic-stripe cards that USDA refused to fix. In most states, they have stopped reimbursing stolen funds. www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

This should be big news, but it’s barely a whisper. The Trump admin is focusing on the wrong problem. The fraud isn’t w/SNAP recipients, it’s with outside scammers. USDA let outdated SNAP cards stay vulnerable, and families lost about $555 million in food benefits, not to “cheating,” but to theft.

Drop a 🇺🇸 and repost if you see the most ultrapatriotic sign in modern American history.

A half dozen Trump goon squad agents pushed Alex Pretti to the ground and held him down, they removed the permitted gun from his pants and secured the gun, ICE had him face down with his arms out, and then shot him 10 times. In the back. ICE said “boo hoo” after the killing.

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I’m a retired Mpls cop. I retired in 2022 after 30 years. These people are not law enforcement. They are not police. They are not trained in anything but escalation. They lie, they kill. They are nothing but feral animals. I am so ashamed and embarrassed. I worry for the MPD cops.

“Christians” worship a brown-skinned foreigner; who was a refugee in hiding as a child; commanded His true followers to welcome the stranger; and was later the victim of state violence. This part matters just a bit. johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/the-fake-o.... Please click, read, subscribe.

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

This is absurd to put all of those CBP agents involved in the murder of Alex Pretti back onto the streets already. They pose a very real, proven danger to the community.

Admirably clear @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

Trump Administration: Everyone, come to the World Cup and Olympics! Sure, you might get shot and killed by ICE, but, hey, spend money here in America!

Leaked footage from an ICE Black Site inside of 31 Hopkins Plaza, Baltimore, MD. More then 50 people in rooms with no beds or bathrooms, people laying on filthy floors, guard beatings and people with legal status being illegally held (1/25/26)

My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking

MAGA is at heart a terror movement

History repeats itself if it's not learned. Stop what's going to happen next...NOW!

i honestly don't know what this administration would do if confronted with a national mass movement would they get scared and back down? would they pull out machine guns?

AND IMPEACH AND REMOVE. We need to clamor for that even if the votes aren't there—yet.

It is more important than ever to bear video witness of not just every masked ICE incursion, but every police stop by actual cops.

We need to stop using normal language for what is happening. They are not murdering people. They are EXECUTING them. That is what paramilitary forces do. They are not doing "immigration enforcement." They are terrorizing communities on purpose. They are NOT "enforcement." They are breaking laws.

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

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"

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”