YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents** substack.com/@gelliottmor...

I'm not going to ask if you're doomscrolling. Everything is hard right now. But you still need to eat some food, drink a glass of water, as well as time to rest and recover. Try not to stay up too late tonight. Sleep deprivation will make everything you need to do harder, including helping others.

hey I know it's hard to get no credit or feel unrecognized for work that no one else sees, but good job on all the illegal posts you all didn't post today! we're proud of you ❤️ we know it gets harder each day but you're not alone! why, I heard of one guy who actually went June-December with no posts

i am at a unitarian universalist meeting. the attendance is fifty fifty retirees and college students. everyone here knows who alex pretti is and everyone here is pissed beyond belief and none of us are afraid

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.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

NEWS: @nationalnurses.bsky.social “demands Congress abolish ICE entirely. We will be doing everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people.”

Unclench your jaw. Relax your brow. Go get a drink of water. See if you've taken your meds Eat something. Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing. Because you do. You're a wonderful person. And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through

Call the piece of legislation that ultimately abolishes ICE the Pretti-Good Act

Water is big mad at me and Kari, jeez Please help. Disaster has struck.

The killing happened about 15 hours ago. Since then: - MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (FBI equivalent) got a warrant for the evidence on the scene - Tried to execute it - Were forcibly turned away by feds - Filed for a temporary restraining order - TRO granted by the federal district court

Cops cordoning off my block so no one can get in or out have now been joined by a military humvee Photo one: this morning just after the shooting Photo two: right now

OKAY FRIENDS I’m giving away another of my tiny #ofmd embroideries! First person to pledge below to donate $120 to either of the fundraiser links in my pinned skeet will have this sweet little 4x4” inn headed their way!

loring park vigil for alex pretti, who was killed by ICE in minneapolis this morning

making a little digital vigil here for people who couldn’t go outside and join their neighbors. 🕯️❄️🖤🕯️❄️🕯️🖤❄️🕯️

Feels like it should be a pretty big deal that a Trump supporter physically assaulted a Democratic congressman

Alex Pretti was killed in broad daylight by the federal government all because he was out caring for his neighbors. We won’t let them stop us and we will keep watching out for our neighbors to honor him.

“I was confused as to why the victim was on his side, because that is not standard practice when a victim has been shot. Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard practice. Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds.”

it's just words so far but at least they're the correct words

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis this morning. He was a 37-year-old ICU nurse who spent his career keeping people alive — including at the VA. Call your senators & call Schumer. Vote NO on DHS funding. 🧵 www.patreon.com/posts/149044...

everybody shut the fuck up and lock in. email your senator and tell them they’re doing what you want and they’ll have your vote as long as they continue

this is so incredibly courageous

Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

Photograph by Jeff Wheeler/@startribune.com (pls credit in the post, not only alt text. so most will see it. 🙏🏼)

Bear in mind that this is a 70 year old unarmed man who owns a bookstore showing up at the site of the most recent murder by 🧊 in our city. Getting teargassed and shot at. Legend. But holy shit, there is no reason or rationale for any of this. 😡 www.huffpost.com/entry/minnes...

Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

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."

deadly ice within the city murders good and murders pretti pretty good turns ugly awful villains claiming death is lawful one was pretti, one was good and both are dead because ice could

Mood in minneapolis right now

I wonder if I’ll ever stop being angry all of the time.

I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.

Hundreds more people just marched up to join. Some bonfires going. Copious handwarmers being passed out. Chanting, "no justice, no peace!"

in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

Hundreds of people gathered in Whittier Park to denounce the Border Patrol killing of a Minneapolis man earlier Saturday. 📸: Katio Galioto

By the way. YOU SHOULD STILL CALL YOUR SENATORS. It matters that they vote no. Because you'll know you did your job as an American and it'll be up to them to do the right thing.

What a stark, horrifying demonstration of the tension a union opens itself to when it organizes security forces. If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?

Both of Nevada's senators--Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen--have officially come out against the DHS funding bill following the execution of Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis this morning. This effectively ends the DHS funding bill in the Senate.

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

The Senate’s top Democratic appropriator Patty Murray faults DHS for “an execution” in Minnesota, and adds: “The Republican Congress must join us to end this. Enough.”

Pretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry. It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.

Minnesota is the best of us.

I just hope people outside of MN understand that there are thousands of people here in Minneapolis who ICE watch every day. Who show up to the same corners, streets, businesses, etc. in our neighborhoods. Who compile and confirm reports and send alerts. Who have their phones ready and voices loud.

"If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night"

Trump’s endless empowerment of federal immigration agents has resulted in yet another senseless killing. This brutal crackdown has to end. I cannot and will not vote to fund DHS while this administration continues these violent federal takeovers of our cities.

I'm not sure Democrats in D.C. are aware that their base's rage against ICE has reached a level of blinding white-hot intensity. They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.

If you want to read an account of things, this is a good thread.

It is somehow already 3 p.m. here in Minnesota (CST). Did you have lunch or brunch? Is it time for a snack? Are you drinking enough water? You need to hydrate well at this time of year & when under stress. Have you taken any meds you need to take? Take care of yourselves, folks. Hang in there. ❤️