Schiff: "For Blanche to blame cities and states for flooding the streets of America with thousands of poorly trained agents who are shooting Americans in cold blood in the street and through windshields is despicable."

I mean, the law in Minnesota literally says you can

Mamdani: "To first take a moment about Mpls. It is horrific what we have seen there. And I think that there are too many Americans who are being asked to not believe their own eyes, not believe their own ears, not believe their own realities." (This interview was conducted before Pretti killing)

Please support Aaron. He is in the middle of this and still giving us the best coverage.

'5 Calls' is a phone app that is very easy to use to contact your representatives. You can also go to '5calls.org' in your browser. They give you a script that you can use to relate your issue. You can just say "Get ICE out of our cities" 5calls.org

Klobuchar: "Somehow 50,000 peaceful protesters in 10 below weather were able to march without any problems, and then the next day half a dozen ICE and CBP agents couldn't handle a guy with a cell phone taking video of them and shot him. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here."

I spent the most formative years of my political life reading headlines like this seemingly every week.

Guess what Scott, Reichsführer-Border Patrol Bovino says he brings guns to the protests he participates in.

The fact that he calls a poster a billboard is how I know this man has never been to a protest in his life

Read the entire thread. 🧵 Contact your state and federal reps with a call to action!!!

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Some things on social media need a "I acknowledge I saw this" button instead of a "like" button

Leaders of the so-called “pro-life, small government” party who relentlessly warn of tyranny are standing by as masked agents roam the country and brutalize its people. The hypocrisy isn’t surprising — but it’s staggering. Remember this.

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

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."

Solidarity, particularly across race and class, is Kryptonite for authoritarian regimes. They can only thrive when their us v. them framing is adopted by society at large, and they join as active or passive collaborators with the regime. So the only response they have is to raise the cost of unity

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.

This is what happens when you give Corey Lewandowski effective control of DHS. He is one out of control bad life choice after another.

Creators and commentators are reporting their Alex Pretti videos are being taken down on multiple platforms. Download those videos while you can folks.

It's time for a truly massive general strike. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-enough

I really need Democratic lawmakers to understand that we're fed up with them simply posting on social media "this has to stop" without calling for specific actions to make it stop. We know this needs to stop. We elected you. Tell us what needs to be done to make it stop.

Alex Pretti served as a nurse in the intensive care unit of the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis. He cared for the most vulnerable patients in the veteran population. I've been thinking the veterans who received care from him. Some homeless, some without family. He was there for them.

“Trump has revealed himself, and we must name what we see.” Fascism www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Federal agents claimed Alex Pretti, 37, forced their hand on a Minneapolis street Saturday morning, alleging he “violently resisted” disarmament until the officers fired “defensive shots.” -WSJ Bystander footage appears to tell a different story. on.wsj.com/4raTaHV

Executed.

How many more have been executed in detention that we do not know about and have no video documentation of? Horrifying.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Exactly! Our media is a big part of the problem. They have to stop coddling fascism and letting them get away with open lying.

This picture is worth 6,000,000 words... I mean lives. IYKYK

This is what our country is becoming...

#AlexPretti was everything these pathetic, postering weaklings could never be! He possessed honor & integrity. He respected our Veterans. He was compassionate, courageous & intelligent. We must continue resisting this regime in his honor. We must not look away. ❤️‍🩹 🕯️ 💪

Trump was always Open Carry Open Carry until now....what changed NRA was always Open Carry Open Carry until now...what changed

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.

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Rest in power Alex,🙏🏽

He was a Good Samaritan — and they murdered him for it. Now they’re trying to rewrite his history. They want to smear him. To dehumanize him. Don’t let them. 2/2

Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him. The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/

#ICEOUT #ICEGESTAPO WE ARE PRETTI. WE ARE GOOD

His name was Alex Jeffrey Pretti. Alex was a registered nurse with NO CRIMINAL RECORD. He was an athlete, an avid outdoorsman. A brother, a son. He worked at the VA caring for veterans. He was legally filming ICE agents as an observer when they stopped him, DISARMED him, and THEN shot him! RIP Alex.

A memorial for Alex Jeffrey Pretti. May he rest in peace.

I want to go back to where it took only ONE Kent State episode to change the country, not multiple episodes every other week.

Trump doesn’t want you to see this! Minnesota not only shut everything down, they poured into the streets! FUCK #ICE 🗣️FUCK TRUMP