Up is down, left is right--and perpetrators are victims.

Mr Rogers: Look for the helpers ICE agent, unholstering gun: On it

bsky.app/profile/butt... And PP is participating in it substack.com/home/post/p-...

1/ I’m quietly wondering where all those hundreds of billions of dollars spent to militarize American police forces actually went. Legally, local police have every right to step in, secure crime scenes, and arrest uncooperative ICE agents.

One of the theologians I read a lot recently did a long essay on how doing a big Bonhoffer project helped him realize that MAGA evangelicals have kind of already gone through the process that made the German people see potential mass murder as sanctifying! Once you see it, it's hard to unsee

The Bozo Fascist Regime says the INSANE part out loud: Sure kids will be harmed by measles and polio, but vaccines for those previously eliminated diseases should be optional, subject to the whims of anti-vax know-nothings and do-my-own-research home schoolers. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/h...

BREAKING: A federal judge blocks the Trump administration from destroying or altering evidence related to the Minneapolis shooting of Alex Pretti.

A federal judge issues a restraining order against the feds, barring them from "destroying or altering evidence" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Understand that 370 days ago even bringing a motion like this would probably have been treated as sanctionably frivolous Today it was granted ex parte

A federal judge effectively ordered the U.S. government not to cover up evidence that it illegally executed a civilian, at the request of local prosecutors seeking to investigate federal agents for murder. Don’t want to overstate things but it feels reminiscent of the run-up to the Civil War.

being boycotted by Germany for fascism is wild

"Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends, and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact."

"He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper-sprayed," Alex’s family continued. "Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."

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."

A completely insane take. Also, guess what gun ICE issues to it's officers? That's right, the same Sig P320 Pretti was carrying.

Kristi Noem, a pathological liar, is bemoaning that Alex Pretti showed up at a protest carrying a (legally owned) pistol. She is a rank hypocrite. MAGA protesters have come to innumerable protests with AR-15s on their shoulders and Glocks on their hips. No one shot and killed the MAGA protesters.

Protesters in Los Angeles projected an anti-ICE video onto the Twin Towers, an ICE-linked detention facility where the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department actively collaborates with ICE for deportation screenings.

‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war Alex Pretti’s death could be a moment of reckoning for Democrats to call time on Trump waging war on his people www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Patel is lying about the law as it is traditionally understood, as it is written. He’s telling the truth about law under Trumpism: you only have a right if they deign to acknowledge it; you have no right to do anything they don’t want you to do.

I keep thinking about this fact that his last words were are you okay and hers were I'm not mad at you and it feels like a weird coincidence but it's just a reflection of the fact that the people who are coming out to take care of their neighbors are good and the people who are after them are bad

More accurate headlines: “UK skilled worker shortage intensifies” “Loss of EU research funding $ makes unis more dependent on overseas students” “Business leaders lament post-Brexit recruitment challenges” “Funding cuts to nurse training cause staffing crisis” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hours after federal immigration officers shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, Pam Bondi seized upon the incident to demand access to Minnesota’s voter rolls, directly tying the Trump administration’s quest for voters’ unredacted personal data to its aggressive immigration raids across the state.

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

These are neighborhood watches. Not protests, not riots, but neighborhood watches. People taking care of neighbors. Watching for danger on their own streets. Keeping their children safe from ICE kidnappers. The new neighborhood watch.

Sending another 2,000 armed, masked, armored, federal agents to our community makes us less safe. Makes us unable to live free. Makes death. Makes orphans. www.mpschools.org

The influencer trend of "Can't do X if ICE murders you" seems like a good way to help normies understand that everything is political, their comfortable lives are at stake, and that ICE can get them too I wish they were persuaded earlier by different motives but I'll take whatever wakes up people.

What we are witnessing in Minnesota is not normal or okay. Law enforcement should be keeping people safe by going after dangerous criminals, not by terrorizing communities. The people of Minnesota deserve a full and transparent investigation, safe streets, and basic human dignity.

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/

From Hopium: - Alex Pretti - Patriot (video) - The fight to rein in ICE has begun in earnest - It's time for Ds to come together, build unified national front against Trump's escalating illiberalism - History tells us appeasement never works, only strength 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/alex-prett...

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1

Look at these beautiful faces. Say their names.

Heyo, Chicago pals: Quick note that the executive vice president of the Bob Loquercio Auto Group is vociferously defending the murder of Alex Pretti. The auto group has 16 locations in and around Chicago, listed below. Please take your business elsewhere. www.blautogroup.com/locations/in...

ICE isTrumps private army. They can beat us, banish us, kill us with impunity. They will expand. They will try to crush us in every state. Soon our representatives will vote- to regarding ICE funding. Leave a message. Tell them no. White House (202) 456-1111 Capitol switchboard 1 202 224 3121

‘The more that other countries look to escape US financial coercion, the more the US will scale it up… The global dollar system may now be a source of instability rather than stability.’ Our new paper by @dsquareddigest.bsky.social & @himself.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/60...

This is insane… US Dollar share of global reserve currency has fallen to its lowest levels this century. It’s literally unprecedented.

Reporter: "How long will you be out here?" random minneapolitan: "till my balls get cold"

tfw when the imperialism is boomeranging

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"Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus," Jonathan Rauch argues. "'Fascist' best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse." theatln.tc/wVq7MFaa

We've now repeatedly seen top officials immediately declare the shootings justified, lionize as heroes the agents who've executed people, brazenly lie about the victims, refuse to open investigations, and impede local attempts to investigate. The fuck is a body camera going to do?

We all just saw about six different angles of ICE murdering a guy who himself was filming them, but sure, you think body cameras will make all the difference. How stupid do they think we are?

📣📣📣 A major warning has finally surfaced... The UK government quietly published a shortened intelligence report revealing that global ecosystem collapse is now a direct threat to our national security. Read more, by Rupert Read.

I think it is important that Greg Bovino, personally, is prosecuted for what he has done and continues to do in service of all of this

He’s lied in court under oath multiple times. Just the perjury charges alone would do the job.

Damn right.

fucking everyman central casting. hits almost every sympathetic category Renee Good didn't already cover bsky.app/profile/jpob...

James Talarico: “It’s time to tear down this secret police force & replace it with an agency that actually is going to focus on public safety— We have to haul these masked men in front of Congress so the world can see their faces”

To those blaming Walz for not mobilizing the Guard, he did that six days ago. I have to say it's disturbing to see people angry at Walz instead of the government agents that just executed a man. As though we should all be experts about what to do when a secret police force invades an American city.

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity