Imagine being so corrupt and authoritarian even Sepp Blatter thinks you've gone too far. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

ALEX JEFFREY PRETTI. Gone, but never forgotten... #RIP_Alex 💔

This hit so fucking hard today.

BYE BITCH

omg

Alex Pretti’s execution hits home for me. Like Alex, I have a background in critical care nursing. Also like Alex, I’m someone who has spent a lot of time protesting in the streets. Today, I’m more certain than ever that ICE must be abolished. #alexpretti #abolishice #orpol #wethepeople #justice

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius commented on Trump's disrespectful statements regarding fallen soldiers from allied nations in Afghanistan:

"behind the violence in Minneapolis—captured in so many chilling photographs in recent weeks—is a different reality: a meticulous urban choreography of civic protest." from Robert worth, @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

After ICE agents wrestled Alex Pretti to the ground, beat him, and shot him to death, Governor Walz activated state National Guard forces at the Hennepin County Sheriff’s request. The sheriff cited “the potential for continuing and growing conflict” due to the killing. 1/20

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

Second direct witness to Alex Pretti's killing comes forward. Court declaration: "I saw him yelling at the ICE agents, but I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind. Suddenly, an ICE agent shoved him to the ground." 🧵

JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

A person who said they witnessed federal agents shoot and kill Alex Jeffrey Pretti submitted a sworn statement in court disputing the federal government’s account of the shooting. “I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong,” the person said in the statement.

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.

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.

NEW: Republican member of Congress Anna Paulina Luna cuts a Greenland-shaped cake with a US flag on it in Davos today. Wondering who is with her? That’s European far right leader, George Simion, the man backed by Putin to take control of Romania’s government. The US is a joke internationally.

When normalised by population size, the death toll of US troops in Afghanistan is broadly similar to that of four other countries, including the UK... and Denmark. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaliti...

Death toll in Afghanistan when NATO answered the US’s call: - 453 Britons - 158 Canadians - 89 French - 59 Germans - 53 Italians - 44 Danes - 17 Spaniards “Stayed a little back, off the front lines “! No one in the media will call him out over this lie or any of the others he spouts.

Once again, the fact that we are betraying the closest of our closest treaty allies - the ones whose soldiers bled & died beside us in 🇦🇫 - this way is a national shanda that should have immediately ended this presidency over a year ago & should certainly immediately end it now.

Notching a rare win: House passed spending bills with all anti-trans riders removed—no care bans, no school funding threats, nothing. Sarah McBride and Dem appropriators fought for this for months. open.substack.com/pub/aridrenn...

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Please enjoy this local news: “Lehigh County Executive Josh Siegel said he is evicting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit from a county-owned building where it has occupied an office for about three years but never paid rent… “We’re going to deport ICE,” Pinsley said at the news conference”

WIN: The Virginia Senate approved a measure to automatically restore voting rights to people with prior felony convictions. The question now moves to voters, who will decide whether the state ends a Jim Crow-era system that shuts thousands out of their civic responsibility.

I like immigration enforcement agencies that don't shoot innocent women in the face and then say it's awesome.

This is why law enforcement agencies should not be allowed to wear camouflage and other military style uniforms.

Yes, they could. And it could be a huge test.

Still hard to believe that there are videos and witnesses to someone shooting a woman in the face three times. Yet the shooter has not been arrested even though the police know who and where he is.

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

Almost time to go to the streets & stay there.

For @wired.com, I wrote about how misogyny and homophobia have been used by the right to wage a campaign to destroy Renee Good www.wired.com/story/the-ca...

Yea, I remind young people all the time how quickly public opinion can and does change. It may not seem like it in that moment, but LGBTQ rights moved at lightening speed compared to almost every other social issue. (Obviously transgender issues are still a challenge unfortunately)

Periodic reminder Earle-Sears ran this in an attack ad last year Now over 1/4 of Virginia GOP State Senate caucus votes with Dems on same-sex marriage

McLAUGHLIN: Racial animus has no place in DHS and of course is not use CNN: *plays clip of ICE agents asking Minneapolis woman where she was born* McLAUGHLIN: I haven't seen this clip before. She might've been assaulting law enforcement prior to this.

"The most appalling horror of American slavery may well be that whites in any number of ways implicitly or even explicitly recognized the humanity of Black folk every day, yet they remained full, even avid participants in a system that abused and terrorized those very people."--Melvin Patrick Ely

JUST IN: The Virginia Senate has approved a constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights. The Virginia House already did this on Wednesday. It's official: there'll be a referendum later this year on the issue.

🚨BREAKING: The Virginia Senate passed a constitutional amendment Friday that would allow lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional districts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

Exactly 20 years ago, Virginia banned same-sex marriage by over 14% margin This year, very likely it will repeal that and protect same-sex marriage by a larger margin Pretty remarkable change in public opinion in a generation

JUST IN: Virginia's legislature just adopted a constitutional amendment that would end Virginia's rules that ban people from voting for life. Virginia currently is the only state that strips people of voting rights for life for any felony. Youngkin rolled back reforms. Now going to a referendum.

Sign of the times 5 GOP State Senators in Virginia join all Dems to put referendum on ballot to protect same-sex marriage All of them are in seats Spanberger won Including Tara Durant running in VA-7

Exactly one year ago I went to Copenhagen. I wrote about the fallout from Trump's first phone call with the Danish prime minister. Danes have been preparing for this crisis for a year. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The amount of restraint the people of Minneapolis have shown is INCREDIBLE. Fucking INCREDIBLE. We don't need our leaders lecturing us like children. ICE is kidnapping and beating and MURDERING us and we're out here with fucking whistles and phones and an occasional snowball.

He changed sides again. Trump tells Reuters that Zelensky, not Putin, is holding up a Ukraine peace deal. He claims Putin is ready to end the war, while Kyiv is “having a hard time getting there.” Talks reportedly focus on Ukraine giving up Donbas.

If President Trump ordered the annexation of Greenland, it would end NATO. He would be destroying the system that has reinforced American security for 80 years—and all for a vanity project, as I told @katiecouric.bsky.social

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

"ICE is violence-prone because its main purpose has become theatrical. Under present leadership, ICE is less a law-enforcement agency than it is a content creator. from David Frum: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...