Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

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.

Philosophically, I’m operating as if extrajudicial killings, home arrests of dissidents and journalists are inevitable and increasingly common as the future morphs into now—unless! Unless the people win. And if I’m dead already, I see no better way to use borrowed time than to boldly smash fascism.

Two days ago, 7 democrats voted to fund that execution

I saw Neptune through the telescope for the first time. It’s between Saturn and the waxing moon right now, and it’s unbelievably blue.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

Arrests calmly ongoing. This is going to take a while. There are a lot of clergy risking arrest.

Dreamed that Tom Hardy died and I was so upset that I woke up.

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

Sharing this report of ICE depravity from Facebook at the request of community member. This is from a suburb north of ICE-occupied Minneapolis. The text is from her post on Facebook.

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

Today I got it in my head to watch Project Runway for the first time, starting S1E1. I made it through 1.5 episodes of close-ups of emaciated models’ asses in thongs before remembering why I didn’t engage with pop culture in the aughts and switching to Great British Sewing Bee.

This is the Bigfoot read I didn't know I needed from @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social

My mayor told me police keep killing his constituents so I asked how many constituents he has and he said he just gives the police more money for training afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just paying the police to kill his constituents and then Matt Yglesias started crying.

Watch this entire 2:30 video and ask yourself if you're really making the most of your life

“don’t GIVE him what he wants just let him DO whatever he wants!” - half the Democratic Party and also the ghost of Neville Chamberlain, probably

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

Booklist 2026, a thread I will probably forget to update

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

These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country

At no point did it occur to Owendoff that if he was texting racist shit in a public meeting with his screen magnification at 500% other people might be able to see it

the thing about “ICE needs training” is that Jonathan Ross was a ten year DHS vet and a firearms instructor he’s the kind of guy they get training from the whole institution is rotten, throw it out

officially entering zero-fucks middle age

If you're a young person you have no idea how long we've all been listening to Small Government and Liberty stuff from the right. Nobody at all believed any of it lol

“Who in the United States of America wants a war between the United States and Europe … over GREENLAND??”

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

god bless the No Sleep for ICE folks, bringing back the charivari.

This story has been updated throughout the day/eve (and will continue to be!). Follow for updates on the feds' shooting of of two Portlanders this afternoon -- and related protests and lawmakers response.

There is an emerging community led convening occurring outside of City Hall beginning at 6pm. Some councilors will speak starting around 6:30pm. There is no place in this city for ICE.

So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact. When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end

Context: A decade ago, Border Patrol agents had to be ordered not to put themselves in front of moving vehicles as a pretext to use deadly force www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/new-dir...

NEW: The ICE agent who killed Renee Good yesterday in Minneapolis appears to be an Iraq war veteran named Jonathan Ross who lives in Minnesota. Me, @noahhurowitz.bsky.social and @jesswash.bsky.social theintercept.com/2026/01/08/i...

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers have shot two people in Portland, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The shooting took place at 2:18 pm on Southeast Main street, but the victims, one male and one female, were found at 146th and East Burnside minutes later.

As always, Defector gets it right: defector.com/ice-agent-ki...

so, Portland Metro/suburb peeps, i know today is a very disconcerting day to sign up for migra watch training, but there is specific need for YOU. so many of our immigrant neighbors live in the burbs and ruraler areas, but PIRC is reporting there aren't nearly enough observers there. you could help.

The five-year-old next to me at PDX has been making continuous fart noises in a way that I can only characterize as neurodivergent. Their dad has clearly decided to ignore it until it goes away, but he did order a cocktail.

January 6th would never have been possible without the willing complicity of local police departments supporting and protecting the violent right-wing militias who spent all of 2020 doing practice runs against our local communities across the entire US.

30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine

Hypermobility + ADHD = where do I start? • scythed front lawn overenthusiastically: bilateral shoulder tendinitis • chased dog in garden and tripped: sprained ankle, tib/fib fracture • chased raccoon out of kitchen and fell down stairs: concussion, permanent dead spot in lower back

“Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote.

At least once a day Whiskey rolls around on the sofa and scruffs up all of her fur and scratches all of her itches and claws at the cushions. It gets dog hair everywhere, but it’s cute. Sometimes, but not every time, she ends with a short, sharp bark, apparently for the sheer joy of being alive.

I have neither thrown nor received a real punch in my life but I kind of think the root sin of the social internet is letting people just say and do things that in the real world would get the shit kicked out of them

I tallied up all my reading from last year—everything my Kobo, Libby, and I could remember finishing: • 177 books • all but 5 fiction • mostly speculative • mostly queer • mostly new, except for the Cadfael and Locked Tomb rereads

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the Bush Administration, but they did come up with a casus belli other than “the vascular dementia in charge wants something new on TV”

We covered so much here thanks to @davidforbes.bsky.social, but I’d like to underline perhaps the most pernicious aspect of the nyt’s ideologically driven campaign: How it has caused grave damage to the rights of *all* queer people.

Just flat-out declaring that everything Adams did as mayor after the indictment—in the final fifteen months and five days of his term of office—was presumptively corrupt, and undoing everything that's in his immediate power to undo with a single stroke of the pen. This is the way.