Angry? We should be. Show up this afternoon with @handsoffnyc.bsky.social to reject ICE terror.

during the George Floyd protests, the NYT commissioned an opinion piece titled "Send The Troops In", because they wanted to "hear from all sides of the debate". they still haven't published a single article in favour of abolishing ICE

We’re going to have to systematically dismantle this cancerous movement. - Strip the dark money groups and political churches of tax exempt status - Target right-wing media with antitrust - Oust right-wing bullshit from academia and law schools - Root out fascists in government and law enforcement

The conservative intelligentsia and media-industrial complex has been publicly masturbating about getting to kill people for years now, they are orders of magnitude worse than even the MAGA base. Everybody knows this, it's just politically incorrect to say it.

Kyle Rittenhouse was on Infowars the day after the Renee Good shooting saying he had heard on X that Renee was putting cigarettes out on her kids. This wasn't true. This is a government by and for school shooters and their apologists.

i think the guy they murdered helped run research studies for the fucking VA

Not untrained, not inexperienced.

I attempted to go to an ICE patrol training here in LA this morning and they had to turn most of us away because of capacity issues and even as I was leaving I saw a ton more folks showing up so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder

January is almost over and there have only been 3 homicides in Minneapolis so far this year 2 of them were committed by ICE agents.

They shot an unarmed mother in the face in front of her wife then called her a “fucking bitch”. They kidnapped a five year old and used them as bait. They deported a two year old despite a judge’s orders. They maced, pistol whipped, and disarmed a nurse legally carrying then shot him nine times.

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.

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

The 37-year-old man murdered by DHS today in Minneapolis was named Alex Jeffrey Pretti. He was a nurse so had attended the University of Minnesota. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Trump’s lawless ICE agents just brutally killed another person in Minnesota. The Trump-caused mayhem never should have started and must end immediately. ICE needs to get out of Minnesota now. And Congress needs to impeach Noem and block funding for this disgrace.

centrists like to use terminology disputes as a proxy battle for actual policy fights, and engaging is often fruitless. if you don’t like the slogan use something else. but the agency needs to be hollowed out, every existing agent needs to be put on no-hire lists, and there need to be prosecutions.

We must stop funding DHS.

guy running the tennesse hollar twitter account: "hang on i gotta make sure to watermark this viral video of federal agents executing a guy with our social tags and logo before uploading"

Showing cross-racial solidarity is a potential death sentence. There are few things white supremacists hate more.

Arrest the murderers or step aside.

there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect

the crisis of impunity will continue until consequences

It doesn’t matter if you can’t get a conviction because of uncooperative fed you need to bring state charges

Murdering protestors is what dictators do. Trump threatened to bomb Iran for it — while he and his ICE brownshirts are doing it right here. ICE must leave Minnesota now. Congress must stop funding them. And the perpetrators of these crimes must be held accountable. x.com/startribune/...

This is totally fixable with better training and even more money. <snark off>

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

Somebody's gotta file a habeas petition for the witnesses right now.

The StarTribune live blog is paywall free: - The man shot by federal agents this morning has died - Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building. - ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Witnesses are being taken to Whipple. From a lawyer friend: “They’re trying to keep local PD and BCA from getting statements and confiscating any phones with video.”

Per this report ICE has detained several witnesses

people'll say "pols don't control the cops" to defend not ordering arrests of ICE. problem is: to begin the process of fixing that, a politician will have to admit to this out loud. you can't fix an issue you pretend isn't there. so, the only q is: when would be the appropriate time to do this?

Very curious to hear Patrick Healy explain the difference between this scandal, where Jordan Lasker and other racists stole personal information from minors and publicized it, and the time the Times collaborated with Jordan Lasker and other racists to publicize a minor's stolen personal information

And a special shout out to every "cancel culture" grifter who helped make white supremacy mainstream again. Dude was fired because he's an unethical hack. But "cancel culture" fools gave him a ready-made excuse for his persecution complex.

You know who doesn't have to deny their eugenic research? People who aren't eugenicists.

What's truly jaw dropping about this reporting is that, as @louiseseamster.bsky.social notes, the New York Times has in the past used one of these white supremacists (who had hacked and stolen data from Columbia University) when they were doing hit pieces on then candidate Mamdani.

Shoddy ethics are probably a bonus for white supremacists, given that their entire worldview is unethical. This tactic updates an old white supremacist tactic of publishing shoddy research and disseminating it through friendly outlets.

The New York Times reports that a group of “scientific” racists misused National Institute of Health data (that families were assured would be protected) to write bogus papers on supposed to biological racial differences. Gift link.

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.

"We're going to give you 10 billion dollars for more training" "Cool" *spends the 10 billion dollars on solid gold guns that automatically engrave slurs on the bullets*

We owe an incredible debt to the Minnesotans who are on the streets protesting and documenting what is happening.

As the son of a man who as a teenager had to hide in an attic to avoid capture by the Nazis: Every word of this thread. Every word. And this is what I would say to them if I were face to face with them right now: Sooner or later, you will all be going to jail for what you're doing.

these are the 7 house democrats who voted to give ICE another $10 billion on thursday btw

i personally think “don’t fund the gestapo” is a relatively small ask in the face of an illegal violent occupation of a US city that has killed at least one citizen and terrorized countless more. any elected who cannot clear even that modest bar is dead to me

that's not just a murder, that's a lynching imo

The wheels have come off folks. Public executions to frighten the populace.

They are executing unarmed people in the streets for trying to protect their neighbors with the full support of the federal government.

i do not know how this goes on for three more years

ICE attacked an observer after they tailed a group of clergy on a spiritual pilgrimage. Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.

I just watched the shooting video. It's a horrific beating and execution in the middle of the street. If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.

Copies of these should be put up immediately on state/city property with this added: “The enslaved people memorialized here mean more to us than the president who tried to erase them. It is our patriotic duty to read every word on these signs.”

Pennsylvania really missed out on a good senator. I hope he runs again.