My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib. He thought he was going to die. Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors. And a mob of agents killed him.

CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”

We need to build statues of him across America.

Oh look, it's the worst of the worst: a high school student working construction to pay his dad's cancer bills. Now they get to pay DHS $1500 for the privilege of getting kicked out of the country. And we're doing this to hundreds of thousands of people, for some reason

Im gesamten Stadtgebiet kommt es witterungsbedingt zu Verspätungen, oder, wie man auf Englisch sagt, "irregularity on different bus"

To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally." In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.

Letztes Jahr schrieb ich über die Sinnlosigkeit von Erinnerungspolitik vor dem Hintergrund aktueller Katastrophen und noch schlimmerer Zukunftsaussichten. Die Reaktionen reichten von offenen Beschimpfungen bis zu wohlmeinenden Versuchen, meine Aussagen abzuschwächen. Ich nehme nichts davon zurück.

Im gesamten Stadtgebiet kommt es witterungsbedingt zu Verspätungen, oder, wie man auf Englisch sagt, "irregularity on different bus"

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I don’t love the Dem strategy of continuing to fund a hugely unpopular administration in exchange for its (unenforceable) agreement to do a bunch of things it’s already legally obligated to do.

Schon fair aber bisschen komisch dass das niemand zB Robin Alexander bei seinem Merz Buch vorgeworfen hat. Der CDU kann wohl nie zu nah sein

Vermutlich mehrere hundert Tote im Mittelmeer seit JAHRESBEGINN. Zwischen 2014 und 2025: 33.000 – DREIUNDDREIẞIGTAUSEND – Tote und Vermisste im Mittelmeer. Nicht USA, nicht ICE, sondern: Europa. www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...

The most important thing right now is that nobody makes sloppy comparisons in depicting the threat posed by a paramilitary force, acting beyond the law, abducting and murdering people in broad daylight

Direkt morgens einmal eine Ladung Israel apologia in der Süddeutschen und dem Tagesspiegel ☺️

When you're too corrupt for Sepp Blatter. abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireS...

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Please. This is absurd. Europe can certainly deter Russia and defend itself if its focused and determined. Perpetuating a sense of European helplessness may help Rutte bureaucratically but its 1. wrong 2. prevents action. 3. willfully blind: the US ain't coming to defend Europe.

the thing about her is she has exactly one skill which is telling people with more money than her that they are right and everyone else is stupid and it's a skill that gets you the gig but doesn't help you keep it at all

spoilt, incompetent child of a rich father who spends their life getting and ruining a series of opportunities that for most people would be once-in-a-lifetime dreams is a really common story, but she seems to have managed to become the spoilt daughter at large for an entire class of older, rich men

Been thinking about Errol Morris' Standard Operating Procedure (2008), watched in a film undergrad class at UNSW, a lot in recent years

The US have been here many times before

And people that aren't initially fascists but do fascist work, will quickly become a fascist. The kind of justifications they invent and learn from their co-workers. Plus the peer social scene will help turn them into one

Nine years to the day since Graham Linehan foresaw his own fate.

Roadmap Palantir Einführung in Deutschland: Hessen, 2018 (CDU/Grüne) NRW, 2022 (CDU/Grüne) Bayern 2024 (CSU/FW) Baden-Württemberg 2026 (CDU/Grüne) Dobrindt fordert 2025 die Einführung auf Bundesebene. PS: AfD Bayern fordert dazu noch ein deutsches ICE.

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

One of the things that really annoys me is that all of us who were getting beat up on our university campuses 2 years ago for protesting Israel's genocide of Gaza told y'all that this was coming. If they were willing to do it to us, everyone else was next.

DHS claimed "Medics provided immediate aid to Pretti." They lied. In truth, a physician entered a sworn affidavit that ICE blocked him from reaching Pretti, and when he finally got there ICE wasn't giving him CPR, but counting bullet holes. My full analysis: www.qasimrashid.com/p/in-minneap...

Wenn ich sage "Alles liegt auf dem Tisch, alle Rechte, die in der langen progressiven Ära erkämpft wurden", meine ich u.a. so nen Scheiß: "CDU-Wirtschaftsflügel will Recht auf Teilzeit kippen". Bald wird's an Urlaubstage gehen...

they have no ability to back down and recalibrate AND they lack a theory of mind for their opponents

A big part of this is the right wing podcaster/blue tick X feedback loop. Over in MAGAland, they're being pummelled for not being violent enough, vindictive enough. Bondi is panned as a weak sell-out. Their media environment tells them they'll be more popular if they go harder.

"As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME—indicating a dramatic surge in the death toll." time.com/7357635/more...

Please enjoy Abraham Ribicoff decrying Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago in a speech nominating George McGovern at the 1968 Democratic National Convention set to a 15 minute post-rock song below www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF2C...

The Rodney King video is one of the most important moments in American history because it showed people, particularly comfortable white people, irrefutable evidence that marginalized people’s stories of how police behaved - which were never believed - were in fact true.

Please enjoy Abraham Ribicoff decrying Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago in a speech nominating George McGovern at the 1968 Democratic National Convention set to a 15 minute post-rock song below www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF2C...

It just now strikes me that the United States, unlike every other democracy in the world, has never ever ever had an early presidential election. This seems like a problem? Like you need to have an institutionalized path for designating an entire administration illegitimate and voting for a new one?

I once heard of a Tory constituency grumbling about deselecting a PPC because his wife wasn't suitably enthusiastic about the tombola at a church fête.

Bei abolish ICE fällt mir wieder ein, wie bei einem fundraiser eine Palästinenserin aus Gaza davon berichtete, wie unmenschlich das gesamte Asylsystem und die Behörden Sie und ihre Kinder behandelt hat. Mann in Ägypten (darf nicht nachziehen), Bleiberecht hier immer noch Wanken, ein Sohn in Gaza.

Da gerade (zu Recht) viel Empörung zu lesen ist über die Festname des 5-Jährigen in den USA, ein kleiner Reminder: Letztes Jahr haben deutsche Polizisten ein 10-jähriges syrisches Mädchen aus ihrer Schule gezogen, um sie abzuschieben. Mit ihr wurden 2025 über 3000 Minderjährige aus 🇩🇪 abgeschoben.

Alex Pretti with his bike, an Ogre, from Reddit www.reddit.com/r/Surlybikef...

As we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.

give us what we want or we kill another hostage

The american posters have gone to bed and the european posters struggle to wake up. Now is the time of monsters (my dumb ass)

He has hard lost: Soviet Israeli who thinks Bibi was soft on Gaza, Libertarian who thinks everyone should concealed carry, and lifelong FedSoc Deficit Hawk. Log Cabin GOP gay and suburban Tough On Crime woman are still with him. Racist Staten Island stockbroker is currently on the fence.

I keep tabs on an representative sample of right-wing Types of Guys I know voted Trump in 2024, on both X and elsewhere, mostly for the purpose of seeing who he has lost and who is still on the Trump Train, and it is legitimately fascinating to observe the patterns here.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

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.