This country sleepwalked their way through minorities getting gunned down by law enforcement followed by smear campaigns to label them as "no angel" or "thugs" or "suspicious." Now you're seeing the same strategy being taken to greater extremes with the smears of the slain in Minnesota now.

(this isn't an exaggeration)

The NRA told me for decades that federal stormtroopers would disarm me and shoot me dead. Today, the Feds did just that to an American citizen and they put this statement out? Absolutely pathetic.

In contrast, this was the NRA & Trumps’ responses to Kyle Rittenhouse being acquitted of murdering two protesters.

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."

Shoutout to Tyrese Haliburton for being a great human being

AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."

The video makes clear that Alex Pretti was not holding a weapon in the lead-up to the shooting, or when federal agents forcefully took him to the ground

This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.

We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun

Pretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry. It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.

Literally 10 days ago, this hypocritical jackass introduced a bill to make concealed carry easier across the nation to help "law-abiding citizens to more freely exercise their Second Amendment rights." www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-re...

Literally 10 days ago, Hoeven introduced a bill to make concealed carry easier across the nation to help "law-abiding citizens to more freely exercise their Second Amendment rights." www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-re...

To put a finer point on it: Republicans have embraced the “insurrectionist theory” of the Second Amendment—the notion that you have a constitutional right to stage an armed rebellion against the government if it becomes tyrannical. Now they’re lining up to say ICE can shoot any armed protester?

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

Bovino shamelessly lies: "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement"

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

Republicans: everyone must be able to carry any gun at all times, up to and including high powered rifles, to protect themselves against tyranny also Republicans, without batting an eye: carrying a gun is unquestionable justification for federal agents to shoot you dead in the street

If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week

We have citizen patrols checking empty cars like this for children and animals that were left behind in the negative temps because that’s where we are at as a society.

It couldn't be any more on the nose

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

Holy NaziSignal, Batman

As a huge soccer fan I wholeheartedly would accept and encourage widespread boycott of the world cup. This country does not deserve to serve as host.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

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-...

We kidnapped a child and tried to use him as bait to lure out his family so we could kidnap all of them. But at least we bought him a happy meal

Greenland now effectively banished to the shadow realm never to be seen again

I had to zoom in and then get surprised

Stop making people you don't know the centerpiece of your identity.

Narrative: Arsenal would be the worst premier league champions ever. Premier league is so weak. Reality: every PL team but City are in the top 8 of the champions League after seven games

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

I had posted earlier about how I couldn’t let Talmage be outside alone waiting for his school bus because some goons might fuck with him. This is what everyday Minnesotans are dealing with. Lawless armed, masked goons perpetuating a federal government-led ethnic cleansing.

I can't think of the most basic math concept without my mind immediately going to the first week of my freshman Intro to VB course 20+ years ago where my professor pronounced hypotenuse as hypotanius. It's so deeply scarred in my grey matter I have to catch myself from saying it accidentally.

Please no

The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work. Really depraved shit.

Naruto (the original) has already been a slog to get through, but I had no idea the last eightysome eps would never revisit Sasuke in any significant way. Ugh. Just about ten more to go and I can finally move on to something else.

I can't for the life of me imagine being so disgustingly shameless.

Speedball, Kevin Knight, and Veda

I don't think the Nobel committee can strip or retroactively recognize someone else but this is absolutely a situation where they should come out and be like "nah fuck you, we're going to give it to anybody else"

Man it's been a long while since a UNC game actually pissed me off.

And UNC being shit at free throws rears its ugly head right when I thought we were over those days

If there's one certainty in life it's that if an opponent has a high scoring star*, UNC is going to do everything in their power to give him the best game of his life. *Or completely random white boy with a 3 ball

Unbelievable

This UNC game is infuriating me

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

You're not breaking up with me I'm breaking up with you shit

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

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