That quote is how school shooters talk

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.

The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.

The fundamental lesson here is that under regimes like this, the law and its enforcement are wholly arbitrary. There's no way to keep your head down.

Something I’ve been trying to tell people in my life is there is no safe or right way to exist safely under {fascism|authoritarianism|whatever}. There is no logical course of action you can follow that will prevent you from being targeted, intentionally or by chance, which history shows repeatedly.

One of the many reasons that rule by authoritarian violence is bad, for everybody, is that it creates the conditions for people to act outside of the prior law, which has melted away and been replaced by whatever violent whim anyone acting in the name of the state feels like doing at that moment.

The director of the Minneapolis Emergency Management Department.

they summarily executed a fucking VA health researcher. our field cannot just ignore this. or just release angry statements and move on.

Dropsite has the video from the lady in the pink jacket. You can clearly see them remove the firearm from the victims waistband before any shots were fired.

Pritzker: "The GOP is nowhere to be found. They're the ones that scream and yell about 'federal tyranny' about interference with states' rights. And now, their president is violating states' rights and attacking our states and Republicans are nowhere to be found to talk about it."

Too obvious a point even to make, perhaps. But there was no “unrest” in Minneapolis before ICE and CBP showed up. ICE and CBP are the cause of the chaos…and the killings. Get them out of there.

It is way, way worse than the first video made it look. He was helping someone else up, got maced, and then got dragged to the ground from behind and shot multiple times.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

Tonight on 60 Minutes: Swan Lake

💯. We treated enemy combatants - who may have been very recently trying to violently kill us - with a level of restraint and professionalism that appears to be beyond the imagination of a federal law enforcement organization handling non-violent American citizens.

To be clear, the way this plays out is that you risk arrest now while they don’t have a full grip on government or get arrested later or are forced to publicly & demonstratively Bend The Knee when they do & seek retribution & to make an example of you for what little resistance you offered.

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

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

Why are they sending witnesses to Whipple? WHY ARE THEY SENDING WITNESSES TO WHIPPLE?

1) Doesn’t say he was wielding it, just that he had it. 2) Doesn’t match the video anyway. 3) DHS has lied in exactly this way after shooting someone before. bsky.app/profile/ms.n...

Wrapped in four layers and armed with a drone, a Chicago Sun-Times photojournalist braved the brutal temps to capture delicate pancake ice swirling beneath the cold gaze of Chicago's skyline.

time to take it back

Rn Minneapolis Police Department better be canvassing every storefront and business asking for video. Getting it from every installed security camera, MPLS CCTV, traffic cams, dash cams, just every source of video they can get their hands on. Before DHS absconds with it.

The amount of money that is currently going to fund immigration enforcement in the US is larger than the military budgets of every country in the world other than the US and China. We are witnessing a military assault on American cities by a wildly unpopular governing party.

ICE wants escalation because it means they can finally bring in backup. They're tired of being outnumbered & outmaneuvered by common citizens trying to uphold the peace, & they're ready for payback

I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth: “ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king. This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

I LOVE EPISTEMIC COLLAPSE. I LOVE LIVING IN A WORLD WHERE GOVERNMENT STATISTICS AND REPORTS ARE NOT RELIABLE. I LOVE HOW ANY VIDEO CAN BE AN AI FABRICATION. IT MAKES ME SO FUCKING HAPPY I CHOSE THIS CAREER PATH. I FQERVNERQIVNQREINVIEQRMVMIER VVCCCCRVRLL

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

I love that the source of that vivid truth is just some guy's comment on another guy's post in 2018, & so I post it again whenever I see it. This should go directly the comment ⤵️ crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

Watching this in particular. The effort to take witnesses to Whipple, as well as the police refusing to leave the scene, are key.

Vicarious trauma and OSINT: a practical guide Heed the tips in here so you can keep going.

Our Democratic elected officials are not rising to this moment so most of them must go. Any elected official who isn’t willing to organize a Project 2029 around punishing everyone in the Trump administration in order to save democracy must go.

Hate ICE as much as you love your fellow man. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reminder: DHS legislation that funds ICE at current levels without policy restrictions is in the Senate and needs 60 votes to pass. Deadline is next Friday.

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.”

Man acquitted of Bovino murder plot taken into ICE custody From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

William McRaven: “We Americans, have always thought of ourselves as the good guys. We have made mistakes…But on the whole, we are standing against the darkness. To think it might be otherwise—with respect to Ukraine, Denmark, and other arenas—is incredibly bitter.” open.substack.com/pub/jaynordl...

I'm surprised we don't yet have announced boycotts of the World Cup, but unless the World Cup goes off totally implausibly and improbably smoothly for international athletes and fans alike, it's hard for me to imagine that the '28 Olympics in LA won't get hit hard with boycotts.

the video of another person being murdered by the state on the streets of minneapolis shows exactly what people are saying it shows. make your own choices but don’t feel like you are obligated to bear witness to it. reading a description is enough.

Rapid responders still out there, tracking ICE. In spite of everything, even now. Heroes

Don’t watch the video. It was a murder, an execution. You do not need to watch it, it won’t help anyone. Warrants should be issued today if the government up there is anything other than a dead letter.

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.”

I watched the video and pretty much everyone is representing it pretty much accurately and I don't think you need to watch it if your takeaway is that a bunch of ICE guys were on top of a dude who they were beating and then one of them decided to shoot him at point blank range for no obvious reason

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

i know there are some congressional staffers who follow me on here: your comms people need to turn off scheduled posts NOW

I have FOIAd the pentagon loot box machine

They claim the right to kill us when we annoy, inconvenience, or oppose them They know perfectly well this is the principle they're fighting for

Been in Minneapolis the past week ish. Here are some photos I took while I was here.