“Protection” is the oldest lie in power politics. Invent a threat. Offer safety. Take control. Call it leadership. That is not defense. It is extortion dressed up as strategy. Greenland is not being protected. It is being targeted. https://youtu.be/9cMkv2khGzo

Greenland is the warning. The belief that a country can take territory or resources because it has a bigger army is dead thinking. That logic led to world wars. The post war order was built to stop it. Dismantling that restraint makes everyone less safe. https://youtu.be/9cMkv2khGzo

Obvious voter suppression efforts - even if ICE or Border Patrol isn't there he hopes just saying it will scare people away from the polls.

The Department of War is not a metaphor. It is a confession that conquest is being sold as leadership and force is being mistaken for strength. When restraint is mocked and oversight is treated as weakness, the law stops limiting power. https://youtu.be/9cMkv2khGzo

The Don Lemon prosecution shows how quickly reporting can become a liability when power feels challenged. The First Amendment is not supposed to bend under pressure. https://open.substack.com/pub/shanlonwu/p/the-prosecution-of-don-lemon #DonLemon #FirstAmendment #PressFreedom #RuleOfLaw

When federal law is stretched to treat reporting as suspicious, the issue is no longer one defendant. It is whether journalism is being redefined as a prosecutable act. The Don Lemon case puts that question squarely on the table https://open.substack.com/pub/shanlonwu/p/the-prosecution-of-don-lemon

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Greenland is not a prize. Threatening to take a NATO ally by force and talking about abducting another country’s leader is power without restraint. When leaders treat the law as optional, alliances collapse and rules stop protecting anyone. https://youtu.be/9cMkv2khGzo

This is a lie exposed by video. Officials claimed Alex Pretti approached officers with a gun. The footage shows the opposite. No weapon in his hands. A phone camera recording federal agents in real time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR_2NTGDeck

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The case against Don Lemon collapses on the law. The indictment cannot tie journalism to criminal interference. Even the government’s own filing shows this was reporting. When the facts are this thin, the case should never reach a jury. https://youtu.be/sotv5nfN5LQ

Forget the press release. Watch the behavior. What matters is what happened after the shots were fired. How the scene was handled. What actions were taken immediately. Post-shooting conduct tells the truth, not carefully chosen language. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR_2NTGDeck

Public support matters in cases like Luigi Mangione. Thanking supporters is not performative. It is strategic. Public sentiment forms long before a jury is seated and it does not disappear at voir dire. How a defendant is seen shapes what follows in court. https://youtu.be/sotv5nfN5LQ

The fight over Luigi Mangione is a red flag. Prosecutors rarely appeal a ruling that removes the death penalty. Pushing this aggressively signals failure long before the courtroom. This is about power, not justice. https://youtu.be/sotv5nfN5LQ

This is not confusion. It is strategy. Officials used phrases like “maximum damage” and “armed suspect” before facts were established. That language is designed to make the public assume a threat and accept lethal force before evidence exists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR_2NTGDeck

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The Border Patrol agents who killed Alex Pretti were no newbies - they were trained & experienced - Congress, Minneapolis prosecutors & the next DOJ need to note the significance. What does their experience imply to you? www.propublica.org/article/alex...

How the Trump administration invokes white supremacist symbols in official government communications - gifted article www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

We need more of this-much more.

It’s a disgrace that all of these Trump officials will always have the title of government service - they don’t deserve that honor.

Criminal charges require criminal statutes. Civil remedies do not qualify. When prosecutors blur that boundary, the issue is not technical. It is fundamental. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6K4vIjCrRs #LegalAF #UnderColorOfLaw #RuleOfLaw #CriminalLaw #CivilRightsLaw #DOJOverreach

This Is Not Normal: Authority in Abuse Federal agents kill Americans, and legality is declared before evidence exists. Journalism is tested as criminal conduct. Constitutional limits are treated as obstacles. https://open.substack.com/pub/shanlonwu/p/this-is-not-normal-authority-in-abuse?r=5dicwe

Don Lemon's arrest is part of the Trump administration's campaign to criminalize journalism it doesn't like - the case was already rejected once - its baseless - my early take replayed here: Holding a microphone is not a crime. youtube.com/watch?v=a6K4vI…

Anyone going to watch "Melania"? Amazon paying 40 million for Melania movie - "The $35 million for marketing is 10 times what some other high-profile documentaries have received." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Charging a journalist for covering a protest is not law enforcement. It is intimidation. Calling reporters “embedded with rioters” does not erase the First Amendment. Holding a microphone is not a crime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6K4vIjCrRs

Federal power used to be the check on abuse. Now ICE is acting with less restraint than the forces it once claimed to police. When federal agents operate under color of law without real scrutiny, accountability collapses and abuse expands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3WNhkENmpg

Anyone surprised? newrepublic.com/post/205865/...

This is no longer an isolated incident. It is a pattern. ICE is demanding obedience first and answering questions later. When force is used and the outcome is declared immediately, law stops limiting power and power starts defining the law. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3WNhkENmpg

Anthem.

Keep filming.

Excusing lethal force by pointing to what an officer experienced months earlier is not law. The standard is what happened in that moment and how a reasonable officer would act. Changing the question is how accountability disappears. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3WNhkENmpg

Glad to see these actions by people of conscience -

DHS killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Video contradicts the official story. Evidence had to be protected by court order. When force comes first, truth has to fight to survive. https://open.substack.com/pub/shanlonwu/p/us-homeland-security-agents-kill?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Border Patrol shooting in Arizona: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Without citizen video, there would be no Alex Pretti case to examine. Federal power depends on controlling the record. Cell phones broke that control. That is why documentation matters more than statements, reviews, or promises of oversight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFGkIORDuoI

DHS claimed immediate medical aid was rendered. The footage raises serious questions about timing and adequacy while federal agents attempted to push local police off the scene. When lethal force is used, scrutiny matters more than press statements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFGkIORDuoI

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DHS agents killed Alex Pretti. Video shows him filming with a cellphone. His hands are visible. No footage shows him holding a weapon. Accountability never comes easy. https://open.substack.com/pub/shanlonwu/p/us-homeland-security-agents-kill?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Reasonance.

DHS officials claimed Alex Pretti posed a deadly threat. The video shows him holding a cell phone, moving to help a woman, then being pepper sprayed, swarmed, struck, and shot multiple times. Official statements do not match the footage. Evidence matters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFGkIORDuoI

Maybe ban former ICE and Border Patrol from owning guns as well - www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

ICE rushed to justify Alex Pretti’s killing. Lawful gun ownership was reframed as intent, “fear for life” was used as cover, and “defensive shots” was treated like law. Evidence matters more than press statements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFGkIORDuoI

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Uniter NRA: Alex Pretti “statements like [Bovino’s] don’t help. What he has or didn’t have isn’t the issue. What he was doing, with or without it, is the issue. Did he draw on agents? Reach for it? Was it on him?”👀 #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue #ResistanceGunReform #DV1 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

The Trump administration reinforces its message of "Obey or Die" with the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by DHS agents - I break down what we know & what can be done - open.substack.com/pub/shanlonw...

A judge issued a late-night order barring federal officials from destroying evidence from the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by immigration agents. Trump administration officials continued to make unsubstantiated claims about the victim on Sunday. Follow live updates.