I for one welcome all Bears, Packers and Lions fans dunking on our play by play guy for being a shitty person.

loring park vigil for alex pretti, who was killed by ICE in minneapolis this morning

This is also the story of the American Revolution, as we learned it in elementary school

Can the Vikings fire Paul Allen, as a treat?

I just want people outside of Minneapolis to watch this and imagine listening to that noise over you literally all the time

Just as his parents described him.

We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

photographer is Jeff Wheeler at the Star Tribune. guy with the flag is Curtis Evans, a Marine veteran.

I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.

Once again, observers are not protesting. This wasn’t during a protest. He was murdered while being in his community and observing the out of control federal occupation of our city.

We’re at ”people openly shouting “FUCK ICE” in the Michaels craft store checkout line” levels of rage if anyone wants an idea of the mood in the Twin Cities suburbs today

I've been informed that the man in this video is Matthew James Obadiah Allen, better known as Twin Cities hip hop artist Nur-D

the nyt style section vs. der spiegel

He wasn't a domestic terrorist. A domestic terrorist was the Oklahoma City bomber. This was a VA nurse looking out for his neighbors.

My question is where are the Republican elected officials in Minnesota. Clearly not doing their jobs.

The whole interview is worth it

okay hear me out

Minnesota Vikings play-by-play announcer Paul Allen pushed the paid-protestor conspiracy during Friday's episode of his radio show (bit.ly/4k0Ky4f) "In conditions like this, do paid protesters get hazard pay? Those are the things that I've been thinking about this morning."

We had to rewind and get this recorded.

Watching this old man take a water bottle and slowly walk into a mist of tear gas is going to stay with me. Everything they do to make people scared empowers them all the more.

Stephen Miller is unelected, unconfirmed, getting people killed, and shredding the social fabric of this nation. Members of Congress should be demanding his exit from the Executive Branch.

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

The CBP agent pushes a woman onto the ground and peppers sprays her, the man is trying to protect her from them and help her up, which they respond to by pepper spraying him, tackling him, and then shooting him from behind. It’s one of the most upsetting things I’ve ever seen happen in America

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

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 guy in grey disarms the man on the ground being beaten—BEFORE shots were fired

statements which will be read into a court record by the prosecution

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

He was legally observing He was helping other legal observers He was helping other potential victims He was not brandishing a gun May Alex Pretti’s memory be a blessing

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

Minnesotans deserve to turn 38.

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

I just responded to the scene at 26th and Nicollet shortly after the observer was shot. They teargassed and/or pepper sprayed Jana Shortal of KARE11 at the scene and she was being treated when I walked up. ICE have a fancy camera they are using to scan the faces of the crowd.

There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.

My kid takes language classes at a cafe in Minneapolis on Saturday mornings. Last week the instructor moved them online for safety. Today, just at the time we would have arrived, ICE shot someone 1/2 a block away. @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social @governorwalz.mn.gov Get these thugs out of my city.

once again i am asking literally anyone in a position of power to do literally anything so that our neighbors stop getting fucking murdered in the street

Trolls are review-bombing MN businesses that supported the strike I made a thing to make it easy-ish to leave good reviews for them because ACAB includes algorithms togetherwereview.asfarasiknow.net/app It's still a lot of clicks and taps, but it's better than from scratch I think (1/4)

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

Just a reminder fellow Vikings fans.

America first is America alone. The world is going to continue on without us; the long term damage to these United States and We the People is incalculable.

Maybe Trump should ask himself why Canada would make a trade deal with China.

Mmmm that’s the good stuff

TikTok is now under US ownership and their new ToS reads like a guide to giving fascists everything they need to put you on a list. They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.

People drove by. "Oh no! Is everyone okay?" "It's an ICE vehicle" Laughter erupts and people got out to take photos.

It really is kinda wild just how many MAGA influencers are either Hollywood hopefuls, has-beens or never-would-bes and you would think people would connect the dots when it comes to that. Hell, the MAGA Overlord himself is a B-list celebrity

@bsky.app won’t let me load the whole thing but bravo @wesburdine.bsky.social! Excellent representation of Minnesota on @jenpsaki.bsky.social

I know a lot of folks worked to make this happen, but - Brad has stood out as a particularly inspiring guy in a few weeks full of inspiration in our communities. he won by 14 votes and he’s leading with his conscience and his morality and is showing courage and we are all better off for it.