To the barricades, Bill Kristol!! (Laudatory.)

They just keep repeating "antifa", "paid protesters", and "radical left" and it's bananas. It's like they can't conceive of anything that might be rooted in care, compassion, solidarity, decency, kindness, selflessness, or even simply a better world that includes as many people as possible.

oh my god dude www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/s/O...

it’s pretty inspiring how quickly you can completely destroy a news publications reputation and reliability if you try hard enough, credit due to bari weiss here

Man, someone sounds really mad that a bunch of Minneapolis soccer moms can manage op-sec while the Secretary of Defense texts his battle plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic.

From WSJ:

Cardinal Tobin regarding ICE funding: "I think if we are serious about putting our faith in action, we need to say 'no,' each one of us. What saying ‘no’ looks like today is by telling the truth about what is happening and honoring those whose lives are upended.” www.ncronline.org/news/cardina...

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

People like Joel Berry are absolutely enraged right now. They perceive the rightness of the surge of anger against Trumpism and the decency and righteousness of people like Alex Pretti. They cannot endure those things, because they know they are petty, grubby, immoral, and sordid in comparison.

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

There's gonna be a lot of guys with gaps in theories resumes from 2025-9 that don't want to say what they did.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

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"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.” Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.

Call the piece of legislation that ultimately abolishes ICE the Pretti-Good Act

Even the WSJ is like nope

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE. They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon. They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times. He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”. A 🧵 of ICE abuse

I worked the tents at peak pandemic. It was the scariest thing I ever did, and I’m a former firefighter. I saw a lot of people die horribly. How many people have I seen die from an mRNA vax? Zero. How about die from covid after being vaxxed? Also zero. Listen to Prof. Hotez, not grifters.

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

For all the Trump administration lies, the following is true: 1.) Alex Pretti was a US citizen, an ICU nurse and a Good Samaritan who tried to help a woman whom ICE had thrown to the ground; 2.) his legally licensed gun had been removed, so he was unarmed when... 3. Agents shot him in the back.

Absolutely reprehensible that AG Bondi is offering ICE stand down in exchange for access to voting rolls. Outrageous and disgusting. It shows ICE is in Minneapolis is not for law enforcement purposes. Instead it’s a way to stir up shit in blue states and extort them.

Pam Bondi really trying to make a case that her legacy should be obstructing justice for state murder instead of obstructing justice for pedophiles

Last night, I was assaulted by a man at Sundance Festival who told me that Trump was going to deport me before he punched me in the face. He was heard screaming racist remarks as he drunkenly ran off. The individual was arrested and I am okay. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

Mood in minneapolis right now

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

Hundreds of Mothers and Children. HUNDREDS OF MOTHERS AND CHILDREN.

Does anyone have any idea how we break the echo chambers? No Trump voter in my family will ever know what actually happened to Alex Pretti or Renee Good. They will believe the officers were justified. They will watch Fox News and that will be the end of it.

The final act of Alex Pretti’s life was to try and help a woman being physically assaulted by an ICE agent.

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

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 gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ... "Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

BREAKING: The Minneapolis Police Chief says of the shooting victim: "Based on the information that we have, which is very limited, this is a 37-year-old white male who is a Minneapolis resident." He adds: "We believe he is a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry."

So I watched the shooting video frame by frame and it looks like: 1) They were beating a struggling man with batons 2) His jacket opened revealing a gun in his waistband or lower back 3) The agent in gray grabbed the gun and was walking away 4) THEN the other agents shot the man in the back

ICYMI, it's only okay to carry a gun to a protest if you're Kyle Rittenhouse.

Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.

ALL MN PROTESTERS Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

There have now been three killings in Minneapolis in 2026. Two of them have been carried out by the federal government. By crews of masked, heavily armed crews of federal agents occupying the city.

It's time for America to grasp what the rest of the knows damn well. ICYMI @monacharen.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4rdmmhF

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.

The hazards of failing first-year biology: you invade the wrong pole. 🇦🇶 🐧 🇬🇱 🐻‍❄️