Incredible. Right wing influencers spent a whole day trying to convince everyone this was a good shoot. Meanwhile, Trump won’t say he supports it, and ICE sources are telling Fox News that it’s a bad shoot and the admin’s (Miller, Noem, Vance) messaging isn’t helping.

If folks boycotted the World Cup in USA, like actually teams stayed away it would break Donald Trump…just sayin’.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Wait, what?

The two Minnesota murders could provide Trump with a welcome distraction from Epstein and affordability. by Chris Cillizza

🔥MINNESOTA MAN to @stoneskynews.bsky.social : “The mood is anger. We’re angry with our federal government for invading us for no good reason other than Trump wasn’t backed here— it’s a violent, brutal fascist administration. Trump’s a terrible bully. We’re defending this place against him.”

He spent decades bringing the religious right to power. Now he's marching to undo it. Rev. Rob Schenck spent decades helping build the Religious Right—commingling church and state to advance conservative causes. Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause.

REV. SCHENCK: “I’m making up for the errors of my past— I spent 35 years as an activist for the religious right doing a lot of damage, inflicting suffering, contradicting the message I thought I was promoting.”

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Wow and thank you!

Absolutely shameful to throw your employee under the bus when they’re murdered, but that’s what happens when you’re in the dumbest cult of personality in the history of the world

Even the goons are turning on the goons (and, especially, Greg Bovino) now.

Oh my God, what an incredibly real and incredibly terrifying story. These grown men were locked inside a restaurant? Wow. It's hard to say where that ranks next to the state-sanctioned murders and the kidnapping of children, but gosh, they were briefly locked inside a restaurant? Heaven forfend.

these right wing clowns continuing to express absolute shock over the organizing of the left also reflects a deeply sexist ignorance of the fact that EXPERIENCED, INCREDIBLY EFFICIENT AND HARDWORKING VOLUNTEERS, PRIMARILY WOMEN, RUN THE FUCKING SHOW WITH ALMOST EVERYTHING GOOD IN THIS COUNTRY

I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.

"Obstructing an active law enforcement operation while armed" is now grounds for being shot and tbh the vindictive part of me hopes just a little that that becomes cited as precedent at least a few times in the future in a normal LE operation against, idk, ranchers on federal land or something.

You know it's going to especially infuriate Stephen Miller that Alex Pretti will become the beatified saint he tried turning Charlie Kirk into.

Hugo Lowell told MSNOW that the Trump administration expects that the murder of Alex Pretti will "blow over and go away." They believe that Americans will forget about it in a week or so.

Bovino: “ICE are the victims”

Gov. Walz calls out federal officials who described Alex Pretti as a 'domestic terrorist.' "Sitting behind a keyboard at 2 a.m. and besmirching a V.A. nurse and a son and a co-worker and a friend is despicable beyond all description."

Sen. Jacky Rosen is calling for the impeachment of Kristi Noem. "Kristi Noem and her department's latest attempt to mislead the American public regarding the brutal and unjustified killing of Alex Pretti is deeply shameful, and she must be impeached and removed from office immediately."

Kristi Noem and her department’s latest attempt to mislead the American public regarding the brutal and unjustified killing of Alex Pretti is deeply shameful, and she must be impeached and removed from office immediately.

Senator Rosen calling for Noem’s impeachment. More of this, please.

These are all valid points—including Trump's

Here’s TMZ with a headline every outlet that cares about the truth should have. www.tmz.com/2026/01/24/n...

Trump’s Heritage friends justifying a state execution for exercising your 2A rights This isn’t conservatism, it’s fascism

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This is nonsensical even by the standard of Trump’s addled conspiracy theories

I always say send an armed militia to investigate white collar crimes while simultaneously firing the actual white collar crimes prosecutors

Hey gundamentalists: We TOLD you we weren't coming for your guns- THEY were. You just wouldn't listen.

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I just checked—it turns out that Art. II, Sec. 1 of the Constitution of the United States does *not* say "The executive Power shall be vested in a bunch of sociopaths who think they can do whatever the fuck they want and make shit up as they go along."

We are at the point where journalists have to remind Trump officials that the 2nd Amendment exists

Bessent: I'm sorry he is dead, but he did bring a semiautomatic weapon to what was supposed to be a peaceful protest. Karl: There's no evidence that he brandished the gun whatsoever Bessent: But he brought a gun! Karl: We do have a second amendment in this country.

They got Edina Moms excoriating the Administration and signing off with a a land acknowledgement. They are so fucked lol

The safest thing for any American civilian to do at this point is to assume that every ICE or CBP agent you encounter is a pardoned violent January 6 insurrectionist with demonstrated homicidal urges toward those they disagree with politically and choose your actions accordingly.

🔥 “This started as a pretext about immigration and fraud… it’s WELL beyond that now. It’s into your 2nd/4th/6th Amendments… We’re performing CPR on what may already be a corpse called the Constitution… Wake up. This isn’t just Minneapolis. It’s ALL of us.” (H/T @allenanalysis.bsky.social )

DHS has been caught in too many lies. Don’t believe anything they say without receipts. Liam is an innocent bystander. His family is not undocumented. The Public Schools Superintendent says ICE used the boy as bait. I know who I believe.

I get the impulse to push for more, harder, faster, but it's worth noting here: the lawyers for both the state and various other plaintiffs have been working their asses off at absolute breakneck speed today.

Of course

Read every word.

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🚨 NEW — Statement from the family of Alex Pretti: "We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital... 1/

Important context, this is the victim’s behavior BEFORE being tackled He’s not threatening, he’s not brandishing, he’s filming

Brandishing is a legal term that means to display all or part of a firearm, or otherwise make its presence known to another person to intimidate them, regardless of whether it's directly visible to that person. Given the video, that's not what Alex Pretti was doing when he was shot & killed.

WITNESS: “I have read the DHS statement about what happened and it is wrong… the man did not approach with a gun, he approached with a camera. I feel afraid. I don’t feel like I can go home because I heard agents are looking for me.” Trump’s America. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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.