The new video of Pretti: Anyone who isn't treating this like evidence of PREMEDIATED murder isn't doing it right. It makes it even more important we know the identities of the agents involved in both situations, as well as any tech they may have used to identify him. This makes it worse!

NYT: "Justice Dept. Opens Civil Rights Inquiry Into Pretti Killing" Prove me wrong but I see this as a dead end. What I see is coordinated theater that Chuckie Schumer will point to as cover for him to build a case around funding ICE and selling out the opposition again. I want to be wrong.

Allowing ICE/BP to wear masks as part of a 'deal' would be cosigning off on the next murder(s). It should be non-negotiable. Other agencies do just fine without them.

So now we have evidence that Alex Pretti's murder may have been premeditated. Which agents were involved in the first encounter? Were they involved in the second encounter when Pretti was killed?

If you don't acknowledge evolution or climate change then you are an idiot and a liability to this country. You are part of what makes the USA weak and prone to fools that believe the garbage they are fed on Fox News. You are part of why Trump exists and decent Americans are getting brutalized.

Democratic pols really need to up their game. When was the last time they really surprised you with thier ability to lead from the front, rather than be reluctantly forced to do the minimal amount required to justify sending another text message asking for a donation?

Just spent a few days out of the U.SA. Things feel more sane out there. More thoughtful discourse on average. We look like morons right now. I believe our basic sin is a lack of respect for education and learning. Denial of the climate crisis and evolution, for example. 'Stupid' is not a virtue.

Maybe the Dems and any other freedom loving folks in government at any level should be preparing for every potential way the regime may try and undermine the midterms. There is NOTHING he won't try to do. He is only limited by what he can do. Prepare for the worst.

Providing the names of the goons that killed Alex Pretti should be a non-negotiable demand for funding DHS...at least. It should really be a demand for doing anything in 2026. Along with releasing the Epstien files as demanded by law.

This was said many months ago. There is no single member of Congress with two brain cells to rub together that is in the dark in Trump trying to overthrow the U.S. Constitution and end American democracy. It is what his regime is all about. Those who feign ignorance are complicit.

I just want to say that if members of a paramilitary force violently supporting a lawless authoritarian regime end up getting hurt, you don't have to be upset about it. You will be made to feel you should by various media sources and public figures, but you really don't.

To those that say will be satisfied by the removal of cabinet members like Miller and Noem, keep in mind that Putin isn't in the cabinet at all but gets his point across with just a few calls every now and then. Trump has to go. He is the source of all of this. He is the primary evil.

The Child Rapist is making this whole country look like a bunch of weak fools.

Why fund anything that Trump wants until the Epstien files are released to the satisfaction of the original order? Make that and ICE the reason the government is shut down and you would have 75% of this country on your side. It's an easy fight to win.

The level of illegality, intimidation, and violence Trump will indulge in will go off the charts to disrupt the midterms. Every elected official and citizen needs to wargame this out assuming he is at least as horrible as Stalin, Hitler, or Putin. He will TRY anything to maintain power. We know it.

I guess electing a malignant narcissist wasn't such a good idea. Who knew?

This executive branch must have ALL funding removed. It is a criminal enterprise through and through. There is not part of it that has not been corrupted. To fund it is to be complicit.

Hard to believe that this is coming up in the news again. Trump wants to disrupt the midterms because he knows he’s going to lose. There was nothing to find then and nothing today. Trump has unraveled. He is unstable. He is unfit. Miller is pulling the strings.

We are seeing what 'legitimacy' means when it comes to governing authority. The regime enjoyed legitimacy from the election process. This froze a lot of people into 'going along' with its authority. Regime abuses have undermined this illusory legitimacy. Many people are now 'unfrozen' and defiant.

The Senate has a very clear decision that they will own. Defang, defend, abolish, or otherwise render ICE unrecognizable to its current form OR Cosign on the next batch of contract killings and assault on future elections. Its that simple. They know what is going on.

I swear to effing god, if Schumer pulls a "Schumer" on this I will effing lose my mind. This agency as it exists needs to no longer exist. It is a MAGA paramilitary force. Over. Over. Over.

The only way I see the Melania succeeding is if it becomes a so-bad-its-good cult film. Like "The Room". But I think the context is too dark to imagine people would even enjoy laughing at it.

Fox "News" has been a breeding ground and recruitment center for malignant narcissism for decades. They created the MAGA army.

You know that if Senate Dems also added that they would not fund the government until the DOJ complies with the existing order that they turn over all the Epstien files, the entire country would be behind them. But that is the kind of aggressive 'winning mindset' that Schumer, and others lack.

Spread the word. Block off the day. (Read the thread to learn what you can do between now and the upcoming date).

Every state in the nation (that isn't already in the hands of fascists), needs to engage in near constant 'lawfare' to keep the regime at bay. The regime is at war with the U.S.A. The sooner states get past wishful thinking and organize for the fight, the better.

This is amazing. A new song is added to the national songbook.

If Democrats can't leverage a government shutdown to pressure: 1) Release of the Epstien files, as Congress has demanded, and 2) Substantive changes to ICE, including submitting the murderers of Alex Pretti and Renee Good for legal scrutiny, then they are 100% complicit. Watch what Schumer does.

People like this are why we can't have nice things. The traitor in the White House raped, beat, and threatened little girls. Megyn Kelly is just mad that Ghislaine Maxwell got hired for the job instead of her.

There are killers on the loose. DHS knows who they are. They know where they are. They will not tell us. They will not present them for legal scrutiny. They are hired killers. They are out among us.

Gift Article: This is why calls for the removal of Noem, Bovino and others that Trump has brought around him are insufficient. They have proven they are the worst of the worst. Amoral sycophants. Trump will keep them around somehow. The solution is to remove Trump. He is the cancer.

I think many Americans have little concept how utterly corrupted our culture has become. We are awash in crap. Crap food. Crap information. Crap entertainment. Crap people. America has spiraled down into absurdity. You see it most from the perspective of other countries.

American politics is a process where politicians help voters move from one distraction to the next and work to dampen any discontent that might threaten corporate interests.

77+ million American voters could win a million bucks in the lottery and just think about how big of a bonfire they could now make with all that cash.

I'm not saying that people shouldn't stay in this hotel ever again, but I do think the cost for any accidental damage to the common rooms and hallways should exceed the price paid for the reservations.

How will Chuck "Susan Collins" Schumer find a way to passivly defend ICE? How will he undermine our opposition to authoritarian this time?

Proud of the Washington State Governor. Eyes wide open. Every State agency should be preparing the legal barricades to a Federal assault like we saw in Minnesota (and Califonia and Illinois). This should include the State National Guard and the midterm voting infrastructure.

A government that does not hold itself accountable to the law is illegitimate and has no right to exist.

The lawlessness of this regime is not limited to ICE. There is very little about this regime that is lawful at all. The list of abuses and corruption is absurdly long.

The justified anger from what the ICE state terrorists have done must blow right through the regime and lead to the removal of Trump and his band of wretched, sadistic, liars. This, and SO MUCH MORE, has been a systemic assault on the U.S.A. over the past year. We are beyond the usual excuses.

Not satisfied at all by the Bovino 'demotion'. Nope. An American hero is murdered and a 'demotion' (whatever that even means) is not even a whiff of justice. Its next to nothing and simply is a 'stupidity test' for the public to hopefully pass.

Who is going to take my bet that Bovino will eventually retire somewhere in the Northeast of Wahington State, Northern Idaho, or Montana? Takers?

Bullshit. Every one of those Dems, and the leaders that arranged for it to get EXACTLY the number of votes it needed to pass, knew exactly what ICE was up to. They knew what the regime is trying to achieve. They regret the public backlash from the Pretti murdered. That's all. Bullshit. Theater.

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Alex Pretti. Remembered. This is what my America looks like.

Please don't leave them alone.

I fully expect if the U.S. Armed forces are ever deployed in U.S. cities that they will defend the American people against the abuses of an abusive federal government. That they will help us defend and not attack U.S. civilians. They might disappoint me, but they have a clear choice.

If they are not constrained by law then we are not obligated to recognize them as a legitimate governing body.

I think the time when masked federal agents in U.S. streets got the benefit of the doubt of not being a violent threat have long since evaporated. Plead self-defense. Get aquitted. Assuming you don't get killed first.