comparing the forced mourning for Charles Entertainment Kirk only producing a series of hilarious memes and trying to smear/silence Renee Good and Alex Pretti and sparking national movement in the dead of winter, their control of the media apparatus is both complete and completely ineffective

‘your love of the halflings’ leaf has blinded you’ hey saruman how about you mind your own fucking business and not work my fucking program for me

Lol

Listening to NPR news (not by choice) is just an incredibly surreal experience. I grew up with the BBC and Radio 4 in particular so that sort of very deliberate calm no matter what you’re talking about is familiar. But it’s so surreal now.

We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September. They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police. If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66

The whole interview is worth it

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

load bearing tweet for a settler colonial society

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

Mourners gather at the site where federal agents shot and killed nurse Alex Pretti this morning in Minneapolis. 📸: @andral404.bsky.social

“Ṣumūd (Arabic: صمود, romanized: ṣumūd, meaning "steadfastness"or "steadfast perseverance"; derived from the verb صمد ṣamada, meaning "to defy, brave, withstand")  is a Palestinian cultural value, ideological theme and political strategy.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumud

The Minnesotan intifada has my support. At this time, I’ve been thinking about folks who are scared and who cannot flee to safety for one reason or another. We have a word for resisting through persistence: sumud. Staying and taking care of your community is a valiant cause.

Reminder that the Democratic response to the Floyd murder was significantly larger police budgets nation wide and even more military equipment. Every Democratic leader of the last decade has failed catastrophically and must be removed from power for that party to have any hope of truly resisting.

heading into the day w this:

Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽 ‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘

BREAKING: Judge Tostrud -- a Trump appointee — has quickly granted a restraining order, barring the administration from "destroying or altering evidence" taken from today's shooting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Training should come at the end of a rope after a speedy trial.

They don't care what you believe. They are about imposing dominance and control over everything including you.

Well, it’s not like the people who died were as important to him as Charlie Kirk!

The emergence of Dave Matthews as a real one has been wild

This is the most hopeful I’ve felt in some time.

she's saying this cause ICE wants to leave and they wanna look like they're leaving cause they won, not cause they're cold and scared. they dunno if the next killing is gonna set off the powder keg, or the one after that, but they do know they have no way to stop their guys from killing if they stay

give us what we want or we kill another hostage

NEW: The ICE killing of Alex Pretti, the second in Minneapolis, prompts quick legal action. After ICE agents killed Alex Pretti on Saturday, lawyers responded quickly — leading to one TRO issued before the night's end aimed at preserving evidence of the killing. My report at Law Dork:

My buddy who told me this story reminded me of details. It was a BIA office. He also pointed out that the American Indian Movement came from the Twin Cities. And they started by filming cops. Anyway.

just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now

The nurses are pissed

I gotta say I'm not a huge fan of how the term "fedposting" is currently being used.

An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all: The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files

As we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.

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.

They watched Israel do this with every Palestinian they killed for two years and so they never imagined it wouldn't work

… Furthermore, according to two other sources with knowledge of the situation, top officials in the Trump White House reminded their federal colleagues in and outside the West Wing that Pretti should be referred to as a “terrorist” in written statements and public messaging, no matter his background

By Saturday afternoon, some Trump admin. personnel had already begun scouring the internet and other resources trying to find information on Alex Pretti, including social media posts, that could tie him to what Team Trump call “extremists,” two sources familiar with the matter tell @zeteo.com …

Last week I wrote “The border crossed us. We’re gonna abolish it,” and this is exactly what I meant: most Americans are accustomed to ignoring the deep violence of the agencies that maintain US national borders. Border Patrol are trained to be murderous. They are teaching ICE to be likewise.

YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents** substack.com/@gelliottmor...

One day will be the last that they commit an execution in the streets and we can and must bring that day closer however we can

Nation's largest nurses union repeats calls for ICE abolition, pledges to do "everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people."

This is “Operation PARRIS,” a top reason that DHS is in Minneapolis. The goal is to arrest 5,600 lawfully present refugees and take them to detention centers in Texas to be interrogated about their status. There is NO investigation first. They are arresting everyone; grab first, question later.

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

“I was confused as to why the victim was on his side, because that is not standard practice when a victim has been shot. Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard practice. Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds.”

"return to the border" ☠️ "beef up training" ☠️

As someone who has been in negotiations with Schumer: YOUR CALLS TO HIS OFFICE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER NOW. You are not wasting your time, our goal is achievable, but Schumer requires constant pressure, constant pressure....

Stand up, fight back.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

map of the companies working with ICE google.com/maps/d/viewe...