A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

GOP in 1992: "Clinton will take your guns!" CLINTON: "No, I won't." GOP in 2008: "Obama will take your guns!" OBAMA: "No, I won't." GOP in 2020: "Biden will take your guns!" BIDEN: "No, I won't." GOP in 2024: "Harris will take away your guns!" DONALD TRUMP: "You can't have guns."

I guess he just got lucky.

September 4th 2024 Zinnia

Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS. Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies. AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS. Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

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Journalists aren’t supposed to report “both sides.” They are supposed to report the truth. DHS is not telling the truth. Stop reporting their lies.

Well worth a watch. Another case of normie radicalization. This guy is the former president of a local HOA, a web developer for real estate companies and a self proclaimed "member of the square community" and he's out in the streets.

"Pretti, 37, was an ICU nurse, whose only prior interactions with police seemed to revolve around parking tickets, per Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara." When the federal government starts viewing parking ticket scofflaws as domestic terrorists, I feel like we've crossed a red line.

16 years of the Citizens United decision has culminated into Donald Trump's second term. It's been a little over a year and he's already profited off the presidency to the tune of $1,408,500,000. It's corruption and self-enrichment in full effect.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

"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."

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It’s the same playbook again here. ICE kills someone. DHS immediately presents a totally fabricated narrative, lying about how the victim was a threat. Multiple videos directly debunk their official narrative. They double down, right-wing media falls in line. Enough is enough

Every video I’ve seen directly contradicts the DHS narrative. They say he approached the officers armed and ready to “massacre law enforcement.” In reality, he was recording ICE then after they shoved a woman, he got in between them. They then surrounded him and killed him.

The irony that Alex Pretti is not only a nurse but a licensed nurse for VA. And there's a sliver of chances those who killed him served.

The secret police are executing people in the streets now and it’s pretty clear they intend to keep doing so.

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Mt Rainier (Tahoma) and the Tacoma Narrows Bridge on a beautiful blue sky day, as seen from Gig Harbor, Washington

Retiring Walmart CEO Doug McMillon made $27.5M last year, over 930 times the median Walmart worker's salary of just $29,469. Walmart's wages are so low that its workers are among the most likely to rely on SNAP and Medicaid to get by. It's past time Walmart paid them a living wage.

If you’re looking for a silver lining to all this fascism, bookstores are back baby. And it’s not just chains. Indie bookstores are also thriving. parade.com/news/booksto...

There is a moment in every country's history when the forces of evil must be challenged with clear and decisive action. For America, that moment is now. Please take the time to read this with special thanks to @theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social 👇 Project 2029: open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...

If the Civil Rights heroes could beat authoritarianism in their era, with far fewer legal protections, surely we can do it in ours. From the end of my MLK day speech at the Wisconsin Capitol this week.

Today, Minnesota is shutting down in solidarity. It could be a model for what the nation as a whole does in coming months, to repudiate the Trump dictatorship. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/minnesotas-general-strike-and-americas

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. In the spirit of Dr. King, we must respond to ICE's tyranny with peaceful, mass civil disobedience across America. I stand with the people of Minnesota and other cities across the country who are doing that today.

It really is amazing to listen to a guy who faked bone spurs to avoid serving in the military denigrate combat veterans of our allies while also using “we” when referencing the historical sacrifices and bravery of our own soldiers.

Imagine being Jared Golden and retiring but wanting your legacy to be “supported beating my constituents in the street and kidnapping their children.” What a morally bankrupt person he must be. It would have cost him nothing to do the right thing and he still couldn’t be bothered.

Do not get distracted.

Smith: Again, and I think all of us, if we're reasonable, know that there's going to be more crimes committed by these people in the future. I do not understand why you would mass pardon people who assaulted police officers. I don't get it. I never will.

We moved in Dec and these yellow hardy mums were wintering too nicely to discard so they are living in our vestibule until we can plant them in yard.👏💚👏

"At the end of our time caring for a loved one with dementia, we begin a long and often uncertain road toward our own recovery. We need and deserve grace from others and from ourselves." ~ Ian Kremer #Alzheimers #dementia #caregiving #grief #depression #mentalhealth #quote

WTF happened to the Epstein files? Full release was required December 19 by federal law. Today, 99% are still undisclosed. Initially, there were rolling releases. Now, nothing in weeks. REMEMBER: The DOJ said the review of these documents was complete in JULY.

Americans are realizing that unfettered federal power to detain and arrest is a very dangerous thing. I learned that lesson as a child when they put us into internment camps just for looking like the enemy. Don’t go further down this road.

This is not a rational person. And this is deeply disturbing coming from an American President. NATO is not our enemy—they are unequivocally our closest friends and allies. At this point, how can you not call into question the mental fitness of this President?

How is Trump pardoning a republican rep's meth dealer son not a major story at every media outlet right now? Given the pearl clutching over the pardon of Hunter Biden, has the GOP and corporate media suddenly started caring about addiction? Or is there just a double standard? (Rhetorical)

The worst politicians in America are about to quote Martin Luther King Jr. You can’t quote “I have a dream” on MLK Day then legislate against that dream every other day of the year.

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

If ICE had anything to do with enforcing the law, they wouldn't be breaking our laws, attacking the innocent, letting people die, or be taking trophy photos of their victims.

Martin Luther King Jr. understood better than almost anyone that racial justice and economic justice are inextricably intertwined. Watch his powerful call to end poverty from his final Sunday Sermon.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

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Van Hollen: "I am not going to cast a vote -- not one dime -- to support this lawless, brutal Trump ICE operation"

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If the Epstein files cleared Donald Trump’s name, they’d be plastered on Fox News 24/7. Instead, we get silence and excuses.

Kamala Harris: qualified Hilary Clinton: qualified Geraldine Ferraro: qualified In the history of the United States, more than 200 women have run for the office of president, and yet, here we are. Stop the hate against women in power.

She is an expert on authoritarian regimes, in case you're wondering whether peaceful protests matter.