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AgentCooper @agentcooper1983.bsky.social · Nov 15

four games that defined my childhood:
*back covers edition for the new pad

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Quinn- Leak full Epstein Files!

@quinnq.bsky.social

"He was protesting,"
"She moved her car."

Any excuse to follow their Fuhrer's orders.

January 27, 2026 at 2:31 AM

AgentCooper

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there should be a nationwide general strike january 30th

January 26, 2026 at 9:55 PM

AgentCooper

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the second amendment is gone

January 26, 2026 at 2:06 PM

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CAKE

@thebandcake.bsky.social

Domestic terrorist? Explain your confident stance

Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 2d

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

January 25, 2026 at 5:52 AM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

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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.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS

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Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM

AgentCooper

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THEY SHOT HIM 10 TIMES

January 24, 2026 at 11:10 PM

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 2d

This explains why the guy in the gray jacket was running down the street away from the scene immediately after

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 2d

A DHS statement claimed “an individual approached US Border Patrol officers” with “a handgun” in the Alex Pretti shooting incident. A Bellingcat analysis of the footage appears to show that a gun was taken away from where Pretti was situated by an agent just before the first shot was fired.

January 24, 2026 at 10:59 PM

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Adam Kinzinger

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Well well well. He had a permit to carry after all.

Murder

January 24, 2026 at 6:25 PM

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Aaron Rupar

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There is video circulating on social media of a group of ICE agents beating a man near 26th and Nicollet in south Minneapolis, then one of the ICE agents shoots the man while he's on the ground numerous times. A witness can be heard yelling that the victim is dead.

January 24, 2026 at 3:44 PM

AgentCooper

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*Senator Neguse Today

a man is sitting at a table eating a giant hamburger and french fries .

ALT: a man is sitting at a table eating a giant hamburger and french fries .

media.tenor.com

January 22, 2026 at 7:18 PM

AgentCooper

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lol senator issa showing all of the corrupt republicans by name was what we call an "own goal"

January 22, 2026 at 5:13 PM

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Disco

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This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.

Kid in a hat and backpack, maybe 5, getting detained

January 21, 2026 at 6:52 PM

AgentCooper

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every European country needs to expel their US ambassadors, close their American embassies and shut down their US military bases

January 20, 2026 at 6:17 PM

AgentCooper

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Kamala Harris should start running for 2028 now.
not to win but to be a spoiler for what he has planned.

January 20, 2026 at 2:40 PM

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Naomi Klein

@naomiaklein.bsky.social

Forced face scanning of a U.S. citizen with zero cause, just bald racial profiling. This is tech fascism.

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 9d

Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019.

Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:

January 18, 2026 at 12:16 AM

AgentCooper

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I miss what we used to be

January 16, 2026 at 12:49 AM

AgentCooper

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@asharangappa.bsky.social trump had a thousand FBI agents scrubbing the epstein files.

those agents shouldn't assume they aren't targets of the trump regime
they saw it all.

January 12, 2026 at 5:36 PM

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Adam Schwarz

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Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal warns ICE:

"No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested".

"Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".

January 10, 2026 at 3:43 PM

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Aaron Rupar

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We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

January 10, 2026 at 1:47 AM