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January 26, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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we will simply ramp up our degenerate murder spree if you keep calling us nazis
Bovino: "When politicians, community leaders, & some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric we keep talking about, when they make the choice to vilify law enforcement calling law enforcement 'Gestapo' or using the term 'kidnapping,' that is a choice & there are actions & consequences."
January 25, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Great point! The Verge is making this important article visible beyond its pslaywall.
January 26, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Bravo, Gov Hochul!
{Peeps, please share.}
Secretary Noem has forfeited her right to lead. I’m calling on her to resign.

Gregory Bovino must also be fired.

No one, not an ICE agent, not a federal officer, not a president, is above the law.
January 25, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Sounds like Bovino's threatening folks using the words "kidnapping" and "murder" about ICE & CBP's methods.
As a journalist, I have concerns about how using words could result in "actions and consequences."
Bovino: "When politicians, community leaders, & some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric we keep talking about, when they make the choice to vilify law enforcement calling law enforcement 'Gestapo' or using the term 'kidnapping,' that is a choice & there are actions & consequences."
January 25, 2026 at 8:22 PM
We need hearings ASAP on CBP/ICE's hunting of witnesses to the execution of Pretti. If Congress will not hear these issues, shadow hearings, need to be held by Democrats over Zoom.
This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
TincherSealedWitnessDec012426.PDF
www.documentcloud.org
January 25, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Feds seeking to arrest/abduct witnesses?! Why aren't the media covering this?
Status Coup, The Intercept and Democracy Now need to get on this one.
A sworn affidavit was filed in court yesterday by a witness to the ASSASSINATION of Alex Pretti because she is being hunted by DHS and ICE so that they can arrest her. She’s in hiding, and too scared to even go home because other witnesses have been arrested.😳😬
January 25, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Where’s the accountability? Just another cover up 🤬
January 25, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Yeah, tell me again how this isn't fascism.
wonder what all those "it's not really fascism" pundits are up to
January 25, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Exactly. We're doing CPR on what may be a corpse called the Constitution.
Man in Minneapolis tells CBS viewers this is about their rights too:

"This is well past fraud. They're into your 2nd amendment, 4th amendment, 6th amendment.

Wake up! Pay attention to what's happening!

I feel like we're performing CPR on what may already be a corpse called The Constitution."
January 25, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Yes?, if ICE or CBP did nothing wrong, why are they arresting the witnesses and confiscsting their phones?!
If ICE did nothing wrong - why are they confiscating all the eyewitness's smartphones?
January 25, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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Not @theonion.com. This is literally People. This is … is a real thing.

If you don’t believe me, and I get why you wouldn’t want to, well, click here and see for yourself: people.com/trump-admini...
January 25, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Bc 'CBS' stands for wannabe Fox News.
Two and half minutes. That’s all the time the CBS Evening News thought today’s events in Minneapolis were worth. Not even time to tell viewers what Alex Pretti did for a living.

The winter storm got 8 minutes.

NBC Nightly News spent 8 minutes, nearly half the show, on Pretti’s killing
January 25, 2026 at 7:02 AM
This--
January 25, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Detained women potentially saved agent's life. He took them to concentration ('detention') camp anyway. How's that zero humanity on his part?
January 24, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Straight up.
You can tell things are going well in America because accounts with names like MovieTVFunZone are posting things like, "THE PIGS ARE KIDNAPPING CHILDREN AND PRIESTS. THE TREE OF LIBERTY DEMANDS TO BE WATERED"
January 24, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Consequences.
It’s not that hard. Today I thanked my rep on voting against ICE. And I called my senators about ICE and previous approvals of appointments. And warned them about congress being irrelevant if they take no action.
January 24, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Damn. What are we missing in this aborted investigation, and wouldn't this be compromised in today's FBI?
January 24, 2026 at 2:17 AM
The peaceful power of tens or hundreds of thousands of people in the streets.
This is the best video I have scene that depicts the downtown* protests.

*there were also many smaller protests throughout the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota today.
January 24, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Reprehensible isn't strong enough.
It is hard to say anything, because every true statement and every authentic reaction to these events cannot be said on the open internet.
Agents detain and send 2-year-old girl and her father to Texas despite court order to release toddler bit.ly/3LKWxGC
January 24, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Bravo, Bishop Budde!
Yesterday I got to sit down (well, stand in a crowd) with Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington who made headlines last year for her sermon asking Trump to "have mercy" on migrants.

A year later, she's in Minneapolis, preaching the same message. religionnews.com/2026/01/23/o...
One year after she urged Trump to have mercy, Bishop Budde leads clergy protests in Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — 'I don't think a year ago we could have fathomed how quickly and how dramatically this country would change,' Budde told RNS in Minneapolis.
religionnews.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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— Israel kills 3 journalists, including CBS contributor
— AFP, the other impacted outlet, condemns killing & calls for investigation
— CBS doesn't, instead peddles Israel's claim that they were targeting a group with "a drone affilliated with Hamas"

Inside the Bari Weiss-led CBS response:
Bari Weiss’s CBS News Won’t Even Condemn Israel for Killing a CBS Contributor
Instead, the network’s new top anchor Tony Dokoupil peddles Israel’s talking points about it killing a Palestinian journalist. A CBS source calls it a ‘disgrace.’
zeteo.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:42 PM
The right wing family values party needs to do some serious self-reflecting.
[another TOS violation] bsky.app/profile/shan...
The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article.

Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.
January 22, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
January 22, 2026 at 2:13 AM