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TomTom #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 @awkwardcomma.bsky.social · 24d

I wrote a few words about my favorite albums of 2025 and learning to love music again. Hope you'll check it out.

My Favorite Albums of 2025

Post-rock, sludgy doom metal, mathcore, personal explorations of grief, depression, love and loss and a multi-platinum artist top my list for best albums of 2025

tommy-proffitt.beehiiv.com

TomTom #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

@awkwardcomma.bsky.social

You and me both, Tails.

Tails from Sonic Adventure with a dapper ribbon saying "I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic..."

January 25, 2026 at 2:19 AM

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Stik the Tall Guy

@stikaround54.bsky.social

January Movie: The Dark Knight

Accidently ran into this one. Family movie night and Dante's first time watching it. Still for my $ the best superhero movie. Two things from this movie I take away:

1. Heath Ledger Joker is a masterclass.

2. Bruce Wayne is a sick individual

Stik the Tall Guy @stikaround54.bsky.social · 11d

New (reasonably achievable) goal added for 2026:

I do not watch movies. I can't really answer why i prefer tv series over movies. So rather than lie and say I'm gonna watch a new movie every month, instead I will watch at least ONE of my favorite movies once a month. I'll try to keep yall abreast

a woman says that sounds reasonable in front of a #schittscreek logo

ALT: a woman says that sounds reasonable in front of a #schittscreek logo

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January 25, 2026 at 1:01 AM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

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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Aaron J. Waltke

@goodaaron.bsky.social

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”

- Terry Pratchett, “I Shall Wear Midnight”

January 24, 2026 at 8:55 PM

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Brennan Lee Mulligan

@brennanleemulligan.bsky.social

Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14h

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.  ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

January 24, 2026 at 11:40 PM

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Isi Baehr-Breen

@isibb.bsky.social

I will canvass for whichever candidate runs on putting this man in prison in 2028.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Bovino shamelessly lies: "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement"

January 24, 2026 at 8:49 PM

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Bellingcat

@bellingcat.com

Moments before the first shot is fired, this federal agent can be seen retreating with a gun. It appears to match the general appearance of the firearm posted by DHS, including the red dot sight. This agent’s back is turned when the first shot occurs. x.com/BillMelugin_...

January 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM

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Good Luck High Five

@glhfmagic.bsky.social

Just a reminder that this is still open through the end of the month. Please help if you can.

January 24, 2026 at 7:52 PM

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@awkwardcomma.bsky.social

What the fuck do we do about this?

Screenshot of horrid facebook comments on the announcement of ICE executing a man in the street.

Alison Lucas Stanley
You misspelled armed with a gun and two magazines 🧐
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Scott Vincent
I think most people would benefit if they actually read the full account of these events.
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Dan Allen
Shot an armed man who was fighting and resisting. Some reports actually say he shot first. Let the facts and investigation play out.
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Patrick Rawlings
I hope it was the jolly green ginger!
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Bill Preddy
If you tĥreaten law enforcement with deadly force you will usually get shot. Nothing new here. That is what they are trained to do.
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Phil Jones
The scumbag had a gun. Stop leaving out important details

January 24, 2026 at 8:08 PM

TomTom #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

@awkwardcomma.bsky.social

Made the mistake of looking at some comments on a local Facebook story about the latest ICE execution and I honestly don't know how we work our way out of this.

January 24, 2026 at 8:01 PM

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS

@dimitridrekonja.bsky.social

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

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Stella

@antlervel.vet

Doesn’t it make you crazy? Doesn’t it turn your blood to fucking gasoline?

Stella @antlervel.vet · 14h

People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie

January 24, 2026 at 6:18 PM

TomTom #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

@awkwardcomma.bsky.social

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social hey man, feel bad for not whipping the vote against ICE funding now, or is it just another fucking Saturday for you?

Democrats @democrats.org · 14h

ICE agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis this morning.

Get ICE out of Minnesota NOW.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 15h

New video shows ICE agents in Minneapolis wrestling a man to the ground, then shooting him multiple times.

January 24, 2026 at 6:27 PM

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

@mayor.nyc.gov

January 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM

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Cooper Lund

@cooperlund.online

The central question of the last decade+ in America is if the police can kill you if they feel afraid, and it was my understanding that you sign up for the job knowing there’s going to be danger and you’re paid to be better than “I shot him because I was scared”

January 24, 2026 at 3:50 PM

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James Fallows

@jfallows.bsky.social

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):

-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.

You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

January 24, 2026 at 5:07 PM

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Kashana

@kashana.blacksky.app

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM

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Jason Concepcion

@netw3rk.bsky.social

Arrest them

Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 16h

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

January 24, 2026 at 4:27 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

Trials for every ICE member.

January 24, 2026 at 5:00 PM

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Jordan Maison

@jordanmaison.com

The Native Voices anthology I have a short story in is launching March 31st! Pre-orders just went live and you can vote for your favorite indigenous author (wink wink) who may get something cool on top of it. #writing #nativeamerican

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Cover for the Native Voices II anthology collection

Native Voices II: The Cry of Creation
$32.99 $25.99
Vote for your favorite Indigenous voice within this anthology (optional)
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January 24, 2026 at 4:36 PM

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Alex Ip 葉清霖

@alexip718.com

BREAKING: The Tribune confirmed on Instagram that the man shot has died, according to two sources with knowledge of the incident.

ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene.

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 16h

Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

January 24, 2026 at 4:36 PM

TomTom #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

@awkwardcomma.bsky.social

Watch at your own risk.

This is not just a murder, it's an execution. There's no other way to describe it. They hit the guy in the head multiple times and then open fire while he's on the ground.

BREAKING: Federal agent shoots man in south Minneapolis

A Bring Me The News reporter was near the scene, and recorded multiple gunshots.

bringmethenews.com

January 24, 2026 at 4:36 PM

TomTom #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

@awkwardcomma.bsky.social

Broke into the snow wine early after not drinking for a month while listening to melancholy music and I'm just here to say I love y'all, ok?

January 24, 2026 at 3:31 AM

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TomTom #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

@awkwardcomma.bsky.social

This is legit one of my favorite episodes I've guested on. Please listen to me be audibly giddy to chat with my pals @novelgamingpod.bsky.social.

Also our lists are so GOOD and I love how we all selected our lists 👀

Thank you SO MUCH again for having me!

Novel Gaming! @novelgamingpod.bsky.social · 2d

We are joined this episode by @awkwardcomma.bsky.social from @distantechoespod.bsky.social & Lee Carvallo’s Podding Chalenge to kick off the return of the Backlog Challenge!

36 games between the three of us, and we’re gonna play ‘em ALL 😤

Listen everywhere: glitterjaw.com/novel-gaming