Patrick
@cleverturnip.bsky.social
Alabama transplant in Chicago.
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January 25, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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One of the Spineless Seven democrats who voted for ICE funding this week, now feigning outrage:
January 25, 2026 at 3:57 AM
One of the Spineless Seven democrats who voted for ICE funding this week, now feigning outrage:
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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.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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.
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BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.
January 25, 2026 at 2:32 AM
BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.
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I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.
January 24, 2026 at 8:21 PM
I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.
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but a widely respected Moron said not to campaign on this
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**
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January 25, 2026 at 2:41 AM
but a widely respected Moron said not to campaign on this
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Huge scandal that Minneapolis has been crawling with terrorists this whole time. They've been living among us undercover as poets and nurses. And would've continued to, had it not been for the work of our bravest child kidnappers
January 25, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Huge scandal that Minneapolis has been crawling with terrorists this whole time. They've been living among us undercover as poets and nurses. And would've continued to, had it not been for the work of our bravest child kidnappers
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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."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
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this reminds me of the way i’ve seen susan bro speak about her daughter, heather heyer. when a fascist murders your child, you aren’t allowed to just grieve. you have to defend their memory, even their very grave.
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."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 1:10 AM
this reminds me of the way i’ve seen susan bro speak about her daughter, heather heyer. when a fascist murders your child, you aren’t allowed to just grieve. you have to defend their memory, even their very grave.
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What a stark, horrifying demonstration of the tension a union opens itself to when it organizes security forces.
If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?
If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?
My god.
Statement from AFGE: Alex was a member. His killer may have been as well.
Statement from AFGE: Alex was a member. His killer may have been as well.
January 24, 2026 at 9:46 PM
What a stark, horrifying demonstration of the tension a union opens itself to when it organizes security forces.
If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?
If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?
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The term martyr means “witness.” The man was murdered for bearing witness, literally bearing it, not arms but a camera. Murdered for seeing.
January 24, 2026 at 9:45 PM
The term martyr means “witness.” The man was murdered for bearing witness, literally bearing it, not arms but a camera. Murdered for seeing.
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somber resignment is what they fear most because it means those who stand against them are no longer deterred by the playbook
and without that playbook they have nothing
and without that playbook they have nothing
Only speaking personally, but today’s execution isn’t scaring me from protecting our neighbors, as some suggest is ICE’s goal. Nor am I angry with incandescent rage, in that I know such rage is unhelpful. Rather, I feel like it has forced me to truly accept that the same fate might befall me.
January 24, 2026 at 8:41 PM
somber resignment is what they fear most because it means those who stand against them are no longer deterred by the playbook
and without that playbook they have nothing
and without that playbook they have nothing
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I think it is time for there to be blowback and a scandal for any elected Democrat even saying this sort of thing. You should be shamed for pretending this is a thing. We do not need this gesture anymore. The Republicans are the Nazi Party and Donald Trump is their Fuhrer.
January 24, 2026 at 9:01 PM
I think it is time for there to be blowback and a scandal for any elected Democrat even saying this sort of thing. You should be shamed for pretending this is a thing. We do not need this gesture anymore. The Republicans are the Nazi Party and Donald Trump is their Fuhrer.
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You don’t have to give these people this unearned gravitas, there is no grand strategy at play here. They’re shoot people because they like it, they tell dumb condescending lies about the shooting because that’s all they got.
January 24, 2026 at 7:36 PM
You don’t have to give these people this unearned gravitas, there is no grand strategy at play here. They’re shoot people because they like it, they tell dumb condescending lies about the shooting because that’s all they got.
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Chuck, I have terrible news. The feds shot the Baileys. Point-blank range, right in the face. They're gone, Chuck. You let them die. You have the Baileys' blood on your hands.
ICE out of Minnesota NOW.
Breaking News: Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a person in Minneapolis on Saturday morning, state and local officials said. Follow live updates.
January 24, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Chuck, I have terrible news. The feds shot the Baileys. Point-blank range, right in the face. They're gone, Chuck. You let them die. You have the Baileys' blood on your hands.
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Can I just add that it is *catastrophic* for elected dems if they don’t take their own constituents being killed seriously? This is what destroys opposition parties in authoritarian systems.
January 24, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Can I just add that it is *catastrophic* for elected dems if they don’t take their own constituents being killed seriously? This is what destroys opposition parties in authoritarian systems.
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they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
ICE/DHS employees: after you're done sending him this stuff, I have one more request to ask of you
ICE / DHS employees: I know there’s way more alarm internally than is public. Text me via signal at 202-510-1268. I’ll protect your anonymity
January 24, 2026 at 7:46 PM
ICE/DHS employees: after you're done sending him this stuff, I have one more request to ask of you
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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 5:49 PM
People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie
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Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.
January 24, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.
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They disarmed him and then killed him for trying to help up a fellow peaceful protester.
That’s an execution full stop.
That’s an execution full stop.
January 24, 2026 at 6:58 PM
They disarmed him and then killed him for trying to help up a fellow peaceful protester.
That’s an execution full stop.
That’s an execution full stop.
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If I see another dumbass half-deep post about how “the point is to let you know they can get away with the lie” I’m gonna go insane. They’re dumb. They’re telling dumb lies because dumb lies would work on them.
January 24, 2026 at 7:34 PM
If I see another dumbass half-deep post about how “the point is to let you know they can get away with the lie” I’m gonna go insane. They’re dumb. They’re telling dumb lies because dumb lies would work on them.
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I’m not sure their strategy of “making extremely specific claims the second something happens and screeching a lot about those claims” is actually working the way they think
January 24, 2026 at 7:33 PM
I’m not sure their strategy of “making extremely specific claims the second something happens and screeching a lot about those claims” is actually working the way they think
Tim Walz or Frey better be willing to make their next statement from jail, or I don't wanna hear shit. Being a leader means putting yourself in the same danger as the people on the ground.
January 24, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Tim Walz or Frey better be willing to make their next statement from jail, or I don't wanna hear shit. Being a leader means putting yourself in the same danger as the people on the ground.
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The claim that he had a gun.
The claim that a gun somehow was reason to shoot him after wrestling him to the ground.
The claim that there was any reason for heavily armed goons to approach him.
The claim that ICE should even be on the streets.
NONE of these should be accepted at face value.
The claim that a gun somehow was reason to shoot him after wrestling him to the ground.
The claim that there was any reason for heavily armed goons to approach him.
The claim that ICE should even be on the streets.
NONE of these should be accepted at face value.
January 24, 2026 at 5:45 PM
The claim that he had a gun.
The claim that a gun somehow was reason to shoot him after wrestling him to the ground.
The claim that there was any reason for heavily armed goons to approach him.
The claim that ICE should even be on the streets.
NONE of these should be accepted at face value.
The claim that a gun somehow was reason to shoot him after wrestling him to the ground.
The claim that there was any reason for heavily armed goons to approach him.
The claim that ICE should even be on the streets.
NONE of these should be accepted at face value.