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historian of japan/korea/the environment | words: davidfedman.org | digital archive: JapanAirRaids.org | film: https://papercityfilm.com/
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"
“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti
In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: the culture war is an actual war.
www.vanityfair.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport
January 26, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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“Air Force veteran, who was Alex Pretti's patient 2 weeks ago, recalls how the nurse ‘comforted' and ‘helped' him.

"'I'm saddened to the deepest part of my heart,’ veteran Sonny Fouts, 71, tells @people.com of Pretti's death.”

people.com/alex-pretti-...
Air Force Veteran, Who Was Alex Pretti's Patient 2 Weeks Ago, Recalls How the Nurse 'Comforted' and 'Helped' Him (Exclusive)
Sonny Fouts, an Air Force veteran who was cared for by Alex Pretti after a recent surgery, tells PEOPLE how the late ICU nurse 'comforted' and 'helped' him. Pretti was fatally shot by federal officers...
people.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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October 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Remember, five crises ago, when the US violated the sovereignty of another country and kidnapped its president? Wonder how that's going...

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Venezuela’s acting leader says she has ‘had enough’ of US orders in shot at Trump
The US president said that Rodriguez would be carrying out Washington’s demands after the capture of Nicolas Maduro
www.independent.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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I am still thinking about how Alex Pretti was out there directing traffic, waving cars through. A instinctive, quintessentially Dad Response to any kind of commotion happening on the block—to go out and help a little, in a small way. To make sure no one gets unnecessarily hurt.
signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association
January 26, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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Stop and read this (gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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Silicon valley is the epicenter of American fascism
The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI
January 26, 2026 at 6:10 AM
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This is one of the biggest stories in America, comparable in scale to what’s happening in Minnesota. The largest social media platform is transferred to Trump’s allies and immediately forbids you from saying anything bad about him. Absolutely totalitarian in nature. No different than China.
#TikTok has begun censoring anti-Trump and anti-Ice content
January 26, 2026 at 6:54 AM
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Translation: “We send our condolences to the Pretti family for our untrained thugs executing your son. It was super ‘unfortunate.’ But it’s not the thugs’ fault. It’s the fault of Minnesota for not tearing apart immigrant families & becoming an arm of ICE.”
January 26, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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In one of his campaign videos, the winner of the Fukui gubernatorial race implored voters to help preserve the monoethnic nation
January 26, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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Totally understand the Puka hate but I'll never understand the Stafford hate. He's a wizard, one of the best to ever play the position, and he's on our side! Born in Texas and played football at Georgia and somehow still didn't get MAGAed
Finding out Stafford is really woke was a pleasant surprise.
January 26, 2026 at 4:51 AM
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Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment.

Excellent article!
January 26, 2026 at 4:33 AM
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January 26, 2026 at 5:26 AM
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There is no way in hell the United States under the Trump regime can host the World Cup in a few months.

They are murdering citizens in broad daylight, threatening war against NATO, and lawlessly kidnapping children and foreign heads of state.

The world has to organize a boycott. It’s not safe.
January 26, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage
January 26, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Doug Collins, only post since his employee, Alex Pretti, was murdered.
January 25, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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It’s hard to overstate how freakish it is for law enforcement who just shot someone to be shuffled off to other assignments with no investigative period at all.
BASH: Are they agents who were involved still on the job?

BOVINO: Yes
January 25, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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HEY MEDIA: I think when pro sports teams are holding memorials for the people the administration has declared terrorists, it’s safe to drop the “accounts differ” pretense and move on to “the administration attempts to smear the man it murdered”
Timberwolves hold a moment of silence for Alex Pretti
January 25, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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hey everybody lifelong tech expert here

> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility

that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps
And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
January 25, 2026 at 5:26 PM
that 39 percent is what keeps me up at night. pure sadists.
Trump has even lost Rasmussen now
January 25, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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Quite a statement by the Republican governor of Vermont
January 25, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.

This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
January 25, 2026 at 8:01 PM