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Jon Seidel

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The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force.

@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidence

Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's “become an albatross” around her neck and “keeps the en...

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January 26, 2026 at 11:18 PM

EL BARTO ANTI-WORK

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Check this out

Border collie on the couch wearing a hoodie with a whimsy between her front paws

Border collie on the couch wearing a hoodie with a whimsy between her front paws but now she has ridiculous puppy dog eyes

Little dog on the same couch, chowing down on a whimsy

January 27, 2026 at 4:55 AM

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Sean T. Collins

@seantcollins.com

I had a tweet at the time saying Blue Lives Matter was the most openly fascist thing I'd seen in America in my lifetime bc it was responding to Black Lives Matter by saying "no they don't, and in fact your murderers are our heroes" with a little sticker you could put on your fucking pickup truck

January 24, 2026 at 4:53 PM

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Dave "Commissions Available" Clarke

@daveclarke.bsky.social

NYT less insightful than a 9 year old 4chan post

January 26, 2026 at 10:45 PM

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roterote

@roterote.bsky.social

Tim Doyle a famous Marvel artist is making some of the most Metal Anti-ICE art right now! Ghost Rider, Wolverine and the Punisher taking ICE out!

Top image The Punisher with an ICE agent at gunpoint. Text reads:

"OH GOD, PLEASE...
I HAVE A FAMILY!"
HE SAYS...
"SO DID THEY," I SAY. YOU DIDN'T CARE, WHY SHOULD I?"

Bottom image a close up of Frank Castle’s face with a shell casing flying past. Text reads:

"5.5 POUNDS OF PRESSURE AND ANOTHER NAZI GONE."

"I TRY NOT TO SMILE.

"IT STILL HAPPENS.”

January 25, 2026 at 10:09 PM

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Vidal Bassoon

@stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social

Look you can make the case that people didn’t know they were voting for this but that means half the population is so monumentally stupid that they thought “mass deportations” could be carried out without violence. I think that might be worse.

January 26, 2026 at 1:41 PM

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A—

@guttermachinations.bsky.social

Given the task is cultivating our ability to escape capitalism; Deleuze & Guattari's philosophy of escape is easily the most relevant and powerful tool we have in articulating our ways-of-being with capitalism, and it's adjacent flights out of it.

January 26, 2026 at 2:59 PM

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹

@himboblacksmith.bsky.social

they're going full mishima mode

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Homeland Security has decided to lean into the suicidal penguin imagery

January 26, 2026 at 2:46 PM

EL BARTO ANTI-WORK

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Homeland Security has decided to lean into the suicidal penguin imagery

January 26, 2026 at 2:34 PM

EL BARTO ANTI-WORK

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Oh, come on

An BOP goon standing in the entrance to a hotel in the act of throwing some kind of grenade, he has his shotgun between his legs and it kind of looks like he's jerking it off

January 26, 2026 at 6:53 AM

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jasper pilled

@hoovybaby.bsky.social

10/10. No notes.

January 25, 2026 at 9:41 PM

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unraveled

@unraveledpress.com

We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September.

They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police.

If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66

Two federal agents in t shirts and vests

January 25, 2026 at 2:05 PM

EL BARTO ANTI-WORK

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I'm so worried about this woman, but I can't think of a community more equipped to keep her safe then the one that's been forged in Minneapolis over the last few weeks.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

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 4:18 AM

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ashley fairbanks

@ziibiing.com

just punched me right in the heart

encrypted.whispers 🏳️‍⚧️ @vvv.gay · 2d

Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.

January 25, 2026 at 2:50 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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January 25, 2026 at 2:28 AM

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Millions of Dead Chris

@thecorlew.bsky.social

ICE, CPB, DHS—get rid of it ALL

Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 2d

Conflicting info about whether Pretti was murdered by ICE or CBP makes it clear that ICE is not single "rogue agency"

ICE, CBP and ALL policing & borders must be abolished. This isn't just one agency; its an entire infrastructure of carceral control, illegalization & criminalization, and fascism.

January 24, 2026 at 11:02 PM

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Vicky ACAB

@vickyacab.bsky.social

The pain and the outrage is correct and just and I'm glad everyone can see and understand it here, and this is also already what BLM was, if you argued for training, police reform or body cams instead of abolition this is what you sounded like, this is why people were so mad at you

January 24, 2026 at 10:50 PM

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former flyboy

@thatguywasfly.bsky.social

whichever Dem communications staffer came up with “abolish Trump’s ICE”… I see what you’re trying to do, but I don’t think it’s going to work.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

It's time to abolish Trump’s ICE.

January 24, 2026 at 8:58 PM

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The People's Fabric

@peoplesfabric.com

Yeah this is EXACTLY what they did after killing Silverio Villegas González here.

The ICE agents who killed him walked around the scene, picked up dropped gear and a magazine, holstered their weapons, and then one drove their car away.

Cops helped them out and never even asked their names.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "I don't know. You kill a man and then you just leave? You're law enforcement and you just leave? Is there a single case in American history where you just, like, walk away and say, 'I guess that just happened and we're not going to clean up our mess'?"

January 24, 2026 at 9:14 PM

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LegalEagle

@legaleagle.tv

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

January 24, 2026 at 7:51 PM

EL BARTO ANTI-WORK

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These morons are in way over their heads and the last thing they want is for the situation to get more chaotic and unruly. But, because ICE is full of gutter racist meatheads and not tacticians, they can't help but continue to turn the temperature up.

Artie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social · 2d

“They want violence” no they very explicitly want compliance and acquiescence and if you don’t give it to them they will fucking murder you

January 24, 2026 at 8:13 PM

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molly conger

@socialistdogmom.bsky.social

i'm so fucking sick of being lied to i'm gonna go crazy

Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 2d

OMG. "DHS said the episode began after a man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and they tried to disarm him. But footage from the scene shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...