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Crone. Fucking Bitch. AWFUL. She/her.
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klasfeldreports.com
A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN:

"I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind."

and

"The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back."

Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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maxberger.bsky.social
We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights.

There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.

This is my favorite guide.
CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC
You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...
www.nonviolent-conflict.org
January 24, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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atrupar.com
Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
January 24, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Cassidy performing the familiar ritual of Republicans who suddenly find a speck of courage to offer weak criticism of the Trump admin after they’re been excommunicated.
January 25, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Bondi vows escalation in Minnesota.
U.S. Department of Justice reposted Attorney General Pamela Bondi v • 39m X The full weight of federal law enforcement is engaged in Minnesota and this Department of Justice is advancing action on every front. Walz, Ellison and Frey have acknowledged receipt of federal grand jury subpoenas from this DOJ. We have arrested multiple individuals in the Cities Church attack and will continue to fight for our religious organizations. Today we arrested a man who violently assaulted an HSI agent. More arrests are coming. Meanwhile, our attorneys are relentlessly fighting to defeat the unprecedented judicial activism unfolding in Minnesota. Accountability is coming. toddstarnes @toddstarnes • 4h Who wants to tell AG Pam Bondi that the time for strongly-worded letters is long gone? Declare an insurrection. Invoke the Insurrection Act and put down the rebellion. Not sure what's going on in t...
January 25, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Statement from Senator John Fetterman about today’s events in Minnesota:
January 25, 2026 at 2:49 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING: Minnesota plaintiffs ask federal appeals court to allow protections for those exercising constitutional rights following today's ICE killing of Alex Pretti.

They ask the 8th Circuit to lift the admin stay issued in the First/Fourth Amend case.

Background: www.lawdork.com/i/184842027/...
INTRODUCTION In light of escalating, imminent risks to the safety of the named plaintiffs and the putative class, Appellees respectfully file this renewed, emergency motion for the Court immediately to lift the administrative stay of the district court's injunction. Intervening events that post-date the parties filings have created an urgent need for intervention to prevent irreparable injury to the named plaintiffs, protesters, and observers. This morning a second Minnesotan, Alex Pretti, was killed by federal agents. In response, Appellees anticipate that thousands of protesters and observers will continue to take the streets to exercise their constitutional rights. As the thousands of federal agents deployed to Operation Metro Surge interact with those protesters and observers, it is more essential than ever to reinstate the district court's narrow, considered injunction to prevent violent retaliation against individuals exercising their constitutional rights.
January 25, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Reminder: If the Supreme Court upholds Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, some of the ICE officers currently brutalizing Minnesotans may be reassigned to apprehend newborns from the hospital for immediate deportation. Just read the Trump administration’s own memo. slate.com/news-and-pol...
To that end, USCIS declared flatly that the children of immigrants who are "unlawfully present" will "no longer be U.S. citizens at birth." They will, instead, inherit the status of their parents, rendering them detainable and deportable as infants and throughout their lives. There is no indication that the government will provide some grace period before snatching up and imprisoning this new underclass of noncitizen babies; they are apparently subject to arrest from the moment of birth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
😕🇺🇸
January 25, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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badideas.bsky.social
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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victorerikray.bsky.social
What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.
January 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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cwebbonline.com
Kristi Noem and DHS don’t want us to see this video.

📌 Alex was disarmed BEFORE he was shot. This was murder.
January 25, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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muellershewrote.com
So my understanding is that if Dems in the senate block the funding bill as Schumer has promised, it will block SIX packages:

1. Defense
2. Labor-HHS-Ed
3. T-HUD
4. SFOPs
5. FSGG
6. DHS

1/
January 25, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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joshuaeakle.com
Holy crap.

This is the most damning video yet.

It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face.

Murder.
January 24, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
A sworn eyewitness of the Pretti murder files a detailed sworn account about what happened in federal court. Devastating testimony against the DHS agents. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
January 25, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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musicologyduck.bsky.social
humvees at Union Station
Four army vehicles parked on a street
January 25, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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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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whstancil.bsky.social
Even as the National Guard is deployed in a perimeter around half my neighborhood to try to prevent ICE’s campaign of violence from boiling over, ICE continues to send lurking cars of armed feds on patrol around the city and stage shows of force around the region. Insane. Unthinkable
January 25, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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freedcproject.bsky.social
HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.
An office building lit up in the dark with a crowd of people holding signs in front of it.
January 25, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Immigration thugs in Minneapolis are now using a weapon that’s unfamiliar to many protesters: grenades that spew a noxious green gas.

These grenades contain worrisome chemicals.
What's the deal with that scary-looking green gas ICE is using in Minneapolis?
There are toxic ingredients in all of this stuff, but looks may be deceiving.
www.motherjones.com
January 25, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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jeffrueter.bsky.social
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."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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musicologyduck.bsky.social
hitting the streets
January 24, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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mcopelov.bsky.social
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
markgongloff.bsky.social Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 14h
We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun
A photo of the man murdered by ICE today, just before the shooting. He’s standing and holding a phone in his right hand and holding his empty left hand to the sky and looking behind him at a woman running away while an ICE agent closes in on him from the front. On the ground behind the man is a woman that the victim will soon try to help, leading several ICE agents to attack him and pin him to the ground, before shooting him several times.
January 24, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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normcharlatan.bsky.social
lmao, there’s a possibility that a bunch of us are going to get martyred over voter rolls, and honestly, that’s probably as random as being upset about taxes on tea
andycraig.bsky.social Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15h
The attorney general is threatening a state that the federal government will continuing murdering its citizens in the streets unless they provide access to state voter rolls, a lawless demand which is the subject of ongoing litigation.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
Fox News: "I've gotten my hands that AG Bondi said she sent to Gov. Tim Walz. It is strongly worded. The AG calls for the governor to support the men and women of ICE, to repeal the state's sanctuary policies, and to allow the DOJ to access state voter rolls."
January 24, 2026 at 8:23 PM