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JDSAzimuth.me @jdsazimuth.me · Nov 25
"...I want to challenge us all to have greater ambitions for the web. I want the web to reflect our hopes and fulfil our dreams, rather than magnify our fears and deepen our divisions..."
-- Tim Berners-Lee 2018-03
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altnps.bsky.social
Tick tock… accountability is coming.
January 25, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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mford.bsky.social
You can tell they know they’re losing because Pretti went from “would-be assassin” and “domestic terrorist” to “tragically died” over the last 36-48 hours.
davidcorn.bsky.social David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 7h
Alex Pretti did not “tragically die. He was murdered.
January 26, 2026 at 5:45 AM
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jdsazimuth.me
🙏😊👇

What an album this was.

youtu.be/MKVyCjit1AE?...

1983!⌛🕰️🥱

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R.E.M. Radio Free Europe video original version
YouTube video by a9-9production
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January 26, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
The events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.
eliothiggins.bsky.social Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2d
🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
crookedfootball.bsky.social Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 2d
Democratic politicians have, though, pursued growth in GDP at the expense of other values. One response to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com pessimistic scenario is refocus on those values, combined with egalitarianism, sufficiency and quality of life. Not "it's the economy, stupid" but "it's the the society"
January 25, 2026 at 9:24 AM
jdsazimuth.me
@carlbergstrom.com your post was just deleted
January 25, 2026 at 4:10 PM
jdsazimuth.me
WaPo: "From Davos to Minneapolis to D.C., Trump is facing sharper pushback"

Most understand now that Drumpf seeks to cannibalize order in a feckless effort to gain power.

Anyone in Congress still standing with these orcs does not stand with the people

🎁

wapo.st/3YYpSQW

#StickTogether 🏋️✊
From Davos to Minneapolis to D.C., Trump is facing sharper pushback
Foreign leaders, Catholic archbishops and the Federal Reserve chairman are among those challenging Trump after a first year in which the president’s critics often tried to placate him.
wapo.st
January 25, 2026 at 4:06 PM
jdsazimuth.me
@cofpennprof.bsky.social did you publish a follow up piece to your guardian article from last week?
January 25, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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ubiquity75.xyz
That lady yelling at him to stop filming? May she never find peace in her heart.

www.reddit.com/r/law/s/DO35...
From the law community on Reddit: Screaming and sobbing can be heard from outside the ICE children's detention center in Dilley, TX
Explore this post and more from the law community
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January 25, 2026 at 7:57 AM
jdsazimuth.me
let's stop calling these "federal agents"

none of this federal cosplay is legal. and they are "insurrectionists" until the rule of law is properly restored

masked proud boy asshats (pardoned or not) wearing masks are not officers of the law

without warrants from a judge they can fuck off

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atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."
Live: Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, police chief says
A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.
www.startribune.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:10 AM
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sueinrockville.bsky.social
Tell @governorwalz.mn.gov
No more asking
You control the MN National Guard
Mobilize them now and they can either escort or arrest every ICE or CBP agent out of Minnesota- for good!
January 24, 2026 at 4:57 PM
jdsazimuth.me
@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social

can you please cross post this kasich video over here? or can I repost the video with your permission?

x.com/RpsAgainstTr...
Republicans against Trump on X: "Former Ohio Republican Governor and presidential candidate John Kasich: “What’s happening in Minnesota is waking up the whole country. It’s bothering us because we don’t see justice and fairness… It’s tearing the country apart but it’s also raising the consciousness of https://t.co/lKn8CyHuQu" / X
Former Ohio Republican Governor and presidential candidate John Kasich: “What’s happening in Minnesota is waking up the whole country. It’s bothering us because we don’t see justice and fairness… It’s tearing the country apart but it’s also raising the consciousness of https://t.co/lKn8CyHuQu
x.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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vetsforrl.bsky.social
Statement from Veterans For Responsible Leadership
January 24, 2026:

Today, Veterans For Responsible Leadership mourns the killing of Alex Pretti, a Minnesota resident, U.S. citizen, and healthcare professional who served veterans through his work as a nurse with the Department of Veterans Affairs.
January 24, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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atrupar.com
Gov. Tim Walz: "Thank God we have video, because according to DHS, these seven heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against them or something. It's nonsense, people. It's nonsense and it is lies."
January 24, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
“Which is where our obligation to witness comes in. The murder of Alex Jeffrey Pretti was not a mistake, or a tragedy, or a misunderstanding. It was a choice.”

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Emergency Triad: Another American Has Been Murdered by Our Government
It’s worse than it looks and it looks plenty bad.
open.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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tomjoscelyn.bsky.social
This is an actual post from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: Praising ICE after Alex Pretti was killed, blaming the Democratic leadership of Minnesota, and writing that ICE is greater/better than Minnesota.

He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
Pete Hegseth praises ICE while demeaning the people of Minnesota
January 24, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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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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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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atrupar.com
Gov. Janet Mills: "If they have warrants, show the warrants. In America, we don't believe in secret arrests or secret police."
January 24, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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spacemonkeygleek.bsky.social
Trump is trying to start a civil war to stop the midterms—unfathomable as that should sound—experts ran a nearly identical civil war scenario in 2024. This is why Gov Walz has not called up National Guard … Hold on Minnesotans! @AOC is right …
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start | Claire Finkelstein
Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, which I direct
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.

Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
January 25, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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staatenlos.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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numb.comfortab.ly
jfc
The Onion: ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn 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.
January 25, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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muellershewrote.com
NEW: Minnesota BCA was denied access to the crime scene. They got a WARRANT and DHS STILL BLOCKED THEM. So DHS doesn’t need a warrant to enter your house, but an actual warrant to enter the crime scene is denied?
January 25, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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whowillsaveus.bsky.social
Americans have had it, we're not going to take b******* politicians Anymore , we will not take this anymore!!!

RISE UP AMERICA
January 24, 2026 at 10:06 PM