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MisterMPLS

@mistermpls.bsky.social

The group bike ride for Alex Pretti is about to depart in Minneapolis, stopping at his memorial, then Renee Good’s, and finishing at the VFW. If you can join, hop on anywhere. It’s a warm 17° & sunny!

I’ve never seen this many cyclists for a group ride. ⚡️✊🏽⚡️🚲⚡️✊🏽⚡️ #RIPPretti

January 31, 2026 at 7:41 PM

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Dan O'Dowd

@realdanodowd.bsky.social

“This was a horrible, horrible turn”

Watch Tesla FSD v14.2.2.2 attempt to drive on the wrong side of the road at the entrance to a parking lot.

Elon Musk says this defective software is “sentient”. Does it look sentient to you?

January 29, 2026 at 3:36 PM

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Amanda Carpenter

@amandacarpenter.bsky.social

ICE has an acronym for when they detain US citizens, which, of course, should not be happening.

They call them "USCs" — US citizens in custody.

And after Pretti was shot, they grabbed a bunch of USCs, held them in custody, not for any investigative purpose.

www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Minneapolis man says he was detained for hours after witnessing Alex Pretti shooting

New affidavits filed in court detail how witnesses were arrested immediately after the shooting of Alex Pretti.

www.cbsnews.com

January 29, 2026 at 12:22 PM

Kevin H. Posey

@kposey.bsky.social

Caltrans and politicians claimed that the 101 carpool lanes would free up space in the general traffic lanes. It didn’t happen b/c of induced demand.
Now #Caltrans is cutting carpool hours because motorists are grumpy. Guess what’s going to happen shortly after they do so?
apple.news/AIAvagV5_Qra...

Here’s when Highway 101 carpool lane hours are changing — San Francisco Chronicle

Faced with mounting pressure from irate drivers, Bay Area transportation officials said Wednesday that they will reduce the carpool lane hours on Highway 101 in the North Bay.

apple.news

January 29, 2026 at 12:53 PM

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Jen Bendery

@jbendery.bsky.social

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official

The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.

www.huffpost.com

January 28, 2026 at 9:59 PM

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Laura 🗽

@bikesaregood.bsky.social

Link to map with all the Alex Pretti memorial rides.

bikepacking.com/news/alex-pr...

A map of the US with many green squares with white bicycles, depicting rides in multiple cities.

January 28, 2026 at 8:00 PM

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Better Atlanta Transit

@betteratltransit.bsky.social

Citing a pre-election interview from MONTHS ago won’t convince people that the Beltline streetcar plan still has a pulse. Nor is citing the election of one tram hardliner to replace multiple ones who dropped off a sign of a groundswell.
Let’s move on.
saportareport.com/mayor-andre-...

January 28, 2026 at 2:35 PM

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MinnMax

@minnmax.com

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."

ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

January 27, 2026 at 4:15 PM

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Bookshop.org

@bookshop.org

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.

Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

January 27, 2026 at 5:07 PM

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Robert Reich

@rbreich.bsky.social

Your reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

January 27, 2026 at 6:15 PM

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Bloomberg Opinion

@opinion.bloomberg.com

If ICE agents can shoot civilians and never be held accountable, then we aren’t living under the rule of law. We’re living in a police state, says @noahfeldman.bsky.social 🎥

January 27, 2026 at 4:02 PM

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Dan O'Dowd

@realdanodowd.bsky.social

Watch Tesla FSD v14.2.2.4 attempt to illegally turn right on red, forcing the driver to disengage.

Elon Musk’s defective software still can’t even read road signs.

January 27, 2026 at 3:40 PM

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦

@maks23.bsky.social

🇨🇳🤔 Ateo: Troops enter Beijing. The reason for this activity is unknown. Te-Jing forces have been deployed near the Forbidden City in China.

The Chinese social network Weibo has disabled all official military accounts.

January 27, 2026 at 2:50 PM

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Doug Gordon

@brooklynspoke.bsky.social

Many rides are happening across the country in solidarity on Saturday. And this Friday being the last of the month, Critical Mass in multiple cities will be riding to remember Alex Pretti as well. Find a ride or organize one near you.

Moth @walkingminnesota.com · 5d

On Saturday we ride for Alex Pretti
1:00pm at Washburn Fair Oaks Park

From Angry Catfish:
“We're asking folks to host rides and come together. Bike shops and non-profits, cycling orgs and alt cycling collectives, city and rural. We are many but we stand together as one.”

A flyer that says we ride in unity, for all for Alex, with Alex’s face on it
Saturday 1/31
1:00 meet 130 roll
Wagshburn fair oaks park
Ride together stand together

January 27, 2026 at 5:09 AM

Kevin H. Posey

@kposey.bsky.social

The best description of those attacking US #cities via @theatlantic.com:
“These agents, and the president who sent them, are no one’s heroes, no one’s saviors—just men with guns who have to hide their faces to shoot a mom in the face, and a nurse in the back.”

apple.news/AemZ9hkWjTY-...

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong — The Atlantic

The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

apple.news

January 27, 2026 at 1:59 PM

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ACLU

@aclu.org

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month.

Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

January 26, 2026 at 6:39 PM

Kevin H. Posey

@kposey.bsky.social

And a cyclist shall lead them…

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7d

Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him.

The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/

January 25, 2026 at 2:27 PM

Kevin H. Posey

@kposey.bsky.social

Brutalist DC federal office buildings could soon be demolished. Will they be replaced by a vibrant, walkable neighborhood served by two Metro #transit stations or a neo-fascist, monumental promenade?
The Trump regime favors the latter.

#architecture #preservation
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Inside the Plan to Demolish and Rebuild Trump’s Washington

When President Donald Trump demolished the East Wing in October, it came as a public shock. But the White House likely won’t be the last historic DC building to face a wrecking ball.

www.bloomberg.com

January 25, 2026 at 2:25 PM

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David Ho

@davidho.bsky.social

Forget abolishing ICE; abolish the GOP.

January 25, 2026 at 3:56 AM

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Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM

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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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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7d

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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Doug Gordon

@brooklynspoke.bsky.social

FYI, I left a message for Schumer. Please call the Senate Switchboard and demand, at a minimum:

1. The complete dismantling of ICE.
2. The prosecution of everyone involved with these murders and civil rights violations, including Noem.
2. A full stop on confirming Trump nominees and justices.

Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 7d

Chuck, maybe you could call your Senator about it? The Senate switchboard can be reached at (202) 224-3121. If the Senior Senator from New York and Senate Minority Leader isn't in, leave a recorded message.

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 8d

ICE out of Minnesota NOW.

January 24, 2026 at 8:17 PM

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Doug Gordon

@brooklynspoke.bsky.social

Good time to delete your TikTok account.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 8d

TikTok is now under US ownership and their new ToS reads like a guide to giving fascists everything they need to put you on a list.

They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.