Mark Ruffalo
@markruffalo.bsky.social
A husband, father, actor, director, & a climate justice advocate with an eye out for a better, brighter, cleaner, & more hopeful future for all of us.
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This? This is cope. This is cope for the White House, which is watching its self lose control of its big propaganda project, and its cope for the 30-something percent of the country who still support Trump and are watching their numbers dwindle. You think they can’t see their friends change?
January 25, 2026 at 3:32 PM
This? This is cope. This is cope for the White House, which is watching its self lose control of its big propaganda project, and its cope for the 30-something percent of the country who still support Trump and are watching their numbers dwindle. You think they can’t see their friends change?
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Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)
January 25, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)
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Sen. Angus King: "I can't vote for a bill that includes ICE funding under these circumstances"
January 25, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Sen. Angus King: "I can't vote for a bill that includes ICE funding under these circumstances"
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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/
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 1:31 PM
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/
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/
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There is a profound, shared hollowness in these eyes. It’s chilling to see that same vacant, sociopathic stare across the board—a collective void where empathy may have once been.
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 PM
There is a profound, shared hollowness in these eyes. It’s chilling to see that same vacant, sociopathic stare across the board—a collective void where empathy may have once been.
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NYT video review confirms this. Pretti had a 2nd Am right to carry a firearm. But even if he didn’t he wasn’t pointing it at anyone or threatening agents. There is no legal justification for the execution-style shooting & no basis for DHS’s claim he was there to massacre them. He was a helper.
Brandishing is a legal term that means to display all or part of a firearm, or otherwise make its presence known to another person to intimidate them, regardless of whether it's directly visible to that person. Given the video, that's not what Alex Pretti was doing when he was shot & killed.
Important context, this is the victim’s behavior BEFORE being tackled
He’s not threatening, he’s not brandishing, he’s filming
He’s not threatening, he’s not brandishing, he’s filming
January 25, 2026 at 1:27 PM
NYT video review confirms this. Pretti had a 2nd Am right to carry a firearm. But even if he didn’t he wasn’t pointing it at anyone or threatening agents. There is no legal justification for the execution-style shooting & no basis for DHS’s claim he was there to massacre them. He was a helper.
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A bit weedy, but a really important window into just how abusive DOJ is acting here.
For "One First," I wrote about DOJ's unprecedented attempt to secretly strong-arm a widely respected district judge in the Cities Church protest case—and why everyone, especially other federal judges, should read Chief Judge Schiltz's two letters in response:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/205-chief-...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/205-chief-...
205. Chief Judge Schiltz and the Department of Justice
Every federal judge (and justice) should read the two letters from Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz in the church protest case—and what they tell us about the Department of Justice's litigation behavior.
www.stevevladeck.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:12 PM
A bit weedy, but a really important window into just how abusive DOJ is acting here.
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Kind Neighbors Warning their Fellow Brothers and Sisters that the
ICE Terrorists are Coming. This is where we are currently at in the United States...
ICE Terrorists are Coming. This is where we are currently at in the United States...
January 25, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Kind Neighbors Warning their Fellow Brothers and Sisters that the
ICE Terrorists are Coming. This is where we are currently at in the United States...
ICE Terrorists are Coming. This is where we are currently at in the United States...
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In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 25, 2026 at 3:50 PM
In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.
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Murphy: "I'm not endeavoring to fix every single problem that exists in DHS, but we should only vote for a bill that puts constraint on this lawlessness, that reforms the way they are endangering our citizens. So yes, Democrats are not going to vote to fund this version of DHS."
January 25, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Murphy: "I'm not endeavoring to fix every single problem that exists in DHS, but we should only vote for a bill that puts constraint on this lawlessness, that reforms the way they are endangering our citizens. So yes, Democrats are not going to vote to fund this version of DHS."
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This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
TincherSealedWitnessDec012426.PDF
www.documentcloud.org
January 25, 2026 at 2:43 PM
This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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WSJ says ICE is lying.
Read that again…. The Wall Street Journal is calling out the lies
Read that again…. The Wall Street Journal is calling out the lies
January 25, 2026 at 3:03 PM
WSJ says ICE is lying.
Read that again…. The Wall Street Journal is calling out the lies
Read that again…. The Wall Street Journal is calling out the lies
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Murphy: "It's always been the fear & now is closer to the reality that the Trump admin is creating this mayhem, particularly in cities in swing states, to take control of elections. They're trying to trade the presence of ICE & the murder & mayhem they are causing for control of MN's elections"
January 25, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Murphy: "It's always been the fear & now is closer to the reality that the Trump admin is creating this mayhem, particularly in cities in swing states, to take control of elections. They're trying to trade the presence of ICE & the murder & mayhem they are causing for control of MN's elections"
www.politico.eu/article/germ...
This is what we need to do!
This is what we need to do!
German football executive urges World Cup boycott to protest Trump
Calls grow to weaponize football as the U.S. president escalates tensions with Europe.
www.politico.eu
January 25, 2026 at 5:10 AM
www.politico.eu/article/germ...
This is what we need to do!
This is what we need to do!
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By Saturday afternoon, some Trump admin. personnel had already begun scouring the internet and other resources trying to find information on Alex Pretti, including social media posts, that could tie him to what Team Trump call “extremists,” two sources familiar with the matter tell @zeteo.com …
New: Alex Pretti, the man killed by the Trump-Vance mob of agents was an outdoorsmen, a mountain biker, an ICU nurse who "would go out of his way to help," say Veterans Affairs colleagues.
Cheerful. Funny. Gentle.
And still, per sources, Trump officials are urging staff to call him a "terrorist."
Cheerful. Funny. Gentle.
And still, per sources, Trump officials are urging staff to call him a "terrorist."
DHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a ‘Sweet’ and ‘Principled Person’
Zeteo spoke with two doctors who worked with Alex Pretti, a nurse who is the latest victim of Trump’s violent invasion of Minnesota.
zeteo.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:32 AM
By Saturday afternoon, some Trump admin. personnel had already begun scouring the internet and other resources trying to find information on Alex Pretti, including social media posts, that could tie him to what Team Trump call “extremists,” two sources familiar with the matter tell @zeteo.com …
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FRANKLIN, TN pastor Kevin Riggs changes his profile pic to “ABOLISH ICE” and challenges other Evanglical pastors to do the same.
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January 25, 2026 at 4:11 AM
FRANKLIN, TN pastor Kevin Riggs changes his profile pic to “ABOLISH ICE” and challenges other Evanglical pastors to do the same.
www.facebook.com/share/p/1HZh...
www.facebook.com/share/p/1HZh...
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All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
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Shutting the government down because the president’s thug army keeps murdering American citizens for no reason seems pretty reasonable, IMO!
January 25, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Shutting the government down because the president’s thug army keeps murdering American citizens for no reason seems pretty reasonable, IMO!
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The first Minnesota murder, they refused to let a medical professional help the woman they shot. The second Minnesota murder, they simply shot the medical professional.
January 24, 2026 at 10:03 PM
The first Minnesota murder, they refused to let a medical professional help the woman they shot. The second Minnesota murder, they simply shot the medical professional.
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In apparent reference to the UAE and Israel, Egypt's President Sisi says: “Cairo opposes attempts to fragment regional states or create militias and parallel entities that operate outside national armies and institutions," as he moves closer to KSA.
v.aa.com.tr/3809825
v.aa.com.tr/3809825
Egyptian president rejects attempts to divide region, undermine Gaza ceasefire deal
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi says Cairo wants full implementation of Gaza truce, opposes any attempt to displace Palestinians - Anadolu Ajansı
v.aa.com.tr
January 25, 2026 at 3:46 AM
In apparent reference to the UAE and Israel, Egypt's President Sisi says: “Cairo opposes attempts to fragment regional states or create militias and parallel entities that operate outside national armies and institutions," as he moves closer to KSA.
v.aa.com.tr/3809825
v.aa.com.tr/3809825
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Alex Honnold successfully free solos Taipei 101 in live Netflix climb
Alex Honnold successfully free solos Taipei 101 in live Netflix climb
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Honnold climbs 508m Taipei 101 without ropes
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Netflix airs climb live after rain delay
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Feat sparks awe – and ethical unease
American rock climber Alex Honnold climbed the Taipei 101 skyscraper on Sunday without any ropes or protective equipment.
Cheers erupted from a gathered crowd as he started climbing the 508-meter (1,667ft) tower earlier Sunday, using the horizontal metal beams to pull himself up with his bare hands. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Alex Honnold successfully free solos Taipei 101 in live Netflix climb
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#GVerse It appears from zooming in just moments before #FuckICE/CBP one agent removes the victims firearm from his waste holster. (not brandishing his gun as DHS stated)
The victim was UNARMED when he was shot multiple times.
This is a state execution. Again.
The victim was UNARMED when he was shot multiple times.
This is a state execution. Again.
January 24, 2026 at 6:45 PM
#GVerse It appears from zooming in just moments before #FuckICE/CBP one agent removes the victims firearm from his waste holster. (not brandishing his gun as DHS stated)
The victim was UNARMED when he was shot multiple times.
This is a state execution. Again.
The victim was UNARMED when he was shot multiple times.
This is a state execution. Again.