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@mattenloe.bsky.social
· Jun 23
Every TikTok I see about Chicago, I post "Chicago is the greatest city in the world" and get a chorus of "hell yeah" replies. And you may ask yourself, why do people love Chicago so much?
It's simple. Chicago is the greatest city in the world.
It's simple. Chicago is the greatest city in the world.
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From Angry Catfish, independent bicycle shop in Minneapolis
January 25, 2026 at 1:50 AM
From Angry Catfish, independent bicycle shop in Minneapolis
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Toni Preckwinkle has called for the abolition of ICE.
January 25, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Toni Preckwinkle has called for the abolition of ICE.
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I filed my first petition for a writ of habeas corpus on Tue., because ICE abducted a great-grandmother in the Twin Cities. On Wed., the court ordered that Pam Bondi, et al. not move my client out of the State of MN. On Thurs., the court ordered that my client be released. Then yesterday, she was!!!
January 25, 2026 at 12:55 AM
I filed my first petition for a writ of habeas corpus on Tue., because ICE abducted a great-grandmother in the Twin Cities. On Wed., the court ordered that Pam Bondi, et al. not move my client out of the State of MN. On Thurs., the court ordered that my client be released. Then yesterday, she was!!!
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And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.
January 24, 2026 at 10:36 PM
And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.
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Hundreds of people gather for a vigil at the site where 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse and member of AFGE 3669, was shot and killed by federal agents.
January 25, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Hundreds of people gather for a vigil at the site where 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse and member of AFGE 3669, was shot and killed by federal agents.
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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."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
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-5°F in Minneapolis tonight.
At the site where feds killed Alex Pretti, the air still smells faintly of tear gas. Hundreds of people still here behind some impromptu barricades.
Message spray painted on the road reads, "fuck ICE, love always wins."
At the site where feds killed Alex Pretti, the air still smells faintly of tear gas. Hundreds of people still here behind some impromptu barricades.
Message spray painted on the road reads, "fuck ICE, love always wins."
January 25, 2026 at 12:25 AM
-5°F in Minneapolis tonight.
At the site where feds killed Alex Pretti, the air still smells faintly of tear gas. Hundreds of people still here behind some impromptu barricades.
Message spray painted on the road reads, "fuck ICE, love always wins."
At the site where feds killed Alex Pretti, the air still smells faintly of tear gas. Hundreds of people still here behind some impromptu barricades.
Message spray painted on the road reads, "fuck ICE, love always wins."
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Mood in minneapolis right now
January 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Mood in minneapolis right now
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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
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.
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this is wild because this is one of the largest sustained right-wing echo chambers that wasn't banned by Reddit itself. this is a place where con mods zero-tolerance ban anybody who "asks questions" or points out any inconsistencies with gop talking points.
Wow, the MAGA pigs really have lost even the Reddit conservative community now - the one that WAS on board with “well, killing Renee Good was justified because she was a lesbian bitch”
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January 25, 2026 at 12:31 AM
this is wild because this is one of the largest sustained right-wing echo chambers that wasn't banned by Reddit itself. this is a place where con mods zero-tolerance ban anybody who "asks questions" or points out any inconsistencies with gop talking points.
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Not one more dollar for ICE terror in our communities.
Democrats in the Senate must hold the line and STOP DHS's funding. Not one vote.
In the House, I call on my colleagues to move past statements & cosponsor my Melt ICE Act to cripple DHS’s enforcement & return dollars to our communities.
Democrats in the Senate must hold the line and STOP DHS's funding. Not one vote.
In the House, I call on my colleagues to move past statements & cosponsor my Melt ICE Act to cripple DHS’s enforcement & return dollars to our communities.
January 24, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Not one more dollar for ICE terror in our communities.
Democrats in the Senate must hold the line and STOP DHS's funding. Not one vote.
In the House, I call on my colleagues to move past statements & cosponsor my Melt ICE Act to cripple DHS’s enforcement & return dollars to our communities.
Democrats in the Senate must hold the line and STOP DHS's funding. Not one vote.
In the House, I call on my colleagues to move past statements & cosponsor my Melt ICE Act to cripple DHS’s enforcement & return dollars to our communities.
if you showed this post to someone during the bush administration they would have a heart attack
January 24, 2026 at 11:34 PM
if you showed this post to someone during the bush administration they would have a heart attack
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this is all downstream of the idea that some americans are more real than others. it’s a manifestation of the basic and fundamental logic of authoritarian populism. we will not heal ourselves until we understand that this kind of thinking - and this kind of rhetoric - is anathema to any free society
January 24, 2026 at 8:18 PM
this is all downstream of the idea that some americans are more real than others. it’s a manifestation of the basic and fundamental logic of authoritarian populism. we will not heal ourselves until we understand that this kind of thinking - and this kind of rhetoric - is anathema to any free society
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All net proceeds of all these shirts, hoodies and onesies will go to aid organizations in Minnesota working to protect their neighbors from terror. Fuck ICE, stand with Minneapolis.
Stand With The Sinister Minnesotans Against ICE https://store.theonion.com/products/sinister-minnesotans-t-shirt?variant=44569654984773
January 24, 2026 at 11:17 PM
All net proceeds of all these shirts, hoodies and onesies will go to aid organizations in Minnesota working to protect their neighbors from terror. Fuck ICE, stand with Minneapolis.
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People should not have to be perfect victims to not be murdered by the state or by a racist game show host and his lawless den of jackals and elite pedophile cover up conspiracists, but still HOLY SHIT MAN
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.
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January 24, 2026 at 11:20 PM
People should not have to be perfect victims to not be murdered by the state or by a racist game show host and his lawless den of jackals and elite pedophile cover up conspiracists, but still HOLY SHIT MAN
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Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 25, 2026
January 24, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 25, 2026
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At a rally in Union Square right now, Council member @chiosse.bsky.social tells the crowd, “We certainly need to abolish ICE, but that’s not enough—we need Nuremberg trials.”
January 24, 2026 at 9:31 PM
At a rally in Union Square right now, Council member @chiosse.bsky.social tells the crowd, “We certainly need to abolish ICE, but that’s not enough—we need Nuremberg trials.”
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Kyle Rittenhouse was on Infowars the day after the Renee Good shooting saying he had heard on X that Renee was putting cigarettes out on her kids. This wasn't true. This is a government by and for school shooters and their apologists.
Remembering how cops tossed Kyle Rittenhouse - who was open carrying a semiautomatic rifle - a bottle of water and told him, “We appreciate you… we really do”
January 24, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Kyle Rittenhouse was on Infowars the day after the Renee Good shooting saying he had heard on X that Renee was putting cigarettes out on her kids. This wasn't true. This is a government by and for school shooters and their apologists.
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An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting.
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January 24, 2026 at 9:46 PM
An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting.
Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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Thinking about those law professors who have done their part to normalize what we are seeing, either by approvingly amplifying extreme right wing sources (like the Daily Caller, Federalist, Dan McLaughlin), or by writing scholarship about Trumpism like it's a hypo and not reality.
January 24, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Thinking about those law professors who have done their part to normalize what we are seeing, either by approvingly amplifying extreme right wing sources (like the Daily Caller, Federalist, Dan McLaughlin), or by writing scholarship about Trumpism like it's a hypo and not reality.
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Pretti’s last words were, reportedly, “are you ok?”
They murdered Good and Pretti, a poet and a nurse, one whose last words were “I’m not mad,” another whose last act was shielding another. Because of course that’s who they killed. Everyday people.
January 24, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Pretti’s last words were, reportedly, “are you ok?”
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Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
January 24, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
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Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., is proposing the legislation as a number of Democratic candidates become increasingly vocal in their calls to rein in or eliminate ICE.
Democratic lawmaker to introduce bill to cripple DHS' ability to detain immigrants
Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., is proposing the legislation as a number of Democratic candidates become increasingly vocal in their calls to rein in or eliminate ICE.
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January 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., is proposing the legislation as a number of Democratic candidates become increasingly vocal in their calls to rein in or eliminate ICE.