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Mehdi Hasan

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Yesterday we learned that a racist Trump supporter assaulted a nonwhite Democratic congressman.

And it’s not even a big story.

Meanwhile, Republicans drone on about ‘left-wing political violence’.

January 25, 2026 at 4:57 PM

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Rural Freedom Network

@ruralfreedomnet.bsky.social

State AGs MUST PROSECUTE Stephen Miller & Kristi Noem |
How can we get justice in the wake of ICE murdering American citizens? It starts with this. -- STUART STEVENS

January 25, 2026 at 2:01 PM

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maggie-lee.bsky.social

@maggie-lee.bsky.social

“Hours after the fatal shooting of another protester by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis, more than 600 demonstrators gathered Saturday in downtown Savannah under gray, blustery skies to denounce the Trump administration”

#gapol

thecurrentga.org/2026/01/24/h...

Hundreds rally in Savannah against Trump's immigration policies - The Current

Over 600 protesters gathered in downtown Savannah to denounce the Trump administration's immigration policies on the same day as another fatal shooting of a protester in Minneapolis by federal immigra...

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January 25, 2026 at 12:36 AM

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MeidasTouch

@meidastouch.com

Trump goes all-in on the cover-up of DHS's latest murder of an American citizen, and accuses Gov. Walz and Mayor Frey of "inciting insurrection."

Trump also attacks the victim's legal gun ownership, implying that gave agents the right to murder him... 1/2

January 24, 2026 at 7:16 PM

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Anonymous

@youranoncentral.bsky.social

Noem, Miller, Bovino, Trump, and Vance intentionally made false or misleading claims about Renee Good and/or Alex Pretti, labeling them criminals or terrorists; misrepresenting the circumstances of their deaths to justify, and aid in, the crime of murder. #3E #GoodvsEvil

Kristi Noem: “It was an act of domestic terrorism.”

Stephen Miller: “A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official Democrat account sides with the terrorists.”

Greg Bovino: “This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.”

JD Vance: “I can believe that her death is a tragedy while also recognizing that it’s a tragedy of her own making.”

January 25, 2026 at 7:47 AM

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ProPublica

@propublica.org

A Utah plastic surgeon was on trial for falsifying COVID-19 vaccine cards.

Then Pam Bondi stepped in.

Bondi’s dismissal of the case signals the increasing clout of “medical freedom” activists and vaccine skeptics under the leadership of RFK Jr.

With @sltrib.com

Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases.

A Utah surgeon’s victory in a vaccine fraud case has encouraged other “medical freedom” advocates to consider seeking leniency for similar charges. “This undermines every layer of the system that prot...

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January 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽

@joshuaeakle.com

🚨 Breaking from the US Senator for Connecticut. 👇

There you have it.

ICE has never been about immigration enforcement.

It's a weapon used to brutalize Americans and stoke enough fear so that Trump can rig the elections and usher in dictatorship.

January 25, 2026 at 12:20 AM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Noem lies shamelessly: "An individual approached order Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic gun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement"

January 24, 2026 at 11:13 PM

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MeidasTouch

@meidastouch.com

Send Bovino to The Hague

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

BASH: You said he wanted to 'massacre law enforcement.' It doesn't like like that

BOVINO: I believe the fantastic training our law enforcement partners have prevented any specific, ahhh, shootings of law enforcement. So good job by our law enforcement in taking him down before he was able to do it

January 25, 2026 at 2:49 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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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS

@dimitridrekonja.bsky.social

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM

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Kyle Cheney

@kyledcheney.bsky.social

JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

January 25, 2026 at 3:55 AM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

January 25, 2026 at 12:20 AM

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MeidasTouch

@meidastouch.com

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 1:31 PM

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Max Berger

@maxberger.bsky.social

I hope that Democrats realize what’s happening in Minnesota is also a dry run for what the regime has planned for the midterms.

January 24, 2026 at 5:59 PM

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TheBaldEagle

@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

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

BARTIROMO: But how was he threatening Border Patrol? How was he using a gun to threaten? He was filming it

KASH PATEL: That's something I'll let DHS because they are investigating that case

(Notable that even Bartiromo seems to be bothered by this!)

January 25, 2026 at 3:30 PM

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IndivisibleTX24

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Thanks Simon for this important piece!
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-courag...

The Courage Of The People Of Minnesota Is Lifting Up And Inspiring A Nation

Watch now | For those in the path of the storm - stay safe all!

www.hopiumchronicles.com

January 25, 2026 at 5:28 AM

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CNN

@cnn.com

Utah police arrested a man who allegedly shouted that Rep. Maxwell Frost would be deported before punching him in the face at a Sundance Film Festival event, the Florida Democrat said. https://cnn.it/3ZwFbQU

January 25, 2026 at 8:32 AM

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Chris Murphy

@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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MeidasTouch

@meidastouch.com

🚨 NEW — Statement from the family of Alex 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... 1/

"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 has 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."

January 25, 2026 at 1:32 AM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "I just saw a video of more than 6 masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death. How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?"

January 24, 2026 at 5:59 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Sayre: "My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine. What I've seen here is what I've seen there. A powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people."