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Carl Quintanilla

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

> @governor.ny.gov

February 4, 2026 at 11:13 AM

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James

@jamesdoyle838.bsky.social

Yep just look at this

February 1, 2026 at 12:12 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.

(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

January 31, 2026 at 6:13 PM

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Krassensteins

@krassenstein.bsky.social

“If they showed [the Melania documentary] on a plane, people would still walk out."

- Variety

January 30, 2026 at 8:20 AM

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Patrick Webb

@patrickwbb.bsky.social

Americans are dying because Trump is in the Epstein files.

January 26, 2026 at 9:34 PM

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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

This can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this.

Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.

January 26, 2026 at 5:22 AM

Rob Genadio

@robgenadio.bsky.social

Walk For Peace,
Centennial Drive by NC State in Raleigh.

January 25, 2026 at 5:57 PM

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Katie Mack

@astrokatie.com

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

January 25, 2026 at 12:28 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

Rob Genadio

@robgenadio.bsky.social

another
EPSTEIN
EXECUTION

January 24, 2026 at 8:01 PM

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Robert Reich

@rbreich.bsky.social

If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it?

[Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

January 23, 2026 at 5:17 PM

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Matt Novak

@paleofuture.bsky.social

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

January 22, 2026 at 12:05 AM

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VT Commons

@vtcommons.bsky.social

Every Republican member of Congress should be forced to read this out loud in public.

January 19, 2026 at 2:31 PM

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John R Raymond 🚫👑

@johnrraymond.bsky.social

Dear #BlueWizards, Jonathan Ross is in deep shit. if I were him, I'd be shitting my pants right now.

www.johnrraymond.greatlibrary.io/post/if-i-we...

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If I Were Jonathan Ross, I’d Be Shitting My Pants and Looking to Move to a Non-Extradition Country

When agents of the state begin to rely on anonymity, silence, and institutional shielding rather than law and legitimacy, something fundamental has already broken. That is the context in which Jonatha...

www.johnrraymond.greatlibrary.io

January 19, 2026 at 9:05 PM

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Jon Cooper

@joncooper-us.bsky.social

👇👇👇👇

January 19, 2026 at 3:49 PM

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Sandieglo

@sandieglo.bsky.social

January 19, 2026 at 7:30 PM

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The Vic

@tdssister.bsky.social

November 7, 2024 at 8:30 PM

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Econ Analytica

@econanalytica.bsky.social

January 18, 2026 at 1:20 AM

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸

@gtconway.bsky.social

January 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM

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Don Drennon

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18d

The details are horrific.

“He was just lifeless, like he had foam around his mouth... He had tears coming out of his eyes. I was giving him mouth-to-mouth, and I remember stopping, and I said, ‘I will give you all my breath ‘til you get yours back.’”

ICE's tear gas sent a 6-month-old to the hospital, the latest in an alarming pattern

Federal agents' use of chemical weapons has hurt children at immigration raids, while walking down their block, and in their schools.

www.motherjones.com

January 17, 2026 at 7:12 PM

Rob Genadio

@robgenadio.bsky.social

How is this OK?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19d

“Lifeless… foam around his mouth. Nobody wants to see their kids like that.”

ICE attacked a family trying to LEAVE the besieged neighborhood and hospitalized a 6 month old baby that couldn’t breathe.