Sam
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you don't become a martyr because you were a saint, you become a saint because you were martyred
I agree that we can’t make Alex Pretti a Benedictine monk because that’s a trap, but we can talk about the good things we did because people will see and hear them and think “I do those things too”
January 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
you don't become a martyr because you were a saint, you become a saint because you were martyred
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Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
How's your non-violent working Mr Gandhi stancil? They will kill each and everyone of you right if they had the chance and you will still be writing Kumbaya.
January 24, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
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One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
January 24, 2026 at 9:29 PM
One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
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He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.
January 24, 2026 at 8:21 PM
He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.
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I will canvass for whichever candidate runs on putting this man in prison in 2028.
Bovino shamelessly lies: "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement"
January 24, 2026 at 8:49 PM
I will canvass for whichever candidate runs on putting this man in prison in 2028.
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Yeah maybe if he'd had 16 years experience and 200 hours more of training, he would have killed three people today instead of one
The officer who fatally shot a Minneapolis man during a protest is an 8-year Border Patrol veteran, federal officials say.
Police chief calls for calm after a man is shot and killed during Minneapolis immigration crackdown
Federal immigration officers have shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.
bit.ly
January 24, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Yeah maybe if he'd had 16 years experience and 200 hours more of training, he would have killed three people today instead of one
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Literally 10 days ago, this hypocritical jackass introduced a bill to make concealed carry easier across the nation to help "law-abiding citizens to more freely exercise their Second Amendment rights." www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-re...
January 24, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Literally 10 days ago, this hypocritical jackass introduced a bill to make concealed carry easier across the nation to help "law-abiding citizens to more freely exercise their Second Amendment rights." www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-re...
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AFGE is the American Federation of Government Employees.
Local 3669 represents professional employees in the Minneapolis VA Health Care System.
Alex Pretti was a union man.
Local 3669 represents professional employees in the Minneapolis VA Health Care System.
Alex Pretti was a union man.
January 24, 2026 at 9:22 PM
AFGE is the American Federation of Government Employees.
Local 3669 represents professional employees in the Minneapolis VA Health Care System.
Alex Pretti was a union man.
Local 3669 represents professional employees in the Minneapolis VA Health Care System.
Alex Pretti was a union man.
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All three living Democratic presidents have said nothing about any of this. I don’t mean just today, I mean any of it. Obama’s last two tweets are about basketball and wishing his wife happy birthday. Nothing on Renee Good who was murdered 17 days ago
January 24, 2026 at 8:37 PM
All three living Democratic presidents have said nothing about any of this. I don’t mean just today, I mean any of it. Obama’s last two tweets are about basketball and wishing his wife happy birthday. Nothing on Renee Good who was murdered 17 days ago
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/3 In this moment of horror, look at the people of MN. They’re not an army. Few are trained for urban combat, through there are many veterans. They are young and old and rich and poor. They are standing up at great personal danger, defying a despicable Gestapo government and its vile apologists.
January 24, 2026 at 7:27 PM
/3 In this moment of horror, look at the people of MN. They’re not an army. Few are trained for urban combat, through there are many veterans. They are young and old and rich and poor. They are standing up at great personal danger, defying a despicable Gestapo government and its vile apologists.
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The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect.
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January 24, 2026 at 7:18 PM
The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect.
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Schiltz's letter could have been written by Franz Kafka himself in his description of Trump DOJ's secretive and vindictive antics.
They filed the request under seal, even from him, and demanded a quick reply during an emergency.
Read it in full here. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
They filed the request under seal, even from him, and demanded a quick reply during an emergency.
Read it in full here. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Schiltz letter
www.documentcloud.org
January 24, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Schiltz's letter could have been written by Franz Kafka himself in his description of Trump DOJ's secretive and vindictive antics.
They filed the request under seal, even from him, and demanded a quick reply during an emergency.
Read it in full here. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
They filed the request under seal, even from him, and demanded a quick reply during an emergency.
Read it in full here. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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BREAKING
The Eighth Circuit REJECTED Pam Bondi's mandamus request to issue more arrests warrants in the St. Paul church protest.
At the district court level, the chief judge found "no evidence" Don Lemon and his producer "engaged in criminal behavior."
The Eighth Circuit REJECTED Pam Bondi's mandamus request to issue more arrests warrants in the St. Paul church protest.
At the district court level, the chief judge found "no evidence" Don Lemon and his producer "engaged in criminal behavior."
January 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM
BREAKING
The Eighth Circuit REJECTED Pam Bondi's mandamus request to issue more arrests warrants in the St. Paul church protest.
At the district court level, the chief judge found "no evidence" Don Lemon and his producer "engaged in criminal behavior."
The Eighth Circuit REJECTED Pam Bondi's mandamus request to issue more arrests warrants in the St. Paul church protest.
At the district court level, the chief judge found "no evidence" Don Lemon and his producer "engaged in criminal behavior."
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This is important. And partly why the entire rightwing infrastructure from GOP to Heritage to Manhattan to ALEC were so terrified of 2020. Millions of the folks marching for racial justice and demanding a racial reckoning were *white*
Showing cross-racial solidarity is a potential death sentence. There are few things white supremacists hate more.
37 year old white male citizen with a lawful permit to carry a firearm, says the Minneapolis Police Department.
January 24, 2026 at 6:46 PM
This is important. And partly why the entire rightwing infrastructure from GOP to Heritage to Manhattan to ALEC were so terrified of 2020. Millions of the folks marching for racial justice and demanding a racial reckoning were *white*
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Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
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INTERVIEWER: As you know, we are a nation beset by myriad horrors. What are you doing to fight back?
SCHUMER: I have been reaching out to the horrors, many of which are friends, in hopes of working together on this for all Americans. You demand we descend into hell? Well ok, but let's do it right.
SCHUMER: I have been reaching out to the horrors, many of which are friends, in hopes of working together on this for all Americans. You demand we descend into hell? Well ok, but let's do it right.
September 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
INTERVIEWER: As you know, we are a nation beset by myriad horrors. What are you doing to fight back?
SCHUMER: I have been reaching out to the horrors, many of which are friends, in hopes of working together on this for all Americans. You demand we descend into hell? Well ok, but let's do it right.
SCHUMER: I have been reaching out to the horrors, many of which are friends, in hopes of working together on this for all Americans. You demand we descend into hell? Well ok, but let's do it right.
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Two days ago, 7 democrats voted to fund that execution
January 24, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Two days ago, 7 democrats voted to fund that execution
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will just keep saying this til it’s no longer true
inescapable conclusion is we have no laws, just cops
January 24, 2026 at 4:46 PM
will just keep saying this til it’s no longer true
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The federal government has unleashed a gang of murderous criminals on the American public. Funding this government is funding our own oppression. If you can't make that case you need to get out of politics
January 24, 2026 at 4:46 PM
The federal government has unleashed a gang of murderous criminals on the American public. Funding this government is funding our own oppression. If you can't make that case you need to get out of politics
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I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.
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HAKEEM JEFFRIES: well i call it the Klump administration ok? it's nutty "2" profess our economy works for everyone while artificial inflation shenanigans stink up american dinners. so no, i won't be dragged into some silly debate over who has to obey what court order. i'll leave that to the courts
January 24, 2026 at 2:47 PM
HAKEEM JEFFRIES: well i call it the Klump administration ok? it's nutty "2" profess our economy works for everyone while artificial inflation shenanigans stink up american dinners. so no, i won't be dragged into some silly debate over who has to obey what court order. i'll leave that to the courts
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genuinely stunning image
January 24, 2026 at 1:37 AM
genuinely stunning image
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i think it is particularly moving to see how instrumental unions have been in organizing actions in minnesota when political rhetoric in the US always conceptualizes labor rights and immigration rights as existing in opposition
January 24, 2026 at 2:05 AM
i think it is particularly moving to see how instrumental unions have been in organizing actions in minnesota when political rhetoric in the US always conceptualizes labor rights and immigration rights as existing in opposition