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Meh. I'ma keep smoking. World isn't getting any better.
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If this is what they do when they're out on the street with people pointing cameras at them, what do you think is happening inside the ICE prison camps that they keep denying Members of Congress access to?
January 25, 2026 at 7:20 AM
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a skilled ER nurse with a deep sense of civic responsibility is exactly the kind of person you want carrying a firearm.

every ICE employee should be barred from touching anything deadlier than a butter knife for the rest of their natural lives.
January 25, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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NEW: The ICE killing of Alex Pretti, the second in Minneapolis, prompts quick legal action.

After ICE agents killed Alex Pretti on Saturday, lawyers responded quickly — leading to one TRO issued before the night's end aimed at preserving evidence of the killing.

My report at Law Dork:
The ICE killing of Alex Pretti, the second in Minneapolis, prompts quick legal responses
After ICE agents killed Alex Pretti on Saturday, lawyers took quick action in cases challenging the Trump administration's increasingly deadly efforts.
www.lawdork.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:41 AM
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Paul explains here that if he did this to a Taliban combatant in Afghanistan, after having clearly disarmed him, he would have been court-martialed and gone to jail.
Worth listening to him. He's angry. Everyone should be.
January 25, 2026 at 5:55 AM
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Really hard to put into words how much this TRO says about how lawless the Trump administration is, but I tried to do so tonight at Law Dork — discussing the many lightning-fast litigation moves today in Minnesota after the ICE killing of Alex Pretti.

www.lawdork.com/p/the-ice-ki...
January 25, 2026 at 5:56 AM
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Feels like given DHS making up stories about what we can plainly see in the murder videos, we have to just presume every other death under their purview is also murder.
January 25, 2026 at 5:32 AM
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… Furthermore, according to two other sources with knowledge of the situation, top officials in the Trump White House reminded their federal colleagues in and outside the West Wing that Pretti should be referred to as a “terrorist” in written statements and public messaging, no matter his background
January 25, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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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."
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
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it shouldn’t matter at all what the background of someone murdered by fascists is

“he was no angel” is horrible, bigoted bullshit

but it does affect people’s perception and they fucked up really really bad here because they appear to have shot an actual saint
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."
January 25, 2026 at 5:58 AM
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Nederland hangt aan Amerikaans tech-infuus: 'We zitten in de houdgreep'
Nederland hangt aan Amerikaans tech-infuus: 'We zitten in de houdgreep'
Twee derde van de overheden, scholen, vitale bedrijven en zorginstellingen gebruikt Amerikaanse clouddiensten, blijkt uit data-onderzoek van de NOS. De bezwaren daartegen nemen toe.
nos.nl
January 25, 2026 at 7:01 AM
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so glad my first time getting properly tear gassed was in a frog costume
January 25, 2026 at 4:52 AM
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i don’t think they understood how big this bear they poked is gonna be
January 25, 2026 at 6:08 AM
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first new profile pic since joining bluesky, let's gooo
January 25, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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Wow, yeah, reddit.com/r/all is a remarkable tapestry of fuck ICE posts
January 25, 2026 at 5:59 AM
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Still just angry.
January 25, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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Last year I interviewed @bostonjoan.bsky.social, who pointed out that anonymity was becoming a hallmark of this administration. In the same conversation, she said that what’s being built amounts to “a standing militia movement for Trump” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“The most transparent administration in history” refuses to say who’s behind their batshit social media
Government trolls spread cruel memes and "textbook propaganda” on behalf of Trump.
www.motherjones.com
January 24, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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Just escalation after escalation
January 24, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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This led to a TRO by the end of the night.

I cover the TRO at Law Dork — and all of the quick-moving legal action on Saturday that followed the ICE killing of Alex Pretti: www.lawdork.com/p/the-ice-ki...
Just escalation after escalation
January 25, 2026 at 6:14 AM
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Feeling the call to civic duty again
January 25, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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First the NRA. Now the GOA. What do you think, folks?
January 25, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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There would be no ethical use of generative AI even if it weren't *literally* bankrolling the goddamn gestapo and its concentration camps and providing them the ability to generate infinite nazi propaganda slop. But it is also doing that too.
January 25, 2026 at 5:53 AM
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Generative AI is not just the instrument and aesthetics of fascism, but it has permanently sewn itself to fascism in a fucked up human centipede of scammers and grifters and guys who've long ago forgotten how to think.
January 25, 2026 at 5:41 AM
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Remember that literally every single one of the billionaire freaks behind generative AI has very publicly aligned themselves with trump and his policies

Their CEO's are in and out of the oval office for photo ops, they're donating mountains of money to him, they're literally getting military titles
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 AM
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A federal judge issues a restraining order against the feds, barring them from "destroying or altering evidence"

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 5:14 AM