Mark Rice

@markricehistory.bsky.social

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Associate professor of history at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Author of Making Machu Picchu/Destino Machu Picchu. Fulbright scholar. Department chair.

https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/markrice1/

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Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek @jeremyzorek.bsky.social · 5h

Getting some good light shows with the subway tonight

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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 5h

The Great Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the Country www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Great Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the Country

Even cities with understaffed police departments have made record gains.

www.theatlantic.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5h

MAGA mistook caring about people for weakness, and is uncomfortable seeing that it’s strength.

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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 5h

News: The Washington Post is preparing to slash upwards of 300 staffers, incl sports, metro and foreign desks @nataliekorach.bsky.social reports.

“The newsroom is being punished for absolute incompetence from the owner and publisher,” one staffer told @status.news
www.status.news/p/washington...

Post Parting Depression

Looming cuts at The Washington Post threaten to decimate key coverage areas as staffers question the motives and commitment of billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.

www.status.news

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Brandi, Minnesotan Tailor of a Cat😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 5h

People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc

(GFM in next post)

www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5h

The person who publishes the Free Press — where the words “Minneapolis” and “Minnesota” never appear tonight — also runs CBS News.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 8h

“The shooting of Porter, who leaves behind daughters aged 10 and 20, was not caught on camera”

How convenient for ICE

Family of man killed by off-duty ICE agent in LA demands charges: ‘The ache will never go away’

After Renee Good’s killing in Minneapolis, calls grow for accountability in the shooting of Keith Porter Jr on New Year’s Eve

www.theguardian.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8h

HEY MEDIA: I think when pro sports teams are holding memorials for the people the administration has declared terrorists, it’s safe to drop the “accounts differ” pretense and move on to “the administration attempts to smear the man it murdered”

Ryan Eichten @reichten.bsky.social · 8h

Timberwolves hold a moment of silence for Alex Pretti

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Ryan Eichten @reichten.bsky.social · 8h

Timberwolves hold a moment of silence for Alex Pretti

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

At the Alex Pretti memorial this afternoon, people are unfurling four very large banners.

They read, "How many more will ICE murder? How many more funerals? How many more...how many more?"

Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 9h

Buffalo politicians using an intensity scale of "the storm is this much beer you're going to drink" might be the city's best recent invention since the chicken wing.

Mark Poloncarz @markpoloncarz.bsky.social · 10h

We have our new Winter Snow Storm Rating System but for old times sake I thought I'd pull out the old "Griffin Scale" rating system I used 10 years ago.

This storm is between a "6 Pack" and "Case of OV Splits."

Buffalonians truly understand a storm's severity by how much beer you can drink.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10h

If Nancy Mace was assaulted by a Biden supporter, it would be a week-long news cycle and every Democrat in Congress would be asked if they approve or disapprove

Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost Is Assaulted at Sundance Film Festival

www.nytimes.com

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h

The National Basketball Players Association releases a statement following the Trump regime’s murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, saying that NBA players “can no longer remain silent.”

The NBPA is standing up for free speech, civil liberties, and the people of Minnesota demanding justice.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10h

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

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Mark Poloncarz @markpoloncarz.bsky.social · 10h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Walz: "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write that children's story about Minnesota."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Q: Was Alex Pretti armed when he was shot?

BOVINO: Um, again, the investigation is going to uncover all those facts

Q: If you are investigating, isn't it possible this was a bad shooting?

BOVINO: I haven't concluded anything

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 11h

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.

This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

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Platinum Medallion Award Winning Traveler Lily @zap.zapistan.net · 11h

The MN Frost just did a moment of silence for Alex Pretti and we are now chanting “ICE out now”

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11h

This makes me think of that 1990 interview Trump did with Playboy where he admitted that when it came to Tiananmen Square, he was rooting for the tanks.

"When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it," Trump said. "Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak."

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 11h

Seen in Los Angeles

(Credit: Zurita Carpio)

Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 14h

After everything that happened yesterday, @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social response is to send out the same tired weekly newsletter.

If you're not going to actually do you job, resign so you can be replaced by someone whose political instincts aren't stuck in 1997.

Screenshot of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's "New York Minute" email to her constiuents announcing "Federal $$$ to New York." And nothing else...

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Rev. Prof. Matthew J. M. Coomber @mjmcoomber.bsky.social · 15h

My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti

Absolutely heartbreaking

Photos of Alex Pretti with Sara’s caption:

On August 16th at approximately 10:00 pm
I received a call from the ICU at the VA saying my Dad had sepsis and needed to be intubated to stay alive so Josh and I headed in. We were greeted by the kindest, most calming and warm soul who helped us understand what was happening and showed deep care for us and my Dad. He continued to show utmost patience and kindness over the next few days as my Dad remained in the ICU and we were there continually. It was Alex Pretti, the man shot today by ICE. If you see this video and don't think it's murder, I don't understand your thinking and ask you to question your heart. He was out there trying to help and protect and from the little we knew of him, it doesn't surprise me he was not afraid to be on the front lines of this horrible scene in our Minneapolis. Weeping for his family and all those at the VA who no longer get to work with him or receive his care.

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 16h

Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”

Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

BASH: Are they agents who were involved still on the job?

BOVINO: Yes

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

Bookmark that Vice President and future presidential candidate JD Vance retweeted a post that said Alex Pretti was “an assassin who tried to murder federal agents.”

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 17h

"Trump is using all the instruments: quotas for ICE arrests; paramilitary force of thugs drunk on their own brutality; spectacle of random violence; postmortem vilification of victims. Our brains struggle to find logic. This logic has a name. It’s called state terror
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived

www.nytimes.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

It’s not just that they are murdering people who are peacefully protesting, it’s that they then stand in front of the cameras and slander the victims by telling us that what we see on the videos didn’t happen.

Reposted by Joshua S. Weitz, Steve Peers, W. Andy Knight , and 9 more Joshua S. Weitz, Steve Peers, W. Andy Knight, Pamela K. Gilbert, Nazita Lajevardi, Paul Gronke, Mark Rice, Olivier Mannoni, Stephen I. Vladeck, Pádua Fernandes, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Timothy D. McBride

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

We sometimes think about the martyrs of the Boston Massacre as the first deaths in the American Revolution.

But an 11yo boy named Christopher Seider was killed by a customs informer the week before.

Boston gave him a huge funeral. Tensions were snapping. And then soldiers fired into the crowd.

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