A Solarpunk Protagonist
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I think about Philando Castille often. He did everything right, he was driving with his family, he was a good man who did food nutrition work for schools. It was a clear cut racist stop and use of his owning of a firearm as a posthoc justification to murder him, and the NRA said nothing about it.
ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.
January 25, 2026 at 9:40 AM
I think about Philando Castille often. He did everything right, he was driving with his family, he was a good man who did food nutrition work for schools. It was a clear cut racist stop and use of his owning of a firearm as a posthoc justification to murder him, and the NRA said nothing about it.
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CNN: There is nothing that we have seen that showed him, as Secretary Noem said, brandishing a weapon. Have you seen something different?
GREG BOVINO: I think what we need to take a look at here is the situation in its totality.
GREG BOVINO: I think what we need to take a look at here is the situation in its totality.
January 25, 2026 at 4:48 PM
CNN: There is nothing that we have seen that showed him, as Secretary Noem said, brandishing a weapon. Have you seen something different?
GREG BOVINO: I think what we need to take a look at here is the situation in its totality.
GREG BOVINO: I think what we need to take a look at here is the situation in its totality.
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CNN: What evidence do you have that Alex Pretti wanted to massacre law enforcement?
GREG BOVINO: I believe that the fantastic training that our law enforcement partners have, the fact that they're highly trained, prevented any specific shootings of law enforcement. So good job...
GREG BOVINO: I believe that the fantastic training that our law enforcement partners have, the fact that they're highly trained, prevented any specific shootings of law enforcement. So good job...
January 25, 2026 at 4:53 PM
CNN: What evidence do you have that Alex Pretti wanted to massacre law enforcement?
GREG BOVINO: I believe that the fantastic training that our law enforcement partners have, the fact that they're highly trained, prevented any specific shootings of law enforcement. So good job...
GREG BOVINO: I believe that the fantastic training that our law enforcement partners have, the fact that they're highly trained, prevented any specific shootings of law enforcement. So good job...
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look at them. murderers itching to murder again but these people chose to stay, to film, to witness, to risk being next, to risk having their families targeted, their names dragged through the mud before their bodies are even cold. i wish they did not have to be brave but i'm grateful that they are.
From Whittier a few hrs ago—after shooting & killing an ICE responder in Minneapolis, 37 yr old Alex Pretti, DHS agents brutalized a crowd that gathered & flooded the area w/ tear gas.
@andral404.bsky.social captured this moment against a building where a fed then pointed his rifle at someone.
@andral404.bsky.social captured this moment against a building where a fed then pointed his rifle at someone.
January 25, 2026 at 4:25 PM
look at them. murderers itching to murder again but these people chose to stay, to film, to witness, to risk being next, to risk having their families targeted, their names dragged through the mud before their bodies are even cold. i wish they did not have to be brave but i'm grateful that they are.
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ICE agent in Portland, ME tells a legal observer she is a 'domestic terrorist' for peacefully recording him, while saying they have a "nice little database".
Remember, it's a 1st A right to record federal law enforcement officers performing their duties in public spaces.
#ProudBlue
📹: Courier
Remember, it's a 1st A right to record federal law enforcement officers performing their duties in public spaces.
#ProudBlue
📹: Courier
January 23, 2026 at 8:30 PM
ICE agent in Portland, ME tells a legal observer she is a 'domestic terrorist' for peacefully recording him, while saying they have a "nice little database".
Remember, it's a 1st A right to record federal law enforcement officers performing their duties in public spaces.
#ProudBlue
📹: Courier
Remember, it's a 1st A right to record federal law enforcement officers performing their duties in public spaces.
#ProudBlue
📹: Courier
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as a parent I cannot imagine how absolutely fucking heartbreaking and awful it must be to have to put out a statement like this because the federal government killed your son and is telling monstrous lies about him
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 1:05 AM
as a parent I cannot imagine how absolutely fucking heartbreaking and awful it must be to have to put out a statement like this because the federal government killed your son and is telling monstrous lies about him
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I would be very surprised if a full accounting in the future didn't reveal more than one mass grave at the detention centers. If they're behaving this way in public, what's happening out of sight must be many times more brutal.
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 11:43 PM
I would be very surprised if a full accounting in the future didn't reveal more than one mass grave at the detention centers. If they're behaving this way in public, what's happening out of sight must be many times more brutal.
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“Hundreds of immigrant mothers” in Texas concentration camp uprising
There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
January 24, 2026 at 11:11 PM
“Hundreds of immigrant mothers” in Texas concentration camp uprising
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the right’s proclaimed support of 2A has always been a farce. the illusion slips away completely in moments like this, when they see someone they don’t like carrying a gun
Very interesting to me that Kristi Noem just said in her press conference that Alex Pretti was presumptively trying to kill federal agents because he was (legally) carrying a gun. Now apply that standard to every Republican voter legally carrying a gun in public.
January 24, 2026 at 11:17 PM
the right’s proclaimed support of 2A has always been a farce. the illusion slips away completely in moments like this, when they see someone they don’t like carrying a gun
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you’ll never guess who else has also been heavily criticized for transphobia in the past & also just blocked me.
January 24, 2026 at 11:06 PM
you’ll never guess who else has also been heavily criticized for transphobia in the past & also just blocked me.
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the nyt style section vs. der spiegel
January 24, 2026 at 11:20 PM
the nyt style section vs. der spiegel
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Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
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Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.
January 24, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.
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well you see that is because he’s paid a lot of money to be so consistently wrong about so much so often.
January 24, 2026 at 10:51 PM
well you see that is because he’s paid a lot of money to be so consistently wrong about so much so often.
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Calling a trans woman illiterate for saying Abolish ICE, blocking her, & then 12 days later adopting the same political position she was advocating for is a fascinating decision.
January 24, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Calling a trans woman illiterate for saying Abolish ICE, blocking her, & then 12 days later adopting the same political position she was advocating for is a fascinating decision.
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“ICE > MN” is impeachable by itself.
This is an actual post from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: Praising ICE after Alex Pretti was killed, blaming the Democratic leadership of Minnesota, and writing that ICE is greater/better than Minnesota.
He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
January 24, 2026 at 11:06 PM
“ICE > MN” is impeachable by itself.
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what mn state and local government is telling all of us is that we can be killed without consequence and that we must be eternally calm, lest something terrible happens
January 24, 2026 at 11:03 PM
what mn state and local government is telling all of us is that we can be killed without consequence and that we must be eternally calm, lest something terrible happens
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He was a nurse.
The Strib has identified him. Alex Pretti. Another 37-year-old executed for standing up for our immigrant neighbors. For shame.
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January 24, 2026 at 6:55 PM
He was a nurse.
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Glory to the martyrs who defend the Republic
Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
January 24, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Glory to the martyrs who defend the Republic
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The full video of the shooting can be found here: bsky.app/profile/gian...
This is the video.
Please be warned: the video is graphic. It shows ICE agents wrestling a man to the ground, beating him, and then shooting him several times.
Please be warned: the video is graphic. It shows ICE agents wrestling a man to the ground, beating him, and then shooting him several times.
January 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
The full video of the shooting can be found here: bsky.app/profile/gian...
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The agent in the black beanie appeared to fire the first shots, as the agent in the brown beanie doesn’t draw his gun until after the first shots are fired.
January 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
The agent in the black beanie appeared to fire the first shots, as the agent in the brown beanie doesn’t draw his gun until after the first shots are fired.
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Two different agents are visibly firing their guns, with at least 10 shots being heard in total. Most of them are fired after a brief delay, when the man is already lying motionless on the ground. The current videos of the shooting only show these two agents with guns drawn.
January 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Two different agents are visibly firing their guns, with at least 10 shots being heard in total. Most of them are fired after a brief delay, when the man is already lying motionless on the ground. The current videos of the shooting only show these two agents with guns drawn.