Alex Pretti was an RN who was murdered while trying to render aid to someone who had been pepper sprayed and shoved to the ground.

The ICE invasion of Minnesota wasn't premised on some huge number of undocumented workers. It was premised on the lies Trump peddled in December about Somalis and a five-year-old welfare fraud scandal.

ICE has nothing to do with policing welfare fraud.

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Only if we pay a billion dollars each to build beachfront villas in Minneapolis, baby. Riverfront Riviera, here we come.

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

I’m thinking about this, with “global far right power grab” tolling like bell, because bad actors from domestic extremists to hostile states to creepy billionaires all seem to have figured out you can defeat pretty good systems of government by souring and corrupting the culture from the roots