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A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it...
Arizona, November 2020
Arizona, November 2020
January 25, 2026 at 10:22 PM
A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it...
Arizona, November 2020
Arizona, November 2020
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Part of the reason the ICE shootings get in a lot of gun owners' craw, even if you look past the obvious 'this could have been us' aspect, is that these shootings violate the basic rules of firearm safety that (rightly) get drilled into responsible gun owners' heads.
January 25, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Part of the reason the ICE shootings get in a lot of gun owners' craw, even if you look past the obvious 'this could have been us' aspect, is that these shootings violate the basic rules of firearm safety that (rightly) get drilled into responsible gun owners' heads.
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Friedersdorf and Singal are now attempting to distance themselves from their good friends and colleagues. Rats leaving the sinking ship. Too bad they bear full responsibility for their choices and will face public judgment for the rest of their lives!
January 25, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Friedersdorf and Singal are now attempting to distance themselves from their good friends and colleagues. Rats leaving the sinking ship. Too bad they bear full responsibility for their choices and will face public judgment for the rest of their lives!
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To have this extremely unusual order in hand day-of is astonishing.
BREAKING: Judge Tostrud -- a Trump appointee — has quickly granted a restraining order, barring the administration from "destroying or altering evidence" taken from today's shooting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 5:29 AM
To have this extremely unusual order in hand day-of is astonishing.
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A magistrate judge found no probable cause to support arrest warrants for 5 people involved in the St. Paul church protest.
DOJ appealed to the 8th Cir.
That appeal led to this remarkable letter from the Chief Judge of the Minnesota district court…
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
DOJ appealed to the 8th Cir.
That appeal led to this remarkable letter from the Chief Judge of the Minnesota district court…
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 24, 2026 at 5:51 PM
A magistrate judge found no probable cause to support arrest warrants for 5 people involved in the St. Paul church protest.
DOJ appealed to the 8th Cir.
That appeal led to this remarkable letter from the Chief Judge of the Minnesota district court…
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
DOJ appealed to the 8th Cir.
That appeal led to this remarkable letter from the Chief Judge of the Minnesota district court…
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents**
substack.com/@gelliottmor...
substack.com/@gelliottmor...
January 25, 2026 at 2:10 AM
YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents**
substack.com/@gelliottmor...
substack.com/@gelliottmor...
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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 4:36 AM
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.
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up and at ‘em
rise and grind, taxpayers, it's time to help our neighbors under threat of summary execution
January 25, 2026 at 1:54 PM
up and at ‘em
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I truly mean this from the bottom of my heart: it is historic levels of astounding and remarkable the level of restraint as of this moment we have seen coming from the people of Minnesota
Cannot imagine
All the love
Cannot imagine
All the love
January 25, 2026 at 2:06 PM
I truly mean this from the bottom of my heart: it is historic levels of astounding and remarkable the level of restraint as of this moment we have seen coming from the people of Minnesota
Cannot imagine
All the love
Cannot imagine
All the love
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When the CBP or ICE agent that Stephen Miller is trying to get killed dies, it is extremely important that every member of the media be told, repeatedly and loudly, that they wanted this and that people called it out in advance.
January 25, 2026 at 2:35 AM
When the CBP or ICE agent that Stephen Miller is trying to get killed dies, it is extremely important that every member of the media be told, repeatedly and loudly, that they wanted this and that people called it out in advance.
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Here's what the Counteroffensive is reading today:
Russia has only 3-4 Oreshnik missiles but plans to build 5+ per year starting in 2026, Ukrainian intel reports.
Despite peace talks and Russia’s rhetoric about ending the war, Russia continues to ramp up military production.
Russia has only 3-4 Oreshnik missiles but plans to build 5+ per year starting in 2026, Ukrainian intel reports.
Despite peace talks and Russia’s rhetoric about ending the war, Russia continues to ramp up military production.
Олег Луговський, перший заступник голови Служби зовнішньої розвідки України
Орєшнік - інструмент залякування наших партнерів у Європі — Укрінформ.
www.ukrinform.ua
January 25, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Here's what the Counteroffensive is reading today:
Russia has only 3-4 Oreshnik missiles but plans to build 5+ per year starting in 2026, Ukrainian intel reports.
Despite peace talks and Russia’s rhetoric about ending the war, Russia continues to ramp up military production.
Russia has only 3-4 Oreshnik missiles but plans to build 5+ per year starting in 2026, Ukrainian intel reports.
Despite peace talks and Russia’s rhetoric about ending the war, Russia continues to ramp up military production.
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How the Shooting of Alex Pretti Unfolded www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Timeline: How the Shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti Unfolded (Gift Article)
A moment-by-moment analysis of video from the scene shows that Mr. Pretti was already restrained when fatal shots were fired, which appears to contradict the federal government’s account of the event.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:09 PM
How the Shooting of Alex Pretti Unfolded www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed.
When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL
I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.
The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL
I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.
The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
January 25, 2026 at 4:55 AM
I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed.
When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL
I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.
The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL
I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.
The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
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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."
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
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 …
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It is not an exaggeration at all - at all - to compare this to how segregationist terrorists would murder peaceful civil rights activists and then their political and civilian allies would immediately laugh about it.
It’s the exact same moral and policy cadence
It’s the exact same moral and policy cadence
January 25, 2026 at 2:21 PM
It is not an exaggeration at all - at all - to compare this to how segregationist terrorists would murder peaceful civil rights activists and then their political and civilian allies would immediately laugh about it.
It’s the exact same moral and policy cadence
It’s the exact same moral and policy cadence
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His dying words were asking about the safety of someone next to him
Hero
Hero
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."
Cheerful. Funny. Gentle.
And still, per sources, Trump officials are urging staff to call him a "terrorist."
January 25, 2026 at 2:18 PM
His dying words were asking about the safety of someone next to him
Hero
Hero
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Good stuff from @gregsargent.bsky.social.
I think we tend to overemphasize, esp. w/ Trump's mush-brain at the top, that their fascism is a kind of purely id-driven emotional impulse. But it's a real ideology w/ real theorists and tenets. Miller isn't an evil genius, but he has a real evil worldview
I think we tend to overemphasize, esp. w/ Trump's mush-brain at the top, that their fascism is a kind of purely id-driven emotional impulse. But it's a real ideology w/ real theorists and tenets. Miller isn't an evil genius, but he has a real evil worldview
The Dark Ideology Behind Stephen Miller's Immigration Crusade: Part II
He believes immigration threatens Western civilization itself, echoing the same xenophobia once directed at his own ancestors
www.theunpopulist.net
January 23, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Good stuff from @gregsargent.bsky.social.
I think we tend to overemphasize, esp. w/ Trump's mush-brain at the top, that their fascism is a kind of purely id-driven emotional impulse. But it's a real ideology w/ real theorists and tenets. Miller isn't an evil genius, but he has a real evil worldview
I think we tend to overemphasize, esp. w/ Trump's mush-brain at the top, that their fascism is a kind of purely id-driven emotional impulse. But it's a real ideology w/ real theorists and tenets. Miller isn't an evil genius, but he has a real evil worldview
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Minnesota's state FBI-like bureau is suing Noem. It says before pre-emptively declaring the killing righteous and abandoning the crime scene, feds took exclusive custody of evidence, including "apparently seized cellphones."
MN asserts a sovereign right to investigate crimes within its borders.
MN asserts a sovereign right to investigate crimes within its borders.
#1 in Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension v. Noem (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cv-00628) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against All Defendants (filing fee $ 405, receipt number AMNDC-12575332) filed by Hennepin County Attorney's Office, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Filer requests summons issued....
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January 25, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Minnesota's state FBI-like bureau is suing Noem. It says before pre-emptively declaring the killing righteous and abandoning the crime scene, feds took exclusive custody of evidence, including "apparently seized cellphones."
MN asserts a sovereign right to investigate crimes within its borders.
MN asserts a sovereign right to investigate crimes within its borders.
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I keep thinking about this fact that his last words were are you okay and hers were I'm not mad at you and it feels like a weird coincidence but it's just a reflection of the fact that the people who are coming out to take care of their neighbors are good and the people who are after them are bad
His dying words were asking about the safety of someone next to him
Hero
Hero
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 …
January 25, 2026 at 2:22 PM
I keep thinking about this fact that his last words were are you okay and hers were I'm not mad at you and it feels like a weird coincidence but it's just a reflection of the fact that the people who are coming out to take care of their neighbors are good and the people who are after them are bad
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The era is aptly defined by this, up against “boo hoo” and “fucking bitch”
I keep thinking about this fact that his last words were are you okay and hers were I'm not mad at you and it feels like a weird coincidence but it's just a reflection of the fact that the people who are coming out to take care of their neighbors are good and the people who are after them are bad
His dying words were asking about the safety of someone next to him
Hero
Hero
January 25, 2026 at 2:27 PM
The era is aptly defined by this, up against “boo hoo” and “fucking bitch”
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kind of remarkable how the two high profile ICE killings this year have been alex pretti and renee good, two people about whom NO ONE has ANY unkind words to say. if they could dig up anyone who would willingly talk shit on either person they’d have done it
January 25, 2026 at 2:11 PM
kind of remarkable how the two high profile ICE killings this year have been alex pretti and renee good, two people about whom NO ONE has ANY unkind words to say. if they could dig up anyone who would willingly talk shit on either person they’d have done it
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Hey chat is it good to piss off one of the largest groups of highly specialized essential workers?
The nursing subreddit changed their pic to one of Alex
January 25, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Hey chat is it good to piss off one of the largest groups of highly specialized essential workers?
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MN, among other things, is a longtime high engagement / high social capital culture that has also had five years to collectively reflect on, learn from, and plan for the future on the basis of the events and experiences of 2020
It’s been pretty interesting in interviews how aware Minnesotans are that the govt wants them to get violent, throw bricks, etc. Which only seems to get them to dig in more about NOT doing that. It’s so hard to guide anger into new directions that I find myself mostly just amazed.
January 25, 2026 at 2:54 PM
MN, among other things, is a longtime high engagement / high social capital culture that has also had five years to collectively reflect on, learn from, and plan for the future on the basis of the events and experiences of 2020
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Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration.
Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction
It can be done.
Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction
It can be done.
January 25, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration.
Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction
It can be done.
Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction
It can be done.