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thetnholler.bsky.social
Homan has changed nothing
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20h
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
February 8, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
GREEN DAY’S BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG: “This goes out to all the ICE agents — quit that shitty job… because when this is over, Noem/Miller/Vance/Trump will drop you like a bad habit.”

(From @wutangforchildren.bsky.social )
February 7, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“Agents are at my door right now”

In addition to Don Lemon the Trump regime also Arrested Georgia Fort👇🏽 for covering the church protest (where an ICE field director is a pastor)
January 30, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Thank you for the important work you do @vjaybomb.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
ALABAMA U.S. senate candidate @kyleforalabama.bsky.social Sweetser (ex Trump supporter running as a Dem): “ICE just murdered another 🇺🇸 citizen in broad daylight on camera… they executed this man, then double-tapped him.”
January 25, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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jeanpocket.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING NEWS 👇
January 25, 2026 at 6:12 AM
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dmsilverman.bsky.social
Here is the letter from Bondi to Walz, via the NYT

I have to say, this reads to me like it’s laying the groundwork for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act soon
January 25, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“Did any of that seem ‘defensive’ to you?”

@barelyinfo.bsky.social shows how absurd DHS & Bovino’s lies are about the killing of Alex Pretti.

(He thinks the ICE agent who took his guy accidentally shot it and started the shooting… at which point they shot Alex 10 times in cold blood)
January 25, 2026 at 4:51 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Holy shit.
January 25, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
It's time to abolish Trump’s ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
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...
January 25, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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gene4va.bsky.social
I served 25 years in the Army. What I saw today was un-American. A VA ICU nurse is dead after federal agents were unleashed on a U.S. city at the whim of a sick and disturbed president.
January 25, 2026 at 3:57 AM
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captmarkkelly.bsky.social
Don’t let this White House lie to you. Believe what you see.

Alex Pretti was trying to help a woman off the ground. Then immigration agents tackled, shot, and killed him.

It’s time for them to get the hell out of MN.
January 25, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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blueskyfanatic.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 4:03 AM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
It just get worse. Instead of administering CPR to a man who might still be alive, DHS officers were leering over the body, counting the bullet holes.
January 25, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
🔥 “This started as a pretext about immigration and fraud… it’s WELL beyond that now. It’s into your 2nd/4th/6th Amendments… We’re performing CPR on what may already be a corpse called the Constitution… Wake up. This isn’t just Minneapolis. It’s ALL of us.”

(H/T @allenanalysis.bsky.social )
January 25, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
A witness to the Alex Pretti murder by regime forces reports fearing for her life and potential retaliation by the Trump regime, and says she is afraid to return home. #3E #GoodvsEvil
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting. 2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value. 3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE. 4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on. 5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle." 6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground. CASE 0:25-cv-04669-KMM-DTS Doc. 107 Filed 01/24/26 Page 3 of 5 7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack. 8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video. 9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk. 10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun. 11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him. 12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes. CASE 0:25-cv-04669-KMM-DTS Doc. 107 Filed 01/24/26 Page 4 of 5 13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. 14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him. 15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1. 16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground. 17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building. 18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined-it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear 4 The document page number is 5. The signatory declares the content is "true and correct" under penalty of perjury. The document was dated and signed on January 24, 2026.
January 25, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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jayapal.house.gov
DHS is lying to us about what happened today. A man was killed, in broad daylight, on the street.

We cannot give DHS another cent.
January 25, 2026 at 3:25 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
More members of Congress need to be like Seth Moulton.
January 25, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Wow 👀 🤬
Former Sniper reviews ICE shooting and uncovers what ACTUALLY
happened
January 25, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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badideas.bsky.social
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM
crankyoldfrog.bsky.social
I remember laughing at Saddam Hussein claiming that he got 100% of the vote in the Iraq 2002 referendum.. I thought “that kind of shit could never happen here”
January 23, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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yesthatkristie.bsky.social
Authoritarians can fuck all the way off.
April 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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krassenstein.bsky.social
Make this go viral!

Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
March 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM