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embroideredghost.bsky.social

@embroideredghost.bsky.social

I’m knitting twisted rib for the first time. While it’s very time consuming, I don’t think I hate it. The stitch quality is nice :)

January 26, 2026 at 6:13 PM

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Corinne Green

@ket.bsky.social

it is impossible to miss the difference between the names you see in newspaper headlines and the names you don't see in newspaper headlines

Music Box Magazine @musicboxonline.bsky.social · 1d

Four months of shootings and deaths. This doesn't even count the neglect and death in their concentration camps. Fuck. This. Shit.

12 people have been shot and injured or killed by DHS since September.

January 26, 2026 at 3:19 AM

embroideredghost.bsky.social

@embroideredghost.bsky.social

When my manager says he needs help after abandoning me and the only other employee who showed up yesterday (we both got stuck driving in and out and told him we were worried about our safety and he told us to just hold it down)

January 26, 2026 at 1:09 PM

embroideredghost.bsky.social

@embroideredghost.bsky.social

My job forced me to go to work during the snow storm yesterday. Only two employees made it and they still refused to let us leave. I got stuck twice on my way in and three times on my way home. The whole way, there were groups around to help push people free, very grateful for everyone who helped

January 26, 2026 at 12:08 PM

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Chris Geidner

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

The request includes a declaration from a witness who filmed today's shooting of Pretti.

Read their words:

"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.

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 26 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 28. 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.

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.

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.

January 25, 2026 at 1:36 AM

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molly conger

@socialistdogmom.bsky.social

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM