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"Normal" meaning fascism apologists like them.
Fox host says the “normal” Minneapolis residents she knows are “very embarrassed” about the protests
Fox host says the "normal" Minneapolis residents she knows are "very embarrassed" about the protests
www.mediamatters.org
January 25, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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Klobuchar: "Somehow 50,000 peaceful protesters in 10 below weather were able to march without any problems, and then the next day half a dozen ICE and CBP agents couldn't handle a guy with a cell phone taking video of them and shot him. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here."
January 25, 2026 at 4:40 PM
“Your rights don’t count when we don’t want them to”
Bovino: "We respect Second Amendment rights, but those rights don't count when you riot and assault, delay, obstruct, and impede law enforcement officers"
January 25, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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M. Gessen, gift link: The soviet secret police too "were ruled by quotas... Fundamentally, the terror was random. That is, in fact, how state terror works. The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive"
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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Congressman Maxwell Frost says he was punched in the face at Sundance Festival by a man who told him "Trump was going to deport" him
January 25, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal
January 25, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.

Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
January 25, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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chip you put this on your website roy.house.gov/media/in-the...
January 25, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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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."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
January 24, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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This was murder. Pretti did not initiate the confrontation. He didn’t strike them. He didn’t brandish his gun. They tackled him, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him.
Holy crap.

This is the most damning video yet.

It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face.

Murder.
January 24, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens
January 24, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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There is no defending this. This is cold-blooded murder.
NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.
January 24, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
January 24, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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January 24, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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They were eventually allowed one phone call as a thanks for saving the agent’s life.

They used it to call their lawyer, who called their state representative, who ultimately got them released on the condition they tell people they were “treated kindly.”
January 23, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.

ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.

This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
January 22, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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Jared Kushner acting as an unofficial agent of the U.S. government as well as of his father-in-law's business as well as of his own business just seems a lot worse than Hunter Biden lying to himself about being a drug addict. Where's the special counsel investigation of this?
footage of Jared Kushner (and Witkoff) in the Kremlin with Putin
January 23, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement.

"I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish.

Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature.

Minneapolis, MN
January 23, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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"We have a nice little database. Now you're considered a domestic terrorist." www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comm...
From the Maine community on Reddit: ICE tells legal observer she is a domestic terrorist for peacefully filming
Explore this post and more from the Maine community
www.reddit.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
January 23, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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New court documents reveal even more ways DOGE improperly accessed and shared sensitive personal data last year — and how that data appears to have been used to advance dubious fraud claims. n.pr/4qDfABZ
Trump administration admits even more ways DOGE accessed sensitive personal data
New court documents reveal even more ways DOGE improperly accessed and shared sensitive personal data last year — and how that data appears to have been used to advance dubious fraud claims.
n.pr
January 23, 2026 at 10:12 AM