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sharonk.bsky.social
micro-target zoomer voters with this clip
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7h
Trump: "I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own homes."
January 29, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
January 28, 2026 at 9:25 PM
bog standard radicalization pipeline: divorce -> hyper online loser
January 28, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Every single time a Trumpist says “the rhetoric of the left is putting people in danger,” wave your middle finger in their face, because they are lying shitbirds without any principles.
January 28, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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quantian.bsky.social
"Grok, produce a list of every ethnoreligious grievance in the world involving more than one million people and tell me which side is based and which side is lib cringe"
merovingians.bsky.social the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1d
the micro-targetting of diaspora groups is genuinely getting insane
January 28, 2026 at 5:26 PM
remember all of the serious infosec folks who treated trump 2 as the grown-ups coming home who would take kinetic to cyber and shore up cisa's mission?
justinhendrix.bsky.social Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 1d
The interim head of CISA "uploaded sensitive contracting documents into a public version of ChatGPT last summer, triggering multiple automated security warnings that are meant to stop the theft or unintentional disclosure of government material from federal networks," per DHS sources.
Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT
The interim director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency triggered an internal cybersecurity warning with the uploads — and a DHS-level damage assessment.
www.politico.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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kristenradtke.bsky.social
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
yup, foot on the gas
hanksingle.bsky.social Hank Single @hanksingle.bsky.social · 3d
Hey, this Bovino thing is a pathetic attempt to make all these horrors the fault of one guy, and it would be a serious, serious crisis if people fell for it. ICE needs to be abolished, bc this - terror, murder - are what it exists for. Nothing else. This is just an attempt to mollify us. Stay angry
January 27, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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jamellebouie.net
if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
January 27, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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quantian.bsky.social
A lot of the right wing accounts on X are really telling on themselves when they freak out like “These protestors are TRAINED. This is MILITARY PRECISION. They have LOGISTICS and OPSEC”. Bro they have a potluck and a spreadsheet and they use Signal for the groupchat because they bought drugs before
January 26, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
it's amazing to watch the We Are The Storm guys paralyzed in terror of the density and sophistication of spontaneous neighborhood watches put together by pissed-off baristas and suburban moms
January 26, 2026 at 7:36 PM
everything is gender
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d
I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
jeetheer.bsky.social Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 3d
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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jamellebouie.net
[stares directly into the camera]
January 26, 2026 at 3:30 PM
after three decades of brow-beating from right wingers about how "high-capacity" is a lame liberal bait and switch term regarding ar-15s, they are now using it to describe sig handgun magazines of all things
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
BASH: Footage shows him holding a cell phone, not a gun. Did he at any point pull out his weapon?

BOVINO: We do know that the suspect did bring a weapon, a loaded 9mm high capacity handgun, to a riot.

(That's a no!)
January 25, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
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.
January 25, 2026 at 4:55 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
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.
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. 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. 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 witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values. I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct. Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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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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opinionhaver.bsky.social
I’m a big fan of civilization. Rule of law, public health, universities, science, all good things. Great stuff. It may not be ‘politically correct’ to say this but I’m also a fan of what civilizations have done to idiot barbarian hordes who attempted to trample on those things.
January 25, 2026 at 1:57 AM
they will never see the gates of heaven
mattpolprof.bsky.social Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 5d
A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.
January 25, 2026 at 1:51 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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jeffrueter.bsky.social
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."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Literally 10 days ago, Hoeven introduced a bill to make concealed carry easier across the nation to help "law-abiding citizens to more freely exercise their Second Amendment rights." www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-re...
01.14.25 Hoeven Helps Introduce Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act Legislation Would Allow Concealed Carry Permits to Be Used Across State Lines, Subject to State & Local Laws WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven helped introduce the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, legislation sponsored by Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) to allow individuals with concealed carry privileges in their home state to exercise those rights in any other state that allows concealed carry. Importantly, the bill protects state sovereignty by not establishing a national standard for concealed carry, instead treating concealed-carry permits similarly to state-issued drivers’ licenses, allowing them to be used across state lines while still requiring individuals to abide by that state’s laws. Hoeven has cosponsored this legislation every session of Congress since 2015. “This legislation empowers law-abiding citizens to more freely exercise their Second Amendment rights when traveling across state lines,” said Senator Hoeven. “Under our bill, individuals that have been granted a concealed carry permit in their home state will be able to use that permit in any other state that allows concealed carry, making it easier to travel while still respecting laws passed on the state level.”
January 24, 2026 at 9:20 PM
the vast majority of the people cited below always pay lip service to this (i.e. clearly bad shoots that cannot be even remotely defended) when describing examples of government overreach and then promptly step back in line to swallow the boot - see Philando Castile and Daniel Shaver
emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d
FWIW, on Xitter there are a number of gun rights people, libertarians, and actual conservatives who are (with varying degrees of caution) criticizing the murder.

If that keeps up Trump could create a problem for himself, especially given that all those implicated in the murder are attacking 2A.
January 24, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
Pretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry.

It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.
January 24, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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koltai.bsky.social
Our initial analysis is up.

The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.

He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
bellingcat.com Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 5d
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
January 24, 2026 at 7:10 PM