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Megan Swanson
@megan4intellect.bsky.social
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I’ve woken up everyday since 2016 with WTF? My 2 dogs are my therapy. Always vote blue. If hoarding is a sickness; Billionaires are the sickest people alive. Not a fan of religious indoctrination. Golden Rule advocate. Nature is my temple
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They think they can provoke us into abandoning our values. They are wrong. We will keep the peace. We will secure justice for our neighbors. And we will see this occupation end.
January 25, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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January 24, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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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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thetnholler.bsky.social
TW ⚠️

The stabilized version is brutal.
January 25, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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mrcairo77x.bsky.social
It appears the government is baiting everyday citizens to start shooting back.
January 25, 2026 at 3:11 AM
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there's so much i want to say about how it got this bad because we didn't do enough to protect the most vulnerable of our communities when we had the chance... whatever. don't let this martyr die in vain.
January 24, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.

This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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AOC: They need 10 Democratic votes in the Senate to pass, continued unfettered ICE funding with no guardrails. Regardless of where you are in the Democratic party, this moment proves that the status quo cannot stand

I would implore my Democratic colleagues in the senate to vote no
January 24, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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Thank you, Jackie! 💙 WOMAN IN PINK's POV

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January 24, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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#ReleaseTrumpsteinFiles
#EpsteinFiles
January 24, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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January 24, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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It’s all Putin. Everyone knows that, right?
January 23, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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We do not, in fact, 'hold all the cards,' you big stupid ignorant demented pedophile asshole.
January 23, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles
January 23, 2026 at 2:45 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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The domestic terrorist organization known as "ICE" is stalking people at food pantries. And following people who deliver food to those too scared to leave their residences to go to those pantries. Despicable, lawless ghouls.
www.kare11.com/article/news...
Volunteers delivering groceries to families report being followed by ICE
Twin Cities Food Justice is partnering with local schools to donate 1,000 food bags to families.
www.kare11.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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Protester in Minnesota: I’m 70 years old and I’m fucking angry *disappears into gas*
January 24, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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Facts Matter!
January 24, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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Tonight’s sunset
January 23, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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January 24, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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The people of Minnesota and Minneapolis are literally protesting ICE by the thousands and the org is still operating there.

What's it gonna take?

Probably passive resistance. People are going to have to start showing up to raids by the hundreds and sitting in the streets.
January 24, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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jlalibs.com
At what point do we just actually try to overthrow the government? Asking for a country.
January 24, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles
January 24, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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mollyknight.bsky.social
Our Democratic elected officials are not rising to this moment so most of them must go.

Any elected official who isn’t willing to organize a Project 2029 around punishing everyone in the Trump administration in order to save democracy must go.
January 24, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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prognews.bsky.social
149 House Democrats help pass military spending bill. “The 341-88 passage of the $828.7 billion fiscal 2026 military spending bill came over the objections of progressives who warned that the bill... is a tacit endorsement of [Trump’s aggressive] policies..." www.commondreams.org/news/democra...
Despite Authoritarian Warnings, 149 House Democrats Vote to Hand Trump $840 Billion for Military | Common Dreams
"If an opposition party votes like this, it's not in opposition. It may not even be a party."
www.commondreams.org
January 24, 2026 at 1:19 AM