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rickhasen.bsky.social
Absolutely reprehensible that AG Bondi is offering ICE stand down in exchange for access to voting rolls. Outrageous and disgusting. It shows ICE is in Minneapolis is not for law enforcement purposes. Instead it’s a way to stir up shit in blue states and extort them.
natashakorecki.bsky.social Natasha Korecki @natashakorecki.bsky.social · 18h
In the wake of another fatal shooting in Minneapolis.
AG Pam Bondi sends Gov. Walz a letter today making several asks including:
"Allow DOJ Civil Rights division access to state voter rolls"
January 25, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
JUST IN: ICE agents in Minnesota arrested an employee at the St. Louis Park Homewood Suites — where they were staying to help carry out Operation Metro Surge.

A federal judge just ordered the man's release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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makora33.bsky.social
Our government is murdering the citizens of this country. They are doing it without any checks on their violence
January 24, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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surlybikes.bsky.social
From Angry Catfish, independent bicycle shop in Minneapolis
Alex Pretti was a customer of ACF. A member of our local cycling community. An integral community member serving as a nurse at our local VA hospital. Murdered while standing up to bullies in his city. Then falsely smeared in the media as an agitator with an agenda. Do not believe the lies. He could be any one of us standing against evil, but evil cannot get us all if we stand against it!
January 25, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
another laudable headline, and the first time i’ve seen this: “While Pretti was legally licensed to have a gun, it is unclear whether he had one on his person at the time of the incident, and the videos do not show him ever having one in his hand.”
Video contradicts Trump’s claim man killed in Minneapolis was a ‘gunman’
Video evidence reviewed by Guardian shows Alex Pretti, killed by agents in Minneapolis, held a phone, not a gun
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:26 AM
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maddow.bsky.social
a civil engineer

valid work visa

master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Maine in May 2023

in June 2023, started work at GEI Consultants in Portland

no criminal record

themainemonitor.org/masked-agent...
Masked agents detain civil engineer in Portland
The man is in the U.S. on a work visa after receiving a master’s degree. Agents left his car running in the street with a smashed window.
themainemonitor.org
January 24, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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atrupar.com
AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."
January 24, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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fakeezzie.bsky.social
I'm sure Americans are not surprised at all to wake up to this headline ....
January 24, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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gary1955.bsky.social
Iran was threatened for killing protesters. After two killings in America, is it ok for Iran to now threaten America for killing protesters?
January 24, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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harrylitman.bsky.social
“There are many responses to the Pretti killing to undertake from many quarters. But above all, it’s the immediate responsibility of Congress. It is now a clarion call of a generation. Congress must answer it, swiftly, fully, and fearlessly.”

open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
Congress Must Act Now
More constitutional outrage in Minnesota.
open.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:31 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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marcelias.bsky.social
If you want proof that Trump is going to try to rig the elections, here it is:

In a letter to Gov. Tim Walz Saturday, Bondi claimed that Walz could “restore the rule of law” by complying with a list of demands, including giving the Department of Justice (DOJ) the state’s voter registration records.
AG Bondi demands access to Minnesota voter rolls after fatal Border Patrol shooting
Her demand came as Minneapolis was reeling from a second fatal shooting by a federal agent this month.
www.democracydocket.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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thesnarkyfarmer.bsky.social
Stop all this madness.
Release the Epstein files.
January 25, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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gelliottmorris.com
YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents**

substack.com/@gelliottmor...
January 25, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
January 24, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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maxberger.bsky.social
It's really too bad the United States Congress no longer exists.
January 24, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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katiephang.bsky.social
This is a MUST-READ affidavit.

This eyewitness to Alex Pretti’s murder — who is too scared to even go home because she doesn’t trust federal agents — directly refutes what the feds are saying happened today:
January 25, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
This is a recording of my live on substack. I discuss what happened today and where we go from here

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/live-with-...
Live with Adam Kinzinger- Minneapolis
A recording from Adam Kinzinger's live video
adamkinzinger.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:17 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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raskin.house.gov
Today, out-of-control masked federal agents killed another American, Alex Pretti, a VA ICU nurse.

Trump needs to end this chaos and withdraw his ICE battalions from Minneapolis.

The Senate must vote down funding this slaughter of our people.
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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strandjunker.com
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
January 24, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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velcroski.bsky.social
News Orgs. If we are going to hear, “he had a weapon”, then the instant dead person is identified, it is on every organization, to find any records, indicating he had the proper permits.
ICE lies.
January 24, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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klasfeldreports.com
A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN:

"I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind."

and

"The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back."

Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment

"I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to
assess the victim.

At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."
January 25, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
What lying fucks they all are.
January 24, 2026 at 10:00 PM