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This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
TincherSealedWitnessDec012426.PDF
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January 25, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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harrylitman.bsky.social
House Republicans have summoned ICE officials to testify under oath immediately

open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
Congress Must Act Now
More constitutional outrage in Minnesota.
open.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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just punched me right in the heart
vvv.gay encrypted.whispers 🏳️‍⚧️ @vvv.gay · 4d
Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.
January 25, 2026 at 2:50 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
brainsnow.bsky.social
@carmitage.bsky.social Dear Chris, what Liz Dye writes here seems to run contrary to your views that states have legal authority to arrest and prosecute federal agents who break state laws… any thoughts? open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
Renee Good's killer can and must be prosecuted
Doing nothing is not an option.
open.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:34 PM
brainsnow.bsky.social
MUST READ - A SUMMATION OF HOW WE GOT HERE: open.substack.com/pub/anchorli...
My Final Political Post - The Republican Strategy, Key Players, Timeline, Likely Outcome, and How We Should Respond
What started with a single question about the proliferation of anti-vax conspiracy theories, resulted in a life-changing discussion with A.I. about our future. My future.
open.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
brainsnow.bsky.social
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December 18, 2025 at 3:56 AM
brainsnow.bsky.social
🤣 WTF? Complete gibberish, brain salad, mouthed meaninglessness. Our Embarrassment in Chief.
urocklive1.bsky.social Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · Nov 13
I read this three times, and I'm pretty sure it makes no sense.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Nov 13
Trump: "Christians and more, think of this, more than twice as likely foster care they'll adopt the general population. They adopt to it so easily. When they get out, they adopt to it like it's become second nature. It's amazing."
November 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong."

Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
You know us. For years, you watched and listened to our coverage of the Chicago area. As journalists, we did our best to bring you accurate, objective information about the people, events and issues that mattered. We hope we gained your trust. So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong. The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done and what they may do in other cities. We are retired, but our colleagues who are still on the job have shown you a brutal and illegal campaign against fellow Chicagoans, mainly Latinos: violent abductions, gutting families, using tear gas around children, roughing up witnesses, ramming cars and even taking a day care teacher from her school.
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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weeknightmsnow.bsky.social
Opinion | The quiet victories keeping American democracy alive

@symonedsanders.bsky.social for @msnbc.com: When we fight for democracy in statehouses, courthouses and living rooms, democracy wins. READ MORE:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The quiet victories keeping American democracy alive
Trump’s attempt to gerrymander permanent Republican rule is faltering.
www.msnbc.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
brainsnow.bsky.social
#Schumermustresign Write/call your senators to call for Schumer's resignation.
November 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
brainsnow.bsky.social
#dumpschumer get rid of the capitulating traitor!
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
brainsnow.bsky.social
Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, the federal agency behind mass deportation and surveillance of immigrant communities. Cancel your Spotify subscription. #DontStreamFascism app.sosha.ai/s/7GSx82z5
Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
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November 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
brainsnow.bsky.social
#nokingsolympia Olympia WA comes out for No Kings rally!
October 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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📽️VIDEO: SCOTUS’ new term will decide critical voting rights cases that could reshape American democracy, the Voting Rights Act and election law nationwide. Watch our latest episode of Defending Democracy to know which cases to watch this term👇
https://youtu.be/0iKo6YdLxhA
Supreme Court's SHOCKING New Agenda Revealed!
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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October 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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eduardosuarez.bsky.social
What a dark day for press freedom in the United States
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Oct 3
Mario Guevara, an Emmy-award winning reporter, was deported to El Salvador — a nation he fled more than two decades ago. He was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.
U.S. deports journalist Mario Guevara to El Salvador, family says
Mario Guevara, an independent journalist, was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
brainsnow.bsky.social
Must watch for deeper appreciation of the integrity of military leadership responding to the humiliation of Hegseth and Trump: youtu.be/eIejylEz_Ts?...
FURIOUS Retired General DESTROYS Trump’s Military STUNT
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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October 2, 2025 at 2:25 AM
brainsnow.bsky.social
#BOYCOTTABCDISNEY
September 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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evansutton.bsky.social
The asymmetrical media response to political violence in America is, in itself, one of the most important contributing factors to how we arrived at this place of escalating political violence.
Headline and lede from Time magazine (did not make the magazine cover) with a generic headshot of Minnesota House speaker Melissa Hortman that reads Minnesota Lawmaker Melissa Hortman Killed, FBI Hunt Suspect Jun 15, 2025 — Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were killed by an individual impersonating a police officer. -- Hortman was assassinated by a far right extremist along with her husband and dog. The man had a long list of Democrats he planned to kill, and was caught after shooting Minnesota Democrat John Hoffman and his wife Yvette who thankfully survived Headline from time with a photo of Charlie Kirk at the event where he was murdered, smiling and waving at the crowd. The preview time has shared indicates that this will be the cover story of the next magazine. The headline reads The Killing of Charlie Kirk and the Political Violence Haunting America
September 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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September 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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humanwolf.bsky.social
SCOTUS IS ROGUE
September 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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lexultimaveritas.bsky.social
SCOTUS has gone rogue and must be destroyed forever ♥️🤍💙
nbcnews.com NBC News @nbcnews.com · Sep 8
The Supreme Court allows President Trump to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission despite a federal law that is intended to restrict the White House’s power to control the agency.
Supreme Court allows Trump to fire FTC commissioner
Trump's actions are in direct tension with a 1935 ruling that upheld restrictions on the president's ability to remove FTC commissioners without cause.
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September 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
brainsnow.bsky.social
#STOP.ROGUE.SCOTUS
September 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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cowboysangha.bsky.social
"...it is, effectively, a sign that the constitutional government we have operated under for more than 200 years is no longer in effect."
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Jul 3
NEW: SCOTUS allows Trump admin to send eight men to South Sudan with no process.

Sotomayor, joined by Jackson, dissented, calling their colleagues' actions in the case "indefensible." It was one of several alarming signs for the nation on the Third of July.

This evening, at Law Dork:
SCOTUS allows Trump admin to send eight men to South Sudan with no process
Sotomayor, joined by Jackson, dissented, calling their colleagues' actions in the case "indefensible." It was one of several alarming signs for the nation on the Third of July.
www.lawdork.com
July 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
brainsnow.bsky.social
I'm sick to my stomach: Netanyahu is a mass murderer and MUST BE STOPPED: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘Beyond anything imaginable’: dozens killed at busy Gaza seafront cafe
Witnesses describe explosion, flames and smoke plumes as airstrike transforms peaceful scene at al-Baqa into a horror
www.theguardian.com
July 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM