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Brandon Friedman

@brandonfriedman.bsky.social

If Nancy Mace was assaulted by a Biden supporter, it would be a week-long news cycle and every Democrat in Congress would be asked if they approve or disapprove

Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost Is Assaulted at Sundance Film Festival

www.nytimes.com

January 25, 2026 at 9:19 PM

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Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

January 25, 2026 at 4:26 AM

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Sean T. Collins

@seantcollins.com

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

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 2:03 AM

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Adam Klasfeld

@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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@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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Phil Lewis

@phillewis.bsky.social

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

Last night, I was assaulted by a man at Sundance Festival who told me that Trump was going to deport me before he punched me in the face. He was heard screaming racist remarks as he drunkenly ran off. The individual was arrested and I am okay.

Thank you to the venue security and Park City PD for assistance on this incident.

January 25, 2026 at 12:55 AM

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Phil Williams

@philinvestigates.com

PLEASE WATCH: Video posted so far from today’s killing in Minneapolis shows the victim recording video with his smartphone, coming to the aid of two women and trying to stand between them and an ICE agent. He does not show a gun at all. Then, I count 10 shots.

January 24, 2026 at 9:39 PM

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Mark Gongloff

@markgongloff.bsky.social

We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun

A photo of the man murdered by ICE today, just before the shooting. He’s standing and holding a phone in his right hand and holding his empty left hand to the sky and looking behind him at a woman running away while an ICE agent closes in on him from the front. On the ground behind the man is a woman that the victim will soon try to help, leading several ICE agents to attack him and pin him to the ground, before shooting him several times.

January 24, 2026 at 9:35 PM

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Angry

@angrystaffer.bsky.social

Holy shit.

He was filming. He went over to help a lady that ICE shoved down. Agents engaged him.

His hands were on the pavement when he was shot.

He never had his hand on a weapon.

Cold blooded murder.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.

January 24, 2026 at 7:08 PM

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Asha Rangappa

@asharangappa.bsky.social

I am in shock and my heart is racing after watching this video. This cannot -- and should not -- be real, yet it is. (WARNING this video is very disturbing)

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.

January 24, 2026 at 6:59 PM

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.

January 24, 2026 at 6:46 PM

Brendan Smith

@brendansmith.bsky.social

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January 23, 2026 at 11:57 PM

Brendan Smith

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January 23, 2026 at 9:57 PM

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Brendan Smith

@brendansmith.bsky.social

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January 23, 2026 at 5:24 PM

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January 23, 2026 at 5:24 PM

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Randi Mayem Singer

@rmayemsinger.bsky.social

You need to listen to this whole thing.

January 22, 2026 at 7:50 AM

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Zack Beauchamp

@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social

I've reported on this kind of thing happening before — in Hungary

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 5d

Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol

January 21, 2026 at 3:39 PM

Brendan Smith

@brendansmith.bsky.social

These recently hired deplorables have been itching for a Civil War so they could kill "libtards" ever since Obama was elected. bsky.app/profile/star...

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 4d

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.

Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

January 22, 2026 at 5:36 AM

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Mark Copelovitch

@mcopelov.bsky.social

The answer to “How could it ever have happened back then?” is right in front of us, here & now.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child

January 22, 2026 at 3:04 AM

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Sara Libby

@saralibby.bsky.social

BREAKING: San Francisco Giants star Jung Hoo Lee has been detained by CBP at LAX. Pelosi's office says she is working to secure his release. www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...

Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee detained at Los Angeles International Airport

San Francisco Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee was detained Wednesday evening at Los Angeles International Airport, his agent Scott Boras told the Chronicle.

www.sfchronicle.com

January 22, 2026 at 1:41 AM

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Better Things Are Possible

@internethippo.bsky.social

All of my political views and policy ideas have basically collapsed to "Punish the Villains" and I mumble it to myself every time I see a news article these days

August 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM

Brendan Smith

@brendansmith.bsky.social

The deplorables they've hired have been dreaming about a Civil War ever since Obama was elected... bsky.app/profile/whst...

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 4d

They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.

Disco @discosaurus.bsky.social · 4d

This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.

January 22, 2026 at 1:28 AM

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Rachel Maddow

@maddow.bsky.social

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"Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to 'overturn election results in certain states,' and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data..."

www.politico.com/news/2026/01...