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big fan of people who platform Palestinian mutual aid

dad, duck keeper, tech bro, bi, commie, middle-aged, decolonial aspirant.

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we all need more revolutionary feminism in our lives
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I owe a personal debt to Maya farmers in the highlands and it's going to influence every behavior in my life until I croak
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prisonculture.bsky.social
I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
January 25, 2026 at 2:05 AM
caquitadepato.bsky.social
ILY Greg Pak
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14h
BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.
January 25, 2026 at 3:44 AM
caquitadepato.bsky.social
Cozy!
Two muscovy hens squat under an aluminum-enclosed electric porch heater about 4 feet above them with bright orange heating elements angled towards the ground in their trajectory. One, perched on the edge of the entrance to a scrap lumber shelter, has white and gray plumage, her head and wings pulled close to her body, her head angled away but looking at the camera. The other sits with her feet on the ground, her head tilted to the side to also peep the camera. A two-cup-sized food bowl has grains and dried meal worms.
January 25, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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nerdjpg.com
Every communist should watch this

youtu.be/z7WmYEoNtPY?...
Reflections on the Overthrow of Communism (MIRROR)
YouTube video by Hopper ☭ The Marxist
youtu.be
January 24, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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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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internethippo.bsky.social
Huge scandal that Minneapolis has been crawling with terrorists this whole time. They've been living among us undercover as poets and nurses. And would've continued to, had it not been for the work of our bravest child kidnappers
January 25, 2026 at 12:44 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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socialistdogmom.bsky.social
this reminds me of the way i’ve seen susan bro speak about her daughter, heather heyer. when a fascist murders your child, you aren’t allowed to just grieve. you have to defend their memory, even their very grave.
jeffrueter.bsky.social Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 15h
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 1:10 AM
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nerdjpg.com
"The party of the proletariat must learn to catch every liberal just at the moment when he is prepared to move forward an inch, and make him move forward a yard. If he is obdurate, we will go forward without him and over him."
October 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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goodboy.bsky.social
Democrats say "Trump's ICE" like they want their voters to think Dem ICE will be the reverse of this when it will just be the current model with better messaging and a few new superficial "safety rails"
January 24, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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socialistdogmom.bsky.social
i'm so fucking sick of being lied to i'm gonna go crazy
jilldlawrence.bsky.social Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 20h
OMG. "DHS said the episode began after a man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and they tried to disarm him. But footage from the scene shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Update from Devon Lum
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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cyberstalin.bsky.social
man i am an absolute mess rn. parenti was 92, a VERY VERY VERY long and fruitful lifetime, but it still really stings. rest in power to one of the greatest US based communists.
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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manucleardevice.bsky.social
I don’t know why this is so hard for people but people you have to repeatedly call and beg to ask them to oppose murder in the streets will never really be on your side
January 24, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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rvbdrm.com
“Kamala warned us!”

Motherfucker, no she did not.

Please stop this revisionist bullshit.

She ran on signing into law more funding for DHS, and supporting ICE.

Please focus on the people being murdered on the fucking streets by Trump’s personal military.
January 24, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
ICE appear to have murdered another person in Minneapolis; after half a dozen regime thugs jumped and beat a man who tried to defend himself they shot him, an agent can be seen shooting him after his body laid motionless on the sidewalk. #3E #GoodvsEvil
January 24, 2026 at 4:11 PM
caquitadepato.bsky.social
I'm sad I never got to see Parenti
January 24, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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hypercubexl.bsky.social
you could say this about so many things
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d
A lot of Democrats got in on this and now a right wing billionaire is in charge.
kashana.blacksky.app Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d
Thank goodness everyone spent months deciding that the Chinese were stealing our data so we could switch to good old patriotic American data stealing
January 23, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
The idea was that young people were being “brainwashed” into caring about Palestinians due to a pernicious influence campaign from China, and it is a pitch-perfect example of what people were warning about in regard to centering Russian influence as the *singular* answer to Trump’s 2016 rise.
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d
A lot of Democrats got in on this and now a right wing billionaire is in charge.
kashana.blacksky.app Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d
Thank goodness everyone spent months deciding that the Chinese were stealing our data so we could switch to good old patriotic American data stealing
January 23, 2026 at 10:51 PM
caquitadepato.bsky.social
I owe a personal debt to Maya farmers in the highlands and it's going to influence every behavior in my life until I croak
January 23, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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margaret.bsky.social
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
caquitadepato.bsky.social
People who take and use criticism are hot, but like, no hetero
January 23, 2026 at 3:48 AM
caquitadepato.bsky.social
To me, this is a reason to present struggle together as a condition for any kind of support. If he's willing to confront this position AND the problems behind it, he's a comrade. If not, he's an opportunist.

A culture of good self-criticism nets results and develops ourselves and our organizations.
nerdjpg.com Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 2d
He is also calling for “veterans first” policies. Doing something good doesn’t make that correct
January 22, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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danglinghemmie.bsky.social
people who use polling to drive their policy platform don't actually believe in anything
January 22, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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rincewind.run
as mad as everyone is on here right now I’m pretty sure a good summary of what we actually want to post is <redacted>

so, you know, please be careful
January 22, 2026 at 3:38 AM
caquitadepato.bsky.social
I love this pose
Muscovy duck hen with plumage in varying shades of brown and white, oak- colored feet speckled with black, and orange caruncles surrounding its eyes and the beginning of its beak; it's posed with feet turned in, its left behind its right, its head tilted to the right, and looking at the camera. The sidewalk is filthy with its droppings.
January 22, 2026 at 6:20 AM