David Stroup
@davidstroup.bsky.social
Sr. Lecturer of Chinese Politics at the University of Manchester.
Researching the everyday politics of ethnicity under authoritarianism and Islamophobia in the PRC.
Researching the everyday politics of ethnicity under authoritarianism and Islamophobia in the PRC.
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Just an absolutely deranged thing for a member of the cabinet to say.
“ICE > MN” is impeachable by itself.
This is an actual post from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: Praising ICE after Alex Pretti was killed, blaming the Democratic leadership of Minnesota, and writing that ICE is greater/better than Minnesota.
He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
January 24, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Just an absolutely deranged thing for a member of the cabinet to say.
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This is a very credible analysis and shows an ICE agent apparently removing Alex Pretti's gun before any shots were fired.
A DHS statement claimed “an individual approached US Border Patrol officers” with “a handgun” in the Alex Pretti shooting incident. A Bellingcat analysis of the footage appears to show that a gun was taken away from where Pretti was situated by an agent just before the first shot was fired.
January 24, 2026 at 10:47 PM
This is a very credible analysis and shows an ICE agent apparently removing Alex Pretti's gun before any shots were fired.
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Noem lies shamelessly: "An individual approached order Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic gun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement"
January 24, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Noem lies shamelessly: "An individual approached order Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic gun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement"
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They are lying because they know their core supporters will not watch the video and need to feel justified supporting a government that is murdering their fellow citizens
Noem lies shamelessly: "An individual approached order Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic gun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement"
January 24, 2026 at 11:17 PM
They are lying because they know their core supporters will not watch the video and need to feel justified supporting a government that is murdering their fellow citizens
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BBC having a totally normal one again, granting respectability and credence to their sworn enemies.
January 24, 2026 at 10:20 PM
BBC having a totally normal one again, granting respectability and credence to their sworn enemies.
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The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible.
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
January 24, 2026 at 11:00 PM
The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible.
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
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How on earth can the BBC still be relaying this demonstrably untrue information into its reporting at 942pm, without even "balancing" the false account, when they have the video footage & the analysis of it
January 24, 2026 at 11:10 PM
How on earth can the BBC still be relaying this demonstrably untrue information into its reporting at 942pm, without even "balancing" the false account, when they have the video footage & the analysis of it
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Filming federal agents in public is not a crime, nobody should be harassed or restrained for doing so, nobody should have their phone confiscated for it, and nobody should get the death penalty for it. This is supposed to be a free Republic, not an authoritarian police state.
January 24, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Filming federal agents in public is not a crime, nobody should be harassed or restrained for doing so, nobody should have their phone confiscated for it, and nobody should get the death penalty for it. This is supposed to be a free Republic, not an authoritarian police state.
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For this, the state decided to execute him.
January 24, 2026 at 5:40 PM
For this, the state decided to execute him.
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This.
Republicans and conservatives bear responsibility for ICE violence and lawlessness.
Republicans and conservatives bear responsibility for ICE violence and lawlessness.
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
January 24, 2026 at 6:36 PM
This.
Republicans and conservatives bear responsibility for ICE violence and lawlessness.
Republicans and conservatives bear responsibility for ICE violence and lawlessness.
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There are concentration camps, a large secret police, and they're performing extra-judicial killings in the open even when they know they're being recorded.
I dont think it could be clearer where we are at this moment.
I dont think it could be clearer where we are at this moment.
January 24, 2026 at 6:37 PM
There are concentration camps, a large secret police, and they're performing extra-judicial killings in the open even when they know they're being recorded.
I dont think it could be clearer where we are at this moment.
I dont think it could be clearer where we are at this moment.
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He was trying to protect another person who was being pepper sprayed and then they tackled, beat, and executed him in a matter of seconds.
oh god, the other angle of video just dropped. it's as bad as you could possibly imagine
January 24, 2026 at 7:00 PM
He was trying to protect another person who was being pepper sprayed and then they tackled, beat, and executed him in a matter of seconds.
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happy 250th birthday, america. to get you in the spirit, we’ve recreated the conditions of the founding era.
January 24, 2026 at 5:22 PM
happy 250th birthday, america. to get you in the spirit, we’ve recreated the conditions of the founding era.
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Shot in the back. Execution stile. Fucking murderers.
Another Gestapo murder in Minnesota. Six agents wrestle someone to the ground and then shoot him in the back
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Federal agents shoot person in Minnesota, governor says
Minneapolis officials said they are investigating.
www.nbcnews.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Shot in the back. Execution stile. Fucking murderers.
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It is because Minnesota broadly, and the Twin Cities specifically, are *organized* around progressive values. What is radical is not the marches. It's not the legal observers. The radical part - the part that men like Vance and Miller despise - is that these cities have robust civic life. 2/
January 24, 2026 at 6:47 PM
It is because Minnesota broadly, and the Twin Cities specifically, are *organized* around progressive values. What is radical is not the marches. It's not the legal observers. The radical part - the part that men like Vance and Miller despise - is that these cities have robust civic life. 2/
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I want to comment on this for the people outside the Twin Cities urging some kind of violent insurrection in the streets. It is an important point you should think about in your own community.
The reason Mpls/St. Paul are under attack in this way is not because Minnesotans are *nice*. 1/
The reason Mpls/St. Paul are under attack in this way is not because Minnesotans are *nice*. 1/
I live one block away from where the man was murdered, and I need to communicate that if you burn or destroy anything on my block you are foolishly helping ICE, and I hate you.
January 24, 2026 at 6:44 PM
I want to comment on this for the people outside the Twin Cities urging some kind of violent insurrection in the streets. It is an important point you should think about in your own community.
The reason Mpls/St. Paul are under attack in this way is not because Minnesotans are *nice*. 1/
The reason Mpls/St. Paul are under attack in this way is not because Minnesotans are *nice*. 1/
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Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
Again, the banality of evil
Again, the banality of evil
Minutes after claiming the victim wanted to "massacre" law enforcement, Bovino is asked to specify when exactly the individual allegedly pulled his gun on ICE agents
Bovino then ducks the question and says the incident is "under investigation"
Bovino then ducks the question and says the incident is "under investigation"
January 24, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
Again, the banality of evil
Again, the banality of evil
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I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
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From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
January 24, 2026 at 5:07 PM
From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
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By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.
January 24, 2026 at 6:28 PM
By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.
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Violent, cosplaying Bovino is flat-out lying.
In this case with multiple videos showing the exact opposite of what he is claiming.
In this case with multiple videos showing the exact opposite of what he is claiming.
Bovino shamelessly lies: "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement"
January 24, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Violent, cosplaying Bovino is flat-out lying.
In this case with multiple videos showing the exact opposite of what he is claiming.
In this case with multiple videos showing the exact opposite of what he is claiming.
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Harassed, assaulted, disarmed, taken down, pistol-whipped, executed, lied about.
ICE SOP.
ICE SOP.
Footage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.
January 24, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Harassed, assaulted, disarmed, taken down, pistol-whipped, executed, lied about.
ICE SOP.
ICE SOP.
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It’s CONGRESS that can stop ICE and CBP deployment to MN. The Dems (and any responsible Rs?) should introduce legislation and agitate for a vote: “No federal funds may be used for further activities of ICE or CBP in the state of Minnesota, except for their prompt withdrawal.”
January 24, 2026 at 6:15 PM
It’s CONGRESS that can stop ICE and CBP deployment to MN. The Dems (and any responsible Rs?) should introduce legislation and agitate for a vote: “No federal funds may be used for further activities of ICE or CBP in the state of Minnesota, except for their prompt withdrawal.”
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
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It’s time.
I want the see Steve Kerr’s Warriors and Minneapolis’ Timberwolves agree that they simply cannot play this game tonight.
A strike in solidarity with the besieged city and its murdered and abducted residents.
I want the see Steve Kerr’s Warriors and Minneapolis’ Timberwolves agree that they simply cannot play this game tonight.
A strike in solidarity with the besieged city and its murdered and abducted residents.
January 24, 2026 at 6:28 PM
It’s time.
I want the see Steve Kerr’s Warriors and Minneapolis’ Timberwolves agree that they simply cannot play this game tonight.
A strike in solidarity with the besieged city and its murdered and abducted residents.
I want the see Steve Kerr’s Warriors and Minneapolis’ Timberwolves agree that they simply cannot play this game tonight.
A strike in solidarity with the besieged city and its murdered and abducted residents.