Edward James Almost
@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social
SGFMO. Application development, math, music, podcasting, Star Trek, Linux, general curmudgeon. Friend of DeSoto. #GoBills #LetsGoBuffalo
In a true classic of own-petard hoisting, my rubber boots I was going to wear to shovel snow are out in the car.
January 25, 2026 at 9:17 PM
In a true classic of own-petard hoisting, my rubber boots I was going to wear to shovel snow are out in the car.
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the entire difference between kyle rittenhouse and alex pretti is that kyle rittenhouse was there to shoot people the cops wanted to shoot and alex pretti was there to protect people the cops wanted to shoot
January 25, 2026 at 3:58 PM
the entire difference between kyle rittenhouse and alex pretti is that kyle rittenhouse was there to shoot people the cops wanted to shoot and alex pretti was there to protect people the cops wanted to shoot
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
January 25, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
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1. Wasn’t at a protest
2. Was disarmed when they shot him while he was face down
3. New gun rights rule: the second amendment is when conservatives can carry guns everywhere, but if anyone else has a gun we can kill him on sight
bsky.app/profile/atru...
2. Was disarmed when they shot him while he was face down
3. New gun rights rule: the second amendment is when conservatives can carry guns everywhere, but if anyone else has a gun we can kill him on sight
bsky.app/profile/atru...
KARL: He was an ICU use who worked for the VA and there's no evidence he brandished the gun whatsoever
BESSENT: But he brought a gun
KARL: I mean, we do have a Second Amendment
BESSENT: I've been to a protest -- guess what? I didn't bring a gun. I brought a billboard
BESSENT: But he brought a gun
KARL: I mean, we do have a Second Amendment
BESSENT: I've been to a protest -- guess what? I didn't bring a gun. I brought a billboard
January 25, 2026 at 5:15 PM
1. Wasn’t at a protest
2. Was disarmed when they shot him while he was face down
3. New gun rights rule: the second amendment is when conservatives can carry guns everywhere, but if anyone else has a gun we can kill him on sight
bsky.app/profile/atru...
2. Was disarmed when they shot him while he was face down
3. New gun rights rule: the second amendment is when conservatives can carry guns everywhere, but if anyone else has a gun we can kill him on sight
bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Hey, parents of 3rd-8th grade kids stuck at home
Missouri Conservation Department ➡️ Virtual ⬅️ Class
All about 🦅 Eagles
with World Bird Sanctuary
10 am Monday, January 26th
mdc-event-web.s3licensing.com/Event/EventD...
10 am Tuesday, January 27th
mdc-event-web.s3licensing.com/Event/EventD...
Missouri Conservation Department ➡️ Virtual ⬅️ Class
All about 🦅 Eagles
with World Bird Sanctuary
10 am Monday, January 26th
mdc-event-web.s3licensing.com/Event/EventD...
10 am Tuesday, January 27th
mdc-event-web.s3licensing.com/Event/EventD...
a bald eagle is flying over a body of water near a forest .
Alt: Bald eagle in flight
media.tenor.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Hey, parents of 3rd-8th grade kids stuck at home
Missouri Conservation Department ➡️ Virtual ⬅️ Class
All about 🦅 Eagles
with World Bird Sanctuary
10 am Monday, January 26th
mdc-event-web.s3licensing.com/Event/EventD...
10 am Tuesday, January 27th
mdc-event-web.s3licensing.com/Event/EventD...
Missouri Conservation Department ➡️ Virtual ⬅️ Class
All about 🦅 Eagles
with World Bird Sanctuary
10 am Monday, January 26th
mdc-event-web.s3licensing.com/Event/EventD...
10 am Tuesday, January 27th
mdc-event-web.s3licensing.com/Event/EventD...
Don’t think I’d heard Bovino’s voice before this morning and once again it all makes sense.
January 25, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Don’t think I’d heard Bovino’s voice before this morning and once again it all makes sense.
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Today is the tenth anniversary of The Greatest Generation and by extension the entire @greatesttrek.com project! @cutfortime.bsky.social and I survived! I’m so grateful to all the FoDs and @maximumfun.org. Here’s to 1601 more years of GreatestGen!
January 25, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Today is the tenth anniversary of The Greatest Generation and by extension the entire @greatesttrek.com project! @cutfortime.bsky.social and I survived! I’m so grateful to all the FoDs and @maximumfun.org. Here’s to 1601 more years of GreatestGen!
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Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
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January 25, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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Mood in minneapolis right now
January 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Mood in minneapolis right now
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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."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
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You need to understand that there are not lengthy standoffs between protesters and ICE in Minneapolis. Alex Pretti was not a “protester” in a conventional sense. ICE lurks around the city and occasionally takes aggressive actions, and bystanders and observers document it and raise the alarm
obviously rioting is not what anyone wants to have happen, but does the NG's agenda being to control the protest suggest that they are there to support the federal agencies against the protestors?
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
You need to understand that there are not lengthy standoffs between protesters and ICE in Minneapolis. Alex Pretti was not a “protester” in a conventional sense. ICE lurks around the city and occasionally takes aggressive actions, and bystanders and observers document it and raise the alarm
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Someone asked what I would do were I the governor of MN. I would hope I'd be like Lincoln: once coming to the realization that there was going to be no way out but war, with utter honestly as to the stakes, using all his powers of persuasion to communicate that there will be sacrifice....
January 25, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Someone asked what I would do were I the governor of MN. I would hope I'd be like Lincoln: once coming to the realization that there was going to be no way out but war, with utter honestly as to the stakes, using all his powers of persuasion to communicate that there will be sacrifice....
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But the biggest indication is the way the ICE thugs react after the shots. They don't try to arrest him or secure the gun, they either back away or run away. They immediately knew it was a crime and tried to distance themselves.
January 24, 2026 at 10:06 PM
But the biggest indication is the way the ICE thugs react after the shots. They don't try to arrest him or secure the gun, they either back away or run away. They immediately knew it was a crime and tried to distance themselves.
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He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
January 24, 2026 at 4:27 PM
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
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"The armed suspect reacted violently."
An outright, barefaced and monstrous lie, conclusively disproven by irrefutable video evidence.
An outright, barefaced and monstrous lie, conclusively disproven by irrefutable video evidence.
January 24, 2026 at 11:04 PM
"The armed suspect reacted violently."
An outright, barefaced and monstrous lie, conclusively disproven by irrefutable video evidence.
An outright, barefaced and monstrous lie, conclusively disproven by irrefutable video evidence.
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In about 20 seconds we see that Alex went from filming an ICE arrest, to helping a woman they shoved, then being maced, forced face down on the pavement with 6 agents on top him, shot dead, and called a domestic terrorist.
January 24, 2026 at 10:55 PM
In about 20 seconds we see that Alex went from filming an ICE arrest, to helping a woman they shoved, then being maced, forced face down on the pavement with 6 agents on top him, shot dead, and called a domestic terrorist.
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“ICE > MN” is the clearest, most honest statement of policy we have gotten from this fascist administration about this awful endless occupation. We are the enemy. Their invading army is allowed to do whatever it wants to us. The idea that they’re here to protect us is FICTION
January 24, 2026 at 10:46 PM
“ICE > MN” is the clearest, most honest statement of policy we have gotten from this fascist administration about this awful endless occupation. We are the enemy. Their invading army is allowed to do whatever it wants to us. The idea that they’re here to protect us is FICTION
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They murdered Good and Pretti, a poet and a nurse, one whose last words were “I’m not mad,” another whose last act was shielding another. Because of course that’s who they killed. Everyday people.
January 24, 2026 at 9:30 PM
They murdered Good and Pretti, a poet and a nurse, one whose last words were “I’m not mad,” another whose last act was shielding another. Because of course that’s who they killed. Everyday people.
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Watch this. It’s worth your time.
youtu.be/H_71MhRqpVM
youtu.be/H_71MhRqpVM
ICE Kills Another American
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
youtu.be
January 24, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Watch this. It’s worth your time.
youtu.be/H_71MhRqpVM
youtu.be/H_71MhRqpVM
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Straight up execution. I'm not reposting it but there's an angle where you can see clear as day every aggressive movement was made by the official and then they beat him and shot him like a dog
Really hard to watch these videos and not conclude this was an execution
January 24, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Straight up execution. I'm not reposting it but there's an angle where you can see clear as day every aggressive movement was made by the official and then they beat him and shot him like a dog
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Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
How's your non-violent working Mr Gandhi stancil? They will kill each and everyone of you right if they had the chance and you will still be writing Kumbaya.
Observers have been working day and night to protect these neighborhoods from ICE, make the streets safe so kids can go to school and people can go to their jobs. Burning down the street undoes all our work. The people setting fires haven’t been putting in long hours watching plates or doors.
January 24, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
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They are telling us in unequivocal terms that if you show solidarity with immigrants who are in the literal crosshairs of Trump/MAGA, you're risking a death sentence.
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
January 24, 2026 at 6:27 PM
They are telling us in unequivocal terms that if you show solidarity with immigrants who are in the literal crosshairs of Trump/MAGA, you're risking a death sentence.
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
This man is evil and we need to get him away from the levers of power and into a jail cell ASAP. He’s not the only one, but he’s at the top of my list.
Stephen Miller calls the deceased “a domestic terrorist.”
January 24, 2026 at 7:23 PM
This man is evil and we need to get him away from the levers of power and into a jail cell ASAP. He’s not the only one, but he’s at the top of my list.
Used to be cops would trot out some bullshit story about fear of pcp super strength or whatever to justify why a half dozen guys couldn’t safely secure and detain someone without beating them and shooting them.
January 24, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Used to be cops would trot out some bullshit story about fear of pcp super strength or whatever to justify why a half dozen guys couldn’t safely secure and detain someone without beating them and shooting them.