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Frieder Dengler
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On the job market | PhD in International Relations from @ausis.bsky.social | USIP Peace Scholar 2023-24 | I research international order, global governance, and global historical IR | www.friederdengler.com | 🇩🇪
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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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dieworkwear.bsky.social
This can have consequences for how agents see themselves. If they put on clothes designed for war, they are more likely to see cities as hostile terrain and citizens as enemy combatants, which can increase the chance of violence. Link to the story here:

www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The Problem With Greg Bovino’s Overcoat Isn’t What You Think
The head of Border Patrol isn’t referencing the Nazis — but he is sending a message.
www.politico.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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yuanyiz.bsky.social
I have colleagues who went to Florida in good faith. I have colleagues who have pending Florida hires. Hell, I interviewed in Florida. We will remember to steer well clear going forward.
January 24, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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atrupar.com
Hi everyone -- there is a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow to protest what the Trump administration and DHS are doing to our community. In solidarity with the action, I am going to donate my revenue from tmrw's newsletter to People over Papers, the Midway-Hamline Diaper Bank, & Every Meal. (1/2)
January 22, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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emayfarris.bsky.social
If not gestapo, why gestapo shaped?
January 21, 2026 at 10:15 PM
friederdengler.bsky.social
Girl dad x2 ❤️❤️

Also, in case it wasn't clear, care workers, nurses, etc are heroes. The care baby and mommy are receiving is phenomenal. 🙏
January 19, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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andrewkarre.bsky.social
History's rhyme scheme is irrepressible. Fucking hell.
deanbaker13.bsky.social Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 9d
There is a precedent for a person getting someone else's Nobel Prize. In 1943, the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, gave his Nobel Prize in literature to Joseph Goebbels uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Knut Hamsun
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) was a towering figure of Norwegian letters. He was also a Nazi sympathizer and supp...
uwapress.uw.edu
January 16, 2026 at 4:51 PM
friederdengler.bsky.social
Is this the fastest "this person should not have gotten the prize" in Nobel Prize history? Genuinely interested in other examples
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d
María Corina Machado on her meeting with Trump: “I presented the president of the United States with the Nobel Peace Prize”
January 15, 2026 at 9:48 PM
friederdengler.bsky.social
Ah, world order, something famously created by a single person
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d
FOX BUSINESS: What can we anticipate from Trump's Davos speech?

HASSETT: There's gonna be some look at the new world order that President Trump is creating
January 15, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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fvonlucke.bsky.social
Dann vielleicht gleich noch an Russland, China und den Iran weitergeben?

Europa und seine Mitgliedsstaaten müssen endlich realisieren, dass die USA kein verlässlicher, demokratischer Staat mehr mehr sind und ganz sicher keine sensiblen Daten über Europäer bekommen dürfen
January 15, 2026 at 6:28 AM
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
This. Greenland defense is a tripwire—putting various European countries’ personnel in harms way in an attempt to deter attack—not an effort to win a war with the US.

A real Europe-US war would destroy the world. The goal is to not have one. Which was more than accomplished by a robust NATO. Alas.
stephenkb.bsky.social Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 10d
Finding the reactions to this bleakly funny. Lads, the point isn’t that you are sending enough people to “win”, because we in fact, can’t win. It is just to have a tripwire! If you are going “why not 13, like Germany?” you have not understood how bad things are.
peterstefanovic.bsky.social Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10d
BREAKING: The UK is sending a single military officer to Greenland at the request of Denmark to participate in a multi-nation exercise
January 14, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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jaylyall.bsky.social
Imagine the view from Beijing and Moscow right now
bcfinucane.bsky.social Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 10d
For those catching up this Wednesday:

--White House is trying to sabotage efforts in Congress to block further military action in Venezuela.

--White House might well launch another illegal attack on Iran imminently.

--White House continues to threaten a NATO ally with territorial annexation.
January 14, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
There is nothing complex or subtle or hard to understand about what is happening here.
ryanenos.bsky.social Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 11d
This is not the language of the government of a free country.
January 14, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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rikefranke.bsky.social
It’s rather mind boggling how exactly what experts said would happen before Brexit, is now happening.
We KNEW all of this.
January 13, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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adamkochanski.bsky.social
In addition to illegality of strikes, a clear-cut war crime, if true: “The laws of armed conflict prohibit combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called ‘perfidy.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:36 AM
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annameier.bsky.social
You may not know how to fight XYZ specific horror but you know how to say hi to your neighbors regularly and use a group chat and that's half of the work for fighting every horror, folks.
January 10, 2026 at 9:58 PM
friederdengler.bsky.social
Should I just teach... from my Bluesky feed? Does it count as a living syllabus?
January 9, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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alexanderfurnas.com
liz they are shooting people in the streets
warren.senate.gov Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 15d
Under Donald Trump, the median age of a first-time homebuyer hit a record 40 years old.

There’s a housing crisis in every state across the country.

We’ve got the numbers:
There’s a housing crisis in every state across the country.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
youtube.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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hbanai.bsky.social
Here's my piece for @goodauth.bsky.social on why Iran's polycrisis may be at a tipping point

goodauthority.org/news/why-the...
Why the Iranian regime may be at a tipping point
Why the Iranian regime may be at a tipping point. The current protests reflect citizens who are unhappy about deep, overlapping crises.
goodauthority.org
January 9, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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sarahkirchberger.bsky.social
📊Those 🇩🇪numbers are even more dramatic when looking at responses according to party preference, laying bare how much of an outlier AfD is.

Excluding AfD voters, we get:
🇫🇷 93.5% trust in France
🇬🇧 89.75% trust in UK
🇺🇦 62.5% trust in Ukraine
🇺🇸 8.5% trust in USA ‼️
🇷🇺 3% trust in Russia.

Short 🧵
January 9, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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bashleyleeds.bsky.social
Reminder to those (like me) who are trying to figure out how to teach international relations this spring. @iojournal.bsky.social special issue- The Future of Global Governance and World Order- includes 16 non-technical ~4000 word essays by experts. #IOFoGG
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
International Organization: Volume 79 - Issue S1 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - International Organization - Volume 79 - Issue S1
www.cambridge.org
January 8, 2026 at 3:19 PM
friederdengler.bsky.social
I am looking for a brief article or video providing a recent overview of political science as a discipline. Ideally, it would identify the subfields and some of the major questions/topics examined therein. If you know of something that may be appropriate for an undergraduate audience, let me know 🙏
January 8, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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seva.bsky.social
some people love quoting "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." That was Athens saying that at the height of its empire. Few of those people seem to remember what happened to Athens the very next year.
January 6, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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mcopelov.bsky.social
Straight to the Intro to IR syllabus
January 8, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
it is true that it *should not* matter that the murder victim was a white, middle-class, U.S. citizen mother, but it is also true that it *does* matter and that the story reaches people who might not otherwise be reached as a result.
January 8, 2026 at 1:52 AM