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Kaz

@gratefulkaz.bsky.social

That second set is why I will love this band above all others.

January 30, 2026 at 6:00 AM

Kaz

@gratefulkaz.bsky.social

Let’s go!

January 29, 2026 at 1:00 AM

Kaz

@gratefulkaz.bsky.social

Tonight’s DJ at Sunrise
@karinarykman.bsky.social
💿❤️

January 28, 2026 at 1:24 AM

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Jeff Fecke

@jkfecke.bsky.social

I think the thing that killed the administration was that they were so gung-ho to find a reason that Pretti deserved to die that they accidentally declared that that the second amendment isn't real.

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 3d

I have been waiting for this signal from Senator Rand Paul.

Senator Paul, Chairman of Senate Homeland Security Committee follows House committee. Sends letters to heads of ICE, CBP, USCIS to testify in public hearing.

January 26, 2026 at 9:41 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

NewsNation is reporting that "Bovino and his unit will be leaving Minnesota after today"

January 26, 2026 at 9:37 PM

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Meta Resistance

@metaresistance.bsky.social

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

January 26, 2026 at 5:04 AM

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Laura Bassett

@lebassett.bsky.social

The nurses are pissed

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Let us not forget, it was the same administration that reduced us to wearing trash bags as protective gear while we watched the hospital go up in flames around us during the pandemic that just murdered one of our own on the streets in broad daylight. As a nurse & as a person, I will never forgive. I will never forget. I will never back down. This was never about border control.
This is about total control.
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January 25, 2026 at 4:48 AM

Kaz

@gratefulkaz.bsky.social

January 25, 2026 at 3:48 PM

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Jon Cooper

@joncooper-us.bsky.social

Please share. 💔

January 25, 2026 at 4:46 AM

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Jon Cooper

@joncooper-us.bsky.social

Holy shit.

January 25, 2026 at 3:48 AM

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Max Berger

@maxberger.bsky.social

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights.

There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.

This is my favorite guide.

CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC

You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...

www.nonviolent-conflict.org

January 24, 2026 at 7:54 PM

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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

Kaz

@gratefulkaz.bsky.social

On science, peer-reviewed journals, reproducible data, controlled variables, statistically significant results, gravity working whether I believe in it or not, evolution, the slow heat death of the universe, & the cold uncaring vastness of space in which nothing is watching or judging me. No cap!

January 22, 2026 at 8:09 PM

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Zack Beauchamp

@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social

Heartbreaking cruelty visited upon children in our name

January 21, 2026 at 6:25 PM

Kaz

@gratefulkaz.bsky.social

I’m not a religious man, but over this last year I’ve never wanted Hell to be more real. These evil motherfuckers deserve to pay for all eternity for what they are doing. #fdt

January 21, 2026 at 8:41 PM

Kaz

@gratefulkaz.bsky.social

JRAD is absolutely on fire

January 19, 2026 at 1:55 AM

Kaz

@gratefulkaz.bsky.social

Roll call for JRAD n3

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January 18, 2026 at 8:17 PM

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Megan Glionna

@the-megan-dance.bsky.social

Feeling better and thinking of making a last minute send to JRAD. Looking for a floor. Thanks!

January 18, 2026 at 7:07 PM

Kaz

@gratefulkaz.bsky.social

JOTY Question: When you listen to matchups, do you listen to:
A - higher-ranked jam first
B - lower-ranked jam first
C - jam from show I was at first
D - other

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January 18, 2026 at 5:56 PM

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madisonhuvan

@madisonhuvan.bsky.social

January 18, 2026 at 3:09 PM

Kaz

@gratefulkaz.bsky.social

What if I told you I had an extra floor for JRAD tonight?

January 17, 2026 at 6:15 PM

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M..ka

@amuzi.blacksky.app

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)

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