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sltrib.com
Utah organizers quickly planned events in protest and to show solidarity with Minneapolis.
Utah officials quiet after federal agents kill second U.S. citizen in Minneapolis
Utah organizers quickly planned events in protest and to show solidarity with Minneapolis.
www.sltrib.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h
Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened
January 25, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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unraveledpress.com
Hundreds more people just marched up to join. Some bonfires going. Copious handwarmers being passed out.

Chanting, "no justice, no peace!"
January 25, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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unraveledpress.com
-5°F in Minneapolis tonight.

At the site where feds killed Alex Pretti, the air still smells faintly of tear gas. Hundreds of people still here behind some impromptu barricades.

Message spray painted on the road reads, "fuck ICE, love always wins."
January 25, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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startribune.com
A colleague of Alex Pretti at the Minneapolis VA hospital vehemently rejected DHS' narrative that Pretti went to the area seeking to commit violence against federal law enforcement Saturday.

“Bullshit,” said Julia Grigoriev. “I would never believe that Alex would want to harm anybody.”
Alex Pretti identified as man fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis
Pretti, an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System, had no criminal record beyond parking tickets.
bit.ly
January 25, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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dougjones.bsky.social
Today we said goodbye to Claudette Colvin, whose act of courage at age 15 was almost forgotten, but spurred Rosa Parks and one of the greatest movements for change. Claudette knew that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. I was honored to speak at her funeral. RIP my friend, RIP.
January 25, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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washingtonpost.com
Senate Democrats will block a sweeping government funding package next week because of concerns over ICE, Senate Minority Leader Schumer said. The announcement comes hours after Border Patrol agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis.

Live updates:
Live updates: Man fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis was ICU nurse
The victim in the shooting was identified as Alexander “Alex” Pretti, 37, of Minneapolis.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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jaredlholt.bsky.social
Glad to see the parents highlight something I felt was overlooked: Alex Pretti’s “interference” with border patrol agents was standing in the way while they were roughing up a woman.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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swin24.bsky.social
I’m swin24.68 on signal
January 25, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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theintercept.com
Beware.
FBI’s Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch on You
Investigators identified a suspect, Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones, because his employer could view the contents of files printed at its facility.
interc.pt
January 25, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
The request includes a declaration from a witness who filmed today's shooting of Pretti.

Read their words:

"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.
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 26 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 28. 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.
January 25, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING: Minnesota plaintiffs ask federal appeals court to allow protections for those exercising constitutional rights following today's ICE killing of Alex Pretti.

They ask the 8th Circuit to lift the admin stay issued in the First/Fourth Amend case.

Background: www.lawdork.com/i/184842027/...
INTRODUCTION In light of escalating, imminent risks to the safety of the named plaintiffs and the putative class, Appellees respectfully file this renewed, emergency motion for the Court immediately to lift the administrative stay of the district court's injunction. Intervening events that post-date the parties filings have created an urgent need for intervention to prevent irreparable injury to the named plaintiffs, protesters, and observers. This morning a second Minnesotan, Alex Pretti, was killed by federal agents. In response, Appellees anticipate that thousands of protesters and observers will continue to take the streets to exercise their constitutional rights. As the thousands of federal agents deployed to Operation Metro Surge interact with those protesters and observers, it is more essential than ever to reinstate the district court's narrow, considered injunction to prevent violent retaliation against individuals exercising their constitutional rights.
January 25, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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startribune.com
The family of Alex Pretti, a Minneapolis man shot and killed by federal immigration agents Saturday morning, released a statement to several media outlets. It begins: "We are heartbroken but also very angry."
Live: Minnesota reels after latest fatal shooting by federal agents
Protesters gathered at a park near where a man was shot and killed by federal agents Saturday. Federal officials say the man was armed.
bit.ly
January 25, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
As I explained earlier this month, we're too literal abt what amounts to military occupation. The ICE/CPB operations in Blue cities are the kinds of garrisoning of civilian towns that the founding documents opposed. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...
Don’t Be So Literal About What Counts as a Military Occupation
I want to return to a topic I’ve alluded to in several...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
JUST IN: ICE agents in Minnesota arrested an employee at the St. Louis Park Homewood Suites — where they were staying to help carry out Operation Metro Surge.

A federal judge just ordered the man's release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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jfallows.bsky.social
Walz, Newsom, and especially Pritzker have been consistent in emphasizing that *history doesn't end with Trump.* (Unless, in ways we don't want to think about, it does.)

There will eventually be a reckoning. Pritzker has said that he will make accountability his cause.

ICE and CBP are today's KKK
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h
Walz: Minnesotans are witnessing, and we're creating a log of evidence for the future prosecution of ice agents and officials responsible for this.
January 24, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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rweingarten.bsky.social
This is a tragic and damning revelation that adds to an alarmingly long list of reported abuse and neglect immigrant detainees are suffering as this administration's extreme immigration crackdown has flooded detention facilities.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Autopsy report classifies ICE detainee’s death as a homicide
The report deeming an ICE detainee’s death in Texas a homicide comes the same day that a federal judge temporarily barred the deportation of two witnesses.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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warren.senate.gov
We can all see with our own eyes what ICE is doing to our neighbors.

It’s time for the Senate to step up and do the right thing. Stop this violence.
We can all see with our own eyes what ICE is doing to our neighbors.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
youtube.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
The first professional police force in the US began in 1838 in Boston. In 1854 only three cities had police forces: NYC, Philly, and Boston.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
Attorney General Pam Bondi: "Our country was founded on law enforcement"
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
Bondi: "It's extremely organized. The signs they have are all matching, they're well written. And look at what's happening today. How did these people go out & get gas masks? These protesters. Would you know how to walk out on the street and buy a gas mask? Think about that. We're not gonna have it"
January 25, 2026 at 1:16 AM
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demiliopics2.bsky.social
While Trump bloviates about Iran, forty immigrants, including Christians and two gay men, are set to be deported from the US to that repressive country that just massacred several thousand of its own citizens.
January 25, 2026 at 1:21 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Beyond helping establish DHS itself in 2003, Mr. Mitnick was a senate-confirmed Trump choice for General Counsel for DHS in his first term. I've talked with him a few times, and he's not a man for hyperbole. So bear that in mind when you see him calling out DHS's "lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty."
John Mitnick @JohnMitnick I helped to establish DHS in 2002 and 2003 and later had the homeland security portfolio as a White House Counsel and served as General Counsel of the Department. I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty. Impeach and remove Trump—now. George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts. The thugs wrestled him to the ground. They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times. They murdered him.
January 25, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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charlesgaba.com
I hope those criticizing me for raising money for Dem candidates in the wake of today’s murder finally understand why I’m doing so.

ALL of this is about FUCKING UP THE MIDTERMS (and 2028 of course).
chrismurphyct.bsky.social Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1h
Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.

Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.

Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
January 25, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
The Trump/ICE method is akin to stochastic terrorism. You flood a city with untrained hotheads. You pump them up with white nationalist propaganda and tell them to escalate and kick ass. You also make clear you'll shield them from any legal accountability. You don't know specifically who is going...
January 25, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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marcelias.bsky.social
I have been warning for weeks the administration will do anything to get these records. They want to rig the midterms

🚨“The letter adds the state’s unwillingness to share voting data to a litany of grievances the Trump administration has leveled against Minnesota.”🚨
AG Bondi demands access to Minnesota voter rolls after fatal Border Patrol shooting
Her demand came as Minneapolis was reeling from a second fatal shooting by a federal agent this month.
www.democracydocket.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:23 AM