Laura Davis
pyiwackett.bsky.social
Laura Davis
@pyiwackett.bsky.social
Happily retired
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“These are communists.” Jackson County TN’s Christian nationalist podcasters, C.Jay Engel and Andrew Isker, mock the attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar, the killing of Alex Pretti, even the civil rights activism of Rosa Parks.
January 29, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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BAXTER, TN: “Former Putnam County Commissioner and Tennessee Highway Patrol State Trooper Jimmy Ray Neal has pleaded guilty to four counts of receiving depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct."

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January 29, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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One armed goon loses his shit at an observer who's backing up, and then several more armed goons tackle the observer to the ground, and then even more armed goons form a protective shield around the armed goons handcuffing the observer for hurting an armed goon's feelings.

This can't be "reformed"
January 27, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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The credibility test is this:
If some killed an ICE operative would the killer’s name be released?
January 27, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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So Greg Bovino is back to his post at USBP in El Centro. There are many lovely hardworking Americans in El Centro but at a place to be it is not to everyone’s taste. I had a hearing in El Centro and drove there the night before because you can’t get there in the morning…../1
January 27, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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Certainly appears moms with whistles won the Battle of Minneapolis.
January 27, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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Trump is nothing if not ready to sacrifice anyone and anything in order to save his own ass and the single most important thing that could happen right now is someone convincing him that the biggest driver of his unpopularity is not just Bovino and Noem but Stephen Miller personally
Feels like Trump is pretty much unconditionally surrendering as support collapses
January 27, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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On CNN, Anderson Cooper using the sentence "That was a lie" over and over tonight regarding the words of Noem, Miller and Bovino.
January 27, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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In my a new post I talk about how JD Vance and Stephen Miller have been responsible for the two biggest political disasters of Trump's second term so far - Greenland and Minnesota. Their "rules no longer apply to us" project is taking a huge, deserved hit.

www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-senate...
"The Senate and the White House are suddenly in the middle of the most serious political crisis of.....Trump’s second term"
Everyone needs to be calling Congress today - they need to hear from us. Loud and proud!
www.hopiumchronicles.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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January 27, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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Nothing in this carefully worded statement by DHS denies the crux of the reporting that Bovino was demoted to his previous job, lost social media access, will leave Minnesota and may retire soon.
January 27, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands….

Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those
January 25, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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The MN Department of Corrections has posted its own website to counter DHS lies…

mn.gov/doc/about/ne...
January 26, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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“If your state doesn’t help us we will be forced to murder its citizens” is an argument that only works on people who are already subnormal bootlickers.
Blanche: "Remember, what we all saw in that 10 or second video is not the full story. Every American should know that. The story goes way beyond that. It starts with the fact that literally for months we have received 0 assistance from the state of Minnesota."
January 26, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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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
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Akiva points out one of the glimmers of hope here: this administration has utterly lost the presumption of regularity, at least among honest judges.

It may be that DoJ will never recover it, which, as a defense lawyer, I think is not a bad thing.
Understand that 370 days ago even bringing a motion like this would probably have been treated as sanctionably frivolous

Today it was granted ex parte
A federal judge issues a restraining order against the feds, barring them from "destroying or altering evidence"

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January 25, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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January 25, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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NEW: The ICE killing of Alex Pretti, the second in Minneapolis, prompts quick legal action.

After ICE agents killed Alex Pretti on Saturday, lawyers responded quickly — leading to one TRO issued before the night's end aimed at preserving evidence of the killing.

My report at Law Dork:
The ICE killing of Alex Pretti, the second in Minneapolis, prompts quick legal responses
After ICE agents killed Alex Pretti on Saturday, lawyers took quick action in cases challenging the Trump administration's increasingly deadly efforts.
www.lawdork.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:41 AM
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The good thing about this blatant a lie is that it neatly ends any reasonable doubt about whether the death was murder.
January 25, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
January 24, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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Absolute banger of a comment on r/military:

www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...
January 25, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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January 25, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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By Saturday afternoon, some Trump admin. personnel had already begun scouring the internet and other resources trying to find information on Alex Pretti, including social media posts, that could tie him to what Team Trump call “extremists,” two sources familiar with the matter tell @zeteo.com
New: Alex Pretti, the man killed by the Trump-Vance mob of agents was an outdoorsmen, a mountain biker, an ICU nurse who "would go out of his way to help," say Veterans Affairs colleagues.

Cheerful. Funny. Gentle.

And still, per sources, Trump officials are urging staff to call him a "terrorist."
DHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a ‘Sweet’ and ‘Principled Person’
Zeteo spoke with two doctors who worked with Alex Pretti, a nurse who is the latest victim of Trump’s violent invasion of Minnesota.
zeteo.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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This is Alex Pretti.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 AM