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Brendan C. Hamilton
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Writer, poet, and historian. Author of Year of Crows and Jerusalem Plank Road. American Civil War history geek. Associate editor at www.irishamericancivilwar.com

https://brendanchamilton.weebly.com
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Hi all! I'm new to the platform and wanted to introduce myself. I'm a writer, poet, historian, and associate editor for irishamericancivilwar.com.

My American Civil War novel, Year of Crows, is currently on sale in ebook and paperback formats below:
brendanchamilton.weebly.com
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America 🇺🇸
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 1:28 AM
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Execution
Federal agents in Minneapolis wrestled Alex Pretti to the ground and secured the handgun he was carrying moments before shooting him multiple times, according to a Washington Post analysis of video footage.

Read more: https://wapo.st/4qGOx8M
January 25, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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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.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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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."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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"Down with the traitors, up with the stars"
photographer is Jeff Wheeler at the Star Tribune. guy with the flag is Curtis Evans, a Marine veteran.
January 25, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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Horrifying NEWS: “These are incredibly straightforward cases,” attorney Rebekah Wolf, who is desperately fighting to save her clients from being sent to torture or death by getting a federal judge to stay the removal before tomorrow’s flight, told me this afternoon.
www.advocate.com/news/iranian...
Trump administration is potentially sending two gay men to their death by preparing to deport them to Iran
“They are textbook asylum cases,” attorney Rebekah Wolf told The Advocate. “People from a country where who they are is criminalized and punishable by torture or death — that is literally the definiti...
www.advocate.com
January 24, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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218 people voted to fund the child kidnapping ring and masked death squads.
218 with 7 Democrats voting for it, the DHS bill passes
January 22, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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The National Association of Base Ball Players was founded OTD in 1857. To celebrate the 1887 season, the league issued advertising notes (this one branded by Kenton, OH jeweler Bennett Garrettson). It featured Chicago White Stockings president Albert Spalding and images of the team on the back. 🗃️
January 22, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
I look forward to reading this!
Blueskis, studies have shown that when folks see or hear about a book more than five times, they are likely to check it out, and buy it.

So in the spirit of creating buzz, here is the gorgeous cover of THE WESTERNERS, which will be published on March 31!
January 18, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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Latest NYT video analysis.

The White House is lying.

Gift link.
Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
January 15, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.

He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
January 15, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car"
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."
January 15, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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ICE left papers behind in a vehicle. It was broken into, and the contents were examined.

They had several different challenge coins, including one with a skull and vultures on it.

They also have a national DNA database.
archive.org/details/icHS...
icepapers : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Footage belongs to StatusCoup and taken from MeidasTouch channel on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RiaPyZMrtUhere's the original screen recording,...
archive.org
January 15, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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I recently discussed "Green & Blue", Irish Americans in the Civil War and a few other topics on the Public History with Justin, Jake & Molly Podcast. For anyone interested you can catch the episode here: wynninghistory.com/2026/01/12/p...
Irish Americans in the Civil War | Public History Podcast
A podcast conversation with historian Damien Shiels on Irish Americans in the Union Army—moving beyond the Irish Brigade to class, wages, pensions, and Civil War memory.
wynninghistory.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .
January 13, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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The epitome of a “Kavanaugh Stop.”

“[CBP] sometimes makes brief investigative stops to check immigration status…. If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a US citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go.”

History will remember Brett.
ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🤬
January 13, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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This is literally the exact thing the 4th Amendment was written to prevent. This is horrifying.
Greg Bovino has officially kicked off door-to-door raids. ICE/CBP goons are seen blocking an entire block, while Bovino and his Gestapo personally go door-to-door. (St. Paul, MN. January 11, 2026)
January 12, 2026 at 12:29 AM
The Braindead Kennedys
Slightly diminish a band:

They Might Be Pretty Tall
Slightly diminish a band

Concerning Straits
January 10, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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This is my blood
October 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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A New York Times video analysis of an ICE agent’s fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis contradicts the Trump administration’s account. Watch our investigation here.
Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
nyti.ms
January 8, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Shame on this murderous administration and its masked Gestapo.
WARNING — GRAPHIC CONTENT

This video is absolutely horrific. ICE shot and killed a woman in her car as she was attempting to drive away.

The violence and aggression must stop. Get ICE out of our cities.
January 7, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….
January 3, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM