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R.O.L.
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Weekend writer and human person trying to survive this late capitalism dystopian hellscape. I am definitely not a cat.

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When I jump out of my truck, I got people running back into their apartments or staring at me and making phone calls....I'm not ICE, but they see a uniform and now I'm ICE."

@timmiller.bsky.social and @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social discuss real cops and how ICE is hurting law enforcement:
January 31, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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“Former CNN anchor and independent journalist Don Lemon has been arrested by federal agents investigating an anti-ICE protest that disrupted a Minnesota church service, according to his attorney.”
www.ms.now/news/don-lem...
Don Lemon arrested over Minnesota church protest, attorney says
The former CNN anchor said he was there as a journalist, not an activist.
www.ms.now
January 30, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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ICE Body Cameras?

Right, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

Right, @schumer.senate.gov

Because the threat of it being on video sure stopped ICE from murdering Renee Good and Alex Pretti 🤦🏼‍♂️
January 29, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib.

He thought he was going to die.

Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.

And a mob of agents killed him.
January 27, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Minnesota investigators were denied access to the murder scene while having a Judicial Warrant Signed by a Judge in hand…

A Government police force that woks under “Might Makes Right” rule. They are not like the fucking Gestapo, they are the fucking Gestapo.

www.instagram.com/reel/DT74B5M...
Georgia Fort on Instagram: "State investigators with the BCA were blocked from accessing the scene following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minnesota. The BCA went as far as getting a signed jud...
3,227 likes, 103 comments - bygeorgiafort on January 25, 2026: "State investigators with the BCA were blocked from accessing the scene following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minnesota. The BCA...
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January 25, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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Violence at the hands of the state is nothing new and has been the reality for many non-white Americans since the very beginning. This needs to be top of mind when confronting what happens next and where we go from here.
January 25, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.
January 24, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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a civil engineer

valid work visa

master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Maine in May 2023

in June 2023, started work at GEI Consultants in Portland

no criminal record

themainemonitor.org/masked-agent...
Masked agents detain civil engineer in Portland
The man is in the U.S. on a work visa after receiving a master’s degree. Agents left his car running in the street with a smashed window.
themainemonitor.org
January 24, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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Alex Pretti's parents found out about his death when the Associated Press called them. They then had to make phone calls until they reached the county medical examiner. So heartbreaking. coloradosun.com/2026/01/24/c...
Colorado parents of man killed in Minneapolis urged him to be careful at ICE protests
Alex Jeffrey Pretti “loved this country, but he hated what people were doing to it,” his father said from Colorado.
coloradosun.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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Gov. Tim Walz: "Thank God we have video, because according to DHS, these seven heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against them or something. It's nonsense, people. It's nonsense and it is lies."
January 24, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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OMG. "DHS said the episode began after a man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and they tried to disarm him. But footage from the scene shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Update from Devon Lum
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
January 24, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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The amount of money that is currently going to fund immigration enforcement in the US is larger than the military budgets of every country in the world other than the US and China. We are witnessing a military assault on American cities by a wildly unpopular governing party.
January 24, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Never - stop - fucking - recording.
January 24, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week
January 24, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Everything points to: a citizen, a white man, legal gun owner, observing and filming executed by ICE after being beat and disarmed by seven, SEVEN Agents…

Are we still the alarmists!?
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
January 23, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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January 24, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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photo 1/23/26 by Alex Kormann for The Minnesota Star Tribune

www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 24, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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New: an FBI agent who took the routine step of investigating the ICE officer who shot Renee Good has resigned after FBI leadership discouraged the investigation
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...
F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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!!!!

"Aides to Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Atty’s office and FBI agents based in MN to shut down a civil rights investigation into an officer’s fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability, according to three people briefed on the discussions."
January 24, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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January 24, 2026 at 12:10 AM