@saltandrage.bsky.social
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"Why is it so normal for law enforcement — those who are supposed to be keepers of law and order — to kill Americans? And why is the only question at the end of the day how much their victims deserved to die?"
Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...
Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...
January 25, 2026 at 5:12 PM
"Why is it so normal for law enforcement — those who are supposed to be keepers of law and order — to kill Americans? And why is the only question at the end of the day how much their victims deserved to die?"
Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...
Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...
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This line from the NYTimes editorial board is bizarre. The government doesn't get to just murder people if it decides it's in "the public interest." That's exactly the kind of 'rationale' offered by the Trump administration for its assassinations of fishermen in the Caribbean.
January 25, 2026 at 7:56 PM
This line from the NYTimes editorial board is bizarre. The government doesn't get to just murder people if it decides it's in "the public interest." That's exactly the kind of 'rationale' offered by the Trump administration for its assassinations of fishermen in the Caribbean.
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Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 24, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
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Don’t let this White House lie to you. Believe what you see.
Alex Pretti was trying to help a woman off the ground. Then immigration agents tackled, shot, and killed him.
It’s time for them to get the hell out of MN.
Alex Pretti was trying to help a woman off the ground. Then immigration agents tackled, shot, and killed him.
It’s time for them to get the hell out of MN.
January 25, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Don’t let this White House lie to you. Believe what you see.
Alex Pretti was trying to help a woman off the ground. Then immigration agents tackled, shot, and killed him.
It’s time for them to get the hell out of MN.
Alex Pretti was trying to help a woman off the ground. Then immigration agents tackled, shot, and killed him.
It’s time for them to get the hell out of MN.
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TW ⚠️
The stabilized version is brutal.
The stabilized version is brutal.
January 25, 2026 at 2:13 AM
TW ⚠️
The stabilized version is brutal.
The stabilized version is brutal.
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WELKER: Did at any point Mr. Pretti brandish a gun?
BLANCHE: There's obviously an investigation that's ongoing.
WELKER: But did he brandish a gun? Video shows he's holding up a phone
BLANCHE: We don't know what ICE saw
(That's a no!)
BLANCHE: There's obviously an investigation that's ongoing.
WELKER: But did he brandish a gun? Video shows he's holding up a phone
BLANCHE: We don't know what ICE saw
(That's a no!)
January 25, 2026 at 3:03 PM
WELKER: Did at any point Mr. Pretti brandish a gun?
BLANCHE: There's obviously an investigation that's ongoing.
WELKER: But did he brandish a gun? Video shows he's holding up a phone
BLANCHE: We don't know what ICE saw
(That's a no!)
BLANCHE: There's obviously an investigation that's ongoing.
WELKER: But did he brandish a gun? Video shows he's holding up a phone
BLANCHE: We don't know what ICE saw
(That's a no!)
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I'm at a loss for words. I'm glad someone else has them.
January 25, 2026 at 8:51 AM
I'm at a loss for words. I'm glad someone else has them.
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A completely insane take.
Also, guess what gun ICE issues to it's officers? That's right, the same Sig P320 Pretti was carrying.
Also, guess what gun ICE issues to it's officers? That's right, the same Sig P320 Pretti was carrying.
From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
January 25, 2026 at 2:10 PM
A completely insane take.
Also, guess what gun ICE issues to it's officers? That's right, the same Sig P320 Pretti was carrying.
Also, guess what gun ICE issues to it's officers? That's right, the same Sig P320 Pretti was carrying.
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I’ve reached out to both Gov. Walz and Sen. Klobuchar following the latest shooting involving federal agents in Minnesota.
Marylanders have witnessed this cruelty in our own communities – during a school drop-off in Salisbury and in Glen Burnie on Christmas Eve. These are not isolated incidents.
Marylanders have witnessed this cruelty in our own communities – during a school drop-off in Salisbury and in Glen Burnie on Christmas Eve. These are not isolated incidents.
January 24, 2026 at 7:08 PM
I’ve reached out to both Gov. Walz and Sen. Klobuchar following the latest shooting involving federal agents in Minnesota.
Marylanders have witnessed this cruelty in our own communities – during a school drop-off in Salisbury and in Glen Burnie on Christmas Eve. These are not isolated incidents.
Marylanders have witnessed this cruelty in our own communities – during a school drop-off in Salisbury and in Glen Burnie on Christmas Eve. These are not isolated incidents.
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People in the highest levels of our government have all spent the last 24 hours willfully and repeatedly slandering and defaming an American citizen whom they brutally murdered in broad daylight.
Fascism is fully here.
Fascism is fully here.
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 PM
People in the highest levels of our government have all spent the last 24 hours willfully and repeatedly slandering and defaming an American citizen whom they brutally murdered in broad daylight.
Fascism is fully here.
Fascism is fully here.
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This is how fascism comes to America. It’s the endless events, day after day, until one day you wake up in a different country. Anti-immigrant rhetoric, censorship, attacks on universities, masked terror squads murdering people in the streets, enemy lists, denaturalization, camps
January 24, 2026 at 7:24 PM
This is how fascism comes to America. It’s the endless events, day after day, until one day you wake up in a different country. Anti-immigrant rhetoric, censorship, attacks on universities, masked terror squads murdering people in the streets, enemy lists, denaturalization, camps
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This is WATERGATE at gunpoint in broad day light.
Hello, Congress?
Hello, Congress?
January 25, 2026 at 1:36 PM
This is WATERGATE at gunpoint in broad day light.
Hello, Congress?
Hello, Congress?
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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
Read more: https://wapo.st/4qGOx8M
January 25, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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
Read more: https://wapo.st/4qGOx8M
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It's really too bad the United States Congress no longer exists.
January 24, 2026 at 9:41 PM
It's really too bad the United States Congress no longer exists.
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Thank you for the important work you do @vjaybomb.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Thank you for the important work you do @vjaybomb.bsky.social
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A merica is very recognizable. This is the same America it’s always been, you could just pretend not to see it before. - Adrienne Caulk
Pic of the day
#photography
Pic of the day
#photography
January 25, 2026 at 12:59 PM
A merica is very recognizable. This is the same America it’s always been, you could just pretend not to see it before. - Adrienne Caulk
Pic of the day
#photography
Pic of the day
#photography
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there's so much i want to say about how it got this bad because we didn't do enough to protect the most vulnerable of our communities when we had the chance... whatever. don't let this martyr die in vain.
January 24, 2026 at 9:38 PM
there's so much i want to say about how it got this bad because we didn't do enough to protect the most vulnerable of our communities when we had the chance... whatever. don't let this martyr die in vain.
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i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 PM
i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
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Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)
January 25, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)
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Chris Murphy: "This is really scary because what Bovino essentially told you is that if you just happen to be present when they are undertaking an operation, if you pull out your phone to record it, the use of force against you is justified. That is not true, it's not what the law says."
January 25, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Chris Murphy: "This is really scary because what Bovino essentially told you is that if you just happen to be present when they are undertaking an operation, if you pull out your phone to record it, the use of force against you is justified. That is not true, it's not what the law says."
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I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth:
“ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king.
This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”
“ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king.
This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”
January 24, 2026 at 6:08 PM
I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth:
“ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king.
This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”
“ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king.
This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”
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I’ve felt sick with anxiety, anger, and sadness all day. Masked police killing people in the street in broad daylight. We are living in hell. This is only going to get worse.
January 24, 2026 at 8:42 PM
I’ve felt sick with anxiety, anger, and sadness all day. Masked police killing people in the street in broad daylight. We are living in hell. This is only going to get worse.
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they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.