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Status Coup News

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🚨"I'm a nurse...my brown patients are choosing to stop chemo because they do not want to be abducted." -ICE protester tells JT Cestkowski about sick Minnesotans foregoing cancer treatment because of ICE terror. LIVE NOW ⬇️

January 19, 2026 at 11:12 PM

spateroni.bsky.social

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@schumer.senate.gov @democrats.senate.gov Please make a lot of public noise to encourage GOP Senators to rein DHS in. Even if it does not work, it shows the public who is responsible.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 6h

Yes, the GOP controls Congress. That's why it's key to show Congress COULD stop the madness. And it's not just the DHS bill. Congress could repeal the prior multi-year $75b for DHS; set up a special investigative committee (cf. Watergate); amend the Insurrection Act; etc.

January 25, 2026 at 6:24 PM

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Mark Zaid, Esq

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No one who supports 2nd Amendment should be ok with what Trump officials are saying.

The law allows open carry in MN. Pretti also possessed concealed carry permit.

One can question whether good judgment to bring weapon into this type of heated situation, but he had every legal right to do so.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2h

Bessent: I'm sorry he is dead, but he did bring a semiautomatic weapon to what was supposed to be a peaceful protest.

Karl: There's no evidence that he brandished the gun whatsoever

Bessent: But he brought a gun!

Karl: We do have a second amendment in this country.

January 25, 2026 at 6:14 PM

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L.A. TACO

@lataco.bsky.social

01/25 9:45AM
Border Patrol is out in Los Angeles, sightings in Echo Park/ Silverlake and South Central.
Please stay alert, get vulnerable people inside. Record everything and be safe.

January 25, 2026 at 6:04 PM

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derek guy

@dieworkwear.bsky.social

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon.

wapo.st/49Zqv1L

January 25, 2026 at 6:11 PM

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Jake Charles

@jacobdcharles.bsky.social

Patel is wrong. Only 16 states prohibit guns at protests & Minnesota is not one of them.

Gun-rights extremists—like many in the trump admin—have fought against restrictions like these, calling them infringements on the Second Amendment right.

giffords.org/lawcenter/gu...

January 25, 2026 at 5:16 PM

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Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

January 25, 2026 at 4:26 AM

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸

@gtconway.bsky.social

Bernice King has it absolutely right. We are facing a moral crisis in this country. And we must all act together to end it.

January 25, 2026 at 6:45 AM

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Rachel Bitecofer

@rachelbitecofer.bsky.social

Footage where you can hear the children shouting.

These kids went to school with your kids, they love Bluey and Pokémon and now they’re screaming in terror.

January 25, 2026 at 5:16 AM

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Claude Monet

@monet.bsky.social

In the 1860s, Monet and Renoir shared lodging in the countryside.
Struggling financially, they planted potatoes and lived off the crop.
While the Paris Salon rejected their art, they survived—painting by day, digging by night.

January 25, 2026 at 5:19 AM

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la flaneuse 😷

@laflaneuse.bsky.social

As we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.

Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 7d

36-year-old Nicaraguan national Victor Manuel Diaz died in ICE custody on Jan. 14 at Camp East Montana in El Paso.

The Texas Nicaraguan Community on FB reports that his mom last heard from him on Jan. 6, when he told her he was planning to go to Minneapolis to start work in a restaurant. 1/3

A man wearing a black-and-white patterned jacket with a red zipper sits in the back seat of a car, looking at the camera, with bright daylight coming through the window behind them.

January 25, 2026 at 4:48 AM

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Andrea Junker

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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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Andy Craig

@andycraig.bsky.social

The killing happened about 15 hours ago. Since then:

- MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (FBI equivalent) got a warrant for the evidence on the scene
- Tried to execute it
- Were forcibly turned away by feds
- Filed for a temporary restraining order
- TRO granted by the federal district court

January 25, 2026 at 5:34 AM

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Nolan Hicks

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January 25, 2026 at 4:10 AM

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dell cameron

@dell.bsky.social

Minnesota's state FBI-like bureau is suing Noem. It says before pre-emptively declaring the killing righteous and abandoning the crime scene, feds took exclusive custody of evidence, including "apparently seized cellphones."

MN asserts a sovereign right to investigate crimes within its borders.

#1 in Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension v. Noem (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cv-00628) – CourtListener.com

COMPLAINT against All Defendants (filing fee $ 405, receipt number AMNDC-12575332) filed by Hennepin County Attorney's Office, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Filer requests summons issued....

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January 25, 2026 at 4:11 AM

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Kyle Cheney

@kyledcheney.bsky.social

JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

January 25, 2026 at 3:55 AM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

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.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
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 26th 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 28th. 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.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15h

Holy shit.

January 25, 2026 at 4:45 AM

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Jon Cooper

@joncooper-us.bsky.social

Holy shit.

January 25, 2026 at 3:48 AM

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Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM

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Sandy

@sandy174.bsky.social

MELIA had a heartbreaking past. But we can make sure her future is bright. Please read and repost her bio below. Training is funded to whomever adopts her. Please 🙏

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January 24, 2026 at 9:49 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

January 25, 2026 at 12:20 AM

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

To those blaming Walz for not mobilizing the Guard, he did that six days ago. I have to say it's disturbing to see people angry at Walz instead of the government agents that just executed a man. As though we should all be experts about what to do when a secret police force invades an American city.

January 24, 2026 at 6:14 PM