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ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.
January 25, 2026 at 4:36 AM
ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.
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Just a general note that a concerted widespread nurses strike would buckle the united states economy in weeks.
The American Nurses Association on Alex Pretti:
"The seriousness of this incident and others demand transparency and accountability. ANA calls for a full, unencumbered investigation, and urges that findings be shared promptly and clearly so Alex's loved ones and the public have answers."
"The seriousness of this incident and others demand transparency and accountability. ANA calls for a full, unencumbered investigation, and urges that findings be shared promptly and clearly so Alex's loved ones and the public have answers."
January 25, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Just a general note that a concerted widespread nurses strike would buckle the united states economy in weeks.
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For those who have FB, here's a donation link to help his mom: www.facebook.com/share/p/1B6N...
They've raised $2,171 of the $4,750 she needs to get her son's body from the morgue and back to Nicaragua.
They've raised $2,171 of the $4,750 she needs to get her son's body from the morgue and back to Nicaragua.
María del Rosario Díaz García needs to raise $4,750 to get her son's body back to Nicaragua after he died at ICE's Camp East Montana earlier this month.
The Texas Nicaraguan Community has set up a donation link on her behalf at: www.facebook.com/share/p/1DLk...
The Texas Nicaraguan Community has set up a donation link on her behalf at: www.facebook.com/share/p/1DLk...
January 25, 2026 at 5:48 AM
For those who have FB, here's a donation link to help his mom: www.facebook.com/share/p/1B6N...
They've raised $2,171 of the $4,750 she needs to get her son's body from the morgue and back to Nicaragua.
They've raised $2,171 of the $4,750 she needs to get her son's body from the morgue and back to Nicaragua.
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I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.
January 25, 2026 at 2:20 AM
I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.
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It breaks my heart that this man was also recently murdered by an off duty ice thug and has gotten barely a fraction of the attention
Keith Porter was murdered by ICE on NY eve, by an agent who wasn't even on duty at the time.
Family of man killed by off-duty ICE agent in LA demands charges: ‘The ache will never go away’
After Renee Good’s killing in Minneapolis, calls grow for accountability in the shooting of Keith Porter Jr on New Year’s Eve
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:08 AM
It breaks my heart that this man was also recently murdered by an off duty ice thug and has gotten barely a fraction of the attention
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Let's go.
"National Nurses United calls for a no vote on the Homeland Security Appropriations bill that is up for Senate approval next week and demands Congress abolish ICE entirely."
Abolish ICE ENTIRELY.
"National Nurses United calls for a no vote on the Homeland Security Appropriations bill that is up for Senate approval next week and demands Congress abolish ICE entirely."
Abolish ICE ENTIRELY.
The largest union of nurses in the US calls for the abolition of ICE::
National Nurses United outraged by murder of VA registered nurse by immigration agents, demand abolition of ICE
NNU issued the following statement in response to the murder of Alex Pretti, RN: “The nation’s nurses, who make it their mission to care for and save human lives, are horrified and outraged that immig...
www.nationalnursesunited.org
January 25, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Let's go.
"National Nurses United calls for a no vote on the Homeland Security Appropriations bill that is up for Senate approval next week and demands Congress abolish ICE entirely."
Abolish ICE ENTIRELY.
"National Nurses United calls for a no vote on the Homeland Security Appropriations bill that is up for Senate approval next week and demands Congress abolish ICE entirely."
Abolish ICE ENTIRELY.
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Text of the video posted by Mac Randolph “Never wanted to share this video but his speech is very on point.”
January 25, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Text of the video posted by Mac Randolph “Never wanted to share this video but his speech is very on point.”
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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America’s unions mourn the senseless killing by federal agents of our AFGE Local 3669 union brother and VA nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
We reiterate our call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed.
https://bit.ly/4pVTpFO
We reiterate our call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed.
https://bit.ly/4pVTpFO
January 25, 2026 at 12:22 AM
America’s unions mourn the senseless killing by federal agents of our AFGE Local 3669 union brother and VA nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
We reiterate our call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed.
https://bit.ly/4pVTpFO
We reiterate our call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed.
https://bit.ly/4pVTpFO
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AFGE disaffiliated ICE from the union in 2022,
www.afge.org/publication/...
But the National Border Patrol Council is still affiliated with AFGE and putting out disinformation on the shooting about "consequences and repercussions"
www.afge.org/publication/...
But the National Border Patrol Council is still affiliated with AFGE and putting out disinformation on the shooting about "consequences and repercussions"
January 25, 2026 at 12:39 AM
AFGE disaffiliated ICE from the union in 2022,
www.afge.org/publication/...
But the National Border Patrol Council is still affiliated with AFGE and putting out disinformation on the shooting about "consequences and repercussions"
www.afge.org/publication/...
But the National Border Patrol Council is still affiliated with AFGE and putting out disinformation on the shooting about "consequences and repercussions"
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“Hundreds of immigrant mothers” in Texas concentration camp uprising
There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
January 24, 2026 at 11:11 PM
“Hundreds of immigrant mothers” in Texas concentration camp uprising
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January 24, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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La Resistencia volunteers who observe the deportation flights informed us about the number of people deported from and transferred from Northwest Detention Center
January 24, 2026 at 10:17 PM
La Resistencia volunteers who observe the deportation flights informed us about the number of people deported from and transferred from Northwest Detention Center
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AFGE Local 3669 statement:
January 24, 2026 at 8:46 PM
AFGE Local 3669 statement:
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Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
January 24, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
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Demonstration popping off now inside Dilley ICE detention in Texas in response to the news from Minneapolis and the mistreatment of 5 yr old, Liam Ramos.
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80% of the detainees, 1500 people many of them children are chanting and disrupting prison operation.
x.com/EricLeeAtty/...
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80% of the detainees, 1500 people many of them children are chanting and disrupting prison operation.
x.com/EricLeeAtty/...
January 24, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Demonstration popping off now inside Dilley ICE detention in Texas in response to the news from Minneapolis and the mistreatment of 5 yr old, Liam Ramos.
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80% of the detainees, 1500 people many of them children are chanting and disrupting prison operation.
x.com/EricLeeAtty/...
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80% of the detainees, 1500 people many of them children are chanting and disrupting prison operation.
x.com/EricLeeAtty/...
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There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
January 24, 2026 at 11:04 PM
There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
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What a stark, horrifying demonstration of the tension a union opens itself to when it organizes security forces.
If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?
If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?
My god.
Statement from AFGE: Alex was a member. His killer may have been as well.
Statement from AFGE: Alex was a member. His killer may have been as well.
January 24, 2026 at 9:46 PM
What a stark, horrifying demonstration of the tension a union opens itself to when it organizes security forces.
If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?
If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?
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The point is not "told you so" but to recognize how your reactions are shaped by racial narratives and normalization, and you can take this opportunity to overcome and denaturalize that hardness and cruelty within yourself, to deconstruct the whiteness that makes you defend the indefensible
January 24, 2026 at 10:58 PM
The point is not "told you so" but to recognize how your reactions are shaped by racial narratives and normalization, and you can take this opportunity to overcome and denaturalize that hardness and cruelty within yourself, to deconstruct the whiteness that makes you defend the indefensible
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The pain and the outrage is correct and just and I'm glad everyone can see and understand it here, and this is also already what BLM was, if you argued for training, police reform or body cams instead of abolition this is what you sounded like, this is why people were so mad at you
January 24, 2026 at 10:50 PM
The pain and the outrage is correct and just and I'm glad everyone can see and understand it here, and this is also already what BLM was, if you argued for training, police reform or body cams instead of abolition this is what you sounded like, this is why people were so mad at you
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"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
January 24, 2026 at 9:14 PM
"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
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It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
January 24, 2026 at 7:05 PM
It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
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Even now, even through all of this, the rapid responders in Uptown have continued to locate, pursue, and monitor ICE vehicles. They never stop. Heroes one and all
January 24, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Even now, even through all of this, the rapid responders in Uptown have continued to locate, pursue, and monitor ICE vehicles. They never stop. Heroes one and all
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Once again, observers are not protesting. This wasn’t during a protest. He was murdered while being in his community and observing the out of control federal occupation of our city.
The officer who fatally shot a Minneapolis man during a protest is an 8-year Border Patrol veteran, federal officials say.
Police chief calls for calm after a man is shot and killed during Minneapolis immigration crackdown
Federal immigration officers have shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.
bit.ly
January 24, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Once again, observers are not protesting. This wasn’t during a protest. He was murdered while being in his community and observing the out of control federal occupation of our city.
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Our initial analysis is up.
The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.
He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.
He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
January 24, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Our initial analysis is up.
The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.
He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.
He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.