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Oliver Willis

@owillis.bsky.social

in trump's america, normal ass federal bureaucrats sound like damned paul revere just for doing their jobs

Jerome Powell: We at the Fed will continue to do our jobs with objectivity, integrity, and a deep commitment to serve the American people

January 28, 2026 at 8:07 PM

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🗝️🐍🦉🌙 Dolly 🗡️ Dagger 🍉🇺🇦📚🌈

@dollydagger6.bsky.social

You can’t just say “Abolish ICE”. You also have to say “Abolish ICE and throw every person working in the agency into federal prison for crimes against humanity”.

January 27, 2026 at 8:26 PM

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Sandra 🗽is abolish ICE!

@gobuxgal.bsky.social

Everyone still think athletes will avoid DHS (ICE, CBP etc) racial profiling?
#WorldCup ⚽️

Giants star Jung Hoo Lee detained by CBP

The South Korean was traveling to California on Wednesday to take part in a Giants FanFest tour stop in San Ramon.

sfstandard.com

January 26, 2026 at 11:54 PM

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Katie Mack

@astrokatie.com

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM

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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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Max Berger

@maxberger.bsky.social

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.”

January 24, 2026 at 6:08 PM

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Adam Schwarz

@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Noem:

"An individual approached US border patrol officers... The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently."

Video footage from multiple angles proves that this is outright bullshit.

Alex Pretti did not approach ICE officers nor did he react violently.

January 24, 2026 at 10:41 PM

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Paul Myers

@pulmyears.bsky.social

It is more important than ever to bear video witness of not just every masked ICE incursion, but every police stop by actual cops.

January 24, 2026 at 10:17 PM

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Acyn

@acyn.bsky.social

AOC: I’m very encouraged by statements from Senator Tillis and Senator Murkowski, but it is frankly very disturbing that we are not seeing more resistance across the board.

January 13, 2026 at 1:51 AM

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Tracy C 🦋 💙 🫘 🥄

@tracytrixie.bsky.social

Hey @thehill.com we’re still waiting on your apologies for this lie. 🤷‍♀️

January 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM

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Tangerine Twit Troll

@tangerinetwittroll.bsky.social

Looks like the regime has put JD in charge of bullshit.

January 11, 2026 at 9:08 PM

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RealLowVibe

@reallowvibe.bsky.social

There’s a tremendous amount of stuff happening all at once, even more than we’ve come to expect.

That said, please keep eyes on Minneapolis today.

So far this morning, Vance arrived & Congressional representatives were threatened by ICE in person as they were denied oversight to ICE facilities.

January 10, 2026 at 5:53 PM

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Adam Schwarz

@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal warns ICE:

"No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested".

"Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".

January 10, 2026 at 3:43 PM

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Forbes

@forbes.com

Delivering his first annual foreign policy speech, Pope Leo did not hold back in his criticism for the might-makes-right mentality of world leaders.

Pope Leo Slams ‘Zeal For War,’ Says US Must Respect Will Of Venezuelan People

Delivering his first annual foreign policy speech, Pope Leo did not hold back in his criticism for the might-makes-right mentality of world leaders.

www.forbes.com

January 9, 2026 at 5:30 PM

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Skye

@simplyskye.bsky.social

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

January 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD

@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

Post from Amanda Gorman’s Instagram that says

amandascgorman
Minneapolis, Minnesota
For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by ICE. on January 7, 2026
by Amanda Gorman
They say she is no more, That there her absence roars, Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles, Dark fury of flowers, Pure howling of hymns.
If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we've been.
Change is only possible, & all the greater, When the labour
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love
* better angels of our nature.

January 9, 2026 at 2:54 AM

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SW(rath)

@toasterposey.art

It can both be true that it would be no more justifiable if ICE had murdered a non-citizen

AND it’s important to note that your citizenship doesn’t protect you from this administration. They will kill whoever they want to.

January 8, 2026 at 2:08 AM

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Dr. DaShanne Stokes

@dashannestokes.com

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need more of this.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...

Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job

Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.

www.ms.now

January 8, 2026 at 6:02 PM

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Darren and Poley

@darrenandpoley.bsky.social

A reminder that ICE was founded in 2003. This nation did just fine without the organization for over 200 years. Just about everyone on Bluesky is older than ICE.

January 8, 2026 at 2:21 AM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

"This was a family that could've been like mine" -- Philip Bump breaks down crying on MS NOW when talking about the stuffed animals in Renee Good's car when she was killed

January 8, 2026 at 5:23 PM

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Acyn

@acyn.bsky.social

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.