Willia
@ruodthgd.northsky.social
Artist, dog-lover and avid reader.
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Alex Pretti was a hero to his last breath. he cared about people, and his government murdered him for that. they want us afraid. they wanted Alex Pretti to be afraid and he didn't flinch.
too often, the people of Minneapolis have been asked to be the best of us. may he rest in peace
too often, the people of Minneapolis have been asked to be the best of us. may he rest in peace
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 25, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Alex Pretti was a hero to his last breath. he cared about people, and his government murdered him for that. they want us afraid. they wanted Alex Pretti to be afraid and he didn't flinch.
too often, the people of Minneapolis have been asked to be the best of us. may he rest in peace
too often, the people of Minneapolis have been asked to be the best of us. may he rest in peace
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People seem to forget, a lot, if not MOST of these giant companies don't have liquid capital. Companies are as paycheck to paycheck as we are. A day of bad/no sales is a blip they've accounted for already. A week? A month of low/no sales? They'd be gone before they could start demanding intervention
January 25, 2026 at 1:17 AM
People seem to forget, a lot, if not MOST of these giant companies don't have liquid capital. Companies are as paycheck to paycheck as we are. A day of bad/no sales is a blip they've accounted for already. A week? A month of low/no sales? They'd be gone before they could start demanding intervention
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Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
January 24, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
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Most of this year's ICE budget comes from last year's reconciliation bill. House Democratic leaders discouraged its members from offering amendments eliminating that funding. Didn't want the party to come across as anti-ICE.
www.stephensemler.com/p/ice-budget...
www.stephensemler.com/p/ice-budget...
January 24, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Most of this year's ICE budget comes from last year's reconciliation bill. House Democratic leaders discouraged its members from offering amendments eliminating that funding. Didn't want the party to come across as anti-ICE.
www.stephensemler.com/p/ice-budget...
www.stephensemler.com/p/ice-budget...
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Solidarity, particularly across race and class, is Kryptonite for authoritarian regimes. They can only thrive when their us v. them framing is adopted by society at large, and they join as active or passive collaborators with the regime. So the only response they have is to raise the cost of unity
They are telling us in unequivocal terms that if you show solidarity with immigrants who are in the literal crosshairs of Trump/MAGA, you're risking a death sentence.
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
January 24, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Solidarity, particularly across race and class, is Kryptonite for authoritarian regimes. They can only thrive when their us v. them framing is adopted by society at large, and they join as active or passive collaborators with the regime. So the only response they have is to raise the cost of unity
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As people mobilize around the country, beware of claims that a sanitized version of "nonviolence" — passive, compliant and non-disruptive — is the only option.
As @thefreeradical.org detailed in-depth, these myths are based on bad history and social science. They're meant to serve the status quo.
As @thefreeradical.org detailed in-depth, these myths are based on bad history and social science. They're meant to serve the status quo.
Liberation is a Riot, Part 1: Debunking the Sanitized Nonviolence Myth
Based on shoddy research, bad history and outright lies, status quo propaganda portrays a sanitized version of ‘nonviolent’ protest as the only option, to damaging effect. It’s time to debunk it, and ...
transnews.network
January 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM
As people mobilize around the country, beware of claims that a sanitized version of "nonviolence" — passive, compliant and non-disruptive — is the only option.
As @thefreeradical.org detailed in-depth, these myths are based on bad history and social science. They're meant to serve the status quo.
As @thefreeradical.org detailed in-depth, these myths are based on bad history and social science. They're meant to serve the status quo.
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it's wild that we just need 5 - 10 congressional republicans to not suck for this to be over - like they just need to not be total shithead losers for five minutes and they can't even do that bc they actually deeply hate their constituents
January 15, 2026 at 2:36 PM
it's wild that we just need 5 - 10 congressional republicans to not suck for this to be over - like they just need to not be total shithead losers for five minutes and they can't even do that bc they actually deeply hate their constituents
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They're killing, assaulting, kidnapping, and torturing even MORE people than at any time before.
If this is "working" there damn well better be a plan and an end-game we're working towards or there won't be anyone left.
If this is "working" there damn well better be a plan and an end-game we're working towards or there won't be anyone left.
January 24, 2026 at 10:23 PM
They're killing, assaulting, kidnapping, and torturing even MORE people than at any time before.
If this is "working" there damn well better be a plan and an end-game we're working towards or there won't be anyone left.
If this is "working" there damn well better be a plan and an end-game we're working towards or there won't be anyone left.
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Fucking nightmarish that this I’m reupping this, but reports are now coming out that it was Border Patrol Officers, members of CBP, working under little-Nazi-trench-coat-Greg-Bovino who murdered Alex Jeffrey Pretti today.
ICE =/= CBP, although they are both under DHS. This is why it matters.
ICE =/= CBP, although they are both under DHS. This is why it matters.
Super important to note that on the ground reporting is using “federal agent” pretty heavily. This matters because photos, videos, & eye witness testimony make it an irrefutable fact that *both* ICE and CBP, two different federal agencies, were there at this raid, armed, etc.
"A witness to Wednesday’s shooting in south Minneapolis told MPR News that she saw a federal agent shoot a woman several times."
Content warning in that the witness goes on to accurately describe the brutality of these fascists. Ongoing coverage here:
Content warning in that the witness goes on to accurately describe the brutality of these fascists. Ongoing coverage here:
January 24, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Fucking nightmarish that this I’m reupping this, but reports are now coming out that it was Border Patrol Officers, members of CBP, working under little-Nazi-trench-coat-Greg-Bovino who murdered Alex Jeffrey Pretti today.
ICE =/= CBP, although they are both under DHS. This is why it matters.
ICE =/= CBP, although they are both under DHS. This is why it matters.
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They are so excited about intimidating people with violence that they're ignoring the need to let people keep pretending everything is normal
January 24, 2026 at 8:49 PM
They are so excited about intimidating people with violence that they're ignoring the need to let people keep pretending everything is normal
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White Americans are learning once again that the *only* thing that has ever made you safe from fascism is being willing to sacrifice non-white people. That is your contract with white supremacy. "Give us someone else so it won't be you."
January 24, 2026 at 8:32 PM
White Americans are learning once again that the *only* thing that has ever made you safe from fascism is being willing to sacrifice non-white people. That is your contract with white supremacy. "Give us someone else so it won't be you."
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Democrats can and must make it clear there will be trials and anyone even somewhat associated with ICE will face them. Maybe give a quit-your-job deadline on appeasement and give people 72 hours. I don't know. But currently the plan is to let them murder us in the street and get away with it.
January 24, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Democrats can and must make it clear there will be trials and anyone even somewhat associated with ICE will face them. Maybe give a quit-your-job deadline on appeasement and give people 72 hours. I don't know. But currently the plan is to let them murder us in the street and get away with it.
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i straight up just think everyone online with aggressive bad opinions is a bot now tbh
Political leaders could soon launch swarms of human-imitating #AI agents to reshape public opinion in a way that threatens to undermine #democracy, a high profile group of experts in AI and online misinformation has warned. (Guardian)
Experts warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media
Misinformation technology could be deployed at scale to disrupt 2028 US presidential election, AI researchers say
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:52 PM
i straight up just think everyone online with aggressive bad opinions is a bot now tbh
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All of this is only happening because ICE was established under the fascist Bush administration under a writ assuming all immigrants (documented or not) were potential terrorists and criminals, and this Nazism was normalized under Obama, Trump, and Biden.
The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for ICE agents to kill a 37-year-old nurse, who was only there because another ICE agent killed a 37-year-old mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
All of this is only happening because ICE was established under the fascist Bush administration under a writ assuming all immigrants (documented or not) were potential terrorists and criminals, and this Nazism was normalized under Obama, Trump, and Biden.
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I think every Conservative, and anyone else who supports ICE, needs to be -sorry- frozen out. Out of communities, hobbies, fandoms, game nights, friendships, gatherings, you name it. Give them nothing. No business, no time, no comfort. They get nothing but disdain until they get on the right side.
January 24, 2026 at 7:40 PM
I think every Conservative, and anyone else who supports ICE, needs to be -sorry- frozen out. Out of communities, hobbies, fandoms, game nights, friendships, gatherings, you name it. Give them nothing. No business, no time, no comfort. They get nothing but disdain until they get on the right side.
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Someone who had more connections with and was more valuable to the community than the entire DHS contingent in the Twin Cities.
January 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Someone who had more connections with and was more valuable to the community than the entire DHS contingent in the Twin Cities.
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People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie
January 24, 2026 at 5:49 PM
People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie
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And we now know they were lying
They wanted the right of whites and a whites only government to kill whenever it wants.
That was the principal
They wanted the right of whites and a whites only government to kill whenever it wants.
That was the principal
January 24, 2026 at 6:47 PM
And we now know they were lying
They wanted the right of whites and a whites only government to kill whenever it wants.
That was the principal
They wanted the right of whites and a whites only government to kill whenever it wants.
That was the principal
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How many children died in school shootings that were described as "a sad need" because of that same constitutional right which they'll now murder you for exercising?
January 24, 2026 at 6:57 PM
How many children died in school shootings that were described as "a sad need" because of that same constitutional right which they'll now murder you for exercising?
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There have to be repercussions. If there aren't they'll just kill whoever they want and America is over
A man, restrained on the sidewalk, beaten.
An agent draws his gun and shoots him five times in the chest.
There can be no defense of this, no argument of justification - he executed a man because that man defied him.
This was a murder. They are murdering us, for the fun of it.
What next?
An agent draws his gun and shoots him five times in the chest.
There can be no defense of this, no argument of justification - he executed a man because that man defied him.
This was a murder. They are murdering us, for the fun of it.
What next?
There’s video floating around. You don’t want to watch it.
News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall.
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News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall.
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January 24, 2026 at 6:58 PM
There have to be repercussions. If there aren't they'll just kill whoever they want and America is over
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Anyone telling you NOT to call your member of congress today is an op or under the influence of an op
There is literally no reason not to
Telling people not to call is not a radical position
There is literally no reason not to
Telling people not to call is not a radical position
January 24, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Anyone telling you NOT to call your member of congress today is an op or under the influence of an op
There is literally no reason not to
Telling people not to call is not a radical position
There is literally no reason not to
Telling people not to call is not a radical position
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Every single Trump voter is pissing and shitting on the graves of their Greatest Generation family members who they claim to revere.
January 24, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Every single Trump voter is pissing and shitting on the graves of their Greatest Generation family members who they claim to revere.
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Why are they sending witnesses to Whipple?
WHY ARE THEY SENDING WITNESSES TO WHIPPLE?
WHY ARE THEY SENDING WITNESSES TO WHIPPLE?
ICE attempted to order local police from the scene of the Minneapolis shooting, but the police chief refused and instructed his officers to preserve the crime scene.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 24, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Why are they sending witnesses to Whipple?
WHY ARE THEY SENDING WITNESSES TO WHIPPLE?
WHY ARE THEY SENDING WITNESSES TO WHIPPLE?
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Ice lied about a 5 year old child they kidnapped & the murder of Nicole Good why should I believe them now? 🤷♂️
January 24, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Ice lied about a 5 year old child they kidnapped & the murder of Nicole Good why should I believe them now? 🤷♂️