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Starlisa
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I am here, not there! One day, one step at a time. Wondering if I took a wrong turn and ended up in the wrong universe where there is so much anger and hate it is sticky! Replacing the negatives with kindness when I can.
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starlisab.bsky.social
Long before Nazi Germany, systems like slave patrols, forced removals of Native peoples, reservation camps, and racial pass systems existed in the U.S. Historians have shown that these models were studied abroad and helped normalize forms of state control later used by authoritarian regimes.
January 27, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Just days after a group of Trump-aligned billionaires officially took over TikTok in the U.S., users reported their videos criticizing ICE and the shooting of Alex Pretti were suppressed or delayed.

The oligarchy is tightening its grip over even more of our media.

Beware.
January 27, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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melbuer.bsky.social
Are you on the streets of MN? Would you like to share your thoughts about what you've experienced?

I'm working on a special episode of The Union Bug feat. voices from folks OTG, stitched together as a quilt of oral history. Wanna share a voice or text note? DM or Signal @ mel_buer.99 before Feb 1
QR code of Mel's signal contact. Username is mel_buer.99
January 27, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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agreenberg.bsky.social
Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials.

Then he had to get out alive. This is his story.

🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...
He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive
A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
The guy genuinely gave a shit.

And the empathy vampires murdered him for it.
daviss.org daviss @daviss.org · 2d
CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”
January 27, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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econaturalist.bsky.social
Nurses plan nationwide week of action against ICE terror.
‘Pretti’s Death Will Not Be in Vain’: Nurses Plan Nationwide Week of Action Against ICE Terror | Common Dreams
"ICE messed with the wrong profession. We nurses will fight to abolish ICE and bring about a vision for a healthy society based on nurses’ values of caring, compassion, and community."
www.commondreams.org
January 27, 2026 at 5:54 PM
starlisab.bsky.social
I just noticed something ironic! The White House is using the phrase “ Lawful Immigration Enforcement“ [LIE] when talking about ICE Operations.

So when they are talking about ICE,
they are talking about a LIE…

hey, we can work with this!

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Sofia Kinzinger (@sofiakinzinger)
Let me point out how carefully the White House is choosing its language every time it talks about Minnesota. This is deliberate and strategic: •“Agitators” when talking about protesters. •“Left-wing...
substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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nickmiroff.bsky.social
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:40 PM
starlisab.bsky.social
A heartfelt tribute to ICE victim Alex Pretti, by his coworkers at the VA hospital in Minneapolis. Just recently, Alex was standing strong at one end of a similar gurney, with one of his patients who had passed away under that flag.
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Really American (@reallyamerican)
Fellow VA nurses pay tribute to ICE shooting victim Alex Pretti.
substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:17 PM
starlisab.bsky.social
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BREAKING: The family of Alex Pretti releases a powerful statement about his senseless murder at the hands of Trump's masked fascist goons.
Please share this far and wide...
open.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:34 AM
starlisab.bsky.social
Alex Pretti. Renee Good. And so many others who are still alive, but have been through horror. This article focuses on Pretti, a martyr, and Abernathy, still alive. It also brings up the witness to escape to tell her story and her video of Alex’s last moments.
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Two Stories of Attacks, One Tragedy; How Truth is Twisted.
Photographer (John Abernathy) who was suddenly attacked by Fed.
open.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:04 PM
starlisab.bsky.social
I learned something new today from Black American history. The slave patrols were a strong inspiration for the Gestapo. This has been around longer than brown shirts. Also the treatment of Native Americans with the camps and so on were yet another inspiration for Hitler’s Germany.
January 25, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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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
starlisab.bsky.social
No words left
January 25, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines.

This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d
What America will read this weekend while in line at the grocery checkout:

@peoplemag.bsky.social #ICE
people.com/ice-detains-...
January 22, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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thegraygatsby.bsky.social
Observe:

#cats #catsly #catsofbluesky
A diptych of Gatsby asleep on his bed, lying on his side with all 4 paws together and a toy tucked between his legs. The first photo is a closeup of his paws and the second shows his whole body.
January 23, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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jonseidel.bsky.social
Thirty-one known defendants have been charged in Chicago with non-immigration crimes tied to “Operation Midway Blitz.”

With today’s acquittal, 15 of them have been cleared.

No one has been convicted.
jonseidel.bsky.social Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 6d
#BREAKING: Federal jury finds Chicago man NOT GUILTY of offering $10K for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino.

The trial of Juan Espinoza Martinez was the first to result from “Operation Midway Blitz”: chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...
January 22, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Pouring more money into DHS while it operates with impunity and a blatant disregard for human life is unconscionable.

You don’t fix abuse by funding it. You stop it by cutting off its funding and dismantling the institution that’s terrorizing communities.
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House approves spending bills despite many Democrats' objections to ICE funds
The House has approved the final set of spending bills to avoid a government shutdown, despite objections from Democrats to the funding levels set for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
www.npr.org
January 23, 2026 at 12:15 AM
starlisab.bsky.social
U.S. Formally Withdraws From World Health Organization; all U.S. government funding to the organization had been terminated, and that all assigned federal employees and contractors had been recalled from its Geneva headquarters and its offices worldwide. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
U.S. Formally Withdraws From World Health Organization
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:42 AM
starlisab.bsky.social
King Floofy Fluffiness himself
January 21, 2026 at 6:10 AM
starlisab.bsky.social
That pretty well sums it up how I feel some days! Every day this week, in fact! The trees are getting farther apart as I try to go up!
A raccoon stands between two trees with his left feet on one tree named “my Mental Health” and his right 2 feet are both on the other tree titled “staying informed on the American dumpster fire”. Just above the spread eagled raccoon is the word me.
January 21, 2026 at 5:40 AM
starlisab.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/iamdonny...
Trump’s Greenland Fantasy Topples Global Markets
Wall Street bleeds, European indices slip, and investors run to gold and silver while the US president holds his allies at economic gunpoint to force through an Arctic land grab.
open.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:41 AM
starlisab.bsky.social
I would be honored if you would read my Substack post and give me feedback. This is in regards to Donald Trump‘s grievance-driven decision-making. Trying to be honest, but not too dramatic.

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Trump Shows A Consistent Grievance-Driven Pattern of Decision-Making
Multiple reputable news outlets report that President Trump sent a text message to Norway’s prime minister linking his foreign policy stance on Greenland to not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, includ...
open.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:43 PM
starlisab.bsky.social
Sitting by the road in the deepening twilight, capturing the Alpine glow on Mt. Adams and lenticular Cloud. 5:34 PM with my iPhone 14 Pro.
January 13, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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mickeykuhns.bsky.social
ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🤬
January 12, 2026 at 3:58 PM