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Michael

@michaelr12.bsky.social

Everyone should read this paragraph from the Epstein Files. Seriously WTF is this guy doing as POTUS that whole family are vile/ disgusting creatures

January 31, 2026 at 3:17 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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MinnMax

@minnmax.com

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸

@brockm.bsky.social

Any member of Congress who votes on a piece of legislation that directly or indirectly gives money to ICE at this point is a traitor as far as I'm concerned. They immediately go on the traitor list permanently if they cast that vote. I'm sorry. That's just how it works.

January 23, 2026 at 3:27 AM

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KellyElizabeth

@kellyelizabeth13.bsky.social

Every eligible voter needs to get out there and vote in the midterms.

If the Democrats don’t take back Congress, our country is lost forever.

January 22, 2026 at 12:44 PM

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Luigi in a Coal Mine

@weareluigi.bsky.social

Friend sent this to me today. It’s in Seattle. Hadn’t seen it on here yet so I figured I’d share.

A photo of artwork of the Statue of Liberty dead on a Seattle street, murdered… by ICE.

January 22, 2026 at 3:31 AM

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Aletheia S.R.

@aletheia225.bsky.social

Any elected officials who are on the side of ICE, are basically the same people who would have supported the Nazis in Germany.

They must be identified and removed from their position.

January 21, 2026 at 12:04 AM

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Hairball

@hairball-redux.bsky.social

Are you familiar with Nemik's manifesto from Andor?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQd4...

Andor: Nemik's Manifesto

YouTube video by SWFT

www.youtube.com

January 20, 2026 at 1:44 AM

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𝕲𝖆𝖊𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖔

@gmf1369.bsky.social

🚨 #GVerse Wow! Sen. Ruben Gallego becomes one of the first U.S. Senators to call for #FuckICE to be DISMANTLED.

“I think ICE needs to be totally torn down. People want immigration enforcement that goes after criminals…not the goon squad from Stephen Miller…”AMEN!

January 18, 2026 at 3:28 PM

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elfach.bsky.social

@elfach.bsky.social

Thank you, Minnesota
open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...

Thank you, Minnesota

There is no greater obligation for an American than loyalty to the Constitution of the United States.

open.substack.com

January 18, 2026 at 1:06 PM

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WARIO LOPEZ

@sendnuggies.com

FUCK ICE.
FUCK TRUMP.
AND (in the words of @sheaserrano.bsky.social) FUCK ANYONE WHO STANDS WITH THEM.

January 8, 2026 at 2:48 AM

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Aletheia S.R.

@aletheia225.bsky.social

True, but his only power comes from our compliance and acceptance of this monstrosity.

300 million of us need to stand up and say, ENOUGH.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24d

Reminder: ICE has a budget bigger than most militaries around the world.

It has increased its spending on weapons by 700% since Trump took office.

Trump is building his own personal military to terrorize American cities, trample on civil rights, and intimidate his opponents.

January 7, 2026 at 8:35 PM

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The Desert Veteran

@jkz12769.bsky.social

Please share.. ICE THUGS shot & killed a woman in Minneapolis. Then attack citizens point blank with teargas grenades, pepper ball guns & chemical spray in the faces. Of course, Greg Bovino was in the mix. He needs to be brought up for murder charges.🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
youtu.be/LnfiWmX_mTE?...

🚨BREAKING: ICE SHOOTS AND KILL WOMAN in Minneapolis

YouTube video by Status Coup News

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January 7, 2026 at 8:20 PM

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@JohnBGilman.bsky.social

@johnbgilman.bsky.social

It was only a matter of time until ICE would get caught on video murdering US citizens. They are probably already doing this behind closed doors in their concentration camps, as 39 people died while in their custody in 2025. And of course, they are torturing thousands.
They should all face justice.

January 8, 2026 at 12:10 AM