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zeteo.com
“[Palantir CEO] Karp sees the second Trump presidency as a massive opportunity.”

Author Michael Steinberger speaks with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about AI tech firm Palantir & its partnerships with both Democratic & Republican administrations.

Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/alex-karp-...
January 25, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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statuscoupnews.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: Immigration agents continue attacking unarmed Minneapolis protesters with grenades and gas after shooting and killing ANOTHER person.

"They are not targeting just the worst of the worst as the Trump administration likes to spin it" -@jtcestkowski.bsky.social
LIVE NOW⬇️
January 24, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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statuscoupnews.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: "And we're getting shot at again!" @jtcestkowski.bsky.social as local law enforcement unleash tear gas and other ammunition at Minneapolis protesters after Trump's immigration troops killed ANOTHER person. LIVE NOW⬇️
January 24, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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atrupar.com
Klobuchar: "Somehow 50,000 peaceful protesters in 10 below weather were able to march without any problems, and then the next day half a dozen ICE and CBP agents couldn't handle a guy with a cell phone taking video of them and shot him. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here."
January 25, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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statuscoupnews.bsky.social
🚨"F*ck these motherf*ckers, f*ck em!" -Minneapolis protesters scream as immigration agents fire grenades & tear gas at protesters after immigration agents shot ANOTHER person.

"Firing tear gas, flash bangs just for walking up to them and protesting!" -@jtcestkowski.bsky.social LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 24, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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mayorq.bsky.social
How many people must die?
How many rights must be ignored?
How much cowardice must persist?

Before our leaders bring an end to the reckless federal assault on Minneapolis and America’s cities?

Today’s action is stain on our Constitution, our freedoms, and our humanity.
January 24, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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mayorq.bsky.social
I can’t just move on, and none of us should.

End the Terror.

Free America's cities.

Prosecute those responsible.

Defend our Constitution and our humanity.
January 25, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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jtcestkowski.bsky.social
Right now a protest of thousands has taken to the streets in south Minneapolis to call for federal immigration agents to leave their community in the wake of those agents killing a second person, 37-year-old Alex Pretti.
January 25, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
WSJ says ICE is lying.

Read that again…. The Wall Street Journal is calling out the lies
January 25, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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statuscoupnews.bsky.social
🚨"It was an execution! I can't believe what's happening in our city. Everything was so peaceful and beautiful and loving here until these cowards came in with masks and guns and started inflicting tyranny on our neighbors. They're killing us!" -Minneapolis protester. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 24, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
On the year anniversary week of Trump in office for a second time, we seem to have literal death squads patrolling the streets of Democratic-run cities.

But sure it was all Trump Derangement Syndrome when some of us were warning about the impending fascism back in 2024. 🤷🏽‍♂️😡
January 24, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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meidastouch.com
Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him.

The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/
January 25, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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statuscoupnews.bsky.social
🚨"We can call this depraved, we can call this evil, but the pain and anguish we feel inside of our bodies at this injustice is indescribable! " -Minneapolis protester as ICE & Border Patrol continue attacking protesters after killing ANOTHER person. LIVE NOW⬇️
January 24, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
I never thought Donald Trump and Stephen Miller would be the ones to finally force me into being a defender of the 2nd Amendment.
January 24, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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ryanquigz.bsky.social
I shouldn’t be surprised that the Minnesota Wild, one of the most tone deaf organizations in the already-tone deaf NHL, are just straight up ignoring what’s going on directly in their backyard, but here I am. What a cowardly franchise.
January 25, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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maxberger.bsky.social
"What can Democrats actually do?"

- Vote against funding for ICE and DHS

- State that any ICE officers who commit crimes under Trump will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law

- Encourage cities and states to refuse to cooperate with ICE

- Explain ICE is part of Trump's tyranny
January 24, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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mayor.nyc.gov
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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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
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meidastouch.com
🚨 NEW — Statement from the family of Alex Pretti:

"We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital... 1/
"We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man."
January 25, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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statuscoupnews.bsky.social
LIVE TRUMP DECLARES WAR on America | ICE BRUTALLY Attack Protester

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LIVE TRUMP DECLARES WAR on America | ICE BRUTALLY Attack Protester
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January 25, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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mattmfm.bsky.social
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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realmarkebenhoch.bsky.social
I was trained by the FBI in 92 in tactics, weapons, crowd control etc etc for my work overseas as a United States Marine at US Embassies.

What I am watching, witnessing is NOT what or how I was trained in what is called 'The progression of force'.

That policy is nowhere to be seen. 1/2
January 24, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
This only happened because DOJ let them get away with Renee Good.
January 24, 2026 at 9:18 PM