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AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."
January 24, 2026 at 10:25 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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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 24, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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meidastouch.com
All regime mouthpieces who have lied about the murder of VA nurse Alex Pretti must resign immediately. All DHS officials and agents involved must be prosecuted.
January 24, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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cathywilcox.bsky.social
For the victims.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
Single frame. Waterfront, beach, notionally Bondi. A woman with long grey hair in white dress, catching the breeze blowing offshore, leans towards the water to propel a small floating candle into the water, holding another in preparation, following a small flotilla of same, numbering 15 in total. A man in shorts and shirt stands by her side holding the empty tray.
January 21, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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cathywilcox.bsky.social
Solid.
My @smh cartoon.
January 20, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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drvicfielding.bsky.social
I've written about the need for non-Murdoch media to resist adopting Murdoch's framing. Too often we see the rest of the media - including the ABC - joining Murdoch's pile-ons without scrutiny or balance, which makes them just as bad as Murdoch.
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
Journalists need to resist adopting News Corp’s agenda
When News Corp frames the story, too many journalists stop asking whether the frame is true — and democracy pays the price
independentaustralia.net
January 21, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE:

-Amazon
-AT&T
-Booz Allen Hamilton
-Caci
-Charter Communications
-Comcast
-Dell
-Ecolab
-FedEx
-General Dynamics
-L3Harris
-Motorola
-Thermo Fisher
-UPS

Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.
January 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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muellershewrote.com
NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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muellershewrote.com
Renee Good had a pulse when EMS arrived. I’m not sure it would have made a difference if ICE had let that civilian physician render aid before EMS arrived, but now we will never know. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 16, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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marquelawyers.com.au
We'll say it again: "social cohesion", when uttered by the holders of political and social power and privilege, means simply the maintenance of the dominant culture and silencing of any challenge to it.
January 15, 2026 at 6:12 AM
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katiephang.bsky.social
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.

“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar
The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
www.semafor.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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australia.theguardian.com
Elon Musk’s Grok made the world less safe – his humiliating backdown gives me hopium | Van Badham
Elon Musk’s Grok made the world less safe – his humiliating backdown gives me hopium | Van Badham
The AI chatbot’s torrent of nonconsensual deepfakes isn’t its first scandal and won’t be its last. Responsible governments should simply ban it * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Billionaire and career Bond-villain cosplayer Elon Musk has been forced by public backlash into a humiliating backdown over use of his AI chatbot, Grok. Watching the world’s richest man eat a shit sandwich on a global stage represents a rare win for sovereign democracy. Because – unlike his company history of labour and safety abuses … his exploding rockets … his government interventions that deny aid to the starving … disabling Starlink internet systems in war zones … sharing “white solidarity” statements … or growing concern about overvaluations of his company’s share price – the nature of Grok’s latest scandal may finally be inspiring governments towards imposing some Musk-limiting red lines. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:15 AM
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niklashoehne.bsky.social
2025 was the third hottest year ever.
Trend is worrying and faster than expected a few years ago.

Only when we stop burning coal, oil and gas, temperature will stop rising.

www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...
January 14, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
2025 was a hot one. Maybe show some urgency in preventing new coal/gas mines....? #ThePoint

My post on @thepointau.bsky.social

thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
Chart showing the the past decade of global temperatures has busted out of the 1965-2010 range
January 15, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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wendyharmer.bsky.social
"Australia, in its own pissant, toytown way... In the wake of Bondi, we’re embarking on a full-scale assault on free speech." @keanebernard.bsky.social www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/14/a...
In Australia's tinpot civil society, 'power speech' is on the cusp of defeating free speech
Free speech in Australia is under attack from multiple directions. And its assailant is power speech: the right of the powerful to dictate terms to and attack those with less power.
www.crikey.com.au
January 14, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
This is appalling: Top DOJ officials are actively pushing for a criminal investigation into the widow of Renee Good, leading prosecutors to quit en masse, NYT is reporting.

Who in the White House ordered DOJ to do this? That's the next thing to establish.
January 13, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
AOC: They are sending ICE into the streets. They’re invading other countries. They are tweeting crazy shit. But what they’re not doing is lowering the price of groceries…
January 14, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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sedvitae.bsky.social
@louiseadler1.bsky.social is a champion of justice, human rights, and democratic institutions. 🤛🏼
January 13, 2026 at 9:14 AM
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greenj.bsky.social
Notes in the aftermath: some thoughts post-Adelaide

open.substack.com/pub/greenwor...
Cohesion And Other Adelaides of the Soul
An act of defiant resistance.
open.substack.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:33 AM
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peterwmurphy1.bsky.social
The Bondi Beach terror attack: 15 dead
Royal Commission
National Day of Mourning.

Port Arthur Massacre: 35 dead
Australian Women Murdered:
2024: 105. 2025: 77.
No Royal Commission
No National Day of Mourning.

Are some Australian lives more precious than others? 🤔 #auspol
January 13, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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muellershewrote.com
BREAKING: The FBI is investigating RENEE GOOD’S ties to activist groups instead of sharing evidence with Minnesota. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
F.B.I. Inquiry Into ICE Shooting Is Examining Victim’s Possible Ties to Activist Groups
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
Criticism, opposition and activist pushback against the excessive and unjustified over-deployment of genAI matters. If you want proof, here's two ultra-rich and unstoppably successful tech CEOs begging us to stop

gizmodo.com/jensen-huang...
Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI "[It's] extremely hurtful, frankly, and I think we've done a lot of damage," he said. By AJ Dellinger Published January 12, 2026 Reading time 3 minutes Jensen Huang Jensen Huang © Fotofield Read Later Comments (26) Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who has seen his net worth skyrocket by nearly $100 billion since the AI boom started a couple of years ago, would really appreciate it if you would stop talking about the potential harms of the technology that’s supercharged his fortune. It’s really harshing his vibe. Microsoft’s Nadella wants us to stop thinking of AI as ‘slop’ Julie Bort 3:09 PM PST · January 5, 2026 A couple of weeks after Merriam-Webster named “slop” as its word of the year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella weighed in on what to expect from AI in 2026. In his classic, intellectual style, Nadella wrote on his personal blog that he wants us to stop thinking of AI as “slop” and start thinking of it as “bicycles for the mind.” He wrote, “A new concept that evolves ‘bicycles for the mind’ such that we always think of AI as a scaffolding for human potential vs a substitute.”
January 13, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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kazcooke.bsky.social
The Adelaide Festival board PR release paraphrased:
We don't understand
-writers
-books
-festivals
-the arts
-audience
-what our job is
-how to resist interference
-the gravity of our mistake
-how to apologise.
So we've obliterated Writers' Week & left the whole Adelaide Festival boardless, byeeee.
January 13, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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marquelawyers.com.au
This, to be clear, is not an apology. Not sure what it is.
January 13, 2026 at 4:18 AM