"Renee Good was shot in the face. Alex Pretti was shot in the back. Their deaths were not accidental. They were not the result of poor or insufficient training. They were the result of intent.
Why are moderates worried about seeming extreme when the context is murder by the state? In that setting, there’s no such thing as an overreaction."
~ John Stoehr
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Moderate Democrats worry about overreacting. The real danger is underreacting
Murder by the state is the breaking point, says Jill Lawrence.John Stoehr (Editorial Board)
William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Stoehr features a doctored AI-produced image of Pretti immediately before Trump's masked thugs shot him repeatedly in the back. The image appears to show Pretti pulling his gun — though actual footage of what happened, from repeated angles, shows that this did not ever happen and his gun was taken away before he was murdered. He never touched the gun.
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #murder #execution #AI
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Stoehr notes that the doctored, false AI image was tweeted repeatedly by General Tony Thomas, once head of Special Operations Command. It then went viral on social media.
Yesterday, PolitiFact released a statement:
"We rate claims the image shared on X is a real photo of Pretti False."
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #murder #execution
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This is an AI-manipulated image of Alex Pretti
@politifactWilliam Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •As PolitiFact notes,
"A viral image of Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti was manipulated with Google’s artificial intelligence tool, Gemini.
Clues it’s not an authentic photo: One officer is missing his head, and the hands and fingers of Pretti and the agents are distorted."
With all the actual footage available for us to see, many of us knew, of course, immediately that this was a bogus image.
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #murder #execution
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •The big question: Why would a highly placed US general be tweeting it out repeatedly?
And who would so many armchair warriors immediately glom onto it to declare that it vindicates the Trump regime when it claims that Pretti's execution was caused by his pulling a gun?
The bigger question: how to build a sane society when many of us are so addicted to toxic lies that we refuse to see truth in front of our eyes?
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #murder #execution
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Liz Dye reports on what she experienced at Trump's rally yesterday in Clive, Iowa:
"When everything is always a lie, the truth eventually escapes. What does it do out there in the open?
When I gently bring up Minneapolis and what’s happening there to the people around me, the grandmother two chairs down frowns and says she doesn’t believe most of what the media reports."
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #murder #execution #lies #truth #Iowa
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"It’s hard to know the truth when everyone is so biased [the grandmother says]. The college student near me, who spends most of his time in the events center — and, based on the evidence, a lot of his other time as well, chewing the skin off his fingers — tells me, 'People need to comply with the police.'
That’s it. The subject is changed."
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #murder #execution #lies #truth #Iowa
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The Department of Homeland Security is now walking back a Saturday statement that described Pretti as having 'violently resisted' Customs and Border Protection agents and suggested he intended to 'massacre law enforcement.' A DHS spokesperson told NBC News that the initial account was based on chaotic and incomplete reports from CBP personnel on the scene."
~ Aaron Parnas
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #murder #execution #lies #truth
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Major Update: White House Officials Throw Each Other Under the Bus as FBI Raids Georgia Election Office and DHS Walks Back Pretti Claims
Aaron Parnas (The Parnas Perspective)Timo
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to Timo • • •@timo21
The anti-"civil rights for women" religious zealots and the anti-democracy folks of ICE are both funded by the same people.
Billionaire bigots:
Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife Mellon, Seid, Uihlein
Tim Dunn, Farris & Dan Wilks
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It's about ending any democracy that acts on climate
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Meet Tim Dunn: the ultraconservative billionaire pastor spending millions to protect his oil – and elect Trump
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