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"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
/8
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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
The knives are out in the Trump Administration this afternoon.Aaron Parnas (The Parnas Perspective)
"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
/7
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
/6
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
/5
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
/4
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
/3
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This is an AI-manipulated image of Alex Pretti
This isn’t a real photo of Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti pinned down by federal immigration agents. The image has a digital watermark that shows it was generated using Google’s artificial intelligence tool, Gemini.@politifact
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
/2
"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
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #murder #execution
/1
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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)
(continued from /3)
"'and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.'”
#AlexPretti #murder #execution #CBP #ICE #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #Trump
/4
"'Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota.
Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing,'" (continued in /4)
#AlexPretti #murder #execution #CBP #ICE #StephenMiller #KristiNoem
/3
“'In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a ‘domestic terrorist,’ the statement reads. 'Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts.'"
#AlexPretti #murder #execution #CBP #ICE #StephenMiller #KristiNoem
/2
"The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) — the largest union representing federal workers and the one that happened to represent Alex Pretti — has also issued one statement blaming the Trump administration for the escalation that led to his death this weekend and another on Monday, calling for the resignation of both Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller."
~ Robyn Pennacchia
#AlexPretti #murder #execution #CBP #ICE #StephenMiller #KristiNoem
/1
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Largest Federal Workers Union Demands Noem And Miller Resign, Members Demand They Stop Representing Border Patrol
An injury to one is an injury to all.Robyn Pennacchia (Wonkette)
Rupar:
"Obviously we've had natural disasters, we've had, you know, different sorts of tragedies that have befallen communities, but when you're targeted by the government that is supposed to represent you for kind of pretextual reasons that are obviously very political in nature… It's a really, it's just really surreal to live through that. It's nothing that I expected to go through."
#Minneapolis #Trump #StephenMiller #GregBovino #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
/8
David Nir talks with Aaron Rupar, who lives in Minneapolis and describes to Nir what it has been like living in a city occupied by lawless masked thugs. Nir states,
"This kind of collective punishment is absolutely part of the fascist playbook. It is something that Trump and Stephen Miller and Bovino all want."
#Minneapolis #Trump #StephenMiller #GregBovino #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
/7
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Life in besieged Minneapolis
Aaron Rupar on a city — and state — engulfed by Trump's terror squads.Aaron Rupar (Public Notice)
And by the way, after defending what ICE has done to Liam yesterday, Catholic VP JD Vance addressed the March for Life in DC today — because he values the sanctity of human life, of course.
All human life.
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #LiamRamos #evil
/3
When I posted yesterday on social media about the use of Liam as bait by ICE, a young blond woman (so her profile photo shows her to be) whom I don't even know responsed with a laughing emoji and informed me that Liam and his father are pieces of s—t who deserve everything coming to them.
Evil.
That's the right word for this.
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #LiamRamos #evil
/2
"The only people who support ice tactics are whose who are willfully evil."
This is what Jess Piper concludes as a mother for 30 years who has raised five children, as she looks at the photos of little five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos being used as "bait" by ICE to entrap his family before he and his father are kidnapped and whisked away to Texas.
Evil.
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #LiamRamos #evil
/1
Mama
My name is Jess and I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Missouri. I bring you news and politics from Missouri and beyond from a rural progressive point of view.Jess Piper (The View from Rural Missouri by Jess Piper)
"My theory of the moment is Miller/Vance thought their view that immigrants threaten social solidarity would be widely shared. But ICE raids are driving native-born Americans to show solidarity with immigrants quite courageously. Now Miller is trying to disrupt that alliance with state violence."
~ Greg Sargent
#Minnesota #Trump #StephenMiller #JDVance #immigrants #ICE
/11
Tomorrow's front page in Minneapolis Star Tribune:
"Court order didn't save toddler."
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #LiamRamos #evil
"It feels like nothing starts until President Trump arrives — until daddy's home, as so many people say."
~ Rachel Campos-Duffy, Fox News
#ICE #masculinity #PerformativeMasculinity #ThreatenedMasculinity #DaddyIssues #Trump #StephenMiller #JDVance #GregBovino #fascism #violence
/6
(continued from /4)
"and sets them loose on a public it has warned is full of not just criminal illegal immigrants, but un-American subhumans, among the worst of whom are AWFULs: Affluent White Female Urban Liberals."
#ICE #masculinity #PerformativeMasculinity #ThreatenedMasculinity #DaddyIssues #Trump #StephenMiller #JDVance #GregBovino #fascism #violence
/5
"In other words, ICE is a force of men who have felt small and have now been empowered by an administration that tells them they’re manliest of men, hands them guns and tactical gear, gives them precious little training, explicitly tells them they will be held to virtually no legal or moral standards," (continued in /5)
#ICE #masculinity #PerformativeMasculinity #ThreatenedMasculinity #DaddyIssues #Trump #StephenMiller #JDVance #GregBovino #fascism #violence
/4
"Men who feel that their masculinity is being compromised are more likely to act out with physical aggression — and 'your masculinity has been compromised' was a major talking point during the Trump campaign. In its recruitment ads, ICE promises masculine restoration."
#ICE #masculinity #PerformativeMasculinity #ThreatenedMasculinity #DaddyIssues #Trump #StephenMiller #JDVance #GregBovino #fascism #violence
/3
"Men whose masculinity is fragile may be more prone to violence — they are more likely to interpret disagreement as disrespect, and to see disrespect as a challenge to their status."
#ICE #masculinity #PerformativeMasculinity #ThreatenedMasculinity #DaddyIssues #Trump #StephenMiller #JDVance #GregBovino #fascism #violence
/2
"ICE recruitment is aimed at men who want to feel powerful, who want to bond with other men by committing social acts of violence, and who are drawn in by Nazi slogans. Also: Men with daddy issues."
~ Jill Filipovic
#ICE #masculinity #PerformativeMasculinity #ThreatenedMasculinity #DaddyIssues #Trump #StephenMiller #JDVance #GregBovino #fascism #violence
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The Sexual Politics of ICE
Trump's nativist paramilitary is also a misogynist militia.Jill Filipovic (Throughline by Jill Filipovic)
"They could have taken a boil-the-frog approach to deportations and bullying allies and stripping away rights, not that a differing approach would have made the end results less awful.
But instead, it has been a blitz of maximum cruelty, maximum racism, maximum aggression."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #ApprovalRating #fascism
/2
"A new poll from The Economist/YouGov found a staggering 71% of Americans feel like the country is 'out of control.' ...
This sense of widespread disorder is, of course, a mirror reflection of the man in charge. There are ways this administration could have gone about its nativist, grift-forward business without rattling the nation."
~ Rex Huppke
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #ApprovalRating #fascism
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Americans say US is 'out of control' – and not just liberals | Opinion
A new poll from The Economist/YouGov found a staggering 71% of Americans feel like the country is 'out of control.' Trump is to blame., USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
The Guardian interviews residents of the Twin Cities who are being pursued by ICE and who report that ICE is racially profiling people. Suleiman Adan states,
“It’s like you’re looking for game. It’s like you’re hunting; who can I prey on today? Right now, it’s like ‘to hell with the constitution.’"
~ Melissa Hellmann
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #Constitution
/22
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…
‘It’s like they’re hunting’: US citizens and legal residents report increase in racial profiling by ICE
Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has led some people to take drastic measures to ensure their safetyMelissa Hellmann (The Guardian)
"DHS did not contest the authenticity of the [leaked] memo [which claims that ICE has the right to invade homes without a warrant], which was signed by Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #Constitution
/21
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Secret Internal Memo Exposes the Scale of ICE’s Lawlessness
INSIDE: Renee Good ... Lisa Cook ... Hannah NatansonDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"When you think about this past year, for many Americans, it was one of just shock. The complete disregard for the rule of law, the Constitution, individual rights, due process. ...
We have not seen this extreme escalation of activities from our law enforcement in my history."
~ Derrick Johnson, NAACP President
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #Constitution
/20
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Trump's Shocking First Year | NAACP President Derrick Johnson Joins Journalist Sarah Rumpf
"When you think about this past year, for many Americans, it was one of just shock. The complete disregard for the rule of law, the Constitution, individual rights, due process."Lincoln Square
"Push the narrative, especially the narrative not just of the horrors, which is important for people to view, but also the narrative and the actions on the side of the people who are standing with and for each other, who are pitching in for their neighbors, who are actually standing up mutual aid and street by street, block by block ICE watches. We also need to be telling the story of the good people, the heroes."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #strike
/19
As Minnesotans organize a general strike tomorrow to oppose the ICE attack on their state — businesses closing, restaurants shuttered, schools shut down, etc. — Anat Shenker-Osorio tells the rest of us how we can support this:
"Be in solidarity."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #strike
/18
"It suggests a conspiracy within ICE leadership to deprive people of their civil rights—all while hiding the evidence, in the form of a written departmental memo, purporting to authorize the conduct."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #Constitution
/17
"Per a blockbuster report by the Associated Press, ICE agents have received actual secret instructions from their higher-ups to disregard established Fourth Amendment home protections. This is not just a violation of our cherished constitutionally guaranteed liberties."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #Constitution
/16
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The ICE Men Cometh… Illegally
A blockbuster whistleblower complaint reveals the secret internal ICE memo behind the brutal forced home entries we are seeing.Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)
Not to miss: Ken Klippenstein's report on a leaked DHS document, a draft of the 2026 Homeland Threat Assessment, which shows that the real target of the DHS' obsession with terrorism is you and me: it's American citizens.
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #DomesticTerrorism #repression #fascism
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Leaked Doc: Homeland Security's Domestic Terror Obsession
Forget Greenland; the American public are the real targetKen Klippenstein
"Federal immigration authorities under the Department of Homeland Security launched an ICE crackdown dubbed 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine as part of the Trump administration’s deportation push, prompting heightened concern in cities like Portland, where Mayor Mark Dion said residents are on high alert amid recent migrant arrivals."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #cruelty #Maine
/14
"While aggressive deportation tactics by Immigration and Customs Enforcement have garnered headlines, cuts to the admission of legal immigrants will have a profound impact on the country and millions of people.”
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #cruelty
/13
“New research concludes the Trump administration’s policies will reduce legal immigration to the United States by 33% to 50% over four years. Restricting Americans’ ability to sponsor their closest family members will be the administration’s primary way to lower legal immigration."
~ Stuart Anderson
#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #cruelty
/12
"Trump’s approval on immigration has dropped to 44% approve / 53% disapprove (net -9), and his deportation policy is at 42% / 54% (net -12). Border security remains his only positive issue at 50% / 46% (net +4). Trump’s numbers on all three have declined since our last poll in October, 2025."
~ G. Elliott Morris
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #immigrants #cruelty #violence #ApprovalRating
/11
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New poll: Trump loses ground on immigration; Dems lead 2026 House vote by 8 points
The new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds Democrats start 2026 with their biggest lead yet on the 2026 House vote, while Trump approval sinks on immigration, deportations, and public safetyG. Elliott Morris (Strength In Numbers)