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"A creature so ate up with the rot of his own byproducts he looks like he was drawn as-is by Eli Valley"
"A little-known minion gifted with a moment in the sun and unable to stop himself wilting"
#AlexPretti #Trump #ICE #CBP #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #Minnesota #TomHoman #GregBovino
/24
"A worm who never should have been born and whose every day spent breathing is an insult to the universal commonwealth of all humanity"
"The essence of venal grasping, adorned with hair extensions, her own clownface lavished on to cover the scars of her adolescent acne"
#AlexPretti #Trump #ICE #CBP #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #Minnesota #StephenMiller #KristiNoem
/23
Briley describes the enemies to whom he's referring here (/21):
"A preening octogenarian dilettante in clownface with little more than the skill to keep talking"
"The incarnation of daddy issues as a concept, soft at the jowls and so ashamed of where he’s from that he’s also ashamed of where he pretends to be from"
#AlexPretti #Trump #ICE #CBP #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #Minnesota #JDVance
/22
"But considering they call anyone in the vicinity of an ICE raid a protester these days, it seems more likely he was doing what we now know he often did: observing, warning, deescalating, and documenting. …
Our nation never called him a hero. He didn’t serve himself, he served those who served. But I think that you can learn a lot about someone through a study of their enemies."
#AlexPretti #Trump #ICE #CBP #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #Minnesota
/21
"A week before the government murdered Alex Pretti, they dogpiled him in their usual fashion, and broke one of his ribs. The news says he was 'protesting' the detention of 'other individuals.' That's a fine thing to do."
~ Justin Briley
#AlexPretti #Trump #ICE #CBP #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #Minnesota
/20
liberalcurrents.com/he-served-…
He Served Those Who Served: Portrait of a Man Named Pretti
It’s better to not know heroes exist than to find out they did only after they’re gone.Justin Briley (Liberal Currents)
"Silicon Valley was once viewed as a tool for liberation. Now, from blocking apps to banning groups, it is helping the White House suppress dissent."
Named here as agents helping Trump suppress dissent: TikTok, Apple, Google, Meta, Facebook.
~ Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, and Noel Sims
#Trump #ICE #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation #TikTok #Apple #Google #Meta #Facebook
/11
"Frst you get Epstein, which gets you Greenland, which gets you ice in Minneapolis. which now gets you raiding the Georgia [election board]. I mean, the distractions are actually piling up the scar tissue that's being pulled apart here."
~ Joe Trippi
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #Maine #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation
/10
lincolnsquare.media/p/minneapo…
Minneapolis Mayhem: What Comes Next | Two Joes Podcast with Trygve Olson
Founding Lincoln Project Advisor Trygve Olson shares what he saw in Minneapolis last week.Joe Trippi (Lincoln Square)
"Destroying our ability to reality test is the only way he can maintain his own delusion."
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #Maine #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation
/9
"Trump’s paranoia at losing his power will not lead to a sudden rash of moderation. It will not lead to less violence. It will not lead to a lowering of tensions." ...
Trump wants to remake America to be his personal Jonestown, an isolated compound separate from any external accountability or internal dissent—a giant island only existing to serve himself."
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #Maine #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
/8
"The most dangerous moment for any abusive relationship, whether one-on-one, or one-to-millions, comes when the victims want to leave. It’s why all cult leaders try to isolate their victims from external information and contact. Everything that’s not about the leader is a threat."
~ Jim Stewartson
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #Maine #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
/7
mind-war.com/p/when-the-mirror…
When the Mirror Cracks: The Most Dangerous Moment
Like his historical predecessors, Donald Trump has entered a death spiral. The more he loses power, the more he demands it.Jim Stewartson (MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy)
"At this point, the predominant emotion so many of us are feeling is anger. Anger that people are being treated like this. Anger that our government is doing it. Anger that it’s doing it with our tax dollars."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #Maine #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
/6
joycevance.substack.com/p/minn…
Minnesota and Elsewhere
Today, more from Judge Schlitz in Minnesota.Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
"Trump sicced his droogs on Minneapolis because he’s a racist who hates Somalis, and his lawless campaign has spread to Maine, of all places, because it’s another state with a Somali population whose voters rejected him in 2024."
~ Stephen Robinson
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #Maine #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder #Somalis
/5
publicnotice.co/p/abolish-ice-…
'Abolish ICE' is imperative
It's also better politics than you might think.Stephen Robinson (Public Notice)
“Federal agents continue to rain terror on Minneapolis, Minnesota, and other U.S. cities including Portland and Lewiston, Maine. That violence has made it crystal clear that the goal of attacking immigrants is not simply to create a white nation; it is also to terrorize Americans into accepting the domination of MAGA Republicans.”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
/4
"Over time, confinement without trial, punishment without conviction, and surveillance without oversight become treated as unfortunate but reasonable."
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
/3
"Authoritarian systems do not begin with overt tyranny. They begin with a normalization process. Each move is framed as temporary, necessary, or targeted at 'bad people.' Each expansion of power is justified by manufactured crisis. Each erosion of civil rights is sold as a trade-off for safety."
~ Oliver Kornetzke
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
/2
"What this moment reveals is not merely the fragility of white political innocence, but the durability of a system that has survived Reconstruction, Jim Crow, civil rights reform, and the carceral turn by continually redefining violence as order."
~ Elisabeth Glassco
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
/1
400years.substack.com/p/what-h…
What History Reveals About The Hard Truths of This Moment in America
The language people are using right now matters. So does who is shocked by it. This piece sits with that reaction and asks what history tells us when the mask slips and what happens next.400 Years
"Worry more about being called biased than about being accurate. Do all of this, consistently, for years, and you will be surprised when the things people warned you about come to pass. The surprise is built into the methodology.
There’s a cost to this."
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #BothSides #media #journalists
/16
"Political journalism has developed a set of practices that make surprise the default response to predictable events. Treat every denial as meaningful. Frame every warning from advocacy groups as partisan overreach. Insist on a both-sides structure even when one side is lying."
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #BothSides #media #journalists
/15
"We are now one year into Donald Trump’s second term, and something strange is happening in political media. A lot of people who spent years insisting that the so-called 'alarmists' were being hysterical have started, tentatively, to admit that maybe they got it wrong. …
At a certain point, you have to ask what it would take to not be surprised."
~ Parker Molloy
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #BothSides #media #journalists
/14
readtpa.com/p/this-is-literall…
This is Literally the Job
Political journalists need to stop pretending they don't know what Republicans are going to do.Parker Molloy (The Present Age)
"Trump’s cowardly enablers are largely responsible for the abyss America has plunged into."
~ Paul Krugman
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #BothSides #media #journalists #Democrats #Republicans
/13
"By focusing exclusively on congressional Democrats, we are letting Republicans off the hook. They are the ones with the power to actually stop the killings and the terror. The real question is whether they will use it."
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #BothSides #Democrats #Republicans
/12
"In my circles and group chats, the conversation immediately turned to Democrats. What can they do to stop Trump and protect the people of Minnesota, Maine, and whatever community Stephen Miller decides to terrorize next? Which Democrat will grab the nation’s attention and give voice to the anger and fear pulsing through the country?"
~ Dan Pfeiffer
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #BothSides #Democrats #Republicans
/11
messageboxnews.com/p/why-repub…
Stop Letting Republicans Off the Hook for the ICE Killings
The GOP has a choice: use their power to force change or own the chaos and the killings.Dan Pfeiffer (The Message Box)
"They were chastised by a mushy mainstream that prized decorum over diagnosis and tone over truth."
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #journalists #BothSides
/10
(continued from /8)
"not only by MAGA true believers, but by those in positions of power in media, politics, and business who congratulated themselves on being sober-minded and pragmatic. Too many who understood what was coming were labeled hysterical. Alarmist. Radical. Unserious. They were told to calm down. To respect norms that were already being shredded."
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #journalists #BothSides
/9
"When the history of this age is written, there will be no shortage of evidence about what went wrong. There will be no plausible claim of ignorance. ...
Looking more closely, those who look back will find something else that demands explanation. They will see that the people who most clearly recognized the danger were often dismissed and ignored —" (continued)
~ Elliot Kirschner
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #journalists #BothSides
/8
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We Knew This Would Happen
But those warnings were ignoredElliot Kirschner (Through the Fog, by Elliot Kirschner)
"As journalists, we must remember that our responsibility is not to present both sides evenly; it is to make a determination about the facts that helps audiences understand a chaotic world."
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #journalists #BothSides
/7
"The administration’s gross misrepresentation of 'the facts' poses a particular test for newsrooms. If journalists uncritically repeat baseless claims about domestic terrorism in their coverage, they risk laundering, and spreading, the often ludicrous statements of MAGA officeholders. But the press is still squeamish about directly calling out the administration’s lies."
~ Jem Bartholomew
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #BothSides
/6
cjr.org/the_media_today/ice-te…
‘Terrorist! Terrorist! Terrorist!’
From Minneapolis to Gaza, how does the press responsibly report killings when officials act in obvious bad faith? By looking out the window.Columbia Journalism Review
"I argued after the shooting of Renee Good that nothing makes people lose trust in news organizations as much as when they’ve seen something with their own eyes — and then see news coverage that doesn’t comport with what they themselves experienced.
And I think that will be even more true with the Pretti killing."
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #NewYorkTimes #journalists #BothSides
/5
"And then you could sense a countervailing tide, presumably directed by more senior leaders, of coverage mired in both-sidesism and weasel words, carefully measured so as to not 'take sides' even when one side was the truth and the other was lies."
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #NewYorkTimes #journalists #BothSides
/4
"It was particularly fascinating to watch the New York Times, where you could see bursts of bold, direct, honest coverage of what reporters had seen with their own eyes.
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #NewYorkTimes #journalists #BothSides
/3
"All you have to do is watch the videos to know that’s true. There is no good-faith debate about the facts. ...
If you were watching the news coverage in real time, like I was, you could see the lies working. Some news organizations simply resorted to stenography. Some contrasted the administration account with the videos, but left it at that."
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #journalists #BothSides
/2
"It’s been incredibly sad to see my beloved news industry struggle so publicly with whether and how to tell the truth about the wanton, brutal killing of Alex Pretti -- someone who did absolutely nothing wrong –- at the hands of the masked federal agents terrorizing his city."
~ Dan Froomkin
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #journalists #BothSides
/1
criticalread.substack.com/p/mo…
Moments of bravery and cowardice in the news coverage of Alex Pretti’s killing
Truth-telling is hard when your bosses are bootlickersDan Froomkin (Press Watch)
"And they know, as more and more of even once reticent Americans are now coming to understand, that there can be no quiet moving on from the Trump era, no calm, forward-looking determination to absolve the Trump regime and its agents of their actions."
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #murder #execution #CBP #ICE #MaskedThugs #shame
/3
"Some, like Tom Nolan, a former Boston police commander and criminology professor who once advised the DHS on civil rights issues, are calling Pretti’s death at ICE’s hands a stone-cold murder. You could also call it the elimination of a witness.
ICE agents know, as we all do, that one day the Trump regime will come to an end."
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #murder #execution #CBP #ICE #MaskedThugs #shame
/2
"Perhaps ICE’s homicidal rage at the Americans who film them represents this same refusal to countenance being seen, being witnessed, being documented doing what they are doing to innocent people. In that sense, perhaps their actions towards observers like Good and Pretti exhibit a sense of shame."
~ Moira Donegan
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #murder #execution #CBP #ICE #MaskedThugs #shame
/1
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Masked government thugs snuffed out Alex Pretti’s life in broad daylight
If they’re trying to eliminate witnesses, they cannot eliminate us allMoira Donegan (The Guardian)
"They are deploying pepper spray and tear gas indiscriminately. Photos from Minneapolis look like a war zone, not an American city on a Saturday afternoon.
Does this look like a street in the United States on a cold day in January?"
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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Featuring photos from Minneapolis today, Lucian K. Truscott writes,
"There are reports online that a man was shot multiple times by ICE agents and has died. The man was on the ground and surrounded by armed agents when he was shot. ICE has flooded the area with agents."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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luciantruscott.substack.com/p/…
Trump has declared war on an American city
Still from an ICE shooting this morning in Minneapolis.Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)
The Guardian now has live feed tracking the killing of a man in Minneapolis today by armed and masked federal agents: see /1 in this thread.
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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"Victor Manuel Diaz died Jan. 14 after being found unconscious in the Camp East Montana detention center in El Paso, Texas. Four days later, ICE announced the news, saying in a statement that his death was a 'presumed suicide,' though the official cause of death remains under investigation."
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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"The family of a Minnesota man who died at a Texas facility eight days after he was detained in Minneapolis is questioning the circumstances of his death and demanding a more thorough investigation."
~ Minneapolios Star Tribune
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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