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"At least 32 people died in ICE custody in 2025. ICE facilities across the country have faced allegations from human rights groups, immigration lawyers and lawmakers about overcrowding and poor conditions, such as rotten food, which the agency has denied."
~ Janelle Griffith
#Trump #ICE #DHS #violence #surveillance #murder #execution
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At Least 32 People Died in ICE Custody Last Year, as Fatal Shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti Spur National Outrage
The deaths occurred during a year of intensified immigration enforcement and preceded recent fatal encounters involving federal agents.Janelle Griffith (PEOPLE)
“DHS officers have fired shots during enforcement arrests or at people protesting their operations 16 times since July, and as in the recent shootings in Minneapolis, in each case the Trump admin has publicly declared their actions justified before waiting for investigations to be completed."
~ Ron Filipkowski quoting Washington Post
#Trump #ICE #DHS #violence #surveillance #murder #execution
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meidasplus.com/p/today-in-poli…
Today in Politics, Bulletin 295. 1/27/26
… Trump said today that the killing of Renee Good was worse to him than the Alex Pretti killing because her parents were Trump supporters: “I’m not sure about his parents, but I know her parents were big Trump fans.Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)
"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
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"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
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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
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"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
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"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
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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
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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
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'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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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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
"Because it fits their narrative. It allows them to say what they want to say. It allows them to feel like they're big boys and they're flexing. They're cowards. They're disgusting. They're scumbags. Anyone still supporting Donald Trump and ICE at this point in the game is an absolute piece of human garbage. And I will not take it back. I don't care how closely you're related to me."
#AlexPretti #murder #execution #Trump #MAGA #ICE #DHS #WhiteSupremacy #racism #violence #immigrants
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"They [i.e. MAGA] know what they're seeing [in video footage of Alex Pretti's murder]. They can see it plain as day, too. They do not care. And they will drag a good man in his name. And they'll sit back and cheer Donald Trump as he drags a good man in his name. Why?"
~ Tennessee Brando
#AlexPretti #murder #execution #Trump #MAGA #ICE #DHS #WhiteSupremacy #racism #violence #immigrants
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ICE Shooting Victim’s Family SPEAKS OUT
We can't allow a good man like Alex Pretti be smeared by the radical right.Support Tennessee Brando: https://www.patreon.com/tnbrandoDownload my NEW ALBUM "F...YouTube
"Obama Derangement Syndrome has proved both virulent and lasting. How else can one explain the casual acceptance of blatant lies about broad-daylight, video-recorded murders, so easily disproven by visual evidence?"
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #DHS #WhiteSupremacy #racism #violence #immigrants
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"I never would have expected that so many Americans would be just fine with a poorly trained but well-equipped paramilitary force operating under the aegis of a rogue administration – discarding due process, engaging in racial profiling, dragging people out of cars and homes by their hair, and killing those who object."
~ Nina Burleigh
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #DHS #WhiteSupremacy #racism #violence #immigrants
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When even Jonathan Rauch admits it….
"Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus. Fascist best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse. That is not because of any one or two things he and his administration have done but because of the totality."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/…
Yes, It’s Fascism
Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.Jonathan Rauch (The Atlantic)
"The point of the regime’s counter-attacks was to muddy the waters, causing the media and the MAGA base to focus on the victims’ actions and their alleged politics instead of the crimes committed against them. It’s the equivalent of blaming a rape victim for what she was wearing. And unfortunately, for a significant portion of the MAGA base, it works."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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"For many people, one of the more shocking parts of the White House response was its quick leap to blame the victims and to smear them as 'domestic terrorists' and violent assailants who, by inference, got what was coming to them. But this move is only surprising if you’re unfamiliar with Cohn’s second rule: always counter-attack."
~ Jay Kuo
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-r…
The Roy Cohn Playbook Is Failing
The Trump regime leaned hard into Roy Cohn’s playbook in Minneapolis, but the strategy is backfiringJay Kuo (The Status Kuo)
"This is unprecedented in the United States of America, a governor believing that he must use his powers to call up the state national guard in order to defend and protect the citizens of his state from a federal militia that has invaded the city of Minneapolis as if its armed and masked members are an enemy army."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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luciantruscott.substack.com/p/…
First step in a civil war
This is an image of the Minnesota National Guard moving into Minneapolis to assist local police in enforcing the law.Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)
"This is not immigration enforcement. This is extortion. This is the use of state violence to seize control of elections in a swing state. This is the thing itself, undisguised, in plain sight."
~ Mike Brock
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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Sullivan says,
"With what amounts to civil war raging in the United States, we desperately need clear, fearless truth-telling that doesn’t pull its punches and doesn’t hand a megaphone to lies and propaganda in the name of supposed fairness."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism #NewYorkTimes
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Margaret Sullivan notes that in a single article, New York Times can run a headline saying that video evidence "appears to" refute the Trump regime's lies about Pretti's exeuction and then state in the article that the evidence“directly contradicts” the regime's lies.
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism #NewYorkTimes
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Defensive caution can’t compete with right-wing propaganda
Is it so hard for journalists to clearly state that the Trump administration is lying?Margaret Sullivan (American Crisis)
"Both times, the same spokesmen smeared the victims as 'domestic terrorists.'
This is a tactic that I recognize: blaming the victims for their own deaths has long been standard practice in dictatorships."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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"In the past several weeks, masked federal agents dressed as military officers have killed two Americans who were peacefully protesting their violent attacks on immigrants and U.S. citizens. Both times their actions were recorded on video cameras. Both times, government spokesmen made false statements, directly contradicting the video evidence."
~ Anne Applebaum
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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Minnesota Winter
A second murder, a second set of lies and an ominous letterOpen Letters, from Anne Applebaum
"The regime’s mind-blowing dishonesty is ultimately a way to demean and mark those who resist. They function as fascist solidarity, signaling that partisans can and should do anything and everything to political enemies, no matter how violent, cruel, or unnecessary."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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The regime's mind-bending lies are a tactic
Thinking about them in terms of truth or falsity is a category error.Noah Berlatsky (Public Notice)
"Trump and his lieutenants are working to codify a new, more sinister right, one that they reserve selfishly for just themselves and their pals: the right to murder other people’s loved ones with impunity – in broad daylight, on camera – and to then immediately have a good laugh about it."
Asawin Suebsaeng
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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First Draft: Murder Inc.
Trump's DHS escalates its reign of terror and killings, pro-gun groups are pissed at Republicans, and the 'Middle East's only democracy' cracks down on the free press... again.Asawin Suebsaeng (Zeteo)
"If you are, you get to rule, dominate, exploit. If you are not, because you deviate from MAGA’s vision of what 'real America' is supposed to be, you have forfeited not only your rights and protections as a citizen, but also your humanity, your very right to live."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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"There is no act of violence committed by the agents of the state they won’t defend – no victim they won’t slander and vilify. ...
Here is the clearest encapsulation of Trumpism as a political project: Redraw the lines of who belongs, who is legitimate, who is part of the 'Volk.'”
~ Thomas Zimmer
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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The People Struggle Against Tyranny
Another execution of an American citizen. A regime that has no strategy but to lash out. The struggle against Trumpist authoritarianism is only going to get bloodier.Steady
compared it to conflict zones she has seen in other countries.
“My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq and Ukraine. What I’ve seen here is what I’ve seen there – a powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people.”
~ Rachel Sayre quoted by Rachel Leingang
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…
‘You ask us for peace, we get shot in the face’: Minneapolis in turmoil after federal agents kill second US citizen
Federal agents release chemicals into the air and arrest people after shooting and killing a 37-year-old manRachel Leingang (The Guardian)
"That is our new national reality. State terror has arrived."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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"After the past three weeks of brutality in Minneapolis, it should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation. It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear — a fear of violence from which some people may at a given moment be spared, but from which no one will ever be truly safe."
~ Masha Gessen
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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"Let me break it down. There is one story: our country is on the brink of an authoritarian takeover. "
~ Francine Prose
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
America feels like a country on the brink of an authoritarian takeover
This is the news we should be paying attention to. At least for the moment, everything else is a distractionFrancine Prose (The Guardian)
"One of the images that continues to haunt me is the federal agent clapping in the split second after the execution of Alex Pretti at point-blank range. What kind of monster watches a man murdered with at least 10 bullets, then applauds? Not a shake of the head, not a moment of gravity about the taking of a human life, but clapping."
~ Steven Beschloss
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #Trump #Minnesota #evil
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americaamerica.news/p/snapshot…
Snapshot: Monsters in Our Midst
They are not just indifferent to a deadly shooting, they revel in it. But their terror is triggering a rising tide of anger and resistance.Steven Beschloss (America, America)
"But it was not lost on Pretti’s devastated parents that he died 'while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper-sprayed,' they said in a statement. They wanted us to know that fact. 'Please get the truth out about our son,' they added. 'He was a good man.'
Alex Pretti was a good man at a time when very bad men are running our country."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #Trump #Minnesota #evil
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"We know the fascists don’t want white people standing up for immigrants and other people of color, who are the main victims of Operation Metro Surge (and all the other perversely named federal invasions, including Maine’s revolting 'Catch of the Day,' as though immigrants are fish to be caught and killed.) And apparently, they don’t want men coming to the aid of the women they assault."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #Trump #Minnesota #evil
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"Pretti was trying to help a woman whom federal agents shoved violently to the ground. A fellow ICE observer, the woman flew a few feet through the air and landed hard; it had to hurt. 'Are you OK?' Pretti asked her, according to bystanders. Those were his last known words."
~ Joan Walsh
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #Trump #Minnesota #evil
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thenation.com/article/society/…
Alex Pretti Was a Good Man at a Time of Great Evil | The Nation
The 37-year-old ICU nurse was killed helping another ICE victim. We must honor his sacrifice.smccroskey (The Nation)