My fellow Canadians, if you want to be part of the USA, you can move there freely on your own. I encourage you to do so.

"To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there's an old-fashioned word for that, and that word is treason," said Eby ahead of the meeting.

#Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #USA #USPoli #Alberta #Separatism #Fascism #FarRight #ABPoli #BCPoli
cbc.ca/news/politics/eby-alber…

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including of Alex Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province - terrorized by US execution squads for decades....

Source: Chris Hedges Report 25 Jan

#USImperialism #USPol #UKPol #Europol #Palestine #press #racism #Fascism #stateMurder .

Dear press, it's long past time to stop calling this an immigration crackdown. It's a Federal Government directed terror campaign.

#USPol #Minneapolis #Fascism #DHS #ICE #CBP #AlexPretti #ReneeNicoleGood #FederalTerrorism

#GiftArticle

First Comes #ICE, Then Come Lawsuits

When a direct path to #justice is blocked, #states must look for a legal work-around.

By Aziz Huq

#law #Trump #immigration #Constitution #CivilRights #FirstAmendment #DueProcess #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #ExtraJudicialKillings #murder #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #MafiaState #StateSponsoredTerrorism #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/…

First Comes ICE, Then Come Lawsuits

When a direct path to justice is blocked, states must look for a legal work-around.

^{Aziz Huq (The Atlantic)}

I guess I'm making more of these now

here's two more today

(1-7 are about Renee Good, these are about Alex Pretti)

idk maybe i always liked 1920s soviet typography art for a reason

ETA: Here, 11x17, print 'em at any print shop if you want:

archive.org/details/ice-shot-p…

#politics #protest #protests #fascism #signs

Art by Ravi Zupa.

Inspired by the poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas. The general consensus of the poem is that it is about being on the threshold of and not conceding to death.

How timely.

Original art:
ravizupa.com/products/test-pro…

Full poem:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_not_g…

#Art #Poem #Poetry #Death #Mortality #Resist #Antifascism #Fascism #ICE

#GiftArticle

City Prosecutors Join Forces to Bring Charges Against #FederalAgents

9 progressive #prosecutors from cities around the country are launching a coalition to assist in prosecuting federal law enforcement officers who violate #state #laws, one of the prosecutors, Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, said Tues.

#law #FAFO #federalism #10thAmendment #FederalGovernment #Trump #MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing
nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/pros…

Liam & his dad were taken across the country to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas — an #ICE #detention facility [#ConcentrationCamp] for families.

The father has filed a lawsuit against #DHS Secretary #KristiNoem, #USAttorney General #PamBondi & other #federal officials.

#LiamRamos #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #Trump #law #immigration #DueProcess #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #despotism #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

LAist: Will there be an Olympic boycott in 2028? Some LA City Council members are worried

laist.com/news/will-there-be-a…

#sports #fascism #olympics #LosAngeles

Will there be an Olympic boycott in 2028? Some LA City Council members are worried

Amid calls to boycott U.S. World Cup, council members say L.A. needs to prepare for political snubs

^{Libby Rainey (LAist)}

RE: legal.social/@malteengeler/115…

What Malte said. Tim Cook knows exactly what he's doing.

He didn't lack judgement.

He's not an ethical man who lacks the courage to stand in for his ethics.

He's a capitalist who does whatever promises the highest profits. And after enough time passed, all capitalists eventually demonstrate that, under their mask, they're in truth fascists.

Can liberals and journalists please stop with the denial and excuses?

#capitalism #fascism

Nationwide shut down

January 30

NO WORK
NO SCHOOL
NO SHOPPING

instagram.com/p/DT9ULZQjFUU/

#Politics #USpol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Venezuela #Strike #GeneralStrike #Greenland #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Minneapolis #TRUMP #FASCISM
#ReneeNicoleGood #ICE #civilrights #humanrights #PoliceState #USA
#Minnesota #MInneapolis #fuckICE #JUSTICE #FreeSpeech
#politics #socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #whitesupremacy #imperialism #protest #activism #resistance #unitedstates #classwar #racism #lgbtq #indigenous #poverty #Immigration #education #US #tiktok #antifa #labor #labour #unions #AlexPretti

Hundreds of children protested at the Texas facility holding 5-year-old Liam Ramos, chanting “Libertad,” or "Freedom," in a show of solidarity with Ramos.

The facility is run by CoreCivic, a private prison company. Eric Lee, an attorney for some of the families and children, said the protest was in response to the harsh day-to-day conditions at the facility, which he describe as “a horrible, horrible place,” with putrid drinking water and meals that contain bugs, dirt, and debris, with guards as cruel as those at adult prisons.

tpr.org/border-immigration/202…

#ice #trump #fascism #immigration #children #childabuse #liamramos #prison #gestapo

Protest breaks out at Dilley immigration detention facility holding 5-year-old Liam Ramos

A protest broke out Saturday at the ICE-run South Texas family detention complex in Dilley, where five-year-old Liam Ramos is being detained.

^{David Martin Davies (TPR)}

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
/19

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
/18

"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
/17

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 backfiring

^{Jay 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
/16

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
/15

notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-c…

The Crisis, No. 1

On the lie that nothing can be done

^{Mike Brock (Notes From The Circus)}

"Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception."

~ Kyle Clark

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism #media
/14

bsky.app/profile/kylec.bsky.so…

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
/13

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
/12

margaretsullivan.substack.com/…

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
/11

"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
/10

anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/m…

Minnesota Winter

A second murder, a second set of lies and an ominous letter

^{Open 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
/9

publicnotice.co/p/alex-pretti-…

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
/8

zeteo.com/p/murder-inc

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
/7

"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
/6

steady.page/en/democracyameric…

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
/4

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 man

^{Rachel Leingang (The Guardian)}

"That is our new national reality. State terror has arrived."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
/3

"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
/2

nytimes.com/2026/01/24/opinion…

"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
/1

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 distraction

^{Francine Prose (The Guardian)}

"A protester had laid a rose on a makeshift memorial to Good. As Knutson watched, an ICE agent took the rose, put it in his lapel, and then mockingly gave it to a female ICE agent. They both laughed.

Knutson told me he had never been a protester. It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt. But when he saw those ICE agents laughing, something broke inside him."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #fascism #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/3

Robert F. Worth
Robert F. Worth describes what caused Minneapolis documentary filmmaker Chad Knutson, who wasn't previously an activist, to join the protests:

"On the morning after Good was killed, [documentary filmmaker Chad Knutson] was at home with his two hound dogs, watching a live feed from the Whipple Building, where ICE is based, a five-minute drive from his house."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #fascism #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/2

theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…

The Minneapolis Uprising

In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

^{Robert F. Worth (The Atlantic)}

"One of the striking developments about the extremism of Trumpian violence, lying, and abuse of power is its recruitment power – but for the opposition. A lot of mild-mannered moderates are now ferociously against ICE, the attack on immigrants, and in some cases the whole Trump Administration."

Rebecca Solnit

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #fascism #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/4

meditationsinanemergency.com/t…

This Cold Winter, Love Is a Superpower

There are great days and terrible days in history, days a nation or world changed, that you remember forever.

^{Rebecca Solnit (Meditations in an Emergency)}

:Pretti was holding a phone, filming masked men who were terrorizing people on his city’s streets. We know this because other courageous neighbors were doing the same thing. One of them captured the celebratory clapping of agents that began as the ten shots that killed Pretti were still being fired."

~ William J. Barber II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #fascism #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/5

ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/…

A Man Was Lynched Yesterday

Alex Pretti was killed by people who celebrated his death. They do not need better training. They demand a moral movement to disarm them and reconstruct democracy.

^{William J. Barber, II (Our Moral Moment w/ Bishop William Barber & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove)}

"Ross leaned into the car to shoot [Renee Good] at close range through the windshield, not something you would do if you thought a car was about to run you over. He then shot her twice more through the side window as the car rolled by in front of him, one of those shots being fatal."

~ Paul Krugman

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #fascism #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/6

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/was…

Was This a Murder Too Far?

The execution of Alex Pretti has made even some MAGA loyalists waver

^{Paul Krugman}

"The MAGA faithful closed ranks, echoing the party line that she was a militant terrorist, albeit one with a dog in the back of the car, who smiled and said soothing words to her killer. ...

But this time, after the killing of Alex Pretti, feels different. Media coverage has been much clearer than the coverage after Good’s death."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #fascism #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/7

"As I was writing this, the Wall Street Journal headline read 'Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting'. After some initial equivocation, the New York Times is calling out administration lies and featuring a chilling moment-by-moment analysis of videos showing what really happened. ...

I think that this time is different, for several reasons."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #fascism #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/8

"First, views of the Pretti murder aren’t distorted by misogyny and anti-LGBTQ bigotry. I believe that a significant number of people brushed aside the murder of Renee Good because she was a woman — at a time when right-wingers are still dismissing opponents of fascism as 'gangs of wine moms' — in a same-sex relationship."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #fascism #Trump #Minnesota #evil #misogyny #homophobia
/9

"Second, while the video evidence on Good’s killing was clear if examined closely, it did need close examination to reveal that she was simply murdered. The videos of Pretti’s killing don’t need close examination. That sound you heard Saturday was millions of Americans, myself included, crying out in horror as we watched agents repeatedly shoot a man who was already restrained."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #fascism #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/10

"This is about good vs. evil."

~ Will Bunch

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #fascism #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/1

inquirer.com/opinion/minneapol…

Alex Pretti’s ICE murder is beyond politics. This is about good vs. evil

Trump's inhumane immigration raids and two ICE murders has triggered an American yearning for a return to morality.

^{Will Bunch (The Philadelphia Inquirer)}