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David Kurtz warns us not to fall for Trump regime claims, echoed by compliant media, that DHS are probing Pretti's murder:
"As MSNow has since confirmed, the Trump DOJ has decided not to open a civil rights investigation into the Pretti shooting, the same decision it made in the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good."
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #ICE #murder #execution #Minnesota #polls #ApprovalRating #AbolishIce
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Don’t Fall for the Bogus Claims That the Feds Are Probing the Pretti Shooting
INSIDE: Stephen Miller ... Renee Good ... Ilhan OmarDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"Meta has started blocking its users from sharing links to ICE List, a website that has compiled the names of what it claims are Department of Homeland Security employees, a project the creators say is designed to hold those employees accountable."
~ David Gilbert
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #ICE #murder #execution #Minnesota #polls #ApprovalRating #AbolishIce #Meta #MarkZuckerberg
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"As a student of public opinion, I see these events as constituting a classic 'tipping point' in how voters see immigration — and how they evaluate their leaders on the issue."
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #ICE #murder #execution #Minnesota #polls #ApprovalRating #AbolishIce
/15
"The killing by federal agents of two Americans in Minneapolis this month — Renee Good on Jan. 7, 2026, and Alex Pretti on Jan. 24 — has created a backlash to the administration’s policy of mass deportations and 'immigration enforcement' that is causing voters (in all parties) to move against the president’s agenda."
~ G. Elliott Morris
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #ICE #murder #execution #Minnesota #polls #ApprovalRating #AbolishIce
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The ICE shootings are a tipping point
Donald Trump's approval on immigration has collapsed 18 points since taking office, and support for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement has swung 50 points since Sept. 2024.G. Elliott Morris (Strength In Numbers)
"This solidarity, care, and even love that reaches across cultural and ethnic lines is unfathomable to many on the right, which is why they see it as rage, madness, or a conspiracy that must be backed by some powerful interest pouring money into it."
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #murder #execution #Minnesota #Minneapolis #solidarity #resistance #courage #compassion
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"I am as so many of you are moved by the solidarity with the neighbors in Minneapolis as people not under attack by ICE put their lives on the line – and in two cases lost their lives – to stand with the immigrant and BIPOC populations who are under attack."
~ Rebecca Solnit
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #murder #execution #Minnesota #Minneapolis #solidarity #resistance #courage #compassion
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"Past Performance Is Not Indicative of Future Results": On Immigration and Assumptions
This morning the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial warning about the consequences of the persecution and deportation of immigrants and its impact on the overall labor force: "The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that U.S.Rebecca Solnit (Meditations in an Emergency)
"I have begun to think that Minnesota pushback to ICE was unique and a model because it gave people something to do. It wasn’t about just going out in streets for rallying purposes. People had a mission: videos, whistles, information and communication flow to communities. They had something to do."
~ Juliette Kayem
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #murder #execution #Minnesota #Minneapolis #solidarity #resistance #courage #compassion
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"Instead we are out there in every place they are, showing them that every person in this city is one of our own, that there is no such thing as other people’s children, that collectively we are not afraid of staring them in the eye."
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #murder #execution #Minnesota #Minneapolis #solidarity #resistance #courage #compassion
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"They made a mistake in picking Minneapolis. They came here believing that the same old lines of division that animate their entire political project—race, culture, class—would be reason enough to keep people in their homes while they went about their violent work."
~ Erik Hane
"The people of Minnesota, the rest of the country has learned these past few weeks, just keep coming back. Their relentlessness offers a blueprint for how to react when ICE inevitably arrives somewhere new to stir up trouble where there was none; how to look violence dead in the eye and say not in my town; how to provide aid laterally when you know those at the top won’t be passing any down."
~ Marisa Kabas
"But then the rest of us sharing those things online is also like incredibly critical and powerful. And those videos wouldn't have any traction were it not for the rest of us. liking and retweeting and sharing."
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #murder #execution #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance #courage #compassion
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"So we have to also carry as much water in this fight as we can for those who can't participate in those ways as well."
Misha Collins then says,
"It's also a synchrony, like there's a synchrony between the two things, you know, people going out in the streets in Minneapolis and documenting with their phones is obviously so critical to this equation."
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #murder #execution #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance #courage #compassion
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"I think there is a role for all of us and a way for all of us to both think about how to stretch, how to stretch what were our comfort zone, while also recognizing that we all have different abilities to be able to show up in this space. And, you know, some people are working four jobs just trying to feed their kids on any given day."
~ Emily Farallon
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #murder #execution #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance #courage #compassion
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Conversation with Misha Collins and Emily Farallon
Watch my conversation with Misha Collins and Emily Farallon todayTimothy Snyder (Thinking about...)
"Any one of those people who were filming could have ended up like [Alex Pretti]. And they kept their cameras up anyway. They didn’t run away because, like him, they were trying to protect their neighbors. And I just think that is tremendously courageous and admirable."
~ Adam Serwer
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #murder #execution #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance #courage #compassion
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Trump Advisers Quietly Turn on Stephen Miller as Brutal ICE Poll Hits
As the schism in Trumpworld worsens over ICE’s atrocities, a journalist who spent time in Minneapolis explains how recent events reveal that the Trump-Miller-MAGA ideology miscalculated at a very profound level.The New Republic
Bruce Springsteen has just released a song paying tribute to Minneapolis and the courage of its people:
"Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
Here in our home they killed and roamed
In the winter of ’26
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
We’ll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis."
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #murder #execution #BruceSpringsteen
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
Lyrics:Through the winter’s ice and coldDown Nicollet AvenueA city aflame fought fire and ice‘Neath an occupier’s bootsKing Trump’s private army from the DHS...YouTube
Report: FBI supervisor resigns after being stopped from investigating ICE agent Jonathan Ross for fatally shooting Renee Good.
Tracee Mergen "resigned after being pressured by the FBI’s Washington bureau to discontinue her probe into Ross."
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said, “There is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation” into Good’s killing.
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#USPol #Europol #ICE #ReneeGood #FBI #StateMurder #Press .
FBI Agent Resigns After Unsuccessfully Trying to Probe ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
Tracee Mergen, an FBI supervisor in the Minneapolis field office, has resigned after unsuccessfully trying to investigate ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who fatally shot Renee Good.Democracy Now!
"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
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
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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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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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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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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
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
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"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
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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)
Tens of thousands gather in downtown Minneapolis for ‘ICE Out’ day
“Tens of thousands of Minnesotans marched in downtown Minneapolis Friday in a negative 30 degree windchill to protest the federal government’s continuing surge of immigration enforcement — demanding civil rights and a withdrawal of the 3,000 officers sent here by the administration of President Donald #Trump.”
minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/… #MinnesotaReformer #Minnesota #ice #iceout #iceoutofMinnesota #reneegood
This isn't the first time our government has killed it's citizens in broad daylight.
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young's "Ohio" set to a devastating series of photos from the Kent State shootings, and other 1960-70's protests.
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#reneegood #Pretti #kentstate #Minneapolis #ice #trump #noem
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young "Ohio"
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young's "Ohio" set to a devastating series of photos from the Kent State shootings, and other 1960-70's protests, compiled by Hard ...YouTube
They have moved slowly, encumbered by a belief that a reversion to the old ways of #federal - #state cooperation might still be possible. The killings of #ReneeGood & #AlexPretti — & the federal response to those killings — ought to put this lingering nostalgia to rest. A return to the days of state-federal cooperation will not happen unless the #states reassert themselves to protect their citizens & punish federal #lawlessness.
#law #Trump #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung
To be clear, a public-nuisance suit would face daunting odds. It might seem implausible on its face to say #ICE is a “nuisance,” especially before one accounts for the #ReneeGood & #AlexPretti killings. But #states need to reach for every possible tool to meet the moment. And the legal theory behind a public-nuisance ICE injunction stands on firmer ground than the #TenthAmendment suits filed in recent weeks by #Minnesota & #Illinois.
#law
You don’t get much more official than executing a #judicial #warrant. Concealing #evidence after the fact is a separate offense that also fits what is publicly known about both the #ReneeGood & #AlexPretti cases. The resulting #criminal penalties would attach to anyone who conspired in that concealment. This could reach more senior figures in the #Trump admin who acted to hinder #justice by using #lies & #slander to deflect responsibility &—worse—to score political points from the deaths.
#law
Drilling down on these facts reveals specific paths forward for #state #prosecutors even when a direct investigation is blocked.
Evidence of these 2 kinds of #crimes has already emerged in the 2 recent #ICE killings. After #ReneeGood was shot, ICE agents blocked a physician from aiding her. #Minnesota #law not only imposes misdemeanor liability for failures to aid in general, but in #shooting cases obligates the person who fired the wounding shot to “render immediate reasonable assistance.”
As a result, key forensic #evidence was almost certainly lost. This comes after state officials were excluded from the investigation into #ReneeGood’s death.
#Federal #obstruction of #Minnesota’s #criminal investigation merits more creative pushback from the #state: Leaving investigations in the hands of #DHS alone sends a powerful message to #ICE officers.
#law
"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
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"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
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"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
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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)
A new #Minnesota website lays out evidence to counter #federal #misinformation after #immigration agents fatally shot 2 residents during the #Trump admin’s immigration crackdown, deepening an unprecedented divide, experts said Monday.
Minnesota also went to court to preserve evidence from the Saturday shooting of #AlexPretti after its own investigators were blocked from the scene by federal authorities.
#ReneeGood #law #murder #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP
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From these honored dead we take increased devotion
to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom
and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people
shall not perish from the earth.
-- Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg Address
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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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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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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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)