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"The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed."
~ Michael and Susan Pretti
#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
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Major Update: Pam Bondi Demands Voter Rolls in Exchange for Removing ICE as Alex Pretti's Family Blasts Trump Administration
We have a major update this evening, and well, surging ICE agents to places like Minnesota may not have been able immigration enforcement after all.Aaron Parnas (The Parnas Perspective)
"Donald Trump has built what his first term only suggested-an interconnected infrastructure of fear aimed at mixed‑status families and immigrant‑heavy cities. It is not just hundreds of thousands of deportations with a goal of millions; it is the way government has been remade so that daily life itself is risky."
~ Mark Mansour
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #immigrants #fascism
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The Infrastructure Of Fear
Trump has accomplished what he failed to do in his first termMark Mansour (America’s Fractured Politics)
Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE.
They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon.
They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times.
He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”.
Silverio Villegas González was an undocumented immigrant who was shot and killed at close range while allegedly trying to flee.
He was dragged from his vehicle at a traffic stop after dropping his children off at school.
The bullet went through the back of his neck.
Keith Porter was shot and killed by an off duty ICE officer on New Years Eve in LA.
The officer alleges Porter pulled a weapon on him but the family and other witnesses deny that.
Renee Nicole Good was shot three times by an ICE agent who called her a “f*cking b*tch” after.
ICE claims she was using her vehicle as a weapon despite multiple videos showing she was trying to drive away from the agent.
2 of the 3 shots were through driver side door.
The ICE agent shot her through her windshield, moved out of the way of the vehicle and kept shooting.
He was in no danger. But he didn’t stop shooting until he got the kill shot.
Independent autopsy confirms it was through her left temple and out the right side of her skull.
There’s been so much documented abuse of power.
In addition to the shootings we have Liam Ramos, a five year old child who was used as bait and then taken by masked agents and sent from Minnesota to Texas.
There’s Geraldo Campos who was choked to death in an ICE camp in Texas.
The medical examiner officially ruled his death a homicide, and DHS moved to deport the witnesses!
Chaofeng Ge was found hanging in ICE custody.
They ruled it a suicide despite his arms and legs being tied behind his back.
Randall Gamboa Esquivel was in perfect health when detained by ICE.
He disappeared while in custody.
By the time his family located him, he was in a persistent vegetative state.
They deported him to Costa Rica and he died soon after.
David Courvelle worked as a detention officer in an ICE facility in Louisiana.
He sexually assaulted a Nicaraguan detainee for three months, forcing other detainees to keep watch while he abused her.
Silvia Reyna Mendoza, a mother of 8 who had been in the US for 40 years, was sexually harassed by an ICE contractor.
He reportedly would tell her if she was good to him, he would be good to her.
When she reported the harassment she was immediately detained.
Bayron Rovidio Marin had his leg broken during an ICE raid in LA.
He was then held in the hospital under a fake name so no one could find him.
He was chained to a hospital bed for 37 days until a court ordered his release.
There’s Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in ICE custody for almost a year.
He was only two days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when they grabbed him.
He’s being denied his prosthetics, he’s been placed in solitary and his health is declining
Now there’s Alex Pretti, another US citizen shot and killed in broad daylight.
These are not just a few random incidents.
It’s not a few “bad apples”.
It’s a systemic problem.
These agents have been allowed to hide their identities, filled with hateful rhetoric and told they have immunity.
People are being abused, assaulted and killed by ICE.
This isn’t about immigration or crime, it’s about control & creating fear.
It’s tyranny and no one is safe under tyranny.
The scariest part is these are only the cases we know about.
At least 1,200 people are missing from Alligator Alcatraz.
Elected officials are regularly denied access into the camps.
We have to assume we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
Abolish ICE.
Close the camps.
Keep witnessing and speaking out.
How Governments Spy On Protestors—And How To Avoid It | Incognito Mode | WIRED
youtube.com/watch?v=lL34WpoETd… #Surveillance #Resistance #Fascism
How Governments Spy On Protestors—And How To Avoid It | Incognito Mode | WIRED
Law enforcement’s ability to track and profile political protestors has become increasingly multifaceted and technology driven. In this edition of Incognito ...YouTube
ICE is a terrorist organization run by the United States Federal Government
#Minnesota #USPol #ICE #Fascism #Gaslighting #FederalTerrorism
Anyone who believes they can carry on living peacefully because they are not part of a minority and are not being targeted should read Niemöller again.
Construction of enemies by fascism never stops.
🇺🇸 #fascism
In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.
He was a 24/7 caregiver for his severely disabled son Wael.
At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.
I wrote about Wael and how our caregivers are an extension of us.
Without them we can’t do basic activities of daily living.
Wael died on Friday at age 30.
He didn’t even get to say goodbye to his father.
ICE caused his death & unnecessary suffering.
Now they’re refusing to allow Maher to attend the funeral.
Absolute ghouls.
#uspol #fascism #eugenics #disability #abolishice #immigration
The Guardian: US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’
"...The father, identified in court filings as Elvis Joel TE, and his daughter were stopped and detained by officers around 1pm when they were returning home from the store. By the evening, a federal judge had ordered the girl be released by 9.30pm. But federal officials instead put both of them on a plane heading to a Texas detention center...."
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#fascism #ice #Minnesota #Minneapolis
US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’
DHS detain a toddler and her father on Thursday and fly them to Texas before returning child on judge’s orderSam Levin (The Guardian)
"More than 50 #Minnesota labor unions, nonprofits, and other #community organizations have signed onto a January 23 Day of Action, which calls for a complete “economic blackout” in the state. “No work. No school. No shopping,” its posters declare.
... This would be the first #GeneralStrike in Minnesota since 1934, when the Teamsters set off a months-long work stoppage in the state."
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#Protest #Resist #Resistance #Trump #ICE #Fascism #News #Minneapolis #USA #US #Economy
‼️ Anti-ICE strike‼️
"Last week, #Minnesota -based faith leaders, unions, and other #community groups called for a #strike and economic #blackout on Jan. 23 in response to the #Trump administration's [attack on #Minneapolis]
That operation has led to ... the death of #ReneeGood, who was shot and killed by Jonathan Ross, an #ICE agent"
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#Protest #Resist #Resistance #DonaldTrump #Fascism #Politics #News #US #USA #UnitedStates
"Right now feels impossible, and unfortunately there's a lot of impossible still to come. There's no fast fix, no one easy trick to defeating #fascism.
But.
But honestly I've never felt more hopeful that we actually have what it takes. That we can do the impossible, even when it seems insurmountable.
Because what it takes is us."
dansinker.com/posts/2026-01-21…
#Protest #Resist #ICE #CBP #DHS #Trump #Resistance #Minneapolis #Minnesota #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
"They have come to the Twin Cities with 2000, 3000 troops & the people of #Minneapolis St Paul have answered back with tens of thousands more. The call for help goes out, and it gets answered by so many... Everywhere you look there are people—regular-ass people like you, like me—standing up to literal troops, everyone knowing full well how it could go and doing it anyway.
Nobody should have to do this.
But we do it."
dansinker.com/posts/2026-01-21…
#Protest #Resist #ICE #Fascism #News #Minnesota #US
"To be clear, we're not "protesting" here in Minneapolis. We're resisting an occupation."
- philcalvit
#Resist #Resistance #Protest #Minneapolis #Minnesota #USA #ICE #CBP #DHS #Trump #GOP #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Politics #US #UnitedStates
"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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)
#DOJ "refusing to investigate Ms. Good’s death...
But the real explanation may be more sinister. Since she was killed, we’ve seen multiple videos in which #immigration officers refer to her death to threaten people lawfully observing or recording them. The real motivation appears to be to make all the other Renee Goods out there, the liberal “wine moms” watching over immigration raids, wonder if they might be next."
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#ReneeGood #ICE #Fascism #Trump #News #Minnesota #US
"We use words like “police state.” Then we see it happen. To watch is not the same as to experience it, of course. Of being afraid to leave your house. Or having a classmate, co-worker, or family member disappear. But the images make it more real. It removes any illusion that it could not happen here. It is happening here. We see it happening here, if we are willing to look."
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pas…
#Trump #ICE #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Politics #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #America
"Trump’s 'Board of Peace' is the nail in Gaza’s coffin".
Trump's 'peace' is in the Orwellian sense of equalling "the final eradication of Palestinian life in Gaza."
And the board is about a new world order where billionaires will decide the fate of weak nations.
“I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace", says Trump. Orwell’s moment is truly upon us: “War is peace.”
middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum…
#USPol #Europol #UKPol #BoardOfPeace #racism #Fascism #Trump #Gaza #Greenland .
Trump’s 'Board of Peace' is the nail in Gaza’s coffin
Feckless European leaders like Starmer let Israel and the US tear up international law in Gaza. Now, faced with Greenland and Ukraine, they are suffering from a severe case of buyer’s regretMiddle East Eye
"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
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"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 functional end of the American century that began in the aftermath of World War II is what [Mark Carney's speech] marks. He hand-wrote that speech. It was not put together by a team of speechwriters. It was a serious adult's remarks to a room full of the world's leaders…"
~ Steve Schmidt
#MarkCarney #Trump #Greenland #Davos #NATO #fascism #Europe
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A conversation with Julie Roginsky
A recording from Julie Roginsky and Steve Schmidt's live videoJulie Roginsky (Salty Politics with Julie Roginsky)
"I try to read as much of the Russian press as I can. They're all like cackling about this. And so I think it's just this, this is the red line of red lines where you don't invade another country. And you don't threaten to invade another country. You don't threaten to invade an ally, which almost nobody's ever thought of as a possibility."
~ Rick Stengel
#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #Putin
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The Rupture with Europe and Other Madness
A recording from my live conversation with foreign policy expert Rick StengelSteven Beschloss (America, America)
"They must be celebrating in Beijing. The U.S. can only seriously be a rival to China. It's amazing that we're talking about that. But by the strength of its alliances, by our soft power, the fact that we, you know — I think most of the American people still share values with the rest of Western democracies, but unfortunately, the administration does not."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #China
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Live with Paul Kruman: Davos, Powell, world economy
A recording from Paul Krugman and Harry Litman's live videoPaul Krugman
"Our narcissist in chief has exceeded Putin’s wildest dreams. Russia could not have imagined Trump would damage the US this badly."
~ John Harwood
#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #media #Putin
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Trump Has Exceeded Putin’s Wildest Dreams
Russia could not have imagined Donald Trump would damage the US this badly.John Harwood (Zeteo)
"Across the first three weeks of 2026, and especially yesterday, President Trump’s Mad King rantings about Greenland have accelerated into something far more stunning and alarming: We are watching in real-time as a superpower dies by suicide — an all-but unprecedented choice to self-immolate and torch the country’s remaining global trust and friendships."
~ Garrett M. Graff
#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #media
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Watching A Superpower Die By Suicide
This is one of the wildest moments in all of the modern 400-year history of nation-states and geopolitics.Garrett Graff (Doomsday Scenario)
Ruth Ben-Ghiat offers a list of autocratic rationales behind Trump's fixation on Greenland: plunder, pleasing Putin, partnerships with technofascists, megalomania, corrupting the U.S. military.
#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #TechBros #SiliconValley #broligarchy #Putin
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The Autocratic Rationales Behind Trump's Greenland Fixation
Plunder, Pleasing Putin, Partnerships with Technofascists, Megalomania, Corrupting the U.S. MilitaryRuth Ben-Ghiat (Lucid)
"NBC: 'Trump calls for ‘immediate negotiations’ on Greenland, but rules out using force' ...
Every story that treats 'I won’t use force' as the news, rather than 'I reminded everyone that I could use unstoppable force,' contributes to a distorted picture of reality. Readers who rely on mainstream coverage encounter a version of Trump that has been sanded down, made palatable, rendered comprehensible within frameworks that don’t apply to him."
"He said he wouldn’t do it. For now.
You won’t find this in any diplomacy textbook. It’s the language of a protection racket.
So how did reporters cover it?
NPR (original headline): 'Trump says
I won’t use force" to obtain Greenland in Davos speech'
ABC News: 'Trump rules out using military force to acquire Greenland in Davos speech'”
~ Parker Molloy
#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #media
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Now Everyone's Saying 'Oh, Good'
Trump told the media exactly how they'd cover his Greenland threats. They did it anyway.Parker Molloy (The Present Age)
"The system worked, in part, because countries believed the U.S. would honor its commitments. ...
The reality is that when the architect of the postwar order becomes its violator, the entire system collapses. If the U.S. can threaten NATO allies with impunity, why should China hold back from attacking Taiwan? Why should Russia stop at Ukraine?"
"America, for all its missteps, had been the guarantor of a rules-based order in which smaller nations could trust that their sovereignty would be respected. American dominance was by no means faultless, but it was consciously unlike the empires of old, with a firm policy against pursuing territorial conquest."
~ Berny Belvedere
#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe
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Trump’s Attempted Greenland Grab Has Turned America Into a Predatory Power
His bid might have been thwarted for now, but America will be regarded as a global threat going forwardBerny Belvedere (The UnPopulist)
"Trump wants to invade a NATO ally so we can have military bases we already have, to combat a threat that does not exist. To make matters worse, Trump is now citing his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize as a reason for his aggression toward Greenland.
A military takeover of Greenland would blow up NATO, isolate the U.S., and dramatically strengthen Russia and China—and for what?
It’s pure idiocy."
~ Dan Pfeiffer
#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism
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Trump’s Greenland Problem isn't Going Anywhere
It's the rare idea that is putrid politics and policyDan Pfeiffer (The Message Box)