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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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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)
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"'and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.'”
#AlexPretti #murder #execution #CBP #ICE #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #Trump
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"'Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota.
Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing,'" (continued in /4)
#AlexPretti #murder #execution #CBP #ICE #StephenMiller #KristiNoem
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“'In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a ‘domestic terrorist,’ the statement reads. 'Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts.'"
#AlexPretti #murder #execution #CBP #ICE #StephenMiller #KristiNoem
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"The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) — the largest union representing federal workers and the one that happened to represent Alex Pretti — has also issued one statement blaming the Trump administration for the escalation that led to his death this weekend and another on Monday, calling for the resignation of both Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller."
~ Robyn Pennacchia
#AlexPretti #murder #execution #CBP #ICE #StephenMiller #KristiNoem
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wonkette.com/p/largest-federal…
Largest Federal Workers Union Demands Noem And Miller Resign, Members Demand They Stop Representing Border Patrol
An injury to one is an injury to all.Robyn Pennacchia (Wonkette)
"It is almost entirely certain that Donald will never be held accountable in a way that will feel just or satisfying. There is no prison or poverty in his future. He is a lame duck and a shockingly weak man. At the very least, though, let’s make sure that he and his party are neutered and let’s make sure he knows we know it."
#AlexPretti #murder #execution #Trump #Republicans
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"And yet in Minneapolis, Minnesota it feels like the tide just might be turning. While Mr. Pretti’s murder was an inflection point, the images of protestors being brutalized have shaken us to our core. One of our cities has been turned into a battlefield by the federal government and its citizens treated like the enemy."
#AlexPretti #murder #execution #Trump
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"We seem to have reached a tipping point and I’m trying to figure out why. The murder on Saturday of Alex Pretti by an ICE agent seems to have ushered in a sea change. ...
I was beginning to worry that such a moment would never come. For decades, we have witnessed Donald Trump, as an individual, as a private citizen, get away with every horrid transgression, every act of cruelty, every crime he’s ever committed."
~ Mary Trump
#AlexPretti #murder #execution #Trump
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marytrump.org/p/the-tipping-po…
The Tipping Point
The accumulation of horrors finally breaks throughMary L Trump (The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump)
"Officials told CBS News that there was no documented chain of custody for Pretti’s gun, raising the question of whether evidence has been improperly handled (or footage erased)."
#AlexPretti #murder #execution #Trump #DHS
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"The New York Times reports that the FBI initially collected evidence from the shooting, including Pretti’s handgun and phone, but has turned over that evidence to Homeland Security Investigations, a division of the Department of Homeland Security…."
#AlexPretti #murder #execution #Trump #DHS
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"Following the killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents over the weekend, the cell phone Pretti was holding moments before his death has disappeared into federal custody."
~ Hafiz Rashid
#AlexPretti #murder #execution #Trump #DHS
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newrepublic.com/post/205748/al…
Here’s Where Alex Pretti’s Phone Ended Up After He Was Killed
Why haven’t we seeing the footage on Alex Pretti’s phone moments before Border Patrol agents killed him?The New Republic
"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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youtube.com/watch?v=k4AOBYgcrU…
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
#AlexPretti broke a rib in confrontation with federal agents a week before death edition.cnn.com/2026/01/27/us/…
"about a week before his death, he suffered a broken rib when a group of federal officers tackled him while he was protesting their attempt to detain other individuals."
In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said that “DHS law enforcement has no record of this incident.”
It sure looks like they knew who he was, but don't want to reveal it was an #ICE #execution
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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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
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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
"The sinister and toxic avalanche of propaganda we saw over the past 48 hours. It’s not a rush to judge, but to punish, intimidate, inflame, and cower everyone from immigrants to local law enforcement to state elected officials to common citizens. Perhaps most ominously, it is another signal to federal agents that they are protected and that violent conduct is not only acceptable but desirable."
~ David Kurtz
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution
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When the Propagandists Are Armed and Dangerous
INSIDE: Alex Pretti ... Todd Blanche ... Kristi NoemDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
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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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)
And as Oliver Kornetzke reminds us, while there's been strong reaction and even revulsion at the murders of these two white protestors, Good and Pretti, they are far from the only people killed by the regime pursuing immigrants and those in solidarity with them.
Kornetzke offers photos of the people of color who have met the same fate and whose murders have elicited less response.
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #Trump #Minnesota #evil
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substack.com/home/post/p-18575…
No More Denial.
What I want to say is not meant in any way to diminish the senseless loss of life of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.substack.com
"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
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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
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theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…
The Minneapolis Uprising
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.Robert F. Worth (The Atlantic)