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"When the history of this age is written, there will be no shortage of evidence about what went wrong. There will be no plausible claim of ignorance. ...
Looking more closely, those who look back will find something else that demands explanation. They will see that the people who most clearly recognized the danger were often dismissed and ignored —" (continued)
~ Elliot Kirschner
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #journalists #BothSides
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We Knew This Would Happen
But those warnings were ignoredElliot Kirschner (Through the Fog, by Elliot Kirschner)
"As journalists, we must remember that our responsibility is not to present both sides evenly; it is to make a determination about the facts that helps audiences understand a chaotic world."
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #journalists #BothSides
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"The administration’s gross misrepresentation of 'the facts' poses a particular test for newsrooms. If journalists uncritically repeat baseless claims about domestic terrorism in their coverage, they risk laundering, and spreading, the often ludicrous statements of MAGA officeholders. But the press is still squeamish about directly calling out the administration’s lies."
~ Jem Bartholomew
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #BothSides
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‘Terrorist! Terrorist! Terrorist!’
From Minneapolis to Gaza, how does the press responsibly report killings when officials act in obvious bad faith? By looking out the window.Columbia Journalism Review
"I argued after the shooting of Renee Good that nothing makes people lose trust in news organizations as much as when they’ve seen something with their own eyes — and then see news coverage that doesn’t comport with what they themselves experienced.
And I think that will be even more true with the Pretti killing."
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #NewYorkTimes #journalists #BothSides
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"And then you could sense a countervailing tide, presumably directed by more senior leaders, of coverage mired in both-sidesism and weasel words, carefully measured so as to not 'take sides' even when one side was the truth and the other was lies."
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #NewYorkTimes #journalists #BothSides
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"It was particularly fascinating to watch the New York Times, where you could see bursts of bold, direct, honest coverage of what reporters had seen with their own eyes.
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #NewYorkTimes #journalists #BothSides
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"All you have to do is watch the videos to know that’s true. There is no good-faith debate about the facts. ...
If you were watching the news coverage in real time, like I was, you could see the lies working. Some news organizations simply resorted to stenography. Some contrasted the administration account with the videos, but left it at that."
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #journalists #BothSides
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"It’s been incredibly sad to see my beloved news industry struggle so publicly with whether and how to tell the truth about the wanton, brutal killing of Alex Pretti -- someone who did absolutely nothing wrong –- at the hands of the masked federal agents terrorizing his city."
~ Dan Froomkin
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #journalists #BothSides
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Moments of bravery and cowardice in the news coverage of Alex Pretti’s killing
Truth-telling is hard when your bosses are bootlickersDan Froomkin (Press Watch)
"Trump got Second Amendment fans on the right riled up again with this comment today about Pretti: 'You can’t have guns. It’s a very unfortunate thing. You can’t have guns. Q - What about the Second Amendment? You can’t walk in with guns.'
I guess Democrats just found a new ally for gun control legislation."
~ Ron Filipkowski
#AlexPretti #Trump #execution #murder #guns #2ndAmendment
/14
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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+)
"Donald Trump has started a firestorm within the Republican Party today suggesting that Alex Pretti should not have carried a firearm, despite him being legally able to do so. Gun rights activists have now come out in droves to condemn the President over the remarks exposing a major internal rift."
~ Aaron Parnas
#AlexPretti #Trump #execution #murder #guns #2ndAmendment
/13
"As Trump left the White House earlier today, he made a stunning remark. After years of demagoguery around guns and the Second Amendment, Trump said, 'You can’t just walk into places or be in public and have a gun or a concealed carry.' Where are all those Second Amendment People now?"
~ Ben Meiselas
#AlexPretti #Trump #execution #murder #guns #2ndAmendment
/12
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I Just Spoke with Gov. Walz about Trump's Attacks on Minnesota
Watch my exclusive interview nowBen Meiselas (Meidas+)
"And now, looking across the American landscape, those far-right white nationalists feel comfortable flipping their rhetoric because they recognize the Trump administration is doing their business for them. The government is their kind of extremist now."
#AlexPretti #Trump #execution #murder #guns
/11
"At first the series of rhetorical flip-flops may seem nonsensical — as if the world is upside down — but all of them are consistent with decades of evolution of white nationalist ideology and the far-right movement, which isn’t against tyranny per se, just tyranny by the 'wrong people': Democrats, women, or minorities."
~ Garrett Graff
#AlexPretti #Trump #execution #murder #guns
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Minneapolis Proves the Far-Right Isn’t Anti-Tyranny
They’re Anti-the *Wrong* Kind of TyrannyGarrett Graff (Doomsday Scenario)
"Much more tragic are the ordinary-folks footsoldiers dutifully coming out to defend the ICE shooting. I can barely think of anything more beaten than spending the day typing variations on the theme of 'it is good that law enforcement officers in my country shoot civilians who are no threat'. What a bunch of bootlickers. They might be too far gone to see it, but much of the rest of the world can."
~ Marina Hyde
#AlexPretti #Trump #execution #murder #guns
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Masked thugs, sneering elites and terrified citizens: a picture of the US today. We used to have a name for this
Truly, I am the country’s biggest fan. But in the spirit of free speech its leaders apparently love, here’s a few things the rest of the world needs them to know, says Guardian columnist Marina HydeMarina Hyde (The Guardian)
"For MAGA, authoritarianism is clearly the highest value, and even earlier commitments to gun rights can fall by the wayside. Mixed in with the authoritarianism is tribalism. The right believes in gun rights, but only for the right sort of people."
~ Jeet Heer
#AlexPretti #Trump #KashPatel #KristiNoem #ScottBessent #execution #murder #guns #2ndAmendment #KyleRittenhouse
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MAGA Is Proving How Little It Actually Cares About Gun Rights | The Nation
The ability to kill dissidents at will is more important to Trump and his supporters than the Second Amendment.smccroskey (The Nation)
"The coordinated messages indicate that the administration believes that attacking Pretti’s gun carry is its best chance of justifying his killing to the public, but those talking points have already sparked backlash from some of Trump’s closest allies: gun-rights activists."
#AlexPretti #Trump #KashPatel #KristiNoem #ScottBessent #execution #murder #guns #2ndAmendment #KyleRittenhouse
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"In social media posts and interviews, officials including FBI Director Kash Patel, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and even Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett have falsely argued that Pretti’s mere possession of a gun or an extra magazine was illegal or evidence of his nefarious intent."
~ Stephen Gutowski
#AlexPretti #Trump #KashPatel #KristiNoem #ScottBessent #execution #murder #guns #2ndAmendment #KyleRittenhouse
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The Trump administration wants to have it both ways on gun rights
After immigration agents killed Alex Pretti Saturday, the Trump administration cast aspersions on common gun-carry practices and upset gun-rights groups.Stephen Gutowski (MS NOW)
Kyle Rittenhouse: Shot and Killed Two Protesters
Gun-toting St. Louis Couple
Bundy Father and Son’s Armed Confrontation with Federal Officials
Armed Protesters Breach Michigan State Capitol
Armed Militia Gathered Around Georgia State Capitol
Another State, Another Election Protest: Arizona
To Round It Out: January 6
#AlexPretti #Trump #KashPatel #execution #murder #guns #2ndAmendment #KyleRittenhouse
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For all the social media armchair warriors and gun fanatics now blaming Alex Pretti for his murder because he was legally carrying a gun to a protest that he never touched, Zeteo has a salient list of times these very same little fellows were praising folks openly displaying guns at protests:
#AlexPretti #Trump #KashPatel #execution #murder #guns #2ndAmendment #KyleRittenhouse
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"Minnesota has a concealed carry law that gun owners do not lose when they attend a rally. (Perhaps Trump should not have pardoned the armed, violent Jan. 6 protestors; perhaps they should not have lionized Rittenhouse.)"
#AlexPretti #Trump #KashPatel #execution #murder #guns #2ndAmendment #KyleRittenhouse
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"Well, that only applies to their own supporters, it seems. FBI director Kash Patel falsely stated on Sunday, “You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines, to any sort of protest that you want. It’s that simple.” That is a lie."
#AlexPretti #Trump #KashPatel #execution #murder #guns #2ndAmendment #KyleRittenhouse
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"Republicans have long-extolled the inviolability of 2nd Amendment, pushed for concealed carry laws, and subverted attempts to impose even minimal restrictions on gun owners. They turned Kyle Rittenhouse, an armed protestor who killed two unarmed people in Wisconsin, into a national hero."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#AlexPretti #Trump #execution #murder #guns #2ndAmendment #KyleRittenhouse
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Words & Phrases
Apparently, Trump wants to erase the 4th and 2nd AmendmentsJennifer Rubin (The Contrarian)
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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"The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. …
Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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"Finally, there are those most at risk of coming into violent contact with federal agents, a group that’s come to be popularly known as ICE Watch, although the designation is unofficial. …
If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it 'neighborism'—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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"The largest is the protesters, who show up at events such as Friday’s march in downtown Minneapolis, and at the airport, where deportation flights take off. ...
Then there are the people who load up their car with food, toiletries, and school supplies from churches or schools to take to families in hiding. They also help families who cannot work meet their rent or mortgage payments."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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"Tens of thousands of volunteers—at the very least—are risking their safety to defend their neighbors and their freedom. They aren’t looking for attention or likes on social media. ...
The number of Minnesotans resisting the federal occupation is so large that relatively few could be characterized as career activists. They are ordinary Americans—people with jobs, moms and dads, friends and neighbors. They can be divided into roughly three groups."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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"Maybe they had assumed that they would find only a caricature of 'the resistance'—people who seethed about Trump online but would be unwilling to do anything to defend themselves against him.
Instead, what they discovered in the frozen North was something different: a real resistance, broad and organized and overwhelmingly nonviolent, the kind of movement that emerges only under sustained attacks by an oppressive state."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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In a must-read essay, Adam Serwer puts his finger on why courageous people in Minnesota have been able to force the Trump regime to backtrack:
"The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions. ...
Perhaps the Trump-administration officials had hoped that a few rabble-rousers would get violent, justifying the kind of crackdown he seems to fantasize about."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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I read this as a non-subscriber at Archive Today.
"This is, in a deep, deep way, Americans almost like flexing this Constitution, rule of law, democracy muscle that I think... we'd all forgotten that they had."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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"This is something different, what's happening in Minnesota, what has happened in Portland. These are not simply people showing up and expressing disapproval. These are people showing up and saying, you cannot search homes without a judicial warrant. These are people showing up and saying, you cannot pepper spray me simply for holding up a sign."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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"We are seeing in Minnesota, in my view, the embodiment of Americans caring about these inchoate non-voting issues like the First Amendment and the Second Amendment and the Eighth Amendment and the Ninth Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment. And I think it's really worth understanding, and we should unpack this maybe together, these aren't protests anymore."
~ Dahlia Lithwick
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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Real Heroes: The People of Minnesota are Standing Up to Trump's Terrorists
Minnesotans have shown the entire country how to stand up to this administration.David Rothkopf (Need to Know by David Rothkopf)
"The people of Minneapolis have shown such incredible bravery the leadership in Congress needs to prove that they are worthy of that and that they're willing to stand up as well because the fight in Congress is nothing compared to what the average person in Minneapolis is just doing for their neighbors."
~ Edwin Eisendrath
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance #morality
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Bye-Bye Bovino | Edwin Eisendrath & Susan Demas LIVE
Trump and MAGA are In a tactical retreat thanks to Minnesotans saying, ENOUGH.Susan J. Demas (Lincoln Square)
"The state ranks near the top in quality of life, health care, education, and happiness. It has low childhood poverty, high insurance coverage, and long life expectancy. Walz believes the administration resents the fact that progressive policies work, that a system built on the idea that everyone matters produces real results."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance #morality
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"This moment is not about party. Walz was emphatic on that point. What is happening in Minnesota, and across the country, is a moral question. It is about empathy, basic decency, and constitutional rights. Minnesota’s record undermines the narrative the administration wants to sell."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance #morality
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I Just Spoke with Gov. Walz about Trump's Attacks on Minnesota
Watch my exclusive interview nowBen Meiselas (Meidas+)
"Fallows says he's writing his post 'to document this crucial moment in history and what some people have said and done over these past three chaotic days. I’ll focus on individuals in Minnesota who have exemplified the courage, discipline, and morality that, through this crisis, have distinguished their state as a whole.'"
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance #morality
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(continued from /3)
"'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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"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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