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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.
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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."
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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)
"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
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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
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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
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Was This a Murder Too Far?
The execution of Alex Pretti has made even some MAGA loyalists waverPaul 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."
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"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
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"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
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"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."
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"And the contrast between the damning videos and the blatant lies from Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino was too much even for many people who were still, for some reason, inclined to trust this administration. ...
Finally, it matters that this was the second broad-daylight murder, and that it came after weeks of horror stories about kidnapped children, citizens pepper-sprayed in the face, and more."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #Trump #Minnesota #evil
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"I already knew, and most readers of this newsletter probably also knew, that the people besieging Minneapolis were lying, brutal thugs. But most Americans don’t follow the news closely and tended until recently to give the government the benefit of the doubt.
The murder of Alex Pretti may be a tipping point...."
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"This is about good vs. evil."
~ Will Bunch
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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)
"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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(continued from /4)
"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)
"Trump’s approval on immigration has dropped to 44% approve / 53% disapprove (net -9), and his deportation policy is at 42% / 54% (net -12). Border security remains his only positive issue at 50% / 46% (net +4). Trump’s numbers on all three have declined since our last poll in October, 2025."
~ G. Elliott Morris
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #immigrants #cruelty #violence #ApprovalRating
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New poll: Trump loses ground on immigration; Dems lead 2026 House vote by 8 points
The new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds Democrats start 2026 with their biggest lead yet on the 2026 House vote, while Trump approval sinks on immigration, deportations, and public safetyG. Elliott Morris (Strength In Numbers)
"Lunas Campos died of asphyxiation after guards put pressure on his neck and chest during an altercation during which Lunas Campos asked for his medication. Two detainees testified that they saw guards choking Lunas Campos, who repeatedly told them he couldn’t breathe. The Trump administration has since tried to deport the two witnesses."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Texas #immigrants #cruelty #violence
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January 21, 2026
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this morning, a visibly exhausted president of the United States of America rambled in angry free association in a speech before the world’s leaders.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
“'Based on the investigative and examination findings, it is my opinion that the cause of death is asphyxia due to neck and torso compression,' Adam C. Gonzalez, deputy medical examiner for El Paso County, said in the report. 'The manner of death is homicide.'”
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Texas #immigrants #cruelty #violence
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"The recent death of a detainee [Geraldo Lunas Campos] at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner."
~ Douglas MacMillan
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #KristiNoem #DHS #Texas #immigrants #cruelty #violence
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"Vance is visiting the Twin Cities today, and they’ve launched a new operation in Maine. For in their collective madness this will to power, this need to feel their boot on our neck, their seizing of Gaza and Venezuela - all of it has become the central project of the regime. It is not about what is good for the country. It is about more and more power and control."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #JDVance #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #cruelty #violence
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Appeasement Never Works, Only Strength - Lessons From An Ugly Week (New Video, Analysis)
We must remember at all times that Trump has chosen not to govern with us, or for us, but against us - for they are scared of us, of the power of the peopleSimon Rosenberg (Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg)
"This is only the latest cruel outrage I’ve heard about. All this is being done in our name — the United States of America — with our authority, our tax dollars, and, seemingly, our acquiescence."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #cruelty #violence #children
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"ICE agents have kidnapped a 5-year-old child to use him as “bait” to arrest his parents. The child and his father are now in a detention center in Texas, although no one knows their exact whereabouts. They were in America legally."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #cruelty #violence #children
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robertreich.substack.com/p/aga…
Seriously, what can we do about the fascist now loose upon America?
We’re in a far more dangerous and violent stage of Trump’s regime. What should we do to stop it?Robert Reich
"The Columbia Heights [Minnesota] Public School district says federal agents have detained four of its students in four separate incidents over the last two weeks. One child is a 5-year-old boy who attends a district elementary school and was used as 'bait' to draw family members out of their home."
~ Elizabeth Shockman
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #cruelty #violence #children
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