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"Worry more about being called biased than about being accurate. Do all of this, consistently, for years, and you will be surprised when the things people warned you about come to pass. The surprise is built into the methodology.
There’s a cost to this."
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #BothSides #media #journalists
/16
"Political journalism has developed a set of practices that make surprise the default response to predictable events. Treat every denial as meaningful. Frame every warning from advocacy groups as partisan overreach. Insist on a both-sides structure even when one side is lying."
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #BothSides #media #journalists
/15
"We are now one year into Donald Trump’s second term, and something strange is happening in political media. A lot of people who spent years insisting that the so-called 'alarmists' were being hysterical have started, tentatively, to admit that maybe they got it wrong. …
At a certain point, you have to ask what it would take to not be surprised."
~ Parker Molloy
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #BothSides #media #journalists
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This is Literally the Job
Political journalists need to stop pretending they don't know what Republicans are going to do.Parker Molloy (The Present Age)
"Trump’s cowardly enablers are largely responsible for the abyss America has plunged into."
~ Paul Krugman
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #BothSides #media #journalists #Democrats #Republicans
/13
"By focusing exclusively on congressional Democrats, we are letting Republicans off the hook. They are the ones with the power to actually stop the killings and the terror. The real question is whether they will use it."
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #BothSides #Democrats #Republicans
/12
"In my circles and group chats, the conversation immediately turned to Democrats. What can they do to stop Trump and protect the people of Minnesota, Maine, and whatever community Stephen Miller decides to terrorize next? Which Democrat will grab the nation’s attention and give voice to the anger and fear pulsing through the country?"
~ Dan Pfeiffer
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #BothSides #Democrats #Republicans
/11
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Stop Letting Republicans Off the Hook for the ICE Killings
The GOP has a choice: use their power to force change or own the chaos and the killings.Dan Pfeiffer (The Message Box)
"They were chastised by a mushy mainstream that prized decorum over diagnosis and tone over truth."
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #journalists #BothSides
/10
(continued from /8)
"not only by MAGA true believers, but by those in positions of power in media, politics, and business who congratulated themselves on being sober-minded and pragmatic. Too many who understood what was coming were labeled hysterical. Alarmist. Radical. Unserious. They were told to calm down. To respect norms that were already being shredded."
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #journalists #BothSides
/9
"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
/8
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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
/7
"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
/6
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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
/5
"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
/4
"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
/3
"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
/1
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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)
"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
/3
"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
/2
"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)
"They are deploying pepper spray and tear gas indiscriminately. Photos from Minneapolis look like a war zone, not an American city on a Saturday afternoon.
Does this look like a street in the United States on a cold day in January?"
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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Featuring photos from Minneapolis today, Lucian K. Truscott writes,
"There are reports online that a man was shot multiple times by ICE agents and has died. The man was on the ground and surrounded by armed agents when he was shot. ICE has flooded the area with agents."
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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Trump has declared war on an American city
Still from an ICE shooting this morning in Minneapolis.Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)
The Guardian now has live feed tracking the killing of a man in Minneapolis today by armed and masked federal agents: see /1 in this thread.
#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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"Victor Manuel Diaz died Jan. 14 after being found unconscious in the Camp East Montana detention center in El Paso, Texas. Four days later, ICE announced the news, saying in a statement that his death was a 'presumed suicide,' though the official cause of death remains under investigation."
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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"The family of a Minnesota man who died at a Texas facility eight days after he was detained in Minneapolis is questioning the circumstances of his death and demanding a more thorough investigation."
~ Minneapolios Star Tribune
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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"As DHS/ICE cannot work with state and local law enforcement due to their lawless tactics they are having to fly people they detain in Minnesota out of state to other detention facilities. Even children separated from their parents."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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The Courage Of The People Of Minnesota Is Lifting Up And Inspiring A Nation
Watch now | For those in the path of the storm - stay safe all!Simon Rosenberg (Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg)
Sam Levin reports that after what ICE did to the little girl and her father was publicly known, ICE flew the two back to Minnesota and is continuing to detain the father, with the little girl now reunited with her mother.
Irina Vaynerman, one of the lawyers helping the family, states,
“The horror is truly unimaginable. The depravity of all of this is beyond words.”
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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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)
"Video circulating on social media appeared to show agents using chemical irritants and flash-bang devices as crowds gathered at the scene."
Attorneys for the family say they were asylum-seekers who were pulled over without a warrant and did not have a final order for removal.
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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"A 2-year-old girl and her father were detained by federal immigration agents in south Minneapolis and placed on a commercial flight out of Minnesota, despite a judge ordering the toddler’s release."
The father, Elvis Joel Tipan Echeverria, was detained near Powderhorn Park on Jan. 22, while returning home from a grocery store with his daughter, according to lawyers for the family."
~ Susan Du and Mara Klecker
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty
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"'Meaning, trying to identify them via social media, running their license plates if available, and running a criminal history check,' the official explained.
The directive is part of a sweeping, nationwide effort by U.S. immigration authorities to identify anyone and everyone trying to film their conduct."
#Trump #ICE #DHS #Maine #immigrants #MaskedThugs #Constitution #cruelty
/31
"The Department of Homeland Security has ordered immigration officers to gather identifying information about anyone filming them and to 'send that information to Intel who will do a ‘work-up’ on them,' a federal law enforcement official directly involved tells me."
~ Ken Klippenstein
#Trump #ICE #DHS #Maine #MaskedThugs #Constitution #cruelty
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ICE Making List of Anyone Who Films Them
“We have a nice little database and now you’re considered a domestic terrorist.”Ken Klippenstein
"That threat relates back to a post I wrote two weeks ago about the risk Trump would use his NSPM-7 memo to treat citizens exercising their rights as though they were terrorists. Now it’s a reality."
#Trump #ICE #DHS #Maine #MaskedThugs #Constitution #cruelty
/29
"Today in Portland, Maine, ICE agents began videotaping people who were observing them. Apparently, they thought this was clever. When asked why they were doing it, the agent in the video below responds: 'We have a nice little database.' 'And now you’re a domestic terrorist.'”
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #ICE #DHS #Maine #MaskedThugs #Constitution #cruelty
/28
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There’s ICE In Maine
Mainers have been watching Minnesota.Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
"ICE is the worst of America, indeed perhaps the worst of humanity – a window into the corruption that is possible in the human soul. They are animals with the gall to call themselves men."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/24
"[Pictures of Liam used as bait by ICE] make plain the sheer sadism of ICE and their agenda, the smallness, cowardice and moral degeneracy of people who would arm themselves to the teeth and cover their faces in order to attack a child not yet big enough to tie his own shoes."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/23
"It need not detract from the specificity of Liam and his suffering to say that his arrest and the photos of it that were released by the school that wants him back, are a potent symbol of what Trump’s ICE raids are doing, both to Minneapolis and to the country as a whole."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/22
"Liam’s plain blamelessness, his innocence, the useless cruelty of his capture, the bald, shameless cynicism of his use as 'bait' to capture the adults who love him – these evidence an evil I was naive enough not to know about. I am not so naive anymore."
~ Moira Donegan
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/21
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The taking of Liam Ramos reveals the sheer sadism of ICE
It has become difficult to feel shock at the actions of the Trump administration. But this useless cruelty is shamelessMoira Donegan (The Guardian)
"You're using a 5-year-old to to bait other adults to come out and then you still detain the 5-year-old while another relative is there saying if you've got to take the father at least leave the child with us and then refuses to do that. Like you you've lost your humanity. What on earth?"
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/20
Jemar Tisby comments on the story of ICE using five-year-old Liam Ramos as bait to lure his family out of their house, then sending Liam and his father to Texas:
"You've lost the plot as a human being at this point."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/19
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The Escalating ICE Brutality and Church Protests
This week we talk about the recent autopsy reports that reveal the escalating brutality of ICE. Renee Goode’s autopsy revealed that she was shot four times i...YouTube
"No one in this family is a criminal — least of all, a five-year-old boy.
But what ICE did was not an error. It was the policy working as designed."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
/18
"And because they did everything right, ICE knew exactly where to find them.
Agents didn’t have to investigate. They didn’t have to dismantle a criminal network or put themselves at risk. They simply showed up at a home and detained a preschooler whose backpack was still on his shoulders, despite having no deportation order and no allegation of criminality."
#Trump #LiamRamos #Minnesota #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #sadism
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