Report: FBI supervisor resigns after being stopped from investigating ICE agent Jonathan Ross for fatally shooting Renee Good.

Tracee Mergen "resigned after being pressured by the FBI’s Washington bureau to discontinue her probe into Ross."

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said, “There is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation” into Good’s killing.

democracynow.org/2026/1/26/hea…

#USPol #Europol #ICE #ReneeGood #FBI #StateMurder #Press .

"The Department of Homeland Security is now walking back a Saturday statement that described Pretti as having 'violently resisted' Customs and Border Protection agents and suggested he intended to 'massacre law enforcement.' A DHS spokesperson told NBC News that the initial account was based on chaotic and incomplete reports from CBP personnel on the scene."

~ Aaron Parnas

#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #murder #execution #lies #truth
/8

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Major Update: White House Officials Throw Each Other Under the Bus as FBI Raids Georgia Election Office and DHS Walks Back Pretti Claims

The knives are out in the Trump Administration this afternoon.

^{Aaron Parnas (The Parnas Perspective)}

"It’s hard to know the truth when everyone is so biased [the grandmother says]. The college student near me, who spends most of his time in the events center — and, based on the evidence, a lot of his other time as well, chewing the skin off his fingers — tells me, 'People need to comply with the police.'

That’s it. The subject is changed."

#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #murder #execution #lies #truth #Iowa
/7

Liz Dye reports on what she experienced at Trump's rally yesterday in Clive, Iowa:

"When everything is always a lie, the truth eventually escapes. What does it do out there in the open?

When I gently bring up Minneapolis and what’s happening there to the people around me, the grandmother two chairs down frowns and says she doesn’t believe most of what the media reports."

#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #murder #execution #lies #truth #Iowa
/6

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The big question: Why would a highly placed US general be tweeting it out repeatedly?

And who would so many armchair warriors immediately glom onto it to declare that it vindicates the Trump regime when it claims that Pretti's execution was caused by his pulling a gun?

The bigger question: how to build a sane society when many of us are so addicted to toxic lies that we refuse to see truth in front of our eyes?

#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #murder #execution
/5

As PolitiFact notes,

"A viral image of Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti was manipulated with Google’s artificial intelligence tool, Gemini.

Clues it’s not an authentic photo: One officer is missing his head, and the hands and fingers of Pretti and the agents are distorted."

With all the actual footage available for us to see, many of us knew, of course, immediately that this was a bogus image.

#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #murder #execution
/4

Stoehr notes that the doctored, false AI image was tweeted repeatedly by General Tony Thomas, once head of Special Operations Command. It then went viral on social media.

Yesterday, PolitiFact released a statement:

"We rate claims the image shared on X is a real photo of Pretti False."

#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #murder #execution
/3

politifact.com/factchecks/2026…

This is an AI-manipulated image of Alex Pretti

This isn’t a real photo of Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti pinned down by federal immigration agents. The image has a digital watermark that shows it was generated using Google’s artificial intelligence tool, Gemini.

^@politifact

Stoehr features a doctored AI-produced image of Pretti immediately before Trump's masked thugs shot him repeatedly in the back. The image appears to show Pretti pulling his gun — though actual footage of what happened, from repeated angles, shows that this did not ever happen and his gun was taken away before he was murdered. He never touched the gun.

#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #murder #execution #AI
/2

"Renee Good was shot in the face. Alex Pretti was shot in the back. Their deaths were not accidental. They were not the result of poor or insufficient training. They were the result of intent.

Why are moderates worried about seeming extreme when the context is murder by the state? In that setting, there’s no such thing as an overreaction."

~ John Stoehr

#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #murder #execution
/1

editorialboard.com/moderate-de…

Moderate Democrats worry about overreacting. The real danger is underreacting

Murder by the state is the breaking point, says Jill Lawrence.

^{John Stoehr (Editorial Board)}

Tens of thousands gather in downtown Minneapolis for ‘ICE Out’ day

“Tens of thousands of Minnesotans marched in downtown Minneapolis Friday in a negative 30 degree windchill to protest the federal government’s continuing surge of immigration enforcement — demanding civil rights and a withdrawal of the 3,000 officers sent here by the administration of President Donald #Trump.”

minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/… #MinnesotaReformer #Minnesota #ice #iceout #iceoutofMinnesota #reneegood

This isn't the first time our government has killed it's citizens in broad daylight.

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young's "Ohio" set to a devastating series of photos from the Kent State shootings, and other 1960-70's protests.

youtube.com/watch?v=JCS-g3HwXd…
#reneegood #Pretti #kentstate #Minneapolis #ice #trump #noem

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young "Ohio"

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young's "Ohio" set to a devastating series of photos from the Kent State shootings, and other 1960-70's protests, compiled by Hard ...

^YouTube

They have moved slowly, encumbered by a belief that a reversion to the old ways of #federal - #state cooperation might still be possible. The killings of #ReneeGood & #AlexPretti — & the federal response to those killings — ought to put this lingering nostalgia to rest. A return to the days of state-federal cooperation will not happen unless the #states reassert themselves to protect their citizens & punish federal #lawlessness.

#law #Trump #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung

To be clear, a public-nuisance suit would face daunting odds. It might seem implausible on its face to say #ICE is a “nuisance,” especially before one accounts for the #ReneeGood & #AlexPretti killings. But #states need to reach for every possible tool to meet the moment. And the legal theory behind a public-nuisance ICE injunction stands on firmer ground than the #TenthAmendment suits filed in recent weeks by #Minnesota & #Illinois.

#law

You don’t get much more official than executing a #judicial #warrant. Concealing #evidence after the fact is a separate offense that also fits what is publicly known about both the #ReneeGood & #AlexPretti cases. The resulting #criminal penalties would attach to anyone who conspired in that concealment. This could reach more senior figures in the #Trump admin who acted to hinder #justice by using #lies & #slander to deflect responsibility &—worse—to score political points from the deaths.

#law

Drilling down on these facts reveals specific paths forward for #state #prosecutors even when a direct investigation is blocked.

Evidence of these 2 kinds of #crimes has already emerged in the 2 recent #ICE killings. After #ReneeGood was shot, ICE agents blocked a physician from aiding her. #Minnesota #law not only imposes misdemeanor liability for failures to aid in general, but in #shooting cases obligates the person who fired the wounding shot to “render immediate reasonable assistance.”

As a result, key forensic #evidence was almost certainly lost. This comes after state officials were excluded from the investigation into #ReneeGood’s death.

#Federal #obstruction of #Minnesota’s #criminal investigation merits more creative pushback from the #state: Leaving investigations in the hands of #DHS alone sends a powerful message to #ICE officers.

#law

"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
/1

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 all

^{Moira Donegan (The Guardian)}

A new #Minnesota website lays out evidence to counter #federal #misinformation after #immigration agents fatally shot 2 residents during the #Trump admin’s immigration crackdown, deepening an unprecedented divide, experts said Monday.

Minnesota also went to court to preserve evidence from the Saturday shooting of #AlexPretti after its own investigators were blocked from the scene by federal authorities.

#ReneeGood #law #murder #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP
apnews.com/article/misinformat…

From these honored dead we take increased devotion
to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom

and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people
shall not perish from the earth.

-- Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg Address

#AlexPretti #ReneeGood

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
/19

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
/18

"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
/17

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 backfiring

^{Jay 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
/16

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
/15

notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-c…

The Crisis, No. 1

On the lie that nothing can be done

^{Mike Brock (Notes From The Circus)}

"Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception."

~ Kyle Clark

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism #media
/14

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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
/13

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
/12

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
/11

"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
/10

anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/m…

Minnesota Winter

A second murder, a second set of lies and an ominous letter

^{Open 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
/9

publicnotice.co/p/alex-pretti-…

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
/8

zeteo.com/p/murder-inc

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
/7

"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
/6

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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
/5

morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.…

When the Propagandists Are Armed and Dangerous

INSIDE: Alex Pretti ... Todd Blanche ... Kristi Noem

^{David 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
/4

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 man

^{Rachel Leingang (The Guardian)}

"That is our new national reality. State terror has arrived."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
/3

"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
/2

nytimes.com/2026/01/24/opinion…

"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
/1

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 distraction

^{Francine Prose (The Guardian)}