"A creature so ate up with the rot of his own byproducts he looks like he was drawn as-is by Eli Valley"

"A little-known minion gifted with a moment in the sun and unable to stop himself wilting"

#AlexPretti #Trump #ICE #CBP #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #Minnesota #TomHoman #GregBovino
/24

"A worm who never should have been born and whose every day spent breathing is an insult to the universal commonwealth of all humanity"

"The essence of venal grasping, adorned with hair extensions, her own clownface lavished on to cover the scars of her adolescent acne"

#AlexPretti #Trump #ICE #CBP #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #Minnesota #StephenMiller #KristiNoem
/23

Briley describes the enemies to whom he's referring here (/21):

"A preening octogenarian dilettante in clownface with little more than the skill to keep talking"

"The incarnation of daddy issues as a concept, soft at the jowls and so ashamed of where he’s from that he’s also ashamed of where he pretends to be from"

#AlexPretti #Trump #ICE #CBP #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #Minnesota #JDVance
/22

"But considering they call anyone in the vicinity of an ICE raid a protester these days, it seems more likely he was doing what we now know he often did: observing, warning, deescalating, and documenting. …

Our nation never called him a hero. He didn’t serve himself, he served those who served. But I think that you can learn a lot about someone through a study of their enemies."

#AlexPretti #Trump #ICE #CBP #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #Minnesota
/21

"A week before the government murdered Alex Pretti, they dogpiled him in their usual fashion, and broke one of his ribs. The news says he was 'protesting' the detention of 'other individuals.' That's a fine thing to do."

~ Justin Briley

#AlexPretti #Trump #ICE #CBP #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #Minnesota
/20

liberalcurrents.com/he-served-…

He Served Those Who Served: Portrait of a Man Named Pretti

It’s better to not know heroes exist than to find out they did only after they’re gone.

^{Justin Briley (Liberal Currents)}

"In law enforcement departments across the country, badge numbers are visible on uniforms precisely so that when force is used, especially lethal force, the public can know who was involved. That transparency is not a nicety. It is a safeguard."

#AlexPretti #Trump #KristiNoem #StephenMiller #CBP #ICE #murder #execution #accountability
/18

"In Minneapolis, we watched a man die in front of the world, and yet we still do not know who pulled the trigger. Not by name. Not by badge. Not by face. Not by the accountability that is supposed to define a democratic society."

~ Dina Doll

#AlexPretti #Trump #KristiNoem #StephenMiller #CBP #ICE #murder #execution #accountability
/17

meidasplus.com/p/release-their…

Release Their Names

The Murder of Alex Pretti and the Crisis in Democracy

^{Dina Doll (Meidas+)}

Dear press, it's long past time to stop calling this an immigration crackdown. It's a Federal Government directed terror campaign.

#USPol #Minneapolis #Fascism #DHS #ICE #CBP #AlexPretti #ReneeNicoleGood #FederalTerrorism

From Diana Brickell on Bsky:

"Holy shit, there's an open carry #2A protest of ICE happening in Douglas County Colorado -- a very wealthy and very red suburb county of Denver. (I lived there for 16 years.) The Trump Administration pissing off committed gun owners sufficiently for them to join the protests against ICE is wild."

bsky.app/profile/dianabrickell…

#ICE #FuckICE #DHS #CBP #protests #50501movement

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

It tells them that even if they effectively execute a #US #citizen who presents no threat on camera on a public street, they will face no consequences—a recipe for future tragedies. The state’s interest in finding a way to at least create some deterrence to deadly federal lawlessness is not just a matter of #justice: It is also a way of keeping its people safe moving forward.

#law #Trump #immigration #Constitution #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExtraJudicialKillings #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung

#GiftArticle

First Comes #ICE, Then Come Lawsuits

When a direct path to #justice is blocked, #states must look for a legal work-around.

By Aziz Huq

#law #Trump #immigration #Constitution #CivilRights #FirstAmendment #DueProcess #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #ExtraJudicialKillings #murder #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #MafiaState #StateSponsoredTerrorism #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/…

First Comes ICE, Then Come Lawsuits

When a direct path to justice is blocked, states must look for a legal work-around.

^{Aziz Huq (The Atlantic)}

#EFF Statement on #ICE and #CBP Violence

eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/eff-…

#politics #privacy #surveillance

EFF Statement on ICE and CBP Violence

In the past year, ICE and CBP have descended into utter lawlessness, repeatedly refusing to exercise or submit to the democratic accountability required by the Constitution and our system of laws. These violations must stop now.

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

"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)}

(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
/4

"'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
/3

“'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
/2

"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
/1

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)}

Liam & his dad were taken across the country to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas — an #ICE #detention facility [#ConcentrationCamp] for families.

The father has filed a lawsuit against #DHS Secretary #KristiNoem, #USAttorney General #PamBondi & other #federal officials.

#LiamRamos #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #Trump #law #immigration #DueProcess #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #despotism #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

#DHS claimed Liam’s father is an “illegal alien” from Ecuador & said agents took the boy with them after the father said he wanted Liam to stay with him.

But an attorney for Liam’s family said Conejo committed no crimes & followed “all the established protocols” for legally seeking #asylum in the #US, including “showing up for their court hearings.”

#LiamRamos #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #Trump #law #immigration #DueProcess #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

A federal judge has blocked the possible #deportation of a 5-year-old & his father for now

A #Minnesota preschooler detained in #Texas with his father cannot be imminently deported, a federal judge ruled Monday.

Liam Conejo Ramos, 5, was taken away from his family’s suburban #Minneapolis driveway last week after federal agents apprehended his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias.

#LiamRamos #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #Trump #law #immigration #ICE #CBP #WhiteSupremacy
cnn.com/2026/01/27/us/judge-bl…

One person in critical condition after being shot in incident involving Border Patrol in Arizona nbcnews.com/news/us-news/perso…

#ICE #Shooting #CBP #Arizona #uspol

One person in critical condition after being shot in incident involving Border Patrol in Arizona

A person was shot in an incident involving U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona on Tuesday, according to a Pima County Sheriff spokeswoman.

^{Mirna Alsharif (NBC News)}

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…

Nationwide shut down

January 30

NO WORK
NO SCHOOL
NO SHOPPING

instagram.com/p/DT9ULZQjFUU/

#Politics #USpol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Venezuela #Strike #GeneralStrike #Greenland #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Minneapolis #TRUMP #FASCISM
#ReneeNicoleGood #ICE #civilrights #humanrights #PoliceState #USA
#Minnesota #MInneapolis #fuckICE #JUSTICE #FreeSpeech
#politics #socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #whitesupremacy #imperialism #protest #activism #resistance #unitedstates #classwar #racism #lgbtq #indigenous #poverty #Immigration #education #US #tiktok #antifa #labor #labour #unions #AlexPretti

"The Minnesota National Guard is being deployed to protect United States citizens from the federal government."

~ Mary Trump

#Trump #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #ICE #DHS #CBP #Minnesota #NationalGuard
/1

marytrump.org/p/he-was-a-good-…

“He Was a Good Man”

The federal government murders another American citizen

^{Mary L Trump (The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump)}

Bureau of Criminal Apprehension arrives at #shooting scene after being turned away

More than 24 hours after a #CBP agent shot & killed #AlexPretti, personnel from #MNBCA have arrived at the scene.

#BCA staff are “canvassing & looking to collect whatever evidence may be there,” #Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said Sunday.

O’Hara said he requested the BCA to investigate immediately after the shooting, but “they were refused entry” by #federal agents.

#law #murder #CoverUp #Trump

This fucker’s priorities are revolting…

#Trump lashes out at #ballroom lawsuit as top officials defend #Minneapolis #shooting

A phalanx of top Trump admin officials assembled across Sunday morning news shows to defend the #shooting of #AlexPretti, a US citizen in #Minneapolis by a federal #immigration agent. Trump’s attention, it appears, was elsewhere.

Trump launched a 448-word missive on social media lambasting a lawsuit launched at his sprawling ballroom addition.

#law #murder #ICE #CBP

“'Other countries also had these coats, but Bovino’s outfits complete the Nazi look: a closely cropped haircut, as if he had taken a photo of [assassinated SA leader] Ernst Röhm to the barber,' it said."

#GregBovino #CBP #Nazis #Trump
/4

"While the other federal agents seem to wear 'whatever they have to hand', he argued that Bovino 'stands out from this thuggish mob, just as an elegant SS officer stands out from the rowdy SA mob. The dashing undercut is also spot on; all that’s missing for the perfect cosplay is a monocle.”

Another German media outlet, Süddeutsche Zeitung, made similar comments."

#GregBovino #CBP #Nazis #Trump
/3

"Arno Frank, a writer at Der Spiegel, said in a separate article that what he described as the 'authoritarian intervention' in the US was still establishing its 'distinctive aesthetic'.

'No wonder, then, that figures like Bovino are resorting to tried-and-tested models,' he said."

#GregBovino #CBP #Nazis #Trump
/2

"A greatcoat worn by the senior US border patrol official Gregory Bovino, who has spearheaded aggressive immigration operations across the country, has raised eyebrows in German media with some commentators saying it resembled a fascist aesthetic. ...

Along with his close-shorn haircut, the media organization Der Spiegel suggested in a video feature that Bovino’s look recalled that of a Nazi officer."

~ Deborah Cole

#GregBovino #CBP #Nazis #Trump
/1

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…

German media likens US border patrol official’s coat to ‘Nazi look’

Gregory Bovino’s outwear choice prompts German commentators to compare it to fascist aesthetic

^{Deborah Cole (The Guardian)}

"Right now feels impossible, and unfortunately there's a lot of impossible still to come. There's no fast fix, no one easy trick to defeating #fascism.

But.

But honestly I've never felt more hopeful that we actually have what it takes. That we can do the impossible, even when it seems insurmountable.

Because what it takes is us."

dansinker.com/posts/2026-01-21…

#Protest #Resist #ICE #CBP #DHS #Trump #Resistance #Minneapolis #Minnesota #USA #US #UnitedStates #America

"To be clear, we're not "protesting" here in Minneapolis. We're resisting an occupation."
- philcalvit

#Resist #Resistance #Protest #Minneapolis #Minnesota #USA #ICE #CBP #DHS #Trump #GOP #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Politics #US #UnitedStates