"One of the images that continues to haunt me is the federal agent clapping in the split second after the execution of Alex Pretti at point-blank range. What kind of monster watches a man murdered with at least 10 bullets, then applauds? Not a shake of the head, not a moment of gravity about the taking of a human life, but clapping."

~ Steven Beschloss

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/18

americaamerica.news/p/snapshot…

Snapshot: Monsters in Our Midst

They are not just indifferent to a deadly shooting, they revel in it. But their terror is triggering a rising tide of anger and resistance.

^{Steven Beschloss (America, America)}

"But it was not lost on Pretti’s devastated parents that he died 'while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper-sprayed,' they said in a statement. They wanted us to know that fact. 'Please get the truth out about our son,' they added. 'He was a good man.'

Alex Pretti was a good man at a time when very bad men are running our country."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/17

"We know the fascists don’t want white people standing up for immigrants and other people of color, who are the main victims of Operation Metro Surge (and all the other perversely named federal invasions, including Maine’s revolting 'Catch of the Day,' as though immigrants are fish to be caught and killed.) And apparently, they don’t want men coming to the aid of the women they assault."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/16

"Pretti was trying to help a woman whom federal agents shoved violently to the ground. A fellow ICE observer, the woman flew a few feet through the air and landed hard; it had to hurt. 'Are you OK?' Pretti asked her, according to bystanders. Those were his last known words."

~ Joan Walsh

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/15

thenation.com/article/society/…

Alex Pretti Was a Good Man at a Time of Great Evil | The Nation

The 37-year-old ICU nurse was killed helping another ICE victim. We must honor his sacrifice.

^{smccroskey (The Nation)}

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.

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/14

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

"They are succeeding in creating havoc, but they haven’t completely won yet.

This Republican Government and those who support it are bereft of sanity, morality and compassion. In the quest to establish a 1950’s nostalgia white ethnostate, we have an administration who lies so much that they can’t keep their lies straight."

#Trump #religion #morality #evil
/4

"I spent a chunk of my life from 2005 till 2024 hoping that the shit that is happening right now in Minneapolis/St Paul wouldn’t happen. But it has. Along with many fellow compatriots, we crossed the country, wrote books and articles, did tv and podcasts to warn people that the marriage of Republicans, Evangelicals, and Right-wing Catholics would take this country over, and fundamentally change it."

~ Anthea Butler

#Trump #religion #morality #evil
/3

profantheabutler.substack.com/…

1776-2026 -What a Semiquincetennial year so far.

America is not dead yet, but the current administration is trying it's best to kill it.

^{Prof. Anthea Butler (Under the Desk)}

"They don’t. They don’t even try because the invocation of being 'religious' gives them convenient cover to justify doing horrific things or horrifically doing nothing at all."

#Trump #religion #morality #evil
/2

"Out of the gate, when someone goes to work for the Trump Regime and cites religious teachings as their polestar, my bullshit-meter goes into overdrive. Because in words and in actions, the Trump Regime is immoral and cruel so how can Trumpers reconcile the hypocrisy?"

~ Katie Phang

#Trump #religion #morality #evil
/1

katiephang.substack.com/p/do-n…

“Do not stand idly by while your neighbor’s blood is shed.”

Some painfully key words from Leviticus 19:16

^{Katie Phang}

"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
/3

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."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #fascism #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/2

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
/4

meditationsinanemergency.com/t…

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

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #fascism #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/5

ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/…

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

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #fascism #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/6

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/was…

Was This a Murder Too Far?

The execution of Alex Pretti has made even some MAGA loyalists waver

^{Paul 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."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #fascism #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/7

"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
/8

"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
/9

"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."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #fascism #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/10

"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
/11

"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...."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/12

"While both killings sickened and horrified many Americans, the killing of Alex Pretti is evoking a far stronger reaction than the killing of Renee Good."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/13

"This is about good vs. evil."

~ Will Bunch

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #execution #violence #fascism #Trump #Minnesota #evil
/1

inquirer.com/opinion/minneapol…

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)}

And by the way, after defending what ICE has done to Liam yesterday, Catholic VP JD Vance addressed the March for Life in DC today — because he values the sanctity of human life, of course.

All human life.

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #LiamRamos #evil
/3

When I posted yesterday on social media about the use of Liam as bait by ICE, a young blond woman (so her profile photo shows her to be) whom I don't even know responsed with a laughing emoji and informed me that Liam and his father are pieces of s—t who deserve everything coming to them.

Evil.

That's the right word for this.

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #LiamRamos #evil
/2

"The only people who support ice tactics are whose who are willfully evil."

This is what Jess Piper concludes as a mother for 30 years who has raised five children, as she looks at the photos of little five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos being used as "bait" by ICE to entrap his family before he and his father are kidnapped and whisked away to Texas.

Evil.

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #LiamRamos #evil
/1

jesspiper.substack.com/p/mama

Mama

My name is Jess and I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Missouri. I bring you news and politics from Missouri and beyond from a rural progressive point of view.

^{Jess Piper (The View from Rural Missouri by Jess Piper)}

Tomorrow's front page in Minneapolis Star Tribune:

"Court order didn't save toddler."

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #LiamRamos #evil

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