🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐

‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war Alex Pretti’s death could be a moment of reckoning for Democrats to call time on Trump waging war on his people

David Smith continues not to pull his punches

T-shirt featuring old twins logo, reads ABOLISH ICE

“$8 per shirt sold goes to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota.” 👍🏼

www.harebraineddesign.com/products/abo...

Poem of the Week #1365 Winter Trees All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon moves gently among the long branches. Thus having prepared their buds against a sure winter the wise trees stand sleeping in the cold. William Carlos Williams

❄️ 🌲 🌲 🌲 ❄️

man the stuff i am seeing on IG from
the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different

I don't talk about any of this shit with people in real life because I don't know how to do it without sounding completely insane

A narrow, empty residential Philadelphia street in the middle of the night. A light snow is visible in the glare of my streetlights. The white stuff on the street isn't snow but salt that was sprayed by the city days earlier.

Walking the dog, just after 3am in Philly, as the first flakes fall.

White cat on lap of man w orange hoodie and red winter hat

Waiting on a storm ❄️

Good morning ☀️

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

This was murder. Pretti did not initiate the confrontation. He didn’t strike them. He didn’t brandish his gun. They tackled him, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him.

Man killed in Minneapolis by federal agents identified as VA nurse Alex Pretti: ‘He wanted to help people’ Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research

Alex Pretti was a VA nurse who was murdered by thugs in masks. This has to end. Abolish ICE, and put those responsible for this ongoing nightmare on trial. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Update from Devon Lum

OMG. "DHS said the episode began after a man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and they tried to disarm him. But footage from the scene shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Our initial analysis is up.

The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.

He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.

In some countries the outbreak of bloodshed inspires the opposition party to call for the leader to resign

Live Updates: Federal Agents Kill a 37-Year-Old Minneapolis Man

"Videos contradict the federal government’s description of the shooting, a New York Times analysis found." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...

A nurse. A researcher. A helper.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

We will also accept ABOLISHICE (10). Not as fun, but its heart is in the right place.

Attention crossword constructors: FUCKICE (7)

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

1) Doesn’t say he was wielding it, just that he had it.
2) Doesn’t match the video anyway.
3) DHS has lied in exactly this way after shooting someone before.

bsky.app/profile/ms.n...

Yes that brief period when u2 led a college rock crossover of sorts and then eventually Nirvana blew the doors off

yeah mid to late 80s for sure

More Than Words! Unironically loved it lol

Yeah there was very good Madonna in the late 80s.

But my god matchbox 20 kill me

The Problem With Greg Bovino’s Overcoat Isn’t What You Think The head of Border Patrol isn’t referencing the Nazis — but he is sending a message.

This can have consequences for how agents see themselves. If they put on clothes designed for war, they are more likely to see cities as hostile terrain and citizens as enemy combatants, which can increase the chance of violence. Link to the story here:

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

I had a very well developed theory at one point that the years I was in college (87-91) were the absolute nadir of pop music. I had evidence for days. Literally combed thru giant Billboard book compiling data lol. Peak Michael Bolton—check and mate!