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."
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And hey, it really does matter to me that some of you are checking in with your Minnesota friends personally/individually. Knowing that there is support is part of fueling the resistance. Thank you. Love you. Stay strong. Fuck ICE.
24.01.2026 18:08 — 👍 79 🔁 13 💬 4 📌 0
Minneapolis, Minnesota is under occupation by the United States government. ICE agents are executing U.S. citizens.
That’s the headline.
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they executed a guy for filming them
24.01.2026 17:32 — 👍 420 🔁 156 💬 2 📌 2
Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"
24.01.2026 17:18 — 👍 29900 🔁 9606 💬 775 📌 743
Trump’s Gestapo has killed another person in Minneapolis. Impeach Kristi Noem. Stop the funding. Americans have had more than enough.
24.01.2026 17:22 — 👍 45 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 1
I love my country of Minneapolis.
23.01.2026 23:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Crowd of tons of thousands of demonstrators in downtown Minneapolis
Current rally size of the Ice Out of Minnesota demonstration in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Organizers are making a path along 4th Street in Downtown.
23.01.2026 20:16 — 👍 1358 🔁 317 💬 31 📌 18
I know I'm late on this, but this is infuriating.
1) We need to support indie book publishers and self-publishers who are releasing LGBTQ books.
2) Keep buying ALL the LGBTQ books. Make sure these chicken-shit spineless publishers lose all the money for this decision.
thehill.com/homenews/lgb...
19.01.2026 01:42 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
"Journalist" @taylorlorenz.bsky.social is blocking people on Twitter for calling out her AI use (including me lmao) so I'm using my one chance here before she blocks me to call her out for it. Loser behavior, do better, etc. 😘
19.01.2026 01:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
One of my friends read an ARC of my book and proceeded to dream up fanfic of it in the shower, which is the highest praise anyone could ever give me 🤩
18.01.2026 19:45 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A trope map that details the tropes found in THE CHAMOS PROJECT: enemies to lovers, cute robots, tragic romance, human/android relationships, and queer characters over 40.
We are ONE MONTH AWAY from the release of my sad gays in space. Check it out today! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
17.01.2026 13:41 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
16.01.2026 21:24 — 👍 30799 🔁 11458 💬 471 📌 843
A quote on a starry background that reads: "The Chamos Project is an ambitious sci-fi novel with lines that pack punch after emotional punch."
I'm delighted to be able to share my first official author blurb for THE CHAMOS PROJECT! @lindseybyrd.bsky.social
12.01.2026 14:19 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
My mom just noted that ICE is rapidly escalating their violence and I said to her what I will say to you which is that they are doubling down because this tactic is all they have. They are wildly unpopular, they have no real plan to offer people, all they can do is try to bully us into submission.
10.01.2026 22:37 — 👍 194 🔁 43 💬 1 📌 0
The Chamos Project
Twenty years after an attack perpetrated by androids ta…
🎊 New year, new pinned post! 🎊
My debut queer scifi, THE CHAMOS PROJECT, is now on 50 shelves on Goodreads, with one ARC reviewer saying they read it in one sitting! Release date 2/17, add it here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24....
10.01.2026 22:38 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
I was puzzled for a moment about why DHS would release the phone footage from the murderer's point of view, since it clearly shows that the murderer was in no danger from the victim.
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We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
08.01.2026 18:35 — 👍 14763 🔁 10307 💬 102 📌 101
FUCK ICE.
FUCK FUCK ICE.
FUCK FUCK FUCK ICE.
FUCk ICE.
FUCK
ICE
Fuck ice
07.01.2026 23:01 — 👍 1601 🔁 223 💬 72 📌 13
As I was making my kids breakfast this morning, I was overcome with rage that the man who murdered Renee Good went home to his family last night and her six year old is waking up this morning without a mother.
08.01.2026 13:08 — 👍 273 🔁 60 💬 14 📌 0
They murdered her in her car. In broad daylight. In front of her wife.
08.01.2026 03:57 — 👍 469 🔁 106 💬 14 📌 2
Get the fuck out of Minneapolis!!
07.01.2026 21:58 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I didn't do an unboxing video, but I did get a present in the mail yesterday! ##writingcommunity
07.01.2026 14:08 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
This has been my favorite fantasy series for over a decade! Also I'm selfishly hoping that this doesn't mean the series is over and there will still be more books 🤞
07.01.2026 13:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Woke up to the sweetest email from an ARC reader 🤩
07.01.2026 12:48 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
yeah I figured it out 2 seconds after posting this lmaoooooo
07.01.2026 01:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Got the proof copies of my book and like. This thing is a brick. I could murder a man with this.
06.01.2026 21:56 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Hello to 2026!
Hello to 2026! My latest newsletter is out: alexis-ames.kit.com/posts/hello-...
05.01.2026 13:44 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Indie authors, as I'm going through the proofreading edits for my novel, I want to give a shout-out to my editor! Hannah is especially interested in working on queer books, so please check her out: www.fiverr.com/hann_friedman
#WritingCommunity #indieauthors
04.01.2026 21:54 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Indie publisher of lgbtqia+ books including the imprints Queer Mojo, Queer Space, the Library of Homosexual Congress, and Arabi Manor.
Diversity in Action.
EIC A.R. Arthur Team: Managing Editor Yasmine Dashti
Proud member of @CLMPorg
She/They. Greyromantic. Aspiring bog body. Writer. You can support my work via https://ko-fi.com/braegrosz.
Hopeless forest romantic, Scotland. ♿ 🏳️⚧️ (they) Award-winning author/ illustrator: queer historical romance & fantasy, comics & gamebooks.
Tags > #books #art
https://linktr.ee/haridraws
Repped by Jessica Mileo.
Technologist, writer, futurist.
Codex, Viable Paradise, SFWA.
Seeking representation for new novels.
Publishers: Mirror World, Water Dragon, Brigid's Gate
USPTO
he/him
@laurence@petrous.vislae.town
https://www.laurencebrothers.com/
A horror writer and a sorry sack of guts.
THE FLESH I WANT coming 2027 from Titan Books.
Agent: Julie Gourinchas, Bell Lomax Moreton.
www.toddsjordan.com
35 | she/they | 🖤🩶🤍💜 | 🧀🧠
SQE 📡 writing a semi-modern lovey fantasy saga w/ monsties.
✨️supreme yapmaster
🎨living artist advertisement
🎮i like video games
🔞infrequent 18+ content
no AI
muh stuff: https://linktr.ee/khonri
pfp&banner: @birdko.art
Author of smut, romantasy, and horror. Your one stop shop for Victorian fantasy romance! They/Them. No AI.
Sometimes NSFW.
New Writing Every Friday!
https://www.patreon.com/ddwardiswriting
ddwardiswriting.com
writer. coffee addict. cat lady. neurodivergent. disabled. ace princess. she/her. level thirty-three. indie author.
✨indie ink award nominated✨
Co-Owner of Spilled Ink & Coffee 🖋️ ☕️
https://linktr.ee/beverlyannemichel
🚫No Ai / No DMs🚫
Aspiring author, suffering veterinary student, perpetual dungeon master, sporadic birder, very queer (they/them).
SONGS OF BROKEN BELLS
buy.bookfunnel.com/rktaq3muij
My stuff⬇️
https://lillylockwood.carrd.co/
Author of cozy Fantasy/Horror The Assassins Raven.
Enjoys reading and writing all kinds of Fantasy, Sci-fi, Horror. 📚
Will talk about movies for a long time.
Loves Zombies and other monsters.
https://anna-verner.itch.io/
🇨🇦 Here to talk about books and meet other authors!
I write fantasy novels that often feature aroace characters.
No AI. Support human creativity.
Hi I'm a dinosaur. I'm 32 years old and a CO based artist and award winning author. Also I make the "Better Visuals" SDV Mods. He/Him. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 🇯🇵 Links: http://cometkins.carrd.co
https://cometkins.com
Queer author of queer romance. Any pronouns. Really 3 trash pandas in a trench coat. 🔯
Getting My Goat, my debut romance novella, is available in paperback, ebook, & Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DFWY7KCW
website: https://jessicaolin.com
xe/she | #vihalart | #apostateworld
https://vgen.co/Vihala | vihala@proton.me
Commissions Open!
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Most commonly seen fixating on my worldbuilding project (Apostate) and my OCs
Author writing Philosophical Fiction, member of the SnackBreakClub on youtube, Criminal Defense Attorney, and self-aware coffee entity sealed in mask.
No Gen-AI.
If you DM me after I follow without prior public engagement, I will likely block!
They/them, middle-aged polyam queer. Writing erotic soft sci-fi stories with romance, kink, and polyamory. 18+.
https://www.coricatchthorne.com/
https://www.tumblr.com/blog/coricatchthorne
https://archiveofourown.org/series/4668373
Spouse: @ricoreachthorne
Psychologically focused, character driven, socially conscious fantasy. Literary agents, ask for details.
Sorry, I'm not commissioning art.
He/him/his.
BLM. Pro-LGBTQ+. Anti-genocide, no matter who's doing it. Down with white patriarchy.
AI is unwelcome.
English teacher, writer, lover of cats & dogs, unpacking all my religious trauma on you from here in good ol Texas. 🥲
Member of hookandquillpress.com
Feed of my writing samples: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:br2rslmo7elrd3hp5dfsx3ye/feed/aaaksewrcngo4
Claire Hiria Ahuriri-Dunning (she/her/they/them/ia)
Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Raukawa, Pākehā
Author, poet, game writer, playwright
Find my work here: hiriadunning.com
Host of #pretendpanel, a weekend writing prompt