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Retired journalism teacherβ€”print, broadcast, film. News junkie. Memphis. Dual citizen πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί

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ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

09.02.2026 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 12869    πŸ” 7483    πŸ’¬ 1288    πŸ“Œ 1242
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Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

08.02.2026 04:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7171    πŸ” 3744    πŸ’¬ 166    πŸ“Œ 466

When we say that ICE is un-American it's because this, instead, is American.

27.01.2026 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 402    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
ICE is full of COWARDS. They are all absolute, pathetic, untrained COWARDS. DEFUND AND PROSECUTE.
YouTube video by Seth Moulton ICE is full of COWARDS. They are all absolute, pathetic, untrained COWARDS. DEFUND AND PROSECUTE.

holy crap youtube.com/shorts/hyqtA...

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25.01.2026 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 439    πŸ” 186    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 62
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Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.

Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

25.01.2026 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 17389    πŸ” 8045    πŸ’¬ 1321    πŸ“Œ 1411

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.

25.01.2026 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 23338    πŸ” 11272    πŸ’¬ 440    πŸ“Œ 692
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

β€œWe 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 β€˜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.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti β€œWe 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 β€˜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."

25.01.2026 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 24942    πŸ” 12873    πŸ’¬ 200    πŸ“Œ 448
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

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Color. Day. Large crowd of people marching on a city avenue carrying signs: "Don't tread on Memphis!", "ICE OUT!", "ICE is Gestapo," etc.

Color. Day. Large crowd of people marching on a city avenue carrying signs: "Don't tread on Memphis!", "ICE OUT!", "ICE is Gestapo," etc.

Color. Day. A TN state trooper with a super-creepy porn-stache yells angrily at a short woman in a black sweater and cap of knitted yarn. A second trooper has grabbed the woman by the shoulders. On the left, some yutz in a flannel shirt yells at people to get back.

Color. Day. A TN state trooper with a super-creepy porn-stache yells angrily at a short woman in a black sweater and cap of knitted yarn. A second trooper has grabbed the woman by the shoulders. On the left, some yutz in a flannel shirt yells at people to get back.

Color. Day. Two troopers press a short woman in a black sweater against a trooper's car. The nearer trooper has drawn his taser from its holster.

Color. Day. Two troopers press a short woman in a black sweater against a trooper's car. The nearer trooper has drawn his taser from its holster.

Color. Day. From the back, the creepy porn-stache trooper looking at activists who are shouting about the abuse he has engaged in. A second trooper is bent into the open space of the left-rear seat of a trooper car. The short woman's foot can bee seen, emerging from the car beneath his elbow. From the back, another creepy trooper stands facing the crowd that is in disbelief about the troopers' unjustified and excessive violence.

Color. Day. From the back, the creepy porn-stache trooper looking at activists who are shouting about the abuse he has engaged in. A second trooper is bent into the open space of the left-rear seat of a trooper car. The short woman's foot can bee seen, emerging from the car beneath his elbow. From the back, another creepy trooper stands facing the crowd that is in disbelief about the troopers' unjustified and excessive violence.

ICE OUT! in Memphis, today. Peaceful for two hours until a phalanx of soulless troopers (who contract as ICE) zoom into the marchers, sending at least two to hospitals, grab one, and stuff her into a car like the Grinch with an Xmas tree. Look at the pinhead in #3 itching to tase. #abolishice

12.01.2026 02:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

23.12.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 35899    πŸ” 18259    πŸ’¬ 564    πŸ“Œ 1735
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I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis. β€œIt’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

16.12.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Of course. It’s really quite horrible.

13.12.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Right??!! Actually, it’s the other way around. Most abortions are illegal or very hard to get. that’s why this operation rescue is so absurd. They are blocking access to women’s healthcare at planned parenthood not abortions that are no longer available in Memphis.

13.12.2025 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve been telling all my overseas friends and rellies not to come here. It’s not an appealing place to be right now.

12.12.2025 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.

It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.

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www.newsfromthestates.com/article/memp...

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Antiabortion Militants Open Training Facility in Memphis, Aim to Restart Large-Scale Clinic Blockades As FACE enforcement collapses, anti abortion groups are gearing up to launch a new wave of coordinated clinic blockades.

msmagazine.com/2025/11/26/a...

06.12.2025 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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36 Hours in Memphis Eat at beloved bare-bones rib joints, pay pilgrimage to Elvis’s rhinestone-studded jumpsuits and tap into the new and nostalgic sounds of the city.

36 Hours in Memphis www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

21.11.2025 05:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hegseth's insistence that 'Department of War' fake-name-change is about 'warriors' and 'warfighters' is the dumbest s*** I think I have ever heard.

The guys that created the Department of Defense in 1947 - in NINETEEN FORTY-SEVEN - had done more warfighting than Trump's entire cabinet put together.

06.09.2025 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1226    πŸ” 241    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 22
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Confessions of an Ex-Anti-Vaxxer - Macleans.ca I spent years spouting conspiracy theories about vaccines. Now, as measles rages in my home of Alberta, I’m trying to convince vax-hesitant parents to inoculate their kids.

macleans.ca/longforms/co...

03.09.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Now: Union Station in Washington, D.C.

14.08.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1280    πŸ” 372    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 58
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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

β€œIf this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased β€” and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

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01.08.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

This is a great resource

adoptastation.org?fbclid=PAQ0x...

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Stephen Colbert Joins The Mountain Goats To Perform 'This Year'
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Stephen Colbert Joins The Mountain Goats To Perform 'This Year'

I’m going to miss #AltTacoTunesday so here’s my early entry

From 6 years ago but it hits even harder now!

You rock, Colbert 🀘

🎢 I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me 🎢 - The Mountain Goats

@altstategov.altgov.info
@altmomsroar.bsky.social

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19.07.2025 04:12 β€” πŸ‘ 132    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2
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The Medicaid cuts in Trump’s β€œbig, beautiful bill” will cost lives. John Oliver isn’t mincing words here.

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Tillis: What do I tell 663,000 people in two years, three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of medicaid because the funding's not there anymore, guys?

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30.06.2025 04:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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THEY F*CKING TOOK THE ICE CREAM MAN! The photo says it all.
Masked ICE goons grabbed Enrique Lozano in front of a Culver City, CA church. A Community Coalition helped the family identify the abandoned cart, locate his belongings. For 20 years, loved in the community. "Hardened criminals" - my ass.

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