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Jill Scott Tiny Desk is out too!

16.02.2026 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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15.02.2026 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She has an audience of one

11.02.2026 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But the most damning thing of all... I think I can live with it.

05.02.2026 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And all it cost was the life of one Romulan Senator, one criminal, and the self-respect of one Starfleet officer.

05.02.2026 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Core memory unlocked

05.02.2026 02:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE detain father driving 2 year old son to daycareβ€”leave toddler behind in back seat crying & confused.

"The baby was crying and scared... he was covering himself with a blanket."

"He was telling me 'Police took my daddy.' "

Shoreline, Washington

01.02.2026 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 384    πŸ” 233    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 18

Resigned before the investigation ended, so now he can just go be hired the next town over.

29.01.2026 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

This is a death threat

27.01.2026 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call β€œsymbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

26.01.2026 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 20849    πŸ” 8666    πŸ’¬ 268    πŸ“Œ 717
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‘ 24962    πŸ” 12905    πŸ’¬ 200    πŸ“Œ 449
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

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It’s worse than it looks in Minneapolis But locals are organizing to keep each other safe from ICE agents.

As Homeland Security’s siege on Minneapolis enters its third week, locals are volunteering for patrol shifts, protesting in the streets, and keeping one another up to date in group texts.

Read more from @scottmeslow.bsky.social in Minneapolis:

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This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.

A citizen.

Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.

"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.

Agents took and sold his phone

And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

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ICE rams car in south Minneapolis while profiling Latino driver ICE agents rammed into a man’s car in south Minneapolis Monday afternoon while profiling the Latino driver.

Read this story and decide if this is the America you want to live in.

ICE saw a Latino man driving a car. Chased him down and rammed him. Just because he wasn’t white.

He was just a guy - an American citizen - driving to the auto shop.

13.01.2026 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2653    πŸ” 1127    πŸ’¬ 187    πŸ“Œ 79
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Federal agent drew his gun and pointed it right at the face of a non violent protestor. THIS HAS TO STOP NOW

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ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🀬

12.01.2026 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4728    πŸ” 2567    πŸ’¬ 322    πŸ“Œ 674
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I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."

09.01.2026 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 9199    πŸ” 2770    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 229

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. πŸ‘‡ Stay safe.

08.01.2026 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 14761    πŸ” 10285    πŸ’¬ 102    πŸ“Œ 101
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Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.

β€œ'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

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Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from β€” not toward β€” a federal officer when he opened fire.

Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the β€œevidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night.

www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

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What the Deported Venezuelans Went Through in El Salvador Forty men sent to El Salvador by the Trump administration have shared disturbing accounts of abuse by a regime that America paid to imprison them.

Here is what CBS and Trump don't want you to know:

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Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

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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."

I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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