Lewis LaCook

Art by Topsy Spray paint graffiti art of Alex Pretti, dressed as a nurse, helping a woman to her feet, only the woman is Lady Liberty - sword, scales, blindfold and all.

Yep. Yep. This one hit me pretty fucking hard.

Prosecution for every single one

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ NEW: Since yesterday's deadly shooting in MN, I've talked to more than half a dozen federal sources involved immigration enforcement, including several in senior positions, who all tell me they have grown increasingly uneasy & frustrated w/ some of the claims & narratives DHS pushed in the aftermath of the shooting. Specifically, I'm told there is extreme frustration with DHS officials going on TV and putting out statements claiming that Alex Pretti was intending to conduct a "massacre" of federal agents or wanted to carry out "maximum damage", even after numerous videos appeared to show those claims were inaccurate. While they say it was a terrible decision to show up with a gun and inject himself into a federal law enforcement operation, there is no indication Pretti was there to murder law enforcement, as videos appear to show he never drew his holstered firearm. These sources say this messaging from DHS officials has been catastrophic from a PR and morale perspective, as it is eroding trust and credibility - comparing it to when Democrats falsely claimed the border was closed or that Haitians were being whipped at the border. Some of these sources have described DHS’ response to the shooting as “a case study on how not to do crisis PR”, one said they are so “fed up” that they wish they could retire, another said “DHS is making the situation worse”, and another added that “DHS is wrong” and “we are losing this war, we are losing the base and the narrative."

These sources all believe this is going to end up being what they call a “bad shoot”, a “shitty” situation that happened in seconds where agents likely heard “gun!”, then the disarmed firearm may have had an accidental discharge that spooked the agents, and they shot. The agents do not have the luxury of multiple slow motion angles - and had to make split second decisions. All of the sources support the mass deportation agenda, but have serious hesitations about the way it is being carried out and the messaging that comes with it. Many of the sources have expressed frustration that ICE is routinely blamed for the actions of Border Patrol, a completely separate agency.

Even the goons are turning on the goons (and, especially, Greg Bovino) now.

Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands….

Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those

FBI agent who investigated Renee Good's death resigns, sources say Sources for CNN say the FBI briefly opened a civil rights investigation into Jonathan Ross, the officer who shot and killed Renee Good earlier this month.

FBI agent resigns after Good civil rights investigation shut down. "She was then ordered to reclassify it as an investigation into an assault on the officer.... [the DoJ's] Todd Blanche [told] Fox News Sunday... the shooting did not warrant a federal investigation." www.kare11.com/article/news...

The reason I dwell on this is that the civil rights struggle changed (and took many) lives forever. Aggressions by Trump admin-enabled Federal border control & ICE are doing same. Yet American heroes prevailed in building resilience in families & communities from chaos. We shall again. 👊

A screenshot of WhatsApp: Ash: Sebastián, I have one very pressing question. Sebastián Di Martino: Let me know Ash: Are jaguar soft? Sebastián Di Martino: They are very soft (two hearts on the answer)

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

domino meme, bottom: no one in santa monica wants to fuck stephen miller top: nato war/ww3

i made a meme

Greenland wants to give Chump the peace prize for results, not intentions.

This is really funny and a much needed timeline cleanse.

A shape poem with three stanzas. Each stanza resembles a duck in flight. Shooting Star oh to be a duck witnessing a meteor for the first time the sky alight with blue streaking across heaven little beak turned up black eyes opened

My offering for #smallpoemsunday and @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

a snow covered broken face of a doll...

a nectar erecter set mechanical altar
a thousand cuts heaven after we die
well O good what of deigned here
or is this clearly too a ruse to use soul glow
empowering tourniquets
for sentry greed
not saving graces
teaching us belief
these devices these vices
these chalk outline angels #vss365

At least we don’t have to hear Charlie Kirk’s take on this

Domestic terrorist behind a podium

Pam Bondi offers to pull ICE out of Minneapolis if voter files handed over www.newsweek.com/pam-bondi-ic...

A big problem with our society is that the people currently slandering Alex Pretti and justifying an execution in broad daylight by the government are far more likely to end up as co-hosts on The View or CNN correspondents or some shit than thrown in prison

How one year of ‘America First’ left workers behind The Trump administration’s rhetoric on blue-collar jobs has not matched reality

How one year of ‘America First’ left workers behind ft.trib.al/YeRLrmR | opinion

How one year of ‘America First’ left workers behind The Trump administration’s rhetoric on blue-collar jobs has not matched reality

"Cost of living concerns, which helped Trump beat the Democrats in the 2024 US election, appear to have only intensified under his administration."

How one year of ‘America First’ left workers behind www.ft.com/content/1afa...

I swear to you all I will fight to my death to save democracy! FUCK THIS NAZI SHIT!

Landman starring Billy Bob Thornton? What’s next, Waterwoman asterisking Barry Weave Roseounce?!

Alex Pretti's last act as a human being was to protect the vulnerable.

Q: They defied a search warrant this morning. Do you think they'll abide by a federal court order?

FREY: Everybody listen to that question. The question is 'will this administration abide by a court order.' These are the underpinnings of our democracy and Constitution. The answer better be yes.

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

for my whole life, i have been watching cops make the kind of statements about young black men, killed in questionable circumstances, that are now made by Noem and Trump about Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

This brutality now is, in so many ways, the price for our apathy then.

That apathy must end!

Kyle Rittenhouse was on Infowars the day after the Renee Good shooting saying he had heard on X that Renee was putting cigarettes out on her kids. This wasn't true. This is a government by and for school shooters and their apologists.

Here is the @dropsitenews.com video of yet another daylight execution of an unarmed protester. Once again #DHS immediately came out with a blatant lie. The man had already been bear sprayed & was lying on the ground, with multiple federal Gestapo surrounding him when he was executed. #Minneapolis

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect.
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they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

if your house has a lot of ghosts, chances are it also has a gas leak

PERFORMANCE / TOUR: Jazz Master Anthony Braxton Joins The New England Conservatory Jazz Composers’ Orchestra On Thursday, February 12 #music #feedly www.allaboutjazz.com/news/jazz-ma...