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."

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

Rows and rows of the backs of people's heads. They are seated in the pews of a Presbyterian church.

Absolutely massive turnout at the ICE Rapid Response training in Pittsburgh tonight, hosted by Frontline Dignity. Over 500 people showed up, including dozens from out of county & out of state.

I mean, it looked like murder to me.

shutting down a 100-year-old newspaper (with roots dating to the 1700s!) rather than pay fair wages and engage in fair labor practices

Adding another cheap food resource via Tumblr

www.toogoodtogo.com

I think I just saw an ICE vehicle pull
into the Dollar General on McNeilly Rd.

Black suburban, spotlight on the driver side, black and gold construction zone sticker on the back bumper, and a plastic shield over the license plate that made it completely indecipherable.

Eyes open, Pittsburgh

Hipster lament: just getting into Tee Vee Repairmen and I just learned they were in town like two weeks ago.

Filled me with delight just now to overhear two Trader Joe’s employees talking about Big Dumper hitting #58, felt like something out of an Updike story

To our trans community:

We know it’s been a long year, and that the news cycle and hateful attacks can take a toll. We feel it too.

You are not alone. You are loved, you are seen, and we will never stop showing up for you.

Fundraisers for the Squirrel Hill - Jefferson Apartment Fires

Oh hey, Pittsburgh folks or anyone with funds to spare, here’s a list of fundraisers for people displaced by the Squirrel Hill apartment fire earlier this week.

More DEI! Louder! Racism has turned a corporate buzzword into a moral imperative.

I used to find "DEI" to be a weak corporate counterpoint to "racial justice" but now I unironically want every business in America doing DEI as loudly as possible because the relevant counterpoint today is "overt racism."
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/more-dei-l...

If this is how the IDF treats American citizens traveling with media attention, it brings even more credibility to the reports of their abuses of Palestinian civilians. I stand in solidarity w/ my brother Chris, the civilians in Gaza and all working towards peace and dignity for all. End this horror

Also includes the regrettable “Don’t blow bubbles.” Oops!

Like to think I don’t accept mediocrity in any form, but here sits this microwave lasagna in front of me.

I knew this “moneyball” wizardry was destined to fail. 🙃

has that dude had his little birthday boy tank man parade yet? it’s hard to tell because the only thing the news is showing right now is how much people around the country hate him

These Pittsburgh-area agencies are officially helping ICE ICE is expanding its reach in Pennsylvania with help from local constables and sheriffs under new partnership agreements.

These Pittsburgh-area agencies officially helping ICE and are among 16 in the state of PA. www.axios.com/local/pittsb...

Whole Foods Union Certified by US in First for Amazon’s Grocer A union has been certified at a Whole Foods Market store in Philadelphia, marking a US first for the Amazon.com Inc. grocery chain.

What will happen now is, instead of negotiating a contract, Whole Foods will litigate this up to DC where it will sit in limbo forever because Trump has been allowed to gut the NLRB. The only way to get big companies to bargain will be strikes and more strikes. Pro-worker Republican Party in action.

THIS IS EXCITING NEWS!!!!!

Mood.

Not surprising given Trump’s dystopian police state,
But do we really need a police presence at Trader Joseph’s? All Cops are Bag Boys?

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.

And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I won’t begrudge the McDonald’s corporation for partnering with Minecraft, but I think I will pass on a “flavored Steve.”

Deleted Duolingo, which was getting extraordinarily needy of late. I don’t have time for that.

Hot take (?): Sid Vicious was a perfectly cromulent vocalist.

Respect to Robert Pattinson, a Handsome Man who seemingly wants to spend his career playing various types of weird goblin guy

Golly, I hope not.