Chris Getowicz

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

CNN cuts to reporter Sara Sidner, who is in distress: "I'm trying to breathe"

Watching these videos of ICE attacking children, I can’t help but think about how many of these men first practiced their violence in their own homes.

Domestic violence teaches our oppressors to dehumanize the most vulnerable among us.

The Oglala Lakota Nation unanimously voted to ban ice from their reservation. www.netnewsledger.com/2026/01/23/o...

Federal agents are repeatedly using gas to disperse the crowd at the scene in south Minneapolis where agents shot and a killed man.

Agents are deploying an irritant each time residents reappear in the intersection.

Video by Elliot Hughes, Susan Du, Louis Krauss and Josie Albertson-Grove

The entire immunity ICE is being afforded is not from Trump, it is from the local leaders, the mayor and the governor who refuse to confront them or stop them in ANY way, not even the big ways but all the small ways, they are willing to do nothing.

things are horrific on the ground at the scene in mn right now, and another upside of the signal chat network is that people are learning what is happening in real time.

find yours. join it. build it before you need it.

It’s also striking in the video how many of the agents jumped back after the first shot was fired. This suggests they were surprised, which means they had no reason to believe lethal force was necessary. Their own body language tells the story.

I'm on site where a federal agent shot a Minneapolis man this morning. It's bad.

Dozens of federal agents are facing off with hundreds of outraged residents. People being tear gassed, helicopters above, I keep hearing pops, and lots of loud BANGS.

This smoke is from tear gas:

I'm honestly just sick. If you can stomach watching any of this footage & still let the words "more training" escape your mouth, I cannot ever forgive you. These are state-sanctioned street executions. This is the training.

Man Feds Killed in Minneapolis Was an Observer, Eyewitness Says The killing marked the second fatal shooting by federal agents in the city in less than a month.

The killing marked the second fatal shooting by federal agents in the city in less than a month. Neither victim appeared to be the target of immigration enforcement.

ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement.

"I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish.

Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature.

Minneapolis, MN

Twin Cities students walk out, decry ICE as surge continues Hundreds of Twin Cities high school students walked out of school Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota. Officials are increasingly concerned about high absenteeism in some sc...

Been thinking a lot about how these students in Minneapolis have grown up with consecutive crises from Covid & George Floyd to school shootings & the killing of Renee Good. They are leading a great grassroots change that we will see the fruits of for years to come.
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Lawmakers, reform advocates call for more oversight of prison health care A Sun-Times investigation found the state's new prison health care provider comes with a disturbing track record.

Been hearing this from our students in IDOC for some time... but its good to see this circulating publicly. Allegations include that Centurion has deliberately been indifferent to patience health needs and repeatedly ignored, denied care and misdiagnosed patients.

www.wbez.org/prisoncast-i...

Timothy Snyder’s Lies In Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands, Hitler and Stalin are one and the same. And the partisans — Jewish fighters included — only encouraged German crimes.

jacobin.com/2014/09/timo...

3.) If you’re an academic with a research fund or a book buying budget from your institution, spend that money with us, not Amazon! Put that institutional wealth towards a local worker cooperative not Bezos.

4.) Come out to our moving celebration, date TBD!

Warping History Timothy Snyder's Black Earth misuses the horrors of the Holocaust in the service of Zionist and neoconservative platitudes.

I think his famed analysis of Russia's invasion of Ukraine as "settler colonialism" is shallow and ahistorical jargon... but I have never found a significant critique of it... but I would enjoy reading one (I don't have the energy to write one). Alternatively: jacobin.com/2016/08/timo...

Really thankful to have had the opportunity to present my research and share dialogue with fellow researchers last week in DC.

Super excited to be hosting this virtual book talk with Derek Taira on Wednesday April 30th (4pm cst). If anyone is interested, please reach out and I will get you a zoom link!

Congratulations amigo! Illinois is going to miss you!

Really grateful to be in dialogue with some really generous, brilliant, beautiful people in Denver.

Always happy to present alongside and learn from such incredible people.

So apparently this is the place to be virtually speaking. Welcome friends, always happy to be in the best of company.

Really enjoyed reading, thank you!

A good reminder for today:
Central High handwashing area, December 1952.
Collection on the Minneapolis Public Schools (M/A 0318), Hennepin County Library Collections.

Jefferson Students Listen to a Storyteller, 1983, East Calhoun Community Organization (ECCO), Hennepin County Library Collections.

Robinsdale, MN textbook controversy (microfilm, University of Illinois Library)

Divorce in Minnesota, 1929-1932

Minneapolis, "Minority" population distribution, 1980.

Enjoying some really great history here. Really has me rethinking how we frame things like white flight, racial succession, and urban renewal.