Dave Sampson

Don’t forget it’s not just Pretti and Good

Mike Ditka is carried off the field as the Chicago Bears won Super Bowl 20, 40 years ago on this day, January 26. From @JayChi_Bears on X.

40 years.

Federal immigration agents keep shooting at drivers. We tracked 15 cases since July. After each shooting, federal agencies claimed the drivers tried to ram agents with their vehicles. But the claim often falls apart under scrutiny.

www.ms.now/news/federal...

NEW: In a court hearing for a TRO against the feds in Minneapolis, the plaintiffs just said one of their exhibits contains a recording of a federal agent saying "Well, this person is gonna have a hard time traveling from now on" after taking a photo of an ICE observer's license plate. 1/

Some ICE observers have found their Global Entry status has been revoked after having interactions with DHS officers.

Despite Authoritarian Warnings, 149 House Democrats Vote to Hand Trump $840 Billion for Military | Common Dreams "If an opposition party votes like this, it's not in opposition. It may not even be a party."

Despite Authoritarian Warnings, 149 House Democrats Vote to Hand Trump $840 Billion for Military www.commondreams.org/news/democra...

Any doctor who can say this with a straight face should lose their license to practice medicine immediately

Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS.

Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies.

AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS.

Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.

Just like Trump's deep connection with the rapist John Casablancas, the media have overlooked his deep connection with the rapist Kramer, too.

Rupert Murdoch’s notoriously liberal Wall Street Journal. 👇

Alex Pretti Was a Good Man at a Time of Great Evil The 37-year-old ICU nurse was killed helping another ICE victim. We must honor his sacrifice.

Just leaving this here from @joanwalsh.bsky.social on the Pretti execution in case you have the heart to read.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

“LET US OUT!”

women & children scream for help inside a detention camp in TEXAS, where private prisons like core civic make billions of taxpayer dollars holding them while abusing, neglecting them, refusing them health care, feeding them dirty food & water, etc.

In our name🇺🇸

His statement should end after the first two words.

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it...

Arizona, November 2020

As someone who has witnessed the dignified transfer of a loved one after their passing in a VA facility, I can attest to how profoundly moving it was to see the care and respect the entire staff treated the deceased.

I can't begin to imagine their heartbreak in sending off Alex Pretti.

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

If Republicans want to be competitive in the 2026 elections they are going to have to get Stephen Miller out of the White House.

Today we will find out that Mike Johnson knows nothing about the shooting in MN.

Checking in on MAGA.

E.U. opens investigation into X and Musk's AI chatbot Grok over sexual deepfakes The investigation will assess whether X "properly assessed and mitigated risks associated with the deployment of Grok's functionalities into X in the EU."

The European Union opens a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s social media platform X, after his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok started spewing nonconsensual sexualized deepfake images on the platform.

YouTube video by 7NEWS Australia Adelaide's hottest ever Australia Day; Fuel tanker erupts into fireball | 7NEWS Adelaide

youtu.be/mfvUqXQm5tM?.... Strewth #news

In the arms of the angel
Fly away from here
From this dark cold hotel room
& the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
You're in the arms of the angel

Angel 🤍🎼🕊️
Song by Sarah McLachlan ‧ 1997

Amanda Gorman honors Alex Pretti in new poem:

A reminder that one of the new owners of TikTok is Larry Ellison who also now owns CBS News…

🔥MINNESOTA MAN to @stoneskynews.bsky.social : “The mood is anger. We’re angry with our federal government for invading us for no good reason other than Trump wasn’t backed here— it’s a violent, brutal fascist administration. Trump’s a terrible bully. We’re defending this place against him.”

Here's a thread of MAGA protests where they carried and brandished weapons.

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

To Pam Bondi and Kash Patel: We demand a full investigation of Renee Good’s killer, Jonathan Ross. Stop investigating her widow.

For once my procrastination to get a @prospect.org strategy going for other social media sites works out for me

TikTok is under right wing billionaire control now. Plan your exit strategy.