Zach | CovidIsNotOver (he/him)

Stylized illustration of an American Goldfinch with wings raised in a rebel alliance emblem pose

Fire up the converters, Rebels of #Iowa, #NewJersey, and #Washington State - your #RebelBird - the birb so nice they named it thrice - the American AKA Eastern AKA Willow Goldfinch is ready for liftoff. Join the Resistance! FLOCK THE EMPIRE!

Text in a screenshot regarding the Alex Pretti incident a week prior to his killing.

According to reports based on sources and information reviewed by CNN, it is alleged that federal agents, specifically personnel working with or alongside ICE broke Alex Pretti’s rib during a previous encounter about a week before they shot and killed him.

I too would have carried if I were him.

No child should live in detainment. No child is illegal. A country that jails children must be stopped.

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Now I'm picturing the Jägers from Girl Genius 😁
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Speak in code, delete the chats: The tactics Venezuelans are using out of fear of phone checks | CNN Venezuelans are circumventing the government’s expanded crackdown on dissent by speaking in code, not mentioning political leaders, constantly deleting content from their phones and refusing to expres...

Oh wow that's awful ttyl posting "the woodpecker flies at noon" as a 3 star review for 500mg L-Tyrosine Powder Supplement Cats Immune Health Respiratory Support (Beef) on Chewy Dot Com so I can talk to my friends without us all getting put on a government kill list

LIVE: Minneapolis Businesses TEAM UP To SUPPORT PROTESTS YouTube video by Katie Phang

ICYMI: My conversation with Anne Lehman at @smittenkittenmn.bsky.social about their amazing community organization and mutual aid programs in Minneapolis/St. Paul:

www.youtube.com/live/XZPA3h9...

the micro-targetting of diaspora groups is genuinely getting insane

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

If you can't petition the government to let them know why they are holding you and give you an audience with someone about your detention, do you have -other- civil liberties? If they don't need to ever tell you -why- they are detaining you, are you ever free at all

just saw 4 ice agents go up to a house and knock and within 1 minute there were 30 people out whistling and they left. we will not take our foot off the gas

Trump Attacked Ilhan Omar in Speech Just Hours Before She Was Assaulted The president relished in the idea of killing Somalis at a rally before the incident.

Trump attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar just hours before she was assaulted by a man who sprayed her with an unknown substance on Tuesday evening, with the president mocking her and relishing in violence against Somalis at a campaign rally.

DUCKWORTH: If it's true that we are not at war with Venezuela, will you advise the president to rescind his invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act?

RUBIO: That was a mechanism to remove people from our country that present great danger

D: It's a wartime act. Are we currently at war?

R: No

I am currently on my way to another hearing regarding my federal charges for protesting ICE.

When I say our leaders must be willing to put everything on the line, I mean it.

And frankly, I see it as the bare minimum in this moment.

FBI executing search warrant at Georgia election office related to 2020 vote, law enforcement official says The Federal Bureau of Investigation is executing a search warrant at a Fulton County election office in Georgia related to the 2020 election, a law enforcement official familiar with the matter said o...

They won’t investigate the murders of Good or Pretti, but they’ll investigate fake 2020 election fraud. www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

Hell yeah, I fuck with AI

I fuck with

Abolishing
Ice

Learn to say "no" to those in power, and mean it.

You're supposed to feel bad.
Feeling bad is a good motivator to want to make change so you can feel good and better. Anyway

The investigation is the coverup Trump's "pivot" on Pretti is just a head fake.

"Allowing the crime scene to be contaminated then covering the victim’s weapon with fingerprints will make it much harder to investigate the case, much less prosecute it. But of course federal officials never intended to do either. Indeed, the coverup was underway immediately." — @lizdye.bsky.social

If you work at DHS and know the identities of the CBP officers that murdered Alex Pretti, my Signal contact info is in my bio. I’ll keep you anonymous.

This is some of the best reporting I've read in years.

We like charts @jvl.bsky.social

www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-big...

The FBI executed a search warrant in Fulton County today because it's a majority African-American county and the Trump regime is made up of white nationalists eager to prove minorities cheat at elections so they can justify voter suppression and steal the 2026 elections

Of course. And that’s why Dems need to lean in and work towards dismantling ICE.
First no funding.
Impeach Noem.
Demand hearings on ICE’s operation in MN.
Demand that Miller resign.

Don’t let up.

ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained.

Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk

Minnesota Star Tribune 1/24/26

New York Times front page 1/24/26

#FrontPage comparison

NYT editors are entrusted by their readers to prioritize what’s important. Their editorial decisions such as layout of the #FrontPage contribute to public memory.
Democracywashing Minnesota under siege by Federal agents and #Minneapolis community mobilizing in frigid temps
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Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.

We are at "in case of emergency, break glass". Find retired members of Congress and the Senate and ask them for their advice. They often knew the location of every damned lever.

I found out when I picking up ice for the cooler with the juice boxes for my kid's fourth birthday party today. I went back to the car and he was laughing hysterically over my window scraper. How are we supposed to do this? But if we love our kids, how are we supposed to let their friends get taken?

The officer in the grey jacket enters the altercation unarmed, reaches over the man as others hold him down and then walks away with a pistol in his hand.

It appears that this officer managed to disarm the suspect prior to the first shots.

I just responded to the scene at 26th and Nicollet shortly after the observer was shot. They teargassed and/or pepper sprayed Jana Shortal of KARE11 at the scene and she was being treated when I walked up. ICE have a fancy camera they are using to scan the faces of the crowd.