Amanda Becker

Incredibly accurate but I would shift "Catholic Church" to the left

Video: New Video Analysis Reveals Flawed and Fatal Decisions in Shooting of Pretti A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the two officers who fired 10 times shows how lethal force came to be used against a target who didn’t pose a threat.

New video analysis from the Times: “A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the two officers who fired 10 times shows how lethal force came to be used against a target who didn’t pose a threat.”

Redditors Are Mounting a Resistance Against ICE A user from r/Minneapolis was among the first to share footage of federal agents shooting Alex Pretti. Following his death, subreddits about football, cats, and embroidery have all rallied against ICE...

I interviewed two of the mods of r/Minneapolis about their tireless work this month: “I just wanted a local subreddit to know what was happening in my city, and now all of a sudden, we’ve turned into this de facto hub of information for basically how to fight fascism.”
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The 48 Hours That Convinced Trump to Change Course in Minnesota The president’s pivot came after lawmakers and allies raised concerns about what was unfolding in Minneapolis.

Idk, I’d wait to see whether the course changes before blasting in a headline that the president - THIS president - has “change[d] course.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The blooming, reticent bromance between Benton and Carter has me 😭

if you're looking to learn about what are some of the lowest-hanging fruits in terms of local elections in places that directly help ICE, this is for you:

I once asked my late uncle what he thought ended the legal Jim Crow era. He immediately responded that the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964 were the moment Jim Crow died. When I asked him why he said: “When White folks fight White folks, it changes everything. Enough was enough.”

Bauer, who is 49, struggled to maintain her composure as she described the day early this month when ICE showed up in force outside her school. Agents had been circling the school since December, seemingly learning its routines, and they arrested some parents just before the winter break. But this time, agents leapt out in riot gear and began entering the apartments just across from the school, where many students live. “We had to lock down and keep the kids inside, and parents linked arms to block the school entrance,” Bauer said. “We had a student who was looking out the window and saw them break into his apartment and just sobbed, ‘That’s my house. That’s my home.’ And we shut the blinds, but it was too late.”

The terror that ICE and CBP have inflicted on the children of the Twin Cities is, by itself, a crime of scandalous proportions that will forever stain this country's moral fabric, and all those responsible should never know another day of peace. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Wow. Per @priscialva, DHS has suspended Gregory Bovino’s access to his social media accounts effective immediately. He spent yesterday responding to people who were criticizing him and raising questions about his unverified claims about Pretti.

"DHS has suspended Gregory Bovino’s access to his social media accounts effective immediately," CNN reports

The Jim Crow Economy Is the True Horror in 'Sinners' The film illustrates the near-impossibility of upward mobility during the segregation era.

Finally got around to watching Sinners this weekend and @adamserwer.bsky.social's piece is by far my favorite because it goes into why Remmick said the juke joint was built on a lie. The Jim Crow economy meant the brothers could never get ahead.
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Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis

Look at all these details of everyday folks not complacent about their government, cc: The Atlantic www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/m...

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE

Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Feel free to drop a note if you know anything on this:

Jen.Bendery@huffpost.com / jbendery.41 on Signal

Despicable if this is true.

Q for anyone who works at the VA:

Has the VA secretary or leadership said anything internally addressing the fucking elephant in the room that one of their VA colleagues was just shot to death by a federal agent?

Hearing from one source it's been a cone of silence in there, no comms to staff.

Alex Pretti died as he lived: taking care of others The 37-year-old ICU nurse was directing traffic and helping a bystander moments before he was killed by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis.

Alex Pretti died as he lived: taking care of others 19thnews.org/2026/01/alex... via @19thnews.org

Two weeks ago this guy announced he was providing legal help to the agent who shot Renee Good. That's how quickly the winds are shifting.

Protesters are outraged over ICE’s latest targets: school-aged children Families, teachers and faith leaders in Minneapolis braved frigid temperatures on Friday to rally against a campaign of enforcement that has left students afraid to go to school.

Protesters are outraged over ICE’s latest targets: school-aged children 19thnews.org/2026/01/minn... via @19thnews.org

It is PAST time for fellow members of my profession to read or re-read Manufacturing Consent. Do y'all not see what role we're playing in all of this?

(Not everyone, obviously, but I cannot read the news without my BP spiking over how it's presented and the words used)

What legal rights do you have in encounters with ICE? Here's what you need to know about your constitutional protections from immigration stops and detentions.

What legal rights do you have in encounters with ICE? 19thnews.org/2026/01/ice-... via @19thnews.org

Black women's unemployment has skyrocketed. Here’s what happened. The rate is now equivalent to White women’s during the bleakest moments of the Great Recession.

Black women's unemployment has skyrocketed. Here’s what happened — The rate is now equivalent to White women’s during the bleakest moments of the Great Recession. 19thnews.org/2026/01/blac... via @19thnews.org

Walz: "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write that children's story about Minnesota."

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

Arizona, November 2020

Unrivaled co-founder and WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” sign during player intros ahead of Mist’s game this afternoon.

Photo via @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social

Twitter fascists are all agog because they believe they've uncovered an antifa anti-ICE terrorist manual. It begins, "We are witnesses, not warriors." It tells you how to use a whistle. It recommends not bringing pets. Some of the terrorists may even be carrying notebooks.

It's become clear in the past 24hrs — Trump officials, the NRA — they believe there is a political litmus test for 2nd Amendment rights & only their side has the right to carry.

I increasingly hear from liberal people buying guns. Why? They think their right to do so will be blocked by the admin.

Judge orders Trump administration officials to preserve evidence from shooting A federal judge in Minnesota has blocked the Trump administration from

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BREAKING:

A federal judge in Minnesota has blocked the Trump admin from "destroying or altering evidence" related to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.

One interesting thing to monitor, as the Trump administration pushes its narrative defending the actions of federal immigration officers who shot and killed Alex Pretti, for some MAGA people this appears to be a breaking point

www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Another ruling just yesterday in Minnesota: A federal judge calls it "particularly craven" that ICE transfered "a nursing refugee mother" out of state. Ta Eh Doh Lah was admitted as a refugee from Myanmar in 2024, has no criminal history and a 5-month-old. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...