Mark Sentesy

What if Pretti's murderer wasn't ICE, but some random guy who wanted to shoot someone in public?
We can't tell because ICE cover their faces and refuse to identify themselves.
This is a feature, not a bug, meant to encourage random militia thugs to get the picture and start doing this everywhere.

I don’t see too many people talking about what an incredible accomplishment it was for MN officials and lawyers to get those affidavits and that motion written and filed and to get a Trump appointed judge to issue a TRO against the feds to stop them from destroying evidence - all in the same day.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Timeline: How the Shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti Unfolded A moment-by-moment analysis of video from the scene shows that Mr. Pretti was already restrained when fatal shots were fired, which appears to contradict the federal government’s account of the event.

Usefully clear

“An Abomination”: Yanis Varoufakis on Trump’s “Board of Peace” & Threat to Democratic World Order We speak to Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis about the United States under Donald Trump and its attempts to reshape the post-World War II international consensus. “Trump has all his work done for him ...

"Trump has all his work done for him by placid European centrists who went along with the policy of trashing international law."

Understand: They only mean "2nd Amendment Rights" for themselves.

Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis

Interestingly, the text narrative of the video is just as important as the video itself, because so many will twist it into propaganda.
The man was clearly not a threat when they murdered him.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Jason Egenberg (@jasonegenberg) Trump flooded the zone this weekend with threatening to deploy the 11th Airborne into Minneapolis, Greenland, and the daily executive order circus, but don’t lose the plot: Jack Smith is scheduled to...

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YouTube video by Simon Clark The 1 word behind Trump’s UN pullout

Why would the US leave groups devoted to protecting women and children from domestic violence?
Not a rhetorical question.
Wrong answers only.
www.youtube.com/shorts/rBcTu...

I'm old enough to remember when CBS News and journalists like Edward R. Murrow held power to account, instead of capitulating to it.

Climate fiduciaries: part II – the duty of even-handedness The second instalment of this series on climate-related fiduciary duty explores the duty of even-handedness and its link to climate investing. This crucial fine print of fiduciary rules is at the hear...

This case against the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is the first to enforce the duty of impartiality / intergenerational equity in the context of climate risk. Will 2026 be the year when the courts confirm that disregarding climate risks is bad for both the planet & pension beneficiaries?

27 Million Fewer Car Trips: Life After a Year of Congestion Pricing How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.

Reducing the number of cars is almost always better

YouTube video by Tad Stoermer The Difference Between a Loyal Opposition and Resistance | A Dispatch from the High Castle

He argues that the Democrats are stifling actual resistance in their loyalty to the existing political system. He's not wrong.

Gangsters of Capitalism — Jonathan Myerson Katz

The only critical opening is in the 5th last paragraph, which blithely surfaces the idea that Chevron would be forced to take over the government. Like the Banana Republics created for and run by American capitalists. 3/3

It frames the issue ultimately as whether it will bring down oil for Americans: a tacit endorsement of the idea that everything is justified in the service of American consumption. 2/3

The Venezuelan Oil Industry Trump Is Planning to Revive

Studythis propaganda: it leaves just out of view all the right things, like justice and climate, and it treats as accidental the alignment of oil company interests and Trump's overthrow of the government, to focus all attention on the How instead of the why or whether it should. 1/3

Eagle Ed Martin & @EagleEdMartin X.com A confident America! •8 Jesse Kelly • @JesseKellyDC •4h Colonization is one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world and the only reason most don't know this is because they were educated by communists who hate Western civilization. x.com/billnehr/statu...

On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇

10 Crucial Things You Can Do in 2026 Your activism will be even more important this year

Your activism will be even more important this year.

Here are 10 crucial things you can do in 2026. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-in-2026

All the more reason for China and everyone else to get off oil ASAP. Renewable energy is the antidote to this sort of imperialist violence.
Meanwhile, China's demand has already peaked. Oil companies are very worried.

YouTube video by Ohh that's RICH Breaking: Trump almost got something right. So close! #economy #jobs #trump #markets

Well said: the stock market indicates expected profitability, but because profit comes at the expense of employee wages, nature, and public goods, a strong stock market is the exact opposite of good for all of those things.

A national disgrace.

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Just possibly it's the oil? A solar panel is the new peace sign

"Not for the first time, and not for the last, I’m going to make the observation that it’s going to be hard to figure out how to fight wars over sunshine," @billmckibben.bsky.social writes: billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.

Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Investors Warn of ‘Rot in Private Equity’ as Funds Strike Circular Deals

Rich investors borrow money to buy a company. Then they sell the company back to itself after extracting as much value as possible - sometimes 50% more than the value of the investment.
If the masses are symbolized by zombies, the 1% are clearly vampires.

New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.

I turned off the news for 1 day to give myself a break, and came back to this. wtf is going on now?