David P Ball

Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.

A senior emails a prosecutor‘s public email to express concerns about an #ICE case on the news

Homeland Security subpoenas his Google

Officers arrive with printout of his email

His airline bags get delayed & searched

“We’re all potential targets.”

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ProPublica Names CBP Agents Who Shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis ProPublica has identified the two Border Patrol agents who shot Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis man killed January 24 while observing immigration enforcement in the city. The outlet says the agents are J...

ProPublica Identifies CBP Agents Who Fatally Shot ICU Nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis

Across the border, Indigenous fears spike amidst ‘U.S.’ immigration crackdown With ICE operations, multiple First Nations warn members about travel risks — despite treaty rights. Why Indigenous communities are on the frontlines defending rights for all

This story by @crystalgreene.bsky.social is an important angle on what’s happening south of the border now…and how it links together and impacts so many communities

proud to have edited this talented reporter & s/o to photog Chad Davis (@daviss.org)

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Israeli military accepts that 71,000 Palestinians were killed in Gaza for first time’ The Israeli government has spent years dismissing the Gaza health ministry’s death toll as ‘misleading and unreliable’

I experienced this pressure constantly in any reporting related to Gaza. Relentless hounding to downplay the medical records as "Hamas-controlled"

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Live Updates: Trump’s Border Chief Says ‘Improvements Could and Should Be Made’ in Minneapolis

A good start would be to stop gunning down ordinary people you simply disagree with and dehumanize in cold blood. Also... the ... mission itself?

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Iran protest doctor: ‘In one street, I saw blood pooled in a gutter with a trail stretching several metres’ | Anonymous I’ve worked as a surgeon in disaster zones. Nothing compares to the nightmare I saw in Iran’s hospitals when the state started shooting protesters

“The hospital became a mass casualty zone. We did not have enough of anything … The volume of casualties far exceeded the capacity …

“What took place was far beyond anything the public has been told. And most of it happened in the dark”

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A US lawyer reveals the sounds coming out of the regime’s concentration camps, where women and children have been kidnapped to, their health and safety status largely unknown. You can hear them begging for help. #3E #GoodvsEvil

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

I can’t see more than a few ways to stop brownshirt/SS death squad from taking power … and it’s likely not statements about making cities “less safe,” dragging appeals to a corrupt Supreme Court, or hoping Feds don’t destroy the evidence they seized

Does ICE hold a legitimized monopoly on violence?

Could it be that assassinating noncompliant progressive protesters is in ICE’s mission?

Hence sending them to Dem-run cities where they know masses will protest

Seems playbook brownshirts-to-SS transition moment (or Proud Boys>ICE). There’s always some “justification“ that in hindsight was lies

AFL-CIO Mourns Killing of Minneapolis Union Member, Reiterates Calls for ICE to Leave Minnesota: The AFL-CIO mourns the senseless killing of another Minneapolis resident by federal agents. Alex Jeffrey Pretti was a VA intensive care unit nurse and a member of AFGE Local 3669—a brother in our union family. Our thoughts are with Alex’s loved ones, his union siblings, and the people of Minneapolis at this devastating time. As tens of thousands of Minnesotans made clear peacefully and powerfully yesterday, the Trump administration’s horrific operation—and their actions aimed at stoking violence and chaos—must end. America’s unions join the call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed. We demand local authorities conduct a full, transparent investigation that will lead to accountability for this tragic and violent act, and for Congress to use its power to hold ICE accountable.

America’s unions mourn the senseless killing by federal agents of our AFGE Local 3669 union brother and VA nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti.

We reiterate our call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed.
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Man killed in Minneapolis by federal agents identified as VA nurse Alex Pretti: ‘He wanted to help people’ Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research

Videos show Pretti filming federal agents, his right hand holding up his phone, his left hand empty. He was wrestled to the ground by several law enforcement officers before being shot several times. He was repeatedly shot point-blank in the back

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FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting; none exists now, Justice Dept. says After the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis, FBI agents launched a civil rights probe into the shooting. The Justice Department says no such case now exists.

On not even INVESTIGATING a mom's on-video murder:

Deputy AG: “We investigate when it’s appropriate to investigate. And that is not the case here. It was not the case when it happened and is not the case today"

His dept instead investigating victim's partner

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Bondi Beach shooting 'so distressing,' local Jewish resident tells BBC Yvonne Haber says the Jewish community has been fearful of an attack like the one in Bondi.

"we've had to have security guards at birthday parties. it’s been waiting to happen … i would have been walking by thinking, 'isn't it gorgeous, isn’t it great that we fan celebrate safely in public’"

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‘This is not the Australia I know’: How brave victims saved those around them As a pair of gunmen unleashed hell at Bondi Beach, brave Sydneysiders defended their loved ones and passing strangers.

“We hoped and believed such a thing could never happen here. It can”

So sickened to wake up to antisemitic horror on the 1st day of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights

“Ahmed el Ahmed…fruit shop owner, tackled [a gunman] from behind, pulling the gun” away

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Killer whales and dolphins seen hunting together in rare video Researchers say the footage, captured near the North-West Pacific coast, is the first recorded evidence of the two working together.

Timeline cleanse this is very cool

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Omg I was kind of being rhetoric it’s really a Nazi motto

SFU Wants Only Non-Union Faculty at New Medical School Simon Fraser contends that the med school is so new and different that its existing collective agreement with university faculty doesn't apply

SCOOP: Simon Fraser University insists that its new medical school, the first to open in Western Canada in 55 years, is so new and different that its collective agreement with the SFU Faculty Association doesn't apply.

Read more @pressprogress.ca

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B.C. emergency management:
• Access between Lower Mainland and Interior closed
• Nooksack River topped its banks around 2pm, water going across border to Sumas prairie
• Rainfall in Fraser Valley now easing up
• Nooksack flows expected to peak ~10pm, hold til 4-6am, then decline

BREAKING: Officials in Sumas, Wash., immediately south of Abbotsford will be sounding their flood siren that warns residents to evacuate. This is a sign of likely flooding in Sumas Prairie in Abbotsford.
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He got busted and settled instead of being charged. And then just continued his racism. His dad also sounds like a tyrannical POS it obviously rubbed off

Oh yeah even I forgot about the birther bullshit

It never ends. Liked your adding to the list not the sentiment of course

Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, has died. She was 111.

"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.

Geoff Bennett has more.

I don't see her mentioned in association with any other cases, but there may be some in Eastern District of Virginia where she was "appointed." Good question though, because if anyone ELSE was prosecuted by her...

Amid climate impacts, leading Secwépemc firekeeper shares 'a better way of looking after the land' In a time of worsening wildfires, Joe Gilchrist says cultural burning 'needs to be multiplied hundreds of times' — returning to Indigenous stewardship

I was so honoured to edit my colleague Aaron Hemens’ in-depth profile story about firekeeper Joe Gilchrist and the Thunderbird Collective he helps lead.

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