Chaplain Dollar Tree Darth Vader

If people want to help, lots of orgs are doing this. But the one responsible for this particular distribution is apparently found here: giving.servantkeeper.com/stjohnsepisc...

This is what one afternoon drop looks like for one (1) Minneapolis mutual aid distributor (read: random mom who wants to help families at her kids’ schools)

One other thing: if you DO NOT LIVE IN MINNESOTA, and are NOT AFFECTED BY THIS AT ALL, and you think it's a good and productive to come in here and gloat and stir chaos and dunk on someone you dislike from the internet, maybe think a little harder about what you're doing and when you're doing it.

So I can attest to this. My wife and I flew in for a few weeks with other clergy and healthcare workers to help. It's the grinding work of observing and logistics of caring for community members. There are "war" tourists here trying co-opt the real work people are doing for their own purposes.

To help you keep track today in Minneapolis:

-ICE tear-gassed children, adults and abducted a legal observer from a park.

-Tear-gassed people at an Alex Pretti memorial.

-Are drive-by pepper spraying folks. Including myself. I was wearing a stole.

These are intentional acts of terror.

Glory to the heroes of the Republic 🫡

Independent journalist Georgia Fort was also arrested by federal agents earlier for reporting on the church protest in Minneapolis. She was live streaming when agents arrived to take her into custody.

"...I believe in jesus christ
who rises again and again in our lives
so that we will be free
from prejudice and arrogance
from fear and hate
and carry on his revolution
and make way for his kingdom."-Dorothee Soelle.

ICE hasn't deescalated up here.

Is it cheesy or have people become poisoned by irony and cynicism?

The question is rhetorical and the answer is the latter.

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

That's actually a really good comparison.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Donate to Alex Pretti is an American Hero, organized by Keith Edwards On January 24, 2026, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a Minneapolis resident and American citizen wa… Keith Edwards needs your support for Alex Pretti is an American Hero

We were just sent Alex’s GoFundMe.

Cynicism will not protect you from the authoritarian regime. But it might exhaust the people who are fighting like hell to get you out of it.

If you’re clogging up the mentions of people doing the work, it’s time to log off until you’re ready to join the effort instead.

Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

And donate.

Every time they kill one of us, help us make the resistance even stronger.

The Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?”

And the Lord said, “What have you done? Listen, your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!"

For those whose blood cries from the ground for justice,

we pray.

Amen.

And a VA nurse at that.

Yes.

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.

Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

His name was Alex Jeffrey Pretti and he was a nurse. ICE murdered him.

He was a nurse. They executed a nurse.

They’re heroes

Live: Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, police chief says A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.

The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."

The video below has just been linked to an article by the Minnesota @StarTribune and it shows at least six masked agents wrestling a man to the ground before shooting him multiple times in Minneapolis this morning. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.

If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

We try.

*know

Jack do you if any journalists covered the clergy at US Bank in Minneapolis?

I believe that's the pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran.