As I saw Mr. Pretti lean down to help the woman that ICE had thrown to the ground, I heard the late Mr. Rogers' voice in my head "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." Honor his example: be a helper.
If you've not seen this before - and you may not have, despite me trying to spread it - please watch and share this video of Alex actually doing his job. That was a gentle, honorable man. If you know how to spread it further, tiktok etc, please do.
🌺🌿 Thanks! That’s wonderful! I’ll try in the a.m., I don’t do any other media myself but will see if I can pass it on &/or incorporate it in my little ACLU promo ‘Flyer’.
— going to bed, almost have a headache now 2:30 a.m. B.C. westcoast.
I’ve since added the rose to Renee’s name as a number of women were upset that her death seemed to be receiving less attention than Alex’s, altho the fact that it’s a repeat of the offence has contributed.
Hi, Jay Jay - interesting point that Renee's death seems to be receiving less attention.
I don't think that's a "male v female" thing - I think it's just the result of the numbers escalating. One was bad - two is TWICE as bad. The horror rises in direct relation to the numbers - which is why we are still shocked by stories of the Holocaust. And I'm sorry to say that I don't think the horror factor is going to diminish any time soon - there will be more unjustified deaths before this is over. What we need to watch out for is them trying to "normalise" it " Oh, so she went to a protest? No wonder she got shot. . ."
This is what they have done with the shooting of Blacks at traffic stops - and children at school. "Thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers - what's for dinner?"
Agree! People need to keep thoughts and prayers to themselves and instead call to rethink and act! Maybe others can think of better words to use, but when we come up with them, they need to replace "thoughts and prayers"!
As soon as I read (and saw) that his last act was trying to protect another person from harm, I found out everything I needed to know about this young man.
And I found out everything I needed to know about his killers as well.
Wiki: On January 26, 2026, University of Minnesota Student Unions called for a second general strike on January 30, 2026.
This was in response to the killing of Alex Pretti on January 24, 2026, and the success of the first general strike. On January 27, 2026, it was announced the event would be called the 'National Shutdown'
Very well said, and tells us everything, be a helper.
Everything we have heard he was a kind human being.
This teaches us, oppose this regime by also being someone that aims to reduce suffering and counter injustice…and do it in their honor.
Joyce is also right that Trump is backing down, but not because he’s abandoning the strategy. Because Minneapolis proved too expensive.
Argentina’s dictatorship pulled back from Plaza de Mayo when the Mothers made international attention unsustainable. They didn’t stop disappearing people. They moved operations to locations with less visibility.
Trump claiming he’ll “work with” Walz after calling him a criminal conspirator? That’s not retreat. That’s recalibration. The infrastructure is still operational: 3,000 agents, secret memos authorizing warrantless entry, NSPM-7 designating protesters as terrorists, detention centers transferring people out of state.
Bovino’s demotion matters, it shows pressure works. But Miller’s still driving, as you noted. The destination hasn’t changed.
What comes next: refined tactics in other Democratic cities, lessons learned about what generates too much blowback (executing white nurses on camera), return to Minnesota after the news cycle moves on.
Minneapolis wasn’t the mission. It was the pilot program.
Keep the pressure on. But understand what you’re fighting: not a policy that failed, but a test run that taught them how to do it better next time.
You are absolutely right Johan, they will seek to make a slight course correction to deal with the push-back, but their end goal is in their sights. Anyone that thinks that Holman will be and is an improvement over the POS Bovino, needs to wake up, he will be a continuation of this ongoing disaster. Never forget he is the guy that has been organizing the for-profit prisons that are sprouting up all over the country, you don’t build prisons like that if you don’t intend to populate them. We are seeing push-back all over the country by communities that want no part of them, but their promise of jobs in places that can use them makes that a tough call for a lot of those places. Social Circle, a small town outside of Atlanta, is just one example. Both of those guys really need to be put into a prison, for a very long time, along with their master 🙏
A real weakness for the administration’s approach so far is to pick on blue states, which immediately generates pushback by state government, the judiciary, and the public. Minneapolis may be a pilot program, but so was Los Angeles and Portland, each one generating more and more pushback. And the lessons learned about pushback that works will be applied in the future by other states and cities. People are sensitized, motivated, and angry, and threats to send in more agents or the military will make people more so.
This is unreal. I just can’t get my understanding of how it all happened. Of course I know but the unnecessary killing. The hate. I’m already thinking of how us democrats are going to muck it up as we usually do. Maybe this time we won’t l
Once Miller’s time in office is up, he will be persona non grata. Guess he will have to seek asylum in another country. Hmm, I wonder how that will go…maybe poetic justice.
Miller is an unelected advisor. When trump goes, he will go. Trump will probably give all his lickspittals a pre-emptive pardon but there must be non- federal crimes we can get this Nazi on.
I hope to live to see trump's "untergang". He slips and slides, throws others under the bus, and lies lies lies. I am not a religious person but Psalm 12:8 has been going through my through my head constantly - "Wicked men walk on all sides when vile men are exalted..."
I am hopeful but do not trust one thing about Homan, Bovino, Noem, Miller, Trump or anyone associated with this criminal enterprise. They are just shifting spaces, characters and shuffling the methods. Beware.
It’s maybe a small point but I believe it’s important to acknowledge that they are no longer “instruments.” Rather, as demonstrated in the Nuremberg trials, they are accomplices, by choice.
To use drump's ridiculous way of raping math.... I agree a thousand percent!
What I was trying to tell is that the guy in the White House and his pet vampire use people like noem and bovino to realize their sick goals. That bovino and that noem are the tools, the instruments.
However, they are as guilty as drump and the vampire because they could have walked away but they gladly help achieving the goals.
Indeed! Miller is still driving, and Steve Bannon, who was a senior advisor to Drumpf for a while during his 1st term and instrumental in bringing Miller on board back then is I am sure still actively involved in mentoring him. Also, remember back then that Bannon’s “mission” was to destroy “The Administrative State”. Also, I think that he has been advising Drumpf to increase the chaos and encouraging the CBP thugs’ violence against the protesters to set the stage for Drumpf to invoke The Insurrection Act.
I want to say first that I am proud of Americans coming out on the streets and protesting. And I also want to point out two things:
1) Chris Madel is the lawyer representing Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in the head.
2) Americans are up in arms about Renee and about Alex Pretti — and so we should be. But what about POC killed by ICE? Keith Porter, Marie Ange Blaise, Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez, Jesus Molina-Veya and others — all killed by ICE. Okay, Keith’s killer was off duty, the others died in detention — but do their deaths matter less? Not to their families.
Yes. When ICE murdered two white, middle-class, upstanding citizens in Minneapolis, it crossed a crucial line with the white U.S. public. It's not just about ICE either. Think Philando Castile, or Tamir Rice, or Eric Garner, or George Floyd, or any of the many dozens of others killed by law enforcement.
It was murder. In Cold Blood, linked below, explains that almost frame by frame with photos (screen shots from the pink hat lady video). Three peaceful observers were physically assaulted. One was violently physically assaulted, and worse, one was clearly murdered by illegal lethal force. After the fact, federally enforced impunity resulted in criminal obstruction of justice in a conspiracy. The conspiracy involves two heads of cabinet-level agencies and the President of the United States, et al. Watch from the moment that ICE Agent 1 exits his vehicle.
It seems obvious that DHS agents have been operating under rules of engagement that do not conform to best practices for law enforcement and are unconstitutional according to the 1st 2nd and 4th amendments. From his press conference and interview with Dana Bash it is clear that Bovino should NEVER command another law enforcement operation.
I hope the judge in Minnesota orders the surge operations suspended until the rules of engagement have been reviewed.
That Essayli person in LA should be fired or sent to a course in the Bill of Rights.
Bad as all that is, i think Bondi’s mob-like protection extortion racket to obtain information about voter rolls (and have MN acquiesce to other demands ) is worse. It takes but a moment to see that it could never have been made without the support or @ the instigation of the President who could order the “surge operation” in Minnesota shut down while Bondi could not. My view is that this an impeachable offense incompatible with the Rule of Law. Congress must investigate this, impeach, convict, and remove Bondi; then she should be prosecuted
It was notable to me that Bovino referred to what was going on as a riot not a protest
Minnesota riot statutes:
609.71 RIOT.
Subdivision 1.Riot first degree. When three or more persons assembled disturb the public peace by an intentional act or threat of unlawful force or violence to person or property and a death results, and one of the persons is armed with a dangerous weapon, that person is guilty of riot first degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 20 years or to payment of a fine of not more than $35,000, or both.
Subd. 2.Riot second degree. When three or more persons assembled disturb the public peace by an intentional act or threat of unlawful force or violence to person or property, each participant who is armed with a dangerous weapon or knows that any other participant is armed with a dangerous weapon is guilty of riot second degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than five years or to payment of a fine of not more than $10,000, or both.
Subd. 3.Riot third degree. When three or more persons assembled disturb the public peace by an intentional act or threat of unlawful force or violence to person or property, each participant therein is guilty of riot third degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 364 days or to payment of a fine of not more than $1,000, or both.
These are a closer fit for the federal agent actions than those of the protesters
Police riot? Im a Chicago girl and was there in 1968 when there was a police riot @ the democratic convention.
With Bondi’s extortion type demand being SO blatant this will hopefully influence SCOTUS decisions with the Trump admin going forward. At this rate can SCOTUS afford to continue turning a blind eye & accommodating all things Trumpian/Project 2025?
— ‘You are known by the company you keep/ support’.
Do we know for sure that Trump was behind Bondi's outrageous request? For sure he might have been, but Trump is barely compos mentis so I'm assuming that those around him are often acting on their own initiative, or perhaps Stephen Miller's.
If you've ever worked for a boss who was either incompetent or a loose cannon, you know how ingenious both subordinates and peers can be in getting around them.
No of course not, thanks for-the chance to clarify. But if Bondi came up with it surely she’d run it by Trump. It is certainly not past Trump to think of it himself even in his addled state he’s always looking for a deal. Whoever thought of it, it’s probably indicative of the priority trump puts on being able to manage the mid-terms in his favor. Im pretty sure he is very eager to leave the DHS metro surge troops in Minnesota.
I hope we don't forget all the people disappeared into foreign prisons, whisked away with no hope of contacting family or legal representation, killed, raped and dying of neglect in ice facilities. May Good and Pretti's deaths not be in vain.
I have been reading about some of the treatment in these prisons here and it is sickening. These people are not being given decent treatment and there are many reports of torture. It is unconscionable to think we are sending people off to other countries or prisons with nothing to keep them safe. In Minneapolis they pick people up and move them to a Texas prison with no phone call or anything. What’s the rush if you aren’t doing anything illegal? I also don’t want to forget the people in boats that they murdered because they “ think” they are drug runners.
Thanks, we need to know about all the tools at our disposal in order to use them. I also give to the legal teams fighting the good fight and compiling the evidence for future prosecution and lawmaking.
Tonight I attended a candlelight vigil in my small city in central Washington State where 200 folks came out in the cold. We came to lift up Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and so many others impacted by unlawful actions. If we can do this in a very conservative rural community, you can too. Join us.
There’s a pattern here. DT goes too far and people push back. So he backs off a bit for the time being.
He will go too far again. People will
push back again and he will back down momentarily. “Momentarily”
could mean a week, a month or several months, but as long as he’s in power he will always keep pushing toward his goal, which is complete subjugation of the population.
I hope you’re right Jay. Today he’s already changed his mind. He says the protesters are paid to do what they do, which is ludicrous. He’s saying that because it’s easier for him to believe they’re paid. But Alex Pretti and Renee Good weren’t paid and they were brutally murdered just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
According to AI, 70% of the people ICE arrests have ZERO criminal convictions! ICE is jailing children! Why? Because they’re too lazy to find neighbors who will take care of them? The facilities where they’re jailed are deplorable. The Trump administration is working off of numbers that are completely made-up because they think it makes them look good!! ICE’s behavior is hideous & unconscionable.
This is where we need to pay more attention to what actually &happens vs what he *says — he loves the limelight & intimidating/ dismissing ‘enemies’ — its part of his propagandizing.
He’s a mean wuss, basically, who only follows thro *sometimes.
Trump has absolutely zero shame. Not one drop of it in his entire being. He is a sociopath. Yet if tomorrow he fired Bondi, Noem, Miller, and Homan, his approval numbers would surge. This is how worn out we are. How low our expectations are for this man. This is his plan, and why he's a toxic monster. We must not reduce the pressure to get rid of him in November by changing control of Congress.
Is that how worn out we are, or how we tacitly support white supremacy as long as white, middle class U.S. citizens are not harmed on camera? We seem to care less about violence against and murders of non-white immigrants and citizens.
Republicans are openly stating their about-face driven by fears of losing upcoming elections. Are they calling for prosecution of any immigration agents? Repealing the new laws and EOs that stripped immigrants of legal status? Working to close detention centers and repair the harm they've caused? Identifying and returning everyone shipped to prisons in other countries? Proposing legitimate immigration reform? The kind they were poised to approve until the felon told them not to?
This pause and appointing Homan of the $50k bribe in a bag fame, and who reigned over separating children from their families and putting them in cages in the felon's first administration--doesn't seem like positive change. Different clown. Same ring. Same circus.
something wrong with americans..we are not moved by school children shot shot and shot again year after year...the children's bodies should be shown, so torn apart by bullets they have to be identified by their sneakers. news media STOP blurring the shootings of Good and Pretti the horror must be seen
Yes, all of that is part of the truth pile of motivation and what is not happening/never gonna happen. These are strange, transformative times. Not normal at all. Normal is dying. That will bring more blessings than curses, but still horribly imperfect. It is time to do what each of us can do and focus our anger forward in this moral combat. We cannot sit back jn frustration and inhibit real, transformative change by allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good.
As a World War II historian, allow me to use that as metaphor here. What we just experienced is "the battle of Midway" - the enemy gets stopped. What's to come is "the battle of Guadalcanal" - the enemy attempts to keep on, and is defeated after a very hard struggle. After that, they made no more offensive operations, everything was defensive, in reaction to us. That first win at Midway preceded three more tough years of fighting. But final victory was ours. That can be the history here, if we stay strong and united in our goal to restore the constitutional, democratic republic.
Every day, Americans are proving by protesting, contacting legislators, donating and working on campaigns, phonebanking, etc. that each and every individual effort results in a tsunami of resistance to violent authoritarianism.
By maintaining the pressure, we’re keeping our promise to our nation’s founders that the US is OUR republic and we have every intention of damn well keeping it.
Good and Pretti are the two innocent white people murdered by ICE in the past 2 weeks. But know that Keith Porter, a Black man, Cambodian Parady La, and five Latino people—Heber Dominguez, Victor Diaz, Luis Yanez-Cruz, Luis Caceres, and Geraldo Campos—were all murdered by ICE in 2026.
My rep is Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. You bet she’s heard from me! She’s been trying to master the repulsive art of talking out of both sides of your mouth. You can’t do that without a foot in your mouth. Here’s today’s statement from this coward who usually hides behind a blue collar persona and refuses to acknowledge her (former) base’s demands that she take a stand for democracy. Look for the hedge to placate her MAGA constituents.
“It’s unacceptable to have another needless death in Minnesota, and it’s unacceptable to have elected officials, candidates, and administration officials continue to throw gas on this fire, or tacitly encourage assaults on law enforcement and anyone else. The situation is un-American and Secretary Noem needs to step down.”
She is a disgrace to the WA Dem delegation (I live north of Seattle.) I used to give her some grace since she's in a bright red district, but her vote to give DHS funding vs. a No vote (which would have been totally explainable to her constituents in the current moment) has really angered me. Unfortunately I don't think we can afford to primary her because we need every Dem we can get in the midterms (and perfect is the enemy of the good IMO) to have enough members to own the House again and hold this abhorrent regime to account.
Elections since Trump 2.0 got rolling show a powerful blue shift in formerly solid red districts. Perez is completely failing to benefit from that shift in WA-03 through doggedly ignoring and disrespecting concerns of her liberal, progressive, urban constituents. Voters will support authenticity but tune out or turn against politicians who they can’t believe in.
With all due respect, Ms. Vance, I don’t believe one damn word this lying, liar of a Nazi President says. Or any of his KKKabinet. Or his worthless bunch of cowardly, lying, criminal, MAGA Republican Congressmen. And certainly not Texas Governor Greg Abbot.
THIS FIGHT HAS BASICALLY JUST BEGUN. WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO. NEVER GIVE IN. NEVER GIVE UP.
As I saw Mr. Pretti lean down to help the woman that ICE had thrown to the ground, I heard the late Mr. Rogers' voice in my head "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." Honor his example: be a helper.
There is every indication that he was a lovely human being, in every way.
Yes, you can’t help but see it in his face, the smile is so relaxed, humane, genuine.
If you've not seen this before - and you may not have, despite me trying to spread it - please watch and share this video of Alex actually doing his job. That was a gentle, honorable man. If you know how to spread it further, tiktok etc, please do.
https://youtu.be/tCa-rEeX9bg?si=KkG5FiB9T_MyHGhZ
Thank you for sharing this. It's a true depiction of what America has lost when ICE murdered this man.
🌺🌿 Thanks! That’s wonderful! I’ll try in the a.m., I don’t do any other media myself but will see if I can pass it on &/or incorporate it in my little ACLU promo ‘Flyer’.
— going to bed, almost have a headache now 2:30 a.m. B.C. westcoast.
I’ve since added the rose to Renee’s name as a number of women were upset that her death seemed to be receiving less attention than Alex’s, altho the fact that it’s a repeat of the offence has contributed.
✨✨ Alex Pretti / Keith Porter / Renee Good 🌺🌿
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Hi, Jay Jay - interesting point that Renee's death seems to be receiving less attention.
I don't think that's a "male v female" thing - I think it's just the result of the numbers escalating. One was bad - two is TWICE as bad. The horror rises in direct relation to the numbers - which is why we are still shocked by stories of the Holocaust. And I'm sorry to say that I don't think the horror factor is going to diminish any time soon - there will be more unjustified deaths before this is over. What we need to watch out for is them trying to "normalise" it " Oh, so she went to a protest? No wonder she got shot. . ."
This is what they have done with the shooting of Blacks at traffic stops - and children at school. "Thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers - what's for dinner?"
Agree! People need to keep thoughts and prayers to themselves and instead call to rethink and act! Maybe others can think of better words to use, but when we come up with them, they need to replace "thoughts and prayers"!
As soon as I read (and saw) that his last act was trying to protect another person from harm, I found out everything I needed to know about this young man.
And I found out everything I needed to know about his killers as well.
Charles, beautifully said.
Thank you for your wise advice to all of us: Honor Alex Pretti by becoming a helper.
I will do my best.
✨ Alex Pretti / Keith Porter / Renee Good ✨
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Wiki: On January 26, 2026, University of Minnesota Student Unions called for a second general strike on January 30, 2026.
This was in response to the killing of Alex Pretti on January 24, 2026, and the success of the first general strike. On January 27, 2026, it was announced the event would be called the 'National Shutdown'
Thanks for that. Coming Fast & furious.
I read big biz is starting to grow a spine re: standing up to Trump too!
Some of the Boycotting has worked! (where’s my Target emoji?)
Jan. 30 — ♦️NATIONAL SHUTDOWN, 2nd General Strike - Protest ICE invasions & killings
Plus other Vigils … https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/news/national-shutdown-over-ice-killings-in-minnesota-planned-across-us-including-in-ct-on-friday/ar-AA1V7aZP
Very well said, and tells us everything, be a helper.
Everything we have heard he was a kind human being.
This teaches us, oppose this regime by also being someone that aims to reduce suffering and counter injustice…and do it in their honor.
Joyce is also right that Trump is backing down, but not because he’s abandoning the strategy. Because Minneapolis proved too expensive.
Argentina’s dictatorship pulled back from Plaza de Mayo when the Mothers made international attention unsustainable. They didn’t stop disappearing people. They moved operations to locations with less visibility.
Trump claiming he’ll “work with” Walz after calling him a criminal conspirator? That’s not retreat. That’s recalibration. The infrastructure is still operational: 3,000 agents, secret memos authorizing warrantless entry, NSPM-7 designating protesters as terrorists, detention centers transferring people out of state.
Bovino’s demotion matters, it shows pressure works. But Miller’s still driving, as you noted. The destination hasn’t changed.
What comes next: refined tactics in other Democratic cities, lessons learned about what generates too much blowback (executing white nurses on camera), return to Minnesota after the news cycle moves on.
Minneapolis wasn’t the mission. It was the pilot program.
Keep the pressure on. But understand what you’re fighting: not a policy that failed, but a test run that taught them how to do it better next time.
— Johan
Former Foreign Service Officer
You are absolutely right Johan, they will seek to make a slight course correction to deal with the push-back, but their end goal is in their sights. Anyone that thinks that Holman will be and is an improvement over the POS Bovino, needs to wake up, he will be a continuation of this ongoing disaster. Never forget he is the guy that has been organizing the for-profit prisons that are sprouting up all over the country, you don’t build prisons like that if you don’t intend to populate them. We are seeing push-back all over the country by communities that want no part of them, but their promise of jobs in places that can use them makes that a tough call for a lot of those places. Social Circle, a small town outside of Atlanta, is just one example. Both of those guys really need to be put into a prison, for a very long time, along with their master 🙏
A real weakness for the administration’s approach so far is to pick on blue states, which immediately generates pushback by state government, the judiciary, and the public. Minneapolis may be a pilot program, but so was Los Angeles and Portland, each one generating more and more pushback. And the lessons learned about pushback that works will be applied in the future by other states and cities. People are sensitized, motivated, and angry, and threats to send in more agents or the military will make people more so.
✨ Alex Pretti / Keith Porter / Renee Good ✨
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✨ Alex Pretti / Keith Porter / Renee Good ✨
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This is unreal. I just can’t get my understanding of how it all happened. Of course I know but the unnecessary killing. The hate. I’m already thinking of how us democrats are going to muck it up as we usually do. Maybe this time we won’t l
Bovino already under the bus … perhaps Noem too … but Miller is still driving … and the destination is still Trump’s.
Miller may be driving the bus, but at some point he, too, will crash and burn. And we will be there for it.
Once Miller’s time in office is up, he will be persona non grata. Guess he will have to seek asylum in another country. Hmm, I wonder how that will go…maybe poetic justice.
Miller is an unelected advisor. When trump goes, he will go. Trump will probably give all his lickspittals a pre-emptive pardon but there must be non- federal crimes we can get this Nazi on.
In office? Does he have an official role, or is he just an “advisor?” That’s what’s hard to wrap my head around.
I think Millers title is deputy chief of staff, something like that. Googleable.
Our highest hope.
I hope to live to see trump's "untergang". He slips and slides, throws others under the bus, and lies lies lies. I am not a religious person but Psalm 12:8 has been going through my through my head constantly - "Wicked men walk on all sides when vile men are exalted..."
That is Psalm 12 verse 8. Thank you for sharing. It perfectly describes what is happening in our country.
Thank you for the correction. My ipad is so slow that I have to struggle to make and edit comments. I’ll fix that now with my phone!
I am hopeful but do not trust one thing about Homan, Bovino, Noem, Miller, Trump or anyone associated with this criminal enterprise. They are just shifting spaces, characters and shuffling the methods. Beware.
Probably. But check for flop sweat.
I'm checking for trials and convictions.
And ticks.
Beware indeed!
“It should freak the American people out that Trump, Noem and Bovino lie so enthusiastically."
This is the best cartoon I've seen about Trump administration lies today!'
https://kathleenweber.substack.com/cp/185918038
Also, listen to a song written for Renee and Alex.
https://kathleenweber.substack.com/cp/185902704
Bovino-Noem. Sounds like name of solemn latin prayer when someone dies.
To me it sounds more like an illness, a verdict.
Like when the doctor says that there is nothing that can be done because it is a severe case of Bovino-Noem.
Maybe a mad cow disease affecting an elf. The gnome contracted Bovino virus.
I could not agree more.
That bovino chap and that noem woman are nothing but the instruments of drump and miller.
They all need to go, preferably after being judged first (not by cannon or bove of course)
It’s maybe a small point but I believe it’s important to acknowledge that they are no longer “instruments.” Rather, as demonstrated in the Nuremberg trials, they are accomplices, by choice.
To use drump's ridiculous way of raping math.... I agree a thousand percent!
What I was trying to tell is that the guy in the White House and his pet vampire use people like noem and bovino to realize their sick goals. That bovino and that noem are the tools, the instruments.
However, they are as guilty as drump and the vampire because they could have walked away but they gladly help achieving the goals.
Yup, Bovino, being one of the smaller tools of the regime, was easier to throw under the bus.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain …
Indeed! Miller is still driving, and Steve Bannon, who was a senior advisor to Drumpf for a while during his 1st term and instrumental in bringing Miller on board back then is I am sure still actively involved in mentoring him. Also, remember back then that Bannon’s “mission” was to destroy “The Administrative State”. Also, I think that he has been advising Drumpf to increase the chaos and encouraging the CBP thugs’ violence against the protesters to set the stage for Drumpf to invoke The Insurrection Act.
Right you are. (Forgot about Bannon!)
Yes Miller is the problem.
Bovino gnome sounds like a rare type of dwarf.
Or an ugly statue in a cow’s meadow.
the destination is country without a constitution
I want to say first that I am proud of Americans coming out on the streets and protesting. And I also want to point out two things:
1) Chris Madel is the lawyer representing Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in the head.
2) Americans are up in arms about Renee and about Alex Pretti — and so we should be. But what about POC killed by ICE? Keith Porter, Marie Ange Blaise, Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez, Jesus Molina-Veya and others — all killed by ICE. Okay, Keith’s killer was off duty, the others died in detention — but do their deaths matter less? Not to their families.
At least one detainee was strangled to death. More criminal homicide, just as heinous.
Yes. When ICE murdered two white, middle-class, upstanding citizens in Minneapolis, it crossed a crucial line with the white U.S. public. It's not just about ICE either. Think Philando Castile, or Tamir Rice, or Eric Garner, or George Floyd, or any of the many dozens of others killed by law enforcement.
True, but things are unfolding fast … for now, focussing on the few well-recognized victim’s names will help get the ISSUE recognized & dealt with.
… then other names will be added.
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It was murder. In Cold Blood, linked below, explains that almost frame by frame with photos (screen shots from the pink hat lady video). Three peaceful observers were physically assaulted. One was violently physically assaulted, and worse, one was clearly murdered by illegal lethal force. After the fact, federally enforced impunity resulted in criminal obstruction of justice in a conspiracy. The conspiracy involves two heads of cabinet-level agencies and the President of the United States, et al. Watch from the moment that ICE Agent 1 exits his vehicle.
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/in-cold-blood?r=3m1bs
Here's a song, just written, honoring Renee and Alex.
https://kathleenweber.substack.com/cp/185902704
It seems obvious that DHS agents have been operating under rules of engagement that do not conform to best practices for law enforcement and are unconstitutional according to the 1st 2nd and 4th amendments. From his press conference and interview with Dana Bash it is clear that Bovino should NEVER command another law enforcement operation.
I hope the judge in Minnesota orders the surge operations suspended until the rules of engagement have been reviewed.
That Essayli person in LA should be fired or sent to a course in the Bill of Rights.
Bad as all that is, i think Bondi’s mob-like protection extortion racket to obtain information about voter rolls (and have MN acquiesce to other demands ) is worse. It takes but a moment to see that it could never have been made without the support or @ the instigation of the President who could order the “surge operation” in Minnesota shut down while Bondi could not. My view is that this an impeachable offense incompatible with the Rule of Law. Congress must investigate this, impeach, convict, and remove Bondi; then she should be prosecuted
Good and Pretti are martyrs for our Republic.
God save the United States
It was notable to me that Bovino referred to what was going on as a riot not a protest
Minnesota riot statutes:
609.71 RIOT.
Subdivision 1.Riot first degree. When three or more persons assembled disturb the public peace by an intentional act or threat of unlawful force or violence to person or property and a death results, and one of the persons is armed with a dangerous weapon, that person is guilty of riot first degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 20 years or to payment of a fine of not more than $35,000, or both.
Subd. 2.Riot second degree. When three or more persons assembled disturb the public peace by an intentional act or threat of unlawful force or violence to person or property, each participant who is armed with a dangerous weapon or knows that any other participant is armed with a dangerous weapon is guilty of riot second degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than five years or to payment of a fine of not more than $10,000, or both.
Subd. 3.Riot third degree. When three or more persons assembled disturb the public peace by an intentional act or threat of unlawful force or violence to person or property, each participant therein is guilty of riot third degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 364 days or to payment of a fine of not more than $1,000, or both.
These are a closer fit for the federal agent actions than those of the protesters
Police riot? Im a Chicago girl and was there in 1968 when there was a police riot @ the democratic convention.
Sounds to me like ICE are the rioters.
CBP riot, CBP murder.
Investigations, indictments, trials. Nothing less is acceptable.
With Bondi’s extortion type demand being SO blatant this will hopefully influence SCOTUS decisions with the Trump admin going forward. At this rate can SCOTUS afford to continue turning a blind eye & accommodating all things Trumpian/Project 2025?
— ‘You are known by the company you keep/ support’.
Seems they are all loose cannons and they never meet to craft a plan . They are all incompetent.
bad thing is they do have a plan...they are part of project 2025
Do we know for sure that Trump was behind Bondi's outrageous request? For sure he might have been, but Trump is barely compos mentis so I'm assuming that those around him are often acting on their own initiative, or perhaps Stephen Miller's.
If you've ever worked for a boss who was either incompetent or a loose cannon, you know how ingenious both subordinates and peers can be in getting around them.
No of course not, thanks for-the chance to clarify. But if Bondi came up with it surely she’d run it by Trump. It is certainly not past Trump to think of it himself even in his addled state he’s always looking for a deal. Whoever thought of it, it’s probably indicative of the priority trump puts on being able to manage the mid-terms in his favor. Im pretty sure he is very eager to leave the DHS metro surge troops in Minnesota.
I hope we don't forget all the people disappeared into foreign prisons, whisked away with no hope of contacting family or legal representation, killed, raped and dying of neglect in ice facilities. May Good and Pretti's deaths not be in vain.
I have been reading about some of the treatment in these prisons here and it is sickening. These people are not being given decent treatment and there are many reports of torture. It is unconscionable to think we are sending people off to other countries or prisons with nothing to keep them safe. In Minneapolis they pick people up and move them to a Texas prison with no phone call or anything. What’s the rush if you aren’t doing anything illegal? I also don’t want to forget the people in boats that they murdered because they “ think” they are drug runners.
The prisons in other countries are sickening. So are ours if they are designed for holding "illegal aliens ".
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Thanks, we need to know about all the tools at our disposal in order to use them. I also give to the legal teams fighting the good fight and compiling the evidence for future prosecution and lawmaking.
We need to bring those people back to the US.
Tonight I attended a candlelight vigil in my small city in central Washington State where 200 folks came out in the cold. We came to lift up Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and so many others impacted by unlawful actions. If we can do this in a very conservative rural community, you can too. Join us.
I think its time to keep pushing for the removal of Trump and all his appointees and advisors for treason!!
There’s a pattern here. DT goes too far and people push back. So he backs off a bit for the time being.
He will go too far again. People will
push back again and he will back down momentarily. “Momentarily”
could mean a week, a month or several months, but as long as he’s in power he will always keep pushing toward his goal, which is complete subjugation of the population.
But he’ll become weaker all the time, his supporting ‘actors’ will be removed bit by bit,
— he & they will lose more credibility within their ranks/ polls / SCOTUS rulings etc.
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I hope you’re right Jay. Today he’s already changed his mind. He says the protesters are paid to do what they do, which is ludicrous. He’s saying that because it’s easier for him to believe they’re paid. But Alex Pretti and Renee Good weren’t paid and they were brutally murdered just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
According to AI, 70% of the people ICE arrests have ZERO criminal convictions! ICE is jailing children! Why? Because they’re too lazy to find neighbors who will take care of them? The facilities where they’re jailed are deplorable. The Trump administration is working off of numbers that are completely made-up because they think it makes them look good!! ICE’s behavior is hideous & unconscionable.
This is where we need to pay more attention to what actually &happens vs what he *says — he loves the limelight & intimidating/ dismissing ‘enemies’ — its part of his propagandizing.
He’s a mean wuss, basically, who only follows thro *sometimes.
Good point. Thanks for reminding me.
Someone in a substack graphed it out, his promises & threats,
— how often he totally backed off, partially, not at all.
If I find it will send to you in case it helps your analysis / sanity. 🥹
Follow the words of Johan.
It would be great to live to see the day when Bondi and Noem share a prison cell. That’s what justice is called.
Trump has absolutely zero shame. Not one drop of it in his entire being. He is a sociopath. Yet if tomorrow he fired Bondi, Noem, Miller, and Homan, his approval numbers would surge. This is how worn out we are. How low our expectations are for this man. This is his plan, and why he's a toxic monster. We must not reduce the pressure to get rid of him in November by changing control of Congress.
House and Senate.
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Is that how worn out we are, or how we tacitly support white supremacy as long as white, middle class U.S. citizens are not harmed on camera? We seem to care less about violence against and murders of non-white immigrants and citizens.
Republicans are openly stating their about-face driven by fears of losing upcoming elections. Are they calling for prosecution of any immigration agents? Repealing the new laws and EOs that stripped immigrants of legal status? Working to close detention centers and repair the harm they've caused? Identifying and returning everyone shipped to prisons in other countries? Proposing legitimate immigration reform? The kind they were poised to approve until the felon told them not to?
This pause and appointing Homan of the $50k bribe in a bag fame, and who reigned over separating children from their families and putting them in cages in the felon's first administration--doesn't seem like positive change. Different clown. Same ring. Same circus.
something wrong with americans..we are not moved by school children shot shot and shot again year after year...the children's bodies should be shown, so torn apart by bullets they have to be identified by their sneakers. news media STOP blurring the shootings of Good and Pretti the horror must be seen
Yes, all of that is part of the truth pile of motivation and what is not happening/never gonna happen. These are strange, transformative times. Not normal at all. Normal is dying. That will bring more blessings than curses, but still horribly imperfect. It is time to do what each of us can do and focus our anger forward in this moral combat. We cannot sit back jn frustration and inhibit real, transformative change by allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good.
Does Trump still have the wits or agency to fire people in order to surge his ratings?
That is the question, and I would say, no, unless he can clearly see the up$ide for himself.
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As a World War II historian, allow me to use that as metaphor here. What we just experienced is "the battle of Midway" - the enemy gets stopped. What's to come is "the battle of Guadalcanal" - the enemy attempts to keep on, and is defeated after a very hard struggle. After that, they made no more offensive operations, everything was defensive, in reaction to us. That first win at Midway preceded three more tough years of fighting. But final victory was ours. That can be the history here, if we stay strong and united in our goal to restore the constitutional, democratic republic.
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Email Letter ACLU 🔻STOP ICE 🥷🏻 for your congress:
217,588 💠 SENT to Congress — 250,000 GOAL ♦️
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Every day, Americans are proving by protesting, contacting legislators, donating and working on campaigns, phonebanking, etc. that each and every individual effort results in a tsunami of resistance to violent authoritarianism.
By maintaining the pressure, we’re keeping our promise to our nation’s founders that the US is OUR republic and we have every intention of damn well keeping it.
My bit here … ✨ Alex Pretti / Keith Porter / Renee Good ✨
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Email ACLU 🔻STOP ICE letter 🥷🏻 for your congress:
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Good and Pretti are the two innocent white people murdered by ICE in the past 2 weeks. But know that Keith Porter, a Black man, Cambodian Parady La, and five Latino people—Heber Dominguez, Victor Diaz, Luis Yanez-Cruz, Luis Caceres, and Geraldo Campos—were all murdered by ICE in 2026.
also the US constitution
Alex Pretti / Keith Porter / Renee Good ✨
Email Letter ACLU 🔻STOP ICE 🥷🏻 for your congress:
217,588 💠 SENT to Congress — 250,000 GOAL ♦️
https://substack.com/@jayjay88/note/c-204742479?r=5bktok&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
"Call your Republican officials tomorrow and demand that they show the same courage Madel did. "
We mapped all the Republicans and 7 Democrats who voted to fund ICE.
Did your rep vote to fund Alex Pretti’s killers? Check this map.
https://thedemlabs.org/2026/01/24/justice-for-alex-pretti-renee-good-defund-ice/
The Frontliner Seven: Corporate Democrats Who Funded Mass Deportation
https://thedemlabs.org/2026/01/22/the-frontliner-seven-corporate-democrats-who-funded-mass-deportation/
Ms. Vance asks people to call. Call these seven as well and tell them to drop out so they can replaced in the next election. Is there a DNC?
My rep is Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. You bet she’s heard from me! She’s been trying to master the repulsive art of talking out of both sides of your mouth. You can’t do that without a foot in your mouth. Here’s today’s statement from this coward who usually hides behind a blue collar persona and refuses to acknowledge her (former) base’s demands that she take a stand for democracy. Look for the hedge to placate her MAGA constituents.
“It’s unacceptable to have another needless death in Minnesota, and it’s unacceptable to have elected officials, candidates, and administration officials continue to throw gas on this fire, or tacitly encourage assaults on law enforcement and anyone else. The situation is un-American and Secretary Noem needs to step down.”
Her posts are getting ratioed big time.
She is a disgrace to the WA Dem delegation (I live north of Seattle.) I used to give her some grace since she's in a bright red district, but her vote to give DHS funding vs. a No vote (which would have been totally explainable to her constituents in the current moment) has really angered me. Unfortunately I don't think we can afford to primary her because we need every Dem we can get in the midterms (and perfect is the enemy of the good IMO) to have enough members to own the House again and hold this abhorrent regime to account.
Elections since Trump 2.0 got rolling show a powerful blue shift in formerly solid red districts. Perez is completely failing to benefit from that shift in WA-03 through doggedly ignoring and disrespecting concerns of her liberal, progressive, urban constituents. Voters will support authenticity but tune out or turn against politicians who they can’t believe in.
✨ Alex Pretti / Keith Porter / Renee Good ✨
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Very interesting links -- thank you!
Interesting links -- thank you!
Someone here in comments earlier mentioned that MADEL (who decided to step down from running as gov) is the attorney for Renee Good’s murderer. Hmmm
Also … ✨ Alex Pretti / Keith Porter / Renee Good ✨
💠 217,588 ACLU letters sent to Congress 250,000 goal
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With all due respect, Ms. Vance, I don’t believe one damn word this lying, liar of a Nazi President says. Or any of his KKKabinet. Or his worthless bunch of cowardly, lying, criminal, MAGA Republican Congressmen. And certainly not Texas Governor Greg Abbot.
THIS FIGHT HAS BASICALLY JUST BEGUN. WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO. NEVER GIVE IN. NEVER GIVE UP.
Alex Pretti / Keith Porter / Renee Good ✨
Email Letter ACLU 🔻STOP ICE 🥷🏻 for your congress:
217,588 💠 SENT to Congress — 250,000 GOAL ♦️
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