"In a way the cowards and opportunists enabling Trump are more to blame for where we are than Trump and company themselves: monsters are monsters and can’t help themselves, but the enablers have a choice. And they have chosen, again and again, to accommodate and facilitate evil.”

~ Paul Krugman

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/24

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/mon…

Monsters

And their enablers are accessories to murder

^{Paul Krugman}

“Lying to the American people is the only option for the administration when we can, once again, all see what happened with our own eyes.”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/23

heathercoxrichardson.substack.…

January 24, 2026

This morning, on a street in Minneapolis, at least seven federal agents tackled and then shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse for the local VA hospital.

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

“The lies about the public execution of Alex Pretti and the extortion tied to the withdrawal of ICE agents from Minnesota are unforgivable. They are the tactics used by the cruelest dictators in the ugliest moments of the last century.”

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/22

roberthubbell.substack.com/p/t…

The extra-judicial execution of Alex Pretti.

January 25, 2025

^{Robert B. Hubbell (Today's Edition Newsletter)}

"It’s all lies. But this is the Trump playbook: Kill you and then smear you as a terrorist. I’ve said this before, but I feel compelled to repeat it: The Trump regime could literally kill your family for no reason, and his supporters would defend it."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/21

deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/…

Trump regime will kill you and then smear you as a terrorist—just like other fascist regimes

We are at war.

^{Dean Obeidallah (The Dean's Report by Dean Obeidallah)}

"We know the playbook of what comes next because we’ve already seen it. We know that the news cycle will erupt in shock and fury. And we know that the Trump administration and its allies will lie. They will tell us not to believe the evidence of our eyes and we won’t know what to do with what is state-sanctioned gaslighting of an entire nation and beyond."

~ Carole Cadwalladr

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/20

broligarchy.substack.com/p/dea…

Death Squads Execute Second Dissident

Or what the US press would say if this was happening on the streets of a "shithole" country overseas

^{Carole Cadwalladr (How to Survive the Broligarchy)}

"These statements [made by the Trump regime] seem to be lies. ...

So the government didn’t just use masked, armed, unidentified agents of the state to execute a citizen on the street, in broad daylight and in front of dozens of witnesses—it lied about the victim and what happened in the most brazen manner possible.

The government killed him. Then it smeared him."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/19

thebulwark.com/p/emergency-tri…

Emergency Triad: Another American Has Been Murdered by Our Government

It’s worse than it looks and it looks plenty bad.

^{Jonathan V. Last (The Bulwark)}

(continued from /17)

"all while the President, the Vice President, the White House press secretary, and the head of DHS lie to our faces, lie and lie and lie and lie, about what happened."

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/18

"These MAGA Nazis patrol the streets of Minneapolis, terrorizing blameless residents, hurling teargas canisters at peaceful protestors, kidnapping five-year-olds and using them as bait, soliciting 'Creep Sex' with minors, shooting smiling mothers in the face, wrestling VA hospital RNs to the ground and shooting them repeatedly in the back—" (continued in /18)

~ Greg Olear

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/17

gregolear.substack.com/p/sunda…

Sunday Pages: "Fire and Ice"

A poem by Robert Frost

^{Greg Olear (PREVAIL by Greg Olear)}

(continued from 15)

"'and anything it takes to stop that, regardless of the Constitution, regardless of American citizenship, regardless of rights, has to has to happen.'"

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/16

"This is the moment when people have to say regardless of party either 'I believe in democracy, I believe in our constitution, I believe in the rights that the framers wrote into that Constitution,' or they have to say, 'No, I am siding with the likes of Steven Miller and believing that my existence is under siege by immigrants'" (continued in /16)

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/15

"It's out there now between the shooting of Renee Good and I'm just going to throw in here the the the kidnapping of a 5-year-old and a two-year-old, but I'm not going to talk about that today. But the shooting of Alex Pretti as well.

It is no longer possible for people to say, 'Oh, I believe in law and order and so I support Donald Trump.'"

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/14

"You know we're lying. We know you know we're lying, but you have to believe us anyway. They are doubling down on that. …

This is the moment at which it becomes too late for people to say after this, 'Oh, I didn't know. I didn't know what was going to happen.'"

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/13

(continued from /11)

"when we know that's what they're doing because thank God for all those people with their cameras on their phones that are recording because we have evidence that they are doing it. Nonetheless, they are continuing to do it.

And that is a really important demonstration of authoritarianism and even totalitarianism. We know we're lying."

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/12

"There are videos from all different angles proving they are lying just as there were those videos in the killing of Renee Good. But the administration is doubling down on that. ... Pure straightup lies. ...

The administration is now openly killing US citizens and it is lying to us" (continued in /12)

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/11

"The administration has come out and blamed the victim yet again. They have blamed the victim despite the fact that once again as in the shooting of Renee Good. There are many videos proving they are lying.

This is not negotiable."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/10

youtube.com/watch?v=2501T81PR3…

As happened when Renee Good was murdered, Trump's federal goons initially forbade them to check on the patient. The federal agents were not themselves checking Pretti's pulse or performing CPR. They appeared to be counting his wounds. When the doctor was finally permitted to offer assistance, they found Pretti with no pulse.

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/9

They state that they "did not see [Pretti] attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind." When they saw the shooting from their apartment, they felt compelled by the ethical code of their profession to render assistance.

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/8

Chris Geidner offers digital images from another affidavit made yesterday in the federal court case against Kristi Noem and others. This affidavit was made by a 29-year-old pediatrician who lives near where Trump's federal goons executed Alex Pretti. This witness saw what happened from their apartment window.

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/7

lawdork.com/p/the-ice-killing-…

The ICE killing of Alex Pretti, the second in Minneapolis, prompts quick legal responses

After ICE agents killed the nurse on Saturday, lawyers took quick action in cases challenging the Trump administration's increasingly deadly efforts.

^{Chris Geidner (Law Dork)}

"I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witneses might have beenarrested and taken to the Whipple Building."

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/6

"I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.

I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and Idon't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me."

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/5

"Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him andthey just shot him.

The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up tothe agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1."

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/4

The following excerpts are from an affidavit made yesterday by an eyewitness to the execution of Alex Pretti, in the case filed in federal court against Kristi Noem and others:

"The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them—he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun."

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #fascism #Minneapolis
/3

documentcloud.org/documents/26…

TincherSealedWitnessDec012426.PDF

^{www.documentcloud.org}

"Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/2

"The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed."

~ Michael and Susan Pretti

#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
/1

aaronparnas.substack.com/p/maj…

Edit: The author, Carlos Latuff, face allegations of antisemitism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_L…

#ice #IDF #Gaza #uspol #USA #Palestine #fascism

Analysis: Gaza: The reality

Satellite imagery shows Israel is literally cutting Gaza in half with a trench many meters deep along the yellow line. Palestinians can't cross it.

Israel will corral them into Orwellian housing zones & control every aspect of their lives.

Others will live in a wasteland under genocidal conditions: no construction allowed, bombs, little food & shelter.

democracynow.org/2026/1/23/tru…

#USPol #Europol #GazaGenocide #Racism #GazaPlan #fascism #palestine @palestine .

The Guardian: US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’

"...The father, identified in court filings as Elvis Joel TE, and his daughter were stopped and detained by officers around 1pm when they were returning home from the store. By the evening, a federal judge had ordered the girl be released by 9.30pm. But federal officials instead put both of them on a plane heading to a Texas detention center...."

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…

#fascism #ice #Minnesota #Minneapolis

US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’

DHS detain a toddler and her father on Thursday and fly them to Texas before returning child on judge’s order

^{Sam Levin (The Guardian)}

Local coverage of the walkout and protests in Minnesota (which are, unsurprisingly, not getting a lot of national coverage... I believe the mass media is afraid, very afraid, of doing journalism now....)

mprnews.org/live-updates

#fascism #ice #minnesota #protests

"Trump’s 'Board of Peace' is the nail in Gaza’s coffin".

Trump's 'peace' is in the Orwellian sense of equalling "the final eradication of Palestinian life in Gaza."

And the board is about a new world order where billionaires will decide the fate of weak nations.

“I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace", says Trump. Orwell’s moment is truly upon us: “War is peace.”

middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum…

#USPol #Europol #UKPol #BoardOfPeace #racism #Fascism #Trump #Gaza #Greenland .

"Meanwhile, anyone who watches the actual speech, or reads the full transcript, sees something entirely different. The gap between the raw material and the coverage is where the sanewashing lives."

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #media
/7

"NBC: 'Trump calls for ‘immediate negotiations’ on Greenland, but rules out using force' ...

Every story that treats 'I won’t use force' as the news, rather than 'I reminded everyone that I could use unstoppable force,' contributes to a distorted picture of reality. Readers who rely on mainstream coverage encounter a version of Trump that has been sanded down, made palatable, rendered comprehensible within frameworks that don’t apply to him."

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #media
/6

"He said he wouldn’t do it. For now.

You won’t find this in any diplomacy textbook. It’s the language of a protection racket.

So how did reporters cover it?

NPR (original headline): 'Trump says
I won’t use force" to obtain Greenland in Davos speech'

ABC News: 'Trump rules out using military force to acquire Greenland in Davos speech'”

~ Parker Molloy

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #media
/5

readtpa.com/p/now-everyones-sa…

Now Everyone's Saying 'Oh, Good'

Trump told the media exactly how they'd cover his Greenland threats. They did it anyway.

^{Parker Molloy (The Present Age)}

"Trump’s territorial adventurism doesn’t just betray specific allies, it demolishes the principle that has prevented great power wars for much of the last century."

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe
/4

"The system worked, in part, because countries believed the U.S. would honor its commitments. ...

The reality is that when the architect of the postwar order becomes its violator, the entire system collapses. If the U.S. can threaten NATO allies with impunity, why should China hold back from attacking Taiwan? Why should Russia stop at Ukraine?"

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe
/3

"America, for all its missteps, had been the guarantor of a rules-based order in which smaller nations could trust that their sovereignty would be respected. American dominance was by no means faultless, but it was consciously unlike the empires of old, with a firm policy against pursuing territorial conquest."

~ Berny Belvedere

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe
/2

theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-att…

Trump’s Attempted Greenland Grab Has Turned America Into a Predatory Power

His bid might have been thwarted for now, but America will be regarded as a global threat going forward

^{Berny Belvedere (The UnPopulist)}

"Trump wants to invade a NATO ally so we can have military bases we already have, to combat a threat that does not exist. To make matters worse, Trump is now citing his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize as a reason for his aggression toward Greenland.

A military takeover of Greenland would blow up NATO, isolate the U.S., and dramatically strengthen Russia and China—and for what?

It’s pure idiocy."

~ Dan Pfeiffer

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism
/1

messageboxnews.com/p/trumps-gr…

Trump’s Greenland Problem isn't Going Anywhere

It's the rare idea that is putrid politics and policy

^{Dan Pfeiffer (The Message Box)}

"a liar who frequently screwed over business partners, a convicted criminal who thinks it’s unfair if laws apply to him, and a rapist who likes taking things without consent.

None of that was remotely hidden when Americans decided to elect him a second time."

#Trump #Greenland #dementia #madman #MadKing #fascism
/14

"Some call Trump’s threats against an ally 'insane' or 'mad king' behavior—and it is by traditional American values—but it fits an aspiring autocrat who called Russia’s invasion of Ukraine 'savvy' and 'genius,' an anti-democracy narcissist who sees wealth and glory for himself as a paramount national interest," (continued in /14)

~ Nicholas Grossman

#Trump #Greenland #dementia #madman #MadKing #fascism
/13

arcdigital.media/p/with-greenl…

With Greenland Threats, Trump is Destroying the Western Alliance

A point-by-point breakdown of Donald Trump's aggressive letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre about a Nobel Peace Prize and control of Greenland

^{Nicholas Grossman (Arc Digital)}

"All I can say is that this is a letter [by Trump to the Norwegian PM] whose every sentence could never have been written by any predecessor, and which provides overpowering evidence for invoking the Twenty-Fifth."

~ Dan Perry

#Trump #Greenland #dementia #madman #MadKing #fascism
/12

blueamp.co/p/time-for-the-twen…

Unfit. Unhinged. Unchecked.

A veteran journalist makes the case that Trump’s erratic, dangerous conduct now meets the constitutional threshold for removal under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.

^{Blue Amp Media}