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@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Lawmakers hear #testimony today on several people’s encounters with #DHS agents

3 people at the center of aggressive encounters with #federal #immigration agents are set to testify Tuesday at a public forum on Capitol Hill about federal immigration enforcement agents’ #UseOfForce during raids.

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #StateSponsoredTerrorism #Trump #law #murder #CivilRights #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #tyranny #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/us/testimony-dhs-ice-dc-vis

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These Americans experienced aggressive encounters with Trump’s DHS. Now, they’re telling their stories | CNN

Three people at the center of aggressive encounters with Department of Homeland Security immigration agents are set to testify Tuesday at a public forum on Capitol Hill about federal immigration enforcement agents’ use of force during immigration raids.
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@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Lawmakers hear #testimony today on several people’s encounters with #DHS agents

3 people at the center of aggressive encounters with #federal #immigration agents are set to testify Tuesday at a public forum on Capitol Hill about federal immigration enforcement agents’ #UseOfForce during raids.

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #StateSponsoredTerrorism #Trump #law #murder #CivilRights #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #tyranny #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/us/testimony-dhs-ice-dc-vis

CNN

These Americans experienced aggressive encounters with Trump’s DHS. Now, they’re telling their stories | CNN

Three people at the center of aggressive encounters with Department of Homeland Security immigration agents are set to testify Tuesday at a public forum on Capitol Hill about federal immigration enforcement agents’ use of force during immigration raids.
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@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"The logic of the killings is as important as the killings themselves. While a truth in itself, the moral horror is also a sign of the administration’s lies and lawlessness, a political logic known from 20th-century Soviet and Nazi totalitarian regimes and from attempts to replace the rule of law with personal tyranny."

~ Timothy Snyder

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #tyranny #fascism #Nazis #Soviet
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/27/opinion/trump-ice-lawlessness/

BostonGlobe.com

The political logic of Trump’s violent lawlessness - The Boston Globe

He is using the border as a pretext to dismantle the rule of law everywhere, normalize state terror, and replace constitutional government with personal rule.
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@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#DOJ has opened a #federal #CivilRights probe into the death of #AlexPretti

[but not #ReneeGood. Neither should have been killed, but I’ll say it again, Pretti was a straight man, Good a gay woman. Both shootings were recorded on video by multiple witnesses showing neither was at fault. Yet the #homophobic #misogynistic #Trump admin is only willing to look into the straight man’s #murder.]

#law #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #tyranny #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #LGBTQ
https://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-ice-fbi-alex-pretti-immigration-65a963816603a08bbc9db83961dd173f?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-30-Breaking+News

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DOJ has opened a federal civil rights probe into the death of Alex Pretti

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the death of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis resident killed by Border Patrol officers.
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@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#DOJ has opened a #federal #CivilRights probe into the death of #AlexPretti

[but not #ReneeGood. Neither should have been killed, but I’ll say it again, Pretti was a straight man, Good a gay woman. Both shootings were recorded on video by multiple witnesses showing neither was at fault. Yet the #homophobic #misogynistic #Trump admin is only willing to look into the straight man’s #murder.]

#law #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #tyranny #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #LGBTQ
https://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-ice-fbi-alex-pretti-immigration-65a963816603a08bbc9db83961dd173f?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-30-Breaking+News

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DOJ has opened a federal civil rights probe into the death of Alex Pretti

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the death of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis resident killed by Border Patrol officers.
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@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"Respectable white people are now keenly aware that the logical conclusion of a decades' worth of anti-immigrant hatred includes murdering white people and they don't like it. They are shocked to discover that authoritarianism did not stop at the color line."

~ John Stoehr

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #tyranny #fascism #immigrants #border #BorderPatrol #PoliceState #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation #propaganda #WhiteSupremacy
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https://www.editorialboard.com/americans-are-shocked-to-discover-authoritarianism-did-not-stop-at-the-color-line/

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Americans are shocked to discover authoritarianism did not stop at the color line

You are a friend or an enemy, even if you're white.
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@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"The logic of MAGA, especially as it is being aided along by its media ecosystem and by leading figures like Stephen Miller and JD Vance, is racial authoritarianism. It is white supremacy. But the murders of Pretti and Good should be a stark warning that whiteness ceases to offer protection as soon as a person opposes this regime and its program of racial terror."

~ Alan Elrod

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #tyranny #fascism #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy
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https://www.liberalcurrents.com/after-alex-prettis-murder-its-clear-that-maga-media-views-white-liberals-as-race-traitors/

Liberal Currents

After Alex Pretti’s Murder, It’s Clear That MAGA Media Views White Liberals as Race Traitors

MAGA is committed to the belief that the people ICE is pursuing are inherently bad and that therefore opposing ICE is standing with criminals and rapists against the American people.
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@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"Those in the media who choose to treat propaganda as the story, who begin from lies rather than from events, are also complicit. The border is the crack, the lies are the wedge, and the people who accept those lies are opening it wider."

See also T. Snyder's discussion of these issues in the video linked below.

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #tyranny #fascism #immigrants #border #BorderPatrol #PoliceState #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation #propaganda #media
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNBKQDNT0I

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@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"Respectable white people are now keenly aware that the logical conclusion of a decades' worth of anti-immigrant hatred includes murdering white people and they don't like it. They are shocked to discover that authoritarianism did not stop at the color line."

~ John Stoehr

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #tyranny #fascism #immigrants #border #BorderPatrol #PoliceState #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation #propaganda #WhiteSupremacy
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https://www.editorialboard.com/americans-are-shocked-to-discover-authoritarianism-did-not-stop-at-the-color-line/

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Americans are shocked to discover authoritarianism did not stop at the color line

You are a friend or an enemy, even if you're white.
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@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"It is the crack that can be opened. The wedge is constructed with lies, which begin as cliches and memes that the government pounds into our heads, and which the media repeat, mindlessly or with malice.

One of these cliches is 'law enforcement,' which is uttered over and over like an incantation."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #tyranny #fascism #immigrants #border #BorderPatrol #PoliceState #LawandOrder
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@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"Those in the media who choose to treat propaganda as the story, who begin from lies rather than from events, are also complicit. The border is the crack, the lies are the wedge, and the people who accept those lies are opening it wider."

See also T. Snyder's discussion of these issues in the video linked below.

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #tyranny #fascism #immigrants #border #BorderPatrol #PoliceState #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation #propaganda #media
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNBKQDNT0I

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@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"The aspiring tyrant looks for cracks in the system that can be pried open.
One of these cracks is the border, where the country ends. Because the law ends there, too, an obvious move for the tyrant is to turn the whole country into a border, where no rules apply. ...

The border becomes the pretext to undo the law everywhere, at all times, and against anyone."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #tyranny #fascism #immigrants #border #BorderPatrol #PoliceState #LawandOrder
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@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"It is the crack that can be opened. The wedge is constructed with lies, which begin as cliches and memes that the government pounds into our heads, and which the media repeat, mindlessly or with malice.

One of these cliches is 'law enforcement,' which is uttered over and over like an incantation."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #tyranny #fascism #immigrants #border #BorderPatrol #PoliceState #LawandOrder
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@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"The aspiring tyrant looks for cracks in the system that can be pried open.
One of these cracks is the border, where the country ends. Because the law ends there, too, an obvious move for the tyrant is to turn the whole country into a border, where no rules apply. ...

The border becomes the pretext to undo the law everywhere, at all times, and against anyone."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #tyranny #fascism #immigrants #border #BorderPatrol #PoliceState #LawandOrder
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@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"The logic of the killings is as important as the killings themselves. While a truth in itself, the moral horror is also a sign of the administration’s lies and lawlessness, a political logic known from 20th-century Soviet and Nazi totalitarian regimes and from attempts to replace the rule of law with personal tyranny."

~ Timothy Snyder

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #tyranny #fascism #Nazis #Soviet
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/27/opinion/trump-ice-lawlessness/

BostonGlobe.com

The political logic of Trump’s violent lawlessness - The Boston Globe

He is using the border as a pretext to dismantle the rule of law everywhere, normalize state terror, and replace constitutional government with personal rule.
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@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#DOJ Playbook in #Minnesota∶
Investigate Foes, Protect Allies

The #Trump “Justice” Department has often cast aside normal procedures intended to seek #accountability in favor of pushing #prosecutors & the #FBI to focus on critics of the #immigration crackdown.

#law #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #murder #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #StateSponsoredTerrorism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/us/politics/minnesota-justice-department-trump-ice.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

https://www.nytimes.com

Justice Dept. Playbook in Minnesota: Investigate Foes, Protect Allies

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@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#DOJ Playbook in #Minnesota∶
Investigate Foes, Protect Allies

The #Trump “Justice” Department has often cast aside normal procedures intended to seek #accountability in favor of pushing #prosecutors & the #FBI to focus on critics of the #immigration crackdown.

#law #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #murder #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #StateSponsoredTerrorism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/us/politics/minnesota-justice-department-trump-ice.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

https://www.nytimes.com

Justice Dept. Playbook in Minnesota: Investigate Foes, Protect Allies

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@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Billy Bragg has written a song for Minneapolis and against Trump. Powerful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW2ZikGW8

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@heidilifeldman

#Fascism
#Tyranny
#Resistance

"...When they dragged people from their cars
I got in their face
When they took families from their homes
I got in their face
When they murdered our sister
I got in their face
When they murdered our brother
I still got in their face..."

https://youtu.be/IKOW2ZikGW8?si=FOuLWpAz0ks538sk

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@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#GiftArticle

City Prosecutors Join Forces to Bring Charges Against #FederalAgents

9 progressive #prosecutors from cities around the country are launching a coalition to assist in prosecuting federal law enforcement officers who violate #state #laws, one of the prosecutors, Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, said Tues.

#law #FAFO #federalism #10thAmendment #FederalGovernment #Trump #MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/prosecutors-charges-against-federal-agents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.H1A.wZbM.U_sYBDJs6yu9&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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City Prosecutors Join Forces to Bring Charges Against Federal Agents

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@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#GiftArticle

City Prosecutors Join Forces to Bring Charges Against #FederalAgents

9 progressive #prosecutors from cities around the country are launching a coalition to assist in prosecuting federal law enforcement officers who violate #state #laws, one of the prosecutors, Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, said Tues.

#law #FAFO #federalism #10thAmendment #FederalGovernment #Trump #MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/prosecutors-charges-against-federal-agents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.H1A.wZbM.U_sYBDJs6yu9&smid=nytcore-ios-share

https://www.nytimes.com

City Prosecutors Join Forces to Bring Charges Against Federal Agents

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@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

2 federal agents shot #AlexPretti, initial government review reveals
The review makes no mention of Pretti brandishing a weapon, contradicting initial comments from the #Trump admin about the killing.

#law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Minneapolis #Minnesota #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #tyranny #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #StateSponsoredTerrorism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/27/alex-pretti-shooting-minneapolis-ice-bovino/

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@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

2 federal agents shot #AlexPretti, initial government review reveals
The review makes no mention of Pretti brandishing a weapon, contradicting initial comments from the #Trump admin about the killing.

#law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Minneapolis #Minnesota #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #tyranny #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #StateSponsoredTerrorism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/27/alex-pretti-shooting-minneapolis-ice-bovino/

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@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#GiftArticle

Greg #Bovino Loses His Job

The #BorderPatrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #StateSponsoredTerrorism #Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Minneapolis #Minnesota #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxdBatDtDmlQ4RYH_mhKxs9M

The Atlantic

Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted

The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
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@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#GiftArticle

Greg #Bovino Loses His Job

The #BorderPatrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #StateSponsoredTerrorism #Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Minneapolis #Minnesota #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxdBatDtDmlQ4RYH_mhKxs9M

The Atlantic

Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted

The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
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