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State Terror Has Arrived: The Murder of Alex Pretti
Not just people of color are being killed now: Alex Pretti, a white male 37-year-old ICU nurse, was shot multiple times after agents attacked him on the street.
Alex Pretti: Analysing Footage of Minneapolis CBP Shooting
On January 24, Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System, was shot and killed by federal agents on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The shooting comes just over two weeks after Renee Good was shot and killed by a federal agent in the same city.
The United States Department of Homeland Security claimed Pretti was killed after an “armed struggle” with DHS officers and that it seemed he had wanted to “do maximum damage”. Yet video footage shared online, showing shortly before and during the incident, appears to contradict that claim.
Some of the earliest available footage of the encounter was posted to Instagram and shows an agent crossing the street to talk to Pretti who appears to be filming with his phone, which he is holding in his right hand. According to DHS, agents were conducting an immigration arrest in the area.
The agent can be seen placing his hand on Pretti’s torso to push him back and away from the middle of the road towards the sidewalk.
Another video shared on Reddit shows what happened after this initial contact, as well as the lead-up to the shooting. Pretti appears to put himself between two women after they were both shoved by a DHS agent. He is holding a cellphone, held sideways in his right hand.
The murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday morning at the hands of federal agents has put wind in the sails of those trying to rein in the Trump administration at the same time it has sent the administration scrambling to regain its course. Popular outcry over the killing of a beloved ICU nurse for the VA and popular organization over the general violence of federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol have unleashed pent up fury over the actions of the Trump administration. The outpouring has reached as far as spaces like a subreddit devoted to videos of people playing cats like bongos, as Drew Harwell and Scott Nover of the Washington Post noted. The anger has been so overwhelming that it has changed the course of national politics. Pretti’s killing has thrown into doubt the passage of a funding package that includes the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
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There Is No Compromise With State Terror
Julie Roginsky
An open letter to every Democratic elected official who still believes there is such a thing as working with a regime that murders with impunity and threatens dissent with the language of terror:
The moment has already passed. You are now governing in arrears.
A man is dead in Minneapolis. Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse and an American citizen, was executed by federal immigration agents operating like an occupying force in an American city. This is not a “tragic accident” and the ICE agents who murdered him are not “law enforcement officers.” They are terrorists. This is the predictable outcome of an agency designed to operate without accountability, armed with military equipment, shielded by impunity, and unleashed for political terror.
While Pretti’s blood was still warm on the pavement, Stephen Miller branded anyone who opposes this administration a domestic terrorist and insurrectionist.
Trump's DHS has shot 13 people during immigration enforcement operations since September.
Here's what to know. Federal agents have shot three people in Minneapolis in recent weeks, killing two U.S. citizens, Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Videos contradict the Trump administration's account of their deaths.
As the world demonstrated in its rejection of Trump’s threats against Greenland earlier this week, there is only one way to stop Trump. He must face unified, courageous, unwavering resistance. Trump is keen on distracting from the controversial killing of Renee Nicole Good and turning the headlines back to himself, even if they make him look bad, Wolff has said.
This will be hard for some in America’s opposition party who are more inclined to practice the politics of yesterday. They do not understand the different requirements that come with being in the minority in a functioning government and actively having to mobilize to stop the existential threat to their country. The seven Democrats who voted this week to fund DHS clearly fall into this category of misguided non-leaders. So too do some of their colleagues with fancy titles.
But they must see that this is a country in profound crisis. They must recognize that halfway measures, aggrieved speeches, and strongly worded letters are no longer adequate. They must accept that the president of the United States and those close to him are no longer good-faith actors. They must show that the American people will not accept murderers and agents of pain roaming our cities.
In short, the future of this country depends on the fact that more people at every level of our society appreciate, respect, and emulate the courage and resolve of genuine heroes like Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good. We must demonstrate that they did not die in vain by showing we understand why they showed up and stood up when they did. These people died seeking to aid their neighbors and to defend not only their communities, but the idea of an America that is now more at risk than at any time in living memory.
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Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm ... to any sort of protest that you want."
The US President Is Insane and Needs to Be Removed from Power As Soon As Possible
He is trying to start a civil war, unleashing his goon squad on an American city, while also trying to start a World War with his insane push to take over Greenland.
“Dear Jonas,” the 79-year-old president wrote to Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre.
“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America.
“Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also.
“I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”=
Even by Trump’s standards, this letter is so dangerous and so delusional that there is no longer any question that the president is mentally “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” as laid out in the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.
It is clearly not rational to start a war because your feelings got hurt by not winning a prize that you were not even eligible for. It is certainly not rational to sabotage the country’s national security—emboldening Russia and China—over those hurt feelings.
"Masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are using extraordinary violence to detain residents. They are pepper-spraying and smashing the car windows of observers and activists, and tear-gassing street intersections. They are patrolling streets with rifles. Schools have shuttered because of safety concerns. And after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old mother Renee Good, tensions with residents have only increased.
'This is a military occupation, and it feels like a military occupation,' Elliott Payne, the president of the Minneapolis City Council, told The New York Times. There’s video footage showing Payne being shoved by an apparent agent while observing ICE behavior."
"Despite lawsuits from Minnesota and objections from civil liberties groups and local residents, the Trump administration has consistently denied that ICE is behaving inappropriately and has defended its repressive tactics — including killing Good, whom it preposterously labeled a 'domestic terrorist.' "
"Something sinister is emerging. ICE isn’t behaving like a normal arm of federal law enforcement. Instead, it’s increasingly acting like a secret police force or paramilitary on behalf of President Donald Trump as it uses surveillance and violence to enact a political agenda of domination. Unfortunately, there are reasons to believe things will only get worse."
Also see this nauseating crap:
Now Is the Time to Admit It, America: Trump Is a Dangerous, Lunatic Moron
Trump Has US Military Invade Venezuela, Kidnap Its Leader, Vows to Run The Country and Take over the Oil Fields, Also Threatens Attacking Columbia, Cuba, and Mexico
WHAT A FUCKING INSANE EVIL LYING PIECE OF SHIT GOP ASSHOLE
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Donald Trump sent young women from his spa at Mar-a-Lago to give “massages” to Jeffrey Epstein.
“The house calls went on for years.”
We Have a Mad Dictator at Work Pretending To Be the President of Peace!
🤬 It's so mindboggling that the GOP is going along with his utter lunacy. It's just an everlasting WTF with this godforsaken party. 🤬
Q) What do the following events of 2025 have in common?
▪️ Shuttered or gutted several federal agencies, including USAID and VOA
▪️ Threatened to bomb Colombia
▪️ Threatened to retake the Panama Canal by force
▪️ Threatened to annex Greenland by force
▪️ Bombed Iran
▪️ Bombed civilian ships at sea
▪️ Took foreign oil tankers at sea by force
▪️ Threatened, embargoed and drone attacked Venezuela
▪️ Bombed Nigeria
▪️ Bombed Syria
▪️ Ordered mass ICE raids across the country and sent the National Guard into multiple US cities without getting local approval
▪️ Imposed tariffs worldwide
▪️ Accepted a $400 million gift from a foreign country
▪️ Failed to turn over all Epstein files as legislated by Congress
▪️ Razed the East Wing of the White House
▪️ Desecrated the Presidency, the DOJ and every other agency he could get his grimy hands on
▪️ Desecrated the Kennedy Center
A) They all require Congressional authorization.
Fun fact 1: None was requested.
Fun fact 2: The Speaker of the House has yet to protest.
Remember in civics class when they taught us that there were three branches of government? That effectively ended on January 20th, 2025. One branch has ceded its authority to the Executive, and a second branch might as well have. By granting the Executive de facto immunity, it has empowered him to do as he pleases. Congressional oversight be damned. (modified somewhat from a Facebook post by Bruce Lindner)
[there] is a feeling of repetition. Everything I see in our politics right now — or at least at the pinnacle where Donald Trump dominates all the visuals and attention — has a feeling of drift, spectacle and fragmentation.
Trump’s ballroom epitomizes it — crass, stupid, vulgar, unacceptable and yet ultimately meaningless. It’s the full-size version of having his stacked Kennedy Center board, of which he is the chairman, rename the institution after him. ...
Then there’s his new hall of presidents, a sick-burn tweet storm embedded on a wall of what remains of the White House.
These all have the feeling of a man who is bored, tapped out, losing coherence and energy and who others are trying to keep distracted.
The economy continues to reel and lurch under a weight-vest of tariffs and trade wars.
Immigrants and brown people of all sorts are still menaced by ICE. The innocent are harassed; the guilty are pardoned. Alleged drug runners, but perhaps mere fishermen and boaters, are blown out of the water from a distance by U.S. Navy drones.
All of it continues, and the country remains in the throes of a battle for the survival of civic democracy.
In many ways, the predation remains at its highest point — because much of it has happened, has been consolidated, and people now react on the basis of those things having happened.
Indeed, we may now be careening toward a war with Venezuela because one of Stephen Miller’s fiendish gambits directed at Mexico has metastasized in the general chaos into a regime change war against Venezuela.
What is uncanny about this though is that it’s incomplete and in key ways faltering. It’s also terribly unpopular. I cannot think of a single facet of the Trumpism of Practice circa 2025 that has not been rejected by the public at large. Many have been decisively, by overwhelming majorities. And yet there is neither any effort to bring these policies even somewhat into line with public opinion, even center-right public opinion, or move aggressively to take the steps that would make public opinion less immediately relevant. On the contrary, we see the administration taking all these actions that one would expect if Trump had fully consolidated control over the state’s so-called “power ministries” and secured full or fullish control over the state, eliminated real sources of opposition power and so forth. Only he hasn’t.
You might be saying, well, that’s what you think, Josh. He’s already done X, Y and Z. But it is what I think. And I’m pretty sure I’m right.
I’m not saying he’s toast or that everything is going to be fine. But he’s far from effectively locking everything down.
And yet we’re rolling at full speed into what we what we might call North Korean aesthetics of power with triumphal arches that will soon enough be dusty, half-broken relics, renaming everything after the Maximum Leader. It’s all weird. And it is all of this very particular moment.
In a way, the Susie Wiles drama is part of it. The person at the center of the White House power structure talked openly and disparagingly about the president. And the immediate reaction was for Wiles to issue what can only be called an intentionally absurd denial and for every Cabinet secretary to tweet out a post-struggle session-like emphatic defense of Wiles and pledge of fealty to Trump.
In fact, by the end of the day Trump said in response to a question about Wiles that he agreed with what she said.
This is all deeply weird. But I think it tends to confirm everything I said above, as I noted in the post earlier this week about Wiles. It’s a sign of her power; it is a sign of the government’s weakness and unpopularity. (You don’t say the president is a weirdo who’s done a bunch of terrible things if everyone thinks things are awesome and the present is the future.)
Finally, it is a sign of an emerging vacuum at the top — at the top of Trump’s body in his head, and at the top of the government in Trump. I’m not saying Trump is sick or dying or declining in cognitive terms. Those things are very possible. He may simply be bored and in need of distractions, which is of a piece with the sense enervation and fragmentation.
Hernandez served as President of Honduras from 2014 to 2022--but in reality his real business was flooding the United States with cocaine. As the U.S. Department of Justice put it, Hernandez “was at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world.”
Trump knew that by pardoning Hernandez it would destroy his claim that the reason he’s executing people in small boats off the coast of Venezuela was to protect Americans from drugs. This is especially true given the cocaine Hernandez dumped into the U.S. killed tens of thousands of Americans by way of overdoses. Yet Trump doesn’t care because the benefit he receives from pardoning this convicted drug kingpin was worth it.
Hernandez was no low-level drug dealer. He was the key player in orchestrating a vast drug trafficking conspiracy that raked in millions for cartels while keeping Honduras one of Central America’s poorest, most violent and most corrupt countries. Federal prosecutors were able to prove in his 2024 trial that Hernández--as a congressman and then President of Honduras--partnered with the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquín Guzman Loera aka El Chapo, among other people.
As evidence at trial detailed, members of the Hernandez drug conspiracy often turned to violence and murder to protect and grow their drug trafficking enterprise--attacking rival traffickers who threatened their grip on the Honduran cocaine trade. As DOJ explained, Hernandez’s co-conspirators “were armed with machine guns and destructive devices, including AK-47s, AR-15s, and grenade launchers, which they used to protect their massive cocaine loads as they transited across Honduras on their way to the United States.”
In return, Hernandez personally received “millions of dollars of drug money from some of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking organizations in Honduras, Mexico, and elsewhere, and used those bribes to fuel his rise in Honduran politics.” Yes, he worked with the Mexican drug cartels that are responsible for producing fentanyl-- the primary driver of U.S. drug overdose deaths as the DEA has documented.
This guy was worse than “Scarface” in that he used the full powers of his political offices to benefit himself and his partners in crime. DOJ proved that at trial, explaining that as Hernández rose to power in Honduras, “he provided increased support and protection for his co-conspirators, allowing them to move mountains of cocaine, commit acts of violence and murder, and help turn Honduras into one of the most dangerous countries in the world.”
Hernandez would corruptly work with the United States to prosecute drug traffickers who threatened his grip on power--while at the same time promising drug traffickers who bribed him that they would remain safe in Honduras. And as prosecutors showed at trial, Hernandez enjoyed unleashing the cocaine on the United States, boasting he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.”
Overall, the federal government proved that during his political career, “Hernández abused his powerful positions and authority in Honduras to facilitate the importation of over 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.”
Yes, the man Trump just pardoned facilitated the smuggling of 400 tons of cocaine into our nation--which is the equivalent of 800,000 pounds or 363 million grams.
Two of his co-defendants plead guilty -- a former Honduran police chief, Juan Carlos Bonilla, and Hernandez’s cousin Mauricio Hernandez. However, Hernandez stood trial in 2024 and was convicted of various felonies including conspiring to import cocaine into the United States and using machine guns and destructive devices in furtherance of the cocaine importation conspiracy. That led to his 45-year prison sentence.
After his conviction, then U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said, “As President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández abused his power to support one of the largest and most violent drug trafficking conspiracies in the world, and the people of Honduras and the United States bore the consequences.”
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams for the Southern District of New York whose office prosecuted Hernández stated that the former President has “helped to facilitate the importation of an almost unfathomable 400 tons of cocaine to this country: billions of individual doses sent to the United States with the protection and support of the former president of Honduras.”
Simply put, Hernández was a very bad man. He abused his public office to engage in a massive illegal drug ring.
Worse, Hernández “flooded” the United States with cocaine.
Hernández bears responsibility for the cocaine overdoses in the United States during the years he was a major supplier of that drug.
In fact, in the time Hernandez served as President from 2014 to 2022, overdose deaths caused by cocaine exploded in the U.S. At the start of Hernández’ term in 2014, the U.S. saw about 5,000 deaths by way of cocaine overdoses—per the CDC. By his last year in office in 2022, cocaine overdoses in our county rocketed up to nearly 28,000 per year. (See CDC chart at link which shows spike in cocaine overdoses that exploded when Hernandez took power in 2014.)
Trump is an unbelievably evil and corrupt piece of shit.
I blog about politics, interesting ideas and conspiracy theories. Many or most of the official stories for key events are lies. For instance, the 9/11 plane hijackings and crashes appear to be clever hoaxes. The WTC1, WTC2 and WTC7 towers were brought down by demolition, and there is evidence for the use of small nuclear bombs in the demolition of WTC1 and 2. It seems that 9/11 was an evil hoax foisted upon the world, done in order to spark the obscene "war on terror", to cover up financial fraud and to further the ends of the global elite. However, 9/11 was only part of the fraud and evil committed by the evil powers that be (PTB).
9/11 was a conspiracy, as it involved several people conspiring to commit a crime. The official 9/11 narrative, as codified by the 9/11 Commission Report, is NOT proven as the most likely explanation for the events of 9/11/01. The official 9/11 story is therefore a theory. This means that the OFFICIAL 9/11 Story is really a "CONSPIRACY THEORY"!
Statement of Principles
I have no fondness for any religion, as I think it makes people do extreme and violent things. Islamic terrorists do exist and I detest them as much as I detest the true perpetrators of 9/11. Most likely Islamic terrorists were used as patsies in 9/11, as part of a highly organized covert operation by a group affiliated with the US goverment and US military.
