DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting.
Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
The family of a Colorado man who was shot and killed by a Douglas County sheriff's deputy almost a year ago is now suing the deputy, saying he shot the man "unreasonably and excessively."
My latest at @cbscolorado.bsky.social
www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...
Seen in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Signs read “Closed Jan. 30 showing solidarity w/ MN + our immigrant communities. No one is illegal on stolen land!” and “abolish ICE!”
New CNN video analysis found that one agent fired a "flurry of rounds" - at least four shots - at 37-year-old Alex Pretti’s incapacitated body while he was already lying lifeless on the ground. This was moments after his weapon was removed, and after federal agents first opened fire. CNN reports that at least 10 shots were fired in total. The investigation, which includes slowed-down footage, also shows agents significantly escalated the encounter by pepper-spraying and repeatedly striking Pretti in the face and head while attempting to restrain him.
Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins New CNN analysis of the chaotic moments leading up to Alex Pretti’s death and the aggressive actions of two federal agents.
New CNN video analysis found that one agent fired a "flurry of rounds" - at least 4 shots - at 37-year-old Alex Pretti’s incapacitated body while he was already lying lifeless on the ground.
This was moments after his weapon was removed, & after federal agents first opened fire. CNN reports that...
NEW from me: Journalists must forcefully decry the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort: presswatchers.org/2026/01/jour...
BREAKING: The FBI is now leading the investigation into the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a DHS spokesperson says.
The world is mourning the death of Catherine O’Hara.
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Catherine O'Hara, the actor and comedian best known for "Home Alone," "Beetlejuice" and "Schitt's Creek," has died at the age of 71.
She died at her home in Los Angeles "following a brief illness," her agency said in a statement.
Exclusive: Border Patrol “Commander at Large” Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role and is expected to retire soon, sources tell @nickmiroff.bsky.social.
A few photos of my amazing (and super fashionable???) grandmother, who passed peacefully in the summer of 2023.
In the meantime, I’ll leave it to those who have more to say.
explain why so much more of that history was lost, indeed, stolen from us. It should go without saying that we should never forget and make sure *never again.*
There’s so much more to say. I’ve recorded a few dozen interviews with my grandma that I hope to turn into a book someday…
we can’t even imagine and even people who were children at the time, bear the physical and mental scars decades later.
I’m not sure where I’m going with this. I just wanted to get some thoughts down on #HolocaustRemembranceDay to share a small aspect of my family’s history and…
my great uncle or learn about my grandma’s aunts and uncles and cousins because she didn’t get to know them. It’s a tragic reality, that only scratches at the horror of what happened in the Holocaust.
It’s clear that my grandma and so many others experienced unspeakable horrors…
so she did not yet have a large collection of memories of them. And as those humans were taken from their families and taken from the earth in such a violent and destructive manner, it’s made worse by the fact that photo albums, diaries, and memories went with them. I never got the chance to meet…
how much of that era could she really have known or remembered?
A childhood stolen, a life forever changed by the things she saw, heard, smelled, had to do. She may not have known the family that was taken from her all that well. She was a child when the Nazis invaded…
I got more serious about trying to learn about her childhood and time throughout the Holocaust, but it was clear she didn’t like to talk about it. She fondly recalls her childhood before and the moment she met my grandfather, soon after they both returned in Poland.
But even if she wanted to…
that she wasn’t there for long before the end of the war.
Toward the end of the war, she and a number of others were able to escape.
She doesn’t talk about this time without being asked. When I studied history in college and began writing for my college paper…
At some point, they were transferred to the Krakow concentration camp. It was a labor camp as well as a death camp, like Auschwitz, where cousins and aunts and uncles she only met a few times were sent and murdered. She was lucky, in a sense, in that she wasn’t murdered there and…
was separated from her family.
Lucky ones, like her father and brother, were shot in the street. My grandma was a child at the time. She watched them get killed. She didn’t go to Auschwitz, she and her mother were forced to work in the home a Nazi officer took over in her town of Krakow, Poland…
Short thread I wrote on Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2021: (some of this is present tense, but should now be passed tense, as my grandma has since died)
Much of my family were murdered in Auschwitz. I don’t know much about them because the only surviving family member from that era, my grandmother…
That’s no fun. I had my morning coffee and then another cup about a half hour ago. Hoping that’s enough
Because loud or tired? Or both?
Concert venues should have quiet rooms for when you want a little nap
They flew the servedrones into the motherslayship
I was the only one on my block someone did this too. Show yourself. I just want to talk*
*actually be friends. This was funny during an otherwise miserably cold morning.
“Say cheese”
Sox:
I can dig that
The Aurora Police Department released its 2023 “use of force” report. I took a look at the department’s deadly shootings (which are up from last year), racial disparities in its use of force incidents, and what the report doesn’t say.
for over a year, US media has helped the WH distance itself from the horrors of Gaza by employing 3, largely fictitious reporting genres.
I and my pseudonymous co-author detailed these 3 genres and how they helped successfully take pressure off the Biden admin www.thenation.com/article/soci...
