Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. 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. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can

This is who ICE murdered. A VA nurse who dedicated his life to helping critically ill veterans.

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

My heart is so heavy right now. It shouldn't take another murder to get people to wake up. The stacks of Black and brown bodies weren't enough to convince you?

When you learn how many "they should have just followed orders" people are in this country, then you begin to understand how we arrived to the point of a federal fascist takeover.

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

lithub.com/renee-nicole...

they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.

ICE just executed a woman, likely an ICE Watcher, in cold blood. Like the murder of George Floyd, this is an act of war and the whole world is watching.

Emily Heller lives near 33rd and Portland and said she woke up to a commotion outside her home. She said she saw a car blocking traffic on Portland Avenue that appeared to be part of a protest against federal law enforcement operations. Heller said she heard ICE agents telling the driver, a woman, to “get out of here.” “She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” Heller said. Heller said it appeared the woman then accelerated and traveled about 100 feet before striking a utility pole and some other vehicles. She could be seen slumped over inside her car.

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.

A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."

Bovino was there.

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The death toll is now 80? I know the pandemic made life cheap amid mass death, but 80 dead is staggering

12+ hours later we finally get an estimate of how many Venezuelans were killed

We are in a new age of Christian nationalism — one powered by American militarism, propelled by anti-Muslim revanchism, and turbo-charged by anti-Black racism.

part of me wants to write something reflecting on this deranged year and another part thinks living through it once was enough

“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said at a border security conference in April, according to the Arizona Mirror. The administration’s goal, he said, was to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”

“Like Prime, but with human beings.”

News stories about the concentration camps we run in foreign countries have to be smuggled to a third country in order to be seen.

WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night

The entire american "free speech" panic was about elites being criticized, which is why anyone who ever took it seriously should be ignored forever

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years.

It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.

Heroic bystander, Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim man who put his own life on the line, and saved so many Jews. True safety in solidarity in action

Kiel, Germany, 1931

We are fully in Nuremberg territory.

Elon Musk Yes @elonmusk • 6h Declaration of Memes @Liber... •21h We need to save America then the entire West. • 2.7K We are witnessing the greatest act of cuckoldry in human history An entire civilisation willingly giving away its land, women, & children because the alternative is to being called a racist 17 12K 92K Ill 3.7M

This post by the world’s richest and most divorced man on the site he bought to promote his far right extremism is ripped straight from the Klan messaging of the 1870s or the 1915 film Birth of a Nation that inspired the Klan’s rebirth as a PR stunt/Ponzi scheme/terrorist organization in the 1920s.

Southern Spear promotional image with images of soldiers and a larger picture of a man with a Jerusalem Cross on his helmet

SOUTHCOM tweeted an image of a soldier wearing the White Supremacist Jerusalem Cross on his helmet.

Hegseth has it as a tattoo.

Sadism is the lifeblood of MAGA, and US government agencies are sanctioning this as an operating principle on a daily basis:

Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings Silicon Valley radicalization escalates

A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

Have you taken action in “opposition to law and immigration enforcement,” or “ in favor of open borders”?

Have you expressed “radical gender ideology”? “Anti-Americanism”? “Anti-capitalism”? “Anti-Christianity”?

If you answered yes to any of these things, you just might be on the list.

Wishing the happiest of holidays, in spite of everything, to you and yours – and, to the people of the world, a season of joy, solidarity, and solace, built on a just and lasting peace.

In times such as these, amid the rumors of war, the wretched realities of techno-fascism, and the crisis tendencies of late capitalism, I find myself returning to the dual imperatives articulated by Antonio Gramsci in an Italian prison: pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will.