MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.
But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain.
He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again.
He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
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🚨BREAKING: Local Minneapolis police SWARM ICE protesters making mass arrests in front of ICE prison. One protesters forehead is gushing blood ⬇️
07.02.2026 22:04
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It doesn’t get any more disgusting than this.
07.02.2026 20:41
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BREAKING: Lithuania has launched a human trafficking investigation related to Epstein files
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Protester: "It just feels like they're murdering the most peaceful people we have, the people who are out on the street, young, and trying to protect other people"
24.01.2026 21:10
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ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing?
ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW.
I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.
24.01.2026 16:28
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Gov. Tim Walz: "Thank God we have video, because according to DHS, these seven heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against them or something. It's nonsense, people. It's nonsense and it is lies."
24.01.2026 20:27
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Screenshot of a tweet labeled “BREAKING” claiming DHS told Fox News a suspect was armed. Below the text is a photo of a handgun lying on a dark car seat. The pistol appears to be semi-automatic with a tan and black finish, an extended magazine, a mounted optic, and a cable nearby, possibly a charging cord.
They're already rushing to lie about why they executed a man.
24.01.2026 16:46
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This is who ICE murdered. A VA nurse who dedicated his life to helping critically ill veterans.
24.01.2026 19:41
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Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
24.01.2026 19:51
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“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
24.01.2026 21:24
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Hmmm …. 🤔
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Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun.
Any second now, I'm sure.
He was a white guy, if that helps?
Hello? NRA?
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When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.
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They are in fact using fear of diversity to achieve dictatorship.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
- Carl Sagan
Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
- Carl Sagan
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Image is edited on top of the image released by NASA/JPL Caltech
NASA saves Voyager 1 mission by successfully reviving frozen thrusters from almost 24 billion kilometers away
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"Questioning is the way of learning,"
Encourage your children to ask questions, not to accept existing answers.
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
- Isaac Asimov
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WOW, Rosie's got more guts and smarts than 3/4 of our Congress both Reps & Senators
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Half of this Oregon farmer’s cherry pickers is not showing up for work due fear of ICE detainment. 400 tons of bing cherries will not be picked. This is happening all across America. Our food supply will be severely impacted by the big bullshit bill that gives ICE $170 billion to detain migrants.
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Bright orange and pink peony flowers with green leaves over blue in the background. Beige box with black text in center
“May life treat you exactly the same way you treat servers, store clerks, senior citizens, children, and
farm workers.”
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No one.
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UTAH… this is not a game…
11.07.2025 19:36
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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.”
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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