"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
/1

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/27/opinion/trump-ice-lawlessness/

"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
/6

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/after-alex-prettis-murder-its-clear-that-maga-media-views-white-liberals-as-race-traitors/

"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
/5

https://www.editorialboard.com/americans-are-shocked-to-discover-authoritarianism-did-not-stop-at-the-color-line/

"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
/4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNBKQDNT0I

"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
/3

"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
/2

"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
/1

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/27/opinion/trump-ice-lawlessness/

@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

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/

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/

#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

#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

#Federal officials released images of a handgun they said #AlexPretti was carrying. The #Minneapolis police chief said he had a valid firearms permit. Open carry is legal with a permit in #Minnesota.

#StateSponsoredTerrorism #Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #tyranny #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung

#BorderPatrol agents shot & killed a 37-year-old man in #Minneapolis yesterday. The victim, #AlexPretti, was an intensive care #nurse at a #VeteransAffairs hospital. He was a #US #citizen, the Minneapolis police chief said.

#StateSponsoredTerrorism #Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Minnesota #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #tyranny #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/24/us/minneapolis-shooting-alex-pretti-timeline.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#GiftArticle

#ICU #nurse fatally shot by “federal agents” in #Minneapolis cared for #veterans
#AlexPretti, 37, was kind & didn’t often discuss politics, friends & colleagues said.

His family disputes [as do we all with functioning eyes] the #Trump admin’s version of the #shooting.

#StateSponsoredTerrorism #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung
https://wapo.st/3Z0RNzB

Last post today (maybe, though maybe not)

#Minnesota #NationalGuard deployed by Governor #TimWalz after another human is murdered by federal “agent”

#Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Minneapolis #Constitution #RightToProtest #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #RESIST
https://apnews.com/live/minneapolis-ice-shooting-updates-1-24-2026