I hope the families of Renee Good and Jeffrey Pretti will SUE the shit out of The felon n chief for DEFAMATION! Hit him where he knows best - the court room! How dare this lowlife defame these most courageous Americans calling them domestic terrorist and assassins within minutes of the incidents! SHOOT first, Lie and Judge second! how dare this POS POTUS! Shameful!
Lily. I wrote two letters to Congress,to my reps there. i also added a suggestion that, while de- funding, ICE they should allocate just enough funds to ship the entre malignant Administration in company of the ICE agents to the hell holes for "re-education". sfr
YES - I hope they sue the heck out of the responsible parties, but I also realize that any funds paid out will ultimately be paid by you and me via our taxes. It is infuriating that the Orange Turd and his thugs in government and in ICE probably won't be held personally responsible for the damage they are doing in any meaningful way.
At a protest rally yesterday, in a snow storm and 19° weather, we stood strong with our signs and music and chants here in Fort Collins (CO). Many people honked in support. Those who gave us the finger make me sad. To believe the atrocious lies from the government about these executions, instead of one’s own eyes, must make for a dissonance within that these people may never recover from.
Right on, Wis. I got the finger and "go back to your own country" (even though I'm an old white, US born woman). These people are so willfully ignorant and would rather double down in their hubris. Most are beyond hope and will only wake up when they are personally impacted.
These are very angry people, those who support what we protest. Let’s all fervently hope that good and love and reason wins this outrageously surreal struggle!
Exactly. Not sure what they have to be angry about since there not the ones being marginalized and hunted down. But I am with you in continuing to fight, fellow resister!
Gullible people are blinded by their own belief system. A lie repeated often enough will eventually be accepted as the truth. Remember when people thought that Earth was flat and if one sailed on the ocean far enough, they would actually fall off? Or, when people thought that 'bleeding' a person would get rid of disease. And, then, of course, a lot of people are just born ignorant and never bother to educate themself.
Spot on, Patti! Though I will say that flat-earthers and leech-bleeders at least were trying to help and were believing what, though it was ignorant, they *observed* and seemed true, as there wasn’t much evidence otherwise or better alternatives. People right now are making the *choice* to disbelieve all evidence, of which there is scads, that contradicts what they believe. It’s rather shocking - the hatred is so deep in their souls that questioning its truth is impossible for them.
You are so right: they never bother to educate themselves and that, to me, is a testament to bad parenting (with some exceptions), poor schooling, lazy “thinking”, and bad character. Closed minds take more than force to open. There must be a willingness to question oneself and what is being told to them as truth.
Totally agree. However, I do believe that the ability to educate oneself has always been available to people. Otherwise, the populace would never have learned anything! A lot of people are just like cattle - each day following the lead cow on the same path to the barn - even when a different path would have been a lot shorter.
The entire trump regime is projecting their own lawlessness onto the Democratic leadership of Minnesota and other law-abiding states with a torrent of baseless lies. This from Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) About Walz's response to the murder of Alex Pretti - "Walz is a moron who's getting people killed to cover the massive fraud he oversaw". This is the type of "leadership" that Republican members of Congress like Sen. Ron Johnson supply to the people here. Drumpster commented on his phony Lies Social post that Walz is destroying Minnesota with his "pompous, dangerous, and arrogant rhetoric". We are being governed from a nest of criminals without moral restraint, and we must stop them.
I laugh out loud at trump calling ANYone else’s words, "pompous, dangerous, and arrogant rhetoric”. He’s the entitled brat/monster who has replaced the dictionary *definitions* of those words: now all that appears by these words in the Oxford is, “See trump, Donald j.”
We were: Oak Street Plaza at 1 was where and when it was. It was sort of last minute, but a fair number showed up - the friend I went with only heard about it from me, too, so I don't know how I got notices and he didn't. It was Indivisible and Fort Collins Reddit (the latter of which I'm not sure how I got included in) that sent me notifications. I've signed on to any protest/resist orgs I encounter lol - makes for a lot of duplicate info in my inbox, but it's better that than not hearing anything :) I'm signed on with 50501, Indivisible, some MeetUp thing (another list I don't recall joining) and I forget what else. DSA also sends notices (Democratic Socialists).
I just called my red state governor (kehoe) and asked him to stand with Minnesota. If he really believes in “states’ rights”, the freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, he has no choice but to side with them. I also asked him to cut off any negotiations with ICE and to get them out of Missouri.
Please, red state constituents, flood your governor’s phone lines.
Mike - you nailed it. Especially #5. The Trump regime has had no problem clawing back funds appropriated by Congress for other agencies. It's time that the funding for I.C.E. is pulled back!
I’m still sputtering in disbelief that Pam Bondi had the gall to demand Minnesota’s voter-registration info. By what possible authority did she do this?? And immediately after ICE agents murdered a citizen in cold blood?! Why isn’t more attention being paid to this obscenity? W.T.F.?
Gov. Walz’s response was sublime. I would have been much less polite. 🤬
When helping a woman off the ground after she’s been shoved by ICE gets a man beaten and shot 9 times, and then vilified and totally misrepresented as a domestic terrorist by the Regime responsible, something is so wrong, I’m slightly surprised that karma or God didn’t interfere with at least a lightning bolt.
Bondi needs to get the hell out and take that ghoul Miller with her. K. Noem needs to be sent to one of those detention centers to be abused like she wants others to be abused
"It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains."
It isn’t sufficient to simply shut down the ICE operation in Minnesota. The corruption and violence is seated in the office of the President of the United States. Furthermore, the ICE ignorance, lawlessness and violence is not the only illegal action coming out of the current White House. You know, the one where the President tore down the east wing without proper approval of the landlords – we the citizens of this nation. The impeachment of Kristi Noem is important - if only for her dog’s sake, but the fish rots at the head. She and the remainder of Trump‘s cabinet should answer for multiple illegal and immoral actions, but the first step is to impeach Trump and to remove his entire administration. Just think for a moment as to what Dwight D. Eisenhower - a revered Republican, would have to say about the state of affairs in America today. We have gone from the “shining city on the hill” to a global embarrassment. A psychopathic president, an equally twisted and ignorant VP, a Cabinet that makes the Mafia look like a knitting club, and a backdrop of billionaires who care nothing for the values of this nation — values that made their phony “rags to riches” stories possible along with Harvard diplomas. The United States is currently giving totalitarian dictators a good name. We are teaching our kids that a president of this country flipping the bird at his fellow citizens is perfectly reasonable, that making fun of the disabled, degrading women, insulting allies, sinking boats and shooting its passengers with NO EVIDENCE of a crime is just fine. Let’s get back to Epstein and our likely pedophile. Two decent citizens shot down by masked ruffians in the name of our government. Thousands of innocent people killed for seeking asylum in what was once a great nation. A Statue of Liberty no longer worthy of its name. No longer “one nation”…”with liberty and justice for all. I did not include “under God” because that belongs in churches, mosques and synagogues in line with separation of church and state.
Exactly right, Scott. A federal judge doesn’t issue a restraining order to preserve evidence unless there’s real concern it might disappear. That alone tells you how serious this is. We all saw the video. No amount of Trump's and his minions spin, lies, or manufactured outrage will erase what actually happened.
Federal agents are not above the law, period. If this were truly about “law and order,” transparency wouldn’t be a threat. Preserve the evidence. Tell the truth. Hold people accountable. Anything less is a cover-up, and most of America is not stupid enough to fall for it.
Don't let the death of Alex Pretti just be a headline for a few days.
Who believes that President Trump will issue a preliminary pardon to all ICE agents? Maybe even to Secretary Kennedy, who will be responsible for many more deaths than ICE in the upcoming years.
The psychotic imbecile will certainly issue pardons for all ICE and border patrol agents - plus one for himself if possible. He has already pardoned several convicted criminals, plus all the Jan 6th insurrectionists. Ther only reason he has not already pardoned Ghislaine Maxwell is he's afraid that she will spill all the beans when she gets back on the street.
I'm afraid you may be right, Patti. As a physician, my biggest concern and the one that I fear most is the impact on our health care, engineered by the malicious eugenicist Kennedy. People who follow and believe in him need to be careful.
People who subscribe to Robert Kennedy, Jr.'s mandate on health are in for a rude awakening soon. It will take a while for his mandate to filter down but soon we will begin to see a resurgence of diseases that have long been eradicated. Right now, we are seeing an increase of measles. He is so unqualified for the position of Health and Human Secretary. His ignorance will cause so much harm for so many people. We are living in dangerous times from so many fronts.
Thank you. I could not agree more. He is a eugenicist and will be responsible for much illness and many deaths. Unqualified, malicious, arrogant, and disordered thinking because of the PEDs.
third answer: 1) Pam sweetie, finish your task on the Epstein Files. Then we will about your inability to focus on solutions. You’re letting your biases clutter that little head of yours!
2) senate Dems vote DOWN on the ENTIRE DHS funding bill. Do your one big job!! SAY NO ALL TOGETHER!!!
Our two main actions today:
New: Tell Congress to Defund ICE: https://tinyurl.com/4dtkmn47
Impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem: https://tinyurl.com/253mfne4
My interview with Rep. Robin Kelly on impeaching Noem: https://tinyurl.com/y3fx5pt2
Here are three other actions for today:
Demand AG Bondi release ALL of the Epstein files now: https://tinyurl.com/yzm32ams
Pass bill on unmasking ICE and displaying clear ID: https://tinyurl.com/bp8cau82
Demand answers about Trump’s visibly deteriorating health: https://tinyurl.com/sk9xm38v
Also, sign up to volunteer for our Watchdog Coalition: https://tinyurl.com/4afyy2bs
Defund ICE! Renee Good and Jeffrey Pretti gave their lives defending democracy and fighting fascism. I wrote a poem as a tribute to Pretti: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/jeffrey-pretti-poem
I hope the families of Renee Good and Jeffrey Pretti will SUE the shit out of The felon n chief for DEFAMATION! Hit him where he knows best - the court room! How dare this lowlife defame these most courageous Americans calling them domestic terrorist and assassins within minutes of the incidents! SHOOT first, Lie and Judge second! how dare this POS POTUS! Shameful!
They also need to sue Noem, Bovine, and Homeland Security.
Is that BOVINO's new nickname?
Appropriate!
Lily. I wrote two letters to Congress,to my reps there. i also added a suggestion that, while de- funding, ICE they should allocate just enough funds to ship the entre malignant Administration in company of the ICE agents to the hell holes for "re-education". sfr
Good on you, Lily!
YES - I hope they sue the heck out of the responsible parties, but I also realize that any funds paid out will ultimately be paid by you and me via our taxes. It is infuriating that the Orange Turd and his thugs in government and in ICE probably won't be held personally responsible for the damage they are doing in any meaningful way.
Big “Wrongful Death” lawsuits against HHS should be forthcoming.
I bet the government will be throwing money at the families soon.
I don't think they will throw money at anyone but themselves. But the more people that sue the better.
Unless it's bonuses for the killers . . .
Here’s my demand: Get this whole damn regime out of Washington
DITTO!!!!!
Send them all to NORTH Korea or Iran - they will know how to deal with them.
Adding: NOW‼️
Not in 3 years or months. NOW‼️
💪‼️💪‼️💪‼️💪‼️💪‼️💪‼️
I second that.
A.M.E.N.
At a protest rally yesterday, in a snow storm and 19° weather, we stood strong with our signs and music and chants here in Fort Collins (CO). Many people honked in support. Those who gave us the finger make me sad. To believe the atrocious lies from the government about these executions, instead of one’s own eyes, must make for a dissonance within that these people may never recover from.
My sign said, WE KNOW WHAT WE SAW.
Wis I love everything about this! Thank you!
WE THE PEOPLE SAW THE VIDEO!!!!!!
Perfect sign
Right on, Wis. I got the finger and "go back to your own country" (even though I'm an old white, US born woman). These people are so willfully ignorant and would rather double down in their hubris. Most are beyond hope and will only wake up when they are personally impacted.
These are very angry people, those who support what we protest. Let’s all fervently hope that good and love and reason wins this outrageously surreal struggle!
Exactly. Not sure what they have to be angry about since there not the ones being marginalized and hunted down. But I am with you in continuing to fight, fellow resister!
Gullible people are blinded by their own belief system. A lie repeated often enough will eventually be accepted as the truth. Remember when people thought that Earth was flat and if one sailed on the ocean far enough, they would actually fall off? Or, when people thought that 'bleeding' a person would get rid of disease. And, then, of course, a lot of people are just born ignorant and never bother to educate themself.
Spot on, Patti! Though I will say that flat-earthers and leech-bleeders at least were trying to help and were believing what, though it was ignorant, they *observed* and seemed true, as there wasn’t much evidence otherwise or better alternatives. People right now are making the *choice* to disbelieve all evidence, of which there is scads, that contradicts what they believe. It’s rather shocking - the hatred is so deep in their souls that questioning its truth is impossible for them.
You are so right: they never bother to educate themselves and that, to me, is a testament to bad parenting (with some exceptions), poor schooling, lazy “thinking”, and bad character. Closed minds take more than force to open. There must be a willingness to question oneself and what is being told to them as truth.
Totally agree. However, I do believe that the ability to educate oneself has always been available to people. Otherwise, the populace would never have learned anything! A lot of people are just like cattle - each day following the lead cow on the same path to the barn - even when a different path would have been a lot shorter.
Does anyone truly think this regime will obey ANY restraining order?
It’s almost laughable if it wasn’t such a travesty, isn’t it?
The entire trump regime is projecting their own lawlessness onto the Democratic leadership of Minnesota and other law-abiding states with a torrent of baseless lies. This from Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) About Walz's response to the murder of Alex Pretti - "Walz is a moron who's getting people killed to cover the massive fraud he oversaw". This is the type of "leadership" that Republican members of Congress like Sen. Ron Johnson supply to the people here. Drumpster commented on his phony Lies Social post that Walz is destroying Minnesota with his "pompous, dangerous, and arrogant rhetoric". We are being governed from a nest of criminals without moral restraint, and we must stop them.
I laugh out loud at trump calling ANYone else’s words, "pompous, dangerous, and arrogant rhetoric”. He’s the entitled brat/monster who has replaced the dictionary *definitions* of those words: now all that appears by these words in the Oxford is, “See trump, Donald j.”
On Tim Walz's response to Bondi - yes, push her face into the mound of dirt trump made. And yes to everything Newsome said.
Dirt, or mound of another substance of similar hue…
Was this a spur of the moment thing? I live in FoCo and would have been there but didn’t know. Were you on College?
We were: Oak Street Plaza at 1 was where and when it was. It was sort of last minute, but a fair number showed up - the friend I went with only heard about it from me, too, so I don't know how I got notices and he didn't. It was Indivisible and Fort Collins Reddit (the latter of which I'm not sure how I got included in) that sent me notifications. I've signed on to any protest/resist orgs I encounter lol - makes for a lot of duplicate info in my inbox, but it's better that than not hearing anything :) I'm signed on with 50501, Indivisible, some MeetUp thing (another list I don't recall joining) and I forget what else. DSA also sends notices (Democratic Socialists).
And greetings, neighbor! :)
There’s no excuse or justification for this regime’s onslaught. But I know what the answer is: Us.
I just called my red state governor (kehoe) and asked him to stand with Minnesota. If he really believes in “states’ rights”, the freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, he has no choice but to side with them. I also asked him to cut off any negotiations with ICE and to get them out of Missouri.
Please, red state constituents, flood your governor’s phone lines.
I’m leaving my demands for Susan Collin’s and other representatives for ICE which include:
1) Voting NO on the DHS spending bill at the end of this month.
2) Disarm ICE
3) Prevent ice from using racial and ethnic profiling
4) The Department of Homeland Security must be made specifically liable to criminal prosecution and civil lawsuits at the very least.
5) DHS funding must be slashed, but if we had our way not another penny.
6) No masks and identities must be clearly visible.
Mike - you nailed it. Especially #5. The Trump regime has had no problem clawing back funds appropriated by Congress for other agencies. It's time that the funding for I.C.E. is pulled back!
I would say that ICE should be DISSOLVED - not just disarmed.
Good for you!
And body cameras
Great idea, Mike. You might be onto something. What if every one of us sent similar lists to our representatives? Inundate them.
I’m still sputtering in disbelief that Pam Bondi had the gall to demand Minnesota’s voter-registration info. By what possible authority did she do this?? And immediately after ICE agents murdered a citizen in cold blood?! Why isn’t more attention being paid to this obscenity? W.T.F.?
Gov. Walz’s response was sublime. I would have been much less polite. 🤬
Me, too, MzNicky!! Appalling, jaw-dropping, astonishing… sickening! All of it!
Gov Walz is amazing. Should be vice pres right now.
I would have told her to go __ck herself! NICE is not winning here.
When helping a woman off the ground after she’s been shoved by ICE gets a man beaten and shot 9 times, and then vilified and totally misrepresented as a domestic terrorist by the Regime responsible, something is so wrong, I’m slightly surprised that karma or God didn’t interfere with at least a lightning bolt.
Wouldn't it be a real shame if the ground just opened up and swallowed all of them?
From your lips to whatever merciful and just god exists...
Thank you for providing exactly the right image to resolve this horror show.
Release the Epstein files! Pam Bondi is a fraudster.
Bondi needs to get the hell out and take that ghoul Miller with her. K. Noem needs to be sent to one of those detention centers to be abused like she wants others to be abused
Miller needs to go to one of those hellholes since he is the driving force behind the 3000 a day brutalization of our friends and neighbors ICE quota.
They all should get on their broomsticks and ride off into dark cold space with just a one-way ticket.
"It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains."
—Assata Shakur
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/this-week-still-sucks-but-we-can-survive
It isn’t sufficient to simply shut down the ICE operation in Minnesota. The corruption and violence is seated in the office of the President of the United States. Furthermore, the ICE ignorance, lawlessness and violence is not the only illegal action coming out of the current White House. You know, the one where the President tore down the east wing without proper approval of the landlords – we the citizens of this nation. The impeachment of Kristi Noem is important - if only for her dog’s sake, but the fish rots at the head. She and the remainder of Trump‘s cabinet should answer for multiple illegal and immoral actions, but the first step is to impeach Trump and to remove his entire administration. Just think for a moment as to what Dwight D. Eisenhower - a revered Republican, would have to say about the state of affairs in America today. We have gone from the “shining city on the hill” to a global embarrassment. A psychopathic president, an equally twisted and ignorant VP, a Cabinet that makes the Mafia look like a knitting club, and a backdrop of billionaires who care nothing for the values of this nation — values that made their phony “rags to riches” stories possible along with Harvard diplomas. The United States is currently giving totalitarian dictators a good name. We are teaching our kids that a president of this country flipping the bird at his fellow citizens is perfectly reasonable, that making fun of the disabled, degrading women, insulting allies, sinking boats and shooting its passengers with NO EVIDENCE of a crime is just fine. Let’s get back to Epstein and our likely pedophile. Two decent citizens shot down by masked ruffians in the name of our government. Thousands of innocent people killed for seeking asylum in what was once a great nation. A Statue of Liberty no longer worthy of its name. No longer “one nation”…”with liberty and justice for all. I did not include “under God” because that belongs in churches, mosques and synagogues in line with separation of church and state.
Exactly right, Scott. A federal judge doesn’t issue a restraining order to preserve evidence unless there’s real concern it might disappear. That alone tells you how serious this is. We all saw the video. No amount of Trump's and his minions spin, lies, or manufactured outrage will erase what actually happened.
Federal agents are not above the law, period. If this were truly about “law and order,” transparency wouldn’t be a threat. Preserve the evidence. Tell the truth. Hold people accountable. Anything less is a cover-up, and most of America is not stupid enough to fall for it.
Don't let the death of Alex Pretti just be a headline for a few days.
Where's Alex's phone??????
Most likely destroyed and disposed of.
Who believes that President Trump will issue a preliminary pardon to all ICE agents? Maybe even to Secretary Kennedy, who will be responsible for many more deaths than ICE in the upcoming years.
I would't put it past him. I'm fairly certain that he has already prepared pardons for Bondi, Noem, Bovino, Patel, et al.
The psychotic imbecile will certainly issue pardons for all ICE and border patrol agents - plus one for himself if possible. He has already pardoned several convicted criminals, plus all the Jan 6th insurrectionists. Ther only reason he has not already pardoned Ghislaine Maxwell is he's afraid that she will spill all the beans when she gets back on the street.
I'm afraid you may be right, Patti. As a physician, my biggest concern and the one that I fear most is the impact on our health care, engineered by the malicious eugenicist Kennedy. People who follow and believe in him need to be careful.
People who subscribe to Robert Kennedy, Jr.'s mandate on health are in for a rude awakening soon. It will take a while for his mandate to filter down but soon we will begin to see a resurgence of diseases that have long been eradicated. Right now, we are seeing an increase of measles. He is so unqualified for the position of Health and Human Secretary. His ignorance will cause so much harm for so many people. We are living in dangerous times from so many fronts.
Thank you. I could not agree more. He is a eugenicist and will be responsible for much illness and many deaths. Unqualified, malicious, arrogant, and disordered thinking because of the PEDs.
My demand: unmask, disarm, defund, impeach.
third answer: 1) Pam sweetie, finish your task on the Epstein Files. Then we will about your inability to focus on solutions. You’re letting your biases clutter that little head of yours!
2) senate Dems vote DOWN on the ENTIRE DHS funding bill. Do your one big job!! SAY NO ALL TOGETHER!!!