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Who is Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the anti-ICE protester fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis?

The armed, anti-ICE protestor fatally shot by a federal agent Saturday was an intensive care unit nurse who had a vendetta against the Trump administration, according to his family and colleagues. Alex Jeffrey Pretti, who was born and raised in Illinois, worked at the Department of Veterans Affairs and was “was upset” by President Trump’s crackdown on immigration in Minneapolis, his family told KSAT.

the full Yellow Parenti lecture

In honor of Michael Parenti

Excerpt from Leon Trotsky's 1932 speech on Europe

Reminder that Kyle Rittenhouse showed up to a protest like this and Republicans called him a hero

Today is the tipping point

FLASHBACK: Kamala Harris warned Americans that Trump would send the military after them

FLASHBACK: Kamala Harris warned Americans that Trump would send the military after them. She was mocked at the time by right-wing media and pundits. She was right. They owe her an apology.

You can see the agent in the light jacket pull the gun from the victim and walk away

UPDATE: ICE HAD FULLY SIEZED THE VICTIMS GUN BEFORE EXECUTING HIM!!! You can see the agent in the light jacket pull the gun from the victim and walk away, and then ICE proceeded to offload multiple rounds into him.

He was just protecting a woman.

October Revolution

Here he is explaining the enduring power of the October Revolution in Russia led by Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks, and how fear of that power influences US🇺🇸 foreign policy to this day.

Shoulder Training

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In Trump's America, a masked federal agent will shoot you multiple times in the Back

In Trump's America, a masked federal agent will shoot you multiple times in the back, while you are on your knees, with your own hands behind your back, after the pistol you legally carried was taken from your holster by another masked federal agent seconds earlier, as you were

7 swarm him, pin him down on his knees, and end up shooting him

Agents pepper-spray Pretti as he films and steps in to help a woman who was pushed. Then 7 swarm him, pin him down on his knees, and end up shooting him.

Another murder by ICE

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing today of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province. They were terrorized by heavily armed American execution

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Wolf Hall: The Booker Prize-winning and bestselling first novel in the Wolf Hall trilogy

England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for…

President Morsi on Muslim Brother Project

Pope Stephen VI ordered that Formosus' body be exhumed and put on trial.

Pope Stephen VI ordered that Formosus' body be exhumed and put on trial. The trial, known as the Corpse Synod, was held in January 898. Formosus' body was placed on a chair and a deacon was appointed to represent him. A deacon also represented Pope Stephen VI.

Women as Slaves under Islamic Law and ISIS

ICE officials detained a five-year-old and his father in Minnesota

ICE officials detained a five-year-old and his father in Minnesota

The Babi Yar Massacre

The Babi Yar Massacre, which took place on 29–30 September 1941 near Kyiv, stands as one of the largest single massacres of the Holocaust. In a ravine called Babi Yar, Nazi Einsatzgruppen executed over 33,000 Jewish men, women, and children in just two days

This was the cost of rubber in the Belgian Congo, 1908.

Police warned her not to sing it. Billie Holiday didn’t care. “Strange Fruit” was too important to stay silent.