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Jan 25
@TheJFreakinC @Shayan86 1).
The 37-year โ€žAlex Jeffrey Pretti, was an intensive-care nurse described by the Minneapolis police chief as a U.S. citizen with no criminal record.
@TheJFreakinC @Shayan86 2).
Federal officials said he was armed, but there is no sign in videos analyzed by The NYT that he pulled his weapon, or that agents even knew he had one until he was already pinned on the sidewalk.โ€

Jan. 24, 2026
@TheJFreakinC @Shayan86 3).
๐•ฟ๐–๐–Š ๐•น๐–Š๐–œ ๐–„๐–”๐–—๐– ๐•ฟ๐–Ž๐–’๐–Š๐–˜ (@nytimes)
โ€ข nytimes.com/live/2026/us/mโ€ฆ

โ€ข nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/โ€ฆ
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Jan 25
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.

This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscoโ€ฆImage
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Minnesota courts have been inundated with these cases since the beginning of Operation Metro Surge last month. Here's a ruling by Judge Bryan from yesterday, freeing a man who as detained after living in the US for 20 years with no criminal record. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscoโ€ฆImage
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Here's another ruling in Minnesota, also yesterday, releasing a man who was forcefully detained by ICE despite having *active* refugee status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscoโ€ฆImage
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Jan 25
I sit here in the twilight, looking back through the lenses of teachers.
I see Perlsโ€™ insistence on the "here and now" of the body, Reichโ€™s discovery of the "character armor" forged in muscle, and Lowenโ€™s grounding in the biological truth of the organism.
I see the archetypal shadows of Jung, where the "Abrahamic Blade" is not a religious symbol, but a jagged rupture in the Collective Unconscious.

After thirty years of clinical observation, here is the synthesis. Here is the wound.
1. The Biological Castration of the Soul

The prepuce is not a "flap." It is the most sensitive sensory-motor interface of the male organism. To excise it in the cradle is to perform a somatic shock so profound that the ego is shattered before it even forms.
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Jan 25
Here's the first 202(c) order that supposedly involves backup generation. I'm struggling to make sense of it.

It says ERCOT "and its Balancing Authorities are authorized to direct to direct backup generation" at industrial and commercial facilities "to operate as a last resort"
1. I thought ERCOT was the only balancing authority in ERCOT.

2. The order "authorizes" ERCOT to order backup generation. What does that unlock for ERCOT? What authority does it have over a backup gen, beyond what's in an interconnection contract?eia.gov/todayinenergy/โ€ฆ
DOE can't delegate its emergency authority to ERCOT. Only DOE can order particular generators to operate. DOE can't bestow upon ERCOT the authority to choose unspecified backup gens and order them to operate, right?

Here's the order energy.gov/documents/ordeโ€ฆ
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Jan 25
WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment

"I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim.
At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through ... But none of the ICE agents ... were performing CPR...None of the agents were helping him." Image
2/ "Finally, one agent agreed to let me assess the victim. ...
I was confused as to why the victim was on his side, because that is not standard practice when a victim has been shot. Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard practice.
Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds."Image
3/ "I asked the ICE agents if the victim had a pulse, and they said they did not know."

link to document of second witness declaration filed in federal court: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscoโ€ฆ
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Jan 25
Imagine this in a trial.

Devastating first-hand witness to Alex Pretti's killing

Declaration filed in federal court:

"I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him." Image
2/ "The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun."

Document: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2650โ€ฆImage
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"I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground." Image
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Jan 25
Good evening everyone. Apologies for not posting much, but as you can imagine, it has been quite a busy week preparing for this storm. I want to just touch on some high level thoughts for the Houston Metro heading into the overnight.
The next few hours will be quiet and should be mostly fine around the Houston area. Roads are wet. Fog may be locally dense. It is cold. If you can stay home, do so, but if you have any last minute things to tie up, you can through 9-10 PM I imagine. Pipes, plants, pets, ppl.
After midnight, it's beginning to look like we'll see more showers concurrent with temperatures easing back toward freezing. This is where we risk roads icing up, in some cases somewhat suddenly. Travel after midnight anywhere north and west of Houston is not advised.
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Jan 25
Please take the time to read the whole statement of Habiba Soliman, detained at Dilley for 8 months with her mom, 5 year old twin siblings, 9 yr old sister, and 16 yr old brother.

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Jan 25
Today, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an AFGE Local 3669 member and a nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center who dedicated his life to serving American veterans, was killed during protests in Minneapolis connected to the administrationโ€™s immigration actions.
Our union is heartbroken. An AFGE member is dead. And a familyโ€™s life has been forever changed.
While details of the incident are still emerging, one fact is already clear: this tragedy did not happen in a vacuum. It is the direct result of an admin that has chosen reckless policy, inflammatory rhetoric, & manufactured crisis over responsible leadership &de-escalation.
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Jan 25
โ—๏ธDIRECT CONNECTION OF ICE WATCH NETWORK TO @GovTimWalz ADMINSTRATION โ—๏ธ

(All relevant links/evidence will be on the last several posts of this ๐Ÿงต)

Thanks to the great work undercover work of @camhigby , he revealed today that one of the leaders in organizing these violent anti-ICE riots is a woman named Amanda Koehler.

๐ŸŸฉ (Screenshot #1) We found this write up on Amanda Koehler's LinkedIn. As you can see, she references an ICE Watch organization called, "Monarca"

๐ŸŸฉ (Screenshot #2) This is from the Minnesota government website, "Office of Ombudsperson for Families". Notice that they listed:

โ—๏ธ Monarca as a resource.

โ—๏ธ S.A.L.U.T.E. as a strategy, a tactic in which ICE Watch networks train rioters. (See post below for further explanation by @LeighWolf and @pepesgrandma )

We literally have the Minnesota government and Tim Walz's administration partnering with domestic terrorist ICE Watch networks to impede ICE from deporting violent illegal aliens.

This is straight up treason and Governor Walz needs to be arrested.Image
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@GovTimWalz @camhigby This is the Minnesota government site, "Office of Ombudsperson for Families": mn.gov/ombudfam/news/โ€ฆImage
@GovTimWalz @camhigby Notice that the "Download PDF" links on the bottom of this page contains nothing. The Monarca site is just a shell; they are only meant to interfere with ICE from deporting violent illegal aliens....and they partner with
@GovTimWalz's administration.

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Jan 25
I wonder how on earth Indians became the best friends of jews!
Just the 5 beginning chapters of the Old Testament which are mainly about the basic laws, shows the greatest opposite things from Hinduism and Vedic theology!

In this thread I put the main differences of the first 5 chapters of the Old Testament to Vedic/Hinduism.Image
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Jan 25
1/ "The trendy word for taking apart the idea is 'deconstruction'. The older word for taking apart the idea is 'philosophy'"

~Dr. @DavidDark, June 2023

In June 2023, Dr Dark and Will Maddoxx talked & presented regarding Will's work "Iconoclasm". instagram.com/tv/CtnGgaOKy_6/
2/ You can view Will's work "Icoconoclasm" here: willmaddoxx.com/iconoclasm
3/ "What we do with our anger is what we will have done with our lives."

~Dr. David Dark, June 2023
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