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Zehn! Schüsse. #prettimurder

“As G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers wrote: Republicans could stop this at any time they wanted to.

‘All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dem[ocrat]s to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump—3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.’”

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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-24-2026

January 24, 2026

This morning, on a street in Minneapolis, at least seven federal agents tackled and then shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse for the local VA hospital.

Letters from an American