Jenny-X

@historianjenn.bsky.social

🏔️ History Educator📚Springsteen fanatic 🎸🎷Cat mom. 🐈Feminist. 👩‍🎓ProEqual rights for all. Against fascism. 🇺🇦

400,000 people are in the streets of Prague RIGHT NOW defending democracy against a government critics say is following Hungary’s authoritarian playbook. They’ve seen how this ends. They’re not letting it.

German word of the day: Fremdschämen (Second-hand embarrassment): While this means being ashamed on behalf of someone else, it is often described as a mix of intense awkwardness, horror, and fear that the other person will notice their own ridiculousness.

Garcia: I want to remind the American public of Stephen Miller. There's probably no single person in this government that has done more damage and more harm to people across this country than this man right here. It's our job to hold him responsible

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

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Heather Randell@heatherrandell.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The Strib has identified him. Alex Pretti. Another 37-year-old executed for standing up for our immigrant neighbors. For shame. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Sources identify man shot as Alex Jeffrey Pretti of south Minneapolis

The man fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis this morning has been identified as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
Pretti, 37, has an address listed in south Minneapolis.

At a news conference, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said the man who was shot was a 37-year-old white man with no serious criminal history and a record that showed some parking tickets. Law enforcement sources said Saturday their records show Pretti had no serious criminal history.

The government is saying that violence rules. That snatching foreign leaders and territories, and shooting US citizens in their cars at point blank range, is justified. That resistance is not only futile, it is dangerous. They can say these things. But they cannot force us to believe them.

Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.

FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

Republicans: a 30 year old state senator spreading neo-Nazi rhetoric in group chats is “just a kid” Also Republicans: a 15 year old girl is a grown woman and it’s fine if the President is attracted to her

Lindsey Halligan, who is leading the James Comey case, was installed three days ago and has never been a prosecutor. She does, however, have experience reshaping reality, as the one behind efforts to whitewash history at museums.