Down the Middle in NYC

Moderate Republican with a conscience. Chooses not to live in either bubble. Firmly believes America can do better than DJT.

[Down the Middle in NYC @IP12291]

@lawler4ny Not a mistake, but thank you for denouncing the post. I’m a never-Trumper Republican (aka Independent) with no patience for R’s that are staying quiet while he ruins this country. Enough is enough.

[Peter Lombard @tutticontenti]

A beautiful and heartfelt tribute from Alex Pretti's last nursing student:

“I was Alex Pretti’s final nursing student.

He was my friend and my nursing mentor. For the past four months, I stood shoulder to shoulder with him during my capstone preceptorship at the Minneapolis VA Hospital.

There he trained me to care for the sickest of the sick as an ICU nurse. He taught me how to care for arterial and central lines, the intricacies of managing multiple IVs filled with lifesaving solutions, and how to watch over every heartbeat, every breath, and every flicker of life, ready to act the moment they wavered. Techniques intended to heal.

Alex carried patience, compassion and calm as a steady light within him. Even at the very end, that light was there. I recognized his familiar stillness and signature calm composure shining through during those unbearable final moments captured on camera. It does not surprise me that his final words were, “Are you okay?”

Caring for people was at the core of who he was. He was incapable of causing harm. He lived a life of healing, and he lived it well.

Alex believed strongly in the Second Amendment and in the rights rooted in our Constitution and its amendments. He spoke out for justice and peace whenever he could, not only out of obligation, but out of a belief that we are more connected than divided, and that communication would bring us together.

I want his family to know his legacy lives on.

I am a better nurse because of the wisdom and skills he instilled in me. I carry his light with me into every room, letting it guide and steady my hands as I heal and care for those in need.

Please honor my friend by standing up for peace, preferably with a cup of black coffee in hand and a couple of pieces of candy in your pocket, just as he would. He would remind you that caring for others is hard work, and we must do whatever it takes to get through the long shifts.

Step outside with your dog, breathe in the world, hike or bike as he loved to do, and let yourself find peace in the quiet moments within nature.

Stand up for justice and speak with those whose views differ from your own.

Hold your beliefs with strength, but always extend love outward, even in the face of adversity.

Take one step, no matter how small, to help heal our world. Through these acts, carry his light forward in his name.

Let his legacy continue to heal.”

[Down the Middle in NYC @IP12291]

D’s AND R’s are disgusted with this administration. Shut ICE down now!

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Federal agents claimed Alex Pretti, 37, forced their hand on a Minneapolis street Saturday morning, alleging he “violently resisted” disarmament until the officers fired “defensive shots.”

Bystander footage appears to tell a different story. https://t.co/2zHwDkaGy7

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Kathy Hochul just called it:

“Kristi Noem has forfeited her right to lead. I’m calling on her to resign as Secretary of Homeland Security or Donald Trump to do the right thing and fire her… No one is above the law. No one.”

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

If there was ever a moment for libertarians and conservatives to step up and join the rest of us, we’re in it.

Americans have to unite and stop this descent from a freedom-loving nation into the kind of place where masked, militarized government agents are sent to politically noncompliant areas to roam the streets, terrorize civilians, and deploy violence with impunity.

[Down the Middle in NYC @IP12291]

@GOP Now it’s time for the Republicans to get a new candidate

[Down the Middle in NYC @IP12291]

@realDonaldTrump Opinion: Look out — Republicans are defecting from Trump’s MAGA army in droves https://t.co/lfwYn4CfP7

[Down the Middle in NYC @IP12291]

@GOP The party of weird, creepy men

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@MeghanMcCain Well…sounds like she’ll be the only one answering questions at the September debate. That works for me

[Down the Middle in NYC @IP12291]

@NikkiHaley As a presidential candidate, you were likable. Now that you’re stumping for Trump, you’re just…well…weird

[Down the Middle in NYC @IP12291]

@GOP And yet it is Trump that has chickened out of the September debate. Now *there* you have a basement strategy

[Down the Middle in NYC @IP12291]

@TheCMMan @meiselasb She’s a breath of fresh air compared to the battle of old men

[Down the Middle in NYC @IP12291]

@GOP Weirdos

[Down the Middle in NYC @IP12291]

@MattWallace888 Nope. Haley is the best chance to get a R in the White House. America voted against Trump in 2020, and most definitely will again in 2024

[Nikki Haley @NikkiHaley]

Donald Trump must be confused. He keeps saying he beats Joe Biden, but the polls show the opposite.

[Down the Middle in NYC @IP12291]

@GhostDuck0_0 @WillHurd Says the idiot who believes the election was stolen, lol

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https://t.co/dLnGvfzVbw

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@willchamberlain It was the Trump endorsement

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@IngrahamAngle Trump is killing the GOP

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@MonicaCrowley Trump is killing the GOP