Mary Turner, ICU nurse in the Minneapolis metro area and NNU president, visited the site of fellow nurse Alex Pretti's murder today.
Nurses across the country are heartbroken and outraged, and we demand the immediate abolition of ICE!
BREAKING: The family of Alex Pretti releases a powerful statement about his senseless murder at the hands of Trump's masked fascist goons.
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"We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital," the family said in a statement provided to CNN.
"Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman."
"The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed."
"Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."
It is our responsibility as Americans to get the truth out there. Petti was not attempting to harm anyone. He was swarmed, beaten, and disarmed by vicious federal agents who were looking for someone to hurt. Once they had removed his gun — which he had a legal permit to carry — they executed him in cold blood by firing numerous bullets into him. Then, the Trump administration proceeded to immediately falsely smear him as a "terrorist" who wanted to carry out a mass shooting against law enforcement. They're utterly shameless.
“He cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset,” said Pretti's father Alex. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests.”
Rest in power Alex. The rest of us will carry on the fight.
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On this day, Dec 30, 2022, Oleksandr Matsievskyi was executed by russian occupiers.
His last words were: “Glory to Ukraine.”
They filmed it. They laughed. Then they killed him.
This is russia. Never forget.
Constitutional Crisis: CA Gov. Newsom says Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Democratic cities "is unprecedented in modern American history. This is, dare I say, a constitutional crisis."
Democracy hangs by a thread.
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Ukraine is ready for real decisions that can bring peace. Any decisions that are against us, any decisions that are without Ukraine, are at the same time decisions against peace. They will not achieve anything. These are stillborn decisions. They are unworkable decisions. And we all need real and genuine peace. Peace that people will respect.
This is an address to Ukrainian Allies and partners from the frontlines by Andrii Melnyk, a Ukrainian officer. In civilian life, he is a historian and a school principal in Kyiv.
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"There is probably no one in the world who would like to see the war end and peace come as much as the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian military.
But we don't dream of peace at any cost, because then these three years will be in vain. We are fighting here not only for our land. We are fighting not only for our families. We are fighting not only for our state. The most important thing for us is values. Values pushed us to fight the enemy. The values of freedom, the desire to live in our own country, the values of being human beings, not slaves.
Every day and every minute of this war, we have felt the support of the world, the support of Europe, the support of the West. And we want to say that we are grateful. We know this, but we ask you not to turn your back on us now, because we will not give up our freedom for nothing.
We want normal, fair and just conditions of peace. We stand for peace, but for a just peace. We are for an honest peace. And we are ready for it."
I was going through the instagram account of 30 year old Shani Louk, the young lady paraded around by Hamas in the back of the truck.
Stripped almost nude with her arms and legs broken.
I don’t care who did what to who ten years ago, fifty years ago, a hundred years ago, or a thousand years ago.
This right here is how you lose any and all support from me.
War all you want. Beef all you want.
But women and children are categorically off the table.
I have 5 daughters. Going through Shani’s photos, she reminds me so much of my Tilly.
Artistic. Carefree. Driven by music and dance. In love with her friends and life in general.
To see her go from all of the above to discarded in the back of a truck like trash infuriates me to no end.
I won’t sit here and pretend that I know enough about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict to form the most comprehensive opinion about it all.
I’m just some guy from Kentucky.
But I’m 100% screaming fuck Hamas from the gitty up. No doubt about that.
There is NOTHING on the planet that could anger me enough or compel me enough to hurt an innocent girl.
I don’t know how to explain it, but I’m sure dads of daughters will automatically understand when I say, that was MY daughter they did that to.
All 5 of them.
There’s no telling what they did to that young lady and I don’t even want to think about it.
May God greet this young lady with open arms and provide peace to her family and friends.
Earth is in terrible condition.
NO TO RUSSIA 🇷🇺 & BELARUS 🇧🇾 AT OLYMPICS
⚡️The International Paralympic Committee allowed Russian athletes to participate in the Paralympic Games in Paris 2024.
👉 Representatives of terrorist regimes must be banned from the Olympics.
"I have to choose which patients will get the greatest chance to survive"
20 years ago, Europe's health care systems were some of the best. But after years of underfunding and Covid, some may face a breaking point, @jonasekblom and @luciaweihe report https://t.co/Jz4sHYeGnP
When Bucha was de-occupied, the heinous truth about what was happening in the temporarily occupied territories was revealed to the world.
We will never forget the victims of this war, and we will certainly bring all Russian murderers to justice.
Eight years ago Russian opositioner Boris Nemtsov was killed in Moscow, not far from the Kremlin.
This is his speech from 9 years ago.
If Nemtsov has been alive, history might have taken a different course.
Pensioners of Bashkortostan release an appeal to putin asking him to come to his senses, accusing him of isolating himself from the people and only providing to himself and his henchmen.