Maisie Connell

T1D 50 years. Dexcom G6. New to Omnipod 5. Being a Warrior is a full-time job! IYKYK. Love dogs, quilting and junqing and waking up everyday. 💙💙💙💙💙

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with the Obamas against Trump’s racist attacks!

[Nurses Against Dick Pics. 🪷🇺🇦 @ClaudetteGGibs1]

For the first time in program history, the Trauma and Acute Care Surgery service at Johns Hopkins was led by an all-Black team of senior residents.

Between us, there are five MDs, two PhDs, and six master's degrees-but more importantly, a shared commitment to serving the people of Baltimore.

We are Black history.
We are our ancestors' wildest dreams.
And we're just getting started.

FROM: lawrencebrownmd

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackDoctors #BlackSurgeons
#Hopkins #Surgery

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 Pete Buttigieg nails it:

“In a country that amended the Constitution to ban beer… then fixed it when we realized it was dumb… surely we can amend it again to say corporations aren’t people and money isn’t speech.”

Translation:

We corrected Prohibition.
We can correct Citizens United.

Democracy shouldn’t be for sale.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Congressman Jared Huffman, "If we're real and honest about what's going on, we have a madman in the White House"

"Trump is running the biggest most corrupt criminal grift in criminal history, out of the White House"

"We take an oath to the Constitution, but it seems all of you took an oath to Donald Trump"

"This is shameful, a disgrace"

"To pretend everything is just fine right now?"

"The madman is in Europe driving our friends into the arms of our adversaries"

"Trump is doing immeasurable damage to our credibility o the world stage and you are just fine with it?"

"What the hell is wrong?"

"I'm not going to just sit here and pretend everything is fine"

"This is wrong. This is not normal. And I'm not going to normalise it"

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

Donald Trump and all your lieutenants who ordered this ICE surge: watch the horrific video of the killing today. The world is watching. Thousands of citizens stopped and harassed. Local police no longer able to do their work. Kids hiding. Schools closed. Get ICE out of Minnesota NOW. And Republicans in congress: Stop your silence and stop being complicit.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The worst of us are killing the best of us.

[Kris Cromwell @IngleWitch]

Alex Jeffrey Pretti. White male born in Illinois. University of Minnesota graduate, medical professional employed at the US Dept. of Veterans Affairs, avid outdoorsman & dog dad, legal gun owner with no criminal record.

Murdered by his government 01/24/2026

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: The innocent man who was executed by federal agents in Minneapolis has been identified as 37-year-old nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti.

His blood is on Trump's hands.

Pretti has an address listed in South Minneapolis and had no serious criminal record with only a few parking tickets. He was a lawful gun owner with a permit and had a nursing license that was issued in 2021 and remains active.

It's absolutely paramount that we spread the truth about this man far and wide because Homeland Security is already rushing to smear him. The department released a lie-riddled statement, claiming that Pretti approached federal agents with a 9mm handgun. In reality, footage shows that he approached them with his phone to film. The agents then swarmed him, beat him into submission on the ground, and then executed him by firing multiple rounds into his helpless form.

If indeed Pretti did have a gun on him —and it's safe to presume that everything that this administration is a lie until proven otherwise — he had a legal right to carry it. The video offers no indication that he attempted to draw it on the agents. Apparently the Second Amendment only applies to Republicans.

Please ❤️ and share to demand that the agents be identified and prosecuted!

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

FOLKS! The X-algorithm is trying to hide the massive Minneapolis ICE OUT strike.

Please share. SPREAD THE WORD! 👇🏾✊🏾

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

Okay so,

1) an American citizen exercises his First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and his Second Amendment right to bear arms, out of apparent concern that a tyrannical federal government is violating basic protections afforded under the Constitution

2) after coming to the aid of an unarmed woman who's been shoved to the ground by a masked federal agent, the citizen -- impaired by pepper spray, holding nothing but a cell phone -- is dragged to the ground by a group of other masked agents

3) during the scuffle, shortly after one masked agent removes the weapon from the restrained citizen's person, several other masked agents open fire, unloading 10 shots from close range and killing the unarmed citizen

4) despite video evidence, a spokesman for the federal government says the citizen approached agents with a gun, provoked a violent confrontation, and planned to "massacre" law enforcement

You really want to defend this? Go ahead. Just know, you look like an absolute fool.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

This is Alex Pretti, a registered nurse and the man murdered by ICE today in Minneapolis protecting a fellow citizen from Trump’s thugs.

RETWEET to honor his life 💔

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

To be clear about what this depicts: An immigration officer threw a woman onto the ground. Alex Pretti, a registered nurse on scene as a legal observer, is filming and goes to help the woman up. He is then pepper sprayed and thrown to the ground for no discernible reason. Many officer surround and assault him; one removes his firearm, which police say appears to have been legally registered. They then execute him with a hail of bullets.

They are, objectively speaking, both cowards and criminals, while Pretti is what we teach people an American ought to be.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Ed Sullivan couldn't sing.
He couldn't dance. He wasn't charming. He stood stiff and awkward under the lights, spoke in a halting monotone, and always looked slightly uncomfortable in his own suit.
Critics said he had the warmth of a plank of wood. One reviewer wrote that "he got where he is not by having a personality, but by having no personality."
They missed the point entirely.
Ed Sullivan changed American culture more than almost anyone in television history. Not through talent. Through stubborn, unyielding decency.
The Ed Sullivan Show premiered on June 20, 1948, originally called Toast of the Town. It was a variety show—comics, acrobats, Broadway singers, opera, circus acts, music. Something for everyone.
And from the very beginning, Sullivan did something almost no one else on television would do.
He booked Black performers.
Not tucked away in "special" episodes. Not diminished or separated. They appeared alongside white performers, introduced the same way, treated exactly the same way.
This was 1948.
America was legally segregated. Interracial marriage was illegal in most states. Black Americans couldn't share schools, restaurants, water fountains, or theaters with white Americans.
And Ed Sullivan put Black excellence into American living rooms every Sunday night.
One week after the show premiered, Billy Kenny and the Ink Spots became the first Black performers on national television. On July 18, 1948—just the fifth episode—Sullivan paired Ella Fitzgerald with tap legend Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. She scatted. He danced. It was joy on display, broadcast into a divided nation.
Sullivan kept going.
Louis Armstrong. Nat King Cole. Pearl Bailey. Lena Horne. Duke Ellington. Count Basie. Sarah Vaughn. Sammy Davis Jr.
And he didn't keep his distance.
He shook hands. Kissed cheeks. Talked warmly on camera. Hugged them like friends—because they were his friends.
That basic humanity enraged sponsors.
When Sullivan kissed Pearl Bailey on the cheek, Southern sponsors exploded. When he shook Nat King Cole's hand, Ford's Lincoln-Mercury dealers threatened to pull their sponsorship and remove the show from the South entirely. Southern gas stations refused to serve customers who drove the Ford and Mercury cars Sullivan advertised.
Letters poured in accusing him of indecency.
One angry viewer wrote: "We enjoyed Ella Fitzgerald right up to when you had to make the point of hugging her right there in our living room!"
Sullivan's response? He booked them again.
He wrote angry letters back to bigots. He once said: "The most important thing is that we've put on everything but bigotry."
When the network warned him not to touch Coretta Scott King during her appearance, he embraced and kissed her anyway.
He didn't lecture America. He didn't call himself an activist.
He simply refused to participate in humiliation.
Week after week. Year after year. For twenty-three years.
In 1956, he introduced Elvis Presley—whose music was rooted in Black culture—into white living rooms. In 1964, he introduced The Beatles, launching a cultural earthquake.
But he never abandoned Black artists while elevating white ones.
James Brown. The Supremes. The Temptations. Stevie Wonder. The Jackson 5.
The soundtrack of integration played live on television.
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, the legendary dancer who appeared with Ella Fitzgerald on that early 1948 episode, died penniless in 1949. Ed Sullivan paid for his funeral in Harlem.
Ella Fitzgerald appeared eight times over twenty-one years. She said of Sullivan: "His was one of the first shows that gave everybody a chance to be seen, and heard. And that was like a new beginning."
That was his power.
Black performers trusted him to treat them with dignity. White audiences trusted him enough to let him challenge their assumptions.
He used that trust quietly, carefully, relentlessly.
By the time the show ended in 1971, integrated television was normal.
But it wasn't inevitable.
It happened because one stiff, awkward man refused to segregate his stage.
Ed Sullivan wasn't flashy.
He wasn't cool.
He wasn't beloved for charisma.
He was decent.
And sometimes decency—practiced consistently, without compromise—changes everything.

[₿IGRYAN @BigRyan]

@ABC @DisneyPlus This hit.

[Maisie Connell @gardengal264]

@cwebbonline Say his name. Keith Porter.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.

I need y’all to think about and understand something. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims. There are countless Black victims that no one has even heard about, much less seen the public fight demanding answers and justice.

Thanks in advance for caring.

[Maisie Connell @gardengal264]

@Matt_Pinner Aline

[Maisie Connell @gardengal264]

@Kidfears99 Truth.

[Maisie Connell @gardengal264]

@CrazyVibes_1 You do what you love, what you've always wanted. She had her choice on her day. This. Is. YOUR. Day. It's a gorgeous dress, made with love. Your fiance loves it. He is the man you are marrying. This is not her wedding.