Statement from the family of Alex Pretti, Michael and Susan Pretti:
“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. 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”
🚨Last night, in Minneapolis, federal agents fired green chemical gas into a residential neighborhood after community members showed up to document what was happening on their own block.
Let’s be very clear about what that means…
This wasn’t a federal courthouse.
This wasn’t federal property.
This was people standing in the streets where they live… streets lined with houses, apartments, kids, babies, and pregnant people.
That green gas didn’t just hit people outside. It spread through the neighborhood, into yards and homes.
Agents also threw flash bangs at a family trying to leave because of the smoke, even though they had small children, including a 6-month-old who was later taken to the hospital by ambulance.
And, the green gas matters. This isn’t “normal” tear gas.
That same green smoke has been documented before… in Portland… where it was used by federal agents to “protect” federal buildings.
Independent testing found it contained hexachloroethane, which produces zinc chloride smoke when deployed. The U.S. military stopped using it decades ago because of how toxic it is.
Exposure to this gas is linked to burning skin and eyes, coughing, vomiting, chest pain, and serious respiratory injury, with the risk of delayed and long-term lung damage. This is especially dangerous for infants, children, pregnant people, and anyone with asthma or other respiratory conditions.
Now, federal agents are using it in neighborhoods.
And on top of that… ICE and other federal agents are not supposed to be doing crowd control in residential areas at all.
Their authority is limited to specific federal functions. Crowd control in city streets is not one of them. They do not have blanket jurisdiction to gas neighborhoods because people are in their own neighborhood streets.
So what we’re watching is federal agents:
• acting outside their role
• performing crowd control where they have no jurisdiction
• firing toxic green gas into civilian neighborhoods
• and exposing families inside their own homes to chemicals that cause real physical harm.
This isn’t public safety.
This isn’t lawful enforcement.
This is the federal government treating American neighborhoods like hostile territory… and using chemical weapons to do it.
That should alarm everyone, because there is nothing stopping this from happening in your neighborhood next.
Think about this.
Your President does something that you agree with, but they didn’t have approval to do so. They broke the law, but because you agreed with the action, you don’t stand against it.
Your government does this again, and again, you agreed so nothing. After all, they are doing it to benefit you.
Now your government emboldened by inaction does something that goes against everything you believe, this time it affects you personally.
At that moment, can you be surprised? Can you complain about your President breaking the law and using unchecked power to cause you an injustice?
A question for every American today.
Do you want to be ruled by unchecked power, or do you want your rulers to be bound by your constitution, and by your countries law?
Do you want a President or a King?
Chris Cuomo asked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez how we pay for Medicare for All, tuition free college, and the green new deal. It gives people sticker shock. Her answer:
“People talk about the sticker shock of Medicare for All, but they do not talk about the sticker shock of our existing system. In a Koch brothers funded study, it shows that Medicare for All is actually much cheaper than the current system.
Let's not forget that the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act because they ruled that each of these monthly payments that everyday Americans make is a tax. We pay it every single month. (Or we pay at tax season if we don't buy plans off of the exchange.)
Americans have the sticker shock of healthcare as it is. Why aren't we incorporating the cost of funeral expenses of those who die because they can't afford access to healthcare? That is part of the cost of our system. Or the cost of reduced productivity because of people who need to go on disability or are not able to participate in our economy because they don't have access to the healthcare that they need?
At the end of the day, we see that this is not a pipe dream. Every other developed nation in the world has this. Why can't America? And that is the question we need to ask.
We write blank checks for war. We just wrote a $2 trillion check for the GOP tax cut. And nobody asks how are we going to pay for it.
So my question is why are our pockets only empty when it comes to education and healthcare for our kids? Why are our pockets only empty when we talk about 100% renewable energy that is going to save this planet and allow our children to thrive?
We only have empty pockets when it comes to the morally right things to do. But when it comes to tax cuts for billionaires or unlimited war, we seem to be able to invent that money very easily. To me it belies a lack of moral priorities that people have right now, especially the Republican Party.”
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE, ESPECIALLY THE DEEPLY DISTURBED LOSERS SUFFERING FROM EXTREME NEWSOM DERANGEMENT SYNDROME (“NDS”). DOCTORS SAY IT’S CURABLE, VERY EASY TREATMENT, BUT THEY REFUSE IT BECAUSE THEY LIKE BEING “MISERABLE.” OH WELL! SPEAKING OF LOSERS, I HOPE DONALD TRUMP HAS THE 2026 “HE DESERVES” AFTER UNLEASHING CHAOS ON THE PEOPLE OF THIS GREAT COUNTRY THIS YEAR. WE WILL NEVER FORGIVE HIM FOR MARCHING SOLDIERS INTO OUR BEAUTIFUL CITIES, RAISING TAXES SO HE CAN GIVE YOUR MONEY TO HIS RICH FRIENDS, HIS STUPID TARIFFS, RIPPING BABIES AWAY FROM THEIR MOTHERS, THROWING GRANDMAS OFF THEIR HEALTHCARE, PROMISING AID FOR THE PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES TO REBUILD HOMES AND THEN VANISHING. HE IS A TOTAL FRAUD, TOTAL COWARD, AND TOTAL LOSER! THERE IS A VERY SPECIAL PLACE WAITING FOR HIM (EVERYONE KNOWS WHERE) AND IT’S NOT MAR-A-LAGO! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. — GCN
“Can I bring my baby to the interview?”
The message came in at 11 PM:
“Hi, I have an interview with you tomorrow at 2 PM. My childcare fell through. Can I bring my 8-month-old? I understand if you need to reschedule.”
Old me would have rescheduled.
Unprofessional. Distraction. Red flag.
New me replied:
“Absolutely. See you tomorrow.”
She showed up with her baby on her hip.
She apologized three times before even sitting down.
Ten minutes in, the baby started crying.
She tried to soothe him while answering questions.
She apologized again.
I stopped the interview and said:
“Hey. You’re managing a fussy baby, answering complex questions, and staying calm under pressure. That’s literally the job. Handling chaos while staying professional. You’re already proving you can do it.”
Her eyes filled with tears.
We hired her.
She’s been with us for a year now.
The most reliable team member we have.
Why?
Because when you’re used to handling a screaming infant at 3 AM and still showing up to work the next day, workplace stress feels like nothing.
Working parents, especially mothers, are some of the most organized, efficient, and resilient people you’ll ever hire.
Yet we lose them because our hiring processes are built for people with zero caregiving responsibilities.
If your interview process can’t accommodate a parent facing a childcare issue, you’re not filtering for professionalism.
You’re filtering for privilege.
🚨⚠️ IMPORTANT NEWS - PAY ATTENTION ⚠️🚨
As of December 24, 2025, The United States Postal Service (USPS) finalized a new rule that changes the definition of a postmark.
Previously, mail dropped off at a post office, or in a blue collection box, was generally postmarked with THAT DAYS DATE.
Under the new rule, the official postmark date will be the date it is first processed by automated equipment, not necessarily the date you dropped it in a mailbox. Those postmarks will now be applied at regional processing centers.
FOR EXAMPLE - If you drop a letter in a mailbox on Tuesday, but it isn't picked up and scanned at a processing center until Thursday, the postmark will read Thursday rather than Tuesday.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT
It could drastically and dramatically effect mail-in voting, and could potentially rob voters of their votes - depending on when those votes are counted in each State.
PAY ATTENTION HERE
In November 2025, the U.S Supreme Court agreed to listen to the MAGA Trump regimes argument to STOP States from counting votes AFTER election day.
With this new USPS rule in place, depending on when a voter dropped off their mail-in ballot — their vote may never be counted if the Supreme Court rules in Trump's favor.
THIS IS ELECTION RIGGING AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL
“I was sober in recovery when I worked on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ and I believe that is what allowed me tune in to Trump’s obvious triggers and addictions. To see clearly what was really going on and what was underneath his obviously unhealthy behavior.
The crushed Adderall abuse for example, usually came when he had to read publicly from a cue card or teleprompter. He always struggled with reading any word that was three syllables or more; in my armchair diagnosis it stemmed from a childhood learning disability that was never properly addressed, my guess is some type of dyslexia.
Of course, there is no shame in learning disabilities, but in Trump’s case it was probably seen as a weakness, which the family chose to hide rather than treat. They paid others to take his tests and Trump himself hid his school grades from military academy all the way through university (both Fordham and Penn) from the world for his entire adult life.
Suffice it to say the dude is no scholar.
His illiteracy has clearly followed him into adulthood. When you hear him sniffing a lot when he is reading - such as this past week’s address to the nation - that is because he has most likely just snorted Adderall.
I believe the speed makes him feel sharper and more in control of his ability to read, and that this dynamic runs deep in Trump. He uses stimulants to feel in charge and avoid the sloppier elements of addiction he witnessed in both of his brothers’ alcoholism. And in several of his own children’s falling-down-drunk days.
Don Jr. especially was a very loud and obnoxious drunk who got into a ‘Page Six’ type melee after a bout of public intoxication at the Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village in 2002.
When I started speaking out about his addictions in 2015, I was trying to warn people that it wasn’t the substances themselves that presented a problem, as much as it was the personality defects underneath them that we needed to fear the most.
You do not want a leader who spends all day thinking about himself and acting out of his own self-centered fear.
That is precisely what led him to ignore the COVID pandemic and lie to the American people in the early days of the global health crisis. Trump’s inability to face reality beyond how it would affect his own personal re-election chances and the economy led directly to the deaths of over one million citizens when all was said and done.” https://t.co/dpefLeChHe
A church employee in Houston was just arrested for pretending to be an ICE agent… because apparently “What Would Jesus Do?” now includes extortion and kidnapping threats.
Donald Doolittle, 58, the safety director at Gateway Community Church, booked a massage, tried to pay with a credit card, and when the woman said she only accepted cash or Zelle, he pulled out a fake ICE ID and demanded to see her documents.
She showed him her temporary visa.
He responded by threatening to take her away so she’d “never see her family or children again” unless she Zelle’d him $500.
This is a man trusted to keep a megachurch safe.
He then told her not to expect any other ICE agents because he “marked her case for non-prosecution,” and asked her to delete their texts. Which is exactly what you’d expect from someone who spends Sunday mornings preaching about morality.
The only reason this even surfaced is because she happened to run into police the next day at lunch and told them what happened.
When investigators questioned him, he denied ever being there… until surveillance footage exposed him.
Now he’s charged with impersonating a public servant… but let’s be honest: the real headline is that a church safety director used the fear ICE has created to prey on a vulnerable woman.
BREAKING: “BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT” — Jack Smith calmly destroys Trump’s “witch hunt” fantasy in testimony before Congress.
This morning, Jack Smith walked into the lion’s den of a Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee meeting, and calmly laid out Trump’s crimes for the world to see.
Behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, former Special Prosecutor Jack Smith did what Republicans desperately hoped he wouldn’t: he methodically, unapologetically, and calmly reminded them why Donald Trump was charged in the first place — and why no amount of political revenge can erase the facts.
In an hours-long deposition before the Committee, the former special counsel made one thing crystal clear: Trump is responsible for Trump actions. Not Joe Biden. Not Democrats. Not the “deep state.” Just Trump.
“The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine,” Smith told lawmakers, “but the basis for those charges rests entirely with President Trump and his actions.” Translation: if Trump didn’t want indictments, he shouldn’t have committed the crime (allegedly).
Smith didn’t hedge. He didn’t flinch. He said his team uncovered evidence proving “beyond a reasonable doubt” that Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 election and block the lawful transfer of power — a stunning reminder of just how close the country came to losing its democracy.
On the classified documents case, Smith said the evidence was “powerful” and that Trump “repeatedly tried to obstruct justice.” Not misplaced papers. Not a misunderstanding. Obstruction.
And for Republicans screaming “witch hunt,” Smith torched that talking point too. He said he would have brought the same charges if Trump were a Democrat or a Republican. Facts and law, not politics, guided the investigation — a concept that seems increasingly foreign to today’s GOP.
Smith also defended his team’s decision to seek phone records from Republican lawmakers, explaining that Trump and his allies were calling members of Congress to further their criminal scheme to delay certification. “I didn’t choose those Members,” Smith said. “President Trump did.”
That line alone should haunt every lawmaker in the room.
Meanwhile, Republicans are openly targeting Smith himself, cheering on an unprecedented retaliation campaign that has included sanctions against his law firm and calls for his prosecution — all because he dared to apply the law to a powerful man.
Smith wanted to testify publicly. Jim Jordan said no. Transparency is dangerous when the truth cuts this deep.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, called the deposition “boring,” but that’s because in Jack Smith’s hands the facts don’t scream — they indict.
Jack Smith walked into a hostile room knowing the hunters were circling. And instead of blinking, he calmly reminded them: the evidence speaks for itself.
We can only hope that Donald Trump will someday face justice for the crimes that the former Special Prosecutor so meticulously detailed. Whether that happens while he’s still alive, given his apparently dubious medical conditions, remains to be seen.
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ICE surround judge's car threatening to smash windows—then detain his high school intern.
Agents handcuff teenager to arrest him—until judge fights loudly to demand they check ID to confirm they have wrong person.
Court security noticed masked men sneaking pictures of the boy —so the judge stepped up to offer him a ride home because he was so scared he was visibly shaking.
After a heated argument ICE agents finally admit they had made a mistake and just quietly left the courthouse empty handed.
Judge Joseph J. McBurney is an Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Superior Court—located in Providence, Rhode Island. #DemsUnited