alex is writing (or supposed to be!)
writer, queer person, dartmouth & ncsu alum 📚
voracious reader, lifelong learner, love warrior ✨
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- Reposted by alex is writing (or supposed to be!)In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram
- Reposted by alex is writing (or supposed to be!)From a FB post about Alex Pretti:
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- Reposted by alex is writing (or supposed to be!)The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI
- Reposted by alex is writing (or supposed to be!)This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.
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- Reposted by alex is writing (or supposed to be!)The Atlantic finally catching up with what some of us have been saying for *years*
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- Reposted by alex is writing (or supposed to be!)The grimness of US history should encourage us. Yes, people used to send lynching postcards. And other people saw that, worked towards building a more just society anyway, and succeeded beyond anyone's wildest imagination. There's more work to be done. What's our excuse for choosing despair instead?
- Reposted by alex is writing (or supposed to be!)There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.
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- Reposted by alex is writing (or supposed to be!)Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways
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- Reposted by alex is writing (or supposed to be!)I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.
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- Reposted by alex is writing (or supposed to be!)Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
- I’m told there were 500 local and out-of-town clergypeople at a training Thursday (1/22 last night) for actions during the strike today. #iceoutmn
- Reposted by alex is writing (or supposed to be!)I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...
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- I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...
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- Reposted by alex is writing (or supposed to be!)It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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- Reposted by alex is writing (or supposed to be!)On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”
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- Reposted by alex is writing (or supposed to be!)"in most cases, these videos appear to have been filmed secretly - using Meta smart glasses." Argh for the love of god BAN. THE. PERVERT GLASSES.
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- Reposted by alex is writing (or supposed to be!)MS NOW news crew capturing ICE/DHS agents firing pepper balls, flash bangs, and tear gas at non violent protesters. file:///C:/Users/Nikki/Downloads/Velshi-2026-01-24.mp4
- Reposted by alex is writing (or supposed to be!)I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
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- Reposted by alex is writing (or supposed to be!)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.
- 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...
