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Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Alex Pretti's murder is a time to pull together and demand change and mourn

Alex Pretti was murdered by the Chump administration. There's no excuse or justification.

I don't usually post during the week unless it's a group post. But Betty's "To my Black brothers and sisters" went up. Ann texted me about it and she's already posted "What Betty said." So let me be clear as a Black man, I don't want hear Black YOUTUBERS who think it's time to say nah-nah-nah. A man was murdered by the government. That's outrageous. If you're focused on the fact that he's White, you're missing the point. It was wrong. The whole plan being carried out is wrong.

Lurie, we don't need your half-assed bulls**t where you attack White people. And Lurie, you got White girl hair. Don't think it's natural but maybe it is. At any rate, your White girl hair makes your attaks on White people even more ridiculous. You're trying to be White with that hair and then you turn around and attack White people and make fun of them for being the victims of violence.

Bitch, please.

Here's C.I.'s "The Snapshot:"

Monday, January 26, 2026. Another Minnesota murder carried out by Chump's gestapo.

Federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday fatally shot a 37-year-old man, the second person to be shot and killed in the city during a ramped-up immigration enforcement effort by the Trump administration, the authorities said.

At least two other people have been shot by federal law enforcement agents in Minneapolis this month — one in the leg and another, Renee Good, 37, in the head, killing her.

After Ms. Good’s death on Jan. 7, protests have taken place in the city, raising tensions with federal agents. State and local officials have called for federal agents to leave the city.

They murdered him. They murdered an American citizen. Another one.

And they know they murdered him. They lie to deny that's what happened.

But they murdered him and to try to get away with it, they smear him with lies. So they killed his body and since killing his body? They've worked overtime to kill his reputation.

Before we get to the lies from Chump and his minions, let's hear from people who actually knew Alex.

Wendy Grossman Kantor (PEOPLE) reports:

"I'm saddened to the deepest part of my heart," veteran Sonny Fouts, 71, tells PEOPLE of Pretti's death

When Alex Pretti appeared on the local news, Minneapolis Air Force veteran Sonny Fouts immediately recognized him. Just two weeks ago, Pretti was the ICU nurse who cared for Sonny, 71, all night after a major surgery.

“I’m saddened,” Sonny tells PEOPLE of Pretti's death. “I’m saddened to the deepest part of my heart.”

Sonny and his significant other, Kimberly Fouts, met Pretti, 37, on Jan. 12, when the 71-year-old underwent a descending aorta aneurysm repair procedure at the VA Medical Center, where the nurse was employed.

The surgery took nine hours, and Sonny was then admitted to the ICU, where he was cared for overnight by Pretti.

During the surgery, Kimberly had been waiting in the family room from 6 a.m. until 5 p.m., when she was told that she could visit Sonny in his ICU room.

“I walked in, and Sonny's just hooked up to so many machines and needles and tubes, and Alex was his nurse and he just lightened the situation,” Kimberly recalls. “There are nurses who come in and don’t really say anything, and Alex was not like that. I appreciated that I immediately felt comfortable with him. And I felt that Sonny was in good hands."

“I do remember how he comforted me, helped me, did his job,” adds Sonny, a retired musician who played saxophone and guitar and was a singer-songwriter. “He made me feel as comfortable as possible. He made me laugh a few times — and I certainly didn’t feel like laughing.”

Sonny appreciated that Pretti comforted and cared for Kimberly, too.

Renee and Alex were murdered by Chump & company. And instead of an apology, a realization, efforts to make changes, they act like the killers they are and instead attack the victims.

Can you imagine being a friend or family member of Renee's or of Alex's and hearing the administration lie non-stop?

It's disgusting. And that it's coming from so-called public servants whose salary that we pay? That's beyond offensive. It's beyond outrageous.

And it's not going away. The outrage is building and it's cutting across political lines. AP's Mary Clare Jalonick reports:

Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen is calling for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, saying that she believes Noem is attempting to "mislead the American public” about the fatal shooting of a 37 year-old protester in Minneapolis.

The call from Rosen, a moderate from Nevada who was part of the group that helped Republicans end the 43-day government shutdown last year, comes amid a growing fury from congressional Democrats who have also vowed to block funding for the Homeland Security Department. A House resolution to launch impeachment proceedings against Noem has the support of more than 100 Democrats, but few Senate Democrats have so far weighed in.

“Kristi Noem has been an abject failure leading the Department of Homeland Security for the last year — and the abuses of power we’re seeing from ICE are the latest proof that she has lost control over her own department and staff,” Rosen said in a statement to The Associated Press.

And it's no longer just Democrats in Congress calling for Kristi Noem's impeachment.

Saturday, WSWS noted the murder of Alex:

This morning, only a few hours ago, ICE agents carried out a second cold-blooded execution of a citizen of Minneapolis. This killing has taken place only a few blocks from where Renée Nicole Good was murdered little more than two weeks ago.

The video of this atrocity shows that the ICE agents fired their guns repeatedly into the body of their victim as he lay helpless on the ground.

This crime is the response of the Trump administration to yesterday’s powerful and peaceful demonstration against ICE’s reign of terror against the workers and youth of Minneapolis.

These murders and other acts of violence are being perpetrated with the full support of the Trump administration. Following Renée Good’s killing, the government denounced the victim as a terrorist and declared that there would be no criminal investigation into the circumstances of the shooter. The ICE agent who murdered her has gone scot-free.

Just one day before the city-wide general strike, Vice President Vance came to Minneapolis, where he once again defended the murder of Renée Good and denounced opponents of ICE’s violent rampage as “far-left agitators.” One can be certain that in private meetings Vance instructed ICE to continue its operations and assured its agents that they would be fully supported by the government.

The reign of terror by Trump’s ICE stormtroopers must be stopped.

So that's a moderate Democrat outraged and a Socialist publication outraged. That's no where near the end of it. Reanna Smith (THE MIRROR) notes podcaster Tim Pool is calling out the government's lies as well:

"Yea uh this is civil war," Pool wrote as he shared a post by Democratic strategist Matt McDermott claiming that Attorney General Pam Bondi is "openly using state violence as a bargaining chip to seize election infrastructure."

Bondi sent a three-page letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz with three requests following Pretti's death. One called for the Department of Justice to be given "access to voter rolls".

The Attorney General stated: "Third, allow the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice to access voter rolls to confirm that Minnesota's voter registration practices comply with federal law as authorized by the Civil Rights Act of 1960. Fulfilling this common-sense request will better guarantee free and fair elections and boost confidence in the rule of law."

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But while Pool branded Pretti a "radicalized leftist," he questioned the Trump administration's narrative that he was out to "massacre" law enforcement officers.

"I don't believe this for 2 seconds," he wrote. "There's no reason to think he was trying to massacre LEOs."

Sarah Fortinsky (THE HILL) reports former US House Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene also has a problem with the murder of Alex:

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) urged President Trump’s MAGA base to “take off their political blinders” as she expressed skepticism about the use of force deployed during the latest shooting in Minnesota involving a federal immigration agent.

In a post on the social platform X, Greene touted her support for law enforcement and immigration enforcement, but she also defended the right to legally carry firearms, indirectly pushing back on claims that 37-year-old Alex Pretti posed a threat to federal officers by virtue of carrying a firearm.

“I unapologetically believe in border security and deporting criminal illegal aliens and I support law enforcement. However, I also unapologetically support the 2nd amendment,” Greene wrote. “Legally carrying a firearm is not the same as brandishing a firearm.”

“I support American’s 1st and 4th amendment rights,” she continued. “There is nothing wrong with legally peacefully protesting and videoing.”

People are standing up. You've got the ongoing protesters. You've got moderates, Socialists, MAGAs and Democrats. Senator Chuck Schumer has found his spine. Caroline Linton (CBS NEWS) reports:

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Saturday that Democrats will not put up the necessary votes to advance a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security in the wake of immigration agents shooting and killing a man in Minneapolis on Saturday.

"What's happening in Minnesota is appalling —and unacceptable in any American city. Democrats sought common sense reforms in the Department of Homeland Security spending bill, but because of Republicans' refusal to stand up to President Trump, the DHS bill is woefully inadequate to rein in the abuses of ICE," Schumer said in a statement. "I will vote no. Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included."

Other Democrats speaking out?

Senator Adam Schiff's office issued the following:

Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joined NBC’s Meet the Press with Kristen Welker to react to the killing of another U.S. citizen at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis, the lack of a real, independent investigation of the shooting by the administration blocking local authorities’ involvement, and the ongoing abuse of power and force being exhibited by immigration enforcement agencies in Minnesota and across the country.

Schiff made clear that he will not support additional funding for DHS, ICE or CBP, the agencies responsible for the escalating chaos and the recent shootings, calling on Republicans to not force a government shutdown by controversially including more money for immigration enforcement in the funding bills later this week. He also reiterated demands for real congressional oversight to understand the corruption, fraud, and abuse being exhibited by the Department of Homeland Security and the Trump White House after providing billions of dollars to ICE and CBP over the past year.

View the full interview here.

Key Excerpts:

On Deputy Attorney General Blanche’s blame on local officials and law enforcement and the lack of a complete investigation into the killing of Alex Pretti:

[…] “For him to blame the cities and blame the states for flooding the streets of America with thousands of poorly trained agents who are shooting Americans in cold blood, in the street and through windshields, is despicable. What the American people have seen is horrifying. And I was really struck by a couple things of your interview with him. First, you asked him repeatedly, is there any evidence that you have seen or heard that Alex Pretti drew the weapon on agents or brandished the weapon? And he could not answer that question. And you know, if there was evidence of that, he would have said so. He then accused you of gaslighting the administration, which is also absurd. He would have you disbelieve anything you see.”

[…] “I was a prosecutor for almost six years. There does need to be investigation of both of these killings and a lot more, but no one, no one, can have confidence that DHS will do that properly. When the head of that agency has called these victims “domestic terrorists” without knowing anything, when the White House is calling them domestic terrorists, who can believe an investigation led by people who have already reached their conclusion? Local officials, local law enforcement need to be involved in these investigations. It needs to be objective, and we simply can’t accept an administration that says, “Don’t believe your lying eyes.”

On his position on the upcoming vote on Department of Homeland Security funding:

“I’m not giving ICE or Border Patrol another dime, given how this agency, these agencies are operating. Democrats are not going to fund that. The government will shut down if Republicans insist that that it be joined with other government funding. It will be a Republican decision. They understand we’re not going to go along with this, and we hope some of the Republicans in the Senate may see those scenes in the streets and be as repelled as we are and vote against that continuation of violence.”

[…] “They will make the decision there in the majority if they want to shut down the government so they can perpetuate this violence. But I’m not going to be a part of it, and I think anyone who votes to give them more money to do this will share in the responsibility and see more Americans die in our cities as a result.”

On the corruption and fraud in the DHS spending:

“They have thrown so much money at these agencies they don’t know what to do with it, and there is no question that when we actually get a chance to do oversight again, which I hope will happen after this November, you are going to find all kinds of corruption in how that money is going out. I have no question, you will find sole source contracting going out to friends of people in the administration, and money wasted hand over fist. They talk a good game about cutting down on waste, fraud, and abuse. There is going to be enormous waste, fraud, and abuse in DHS, given how money is being spent without any kind of real oversight. So, I wouldn’t make the problem worse to begin with, but I would also overhaul those agencies.”

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But it's not just those groupings of people. There are other Republicans, for example. Sanjana Karanth (HUFFINGTON POST) reports:

A growing number of Republicans are pushing for an investigation into the tactics that federal immigration authorities are using in Minnesota after ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot and killed over the weekend.

Several videos of the incident on Saturday showed the 37-year-old holding his phone in one hand as he filmed Border Patrol activity. When Pretti tried to help a female observer who had been shoved by a federal agent, several other agents attacked him with pepper spray and wrestled him to the ground. At least one agent repeatedly shot Pretti, killing him and sparking more chaos.

“This is a real tragedy. I think the death of Americans, what we’re seeing on TV, it’s causing deep concerns over federal tactics and accountability. Americans don’t like what they’re seeing right now,” Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.

“What is the endgame? What is the solution? And, you know, we believe in federalism and state rights, and nobody likes feds coming into their state,” he added. “And so what’s the goal right now? Is it to deport every single non-U.S. citizen? I don’t think that’s what Americans want.”

Steven Sloan (AP) adds:

A host of other congressional Republicans, including Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas and Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, pressed for more information. Their statements, in addition to concern expressed from several Republican governors, reflected a party struggling with how to respond to Saturday’s fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse at a VA hospital.

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The killing has raised uncomfortable questions about the GOP's core positions on issues ranging from gun ownership to states' rights and trust in the federal government.

Cassidy, who is facing a Trump-backed challenger in his reelection bid, said on social media that the shooting was “incredibly disturbing” and that the “credibility of ICE and DHS are at stake.” He pushed for “a full joint federal and state investigation.” Tillis, who is not seeking reelection, urged a “thorough and impartial investigation” and said “any administration official who rushes to judgment and tries to shut down an investigation before it begins are doing an incredible disservice to the nation and to President Trump’s legacy.”

It's also nurses. Katie Herchenroeder (MOTHER JONES) explains:

The nation’s largest union of registered nurses fervently renewed their demand to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement and cease current deportation operations in American cities after a federal immigration agent shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old registered nurse, in Minneapolis on Saturday.

“The nation’s nurses,” National Nurses United, which has more than 225,000 members nationwide, began in a statement, “who make it their mission to care for and save human lives, are horrified and outraged that immigration agents have once again committed cold-blooded murder of a public observer who posed no threat to them.”

“This time,” they continued, “they have executed one of our fellow nurses.”

It's also gun right advocates. David McAfee (RAW STORY) notes Ka$h Patel, head of the FBI got caught lying on FOX "NEWS:"

But it wasn't just Dem voices chiming in. Instead, the MN Gun Owners Caucus also added, "This is completely incorrect on Minnesota law."

"There is no prohibition on a permit holder carrying a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines at a protest or rally in Minnesota," the group wrote.

When a reader noted that Pretti reportedly wasn't carrying an ID, which he is required to do under the state's concealed-carry law, MN Gun Owners Caucus hit back with a simple reply:

"It’s a $25 ticket," the group answered Sunday.

The group was also asked about the state's magazine restrictions, to which it replied, "There are none."

And let's applaud the journalists who get lies spit in their face by Chump and his henchman and instead of going along with the lie or being silent, they do their job and correct the record. Brownshirt Greg Bovino appeared on CNN Sunday to spread lies. Kathleen O'Boyle (THE MIRROR) notes:

The 37-year-old nurse and legal gun owner was shot and killed by federal agents during protests against immigration enforcement operations in the city. Officials initially claimed Pretti posed an imminent threat to officers, but bystander footage and multiple witness statements show a far more complicated encounter.

Bash repeatedly urged Bovino to provide evidence that Pretti had intended to carry out violence against law enforcement. “There is no evidence – unless you have evidence, I would love to see it if there is – that he was intending to massacre law enforcement other than that he was there and he had a gun lawfully,” she said. It comes after an out-of-control ICE agent screamed a horrific three-word slur before shooting a woman 5 times.

Bovino lied because that's what trash does -- especially trash that likes to dress up in Nazi garb. We're not required to advance his known lies. Back to the article after his lies:

Bash pushed back, noting that Pretti was there to 'film and document' the protests, which is legal, and that 'from everything we have seen, Pretti was the one being assaulted by law enforcement.'

Again, we have no time for the lies of a Nazi lover so we'll not bother with Bovino. Back to the article after his lies:

As the exchange concluded, Bash delivered a blunt final statement, “There is no evidence he was perpetrating violence.”

Pretti, a registered nurse who worked at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, had no criminal history beyond minor traffic violations. According to officials, he legally carried a handgun. Video reviewed by multiple news outlets shows Pretti holding a phone and filming moments before he was tackled by officers, sprayed with a chemical agent, and pinned to the ground. Footage appears to show an officer removing a gun from Pretti’s waistband before shots were fired.

And she's exactly right, "There is no evidence he was perpetrating violence." They lied about Renee and now they're lying about Alex. A government that serves the people will make mistakes. They will not lie to cover up those mistakes. But that's what's happening. Chump and his minions have now murdered two American citizens in Minnesota. Instead of apologizing and launching investigations into the actions of Chump's gestapo, the administration compounds their crimes by attacking the dead. They lie about the dead, they smear them. This is not an accountable government.

He should be losing it. A) He's responsible and B) he's losing everything: Nurses, labor, gun right activists, MAGA, Democrats, Republicans. The mid-terms are more or less ten months away and Chump is running every voting faction off.

THE GUARDIAN notes:

The man who was killed by federal agents on Saturday has been identified as Alex Pretti, 37, a registered nurse working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System.
A video circulating online on Saturday morning, which matches the reported location of the shooting mentioned by the officials, showed a man being wrestled to the ground by several law enforcement officers before being shot what appears to be several times. At least two officers can be seen with their weapons drawn.
In a second, more comprehensive video of the shooting, obtained and posted online by Drop Site News, Pretti appeared to come to the defense of an observer who had been shoved to the ground by a federal officer. That officer then sprayed Pretti with a chemical agent, repeatedly, before tackling him to the street along with other agents.
At least five agents surrounded Pretti on the ground, and one appeared to fire a shot at him at close range. The shot was followed by a volley of more shots, after which Pretti’s body goes still. The visual evidence in the second video seems consistent with the interpretation that a gun appeared to have been taken away by one agent just before another shot him.
Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara later said during a press conference on Saturday that Pretti’s only known previous interaction with law enforcement was for traffic tickets. O’Hara also noted Pretti was “a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry”.
[Edited to remove the remarks of Bovino who, again, is a known liar.]
It’s the second fatal shooting this month in Minneapolis, in addition to another non-fatal shooting, amid a major crackdown in Minnesota by federal agents. Officials urged people to “remain peaceful and recognize there is a lot of anger and questions around what has happened”.
Protesters were heard calling “shame, shame” at officers after Pretti’s shooting, blowing whistles and shouting for ICE to leave the city. The agents responded with teargas and flash-bang grenades.
Minneapolis’s mayor, Jacob Frey, called on Donald Trump to “end this operation” of federal immigration enforcement agents and officers surging into Minneapolis, and demanded that the US president “take action now to remove these federal agents”. At the same press conference, police chief Brian O’Hara acknowledged immense anger in the city at the shooting but pleaded for calm.
Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz, has staged national guard troops ready to help in keeping order in Minneapolis as protest and outrage at violent conduct by federal immigration personnel continue. Walz had activated them earlier in January, putting them under his orders to be ready if needed. Staging essentially means gathering and preparing to be on the streets. Initially, some troops are going to guard a federal building.
Walz called the operation of immigration enforcement that has surged into Minneapolis a “federal occupation”. He said he had seen bystander footage of the fatal shooting of Pretti and said it was “sickening”.

Donald Chump did not get voted into a second term by a majority of Americans. Not by a majority of voters who turned out (he got 49% of the vote, not even fifty) and not by a majority of Americans who were eligible to vote. -- (approximately 90 million American adults who were eligible to vote did not vote in 2024. Chump got 77.3 million voters. More people -- close to 90 million -- didn't vote than voted for him. And 75 million vote for Kamala. Neither grouping -- all eligible voters or just those who voted -- delivered Chump a majority of votes.

New topic . . .

Let's move to a video that a number of you are e-mailing requesting for it to be highlighted. I'm not going to. At 10:44 pm Pacific Time last night, I actually put it the "scheduled" rotation. And I listened to it while scheduling other videos to go up overnight.

And?

I pulled it. I don't have time for bulls**t -- yeah, it's a catchy title and it's a good topic.

But I don't post lies.

I don't need brainless bimbos. I don't. I look askance at the woman to begin with -- she's in her 30s or 40s and, until this year, was calling herself either "Politics Girl" or "Political Girl" -- I can't remember which.

But get your facts straight, bimbo, or get off that platform. You cheapen it and you weaken it.

I don't care what else is in the video. It's like a new show that everyone's raving about: STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS!!!! A SHOW WOMEN SHOULD LOVE!!!! Really? Because this woman didn't love it. I turned it off five minutes in. Pro-women shows? They don't start with a song where a man's trashing a woman. They also don't start with a song (the same song, in fact) written by a man who's beaten and abused two women that we know of. Pro-women shows don't advance the popularity of a man guilty of multiple acts of terrorism (domestic violence is terrorism). Whatever positives the show might offer, they've undermined themselves. Just like a bimbo doing 'analysis' that includes lies advanced by Donald Chump.

I'm not in the damn mood. We need more female voices. Ones worth hearing. Bimbos in front of microphones aren't helping us. Don't we already see that on THE MAJORITY REPORT where Emma attacks female politicians and promotes male politicians just like the guys on the show do? Watching Roland yesterday (clip below) the first show that came to mind was the crap-ass MAJORITY REPORT.

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Monday, January 12, 2026

Jared Polis -- the sick joke that needs to go away

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

WOULD BE MAGA JARED POLIS IS CONTEMPLATING PARDONING TINA PETERS. REACHED FOR COMMENT BY THESE REPORTERS, COLORADO GOVERNOR POLIS EXPLAINED, "WELL I'VE ALWAYS BEEN WORTHLESS. BECAUSE I WAS GAY AND RAN AS AN OUT GAY MAN FOR CONGRESS YEARS AGO, YOU MADE THE MISTAKE OF THINKING I HAD BRAVERY. BUT YOU KNEW I DIDN'T. IN FACT, YOU ESPECIALLY KNEW AND CALLED ME ON IT."

"YOU ESPECIALLY" FOUND HIM POINTING AT C.I. AND HE WAS REFERRING TO WHEN NOURI AL-MALIKI WAS OVER IRAQ (DUE TO THE U.S.) AND TARGETED GAY MALES AND MALES WHO MIGHT APPEAR GAY AND WENT AROUND TO SCHOOLS SAYING THAT THEY WERE SATAN AND VAMPIRES AND MUCH WORSE AND IRAQIS RESPONDED BY SEALING THE MALES' ANUSES WITH SUPER GLUE WHCIH WILL KILL A PERSON (AND KILLED MANY). C.I. WAS WRITING ABOUT IT -- AND A NEWSPAPER EVEN STOLE HER WRITING AND PASSED IT OFF AS THEIR OWN. THE OTHER U.S. PAPERS WERE IGNORING THE STORY. JARED WENT ON THE LATE LILA GARRETT'S KPFK RADIO PROGRAM AND TALKED ABOUT IT -- LILA FOUND THE NEWS SHOCKING -- AND C.I. SAID TO JARED, "YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO DO ANYTHING ELSE ON IT, ARE YOU?" AND, NO, HE NEVER DID ANYTHING ELSE ON IT. HE COULD TALK ABOUT IT ON A RADIO SHOW BUT DESPITE BEING A MEMBER OF CONGRESS COWARD POLIS DID NOTHING.

ON TINA PETERS, COWARD POLIS STATED SHE "GOT A SETENCE THAT WAS HARSH. IT WAS A NINE-YEAR SENTENCE." HARSH? SHE NOT ONLY VIOLATED HER OFFICE, SHE USED SOMEONE ELSE CREDENTIALS TO COVER HER ACTIONS . POLIS SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS MAKING HIS POT BELLY EVEN MORE PRONOUNCED AND THEN DECALRED, "WE ALWAYS LOOK AT PEOPLE'S SENTENCES, AND WHEN THEY ARE ELDERLY, AND WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS ACROSS A NUMBER OF PEOPLE -- PEOPLE IN THEIR 70S AND THEIR 80S IN OUR SYSTEM -- HOW MUCH OF A THREAT TO SOCIETY ARE THEY? AND WE BLANCE THAT IN A WAY THAT MAKES SURE THAT THEY CAN SPEND THEIR LAST FEW YEARS AT HOME."

AT THIS POINT, WE INFORMED POLIS, "YOU, SIR, ARE NOT JUST A COWARD, YOU'RE A DAMN LIAR.

MILLER HUDSON OFFERS THIS PERSPECTIVE:

She is not a political prisoner, as alleged by the White House, but a felon charged by a genuine Republican District Attorney in Mesa County and her infractions were confirmed unanimously by a jury of her peers — drawn from a blood-red citizenry that had to include fellow partisans. In her defense, my own assessment tells me her bulb was not the brightest on the Christmas tree at the La Vista Correctional Facility for women in Pueblo during the recent holidays. Stupidity is not a defense, of course, but certainly seems a contributing factor. Judge Mattew Barrett’s sentencing statement is worth reading, as well. The judge identifies her as the most “defiant defendant” he has ever encountered.

WIKIPEDIA NOTES:

Indictment, trial and conviction

Peters was indicted on March 9, 2022, on 13 counts: three counts of attempting to influence a public servant (class 4 felonies), two counts of conspiracy to commit attempting to influence a public servant (class 5 felonies), first-degree official misconduct (a class 2 misdemeanor), violation of duty (a misdemeanor), failing to comply with the secretary of state (a misdemeanor), obstruction, contempt of court, criminal impersonation, and identity theft of Gerald Wood.^[64]^[65] She was reported to have "sought to prove that widespread fraud had occurred in the state's 2020 presidential election",^[19]^[66]^[67] Knisley was indicted alongside Peters, on six counts: attempt to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, violation of duty, and failure to comply with the requirements of the Secretary of State.^[64]

Despite having acknowledged in earlier court appearances that a non-employee had been present,^[11] she claimed that Gerald Wood had perjured himself on the stand when he denied being at the unauthorized breach.^[65] Conan Hayes admitted to using Wood's badge, and Patrick M. Byrne told The New York Times that Hayes was on his payroll and had used FaceTime with him from inside Mesa County election offices saying a government official invited him to make backup copies of machines. Byrne told the Times he could see Hayes was wearing "someone else's" identification badge.^[68] Peters was barred from supervising local elections in 2022 as well.^[19]^[69]^[18]

Three ethics complaints have also been filed against Peters. On August 16, 2021, she was alleged to have accepted plane rides and other gifts from Mike Lindell in excess of the state gift limit of $65.^[70]^[71] In April 2022, at an appearance with Peters, Lindell disclosed having personally donated an amount in the $200,000 to $800,000 range to her legal defense fund and campaign.^[72] As this was also in apparent violation of the $65 state limit, the Colorado ethics commission approved a second ethics complaint that had been made in January 2022 and investigated Peters' elections fund.^[73]^[70]^[71] Peters denied prior knowledge,^[74] despite previously directing supporters to Lindell's legal defense fund.^[72] On May 17, 2022, the commission found a third ethics complaint filed on May 9 non-frivolous. This complaint was based on Lindell's comments at an "Election Truth Rally" and alleged that Peters knew of these payments, as evidenced by recorded comments she made at the rally.^[75]^[76]

In July 2022, a warrant was issued for Peters' arrest after she traveled out of state without the required court permission to appear at another Lindell event in Las Vegas.^[77] Peters claimed not to know of the restriction, her three attorneys claimed not to have told her, and the arrest order was canceled;^[78] but later the same month, a second warrant for her arrest was issued because she emailed multiple county clerk's offices informing them that she was seeking a recount with hand counting, violating the bond conditions of her arrest for election machine tampering. Peters turned herself in, was arrested, was allowed to repost bond, and was again released.^[79] County Elections Manager Sandra Brown also turned herself in for arrest on July 11, 2022, on an affidavit naming her in a conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation and attempt to influence a public servant. She was released from custody after posting a personal recognizance bond.^[80]

Peters claimed in a July 29 press release that El Paso County's logic and accuracy test (LAT) failed "in a spectacular fashion, with over a 50% error rate out of the 4,000+ ballots tested."^[81]^[82] The release also claimed that "Griswold did not provide reasonable advance notice of the LAT to the Tina Peters Campaign, thereby denying them their right to have an [sic] appointed watchers present during the test," however, the Colorado Springs Gazette showed representatives for Peters' campaign present at the test.^[83] Peters filed suit challenging methods used in the recount, and on August 6, 2022, that suit was dismissed.^[84]

On August 7, 2022, Peters pled not guilty to all charges related to the alleged election machine tampering, and a trial was set for March 2023.^[85] On August 20, 2022, Peters and Sherronna Bishop appeared in a documentary released by Mike Lindell titled "[S]election Code".^[86]^[87]^[88]

On August 25, 2022, Knisley pled guilty to three misdemeanor counts of trespass, official misconduct, and violation of duty, having cut a plea deal with prosecutors to keep her out of prison in exchange for testifying against Peters and others in the case. Court documents say Knisley admitted she knew about and participated in a "scheme with Tina Peters and other identified people to deceive public servants from both the Colorado Secretary of State's Office and Mesa County."^[89] The document continues to state, "This scheme, which was significantly directed by Tina Peters, ultimately permitted an unauthorized individual to gain access to secure areas inside the Mesa County Clerk and Recorder's Office so that this person – fraudulently held out to be improperly titled as Gerald Wood, but who was later identified to actually be Conan Hayes – could participate in Mesa County's trusted build with Tina Peters and Sandra Brown."^[90]

On November 30, 2022, Sandra Brown pled guilty to attempting to influence a public servant, a felony, and official misconduct, a misdemeanor, as part of a plea agreement that required her to testify against Tina Peters and her performance on the witness stand would play a factor in her eventual sentencing. Brown's deal, which 21st Judicial District Judge Matthew Barrett did not decide whether to accept until sentencing, would require her to serve up to 30 days in jail for the misdemeanor and would allow the felony conviction to be erased after two years if she complied with conditions he sets, such as requiring community service, for those two years. "There were things going on that I should have questioned and I didn't," Brown told Judge Barrett.^[91]

In March 2023, Peters received a Mesa County jury trial for charges related to her recording the court proceedings of Knisley with an iPad and for obstructing investigators who tried to execute a search warrant to seize her iPad with the video footage the next day. During the trial, testimony and statements from Peters' attorney revealed that Tammy Bailey was an alias that Peters had created for herself; during the time of the search warrant, Peters had repeatedly told investigators that the iPad did not belong to her and that she could not provide the password because it belonged to someone else named Tammy Bailey. The jury ultimately convicted her on a misdemeanor charge of obstruction of government operations but acquitted her on the charge that she obstructed a peace officer.^[92]^[63] The court sentenced Peters to four months of house arrest for this misdemeanor, during which she was ordered to wear an ankle monitor, fined $786.35, and ordered to perform 120 hours of community service, which she planned to appeal.^[93]^[94]

Sandra Brown began her 30-day sentence for the misdemeanor of official misconduct. Brown's deal would allow her felony conviction of attempting to influence a public servant to be expunged after two years if she complied with the conditions set by Judge Barrett.^[95]

On May 5, 2023, Peters was held in contempt of court for lying to Judge Barrett about recording court proceedings involving Knisley using her iPad on February 7, 2022. Eagle County District Judge Paul Dunkelman gave Peters a fine of $1,500.^[61] On September 6, 2023, Peters pleaded not guilty to three counts of attempting to influence a public servant (felony), conspiracy to commit trying to influence a public servant (felony), criminal impersonation (felony), two counts of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation (felony), identity theft (felony), first-degree official misconduct (misdemeanor), violation of duty (misdemeanor), and failing to comply with the secretary of state (misdemeanor).^[96] Her trial was pushed back to February 9, 2024,^[97] with the jury selection process to take place on the two preceding days.^[98]

On July 19, 2023, Tina Peters fired her attorney, Harvey Steinberg, and hired new attorneys, Douglas Richards and Madalia Maalik. They requested to push the trial to October 18–30, 2023.^[99]

On November 13, 2023, Peters filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Denver, Colorado against the United States, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, 21st Judicial District Court Attorney Daniel Rubinstein, and Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold. The suit alleged that these government officials violated her constitutional rights by retaliating with investigations and charges against her for her alleged misconduct as an election official when she raised election integrity concerns in the 2020 General Election.^[100]

In February 2024, Peters was scheduled to go to court for her criminal case but had fired her attorneys again, claiming to have COVID-19. Attorney Michael Edminister took over the case from Douglas Richards and other attorneys in the Richards Carrington law firm, making him the fifth attorney of record and the fourth time her case has been postponed.^[101] The trial was again delayed until the July and August 2024.^[102]

Peters attempted to have the charges against her dismissed several times. U.S. District Court Judge Nina Y. Wang dismissed Peters' motion to dismiss the criminal investigation citing a failure to state a claim, a lack of standing, and a lack of jurisdiction to dismiss the case.^[103]^[104] The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals denied her appeal of that decision, with a unanimous 3–0 ruling affirming the lower court's decision.^[105]^[106] Then, the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Neil Gorsuch denied Peters' application for an injunction to dismiss or halt a criminal trial against her.^[107]^[108] The trial then proceeded.

Conviction and sentencing

Peters was convicted in August 2024 on seven of ten charges of engaging in a security breach to advance a false conspiracy theory of election fraud. Four of the convictions were for felonies.^[27]^[109] On the day after her conviction, she appeared on the Steve Bannon War Room podcast to insist she would continue to pursue her allegations, referring to a debunked theory originating from former Michigan politician Patrick Colbeck and amplified on Twitter by Rasmussen Reports alleging Dominion engineers based in Serbia could change votes over the internet.^[110]^[111]

Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison and immediately taken into custody in October 2024.^[112] At her sentencing, District Court Judge Matthew Barrett told Peters, "Your lies are well documented... I'm convinced you'd do it all over again if you could."^[113] Peters told the judge, "I've never done anything with malice to break the law. I've only wanted to serve the people of Mesa County."^[112] Barrett told her, "You are no hero. You're a charlatan who used, and is still using, your prior position in office to peddle a snake oil that's been proven to be junk time and time again."^[29] Subsequent to the sentencing the courthouse increased security after receiving threats to the judge and staff.^[114]

On February 7, 2025 Peters filed a federal habeas corpus petition in U.S. District Court of Colorado, arguing that she should be released on bond pending the appeal decision. Peters asked the court to appear at the hearing remotely from jail in Pueblo, but the judge denied the request.^[115] Her petition for release pending appeal was denied by Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Scott T. Varholak on December 8, 2025.^[116]

In May 2025, President Donald Trump directed the U.S. Department of Justice to take actions to secure Peters' release. In August 2025, Trump issued a social media statement warning that "harsh measures" would be imposed on Colorado if Peters was not released.^[117] On November 12, the Colorado Department of Corrections received a letter from the Federal Bureau of Prisons asking to move Peters to federal custody,^[118] a request denied by state prison officials and Colorado Governor Jared Polis.^[119] On December 11, Trump said he had pardoned Peters, despite having no jurisdiction over convictions under state law. Colorado officials rejected the pardon for lack of jurisdiction.^[120] On December 23, Peters asked the state appeals court to recognize the federal pardon.^[121] On December 31, Trump posted to social media that the governor was a "Scumbag" and the district attorney was "disgusting". He said: "I wish them only the worst. May they rot in Hell."^[122]

As of December 2025 Peters was housed at La Vista Correctional Facility in Pueblo, Colorado.^[123]

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

What won't Kristi Noem do?

I understand she'll do anything for Mardi Gras beads -- anything. But for the next four weeks, she's mainly going to keep attacking an American citizen shot dead by Chump's gestapo forces that she overseas.

Taking time away from both her husband and also her long alleged boyfriend, Homeland Security Tramp and Monster Kristi Noem appeared on CNN's STATE OF THE UNION. John Bowden (INDEPENDENT) reports:

Jake Tapper pressed DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday to explain how the administration was going to guarantee a fair investigation into Jonathan Ross, an ICE agent who was seen on video shooting a woman in her car in Minneapolis last week.

The shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, prompted hundreds of thousands of Americans to protest across the country this weekend.

Ross can be heard on his own cell phone video calling Good a “f***ing b****” before firing into the vehicle as it appears to turn away from his direction. Whether the officer was struck by the side of the car is unclear.

The secretary attempted to blame Democrats and the media for prejudging the officer’s guilt, but had no response when the State of the Union host questioned whether the administration’s stalwart defense of the officer’s actions would harm future investigations.

The whore wants to set the standard for what's allowed. I don't take standard recommendations from 'family values' politicians who are married and have public allegations -- even published in THE NEW YORK POST -- that they are having an ongoing, years-plus affair with another man -- a man that they have brought in as their co-worker at Homeland Security. If I wanted to know a really good mattress, I'd take Kristi's opinion on that or even some really good lubricants. Maybe she's got something to share if you end up with a venereal disease? But I'm not interested in a tramp giving me lectures on standards and what's wrong.

As Mika noted in the MORNING JOE video protests took place around the country over the weekend as a result of the US government murdering Renee Nicole Good.

The US government murdered Renee Nicole Good on January 7th in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ICE agent Jonathan Ross, a man with years of training in using a firearm and who provided training to others ("a firearms instructor, an active shooter instructor"), shot and killed the mother of three who was unarmed. Ross, apparently needing to make social content while on the clock, filmed her and when the video was released, the world saw that her last words to him were, "I'm not mad at you." By contrast, he or one of his fellow agents immediately called Renee a "f**king bitch" after plugged her with three bullets. The federal government immediately began attacking Good -- even though they should be stating "I can't comment on an ongoing federal investigation."

Instead, as NPR's Martin Kaste observed on January 9th, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, "And I think what's not normal here is the way the federal officials have been publicly passing judgment on a case that's still being investigated. For instance, just today, the vice president posted a video that appears to have come from a device being held by the agent who shot Renee Good on Wednesday. It shows Good smiling and saying she's not mad at the officer. But Vance called the video evidence that the officer was in danger. So there seems to be a real disconnect right now on the basic level of what the evidence means." Fat and little Vice president JD Vance is a professional troll but his efforts this time are especially outrageous. John Grosso (NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER) observed:

Yesterday (Jan. 7), 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed in a residential Minneapolis neighborhood by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. Good was a mother of three and an U.S. citizen.

Today, JD Vance has taken to social media to justify the shooting and blame Good for her own death.

Though the full circumstances of the situation are still coming to light, widely available video evidence shows the horrific moments before, during and after shots were fired into Good's car. Videos of the shooting and the ensuing aftermath are graphic and disturbing. After Good was shot, her car accelerates, slamming into another car and a pole. In one video, a person can be heard identifying themselves as a physician and offering to help only to be angrily denied by an unidentified ICE agent saying: "I don't care."

The Trump administration was quick to demonize Good. Within hours of the event and before a formal investigation could even be launched, Homeland Security Director Kristi Noem labeled Good's actions as an "act of domestic terrorism." President Donald Trump on Jan. 7 labeled her as "disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer." Trump went on to say that the ICE officer was lucky to be alive and "is now recovering in the hospital."

[. . .]

As a Catholic, Vance knows better than to peddle this brand of gaslighting and agitation. Vance knows that, by virtue of her humanity, Good was endowed with inherent dignity, made in the image and likeness of God. Vance knows that only God can take life. Vance knows that protesting, fleeing or even interfering in an ICE investigation (which there is no evidence that Good did) does not carry a death sentence. Vance knows that lying and killing are sins.

Vance knows. He doesn't care. Vance’s twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity has been repudiated by two popes. His Catholicism seems to be little more than a political prop, a tool only for his career ambitions and desire for power.

The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel. Our only recourse is to pray for his conversion of heart.

Mike's response to Vance's outrageous lies, "As a Catholic, I'm sick of this little bitch distorting my religion. He needs to be excommunicated. I'm not joking. He is presenting as a Catholic -- he's been a Catholic for about five minutes -- and he is distorting our beliefs and our teaching. Two popes have repudiated him -- Pope Francis and now Pope Leo. Excommunicate Vance, don't let him speak for the Church or pose as a Catholic. Whatever crap he was raised before distorted his damn mind. We cannot allow him to pervert the Catholic faith."

At AMERICA: THE JESUIT REVIEW, James T. Keane writes:

After Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed in her minivan by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, Vice President JD Vance called her murder “a tragedy of her own making” and claimed that Ms. Good, a community activist and a mother of three, was “part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to dox, to assault and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job.”

Mr. Vance claimed further that Ms. Good “viciously ran over the ICE officer” who shot and killed her, an assertion contradicted by video evidence taken from multiple angles.

Why the obvious lie? Because, similar to Ms. Kirkpatrick and Mr. Haig, Mr. Vance recognizes the potential for this atrocity to turn American public opinion against President Trump’s brutal campaign against undocumented immigrants, particularly because Ms. Good is an American citizen, was apparently denied medical assistance by ICE agents after the shooting and, according to the video evidence, posed no real threat to the shooter. Not even the most fervent supporter of the arrest and deportation of undocumented migrants, one assumes, would defend such Gestapo-like tactics.

The answer? Blame Ms. Good for her own murder.

Mr. Vance’s boss, President Trump, has engaged in further deceit and hyperbole in support of that same goal, claiming that Ms. Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense.” She made for an easy culprit for a man desperate to justify ICE’s actions. After all, she was already dead.

The murder of the churchwomen in El Salvador in 1980 was not an isolated incident; they shared the fate of tens of thousands of other Salvadorans, including Rutilio Grande, S.J., St. Oscar Romero, and the six Jesuits and two laywomen who were murdered by the Salvadoran military in 1989 in San Salvador. Eventually, the overwhelming evidence of these murders became too much for American politicians to justify, and U.S. funding for the Salvadoran military government dried up. It just became impossible to believe the lie anymore.

On the 40th anniversary of the martyrdom of the churchwomen of El Salvador, Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., preached at a memorial Mass in Rome on the impact of their witness. “Theirs, mysteriously but without doubt, is the triumph because vigorous, courageous acts of solidarity and compassion persist in dreadful, risky conditions,” he said. “Brutal claims failed and fail to stop the evangelizing.”

Let us hope the same will happen in Minneapolis. Nothing can bring Renee Good back; her 6-year-old son is without his mother now, her partner a widow. The masked man who killed her simply drove away. Nor is her death an isolated incident: All over the country, we hear and see more and more examples of violent attacks by masked ICE agents who seem to face no accountability for their crimes. And we hear the brutal claims used after the fact to justify them.

How long before it simply becomes impossible to believe the lie anymore?

Whitney Curry Wimbish (TAP) notes of Kristi Noem, "Noem repeated the lie that the officer who shot Good to death had done nothing wrong and that officers had been “surrounded, assaulted, and blocked in by protesters,” something contradicted by video and eyewitness evidence. She also said that Good had been following officers all day prior to her murder, but would not say for how long or whether there had been earlier interactions, or how many, between Good and the officers."

HARPER'S BIZAAR runs a piece by poet Danez Smith entitled "An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good." Renee was murdered January 7th and that night, in Chicago, Kelly Hayes spoke at a memorial for Renee:

I’m Kelly Hayes. I’ve been organizing for justice for years in this city, and I’ve had the honor of working and thinking alongside many of you in recent months as we’ve held our ground in defense of our neighbors. We are gathered here tonight in the cold, among people of conscience, among neighbors who see themselves in the person who was gunned down in Minneapolis today. She was 37 years old and her name was Renee Nicole Good. She was the mother of a six-year-old child. Her mother described her as “loving, forgiving and affectionate,” and called her “an amazing human being.”

We grieve for Renee, her family, and her community, but even before we knew anything about Renee — including her name — many of us were shaken by her violent death, because a moment that feels inevitable can still be shocking.

Even though we know ICE has killed before — and will again — even though they shot a woman in Chicago and told lies like the lies they are telling now, even though they are fascist purveyors of violence — their brutality has not hardened or corrupted us. We are still shaken and heartbroken by their violence. That is the cost of staying human in inhuman times — and it’s a cost we pay in defense of our neighbors and in defense of our own humanity. We feel what they would have us ignore, and we grieve the violence that their cultish followers applaud.

There is power in grief, because grief draws us together in moments when our enemies would tear us apart. Trump, Miller, Bovino, and DHS want us to believe their violence is inevitable. They want it to become the background noise of our lives — not something we respond to with love, tears, and action. They want us to give up on what the world could be, abandon our decency, and abandon each other. They want us to submit to their violence, and to accept that the cost of disrupting their attacks on our communities is death. And if we refuse to forget our neighbors — if we refuse to become dead inside — they want us to live in fear. They want us terrorized, afraid to show up for each other the way the people of Minneapolis have shown up — and the way Chicago has shown up.

And while this violence didn’t occur in our city, we know what it’s like to have their guns drawn on us. We understand the terror Minneapolis is facing, and we feel their loss deeply. A federal agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good. And with that shot, ICE took aim at every city where people have dared to organize against their violence, every place where neighbors have chosen each other over fear. But people of conscience will not be cowed. Today, I saw our siblings in struggle in Minneapolis chanting, “You can’t kill us all.”

I am grateful to the people of Minneapolis tonight. Their courage in the wake of this violence is a bright light for us to rally around. They have mobilized — just as we have mobilized — to protect one another, to love one another, and to tell ICE to get the fuck out of their communities. And what they have found together — what we have found together, what so many communities have found together through collective efforts to create as much safety and justice as possible — will not be destroyed by acts of violence and repression.

They want us to scatter in fear, to give up hope, and to give up on each other. But we will hold more tightly to one another, plan more strategically, and care even more deeply. We will resist the normalization of their violence, the immobilization of fear, and the sense of inevitability they would impose upon us. We will do what our courageous friends in Minneapolis have done today. We will be a light to all those who resist — to those forced to hide or live in fear, to those who want to love and practice care bravely. We will be a reminder of what people can do when they refuse to give up, and when they refuse to give up on each other.

Renee was not a terrorist. She is an American citizen who was murdered. And the liars in this administration took to the Sunday chat & chews to lie about a dead American who the government killed. Tom Holman and Kristi were among the liars who showed up on the Sunday chat & chews. Some truth tellers also showed up. On NBC's MEET THE PRESS this morning, Senator Chris Murphy called for ICE to stop breaking the law and return to pre-Kristi Noem policies:

We're simply talking about, you know, essentially going back to the way that ICE was operating when they cared about legality, right? Identification of officers, that's something that has been standard practice in every law enforcement agency all across the country. CBP, who are supposed to be at the border, protecting us at the border, operating in the interior with no training on how to deal with complex urban environments, that's brand new. So we just need to get back to a Department of Homeland Security that is prioritizing the law and prioritizing keeping people safe. And yes, I think it is reasonable for Democrats speaking on behalf of the majority of the American public who don't approve of what ICE is doing to say, "If you want to fund the Department of Homeland Security, I want to fund a Department of Homeland Security that is operating in a safe and legal manner."

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