Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence. From /r/nursing. https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/1qnomyy/alex_prettis_coworkers_take_a_moment_of_silence/

[kevinrns@mstdn.social]

@swelljoe

Download the image and keep.it.👆

[doreen32128@universeodon.com]

@swelljoe Heartbreaking.

[surethingwhitey@theforkiverse.com]

@swelljoe I live in Minnesota. We are arguably the kindness people in the US. MN is made fun of for this nicest as a national feature. What is happening here, is not funny. What is happening in MN is scary and concerning. Yet like Floyd, MN is the best place to show resistance and help change US culture views. BC if the nicest people in the US are upset. There is a genuine problem.

[martinvermeer@fediscience.org]

@surethingwhitey @swelljoe Minnesota is really a Canadian province then

[aileen22@mastodon.social]

@swelljoe So sorry, my deepest sympathy 🥺

[deanfarrell@mstdn.plus]

@swelljoe The worst Americans are killing the best Americans.

[claudiom@bsd.network]

@swelljoe 🙏 😔

[sigmundkapje@mastodon.vlaanderen]

@surethingwhitey @swelljoe I read in the European press that the Trump administration wants to create chaos so that midterm elections do not have to take place. Is this really an option?

[endicottauthor@mastodon.social]

@swelljoe As should we all.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

@Sigmundkapje @surethingwhitey it's unlikely without an open civil war. States run elections, not the federal government. So, he could interfere with elections in very red states with complicit legislatures, but it's the swing states and blue states he needs to interfere with, and those seem unlikely to go along quietly. Which is why he's trying to interfere and manipulate in other ways. They're currently trying to extort access to voter data in Minnesota under threat of continued occupation.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

@Sigmundkapje @surethingwhitey of course, it'd be foolish to ignore the fact that Trump and Republicans expanded ICE and DHS (the most overtly fascist paramilitary institutions in the US from the beginning) funding to be larger than pretty much every military on earth other than our own. He wanted an army of loyalists to make sure he never has to face consequences for anything he does, and the real military has previously balked at illegal actions like what ICE is currently doing.