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 man federal officers shot and killed this morning has been identified as 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, according to the Star Tribune
I can't be here right now because my words are not safe for the public. Leaving this here, going to go donate and check on my friends.
www.standwithminnesota.com
To those blaming Walz for not mobilizing the Guard, he did that six days ago. I have to say it's disturbing to see people angry at Walz instead of the government agents that just executed a man. As though we should all be experts about what to do when a secret police force invades an American city.
I have watched the video of today’s murder several times and I am here to assure you that there were several agents restraining the victim when he was shot, and there is no way they were worried he was going to shoot one. Even if he had a gun, and I think that’s not true, he was not free to use it.
Had an incredibly invigorating discussion of @laprofelgp.bsky.social’s book Translating Blackness with my graduate students. These are the moments that keep me going.
Happening now! Join us! 🇵🇷
🚨Job alert: Assistant Professor specializing in Afro Latin America.
I can’t tell you how excited I am about this search! Come be our colleague!
joblist.mla.org/job/2000392/...
Please donate to support the work of the brave volunteers helping our immigrant community in NJ. They need money for gas, food, vests, to print flyers and to cover basic needs of families facing abduction and deportation. Anything helps. Please donate.
No Kings, Anti-ICE protest in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
“What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” he said.
Not an antisemite.
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
"The US dropped around 15 tonnes of explosives per square kilometre of Vietnam [making it the most bombed place on earth], while Israel has dropped 275 tonnes per square kilometre of Gaza - a figure that is higher by a factor of 18."
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/isra...
“An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire…promoted by…Obama in his annual list of recommended books, which…provides a literary sheen that obscures Obama’s …drone assassinations and deportation of… migrants.
lithub.com/viet-thanh-n...
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Death toll is now 98. There had never been a tragedy like this in my native city in my lifetime. Mourning so many artists and dear ones. This is beyond sad. 😢
I’m so sorry. This is beyond heartbreaking.
My previously published in memoriam piece for José Quiroga in @lasabluesky.bsky.social Forum, now in new format:
"José Quiroga (1959-2024): Leading Cuban Literary and Cultural Studies Scholar." forum.lasaweb.org/articles/55-...
This is terrible
Sweet and short piece in Vanity Fair on my book TO SAVE AND TO DESTROY: WRITING AS AN OTHER (released just about now). Not bad for a university press book of academic lectures on literature and otherness. 🔗 www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
Felicidades Sharina! 🎉
You should see THE FISHBOWL (LA PECERA), a deeply moving and lyrical debut, set on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, that reflects the collective impact of political violence through an individual struggle.
I interviewed multi-disciplinary artist Glorimar Marrero Sánchez for Filmmaker Magazine.
Poster announcing Frank Wilderson III’s visit to Notre Dame
Looking forward to this! Thank you Pedro Aguilera-Mellado for organizing this visit!
THE FACEBOOK EXPOSÉ BOOK IS SO GOOD
EVERYONE SHOULD READ IT #BookSky
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
Nos morimos esperando
I just learned Bookshop now sells ebooks. So we can shop our favorite indie bookstore for digital books : bookshop.org/ebooks
