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Renée Good was a thirty-seven-year-old American citizen, a poet and mother of three, driving in her Minneapolis neighborhood on January 7, 2026, when an ICE agent shot her dead. Less than three weeks later, on January 24, Alex Pretti, also thirty-seven, an ICU nurse at the VA hospital who had dedicated his life to caring for veterans, was pepper-sprayed, wrestled to the ground by six federal agents, and killed while holding his cell phone aloft. Video evidence contradicts every element of the Department of Homeland Security’s account. These were American citizens, killed by American law enforcement officers, in an American city that had explicitly asked these officers to leave. The outrage is real. Tens of thousands marched through Minneapolis in sub-zero temperatures the day before Pretti’s death. Senators are demanding answers. Governor Walz has called the federal government’s account “nonsense… and lies”. The state has filed lawsuits to halt the federal operation and to preserve evi

Poets, Nurses, and Programmers | poetsandnurses poetsandnurses Poets, Nurses, and Programmers What We Must Build in the Next Nine Months January 2026 I. Outrage Alone Is Not Effective Renée Good was a thirty-seven-year-old American citizen, a poet and mother of three, driving in her Minneapolis neighborhood on January 7, 2026, when an ICE agent shot her dead. Less than three weeks later, on January 24, Alex Pretti, also thirty-seven, an ICU nurse at the VA hospital who had dedicated his life to caring for veterans, was pepper-sprayed, wrestled to the ground by six federal agents, and killed wh

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