Jeff Pettiross

move slow and repair things

This really should be a five-alarm fire—both in terms of what the Trump administration wants the military to be able to use AI for and in their threats against a tech company that refuses to comply with incredibly dangerous demands.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

Home - Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota

Mischief Toys has paused online orders because of the huge community support they have received. ❤️

They suggest giving to an immigration rights org, and I’ll further recommend www.ilcm.org

Before we go, I feel compelled to talk to you from the perspective of a Minnesotan. Which I am. Not born here but been here 18 years, love it here, been embraced. You may have heard about our difficulties here. I’m not confident that our situation is being adequately explained and amplified to people around the country and around the world. I’m tempted to say it’s worse than you know but I don’t know how much you know. I’m not tempted to say it’s easier than you know because I’m confident it’s not. Abductions, people getting hurt, children getting hurt. Us parents going to school dismissal every day to guard our kids. And all around us, stories. My Korean-American friend being followed into a bakery and surrounded when she was just trying to pick up a cake. Other stories far more unpleasant than that. I do want you to know this: if the goal was to divide Minnesotans, to make us turn on our neighbors of color, our Somali neighbors, our Latinx neighbors? Ain’t working. Like at all. Quite the opposite. We are more charged up than ever to protect our communities of humans. If the goal was to silence Minnesotans, well, that was never going to work. Have you ever met a Minnesotan? They never stop talking. Saying goodbye alone can take hours. We’re still talking. And we’re taking action. People are volunteering to bring food, bring groceries, to neighbors who are scared to leave their homes because of our own government. And I hear more and more people taking on the idea of hey, if I get hurt or killed, it’s worth it for this cause. If they sought to divide us, well, whoops, because we’re more united and stronger than ever. And we’re sticking around longer than they will. So we’re hurting but we’ll be okay. Because we love our community and we’re just ridiculously stubborn. As for me, doing this job has been harder. Concentrating has been harder. Depression and anxiety, I don’t need to tell you, are really fucking real. But I am so fortunate to get up, go to work, a…

Hi. I host a pod called Depresh Mode, about mental health. I also live in Minnesota in January 2026. That's quite a cocktail!
Here's what I said in closing on this week's episode:

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.

If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

John, wisely, and I should learn from him, NEVER posts about politics. That he is now demonstrates in a small way how extreme things have gotten in MN

Dr. @timothysnyder.bsky.social has written many powerful works, but this one stopped me dead in my tracks when I first read it. Please take the time, and share widely.

Where the hell are Google and Apple enforcing their app store terms of service on X? Grok doing CSAM should instantly be a removal from the app store. Any other app doing this would be pulled instantly. Journalists should be asking for comment from these companies.

On the eve of their Steel Wheels US tour, the Rolling Stones played an unannounced gig at Toad’s Place, a small, local venue. I walked by that evening (before they started) and did not go in.

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Nice! Congratulations!

I encourage you to turn them over. They are pointy side down, which is bad for the blade and the scabbard.

You might want to turn them left-to-right, too. Traditionally, Japanese swords are stored with the handle on the left. Unless you’re at war, in which case, ganbatte!

"A team of independent forensic analysts examined their testimony. The experts called it consistent and credible, saying most of the acts described met the United Nations’ definition of torture."

In our name, with our tax dollars.

Trump II is an indelible stain on our national honor.

Why is food assistance not an “essential function” that continues during a shutdown but ICE raids are?

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

People getting stupid horny for a fridge magnet poetry game with ambitions, that feels about right for AI fans

In an old ad for board game Scattergories in Spain a player was shown flouncing out while anothet said “OK, we’ll accept ‘octopus’ as a pet”.
“Aceptamos pulpo” has now entered the language in the meaning of “that’s a bit of a stretch but let’s go with it just for the sake of argument”.

Done. H/t to @jerthorp.bsky.social for the referral.

So exhausting..

This isn’t hysteria or alarmism, and it’s certainly not an incitement to violence. It’s clarity in the face of real and escalating danger.

Reading the Old Man’s War series through @snoislelibraries.bsky.social. @scalzi.com’s narrators feel like breathless spectators, always catching up to the characters and the events they make and feel. Love all the books, great escapes from the world.

(& 👍 for thoughtful forewords in new editions!)

Assuming CDC formally adopts ACIP's recommendations, CVS tells me it will provide Covid vaccines without a prescription in all 50 states and won't require even self-attestation of a qualifying condition — "it’s up to the individual patient."

No confirmation from Walgreens or Walmart yet.

It doesn't repeat, but it rhymes.

Take 2 mins to call your rep now!

We are SO close to reaching the 218 House rep signatures required for Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie’s bipartisan measure to pass, which would force a vote to release the Epstein files. But we're still just short and in need of one last push. app.sosha.ai/s/I1dW5qDu

Done ✅