ICE Agent Shoots & Kills a Legally Armed United States Citizen. by Mark M. Bello On January 24, 2026, a 37-year-old American man — identified by his family as ICU nurse Alex Pretti — was shot and killed by federal Border Patrol/ICE agents on a Minneapolis street. This wasn’t some chaotic shoot-out with a criminal. […]
A Right-Wing Plan Without Right-Wing Guardrails by Mark M. Bello There is a dangerous misconception taking hold in American political discourse: that Donald Trump’s second term is merely a louder, more chaotic rerun of his first. It isn’t. It is far worse. Remember Project 2025? This was a plan, designed by the far right to […]
Greed, Not Peace: Trump’s Board of Extortion by Bob Gatty Donald Trump, who’s threatening to attack Greenland because Norway hasn’t given him the Nobel Peace Prize, is in hot water with European leaders who are resisting his threat to take over that tiny country that’s home to less than 60,000 people and a bunch of […]
Trump Could Learn from This King By Mark M. Bello Jan. 19, 2026 Today we honor Martin Luther King Jr.—not as a saint carved in marble, but as a living model of leadership grounded in human dignity. And this matters because dignity is precisely what our current political moment lacks. King believed power without moral […]
Why Elections Are Vital to the Concept of Justice For All by Mark M. Bello Familiar with the name Mahmoud Khalil? He’s the Columbia University graduate and pro-Palestinian protester who was jailed for months by the Trump administration. Obviously, as a strong supporter of Israel, I do not support his views on the Israel-Hamas conflict, […]
By Mark M. Bello President Donald Trump’s latest threat to invoke the Insurrection Act — a rarely used 1807 law that would allow him to send the U.S. military into American cities — exposes a startling hypocrisy in how this administration defines “insurrection.” Trump publicly announced Thursday that he might deploy troops to Minnesota to […]
Jackie and I went to the beach today for a little R&R. Sunny, not a cloud in the sky. Good omen, I think. Jan. 13, 2026 by Bob Gatty Yesterday was my 83rd birthday, and I celebrated that day with both joy and some degree of trepidation about what might lie ahead. I’m sure we […]
Will America to Come to its Senses Again? by Mark M. Bello It’s happened before. Every so often, American politics produces moments where citizens must feel they live in some alternative universe. But then . . . A politician tones it down, two opponents speak like adults, or someone once fueled by outrage suddenly […]
What ICE is and What it is Not By Mark M. Bello When the government kills a citizen it had no lawful reason to stop—and lies before it investigates—the Constitution is already bleeding. Renée Nicole Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and mother of three, was recently shot and killed by an ICE agent during a […]
By C J Waldron There are monsters living among us. Unlike the fictional monsters with their grotesque appearance, these have a human face. They dwell not in the shadows, but in plain sight. Rather than fearing the sun, they bathe in spotlight. They are in our government, our churches, our schools and even in our […]
