"The American bard describes how, during the first weeks of January, Minneapolis became "a city aflame...'neath an occupier's boots" and recounts that "there were bloody footprints where mercy should have stood and two left to die on snow-filled streets: Alex Pretti and Renee Good." Springsteen was not merely mourning; he was calling out the Trump administration's propagandistic distortion of the truth about Pretti, an intensive‑care nurse with the Department of Veterans Affairs, gunned down by Border Patrol agents on January 24,"
"The lies told by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, including wildly unfounded assertions that Good and Pretti committed acts of "domestic terrorism," have inspired widespread demands for accountability for the most dangerously dishonest of Donald Trump's miserable cast of cabinet appointees. But Noem's attempts to defend the indefensible, her personal and official scandals, her mismanagement, and above all her outrageous and propagandistic lies about Good and Pretti are not merely shameful. They are impeachable."
Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Minneapolis" condemns a violent DHS strike force of 3,000 masked and armed agents that assaulted Minneapolis in early January, leaving the city aflame and two victims, Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Pretti, an intensive-care VA nurse, was gunned down by Border Patrol agents on January 24. Good, a poet and mother of three, was shot in the head by an ICE agent on January 7. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has propagated wildly unfounded claims labeling the victims as "domestic terrorists." Noem's lies, scandals, mismanagement, and propaganda have provoked calls for congressional impeachment and removal from public trust.
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