Civil Rights Attorney Faces “Trumped-Up Charges” for Anti-ICE Church Protest

Civil rights attorney, minister and activist Nekima Levy Armstrong, who was arrested by federal officials for participating in an anti-ICE demonstration at Cities Church in St. Paul, was released from federal custody on Friday. “They have altered the facts, just as they altered my image as a way of trying to criminalize nonviolent, peaceful protests and lawful dissent against their unlawful and…
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Trump Admin Pushes International Orgs to Disavow Trans Care With Funding Ban

On Monday, the Trump administration published a new rule in the Federal Register that could affect more than $30 billion in U.S. foreign aid distributed to international organizations. The funding — supporting hospital clinics, HIV/AIDS programs, educational institutions, and more — would be conditioned on sweeping new restrictions barring “social transition” and gender-affirming care at any…
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Minneapolis Residents Face Down Police and Feds After Pretti’s Killing

Minneapolis — The air above Nicollet Avenue was filled with tear gas and mist from demonstrators’ breath on the morning of Saturday, January 24, after a group of masked federal agents gunned down 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti, who had stopped to record an arrest in progress. After the Trump administration sicced thousands of federal immigration agents on the Twin Cities, Pretti’…
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The Idea of Strong Borders Has Fueled Fascist-Style Wave in US, Parts of Europe

After a year of gutting the United States government, deploying armed jackboots to American cities, and bombing at least seven countries, the Trump administration kicked off 2026 by invading Venezuela and kidnapping its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. In the wake of that assault, President Trump doubled down on his abandonment of the isolationist positions he once supposedly…
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With Donroe Doctrine, Trump Threatens to Export His Brand of Authoritarianism

President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy (NSS) is the crudest articulation yet of his authoritarian nationalist project. It promises to smash the so-called rules-based international order Washington has superintended since the end of the Cold War. The U.S., of course, repeatedly violated that order’s stated principles, like sovereignty and self-determination, most recently with the…
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New Video Contradicts DHS Claims About Minneapolis Killing of Alex Pretti

In the original video of the shooting of a man in Minneapolis, identified by the Minneapolis Star Tribune at 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a woman in a pink coat was seen in the background filming the incident with her phone. Drop Site News obtained footage that appeared “to come from the direction of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk” and showed the shooting at a closer distance…
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