Two shots, many excuses – and a state out of control
Two federal officers fired. Not one, two. Both discharged their weapons in the encounter that cost intensive care nurse Alex Pretti his life in Minneapolis. This emerges from a ...
ICE crosses another line
In Minneapolis, officers of the US immigration agency ICE attempted to enter the Ecuadorian consulate without permission. Not covertly, not by mistake, but in broad daylight, at a door clearly marked as a diplomatic mission ...
The fear of the narcissist – and another incident at the US-Mexico border
Donald Trump is suddenly speaking of clarification. Of decency. Of an “honest” investigation. After the fatal shooting of the demonstrator and ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the president said on Tuesday ...
The day begins well – When the rule of law takes back command
Federal Judge Patrick J. Schiltz of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota has done something that is rare in its clarity: he has personally summoned the leadership ...
Secret Honorarium in a Horse’s Name - How Kristi Noem Enriched Herself With Political Donations
From the very beginning, everything seemed discreet - perhaps too discreet. A shell company in Delaware, named after one of her horses. A dubious nonprofit organization with barely any discernible purpose. And finally: $80,000 that flowed directly to Kristi Noem’s ...
Washington Pushes Back – Governor and Attorney General Warn Homeland Security Against Violating the Law
The tone from the states is growing sharper. In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Washington State Governor Bob Ferguson and Attorney General Nicholas Brown state that unconstitutional actions ...
Withdrawal Announced, Pressure Remains – Minneapolis Forces Movement in Washington
In Minneapolis, movement is emerging for the first time in the deadlocked situation surrounding the immigration operations. As we had already learned earlier from reliable sources , Mayor Jacob Frey has now confirmed ...
Bovino falls – and suddenly it goes quiet!
Within hours, the narrative collapses. According to internal information, Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino has had access to his social media accounts revoked - effective immediately. Shortly afterward came the next step: ...
LIVE: Power Struggle in Minnesota Turns Into a Political Wildfire
24 Kaizen Live Dienstag, 27.01.2026 · 01:30, Ende der Berichterstattung Prettis Schwester kritisiert Regierung Die jüngere Schwester von Alex Pretti hat am Montag ein Statement veröffentlicht, in dem sie ihren…
Minneapolis in Court - Two Dead, Videos, a State Under Pressure
In Minneapolis, a deadly operation has turned into a far-reaching political and legal confrontation. Thousands of people marched through the city on Sunday to express their anger over the death of a local resident ...
Why the Opposition Is Missing - and Why We Still Provide It
Anyone who opens X today does not end up where they end up by chance. The homepage feels like a constant barrage of right-wing claims, sharpened misrepresentations, and the same recurring narrative patterns ...
Coffee and Donuts Instead of Confrontation - The National Guard and an Unusual Moment in Minneapolis
In front of a federal building in Minneapolis, an image emerged in recent hours that in its simplicity says more than any official statement. Members of the National Guard stand among demonstrators, handing out coffee, donuts, ...
Cracks in the Party - How the Death of Alex Pretti Is Turning Even Republicans Against the Federal Government
The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti has triggered a development that for a long time was considered unthinkable even within the Republican Party. For the first time since the start of the ...
Film Night at the Center of Power
While the shots in Minneapolis were still echoing and videos were documenting the horrific death of Alex Pretti at the hands of a federal officer, the White House opened its doors on Saturday evening for an exclusive ...
Green Smoke, Harsh Chemicals - What ICE Is Really Using in Minneapolis
In Minneapolis, a substance appeared in recent days that initially left many people puzzled. Not the familiar white or gray clouds, but a dense, green-colored smoke ...
Live: Fatal ICE Operation in Minneapolis
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State terror has definitively arrived
What has been unfolding in Minneapolis for weeks can no longer be described as the escalation of individual operations, not as a series of regrettable mistakes, not as a security operation that spun out of control. It is something else ...
Alex Pretti – A Life That Does Not Fit the Official Account
Alex Jeffrey Pretti was not an anonymous name in a police report. He was an ICU nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital, someone who stayed with people in their most vulnerable moments and did not walk away when things became difficult ...
Shots in the Crowd – Minneapolis on the Brink of Escalation – This Was Murder
On Saturday, Minneapolis was pushed further into a state that can hardly still be described as an exception, but rather as a new reality. Once again, a man has died from gunfire by federal agents. Alex Pretti, 37 years old, ...
Greenland as a Pretext – How Trump Claims a Threat and Europe Learns to Say No
Between Washington, Brussels, and Copenhagen, descriptions of the same situation have now diverged so widely that they can no longer be explained by differing perspectives. President Trump speaks of an insecure island, ...
Seven Votes, One Act of Submission
In the House of Representatives this week, a decision was made that says more about the state of American politics than any Sunday speech ever could. Seven Democratic lawmakers voted to continue funding the deportation agency ICE ...
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60 Million – Lena Kotré Explains Who Should Disappear – And One Fears the Answer Because It Is So Quiet
Lena Kotré stood on Thursday next to Martin Sellner and reduced Germany to numbers. Rhetorically more than questionable, unqualifiedly provocative. Eighty-two million people were too many, she said. Sixty million would be ...
Minnesota in a State of Emergency – Protests and General Strikes Today Against ICE Despite Cold and Intimidation
Today is, as the saying goes, a major day of confrontation. Minnesota is preparing for a day that is deliberately meant to be anything but routine. In Minneapolis and St. Paul, the largest ...
They flew because it was ordered – Judge rejects wartime law logic
Federal Judge James E. Boasberg in Washington has drawn clear limits for the Trump administration and expressed serious doubts about the use of a historic wartime law for deportations. James E. Boasberg made clear in a multi-hour ...
A child at the front door
A five year old boy comes home from kindergarten, the car engine is still running, the driveway has been reached. What follows is not a misunderstanding, not a mix up, but an enforcement action. Federal agents take ...
Machines for the shadow trade – How Russia gets Finnish ship engines despite sanctions
For years, Russia has built a quiet but effective supply system that circumvents Western sanctions and keeps its oil fleet operational. At the center are ship engines and spare parts from a Finnish manufacturer that continue ...
“Board of Peace” – and no one really knows what it is for – Zelensky leaves Davos without a signature – explosive Gaza documents revealed through investigations
Donald Trump unveiled his latest creation in Davos: a “Board of Peace,” a peace council that, according to him, is meant to one day render the United Nations obsolete. Thirty five countries have already signed, sixty have been invited ...
Suffocated in Isolation – The Death of Geraldo Lunas Campos and the Silence of the System
The death of Geraldo Lunas Campos in a deportation detention facility in El Paso is not an accident, not a medical incident and not a failed rescue attempt. The autopsy speaks clearly: the 55 year old Cuban ...
Our Investigations Show: Not Paid, Not Treated – How ICE Is Effectively Shutting Down Medical Care
In the detention facilities of the U.S. immigration authority U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a quiet but dangerous situation has developed. Since October 3, 2025, the agency has stopped paying external medical providers ...
Trump Backs Down – and Everyone Pretends Something Happened
Donald Trump backed down on Wednesday from his tariff threat against Denmark over Greenland. He calls it a framework agreement. He is now selling it as a breakthrough. In reality, it is an admission that his strategy did ...
Afterthought: Trump in Davos – Greenland demand today without military force, but with a clear threat
Donald Trump delivered a remarkable speech on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos that makes his leadership style in his second term unmistakably clear: he wants Greenland for the United States ...
When Trump Tore Up the Script in Davos
It was supposed to be a speech about the economy. Perhaps a few words about housing policy as well, as his advisers had announced for weeks. Forty-five minutes were scheduled. In the end, Donald Trump spoke for more ...
Davos Under High Tension – Trump Arrives Late
This year, Davos is not a place of self-affirmation, but a seismograph. When Donald Trump finally set course for the World Economic Forum on Wednesday after a technical malfunction aboard Air Force One, it was already clear that ...
Davos on the Brink of Escalation - Trump Replaces the UN, Claims Greenland, and Turns Putin into a Peace Partner
On Tuesday in the White House briefing room, Donald Trump delivered a rare, nearly two-hour display of power that sounded less like foreign policy than an improvised program for a new world order. It was the anniversary of his ...
Greenland as a Mirror - Hungary’s Break and the Leadership Vacuum of Ursula von der Leyen
Davos is not a place for plain talk. At least it was not for a long time. This January, however, something has shifted. The threats from Washington to pressure Greenland and use tariffs as leverage have forced ...
“No One Becomes Homeless in Germany.” - How One Sentence Makes the Dead Invisible
Germany counts a lot. Income, employment, inflation, new housing. But it does not count how many homeless people die. Not nationwide, not consistently, not continuously. Those who die become part of the general mortality statistics ...
Investigations Show - How an Ignored Directive Cost Renee Good Her Life
Weeks before an ICE agent in Minneapolis shot and killed the 37-year-old Renee Good, an internal memo lay on the desk of immigration authorities in Washington. Not a marginal note, not a theoretical paper, but a clear warning ...
Three Meters of Memory - Trump’s Epstein Greeting Suddenly Stands in the Middle of Washington
Overnight, something appeared that cannot simply be overlooked in this city. On the National Mall, just a few steps from the Capitol, a three-meter-tall version of the birthday card ...
Senior church leaders say the Trump administration lacks political direction
Three influential U.S. cardinals have admonished the Trump administration with unusually blunt words of conscience. In a joint statement, Blase Cupich, Robert McElroy, and Joseph Tobin emphasize that the foreign policy debate in Washington is losing its direction ...
“Make America Go Away” - How Red Caps in Copenhagen Become the Answer to Trump’s Greenland Fantasies
In the cold of Copenhagen over the weekend, red baseball caps appeared that at first glance look familiar and at second glance call everything into question. Instead of Trump’s slogan, a clear ...
The ICE Pastor
The conflict surrounding the fatal shooting of the 37-year-old Renee Good has now reached a church space as well. In St. Paul, activists interrupted a Sunday service at Cities Church, ...
Four Hours of Obedience
The president has decided that America is to watch television together again. Not voluntarily, but properly. For four hours. At the same time. With no alternative. Army versus Navy, a mandatory appointment. Donald Trump wants ...
Congress Slows, the President Pushes - Trump’s Greenland Policy Drives Washington to the Edge
Nervousness is growing in Washington. Not because new information has emerged, but because the president is stubbornly clinging to an idea that many in both parties consider ...
The Exodus of the Lawyers - How the Death of Renee Good Is Tearing Apart the U.S. Justice System in Minnesota
In Minnesota, something is coming apart that long seemed stable. Quietly, but unmistakably, federal prosecutors are leaving their offices, clearing their desks, turning in their badges. Not for career reasons, not because they are ...
Copenhagen in Shock - How Trump’s Grab for Greenland Cuts to the Core of a Loyal Country
In these days, a heavy, leaden mood hangs over Copenhagen. Not only because of the winter, but because many people in Denmark feel that something fundamental has broken ..
Provoked Escalation in Minneapolis - The Hunt for Jake Lang
A deep rift ran through the streets of Minneapolis this Saturday, visible, raw, and unmistakable. On one side were people opposing the escalation of deportation policy, on the other ...
Ten Percent Coercion - How Trump Is Using Tariffs to Strong-Arm Europe Into Controlling Greenland
Donald Trump crossed a line over the weekend that, even in the long history of American power politics, has rarely been practiced so openly. Eight European countries are to be hit with a flat ten percent import tariff starting in February, ...
Official Incitement – How Sarah B. Rogers of the U.S. State Department Casts Germany as an Extreme Enemy Image
Sarah B. Rogers holds the office of Under Secretary of the United States for Public Diplomacy at the State Department. In this role, she bears responsibility for the international communication of the American government ...
From butter prices to arsonists – how openly far-right extremists are being courted today
You really have to let this sink in. An AfD state parliament member cancels her own event – and instead appears jointly with Martin Sellner, one of the most prominent faces of ...