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As Pretti and the two other civilians walk away, one of the agents follows them.
That agent then shoved someone who appeared to be with Pretti.
Pretti immediately puts himself between the fallen person and the officer, who appears to spray a nonlethal chemical agent on all three of them.
As a struggle ensues, agents pull Pretti from the others; at least five masked DHS agents surround him and force him to the ground.
Bystander footage shows one agent drawing his firearm and pointing it at Pretti.
Around the same time, a different video verified by the Journal shows Pretti pinned to the ground and agents appear to discover a firearm on him.
In a statement, DHS said, “The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted.”
Less than a second later, one of the agents fires his weapon toward Pretti—the first of at least 10 shots within 5 seconds.
As shots are fired, bystander footage shows another officer raising his firearm.
A preliminary analysis of the video’s audio suggests a total of 10 shots were fired from a single semiautomatic firearm, according to Robert Maher, a forensic audio analyst at Montana State University.
About a minute after the shooting, bystander footage shows officers shouting, “Where is the gun?” as they attempt to apply first aid to Pretti.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/videos-contradict-u-s-account-of-minneapolis-shooting-by-federal-agents-fbe1e488
It’s hard to know what Mr. Trump might do next, which feeds public anxiety. But as his popularity ebbs, so does his political capital. His approval rating has sunk, his mass deportations are seen as excessive, tariffs are unpopular, and even GOP voters disliked his Greenland demands. Democrats took November’s races in Virginia and New Jersey in a rout. The GOP House majority is in peril, and the Senate is competitive. Mr. Trump’s attempts to gerrymander a safer House majority have backfired as Democrats have done the same.
The ultimate check on power is an election, and on that score Mr. Trump’s bull-dozing governance may be building the opposition that costs his party its majority in November.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-greenland-congress-supreme-court-restraints-84dbc858
After the shooting, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agreed to conduct a joint investigation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said Drew Evans, the agency’s superintendent. The FBI later notified Minnesota officials it would handle the investigation on its own and would no longer provide state officials with access to case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews, he said.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Good had blocked ICE officers with her car and was “stalking and impeding” their work. President Trump described Good as “a professional agitator” in a post on Truth Social, alleging that she “violently, willfully and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/minneapolis-shooting-sparks-protests-demanding-ice-leave-the-city-f349f269
Top U.S. officials shared a batch of evidence to support their claims that the Kremlin is engaged in an active and aggressive push to influence the vote in favor of Trump. In a rare move, the Justice Department disclosed internal Russian strategy meeting notes that U.S. intelligence agencies had obtained, which reveal granular details about the Kremlin’s strategy.
One Russian document listed “target audiences” including residents of swing states, such as Arizona and Pennsylvania, Hispanic and Jewish Americans, gamers, and users of the social-media site Reddit. It also detailed efforts to create online communities to unite voters who shared perceived Republican values.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-accuses-russia-of-spending-millions-to-influence-u-s-voters-be531b99
While nearly every other industry has become more productive since 1968, productivity in home-building — the amount of work done by one worker in one hour, essentially — has declined by half. The country is barely building enough to maintain the status quo, which is some four million units short of need, according to Freddie Mac.
The barriers to building housing fast... weren’t technological, but institutional.
— В чем специфика и особенность политической философии Ильина? Она действительно близка к фашизму?
— Нынешний российский режим Ильин в первую очередь привлекает апологией государства. Ильин — государственник в чистом виде. Он считал, что государство должно быть не только политическом институтом, но и моральной силой; государство должно воспитывать своих граждан, бороться за их душу. В этой борьбе оно не должно быть ограничено какими-то формальными рамками закона.
Это превышение закона ради сути закона Ильин в своих текстах называл «любовью». То есть государство должно «любить» своих граждан. А когда ты кого-то любишь, ты пристрастно к нему относишься, можешь применить к нему, например, насилие для того, чтобы помочь обнаружить лучшее в себе.
С этой точки зрения Ильин близок к фашизму, прежде всего итальянскому. Потому что фашизм в значительно большей степени, чем немецкий нацизм, был сосредоточен на такой духовной основе государства.
https://meduza.io/feature/2024/04/25/ivan-ilin-lyubimyy-filosof-putina-kotoryy-simpatiziroval-fashistam-v-rggu-rabotaet-politicheskaya-shkola-nazvannaya-v-ego-chest-ee-vozglavlyaet-aleksandr-dugin
В Нижнем Новгороде 24-летнюю девушку отправили под административный арест за ношение сережек в цветах радуги. Об этом сообщает правозащитный проект «Эгида». 29 января к ней подошли двое неизвестных. Записывая происходящее на камеру, они потребовали, чтобы она и ее друг немедленно сняли с себя «экстремистскую символику». Впоследствии видео опубликовали в соцсетях, и героиню ролика вызвали на допрос. Сотрудники центра «Э» составили на нее протокол о демонстрации экстремистской символики. Силовики решили, что радужные серьги связаны с ЛГБТ («Международное общественное движение ЛГБТ» признано экстремистским и запрещено на территории РФ), и задержали девушку. После чего суд отправил ее под арест на пять суток.
https://t.me/rusbrief/196395
Putin is one of the few major world leaders who hasn’t called Netanyahu to offer condolences for the more than 1,300 Israelis killed by Hamas in the attack.
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The ending of entente between Russia and Israel highlights a larger tectonic shift under way in Russia’s role in the Middle East since Putin launched his war in Ukraine.
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Moscow is now seen as laying the foundation for a strategic relationship with the Islamic republic, which supplied thousands of suicide Shahed drones that Moscow used since the invasion of Ukraine to degrade and destroy its neighbor’s power infrastructure, and which is now providing components for Moscow to assemble the drones inside Russia.
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The embrace has extended to Iran-sponsored Hamas, which carried out the massacre on Israeli civilians.
https://www.wsj.com/world/hamas-attack-ends-a-delicate-entente-between-russia-and-israel-b5745a20
«Tрудные задачи» предшествуют не только браку, но и сирене царей, воцарению героя. Ниже мы увидим, что воцарение сопровождается умерщвление старого царя.
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Причина насильственной замены старого царя новым кроется в том, что царь, который был одновременно жрецом, магом, от которого зависело благополучие полей и стад, при наступлении старости или незадолго до нее, как полагали, начинал терять свою магическую потенцию, что грозило бедствием всему народу. Поэтому он заменялся более сильным преемником.
Нам кажется, что фольклорный материал дает право на утверждeние, что этот преемник должен был дать доказательство своей магической силы, и что здесь также кроются корни «трудных задач».
-- В. Пропп. Исторические корни волшебной сказки.
A woman of the daughters of the merchants was married to a man who was a great traveller. It chanced once that he set out for a far country and was absent so long that his wife...
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