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Witness Who Recorded Pretti Shooting Drops Bombshell About Fed Probe
New Republic • Jan 28, 2026

Witness Who Recorded Pretti Shooting Drops Bombshell About Fed Probe

The woman who filmed federal agents shooting and killing Alex Pretti still hasn’t been contacted by the government days later, only fanning accusations of a federal cover-up. “Have you been contacted by anyone from the federal government?” CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Minnesota resident Stella Carlson, whose footage has been crucial in delegitimizing the Trump administration’s lies about Pretti. “FBI?”“No, no, I have not. I do have a legal team now who are fielding much of that, and I am no longer accessible in those ways,” Carlson replied. “I talked to your attorney this morning; she said she had not received any outreach from the FBI or anybody from the federal government,” Cooper said.“I do not think they have my name yet,” said Carlson, a shocking oversight given that it’s been four days since the shooting. She then expressed that she had zero confidence in a federal investigation into Pretti’s killing.“I have faith in various representatives throughout our country who are trying to do the right thing.… I have faith in our local government in Minnesota,” Carlson said. “But [the federal government is] trying to block that from happening. They wouldn’t even let the investigative team come to the crime scene. Their goal is to protect themselves and to spin stories.” ​​Wow. The woman who recorded Alex Pretti's shooting tells @andersoncooper she has still not been contacted by anyone in the federal government as part of its investigation. pic.twitter.com/XSyMOiGQ0e— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) January 28, 2026Speaking to an eyewitness of a killing seems to be a very basic requirement in an investigation, and yet the federal government seems to have gone out of its way not to do it. Carlson isn’t the only Minnesotan who’s been alarmed by the federal government’s sparse, shady investigative protocol here. “Feels like a cover-up to me.… One thing’s certainly true: The state government has the right to criminally charge anyone, including a federal agent, who commits a crime in our state,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison told Democracy Now! on Tuesday. “But what the federal authorities seem to be doing in the three cases of shootings here in Minnesota is to say, ‘Yeah, we kind of know that you have the right to prosecute us, so what we’re going to do is frustrate your capability of prosecuting us by grabbing evidence, by spiriting people away out of the state, by allowing our agents to wear masks so they’re never accountable.’ This is the sort of tactic that they’re using.”

Man Who Sprayed Ilhan Omar at Town Hall Was Huge Fan of Trump
New Republic • Jan 28, 2026

Man Who Sprayed Ilhan Omar at Town Hall Was Huge Fan of Trump

The man who attacked Representative Ilhan Omar by spraying an unknown substance appears to have been a big supporter of Donald Trump and MAGA. Anthony Kazmierczak, 55, followed multiple right-wing accounts on X, including Libs of TikTok, Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro, and Tim Pool. On Facebook, Kazmierczak had changed his profile picture to Trump multiple times and regularly criticized Democratic politicians like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (in addition to his attacks on Omar).All of this seems to indicate that Kazmierczak’s attack on Omar at a town hall was premeditated, and fueled by his political sentiments. He was immediately tackled by security after spraying Omar, who refused to stop her town hall, telling the crowd, “We will continue. These f***ing a**holes are not going to get away with it!”“Here’s the reality that people like this ugly man don’t understand: We are Minnesota strong, and we will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us,” Omar added. She continued to speak and take questions for about 30 minutes afterward. Trump has attacked Omar for several weeks, repeating racist tropes against her and the Somali American community, which has a large presence in Minnesota. On Tuesday, he repeated those slurs in Iowa, saying that Somalis “have to show that they can love our country. They have to be proud. Not like Ilhan Omar.… This wise guy, you know, she’s always talking about the Constitution—‘You know, provides me with the following. You know, the Constitution.’ She comes from a country that’s a disaster. It’s probably—it’s considered … it’s not even a country, OK? It barely has a government. I don’t think it does. They’re good at one thing: pirates. But they don’t do that anymore.”The president bears responsibility for inciting these attacks on Omar, a four-term congresswoman. But he has a long history of refusing to take responsibility for his words and actions, and his initial response to the attack on Omar was to pile on.  

Visa splits Middle East operations
Semafor • Jan 28, 2026

Visa splits Middle East operations

The kingdom brought in a rule in 2024 that any company wanting to bid for government contracts would have to set up their regional headquarters there.

Trump’s Response to Ilhan Omar Attack Is as Ugly as It Gets
New Republic • Jan 28, 2026

Trump’s Response to Ilhan Omar Attack Is as Ugly as It Gets

President Trump used the Tuesday night spray attack against Representative Ilhan Omar to further berate the congresswoman—accusing her of spraying herself, although video of the incident clearly shows the contrary.“No. I don’t think about her. I think she’s a fraud. I really don’t think about that. She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her,” the president told ABC’s Rachel Scott when asked if he had seen the attack. “I haven’t seen [the video]. No, no. I hope I don’t have to bother.”Omar was confronted by 55-year-old Anthony James Kazmierczak at her Minnesota town hall on Tuesday night. Kazmierczak sprayed an unknown substance, which apparently had a pungent, unpleasant scent, at Omar before being tackled to the ground and arrested. Omar continued her town hall virtually unfazed. NEW -- Rep. Ilhan Omar was just charged by a man at a town hall event in Minneapolis. Crowd says he "sprayed her" with something. You can hear Omar demand to continue the town hall -- and she's back to speaking now from the podium. pic.twitter.com/4OpSWHo0Z9— Jay O'Brien (@jayobtv) January 28, 2026Trump has been lobbing racist attacks at Omar, the first Somali American member of Congress, and the entirety of Somalia for weeks, making baseless accusations about her personal life, finances, and home.“He literally brought her up earlier today at a rally btw,” streamer Hasan Piker noted after Trump’s comments. “He talks about her in insane ways pretty much at every single rally and most pressers. Freak.”“These fuckers bullied everyone into deifying Charlie Kirk when he was killed, but when Ilhan Omar is attacked, this is what the president can get away with saying,” Medhi Hassan wrote on X.As someone who has been attacked while speaking—nearly killed by an assassin’s bullet—you’d think Trump would be able to express a modicum of sympathy for Omar. He could’ve kept it short and sweet, something like “You never wanna see that.” But instead he decided to keep slandering a woman who faces hatred and violence every day for fighting for her principles and beliefs.

Abolish ICE: Rep. Delia Ramirez Calls for Defunding DHS & Defends Rep. Ilhan Omar After Attack
Democracy Now • Jan 28, 2026

Abolish ICE: Rep. Delia Ramirez Calls for Defunding DHS & Defends Rep. Ilhan Omar After Attack

We speak with Congressmember Delia Ramirez following an attack on her colleague, Congressmember Ilhan Omar, who was sprayed with an unknown foul-smelling liquid while speaking at a town hall event in Minneapolis on Tuesday. “This is a direct influence of what you’re seeing from this president,” Ramirez says, criticizing Trump’s policies and his long history of attacking Omar in particular. Ramirez also discusses her efforts in Congress to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Ramirez says Noem’s agency is “rotten from the inside out” and must be completely dismantled. “You have an agency killing people, executing them, lying about it, and then talking about investigating themselves while operating with impunity.”

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