Did you read paragraphs like this and think "yeah, this looks like a fair and balanced discussion of the protests and protestors"?
Over the following hours, a national network of socialist, communist and Marxist-Leninist cells in the United States leveraged the tragic fatality into a nationwide protest operation. While grief and outrage over Pretti's death is genuine, the network's real-time rapid response, using short sensational video clips and emojis as weapons of propaganda, offers a window into the disciplined logistics, messaging and coordination of far-left warriors fomenting insurgency-like confrontation with authorities.
The Minneapolis activation marked the beginning of an almost instantaneous weekend surge by far-left organizations, including hardened socialist and communist groups operating in an ecosystem that national security experts describe as an insurgent-style operation designed to exploit tragedy to wage a domestic political war.
By early evening, the narrative had coalesced into a chorus of voices within the far-left propaganda apparatus, adopting charged historical language to brand federal officials as Nazi-like figures. At 4:12 p.m. ET, Calla Walsh, a controversial communist activist filmed this past summer in Iran shouting, "Death to America! Death to Israel!" shared a 32-second video showing barricades built with Republic Services dumpsters.
Meanwhile nothing in the article remotely shows that some nefarious network of left-wing propagandists are coordinating all of this to stage "insurgency-like confrontations" with ICE. Instead, you have a first half of the article that shows that some group of people (who the article never identifies) are tracking ICE operations so that people can get there to protest them (there is never even a remote suggestion in any of this that anyone is trying to create violent confrontations with ICE, versus simply filming and protesting what they're doing). Then you have a second half of the article that really has no connection to the first in which they detail how a number of self-proclaimed socialist groups on social media (hilariously referred to at the beginning as "a national network of socialist, communist and Marxist-Leninist cells" as if these groups are secret underground terrorists, rather than just people posting on Twitter) tweeted about the incident and organized protests against the killing and ICE generally. There is no suggestion that any of these groups have anything to do with the people tracking ICE activities and protesting in Minnesota (they likely do not)
Frankly can't believe that you would be so foolish as to give any credence to an article like this - one that laughably accuses the Minnesota protestors as being part of some communist conspiracy to violently take over America and "wage a domestic political war." What exactly do they think the administration and all of its officials accounts (which surely have much greater reach than any of these random "socialist" groups they talk about) are doing when they tweet out provably false narratives about these shootings then send out Vance, Miller, Noem, Bovino, and everyone else to lie about the incident and smear the guy who was killed as a terrorist out to slaughter ICE agents?
