UPDATE: 12:53 p.m., Sunday, January 25, 2026 I originally published this piece just before 8:00 p.m. on Friday, January 23, 2026. Barely thirteen hours later—just after 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 24—37-year-old U.S. citizen and ICU nurse, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, was shot to death by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent near the intersection of … Continue reading Between Federal Scylla and Local Charybdis; State Coercion, Civic Abdication, and the Fragility of Freedom →