"Minnesota’s unions, progressive faith leaders and community activists are calling a general strike on Friday, encouraging Minnesotans to stay home from work, school and refrain from shopping — suspensions of normal orders of business to protest the presence of federal immigration agents in Minnesota."

~ Michelle Griffith

#Minnesota #ICE #strike
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"Friday is 'ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth & Freedom' — a statewide pause of daily activity to 'stand together against the actions of the federal government against the state of Minnesota,' according to the website.

Demonstrators will march and rally in downtown Minneapolis Friday starting at 2 p.m."

#Minnesota #ICE #strike
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"Citing the killing of Renee Good by federal agent Jonathan Ross, the 'ICE Out' day organizers say the general strike is intended to be a day of nonviolent reflection.

'It is time to suspend the normal order of business to demand immediate cessation of ICE actions in MN, accountability for federal agents who have caused loss of life and abuse to Minnesota residents and call for Congress to immediately intervene,' the website states."

#Minnesota #ICE #strike
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"A massive general strike has begun in Minnesota. Today, hundreds of Minnesota businesses, workers, and students are participating in the 'ICE Out! Statewide Shutdown,' an economic blackout urging people to skip work, school, and shopping to protest intensified ICE activity in the Twin Cities—sparked by the Jan. 7 killing of Renee Good by an ICE officer"

~ Aaron Parnas

#Minnesota #ICE #strike
/5

aaronparnas.substack.com/p/new…

NEWS: Massive General Strike Begins in Minnesota Against ICE and Trump

Good morning, everyone.

^{Aaron Parnas (The Parnas Perspective)}

(continued from /5)

"—with more than 300 businesses closing or donating proceeds, some schools offering remote learning, and organizers framing the action as a nonviolent show of solidarity with immigrant communities despite major financial losses."

#Minnesota #ICE #strike
/6

The Guardian offers live updated feed reporting on the "ICE Out Statewide Shutdown" taking place in Minnesota today.

#Minnesota #ICE #strike
/7

theguardian.com/us-news/live/2…

Garrett Bucks shares messages of love to Minnesota that have been submitted to him from readers of his blog in many places, via a form he set up allowing people to send these messages to him.

#Minnesota #ICE #strike
/8

thewhitepages.net/p/i-really-t…

I really think you should read these love letters to Minnesota

Because together they tell a story: about why we can win, and how

^{Garrett Bucks (The White Pages)}

"It’s a good Friday to miss work.

Today, we will see the closest thing to a general strike in the United States since 1946. Much of Minnesota will simply say, 'Hell, no,' to the lawless, vicious, and absurdly unnecessary assault on their neighbors by the Trump regime's Department of Homeland Security."

~ Jason Sattler

#Minnesota #ICE #strike
/9

thecause.substack.com/p/minnea…

Minneapolis shows us the only way out

This year will decide the rest of our lives. And the people will decide it.

^{L O L G O P (The Cause)}

"The Trump regime picked this spot to make its case for breaking Blue America because, in many ways, it represents the best of this country. And rather than be content to be the human sacrifices the regime desired, the people united to take care of each other as much as possible. So look north, not just at who we see in the streets, but who gets that this is our only way forward."

#Minnesota #ICE #strike
/10

"My theory of the moment is Miller/Vance thought their view that immigrants threaten social solidarity would be widely shared. But ICE raids are driving native-born Americans to show solidarity with immigrants quite courageously. Now Miller is trying to disrupt that alliance with state violence."

~ Greg Sargent

#Minnesota #Trump #StephenMiller #JDVance #immigrants #ICE
/11

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"We use words like 'police state.' Then we see it happen. To watch is not the same as to experience it, of course. Of being afraid to leave your house. Or having a classmate, co-worker, or family member disappear. But the images make it more real. It removes any illusion that it could not happen here. It is happening here. We see it happening here, if we are willing to look."

~ Don Moynihan

#Minnesota #Trump #immigrants #ICE #PoliceState #occupation
/12

donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pas…

Past the breaking point

The violent occupation of an American city is more than a warning

^{Don Moynihan (Can We Still Govern?)}

"In recent weeks, the paramilitary occupation of the Twin Cities has moved us past some invisible breaking points. About how we expect our government to treat us. And about what might be done about the government agencies that fail those expectations.

Lets step back: the primary purpose of this occupation is the selective use of government power to establish federal dominance over blue states or cities that President Trump dislikes."

#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation
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"While the most visible sign of the administration’s war on Minnesota is ICE’s brutal and deadly occupation, it’s not the only way President Trump is attacking the state.

As punishment for the crimes of having a diverse population, not voting for him in three elections straight, and having Tim Walz as governor," (continued in /15)

~ Lisa Needham

#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation
/14

publicnotice.co/p/minnesota-ta…

What if we just stopped paying taxes?

Where there's a will there (might) be a way.

^{Lisa Needham (Public Notice)}

(continued from /14)

"Trump has also stripped or withheld billions of dollars, attempting to starve the state of resources. Meanwhile, the state, like all others, continues to pay into the federal government’s coffers."

#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation
/15

Ashley Miller features a photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii of the Star Tribune of an observer arrested in south Minneapolis and sprayed by federal agents in the face with chemicals on January 21 as they were held face down on the ground.

#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation
/16

bsky.app/profile/did:plc:647m5…

Angela Denker, a Lutheran pastor in Minnesota and author of Disciples of White Jesus, issues a strong rebuke to mainstream media for turning what's happening in Minnesota into a game with both sides offering competing and equally valid narratives:

"As a Minneapolis resident, mom, pastor, and long-time researcher on violent right-wing radicalization and Christian Nationalism -" (continued in /18)

#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation #media #BothSides
/17

angeladenker.substack.com/p/de…

Dear Media, what's happening in Minnesota is not a game

A Special Edition of News with Nuance ...

^{Rev. Angela Denker (I'm Listening)}

(continued from /17)

"I am utterly exhausted by national media coverage that frames what is happening in America as some kind of political horse race, with two equal and equivalent partisan teams. As a former sportswriter, I am begging my journalism colleagues to do better than framing these stories as though you’ve covering a football game. Talk to people on the ground. pen your heart to see what is right in front of you."

#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation #media #BothSides
/18

"ICE agents threw tear gas at a van carrying six children, and three of them went to the hospital, including an infant who had stopped breathing. ICE agents are pulling over public school transport vehicles full of students. ICE agents are pushing minors and high school students into streets full of incoming traffic; they’re launching tear gas and rubber bullets at senior citizens. They are terrorizing our city."

#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation #media #BothSides
/19

"This is no time for games, for toxic 'both-sides-ism,' for false equivalencies. This is a time to tell the truth. And stop amplifying narratives that perpetuate a dangerous distortion of what’s happening on the ground. Your city and state might be next."

#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation #media #BothSides
/20

"We all saw the video. ICE Agent Jonathan Ross shot at Renee Good from the left side of her vehicle, after Ross was no longer in any (alleged) danger of being run over. A private autopsy confirmed that Renee was shot in the left side of the head—a wound that confirms what we all saw on the video."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Minnesota #ICE #ReneeGood #JonathanRoss #murder #media #BothSides
/21

roberthubbell.substack.com/p/j…

Jack Smith delivers the judgment of history (again)

January 23, 2026

^{Robert B. Hubbell (Today's Edition Newsletter)}

Robert Reich thinks that today's strike in Minnesota "could be a model for what the nation as a whole does in coming months, to repudiate the Trump dictatorship."

He quotes Ana Marie Cox who writes about how Minnesota is a natural leader in modeling solidarity:

“It is impossible to get through a Minnesota winter without help, and only sometimes does that assistance come from your neighbors."

#Minnesota #ICE #strike #solidarity #resistance
/22

robertreich.substack.com/p/min…

Minnesota’s General Strike, and America’s

It may be a precursor

^{Robert Reich}

Reich says,

"The decency of Minnesotans is mirrored in a dozen other Minnesota mutual-aid traditions: Lutheran churches seeded what has become the largest refugee population per capita in the United States. Minnesota has had a labor organizing movement since before it became a state. Minnesota created the first high-risk pool in the country to insure 'the uninsurable' in 1976."

#Minnesota #ICE #strike #solidarity #resistance
/23

"I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life."

~ Margaret Killjoy

#Minnesota #ICE #strike #solidarity #resistance
/24

bsky.app/profile/margaret.bsky…

"A general strike that began in Minnesota is now spreading to other parts of the country, with workers, nurses, and pro-democracy activists coordinating actions that we have not seen at this scale in roughly seventy years. The goal, shared openly by organizers, is to make this the largest general strike in modern U.S. history."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Minnesota #ICE #strike #solidarity #resistance
/25

meidasplus.com/p/friday-aftern…

Friday Afternoon News Updates as Americans Go on STRIKE — 1/23/26

As Trump spirals, workers across the country are showing what real power looks like

^{Ben Meiselas (Meidas+)}

"In Minnesota, the epicenter of the strike, people are taking extraordinary risks. In Minneapolis and Saint Paul, where temperatures have dropped to as low as minus sixteen degrees Fahrenheit, workers are calling in sick, walking off jobs, and gathering in the streets to protest the Trump regime’s ICE and Border Patrol operations."

#Minnesota #ICE #strike #solidarity #resistance
/26