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"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
/8
"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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"The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. …
Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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"Finally, there are those most at risk of coming into violent contact with federal agents, a group that’s come to be popularly known as ICE Watch, although the designation is unofficial. …
If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it 'neighborism'—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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"The largest is the protesters, who show up at events such as Friday’s march in downtown Minneapolis, and at the airport, where deportation flights take off. ...
Then there are the people who load up their car with food, toiletries, and school supplies from churches or schools to take to families in hiding. They also help families who cannot work meet their rent or mortgage payments."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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"Tens of thousands of volunteers—at the very least—are risking their safety to defend their neighbors and their freedom. They aren’t looking for attention or likes on social media. ...
The number of Minnesotans resisting the federal occupation is so large that relatively few could be characterized as career activists. They are ordinary Americans—people with jobs, moms and dads, friends and neighbors. They can be divided into roughly three groups."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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"Maybe they had assumed that they would find only a caricature of 'the resistance'—people who seethed about Trump online but would be unwilling to do anything to defend themselves against him.
Instead, what they discovered in the frozen North was something different: a real resistance, broad and organized and overwhelmingly nonviolent, the kind of movement that emerges only under sustained attacks by an oppressive state."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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In a must-read essay, Adam Serwer puts his finger on why courageous people in Minnesota have been able to force the Trump regime to backtrack:
"The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions. ...
Perhaps the Trump-administration officials had hoped that a few rabble-rousers would get violent, justifying the kind of crackdown he seems to fantasize about."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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I read this as a non-subscriber at Archive Today.
"This is, in a deep, deep way, Americans almost like flexing this Constitution, rule of law, democracy muscle that I think... we'd all forgotten that they had."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
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"This is something different, what's happening in Minnesota, what has happened in Portland. These are not simply people showing up and expressing disapproval. These are people showing up and saying, you cannot search homes without a judicial warrant. These are people showing up and saying, you cannot pepper spray me simply for holding up a sign."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
/7
"We are seeing in Minnesota, in my view, the embodiment of Americans caring about these inchoate non-voting issues like the First Amendment and the Second Amendment and the Eighth Amendment and the Ninth Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment. And I think it's really worth understanding, and we should unpack this maybe together, these aren't protests anymore."
~ Dahlia Lithwick
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance
/6
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Real Heroes: The People of Minnesota are Standing Up to Trump's Terrorists
Minnesotans have shown the entire country how to stand up to this administration.David Rothkopf (Need to Know by David Rothkopf)
"The people of Minneapolis have shown such incredible bravery the leadership in Congress needs to prove that they are worthy of that and that they're willing to stand up as well because the fight in Congress is nothing compared to what the average person in Minneapolis is just doing for their neighbors."
~ Edwin Eisendrath
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance #morality
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Bye-Bye Bovino | Edwin Eisendrath & Susan Demas LIVE
Trump and MAGA are In a tactical retreat thanks to Minnesotans saying, ENOUGH.Susan J. Demas (Lincoln Square)
"The state ranks near the top in quality of life, health care, education, and happiness. It has low childhood poverty, high insurance coverage, and long life expectancy. Walz believes the administration resents the fact that progressive policies work, that a system built on the idea that everyone matters produces real results."
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance #morality
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"This moment is not about party. Walz was emphatic on that point. What is happening in Minnesota, and across the country, is a moral question. It is about empathy, basic decency, and constitutional rights. Minnesota’s record undermines the narrative the administration wants to sell."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance #morality
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I Just Spoke with Gov. Walz about Trump's Attacks on Minnesota
Watch my exclusive interview nowBen Meiselas (Meidas+)
"Fallows says he's writing his post 'to document this crucial moment in history and what some people have said and done over these past three chaotic days. I’ll focus on individuals in Minnesota who have exemplified the courage, discipline, and morality that, through this crisis, have distinguished their state as a whole.'"
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance #morality
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"I’ve got a question for all of you, What side do you want to be on?
We’re no longer having a political debate. We’re having a moral debate."
~ Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Jan. 25, quoted by James Fallows.
#Trump #Minnesota #solidarity #resistance #morality
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“We’re No Longer Having a Political Debate. We’re Having a Moral Debate.”
The federal killings in Minneapolis have revealed some people in authority as cruel, lying cowards. The crisis has proven many other people to be generous, compassionate, and brave. Some examples.James Fallows (Breaking the News)
My niece showed up for work in Minneapolis and saw this sign on their front door. She said lots of businesses have these up in their windows.
Minneapolis continues to show us how it’s done. ✊🏻
We need to stand up in solidarity. Ask your employer if you can have a walk-out or protest day, and let the world know.
Resources from Monarca:
monarcamn.org/resources
#ICE #Minneapolis #Resist #NoICE #Monarca #Solidarity
"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
"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
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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 likeBen Meiselas (Meidas+)
"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
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
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
"They added that the faith leaders 'prayed together, sang songs and hymns, and shared stories of those who have been abducted by ICE while at work or commuting to and from the airport' in an effort to call on airlines companies – particularly Delta and Signature Aviation – to 'stand with Minnesotans in calling for ICE to immediately end its surge in the state'."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #clergy #resistance #solidarity
/21
"100 clergy members were arrested while protesting federal immigration enforcement outside Minneapolis-St Paul international airport today. They were arrested by members of the airport staff and local law enforcement, according to organizers."
~ The Guardian
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #clergy #resistance #solidarity
/20
"It’s sad that it feels like we are going back in time, but I am happy to see that Minnesotans are going out and speaking up. We need to speak up and be in solidarity to see change, that is the only way we can turn the tide. …
Imagine what our lives would be if we chose to do nothing? We have to fight against injustice. ...
Know that you are making a huge difference."
#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #Minnesota #fascism #resistance #solidarity
/23
Adrian Carrasquillo quotes an 81-year-old donor to Communities Organizing Latine Power and Action in Minnesota. The donor lives in Brooklyn but grew up in Minnesota. He grew up during the Vietnam War and actively protested it. He says,
#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #Minnesota #fascism #resistance #solidarity
/22
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24 Hours Alongside an ICE Protester in Minneapolis
Carolina Ortiz, an immigrant advocate, is preparing for ICE’s next onslaught.Adrian Carrasquillo (The Bulwark)
"Friday could be a seminal moment in this new civil rights movement.
Minnesota unions, religious groups, and ordinary citizens are planning a massive statewide strike and economic boycott."
~ Dan Froomkin
#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #Minnesota #fascism #resistance #solidarity
/21
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Minnesota rising
A massive statewide strike and economic boycott is set for FridayDan Froomkin (Heads Up News)