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Alex Pretti, 37, a registered nurse, shot five times in the back at point blank range while protecting his community from Nazis.
RIP 🕯️
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#Minnesota #USPolitics #ACAB #FuckICE
The latest: Thousands march, scores of Minnesota businesses close to protest ICE operation
Shops, restaurants, museums, nonprofits closed as part of a statewide demonstration. Despite the frigid weather, a large crowd of protesters gathered in downtown Minneapolis.Star Tribune staff
A federal judge has issued an injunction barring federal agents (i.e. ICE) in Minnesota from retaliating against individuals engaged in non-violent, unobstructive protest activity.
Will they comply?
"Vice President JD Vance is currently leading the disinformation campaign. Meanwhile, the GOP is creating distractions and running interference for Trump. And the king of threats and smears, Donald Trump himself, has been lobbing some doozies."
#Trump #JDVance #Europe #Minnesota #ApprovalRating #disinformation #distraction #lies
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"The walls continue to close in on the Trump regime as Americans reject its violent attacks in Minnesota, its bellicosity in Europe and the Caribbean, and its failure to address high prices at home. Cornered and running out of options, its likely response to mounting pressure over the next few months will be head-spinning. We are already seeing a dizzying array of lies, distractions and smears."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #JDVance #Europe #Minnesota #ApprovalRating
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Lies, Distractions and Smears
As the Trump regime backs itself into a corner, it’s lashing out in predictable ways.Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)
And by the way, after defending what ICE has done to Liam yesterday, Catholic VP JD Vance addressed the March for Life in DC today — because he values the sanctity of human life, of course.
All human life.
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #LiamRamos #evil
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When I posted yesterday on social media about the use of Liam as bait by ICE, a young blond woman (so her profile photo shows her to be) whom I don't even know responsed with a laughing emoji and informed me that Liam and his father are pieces of s—t who deserve everything coming to them.
Evil.
That's the right word for this.
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #LiamRamos #evil
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"The only people who support ice tactics are whose who are willfully evil."
This is what Jess Piper concludes as a mother for 30 years who has raised five children, as she looks at the photos of little five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos being used as "bait" by ICE to entrap his family before he and his father are kidnapped and whisked away to Texas.
Evil.
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #LiamRamos #evil
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Mama
My name is Jess and I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Missouri. I bring you news and politics from Missouri and beyond from a rural progressive point of view.Jess Piper (The View from Rural Missouri by Jess Piper)
"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
"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
"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
"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
(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
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
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Dear Media, what's happening in Minnesota is not a game
A Special Edition of News with Nuance ...Rev. Angela Denker (I'm Listening)
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
(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
"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
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What if we just stopped paying taxes?
Where there's a will there (might) be a way.Lisa Needham (Public Notice)
"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
/13
"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
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Past the breaking point
The violent occupation of an American city is more than a warningDon Moynihan (Can We Still Govern?)
"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
"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."
Defiant protests over U.S. immigration crackdown and child's detention
Images of a terrified pre-schooler being held by immigration officers who were seeking to arrest the boy's father have rekindled public outrage.The Japan Times
The Guardian: US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’
"...The father, identified in court filings as Elvis Joel TE, and his daughter were stopped and detained by officers around 1pm when they were returning home from the store. By the evening, a federal judge had ordered the girl be released by 9.30pm. But federal officials instead put both of them on a plane heading to a Texas detention center...."
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#fascism #ice #Minnesota #Minneapolis
US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’
DHS detain a toddler and her father on Thursday and fly them to Texas before returning child on judge’s orderSam Levin (The Guardian)
Tomorrow's front page in Minneapolis Star Tribune:
"Court order didn't save toddler."
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #LiamRamos #evil
"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
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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)
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.
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I really think you should read these love letters to Minnesota
Because together they tell a story: about why we can win, and howGarrett Bucks (The White Pages)
The Guardian offers live updated feed reporting on the "ICE Out Statewide Shutdown" taking place in Minnesota today.
"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
"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."
"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’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
"[Today] people across Minnesota will stay home from work, school, and shopping areas in an 'ICE Out Day' to protest the federal agents in the state. The general strike has the support of businesses, unions, faith organizations, democratic lawmakers, and community activists."
'RECORD NUMBERS ALL OVER THE PLACE!' Trump’s social media account crowed tonight. 'SHOULD I TRY FOR A FOURTH TERM?'”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
More photos of the Minneapolis protest and march from The Guardian.
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#Protest #Resist #ICE #Trump #GOP #Politics #News #Minneapolis #Minnesota #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
"Thousands march through Minneapolis as anti-ICE protests continue
We’re getting more pictures from the demonstration in downtown #Minneapolis today, where hundreds of shops, restaurants and businesses shut their doors in solidarity with those protesting the federal immigration surge throughout #Minnesota. A reminder, this comes more than two weeks after the fatal shooting of #ReneeGood by an #ICE agent."
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#Protest #Resist #News #Photo #US #USA #UnitedStates
"A large group of protesters gathered outside Terminal 1 at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport this morning. They alleged a connection between the airport, Delta Air Lines and ICE’s enforcement actions in Minnesota.
The demonstrators marched in a circle outside in the bone-chilling cold.
Delta has not immediately responded to a request for comment.
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#Protest #Resist #ICE #Delta #Minneapolis #Minnesota #USA #News #Press #Video #US #UnitedStates #America
The latest: Thousands march, scores of Minnesota businesses close to protest ICE operation
Shops, restaurants, museums, nonprofits closed as part of a statewide demonstration. Despite the frigid weather, a large crowd of protesters gathered in downtown Minneapolis.Star Tribune staff
"Hundreds of shops, restaurants and cultural institutions are closing their doors Friday and activists are urging Minnesotans to stay home as part of a #protest against the federal deportation operation now in its eighth week.
The “ICE Out! Statewide Shutdown” was planned by #labor and #faith leaders and will include a march through downtown at 2 p.m. that will culminate in a rally at Target Center."
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#Resist #ICE #IceOut #Minneapolis #Minnesota #USA #News #Press #US
The latest: Thousands march, scores of Minnesota businesses close to protest ICE operation
Shops, restaurants, museums, nonprofits closed as part of a statewide demonstration. Despite the frigid weather, a large crowd of protesters gathered in downtown Minneapolis.Star Tribune staff