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"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
"Minneapolis was home to a landmark #GeneralStrike nearly 100 years ago...
The #strike caused #Minneapolis’ industrial area... to shut down.
#police shot 67 picketing workers — most of them were shot in the back — and 2 were killed. 100,000 people attended the funeral procession for one of the strikers. The governor dispatched the #NationalGuard, and the [business owners] eventually agreed to the union’s demands, making the general strike a success.
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Friday’s ‘ICE Out of Minnesota’ day is a general strike. Here’s what that means.
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.KAXE
"Friday may be the largest worker action in the state’s history, said Christa Sarrack, president of a labor union... Ms. Sarrack said some of the #union members’ employers had decided to close for the day, while others were allowing employees to not come to work.
“We cannot simply sit by and allow this to continue,” Ms. Sarrack said. “We must use every tool that we have to fight back.”"
nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/minn…
#GeneralStrike #Strike #Protest #Resist #ICE #GOP #News #Press #Minnesota #US #USA
"More than 50 #Minnesota labor unions, nonprofits, and other #community organizations have signed onto a January 23 Day of Action, which calls for a complete “economic blackout” in the state. “No work. No school. No shopping,” its posters declare.
... This would be the first #GeneralStrike in Minnesota since 1934, when the Teamsters set off a months-long work stoppage in the state."
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#Protest #Resist #Resistance #Trump #ICE #Fascism #News #Minneapolis #USA #US #Economy
"Tomorrow, tens of thousands of workers in #Minneapolis are expected to take to the streets in a mass #GeneralStrike. The “Day of Truth and Freedom” has been endorsed by all the major #labor organizations in #Minnesota. Every major #school & cultural institution, as well as hundreds of restaurants & small businesses, are expected to close.
... Minneapolis shows other cities how to fight back when #ICE comes to occupy their cities."
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#Strike #Protest #Resist #News #US
Minnesota Labor Leaders Talk Organizing Lessons as Strike Movement Goes National
“Flexibility is important. I also think having initiative and decentralizing the campaign, letting different people put their own sort of stamp on it, is just a normal way movements exist,” says Knutson.Mike Elk (Payday Report)
"growing #strike movement across the country against ICE's occupation of #Minneapolis. So far... there are Minneapolis #GeneralStrike solidarity actions in at least 215 cities across the #UnitedStates.
... Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, the Minnesota AFL-CIO, and several large #labor federations around #Minnesota have called for a “Day of Truth of Freedom" as workers intend to strike and walk out on Friday"
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#Protest #Resist #ICE #News #US #USA #UnitedStates
MAP: Minneapolis General Strike Movement Spreads to 300 Cities on Friday
At least 300 cities plan to held solidarity actions with the Minneapolis General Strike.Mike Elk (Payday Report)
"the action has been endorsed by some #Minnesota labor unions, including the #Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, St. Paul Federation of Educators, Unite Here Local 17, SEIU Local 26, Unidos MN, and ATU transit union. Additionally, the Minnesota Nurses Association backed the event in an announcement on Jan. 17.
Around the Twin Cities, a growing number of businesses have begun to announce plans to close in solidarity with the Day of Truth and Freedom."
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‼️ Anti-ICE strike‼️
"Last week, #Minnesota -based faith leaders, unions, and other #community groups called for a #strike and economic #blackout on Jan. 23 in response to the #Trump administration's [attack on #Minneapolis]
That operation has led to ... the death of #ReneeGood, who was shot and killed by Jonathan Ross, an #ICE agent"
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#Protest #Resist #Resistance #DonaldTrump #Fascism #Politics #News #US #USA #UnitedStates
"Right now feels impossible, and unfortunately there's a lot of impossible still to come. There's no fast fix, no one easy trick to defeating #fascism.
But.
But honestly I've never felt more hopeful that we actually have what it takes. That we can do the impossible, even when it seems insurmountable.
Because what it takes is us."
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#Protest #Resist #ICE #CBP #DHS #Trump #Resistance #Minneapolis #Minnesota #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
"They have come to the Twin Cities with 2000, 3000 troops & the people of #Minneapolis St Paul have answered back with tens of thousands more. The call for help goes out, and it gets answered by so many... Everywhere you look there are people—regular-ass people like you, like me—standing up to literal troops, everyone knowing full well how it could go and doing it anyway.
Nobody should have to do this.
But we do it."
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#Protest #Resist #ICE #Fascism #News #Minnesota #US
"Every single of one them has had abductions happen on their block, to their neighbors, right in front of them. Their kids have seen their classrooms empty out, remote school instituted like there's another plague. They all know the smell of tear gas, the burn of pepper in the air. One described the number of abandoned cars, windows smashed. Another described a neighbor screaming out. All of them talk of helicopters, the endless helicopters."
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"To be clear, we're not "protesting" here in Minneapolis. We're resisting an occupation."
- philcalvit
#Resist #Resistance #Protest #Minneapolis #Minnesota #USA #ICE #CBP #DHS #Trump #GOP #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Politics #US #UnitedStates
Marcy Wheeler notes:
"The AI slop the White House released yesterday really embodies what Pam Bondi’s DOJ has become.
Bullshit all the way down."
She also notes that Bondi went personally to Minnesota to see Nekima Levy Armstrong and others arrested, and the FBI initially arrested the wrong Black woman. And:
"The AI slop will make it far easier for [Nekima Levy Armstrong] to argue this is vindictive."
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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"The Armstrong photo didn’t emerge from nowhere. It’s the latest entry in what has become a defining feature of the second Trump administration: the systematic deployment of AI-generated and digitally manipulated content as official government communication. …
The White House would very much like you to focus on the fake tears. What they don’t want you thinking about is why Nekima Levy Armstrong was protesting in the first place" — the murder of Renee Good.
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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"The White House digitally altered the image of Armstrong’s arrest to manufacture the appearance of emotional breakdown. There was no disclosure, no indication the photo had been manipulated. It was posted as though it were real, with a caption labeling Armstrong a 'far-left agitator.' Vice President JD Vance amplified it to his own followers."
~ Parker Molloy
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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They Faked Her Tears
The administration's response to getting caught digitally altering an image of a civil rights attorney: "The memes will continue."Parker Molloy (The Present Age)
The need to lie to defend or promote a cause you purport to be righteous gives away the game — that is, that the cause isn't righteous at all.
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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"This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public."
~ Don Moynihan
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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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?)
"The White House's flippant response was obviously drafted by someone whose parents failed to teach them the difference between right and wrong. Trying to cover up a lie by describing it as a 'meme' is unworthy of a high schooler—let alone a presidential spokesperson."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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The first photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong was posted by Kristi Noem of DHS. A half hour later, the White House posted the second image — taking Noem's image, darkening Armstrong's skin, and making it appear she is crying.
When asked if it had digitally altered the first image, the White House responded with a tweet by Kaelan Dorr, deputy communications director, stating, "The memes will continue. Thank you for your attention to this matter."
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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"The White House posted a digitally altered image of a woman who was arrested on Thursday in a case touted by the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, to make it seem as if she was dramatically crying, a Guardian analysis of the image has found."
~ Sam Levine
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest
Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alterationSam Levine (The Guardian)
"Around 200 faith leaders fanned out across the city on Thursday (Jan. 22) to observe and document the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with some clergy confronting Department of Homeland Security agents, adding a visible religious presence to widespread efforts to counter the president’s mass deportation campaign in the region."
~ Jack Jenkins
#Minnesota #ICE #DHS #clergy #rabbis #churches #immigrants
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Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE
MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — The faith leaders, who hail from across the country and represent a range of religious traditions, deployed to neighborhoods with significant immigrant populations, where DHS agents have been most active.Jack Jenkins (RNS)
#DOJ "refusing to investigate Ms. Good’s death...
But the real explanation may be more sinister. Since she was killed, we’ve seen multiple videos in which #immigration officers refer to her death to threaten people lawfully observing or recording them. The real motivation appears to be to make all the other Renee Goods out there, the liberal “wine moms” watching over immigration raids, wonder if they might be next."
nytimes.com/2026/01/21/opinion…
#ReneeGood #ICE #Fascism #Trump #News #Minnesota #US
Remember, it is your right to film in public places, despite what #ICE might say.
Here's a flier, if it helps.
#minnesota #minneapolis #msp #protest
God bless our brave neighbors in Minnesota.
If Anyone Can Pull Off a General Strike, It’s Minnesotans
The massive outpouring of support for Friday’s day of action against ICE builds on long-term organizing that residents of the North Star State have tended to for a long time.
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#Republicans #MAGA #GOP #Trump #Minnesota #GeneralSrike #press
Friday’s ‘ICE Out of Minnesota’ day is a general strike.
dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/23…
A general strike is a work stoppage across multiple industries. The overall goal is to pause economic activity to compel change. General strikes are uncommon in modern America but were once a staple of protest politics.
Citing the killing of Renee Good by federal agent Jonathan Ross, organizers say the general strike is intended to be a day of nonviolent reflection.
#Republicans #MAGA #Trump #Minnesota #press
Friday’s ‘ICE Out of Minnesota’ day is a general strike. Here’s what that means.
Friday is “ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth & Freedom,” a general strike supported by Minnesota’s unions, progressive faith leaders, Democratic lawmakers and community activists. The � “...Daily Kos
Hundreds of Businesses Join General Strike Against ICE – Mother Jones
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#Republicans #MAGA #GOP #Trump #GeneralStrike #Minnesota #business #economy #ICE #press
Hundreds of businesses join general strike against ICE
“We cannot simply sit by and allow this to continue,” one labor union president said. “We must use every tool that we have to fight back.”Mother Jones
Demonstrators Flood Minneapolis Streets as Hundreds of Businesses Close to Protest ICE
Thousands of protesters shut down streets throughout Minneapolis-St. Paul to demand that federal immigration agents end their weekslong crackdown. Businesses closed in solidarity.
nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/minn…
#Republicans #MAGA #GOP #Trump #ICE #Minnesota #GeneralStrike #press
Judges Deny Republican President Donald Trump Administration's DOJ Motions to Detain MN Church Protesters
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#Republicans #MAGA #GOP #Trump #ICE #Minnesota #press
Judges Deny DOJ’s Motions to Keep MN Church Protesters Locked Up, Rejecting ‘Simply Speculativ ...
Several federal judges in Minnesota have rejected arguments by the DOJ to continue to detain three people who were arrested in connection with a protest at a church in St. Paul.Sarah Rumpf (Mediaite)
The people of Minnesota putting the useless clowns in Washington to shame.
Dems couldn't even put on a united front against ICE last night,
..... today people are standing out in the freezing cold while they sit in offices and take calls from donors and generally eat out of each others asses....
#Minnesota #Minneapolis #MSP #USPOL #USPOLITICS #ICE #ICEMUSTBEDESTROYED #Dems
"They could have taken a boil-the-frog approach to deportations and bullying allies and stripping away rights, not that a differing approach would have made the end results less awful.
But instead, it has been a blitz of maximum cruelty, maximum racism, maximum aggression."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #ApprovalRating #fascism
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"A new poll from The Economist/YouGov found a staggering 71% of Americans feel like the country is 'out of control.' ...
This sense of widespread disorder is, of course, a mirror reflection of the man in charge. There are ways this administration could have gone about its nativist, grift-forward business without rattling the nation."
~ Rex Huppke
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #ApprovalRating #fascism
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Americans say US is 'out of control' – and not just liberals | Opinion
A new poll from The Economist/YouGov found a staggering 71% of Americans feel like the country is 'out of control.' Trump is to blame., USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
The Guardian interviews residents of the Twin Cities who are being pursued by ICE and who report that ICE is racially profiling people. Suleiman Adan states,
“It’s like you’re looking for game. It’s like you’re hunting; who can I prey on today? Right now, it’s like ‘to hell with the constitution.’"
~ Melissa Hellmann
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #Constitution
/22
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…
‘It’s like they’re hunting’: US citizens and legal residents report increase in racial profiling by ICE
Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has led some people to take drastic measures to ensure their safetyMelissa Hellmann (The Guardian)
"DHS did not contest the authenticity of the [leaked] memo [which claims that ICE has the right to invade homes without a warrant], which was signed by Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #Constitution
/21
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Secret Internal Memo Exposes the Scale of ICE’s Lawlessness
INSIDE: Renee Good ... Lisa Cook ... Hannah NatansonDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"When you think about this past year, for many Americans, it was one of just shock. The complete disregard for the rule of law, the Constitution, individual rights, due process. ...
We have not seen this extreme escalation of activities from our law enforcement in my history."
~ Derrick Johnson, NAACP President
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #Constitution
/20
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Trump's Shocking First Year | NAACP President Derrick Johnson Joins Journalist Sarah Rumpf
"When you think about this past year, for many Americans, it was one of just shock. The complete disregard for the rule of law, the Constitution, individual rights, due process."Lincoln Square
"Push the narrative, especially the narrative not just of the horrors, which is important for people to view, but also the narrative and the actions on the side of the people who are standing with and for each other, who are pitching in for their neighbors, who are actually standing up mutual aid and street by street, block by block ICE watches. We also need to be telling the story of the good people, the heroes."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #Minnesota #immigrants #strike
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