"This solidarity, care, and even love that reaches across cultural and ethnic lines is unfathomable to many on the right, which is why they see it as rage, madness, or a conspiracy that must be backed by some powerful interest pouring money into it."

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"I am as so many of you are moved by the solidarity with the neighbors in Minneapolis as people not under attack by ICE put their lives on the line – and in two cases lost their lives – to stand with the immigrant and BIPOC populations who are under attack."

~ Rebecca Solnit

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"Past Performance Is Not Indicative of Future Results": On Immigration and Assumptions

This morning the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial warning about the consequences of the persecution and deportation of immigrants and its impact on the overall labor force: "The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that U.S.

^{Rebecca Solnit (Meditations in an Emergency)}

"I have begun to think that Minnesota pushback to ICE was unique and a model because it gave people something to do. It wasn’t about just going out in streets for rallying purposes. People had a mission: videos, whistles, information and communication flow to communities. They had something to do."

~ Juliette Kayem

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"Instead we are out there in every place they are, showing them that every person in this city is one of our own, that there is no such thing as other people’s children, that collectively we are not afraid of staring them in the eye."

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"But then the rest of us sharing those things online is also like incredibly critical and powerful. And those videos wouldn't have any traction were it not for the rest of us. liking and retweeting and sharing."

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"So we have to also carry as much water in this fight as we can for those who can't participate in those ways as well."

Misha Collins then says,

"It's also a synchrony, like there's a synchrony between the two things, you know, people going out in the streets in Minneapolis and documenting with their phones is obviously so critical to this equation."

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"I think there is a role for all of us and a way for all of us to both think about how to stretch, how to stretch what were our comfort zone, while also recognizing that we all have different abilities to be able to show up in this space. And, you know, some people are working four jobs just trying to feed their kids on any given day."

~ Emily Farallon

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Conversation with Misha Collins and Emily Farallon

Watch my conversation with Misha Collins and Emily Farallon today

^{Timothy Snyder (Thinking about...)}

"Any one of those people who were filming could have ended up like [Alex Pretti]. And they kept their cameras up anyway. They didn’t run away because, like him, they were trying to protect their neighbors. And I just think that is tremendously courageous and admirable."

~ Adam Serwer

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Trump Advisers Quietly Turn on Stephen Miller as Brutal ICE Poll Hits

As the schism in Trumpworld worsens over ICE’s atrocities, a journalist who spent time in Minneapolis explains how recent events reveal that the Trump-Miller-MAGA ideology miscalculated at a very profound level.

^{The New Republic}