Man, nerves are just shot in Minneapolis right now. Everyone is on edge and frayed. Sightings are flying, rumors are flying, facts are flying. Feels like things are teetering. Everyone is working so hard to hold the community together, but I’m really worried that something is going to break.
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@inthehands
I am so sorry you and your city are going through this. We will be protesting like crazy in solidarity with you.
I could not be more proud of the Twin Cities. Minnesota Nice does not mean compliance.
@inthehands Hoping Trump dies before Minneapolis reaches that point.
@mast0d0nphan
Any day is a good day for him to finally keel over, but we can’t afford to wait for that.
@Joy_intl
“Stay safe” will do nicely. Kind words are always welcome, trite or not.
@inthehands
So much empathy and love to you and all citizens there, and all citizens everywhere who are united in grief and dismay. May we together find strength, healing, and the determination to bring the law and justice to bear against the lawless.
@inthehands Yeah, Project 2025 really needs violence to break out and I guess eventually they're going to get it somewhere. I just wish it could somehow be some little backwater place in Florida or something.
If ICE gave even half a damn about actual safety, they’d have backed off for a few days to let things cool. Instead, they’re coming on hotter than ever. Just everywhere. Doubling down.
They’re casing daycares now, for god’s sake. I know personally of at least one preschool teacher who was abducted.
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The doubling down is what is so scary to me. Noem came to town to start something. And she is not stopping.
@Hey_Beth
The Trump regime wants an ICE officer to get killed. That’s the game. I just feel sure of it.
I think you are right. Pushing for a confrontation where protestors get hurt so ICE agents get hurt. And then I circle back up Jan. 6 and Ashli Babbitt.
They are hideous hypocrites.
What every US citizen can do right now:
It’s 2026 – #US midterms in November!
If you want the #vote to work now, get an
ever growing mass of the concerned to
write/email/phone/scream outside their offices,
contact their reps with the #impeachment
demand, or, we #primary you with someone
who will, while finding those candidates
and promoting them
Let’s do #democracy against these fascist
upstarts and their enablers.
@inthehands It's never been about the worst of the worst. It was about abducting people with brown skin wherever they can be found.
Stephen Miller never sleeps. If he stops moving, his gills are deprived of fresh water and he suffocates.
@inthehands daycare refusal to take kids and #generalstrike are cousins, along with schools going remote only. Hilton may have to have managers start cleaning rooms
@i_give_u_worms
General strike is still a distant fantasy at this point, but the appetite for large and more dramatic action from the general population has increased by another order of magnitude since Wed. People are not sitting still here.
@inthehands I'm sure the project 2025 people will have plenty of fantasies in the meantime
@inthehands don't let project 2025 be the only ones to create plans and act on them
ICE is really hoping this whole town blows, trying to make it happen.
I think they underestimate us. The Twin Cities have layers of care and community these pathetic little people can’t even begin to imagine.
I’m still worried. They’re going to drag us through hell trying to make things explode. And folks in positions of leadership here damn well better make sure the folks on the streets believe that somebody’s doing something.
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@inthehands Yes, and moreover, this is done on purpose, because if an angry mob finds and lynches this bastard, then the entire ice won't be held accountable for this woman murder, and it'll give the White House a free pass to use armed forces against civilians. And that's exactly what these mother-f*ers want.
The ICE raids on day cares, schools, etc are deliberate part of the GOP's War on Women too.
Keeping women away from their jobs.
Keeping kids away from education & friends.
Every fascist movement attacks immigrants.
Every fascist movement has "Kinder Kuche Kirke" plans for women's lives.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/25/republicans-against-womens-rights
@inthehands They want civil war as revenge for 2020.
White grievance.
Plus the 🤡 wants civil war so he can officially crown himself king and emperor.
American media wants it. Big ratings. Big profits from commercials for cars, pharmaceuticals and Budweiser.
@IveyJanette
I think it’s (still) revenge for 2008. Having a Black person president for even 5 minutes was the end of some people’s whole world.
@inthehands They were planning assassination attempts as soon as Obama took office. They want to go back to Jim Crow and worse.
@inthehands this kind of thing has never happened in Malaysia before. Not even when we had protests against the government. This truly feels gestapo like. Is there any reason why your local forces can't chase them out?
@liztai
It’s complicated.
Our “local forces” are the Minneapolis Police. You may have heard of them, from, oh, say, the year 2020. They are at best useless, at worst ICE-friendly (if legally barred from overtly assisting them).
The Minnesota National Guard, who are much better, have been put on notice that they may have to mobilize. However, that is almost certainly in case of widespread civil unrest, not to remove ICE. To have MN NG directly confront ICE wouldn’t just mean chasing ICE out; it would mean an armed standoff between the Minnesota State and US Federal governments, which is…well, beyond uncharted. We might end up there, but there’s no simple “can’t you just” here.
@inthehands
That kind of sounds like a Great Value Military Coup tbh
@liztai
@inthehands @liztai Oregon National Guard has publicly stated they will protect us against ICE. We are solid in Oregon
@mistergibson that's awesome but it also sounds unusual from what I am hearing from other Americans. Sorry I don't know how things work in the US @inthehands
Plays right into their hands. Declare martial law, cancel mid-term elections for all the blue states.
@inthehands And Trump is trying to remove all of Minnesota's federal funding at every level, too. This is a whole new thing.
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@mistergibson @inthehands they use these sites to scare people
@joe @mistergibson
Yes, I’d strongly recommend instead connecting with neighbors and forming hyperlocal groups of communication.
Just watched The American Revolution tonight, episode 1. We won by forming those hyper local networks and then coming to the aide of each other when the British threatened us.
