I think the country is starting to recognize that checks and balances only matter when they are actually enacted. When the powers that hold those checks and balances also benefit or don’t care about what’s happening, then we’ve reached tyranny.

The irony of Alex’ death is also that we are seeing ICE agents acting cruelly and breaking the law. We collectively started showing up for our neighbors to be witness to those crimes, because they’re being disappeared. That’s what Alex was doing when he died- and because so many of us are out filming, the lies about who he is, what he was doing, and the validity of the agents’ actions against him can rightfully called into question. Not that it stopped Noem, Bovino, Trump, and Miller to outright lie about it and him.

Love from Philly bro. Minnesotans (and all Americans) deserve so so much better

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ~ George Orwell, 1984

But by our institutions.

This is the hardest part. I remember during his first term, in the early days of Covid when the administration was fine with ignoring it, state governments took charge and said this is serious and here’s what we’re doing about it to protect our public. I know a pandemic and a terrorist fed invasion that’s attacking and murdering people are not the same thing, but the second part where the state steps in and says this is serious and here’s what we’re going to do about it to protect our public part is missing. And I don’t understand why it’s missing.

Alex Pretti was a nurse, in Veterans’ Affairs, and not just that, but ICU. So he was quite literally saving American veteran lives. 

And they still called that guy a terrorist. 

The midterms will have to be the turning point. If the midterms are close or if the GOP incumbents stay, then it’s pretty clear that America as a whole is just accepting ICE as de-facto Gestapo who have full authority to arrest, interrogate, or murder any person, regardless of their age or citizenship or visa status. 

The fact that Stephen Miller is pushing for denaturalization of U.S. citizens that he doesn’t like (aka, nonwhite) is the scariest part. They’ve already lowered the bar of denaturalization from heinous things like treason or terrorism to innocuous things like typos on their naturalization forms.

they’re not gonna stop either. doesn’t matter how obviously they murdered him they’re just gonna keep lying and sayin he’s a terrorist

convenient for them so they can label pure speech disagreeing with this admin “terrorism” and shot us too

You can’t.

I find it helpful to focus on helping the helpers more than trying to convince the opposition. Donate your time to people who deserve it. Participate in your community and the people already doing good instead of trying to save those that don’t have an interest. Sometimes it takes being alone to change your mind. 

Oh it goes back further than that. The sheer number of people killed by law enforcement in the US should be really alarming, even before you get to the racial bias aspect.

But to answer your questions: Castile was killed in 2016, Floyd in 2020.

Agreed, and I feel so much the same way. Every once in a while i get some hope that the overwhelming majority see the same things I do and then I see someone I wouldnt expect comment something horrible.

I will say Minneapolis, at least my community, and the communities ive been to give me hope but its so hard to see outsiders comment on it like they know whats going on. Then you think videos will make them understand and they just ignore it.

We got this, and always take your time to recharge, the community has your back. We dont need everyone at their max all of the time.

can’t believe the number of people that voted for him after his outlandish promises and how his first term went

A substantial amount voted for him three consecutive times. 

Personally I don’t even excuse the people who voted for him the first time. We knew exactly what he was, he told us. Beyond his sordid past, the dude openly ran on bigotry and xenophobia that first time, it was central to his campaign. 

But that’s like half the country. That’s a lot of people to spit on.

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Unfortunately agree, this is the toughest part - this country didn’t unify when little kids were dying in schools, I don’t think it will ever change.

it is cynical. We’ve had strikes all over the country in the last couple months. Not only for ICE, but for other thing as well. The nurses union in NYC was just on a massive strike over the past 3 weeks. There’s no reason why a coordinated strike won’t work. “No Kings Day” was huge.

Not me.

This might be some of the worst advice I’ve seen in quite while. Congratulations.

Social media would be the first thing to drop. But these social justice warriors won’t do it, most of them are wildly addicted to social media.

They probably know the difference between you’re and your, though. What’s your excuse?

We need to organize and make it happen, and that begins with awareness and discussion.

Its really impossible to explain and I wish everyone could come and see, we have private chats of just neighborhood blocks on signal that we have to moderate to make sure its only actually members of the block.

Every out of state plate you see is questionable, every person you know you worry about, we get notifications that the schools near us go into lockdown because ice shows up.

We have to document EVERYTHING because they will just lie about it otherwise with no accountability. Its a surreal feeling right now. Life has essentially paused, work is an after thought.

One of the things the 2nd amendment was created for. Too bad the founding fathers didn’t recognise that the pro-fascists would be the ones with the guns.

yeah we all know why

Me either. I’m ostensibly in a meeting right now. No idea what is being said

If you work or go grocery shopping there is a high likelihood you run into ice or dhs. They litterally murdered a bystander in front of a restaurant in a neighborhood called eat street. The idea that this is all avoidable and blaming the victims shows a level of ignorance on what is happening in our state.

I’m in Minneapolis. You’re kidding yourself, thinking they won’t be where you’d go.

As FlyingScissor said, it’s unlikely for anyone in the Twin Cities who’s been out of the house in the last few weeks not to have knowingly or unknowingly encountered ICE or the Border Patrol out there.

The place where the shooting happened on Saturday is “eat street” on Nicollet. Full of restaurants. The donut shop you saw, right? Do you not go for donuts?

There’s a so-so gym nearby in New Hope, a ‘burb. It’s one of the LifeTime chain, in a strip mall with a thrift store. These happen to be on my way to my mother’s home, about 12 minutes away. I have seen groups of geared-up men in sets of 2 or 3 vehicles on my way past, multiple times.

They’ve stopped and taken images of my license plates. I was going to the dentist. It was a marked “Protect the Homeland”-decaled set of SUVs, and they rolled down the window to do it.

At my local grocery store last week, two “agents” were trying to scan people’s faces, and telling them they hoped they didn’t see them tomorrow protesting at the federal building. This is easy walking distance from my house. The parking lot on the way there, in a park that has kids’ gym equipment? I’ve definitely seen vehicles parked there idling for no reason in the deep winter cold, with more than 2 people on board. Not something you’d ever really see, normally. Nobody is using the park when it’s 25 below. They’re out of state plates.

The restraint we’re showing is for real, but this is a siege meant to provoke. There are five times as many “federal agents” in the cities right now as there are Minneapolis cops.

That’s not true at all. ICE are literally everywhere. Every surrounding suburb. Fuck, they’ve been spotted in towns way outside the metro with populations under 10,000. Fucking EVERYWHERE in the state except maybe some parts up north.

That is far from the truth tbh. They are everywhere and way out in our suburbs as well. Most of them don’t have kids or are not the target demographic nor do they commute/shop/ go outside like 99% of us Minnesotans do on the daily the same way.

Not sure what parts of downtown you’re talking about, because that is not my experience at all.

I think youre probably right, and I think thats why they still havent moved on. With all the blowback theyre rightfully getting, youd think they’d leave Minneapolis and go somewhere else to avoid continuing it and get a “fresh start”. But there arent a lot of other places to go. Philly and Boston have been rumored, but theyre both just totally different beasts to Minneapolis. CA is off the table somewhat like you said, and so is NYC for similar reasons.

Its really fucking tragic and a classic case of beating up on the little guy. I cant think of another blue state with a similar level of anonymity/social seclusion as Minnesota, so thats where they went.

One thing they’re going to do in Boston is completely mess up the insane traffic there.

Seriously, an underreported side of this is that these people are not very competent. They’re just brutal.

I mean this goes double for the NFL. Bread and circuses kept the Roman masses too preoccupied to address their lack of freedoms.

I don’t think you can look at what’s going on and even state “masses are subdued”.

Sports are better used as a platform to speak out opposed to being suppressed.

People are inherently greedy. Stopping also hurts the owners and people more than the government itself.

You are getting downvoted. But remember the gladiator fights, circus’s in medieval times. They were for that exact reason. We shouldn’t exaggerate, but we shouldn’t forget history either. I am not sure where we are at today.

Yes they played like trash and no fans wanted to be there. You got that right

I don’t condone violence but the world lost nothing of value with Charlie’s passing