The people there are facing tear gas and rubber bullets and now their representatives are facing physical assaults at town halls. They are paying a high price for their defiance.

The attack on Ilhan Omar is a warning signal. The temperature in this country has reached a boiling point.

This is what leadership looks like in the era of the Red Caesar. It is not about being safe. It is about being brave when safety is no longer an option. Minneapolis is currently the front line of the resistance against authoritarianism.

It failed. Instead of staining her reputation it only highlighted her resolve. She wiped it off and kept going. She turned a moment of intended shame into a moment of absolute dignity.

The substance itself tells a story. It was described as a brown liquid with a vinegar like smell. It was designed to degrade. It was a tool of humiliation meant to mark her as unclean or unwelcome.

enemies of the state and they decide to become the enforcers. Kazmierczak was booked for third degree assault but his true crime was attempting to assassinate the spirit of representation.

We are watching the normalization of political violence. The rhetoric coming from the top has given permission for unstable individuals to take matters into their own hands. They hear the President demonize his opponents as

Omar was speaking about abolishing ICE and calling for the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. She was targeting the architects of the occupation. This assault was a direct response to her refusal to bow down to the administration.

No, No, No!!!

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He’s right. Trump wants unrest. He wants images of fire and fury so he can justify more force, more crackdowns, more lies. The boy who cried wolf doesn’t stop yelling because he’s afraid. He stops because the village is burning and no one trusts him anymore.

The wolf is always at the door. Until the door is kicked in and someone ends up dead.

This is the cost of performative cruelty. This is what happens when you replace community-based public safety with federal militarization and propaganda. ICE becomes less accountable,

That time is long past.” That’s not radical rhetoric. That’s what happens when leadership lies reflexively and governs through paranoia. Even Oregon’s attorney general is now investigating whether federal officers acted outside their lawful authority.

; somewhere he can threaten “full force,” float National Guard deployments, and punish a city for the crime of not worshipping him.

So when shots ring out near a hospital, when two people are left bleeding in a residential neighborhood,