I guess this post escaped containment, so here's the local media with the partial, constantly updated list of closures.

bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...

Both of my local liquor stores are closed. Liquor stores. In winter. In Minnesota. On a Friday.

In a barely veiled preambular swipe at institutions like the UN, the Charter calls itself an “international organization” and opens with a call to “depart from institutions that have too often failed” before declaring itself to be empowered to act in any “areas threatened by conflict.”

MN's AG: “We will not save our country in a courtroom. ... ultimately, this country will be saved by the people of the United States. And so that — you protesting, you gathering evidence, you sharing it with us, you communicating with us — is action. It’s actually how we’re going to win.”

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes.

What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one