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Sick to my guts of the American ruse.
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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.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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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.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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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
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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I don't want to paint a rosy picture, because it's a city under siege. People are being abducted all the time. One person told me about watching 1-2 abductions a day, just in her own work following ICE.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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Another person put it: "we're Minnesotans. We're excited to get out our real winter gear out of the box for the year."

He was an audio engineer whose kid went to school in the area. No way in hell was he going to let anyone come for the kids on his watch.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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Today I talked with a 76 year old who'd been standing in the cold for hours guarding her neighbors. I was getting kind of chilly, even in the new winter gear i bought for this trip (and I live in the goddam mountains myself).

She didn't even have a hat on.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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Before I came, I asked a local friend if the cold (it's going to be -20 or so in the coming days) would stop people from coming out. "No, we'll be there. It's ICE who can't handle it."
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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Half the street corners around here have people--from every walk of life, including republicans--standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles, which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that tracks ICE vehicles and mobilizes responders.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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I got in late last night. First thing this morning, I saw cars following an ice vehicle down the street, honking at it.

Later, we didn't drive more than three blocks before we found people defending a childcare facility. (The idea that people have to defend a childcare facility... let that sink in)
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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Kwame Ture was #WOKE.
Malcolm X = WOKE!

Hakeem Jeffries, Kamala Harris ain’t woke.

Libs don’t understand this part.
January 21, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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Biden had kids, infants, appearing in immigration court with no lawyers, no parents, and no hope of being treated like a human being. No one wanted to hear about it, let alone try to stop it while a Democrat was in the White House. ICE is a bipartisan monster for the last 25 years, not just now.
January 22, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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Politicians Stop Talking About Things That Have Happened As If They Might Happen Unless Someone Does Something Challenge
ICE finally let her go after several days.We can’t let America become a country that lets agents arbitrarily take people into custody for days with no recourse, no contact with family. That’s not who we are. Those aren’t our values.
January 21, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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January 22, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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Since October 7, 2023, Arabs in Germany have watched the country undergo an authoritarian restructuring touching every aspect of life. Germany claims to have overcome its genocidal past, but this lie only serves to distract from its violent present.
mondoweiss.net/2026/01/what...
What it means to live as an Arab in Germany today
Since October 7, 2023, Arabs in Germany have watched the country undergo an authoritarian restructuring touching every aspect of life. Germany claims to have overcome its genocidal past, but this lie…
mondoweiss.net
January 22, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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Was it Sergio Romo who in the Giants 2012 World Series victory parade wore the t-shirt that said, "I just look illegal"?
January 22, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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Jaime A. Waite, 53, of Wenatchee, WA, is a Deportation Officer with ICE. Waite has kidnapped people from multiple locations in and around Wenatchee including the Chelen County Courthouse and La Tienda Mexicana Super Market. #Washington #Yakima #Seattle #UnmaskICE #OneOfOursAllOfYours
January 21, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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ICE just detained a 5-year-old child.

Don’t tell us this is about “the worst of the worst.” That’s a lie.

Absolutely vile.
5-year-old boy among four students detained by ICE, according to school leaders
School district leaders argue ICE agents are following students and their parents while driving to and from school.
www.kare11.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.

Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
January 22, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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Anti-ICE sticker seen in Downtown Minneapolis
January 22, 2026 at 2:42 AM
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a hold has been placed on this book
January 22, 2026 at 12:17 AM