News about Friday’s march / rally / general strike in Minneapolis is coming at me from every direction.
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This is hilarious: STILL not downtown, and the reason is that the passengers are weighing down the train so much that the doors get caught on the platform and can’t close. We accidentally shut down the LRT system!
@inthehands
I cannot stop laughing at how fantastic this is.And I can't help but think about the Richard Scarry story where they packed the plane too full, so enjoy the illustration. This is how I am picturing the train right now.
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And in the middle of all of that, people were still out there watching for ICE, driving all over in the cold, trying to observe them and film them, trying to save just one person from being kidnapped, then another, then another.
If these fascists thought they were going to win by breaking us, they thought wrong. This fight may be on our doorstep for a long time yet, but I do now see anybody looking to fold.
Minneapolis and St. Paul will endure. ICE will melt in hell.
You all are heroes. We are watching, learning from your example and taking notes.
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@inthehands
I cannot stop laughing at how fantastic this is.And I can't help but think about the Richard Scarry story where they packed the plane too full, so enjoy the illustration. This is how I am picturing the train right now.
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And in the middle of all of that, people were still out there watching for ICE, driving all over in the cold, trying to observe them and film them, trying to save just one person from being kidnapped, then another, then another.
If these fascists thought they were going to win by breaking us, they thought wrong. This fight may be on our doorstep for a long time yet, but I do now see anybody looking to fold.
Minneapolis and St. Paul will endure. ICE will melt in hell.
@inthehands We're not 1930's Germans. We don't bow.
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@inthehands I think, in general, that's what the coverage about Minnesota is missing about community - the collective action, the mutual aid, etc. These are distributed, bottom up, and emergent. There's not the singular heroic figure to interview, no canonical organization directing it according to a roadmap. It moves and feels different because it is fundamentally different than how most western narratives portray change happening.
@matthew @inthehands this is one of my preferred sources to send people right now. Compilation of stories people wrote in. Long but so important and helpful thing to send to folks who are not in MN. https://racketmn.com/voices-of-the-occupation-of-mn-ice-trump
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@matthew @inthehands this is one of my preferred sources to send people right now. Compilation of stories people wrote in. Long but so important and helpful thing to send to folks who are not in MN. https://racketmn.com/voices-of-the-occupation-of-mn-ice-trump
@Dynamicallydisabled @inthehands That's a great resource. Thank you.
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@matthew @inthehands this is one of my preferred sources to send people right now. Compilation of stories people wrote in. Long but so important and helpful thing to send to folks who are not in MN. https://racketmn.com/voices-of-the-occupation-of-mn-ice-trump
This is amazing. Thank you.
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I’d easily believe 20k–30k, but…I’m pulling numbers out of thin air there. Curious to see some good aerial video once I’ve warmed up a bit.
The tone was notable. Still plenty of witty signs: “Stay salty, melt ICE,” Noem’s head on Cruella de Ville’s body, that sort of thing. But lots of people just had “Fuck ICE.” Nobody was really laughing.
One sign said “ICE will melt in hell.” That kind of captures the mood.
@inthehands Gotcha! Drone footage from Minnesota today,
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News about Friday’s march / rally / general strike in Minneapolis is coming at me from every direction. Temperature right now is -18F / -28C and this thing is still going to be massive. People here are ready to punch a hole through the fabric of the space-time continuum if they have to. Going to be bed. Tomorrow’s going to be a hell of a day.
This is so awesome to hear! Gives me a little more hope than I've been having lately. Hopefully this will set an example for other cities and the rest of the country.
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@inthehands We're not 1930's Germans. We don't bow.
@Catalyst_A @inthehands Yay! Let's be 1790's France instead!!
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@inthehands WCCO said 50,000 at their start of their 5:00 news…?
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I thought the tone was angrier than No Kings and the protests at the state capitol. This was beyond protesting mass federal layoffs, or disbanding branches of gov't.
@NNN @inthehands As it should be.
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@inthehands Gotcha! Drone footage from Minnesota today,
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@inthehands I think, in general, that's what the coverage about Minnesota is missing about community - the collective action, the mutual aid, etc. These are distributed, bottom up, and emergent. There's not the singular heroic figure to interview, no canonical organization directing it according to a roadmap. It moves and feels different because it is fundamentally different than how most western narratives portray change happening.
@inthehands I'm threading this in here, as my response seems to be getting a fair amount of sharing - this post goes into far more breadth and depth than what I alluded to: https://kolektiva.social/@anarchademic/115947133059546555
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@inthehands Gotcha! Drone footage from Minnesota today,
23 Jan 2026.@ApostateEnglishman @inthehands no wonder they want to ban drones now.
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I’d easily believe 20k–30k, but…I’m pulling numbers out of thin air there. Curious to see some good aerial video once I’ve warmed up a bit.
The tone was notable. Still plenty of witty signs: “Stay salty, melt ICE,” Noem’s head on Cruella de Ville’s body, that sort of thing. But lots of people just had “Fuck ICE.” Nobody was really laughing.
One sign said “ICE will melt in hell.” That kind of captures the mood.
@inthehands By my rough guess, 200 people fit in a crowded light rail car, so ~600 in a 3-car train. When the trains started running again at the end of the march, we caught the third one out, all packed. So that's ~1800 just in the first three Green Line trains out, which was only a tiny fraction of the crowd. I would easily believe 50,000, and I'd guess likely quite a bit more.
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@matthew @inthehands this is one of my preferred sources to send people right now. Compilation of stories people wrote in. Long but so important and helpful thing to send to folks who are not in MN. https://racketmn.com/voices-of-the-occupation-of-mn-ice-trump
@Dynamicallydisabled @matthew @inthehands I’m crying.
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@inthehands By my rough guess, 200 people fit in a crowded light rail car, so ~600 in a 3-car train. When the trains started running again at the end of the march, we caught the third one out, all packed. So that's ~1800 just in the first three Green Line trains out, which was only a tiny fraction of the crowd. I would easily believe 50,000, and I'd guess likely quite a bit more.
@inthehands and when we got back to our block in the Midway, we saw others heading out to a 5pm vigil at a neighborhood church. There were definitely multiple other St. Paul events, plus many people who chose to stay on patrol to make sure their neighborhoods weren't left unguarded. Just absolutely massive participation
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@inthehands Gotcha! Drone footage from Minnesota today,
23 Jan 2026.@ApostateEnglishman @inthehands
"Stay on target ..."
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@inthehands Gotcha! Drone footage from Minnesota today,
23 Jan 2026.
