This morning, ICE was staking out an elementary school bus stop here in Minneapolis.
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This has already been happening in Minneapolis for weeks. They even kidnapped unhoused Native folks.
@inthehands I know, and it was their initial strategy with the DC Guard deployment and the beginning of the whole occupying cities thing, and it was dangerously close to working in terms of public opinion and legislative support. They try to tell us that targets are dangerous gang members, and it turns out they can't actually make people believe that about roofers and preschool teachers, but it's going to take work to make everyone stands firm on no kidnapping or concentration camps for ANYONE
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This morning, ICE was staking out an elementary school bus stop here in Minneapolis. A crowd with whistles chased them off.
Just in case you somehow thought they were leaving Minnesota.
Just in case Senators somehow thought maybe it’s OK to give them a military-sized budget after all just because they demoted that one guy.
@inthehands Border Patrol is leaving, not Ice. They're staying while Bondi squeezes Walz for those voter records.
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This morning, ICE was staking out an elementary school bus stop here in Minneapolis. A crowd with whistles chased them off.
Just in case you somehow thought they were leaving Minnesota.
Just in case Senators somehow thought maybe it’s OK to give them a military-sized budget after all just because they demoted that one guy.
@inthehands I’m calling to tell my senator not to fund this or any GQP bs.
I’ve called a few, but haven’t specifically addressed funding ICE murder squads.
Dems need to address GQP like MN protesters. Push their asses OUT!!
Shut them all UP w their hateful rhetoric. -
@inthehands @feznander They tried to get into the Catholic Charities homeless shelter in downtown St. Paul this morning, got chased off because they lacked a warrant, and promised to "come back with a team".
@MrFesser @inthehands @feznander I love how the "we're a Christian nation" imbeciles have absolutely zero respect for certain religious institutions. Hypocrisy thy name is ICE.
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This morning, ICE was staking out an elementary school bus stop here in Minneapolis. A crowd with whistles chased them off.
Just in case you somehow thought they were leaving Minnesota.
Just in case Senators somehow thought maybe it’s OK to give them a military-sized budget after all just because they demoted that one guy.
@inthehands thinking by this time, you are on a first-name basis with your Senators
but your descriptions of this awfulness are very poignant and moving. thanks for making what's happening real to the rest of us, without making it outrage-shock posts, and I hope you are relaying these reports to them too.
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@inthehands thinking by this time, you are on a first-name basis with your Senators
but your descriptions of this awfulness are very poignant and moving. thanks for making what's happening real to the rest of us, without making it outrage-shock posts, and I hope you are relaying these reports to them too.
@draNgNon
I’m on a first-name basis with their voicemail anyway -
Driving my kid to school today, we passed a crowd on a street corner. She asked what they were doing. I said my guess was that it’s observers conferring about ICE.
That wasn’t really a guess What I knew that she didn’t know is that they were gathering because somebody was just abducted there.
With these recent days of news showing that the Trump regime is on their heels about ICE, my refrain has been: “It’s working. Punch harder.”
Last night I let myself savor the “It’s working” part for a few happy minutes, but this morning I’m squarely focused on “Punch harder.”
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With these recent days of news showing that the Trump regime is on their heels about ICE, my refrain has been: “It’s working. Punch harder.”
Last night I let myself savor the “It’s working” part for a few happy minutes, but this morning I’m squarely focused on “Punch harder.”
@inthehands of course it's working. Beating fascists is all about solidarity, community, not backing down and staying in the fight. You're doing great!
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With these recent days of news showing that the Trump regime is on their heels about ICE, my refrain has been: “It’s working. Punch harder.”
Last night I let myself savor the “It’s working” part for a few happy minutes, but this morning I’m squarely focused on “Punch harder.”
@inthehands Harassing a retreat is mandatory to ensure it remains a retreat and not a regroup.
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@inthehands Harassing a retreat is mandatory to ensure it remains a retreat and not a regroup.
@theartlav
Exactly. Our neighborhood ICE observers have a •keen• understanding of this principle. I can only hope the general public and our elected officials do too. -
@draNgNon
I’m on a first-name basis with their voicemail anywayI assume that the staffers handling voice mail for McCollum, Klobuchar, and Smith go "this guy again" at my messages.
But they do log the calls.
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@inthehands @feznander They tried to get into the Catholic Charities homeless shelter in downtown St. Paul this morning, got chased off because they lacked a warrant, and promised to "come back with a team".
@MrFesser @inthehands Yeah, and it sounds like the team that came back was mostly US Marshals, and told observers that it wasn't immigration-related. I'm pretty confident local dispatches will recognize that federal kidnap squads are federal kidnap squads and respond accordingly, but it's going to take some pivoting, and put pressure on keystone immigrant rights groups, who'll have to decide what resources they can keep dedicating to support/training as response work overflows their lane.
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@MrFesser @inthehands Yeah, and it sounds like the team that came back was mostly US Marshals, and told observers that it wasn't immigration-related. I'm pretty confident local dispatches will recognize that federal kidnap squads are federal kidnap squads and respond accordingly, but it's going to take some pivoting, and put pressure on keystone immigrant rights groups, who'll have to decide what resources they can keep dedicating to support/training as response work overflows their lane.
@MrFesser @inthehands Plus I'm worried that Feds will push more of the funding for kidnap out to state and local law enforcement, and it's going to be hard to convince elected officials to turn off all those taps.
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Driving my kid to school today, we passed a crowd on a street corner. She asked what they were doing. I said my guess was that it’s observers conferring about ICE.
That wasn’t really a guess What I knew that she didn’t know is that they were gathering because somebody was just abducted there.
I feel so much for the kids caught up in all this, whether or not they're abducted. It's easy to traumatize children of any age, but especially the younger ones because they try so hard to understand and can't.
We need so very many therapists and counselors, now and when we get through this to whatever.
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@MrFesser @inthehands Yeah, and it sounds like the team that came back was mostly US Marshals, and told observers that it wasn't immigration-related. I'm pretty confident local dispatches will recognize that federal kidnap squads are federal kidnap squads and respond accordingly, but it's going to take some pivoting, and put pressure on keystone immigrant rights groups, who'll have to decide what resources they can keep dedicating to support/training as response work overflows their lane.
@feznander @inthehands I saw the photos of marshals, but between the presence of a plate number that ICE has been using and the way they piggybacked on "non-immigration" raids by other groups like at Cuatro Milpas, that doesn't really guarantee anything (and not bringing a warrant is bizarre).
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With these recent days of news showing that the Trump regime is on their heels about ICE, my refrain has been: “It’s working. Punch harder.”
Last night I let myself savor the “It’s working” part for a few happy minutes, but this morning I’m squarely focused on “Punch harder.”
@inthehands Good. Because they are not “scared” by us. ICE agents have a ready pardon waiting for them. Nothing bad happened after Good’s execution. Trump is not scared of protests. We are not creating fear in any of them.
We are, however, forcing them to recalibrate politically. These reactions are 100% strategic, not out of fear from large crowds or protests, but more a repositioning as a result of their own errors. They are merely cockroaches scattering and regrouping in a new dark place.
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With these recent days of news showing that the Trump regime is on their heels about ICE, my refrain has been: “It’s working. Punch harder.”
Last night I let myself savor the “It’s working” part for a few happy minutes, but this morning I’m squarely focused on “Punch harder.”
@inthehands thank you for all the work you are doing and thank everyone in Minneapolis for modeling determined community resistance to injustice.
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