This morning, ICE was staking out an elementary school bus stop here in Minneapolis.
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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.
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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