@inthehands I think too often people mistake a commitment to non-violence with being a pushover or being passive, but that's not the case at all. The effectiveness of the loud, annoying, firm, direct, omnipresent neighborhood rapid response efforts that y'all have developed in the Twin Cities shows that, and the history of effective nonviolent movements shows that too.

The regime is already having its use of force massively backfire against them. This is a weak regime. Despite their best efforts, they have not consolidated the media, they have not consolidated the legal system, they have not consolidated local governments and security forces, and they have not managed to get people to mass snitch on their neighbours. They are doing cruel, easily visible, random violence to people, and it is not tamping down dissent. It is having the opposite effect - of spurring people into action to stand up for their neighbours, to waste their time, to degrade their morale, to document everything they're doing, and to show up in such numbers that the agents just give up and run away. So many of y'all in Minneapolis are finding your courage and I am heartened by seeing it.

Finally, there are so many examples just in the last few years around the world of people resisting authoritarianism to learn from, and examples of how to do effective resistance. America is not Hong Kong, or Indonesia, or Venezuela, or Iran, or Myanmar, or Thailand, or Bangladesh, or Nepal, or Mongolia, or Kenya, or Madagascar. But the examples of tactics that work in modern times are so many and so rich. And overwhelmingly, the peaceful movements win.

Solidarity with all of you, and may you find the energy to keep showing up for your neighbours, day after day.