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.
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Thanks for coming. The secret for dealing with the weather is layers. And those handwarmer packs you can get at hardware stores
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Yep. And covering your mouth/nose with a scarf etc. You don’t want to directly breathe that cold air into your lungs - especially if you’re not used to it.
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Excellent reporting. I think the biggest problem is corporate media trying to normalize ICE & portray protestors as being the villains.
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Just finished the thread… this is the kind of reporting that is missing from the modern—oligarch owned—media ecosystem.
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Please tell them how incredibly PROUD America is of them. Minneapolis drew up the blue prints for all of us use in our towns across America and I have no doubt that we WILL take our country back.
Stand Up
Be Loud
RESIST
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Can I just say what kind of a radicalization indicator it is that my normie white liberal brunch moms are sharing Margaret's post on Facebook?
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Thank you for this. This is genuinely some of the best news I have heard since DT 2.0. Thanks for sharing.

Way to go Minneapolis.
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Bout to get REAL cold. Stay Warm & Stay Safe. Also, eat some Boludo pizza if you can. 🤍
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Thank you for writing this, I'm seeing it make the rounds in my mn based socials and I dont think your can understand that amount of hope you've given us that *somebody* is finally taking us seriously.
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The last few weeks there has been this looming dread among us that nobody outside mn is paying attention to what is happening here because after seeing the news from Chicago and LA they think it's more of the same thing when it's not. We are overrun with ice and it's not even close to other places.
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I hope you'll be in town long enough to report on what's planned for the 23rd.
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Welcome, we’re glad you’re here!
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Thanks Margaret.
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"ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

As someone who lived in the region for 22 years, this is most Minnesota thing ever.
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Truly inspiring. Thank you for reporting.
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Hi. As a journalist myself, thank you for being the boots on the ground at a time where genuine news reporting seems very biased and lost.
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Thank you for reporting with folks on the front lines
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Thank you! Been wondering what else I can do from Baltimore.
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Thank you for posting this. I’m in Switzerland but want to do my part to help
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Thank you for the reminder to donate. I had meant to do it and was stressing about who to donate to. That link made it easy.
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Thanks. I tried the links and got a ‘no connection’ error or ‘this url isn’t available’ message.
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ICE Out of Minnesota has put together a toolkit allowing anyone to dial up the pressure on its corporate targets.

Use the toolkit to put pressure on businesses to do the bare minimum to protect their customers from kidnapping and violence from Trump’s masked thugs.

docs.google.com/document/d/1CfnANsEjROzW1UEVRes4yjsrVRvg64SHNAh9Gvpaki0/edit?usp=drivesdk
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ICE Out of Minnesota has put together a toolkit allowing anyone to dial up the pressure on its corporate targets.

Use the toolkit to put pressure on businesses to do the bare minimum to protect their customers from kidnapping and violence from Trump’s masked thugs.

docs.google.com/document/d/1CfnANsEjROzW1UEVRes4yjsrVRvg64SHNAh9Gvpaki0/edit?usp=drivesdk
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Bacon's Rebellion 2.0.
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You are SO WELCOME here!
Welcome home.
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The violence is a result of the Gestapo.
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Thank you for this thread. Been having trouble sleeping. This doesn't solve anything, but it helps me feel better about humans.
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Oh Miss Magpie, I’m so glad you are there. They will benefit from your wisdom.
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I just wish it were a book tour and not to cover the invasion.
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Thank you for my gorgeous new lock screen. 💙
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This is so awesome! Is that a Loon (MN’s state bird) and Star of the North (MN state motto)? Love the combo of Rebel Resistance with Minnesota icons.
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I’ve had that SW rebel logo out in front of my house for a year. It’s good to have friends everywhere.
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I've tried in vain to think of a logo to symbolize The Resistance.
This is perfect!
The loon - MNs state bird & the North Star - which as far back as slaves escaping the south, has been a symbol of escape from tyranny!
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Pretty incredible that you captured the essence after being here for less than 24 hours. DM me if you'd like to be shown around Northeast - state violence has reached a fever pitch up here (as it has in most parts of the city) and I think it'd be worthwhile to talk.
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That was always something that struck me about Portland - people were *convinced* that the entire city had been burned to the ground.
Reality? It was a tiny squabble, *two blocks* in size. That's why all the news footage was at night, to avoid showing how small it was.

This? This is something else.
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I loved one factually accurate graphic that showed all of Portland and a tiny red dot that was the block and a half at issue. You had to zoom in to even see it clearly.
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This was how it was in LA. The tone was set, one picture of a Waymo on fire and I'm getting texts from everyone like ARE YOU OKAY?!

Well no. Nobody in this city feels okay. We were the first and it was terrifying. But the AI generated images of city inferno were absurd, the protests were 5 blocks.
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Please repost this! -This- is We The People! I got this in a message from a friend who got it from a friend. Please share/ repost. Mere liking doesn’t cut it! This is the encouragement we all need.
Vance tried to backtrack on his “ICE are immune” statement because he’s afraid of citizens! Good job
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Amazing, thank you for sharing. Good will prevail over evil
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Thank you for going and providing this to us. It gives us hope and provides a model for other cities to follow when they get invaded by ICE. Please write a more detailed Substack article on this with tips for organizing at this level.
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One thing I'd love to know is what the heck did Minneapolis *do* that led to this level of response? Not that it was justified, but did something incite this? We have ICE all over L.A. but nothing like what they're doing in MPLS. Can you find out what led to this (if anything?)
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Rep Ilhan Omar & Gov Tim Walz
Trump hates them both so sends pain to their voters. Mob tactics
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There's another thing I think is at play, at least partially: Places that get a ton of snow and have high pedestrian traffic require neighbors to work together to make their neighborhoods usable in winter.
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Trump was really surly in 2020 about not getting to send in troops to violently suppress BLM, and the Twin Cities were where that originated.

He's also just deeply fixated on racist stuff about Somalis, and Ilhan Omar has been a target of right wing hate for years.
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Also Minneapolis is the home of AIM, we have a very strong queer and trans community, we have a ton of artists and writers and theaters and small businesses. Mpls artists and organizers and educators have long traditions here. (Not to exclude St Paul but I live in Mpls so won’t speak for St Paul.)
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I moved to Twin Cities for college and what makes it different is the weather. People learn to cooperate to get stuck vehicles out all the time for people they do not know and will never see again. The common good is a real thing.
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Minnesota nice is a thing. That does not mean they tolerate this kind of abuse. Quite the opposite-they have apparently taken all that neighborly “saw you hurt your foot, just dropping off a casserole” energy and applied it to protecting their neighbors.
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Maybe revenge against Walz? Maybe?
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We have a different kind of culture. We have a community with a lot of beautiful stuff built and sustained by people not concerned with making money, a stronger social safety net than most places, and generations of people trained and experienced as organizers who know how to mobilize folks.
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Pray for the protesters: The Twin Cities forecast - Friday - has a low of -22F degrees and a high of -10F degrees! Wind conditions will make the temps feel like -31F! Schools are closing and it's VERY dangerous to have any exposed skin - but it will be SUNNY!
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P.S. I do know the Renee Good murder led to a much larger resistance and ICE sending even more assholes, but even before that, it seemed like a larger per capita ICE presence. Just wondering if anyone has identified the reason for that.
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They f@cked with the wrong Marines. “Minnesota Nice” doesn’t mean what you think it means.
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I really appreciate your reporting on this, Margaret.
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I’ve seen exactly the same text under a different name on Facebook. Do you know about this?
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Hmm…please check this out & let us know (I want to avoid passing on any AI crap).
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Bearing witness is so important. We need more reporting out and pictures. I’m waiting for the confiscation of phones and cameras at airports exiting conflict zones.
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Thanks for capturing both the horror of what is happening here and the bits of beauty to be found in the resistance to it. I have never experienced such dissonance between the utter cruelty and hatred of these government agents and the defiant love of the community in response.
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Thank you for spreading the word about what it is like here!
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Wow Margaret. Great reporting and inspiring. Minnesotans have the right stuff.
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Thank you for a well written stream of observations.
Come visit the North and the South parking lots at The Whipple Building, the ICE HQ. We come out there every day. Some have been coming out since last summer.
At night "Safe Haven" receives those released from Whipple, around 2 am. Come visit.
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This thread needs about 200k more likes.
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All of this Matters!
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Thank you for this. I really needed to read it tonight. Minneapolis has been giving me so much hope, but here on the border things feel far from this level of solidarity and active engagement. I was dooming a bit, but you're right. I think we're going to win
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Thank you for this thread. It’s important to hear about the resistance and not just the evil.
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Thank you Margaret for your presence and courage, as you always show. If you need money for anything, winter gear, hand warmers for protestors, food, please feel free to DM me and I can Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, etc.
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Thank you
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This is beautiful, thank you for sharing. ✊🏽
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This is such an important thread. Thank you for it, and for getting on the ground to inform us.

Please tell Minnesotans you meet: we are watching from everywhere, we see their bravery and struggle. We see what’s being done to them and their solidarity. Sending love and fury from the Southwest.
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Thank you for coming here and seeing it first hand. We need people to realize how not normal this is. It feels like we are basically having to use siege tactics to protect our own
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I love the smell of civil war in the morning...
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Thank you for this thread. I cried when I read it. We’re doing our small things with great love, and seeing you put all of our small things into context was so very heartening. Thank you again.
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I pray NJ is ready when they come for us. A lot to learn from our friends in Minneapolis!
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Thank you for what you are doing. Read about you in JVL's Bulwark newsletter this morning. Your reporting gives me hope. If there is ever anything I can do personally to assist (donate, subscribe somewhere, etc.) just ask and its yours.
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Thank you for this thread. I shared some of it in my RR groups. “Leaderless (or leaderful) was a perfect description.
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Thank you for coming. We appreciate you.
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Welcome to the great frozen north, we're damn happy to have ya, dontcha' know
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Oh! Are you the people who say that phrase?! I've always heard it in American movies dontcha' know! When this is over, your state is on my list of places to visit. 🫂
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I can't thank you enough for this. I read the whole thing aloud to my spouse last night, tearing up. Thank you too, to the absolute heroes ❤️ your courage and unity is a light 🕯️ for the rest of us.
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Is there any difference between ICE and the
Ku Klux Klan ?
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This will be the movie they will make of these times.
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Thanks for this heart warming thread. Democracy and human rights in heart and minds is the best resistance against the kosmopolitics of neo fascisme.
Thanks again from your neighbour in Holland ❤️👊.
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Thank you
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So they aren't calling Minneapolis a "war zone" precisely because it *is* one
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bc they’re creating the war zone, not the ppl living there
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Trump called Portland a war zone, not “the news”. A Google search finds that vast majority of news reports are either quoting Trump or questioning the accuracy of calling the protests a war zone.
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Minnesota, get organized!
go.bsky.app/67ZH9Hk
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Reading the Substack:

Seems social movements are born of social obligation as much (if not more) of an ideology.

Plenty of MNs deplored abortion clinic bombings or school shootings or racial profiling & didn't next to nothing about it.
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This... this has become a social responsibility - an expectation much like decorating for the holidays - as much as it is about disliking the bad events all around.

Neighbors expect to see neighbors doing this decentralized resistance.

How to replicate it?
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Thank you for bringing us hope Margaret ❤️
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This thread gives me so much hope.
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Thank you for this thread. During these awful times, reading about and seeing videos of your protestors has been a rare source of hope. Community, creativity, dignity, resilience.
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(I still have that improvised "bad ass big man" song stuck in my head. If that lady from the video ever visits Helsinki, Finland, I'd be honoured to take her to dinner.)
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Thank you for the great reporting about the courageous resisters against ICE.
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Thanks for the hope, Margaret. Looking forward to you reporting out on this on It Could Happen Here or another of the @coolzonemedia.bsky.social shows.
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It’s important to hear stories like this from people on the ground because I was geographically close to CHOP in Seattle a few years ago and the national media— left and right— just made shit up, I felt like I was going mad.
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Yeah even the George Floyd uprising was concentrated in a few areas. ICE and the resistance are everywhere now.
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wish you were visiting our city under better auspices but I couldn’t be prouder of my neighbors
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stop reposting this shit, you motha fuckas
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Wonderful, wonderful thread. Thank you for coming
@margaret.bsky.social and thank you for writing this.
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I'm so glad you're here, I love whenever you're on BtB. If you need anything while you're here or need some tips, let me know!
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Also if you'd like museum tickets, I can arrange that 🫡
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Thanks Magpie, these are encouraging words to read. We are hearty people but sometimes self doubting. Maybe our example can help turn the tide and inspire the rest of the country. I hope I see you in the streets tomorrow.
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Thank you for this.
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Never invade the arctic in the winter
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Fantastic thread, very inspiring of how people can come together to do whatever they can to fight tyranny!
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Happy to have you here with us Margaret! Welcome!
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Today to me, you're Margaret Somejoy
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Thank you Margaret. It means a lot you’re here. Please, though, don’t just cover the protests, demonstrations, and the protections people are doing. Saturday, check out a show, hang in a restaurant, hit up queermunity or the lavender district. Know how we are fighting, and living during this.
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I’m sure you were planning on it, but that’s another story that isn’t being covered. Breakups still happen, boss is still an asshat, (not mine, but still), food still needs to get made, laundry still needs to be folded, and shoulders need to be cried on.
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Welcome, thank you for being here, hit me and @incommensurati.bsky.social up if you want a hot meal or a hang sometime
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This is first bit of news out of Minneapolis that makes me feel better. I've been on a death spiral for weeks so this does wonders for my spirit. Gives me hope.
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It has been an amazing response here and I am so proud of Minnesota. I do ask, though, that we don’t frame it as Minneapolis. It is state-wide and the suburbs and out-state are being hit hard, too.
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I've read your thread a few times now. I've shared it with a number of people.

Two things I felt moved to say:
1) Thank you, this was wonderful
2) I am glad you enjoyed your time here, come back again soon!
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💪👏❤️
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Phew. Needed to read this. Was a rough day. Thanking you for seeing us!
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I know. I've cried every time I've seen the photo of little Liam Ramos. But this thread is heartening.
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This post has been making the rounds in my circle and is what a lot of us here needed to read today. Thank you.
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Thanks for this thread. Heartened by Minnesotans’ essential goodness and willingness to put so much of themselves at risk to protect their own as much as they can. And enraged that it is necessary.
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the GOP called Portland a "war zone" then the news starting mimicking their talking points
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What advice can you give to folks in other cities expecting an ICE surge?

What lessons learned of things that worked or didn’t work?
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I created a JPEG of her thread so folks can share on other platforms. If this isn't appropriate, I will delete the post. I'm not very tech savvy.
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Thanks for this jpeg!
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I just sent this to someone so thank you. I am not tech savvy other. I remember on twitter ( when it was good before i fled) there was like a thread scroll unwind/ rewind something like that account. wish it were here. maybe it is- people would "at it", do your thing _____"
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'ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter.'

Ohh, yeah, we all know how that went for the Nazis. For Napoleon, too. This might be interesting.
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please include alt text. Screen-reading apps cannot read text embedded in graphics.
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👍🏼 It is also here:
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Thank you so much for sharing this.
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Inspiring. People here in NJ are fighting against the Secret Police building another detention center.
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This gave me chills to read all of your posts. Wow. Thank you for what you’re doing. All of you are heroes, and I wish I was in a position to be able to fly out there and help. But millions of Americans are behind you, and cheering you on!
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What a great thread to read, really impressed with the Twin City spirit, inspiring to see and a tonic for a bruised world. Laranjão safado is trashing decades of goodwill to the US, glad to see ordinary people defying tyranny
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There are multiple behind the scenes opportunities to get involved. Teachers are organizing food drives for the students staying home. Churches are packing and distributing food boxes. White Drivers are taking black/brown people to medical appts. This is the Mn I love
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What are people doing to make this resistance *sustainable* over many months?? Granted, the weather will improve but ICEfux have much more money than We The People and they are counting on being able to wear us down, outspend us, coerce Congress, etc.
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I believe that we will win
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And when ICE moves on to another City, those residents will build on what the resistance learned in LA, Chicago, Portland, MSP…..
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Brilliant reporting. Thank you for this, Margaret!
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Thank you for sharing your insights into situation, and for showing up. Wish I could join you!
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Thank you so much for sharing this, it gives me hope ❤️
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Happy to have found you on Bsky, having followed you on the bird site for a while before, well, you know, and I found you here because Germans and Austrians I follow were talking up your reporting.

You’re worldwide now.
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Welcome to Minnesota. I’m so proud of all the people who have organized us to find ways to resist ICE. There is organization for observers, for protesters, for delivering food and needs to families, for getting school drop off and pick up guard, for donating money, for training-we won’t go quietly.
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This made me cry. It's been rough here and hard to zoom out and take in how massive the community effort has been to fight the occupation. I needed this today.
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Your community efforts are giving a lot of people hope where we weren't sure there was any to be had. We see what you're doing. Don't give up. You're not alone.
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Thank you Margaret 💖 it has been feeling bleak af here but reading your words is sincerely heartwarming. Thank you for being here
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Stay safe Margaret killjoy.
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Thank you for being there. I'll be there shortly.
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Thank you for shining a light on what's happening here.
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Plus it's freezing in MN. Thank you.
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The people of Minneapolis are inspirational.
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thanks for coming margaret, we are glad you're here. come up to Northeast. we have fun!
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My friends and i are happy to show you how we roll ❤️
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Please start using "Twin Cities" instead of Minneapolis. It's everywhere here, stop erasing us just because we're not in Minneapolis proper.
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Fantastic reporting. It helps us understand the scale of the resistance and the breadth and depth of it. Darkness and light.
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Just saw posts from this thread shown and talked about tonight by @velshi.com on The Last Word on MS Now! Great to see you get some notice by the main networks.
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Thanks so much for this . stay warm- buy hand warmers maybe some chargeable warming socks
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Ty so much Margaret, we need that kind of things to be known too, and ty to all people involved and mobilised, you need to be supported as much as we can!
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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)
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Black Panther Party is getting involved with armed weapons. If Minneapolis is as crazy as it is now, then just wait. If shit keeps escalating, more militants will start forming, then insurgencies will start targeting ice agents with weapons outright. And it won't be blacks,it'll be Americans.
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Never knew how much I love Minnesotan's.
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Thank you. Thank all of you
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It's amazing how Seattle entirely rebuilt in a matter of weeks after burning to the ground in 2020
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Thank you for coming to Minneapolis—again! (We met briefly at your book-signing event for The Sapling Cage back in 2024)

Please be safe & stay warm. I can’t wait to see your reporting 🔥
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See what’s actually happening in Minnesota. Our site offers fact‑based documentation of ICE enforcement, maintained by community volunteers, compiled from a variety of sources. Explore the incidents and their sources from no matter where you are from. mn-ice-witness.org/
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I want to add, things are really hard here in MN. Many of us are barely hanging in by a thread.

Your coverage, recognition and words really mean a lot to us. We really do need the encouragement and messages of solidarity.

I'm serious. Thank you!
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Rooting for you from NYC. If I didn't have 2 kids I'd be there. Take care and fuck most of the news coverage mostly fuck ICE. chinga la migra
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Co-sign from this MN mom.
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Thanks to all the strong souls who are out there doing the work of helping and supporting those who are under attack. Like Mr Roger’s used to say…Look for the Helpers. We appreciate your spirit to look into the face of the hard and empty hearted and remain strong and unbroken. Thank you.
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Please know people are paying attention! Your state's courage and fortitude is what's giving others hope we can get through this and creating a blueprint for what to do if those horrors come to our communities next. It's not in vain.
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Cheering you all on, sharing stories, calling congressmen and senators and donating from Ecuador. 🙏🏼
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Hello from the UK, we are watching you guys in awe. Sending love and support to Minnesota from across the Atlantic 🥰😎🕸️
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Sending you all so much love ❤️ from rural western NY. If I can do anything feel free to reach out. My heart goes out to everyone dealing with this horror.
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Your actions are warming my heart all the way over here in the UK. 🫂
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Thank you so very very much. I can't do much more than share what is going on from where I am in Europe but I can at least show how much I appreciate people fighting in a situation that no-one should ever have to deal with.
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Don’t give up. We’re all watching MN and you are inspiring the rest of us.
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I'm a Texan living in Canada, worried about family back in the US and in awe of how you're all doing this in such cold.

Your community's dedication is a talking point here and with friends across the states. May the flame of your courage continue to change hearts & keep you warm this frigid winter
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