If nothing else, we are finding out the voices and institutions that have our backs.
Bonus points to Garden Party here in town also being the family our state rep comes from.
Category Archives: Politics
How Native communities pushed back as ICE operations escalated
Tribes have been dealing with American racism and violence longer than any other group.
‘This isn’t living, right?’: Minnesota immigrants share their stories while in hiding from ICE
Local NPR is – sort of – doing the work. Their social media person is gawdawful but here and there a reporter remembers who their community is and who actually funds their labor. Here are some insights from the folks literally under seige from masked government goons.
Team USA’s gold medal MAGA celebration was everything the NHL has been trying to avoid
Not a huge surprise, but the NHL players representing our country in the Olympics are women hating bigots. Go figure.
How Isle, population 800, became the only Minnesota city to sign an agreement to help ICE
Traitors in the midst. Imagine being a tourist town catering only to racists. You’d think you’d want to be as welcoming as possible, but nah. Let them die with the demographic they cater to.
Where do Minnesota Republicans stand on immigration and the Good and Pretti killings? Sahan asked all 112 Republicans in the Legislature, gubernatorial race and Congress.
Not that you were holding your breath but nearly every Republican is cool with masked insurrectionists executing people in the streets.
Vote accordingly.
The digital dragnet: ICE’s surveillance playbook and your legal rights
One more from MPR on rights and strategy during the age of masked thugs.
The impacts of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown
Another of the recent MPR reporting that gives you hope they might figure out their role again.
Community Defense Saves Lives – Abolitionists & the 1860 “Race Riots” in Grinnell, Iowa
Iowa is pretty awful. The modern version is Postville.
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
Always a good reminder to hear.