There is the genuinely stunning fraud scandal, recently revealed, that happened on Walz’s watch. And there is the long shadow of #GeorgeFloyd. But to understand both the crackdown & its stakes, it’s also worth revisiting a speech #Trump gave in the city in Nov 2016, two days before the election that would first deliver him to the White House.
#law #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #DOJ #LegalEthics #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #Fascism #MafiaState
There is the genuinely stunning fraud scandal, recently revealed, that happened on Walz’s watch. And there is the long shadow of #GeorgeFloyd. But to understand both the crackdown & its stakes, it’s also worth revisiting a speech #Trump gave in the city in Nov 2016, two days before the election that would first deliver him to the White House.
#law #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #DOJ #LegalEthics #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #Fascism #MafiaState
“Oh, Minnesota,” #Trump told the crowd, dropping into the just-you-&-me-talking mode that has always been one of his greatest assets as a politician. “You know what’s going on. You know what I’m talking about. Do you know what I’m talking about? Be politically correct. Just nod — quietly nod. The whole world knows what’s happening in #Minnesota.”
#WhiteSupremacy #Islamophobia #law #WeaponizationOfGovernment #DOJ #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #Dictatorship #Autocracy #tyranny #MafiaState
What was happening in #Minnesota then was a tension surrounding the state’s #Somali community, its 2nd-largest #immigrant population. In 2008, a young Somalia-born man from #Minneapolis was recruited by the Somali Islamist militant group Al Shabab & detonated a car bomb outside a govt building in his birth country’s Puntland region, the first of dozens of young men from the community who would fight for Al Shabab in Somalia &, later, for the #IslamicState in Iraq & Syria over the next decade.
It's odd that billionaire bigots freak out about cultures with strong mutual aid practices.
When facing bigotry & hatred, it's natural to band together.
Cultures with mutual aid practices
https://blog.massmutual.com/planning/what-is-a-money-pool
Tzedakah, Tikkun olam
https://www.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/human-spirit-during-the-holocaust/mutual-aid.html
https://sapirjournal.org/money/2025/poverty-and-jewish-community/
