"This is no time for games, for toxic 'both-sides-ism,' for false equivalencies. This is a time to tell the truth. And stop amplifying narratives that perpetuate a dangerous distortion of what’s happening on the ground. Your city and state might be next."
#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation #media #BothSides
/20
"This is no time for games, for toxic 'both-sides-ism,' for false equivalencies. This is a time to tell the truth. And stop amplifying narratives that perpetuate a dangerous distortion of what’s happening on the ground. Your city and state might be next."
#Minnesota #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #occupation #media #BothSides
/20
@wdlindsy I guess this is the "the Official People wouldn't do this to anyone who didn't deserve it, therefore the people being abused deserve it and also I'm completely safe because I haven't done anything wrong"* phenomenon again. 
(*completely shortcircuiting the question of "why do we believe and trust the Official People to do the right thing?" and basically the whole concept of critical thinking.)
"We all saw the video. ICE Agent Jonathan Ross shot at Renee Good from the left side of her vehicle, after Ross was no longer in any (alleged) danger of being run over. A private autopsy confirmed that Renee was shot in the left side of the head—a wound that confirms what we all saw on the video."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Minnesota #ICE #ReneeGood #JonathanRoss #murder #media #BothSides
/21
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/jack-smith-delivers-the-judgment
Robert Reich thinks that today's strike in Minnesota "could be a model for what the nation as a whole does in coming months, to repudiate the Trump dictatorship."
He quotes Ana Marie Cox who writes about how Minnesota is a natural leader in modeling solidarity:
“It is impossible to get through a Minnesota winter without help, and only sometimes does that assistance come from your neighbors."
#Minnesota #ICE #strike #solidarity #resistance
/22
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/minnesotas-general-strike-and-americas
Reich says,
"The decency of Minnesotans is mirrored in a dozen other Minnesota mutual-aid traditions: Lutheran churches seeded what has become the largest refugee population per capita in the United States. Minnesota has had a labor organizing movement since before it became a state. Minnesota created the first high-risk pool in the country to insure 'the uninsurable' in 1976."
"I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life."
~ Margaret Killjoy
#Minnesota #ICE #strike #solidarity #resistance
/24
https://bsky.app/profile/margaret.bsky.social/post/3mcyca2lep32j
"A general strike that began in Minnesota is now spreading to other parts of the country, with workers, nurses, and pro-democracy activists coordinating actions that we have not seen at this scale in roughly seventy years. The goal, shared openly by organizers, is to make this the largest general strike in modern U.S. history."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Minnesota #ICE #strike #solidarity #resistance
/25
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/friday-afternoon-news-updates-as-af7
