"One way to read the occupation of Minnesota is as a flex — a demonstration of the government’s power and authority. That, perhaps, is how [Stephen] Miller and Kristi Noem see the situation. I smell, on the other hand, a stench of desperation, an attempt to do with force what they can’t accomplish through ordinary politics."
~ Jamelle Bouie
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #Minneapolis #ICE #resistance
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/opinion/ice-minneapolis-occupation.html
"Faced with an angry public but committed to a rigid agenda of nativist brutality, the president and his coterie of ideologues are playing the only move they seem to have: wanton violence and threats of further escalation. They think this will break their opposition."
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #Minneapolis #ICE #MaskedThugs #resistance
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"But looking at the ironclad resolve of ordinary Minnesotans to protect their homes and defend their neighbors, I think the administration is more likely to break on their opposition and learn, as the British did in Boston, that Americans are quite jealous of their liberties."
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #Minneapolis #ICE #MaskedThugs #resistance
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"ICE agents at a hotel in St. Paul woke up [Sunday] morning to news that they’re getting kicked out of their hotel today at noon."
~ Chris Geidner
He's reporting this morning that mutiple hotels in St. Paul-Minneapolis took the step of kicking ICE out yesterday.
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #Minneapolis #ICE #MaskedThugs #resistance
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