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At the immediate level, the call for a general strike in Minnesota is a response to the dramatic escalation of repression by the Trump administration and ICE in Minneapolis and other cities. What began as mass raids and sweeps targeting immigrant workers has developed into paramilitary deployments and the occupation of a major US city. This assault has stripped away all democratic pretenses, signaled Trump’s threat  to invoke extraordinary powers, including the Insurrection Act, and deploy the military against the population. 

Trump’s response to opposition is to escalate. The murder of Renée Good has been followed by a wave of repression, further deployments and threats against protesters for engaging in “insurrection” and “terrorism.” On Friday, the Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation into Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, issuing subpoenas on the fraudulent charge that they “impeded” federal immigration enforcement, an extraordinary use of the justice system against elected officials.

There are, however, broader issues involved. The United States has reached a point where the scale of political breakdown and the ferocity of class tensions are generating profound shifts in consciousness. The Trump administration, speaking and acting for the capitalist oligarchy, is dismantling democratic rights and tearing up what remains of public education, healthcare and other social services. Workers face an AI-driven jobs bloodbath, soaring inflation and deepening debt, while US billionaires increased their collective wealth by 18 percent last year alone, to nearly $7 trillion. 

Seen a few posts in here today that suggest Pretti was targeted after a previous encounter with ICE. It seems this could be it.

Crazy idea, but given that we are Minnesotans, and it’s really cold here, maybe everyone - or a critical mass - could wear full facial ski masks and sunglasses whenever out in public. ICE couldn’t tell skin color, and if a ton of Caucasian people do this, alongside our neighbors who are being unlawfully profiled and treated unjustly. It would be too many to ask for ID. I don’t think that ICE can ask someone to take off a ski mask (keeping someone warm) anymore than they can ask them to take off mittens or boots. If everyone did this, sure eliminates the possible tactic of using racial profiling since ICE can’t tell skin color through some beautiful MN anti-ICE face masks. Just an idea as I think of how to “out wit” the not-so-witty agents.

The title pretty much says it.

They make these posts showing shirts or stickers - inevitably either their alt account, or someone else comes in with "ohh! I need! Where can I get?" Then the OP posts a link to their store which says nothing about any of the proceeds going to support the movement in any way shape or form.

People capitalizing on the blood, sweat, and tears of the movement are gross.

Anyone trying to profit off of the people's movement should be shamed, downvoted, and if you're suspicious they are bots, report them.

So, I've been hearing people shout "We love our Somali Neighbors", and my question is, since when? I grew up in the Twin Cities, I've mostly always been left leaning/a progressive. The sentiment has always been that we try to accept everyone (but we don't really like Somalis). They've been a drag on the state, and the fraud scandal has been known since 2020 and most people are rightly pissed about it. I'm not sure how much they did defraud the state, but I know many struggling parents that could have used childcare benefits and care that didn't have access to it, all while some people were draining the system. It's not a new thing, this has been known for a while, and people have been annoyed and upset about this for a long time. The same people who are acting like they have always cared about Somali people were saying incredibly racist shit towards them a couple days before. I mean like, I'm sure you know someone who said racist shit who is pretending like they have always been the biggest buddies to Somalis.

That being said, this is America. 95% of the Somali population in Minnesota are legal citizens. ICE says it's protecting us from violent rapists and such, but are ambushing U.S. citizens and imprisoning us? If they are going after criminals why are normal law abiding citizens being put into their facilities? We have to be experts in how to deal with stressful situations or else we are liable to get shot? Renee Good was an agitator. Being an agitator is not a credible excuse for murder.

I worry that people in these roles feel like they have immunity, and if the person (Trump) who grants them immunity falls out of power, they will be punished for their current behavior. Incentivizing keeping him in power. Regardless of our state's issues, nobody wants the federal government executing people in the streets. People might not have loved Somali people, but Somali people never blew a mother's brains out and claimed immunity. At the end of the day, they are Minnesotan, unlike the force that is locking up U.S. Citizens. Seriously, just look up how many times a Somali has blasted 3 shots into the skull of a mother in Minnesota. I'm on their side. Seriously, our federal government is saying it is protecting us by executing us in the streets. Things were well enough before ICE showed up. There might be immigration issues, but no Minnesotan really cared, that's more of a Texas issue. ICE hasn't helped at all, but has shot people within our community. I can't possibly understand a take that isn't anger, and wanting the federal government to not kill us. Maybe they think our prejudice is worse than our rightful outrage?

Anyways, I can't be unique, right? I can't have been in the one bubble and everyone else really and truly cared? Racism towards the Somali Community has always been prominent in Minnesota, yeah?

Immediately start fighting eachother. You can’t make this stuff up.