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Related, “This Is What ICE Descending on Minneapolis Looks Like: Photos show the terror and resistance taking over Minnesota’s largest city.” (arc)

Also related, ‘Organized gangs of wine moms’ (arc)

One woman showed me her Signal chats — they pulse, blink, leapfrog over one another, a chaotic and never-ending cascade of need. These are the rapid response groups, where people go to report ICE actions and immediate needs for neighbors who are hiding in fear. They are a flashing scroll of “Who can get groceries to a family in St. Paul?” and “ICE spotted near the elementary school.”

This woman is doing so much. But she told me she is not doing enough. These are the women (mostly women) who are working to create a safety net for their friends and neighbors in a city under federal occupation. So many of them have their own jobs, their own kids, and their own families, which they juggle as they’re working for and caring for the families around them.

I’m not able to share their names or ages or where they live. They’re still working, still gathering food, trailing ICE vehicles, sitting in immigrant-owned stores and restaurants with ICE whistles. They need to be kept safe.

But these are the people that a Fox News contributor called “organized gangs of wine moms” and accused of using antifa tactics. If antifa uses Kohl’s cash to buy socks for an immigrant mom afraid to go to the store, and if antifa delivers meals and offers spare rooms to people too afraid to go back to their apartments, then yes, I guess the allegations are true.

But I didn’t see much wine. Just women organizing to mitigate the disaster.