Every second of coverage that Jacob Frey gets is a centrist distraction from a sincere conversation about what’s happening in Minneapolis. He is uninterested in doing anything that helps anyone vulnerable in this city. He bumbled his way through the uprising in 2020 (on the side of “restoring order”), he constantly had homeless communities bulldozed, and now again he’s distracting people with stern-sounding rhetoric while doing nothing to support the community.
The precinct map for the 2025 mayoral election (which Frey won) overlays neatly with the city map of ICE activity this month. That is, the parts of the city that supported Frey are being less affected by ICE raids and kidnappings. He doesn’t care about protecting immigrants and BIPOC community members because they’re not “his people.”
General strike. Nationwide.
Start with Minnesota, this Friday. Just like ICE’s invasion and occupation, start targeted and then spread.
That’s definitely something to work towards but a general strikes requires years of planning, organising, network building, and just fucktons of money. People still need to eat and pay rent. People will be fired and need help fighting it. The regime is likely to injure and maybe kill.
There hasn’t been a general strike in living memory.
A general strike takes time, it’s not something we can just do. Rushing it and fucking it up would be a huge win for the fascists.
I wish.
This fascist regime has clearly been planning for a while to send the military to attack american cities.
If they feel confident in using the military instead of the death squads they’ve been building under ice, that implies they are optimistic about their control over the military, or at least ready to test that control.
Anyone who thinks there’s an electoral path away from fascism is deluding themselves. They’ll shoot us dead in the street before giving up power.
Can anyone recommend local sources to follow?
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Been a while since I’ve lived in MN but the Star Tribune is the big one
I was thinking something more on the ground, not run for profit
Impeach. Noem, Bondi and Trump.
defund the Department of Noemland Security while yer at it!
Lmao
Frey is a simp for fascism. His non-committal to abolishing ice is a clear message.
LICE
Lie-ice
If the government calls the national guarding into a mission, the president cannot use them for whatever the fuck he wants. We just have some Democrats that rather send harsh letters and posts instead of stepping up.
We’re no talking about the National Guard, we’re talking about two 11th Airborne Infantry units who has specifically trained for arctic warfare. This is how the period of truly monstrous civil conflict that we all know is coming starts. This right here.
And in terms of Democrats stepping up: Walz has already staged the Minnesota National Guard and have them at the ready to defend the protesters against ICE and U.S. Army
They’ve put two active duty army infantry battalions on alert; not national guard.
Trump isn’t supposed to be able to deploy them without consulting the governor. But that’s not been respected, so I doubt that will be either. But I hope so.
Yep tradition and courtesy left the government the day trump was sworn in for the second time.
Federalizing the guard doesn’t require anything from the governor.
Why is that downvoted? It’s the truth.
