Nothing makes me madder than the insinuation that MN democrats deserve any credit for how they responded to Trumps lil civil war. They responded like ineffective cowards. #DFL #MNDFL
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My law firm is now litigating 85 voting and election cases in 40 states. This is the largest number of cases in the most states we have ever handled at one time. And, while Big Law firms mostly sit idly by, the need to protect elections in court is only growing.
I don't want to paint a rosy picture, because it's a city under siege. People are being abducted all the time. One person told me about watching 1-2 abductions a day, just in her own work following ICE.
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
Another person put it: "we're Minnesotans. We're excited to get out our real winter gear out of the box for the year."
He was an audio engineer whose kid went to school in the area. No way in hell was he going to let anyone come for the kids on his watch.
Today I talked with a 76 year old who'd been standing in the cold for hours guarding her neighbors. I was getting kind of chilly, even in the new winter gear i bought for this trip (and I live in the goddam mountains myself).
She didn't even have a hat on.
Before I came, I asked a local friend if the cold (it's going to be -20 or so in the coming days) would stop people from coming out. "No, we'll be there. It's ICE who can't handle it."
It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.
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.
Half the street corners around here have people--from every walk of life, including republicans--standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles, which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that tracks ICE vehicles and mobilizes responders.
I got in late last night. First thing this morning, I saw cars following an ice vehicle down the street, honking at it.
Later, we didn't drive more than three blocks before we found people defending a childcare facility. (The idea that people have to defend a childcare facility... let that sink in)
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
@dfl.org #TomEmmer has done so much to protect the GOP pedophiles in the Epstein Files that he's about to be granted lifetime honorary membership from NAMBLA.
Thank God we got Just Dance Vance aka"Trump is America's Hitler but who said thats a bad thing"
@dfl.org DM me; I'll work for free.
We cannot continue to ignore the obvious connections between the GOP and child sex trafficking. That ya'll are on defense in a 20+ D election year is fucking wild.
@dfl.org the fact that we're talking about daycare fraud and not the GOP lending support to Anyon Lazzaros child sex trafficking ring is malpractice. What did Lisa Demuth know and when? Many people are saying she was intimately involved with Lazzaro.
Speaker Demuth "horrified" to learn lawmakers survived assassination attempt.
Legalizing gay marriage doesn't threaten
Minnesota values — Senator Eichorn does.
Donald Trump is embarrassing the United States on the world stage. We are a country that stands up to dictators and fights for democracy.
Minnesota stands firmly with our allies in Ukraine.
Both Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham want Pres. Zelenskyy on his knees in front of them but for completely different reasons.
It bears repeating.
/6 I know some of you will say “how can you focus on such a small story when such big bad things are happening?” But it’s crucial we watch for small injustices being encouraged by large ones. Lawlessness should be called out small and large.
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Toddlers For Rottweilers has renamed itself to Toddlers For Please Please Cujo Put Kyle Down He’s Already Dead
LISTEN: Judge Coughenour condemns Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship.
It is “apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore…for political or personal gain.”
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@emmagreenman.bsky.social Do you want to let your constituents know why ya'll folded like a wet napkin to the GOP? I'm sure this will totally discourage the GOP strategy of *checks notes* disregarding election results they don't like in the future.
GOP receives:
-Speakers gavel
-New Committee majority
-A new strategy to not seat members whose elections they don't like
DFL receives:
-50% of seats on some committees
Every day in every way, the Dems fold like wet napkins.
@dfl.org So after all this, even with a Supreme Court win and pending special election, all you got was 50/50 power on *most* committees? What the actual fuck is wrong with you?
