Socialist Alternative has nothing to do with this strike action. They're a bunch of do-nothing losers who have been calling for a general strike for years with zero effect. Their idea of praxis was yelling at movie theater owners, platforming rabid anti-semites, and destroying every ounce of good will they'd accumulated until their one elected city council member slunk off to become a failed YouTuber.

When the local government is already aligned with your cause I don't see how a general strike provides any benefits. How does this impact Trump or the federal government in any way? Maybe some of the commenters in these pages can provide some clarity on what they are hoping to accomplish since the author didn't bother.

@2, from the New York Times “The purpose, according to organizers, was to demonstrate the resolve of residents who do not want immigration agents in their cities.”

@3
And?
Has their ‘resolve’ brought about any change?
The people who agreed with them yesterday still agree with them today.
The people who didn’t still don’t.
It’s nothing more than performance art.

@2, @3: I understand the Minnesotans' frustrations, but taking it out on each other, with NO effect upon ICE or Trump, just increases their own misery. As @1 noted, worthless agitators have long tried to get a general strike going, to no effect. This is just another attempt by that irrelevant group to capitalize (ha!) on valid frustrations to advance their own unpleasant agenda.

I hope everyone who performs essential functions in MN stays at their jobs, and helps their neighbors make it through their tough political and physical climates.

@6 that is kinda what I thought. It just seemed like it was intended to create more harm instead of providing any kind of positive. Not to mention many businesses were closed today due to the weather. I was wondering if I was missing something here but it doesn’t sound like it.

Protesting? Quelle horreur!!! The henhouse has reacted as I expected. It's sad to think that I come from a generation of fearful white men. I blame Huey Lewis for telling us that it was hip to be square.

Forget urine balloons. I think they should try diarrhea balloons. After all, If you're going to go, go big.

smash, smash for gods sake , smash. As a registered Anarchist, I endorse this message. I for one welcome our prarie populist overlords, welcome to hell, comrades!

@8: I'm sorry, exactly what benefit(s) will the people of Minneapolis or Minnesota derive from this "protest"? (Please do be specific, and in detail, dear; and please do recall name-calling does not equal making an argument, no matter what kristo' says.)

@8: "I think they should try diarrhea balloons"

I suppose, but aiming into the balloon while on the toilet seems tricky. Hope it wasn't too messy for you.

@4 Totally down with folks throwing urine balloons at ICE/Gestapo goons! Even when it's -30 with wind chill, it is justified when dealing with people who are kidnapping and trafficking kids.

I think that depends on the individual attendee, tensorna dear. My question is why are people like you so threatened and angered by it? Are you content to be meek and compliant while these thugs run amok, hoping that you'll be thrown a few crumbs?

Coolidge dear, I thought you'd figured this out. I'm a mannequin. I don't poo.

What would be worse than a diarrhea balloon? The Jan 6 rioter smeared poop on the walls of the capitol. I thought that was one of their kinks. After all, trump himself wears a diaper.

@14: "I think that depends on the individual attendee, tensorna dear."

Ok, so you don't have any idea how this pertains to MN or ICE or Trump or immigration policy or anything else. Fair enough; you're just advocating for a strike in a faraway place because it sounds cool and costs you nothing, then?

Real persons have already gotten hurt. Commenters here simply ask what benefit(s) the people of MN would gain from this action, and, without providing a single example of any benefit, you lash out at your fellow middle-aged white guys, name-calling and declaring that we're a bunch of miserable cowards for even daring to ask. Why do YOU feel so incredibly threatened by the merest hint of dissent, dear? Read too many Sawant mailers of late?

Oh tensorna. How you do prattle on. Which dissent am I supposedly so threatened by? You're the one who apparently thinks that everyone should stay in their home with the drapes drawn while these ICE thugs go door to door, and you always get so prickly when your challenged.

But let's turn it back onto you, dear: What would you do if you lived in Minneapolis? Greet ICE with bouquets and your oldest daughter?

@8/@9/@13/@14 - PEACEFUL PROTEST ONLY

It's provocateurs like you that will lay the predicate for the insurrection act - gawd you're stupid.

@20: "What would you do if you lived in Minneapolis? Greet ICE with bouquets and your oldest daughter?"

Sure, assuming the oldest daughter is holding a bouquet also. What would you do, throw a diarrhea balloon? If you don't poo, you can get it from Señor Vel-DuRay.

Why use Diarrhea or Molotov cocktails when we have the second Amendment? After all, Minnesota is a right-to-carry state, and isn’t the point of that amendment to protect us from a tyrannical government?

@24: It is, so go for it. The next direct flight from Seattle (SEA) to Minneapolis (MSP) is likely to be a Delta Air Lines flight that departs at 12:35 AM PST. Take your hubby with you and give us a full report when you get back.

Daikon dear, I'm just asking a question. The reason for the Second Amendment, or so I've had mansplained to me for the last sixty years, is to protect citizens from the overreach of a tyrannical government. Well, here's your tyrannical government overreach? What are patriots to do?

Coolidge dear, I don't go east of the rockies unless I'm being paid. But why don't you to to The Cities and bring the ICE boys some cookies or something?

Like ICE and the U.S. Government give a shit about a general strike in Minnesota.

It doesn't impact federal tax receipts, or an electorate that gave Trump any Electoral Votes.

Daikon dear, if you're looking for logic, you're in the wrong Slog. Although I do think that firearms are a step above diarrhea balloons, don't you?

And I regret that question mark at the end of "Well, here's your tyrannical government overreach". I did not intend for that to come across as a question.

But I appreciate that you are just being a "Good German".

"tyrannical government overreach"

Speaking as a classic Republican, if DHS continues like this, cutting out local investigations, and an increasing number of civilian fatalities, detention camps becoming prison camps, then yes, of course, without a doubt that meets the definition for needed armed militia and revolution against the government.

@14: "I think that depends on the individual attendee, tensorna dear."

Well, another person just got shot and killed by federal agents in Minnesota. So, we won’t get to ask him if all of this was worth it, now will we? Somehow I doubt his violent and pointless death will get Trump to order ICE (or other feds) out of there.

Although others beat me to it, I’ll note you can go to MN and do as you like; I cannot possibly stop you. I’ll continue to ask if these direct actions make sense, but that’s just because I’m an adult, and we ask such questions before acting.

Daikon dear, most Germans weren't Nazi's either, but they went along to get along.

You should be ashamed for not knowing your history.

And I'll continue to ask you, Our dear, dear, tensorna: What would you do if you lived in Minneapolis? I'll grant you that the question of what to do when your city is being overrun by federal forces who are killing civilians and deporting citizens is something most white Americans - myself included - never had to ask themselves.

But seriously? What would you do? Write a letter to the editor? Call your Congressional Representative? Post something on Facebook (or slog) and call it a day?

How am I trivializing the holocaust? That seems like a rather pedestrian accusation.

@39: The comparison is Godwin's law initially, but if things get worse even for MAGA, the comparison changes from yellow to red alert. At that point, and I pray it doesn't come, then the evil in these detention centers risk progressing into genocide.

@36: "And I'll continue to ask you, Our dear, dear, tensorna: What would you do if you lived in Minneapolis?"

And I'll state explicitly the obvious point you have so far missed: I don't know what -- if anything -- I'd do, hence my asking if the costs of these direct actions justify whatever benefits they supposedly provide. So far, we have at least two violent deaths, both apparently of natural-born citizens of the United States, and what positive difference have they made?

Again, if you want to go to MN, and demonstrate to all of us the correct course of action, we cannot stop you.

Daikon dear, do you think the Nazi reign of terror and resulting Holocaust happened overnight? And to think you told me that you knew your history. Did you get that "history" from watching "Cabaret" or "The Sound of Music"?

Tensora, (and Coolidge, while we're at it) please point me in the direction where I asserted that I needed to go to Minneapolis and join in the protests. I asked you what you would do. You don't know, and I respect that. I don't know what I would do either, but I'm not about to say that the protesters in Minneapolis are doing it wrong.

@42: The inference came about in @24 when you said "... when we have the second Amendment? After all, Minnesota is a right-to-carry state, ....". It almost sounded like you were itching to go to MN. But I admit it was a leap in retrospect.

@42: "Tensora, (and Coolidge, while we're at it) please point me in the direction where I asserted that I needed to go to Minneapolis and join in the protests."

In response to an article which unabashedly endorsed the MN protests as pure, unadulterated good, several commenters dare question the Stranger's assertion. You responded by calling everyone who did so a coward. Therefore, we naturally assumed you were not a coward, that you would yourself go to MN and show us miserable, fearful white men how a real tough manly man-man handles such things with triumphant ease.

But no, you merely demanded to know what we would do, implying I'd hand over my own child for assault if I didn't answer. (How so very, very classy of you, my dear!) But I don't know what to do, which is exactly why I had questioned the Stranger's absolute certainty that these protests are good and appropriate and will accomplish something. Again, as you did not even tolerate the very act of questioning this absolute certainty, we figured you agreed with the Stranger's position.

Maybe we read too much into your strident personal attacks upon everyone who dared question the Stranger's assertions. Maybe you just like calling other persons cowards, and jumped at the chance to do so here. Only you can answer that; I don't really care if you do or not.

"...I'm not about to say that the protesters in Minneapolis are doing it wrong."

But I haven't done that. I've asked for examples of the value what they're doing will bring. As @2 noted, the Stranger didn't provide any; then you dodged the question. At least two persons have now died violently there, so whatever good these protests bring must justify that body count. Still, no answer from anyone. Not exactly a ringing endorsement of these protests, would you say?

therefore
those feckless
Demonstrations
have no actual Value?

ok wormmy.

speaking of what would YOU Do:
(or -- What have you
Done, so far):

Imperial Boomerang

The murders
of unarmed civilians
on the streets of Minneapolis,
including the killing today of the intensive-
care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come
as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province.

They were terrorized by heavily armed American execution squads for decades.
It would not come as a shock to any of the students I teach in prison.

Militarized police
in poor urban neighborhoods
kick down doors without warrants and kill
with the same impunity and lack of accountability.

What the rest of us are facing now,
is what Aimé Césaire called
imperial boomerang.

Empires, when they decay,
employ the savage forms of control
on those they subjugate abroad, or those demonized
by the wider society in the name of law and order, on the homeland.

The tyranny Athens imposed on others, Thucydides noted, it finally, 
with the collapse of Athenian democracy, imposed on itself. 
But before we became the victims of state terror, 
we were accomplices. 

Before we expressed moral outrage 
at the indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, 
we tolerated, and often celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics, 
as long as they were directed at those who lived in the nations we
occupied or poor people of color. We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. 

The machinery of terror, perfected
on those we abandoned and betrayed, in-
cluding the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us.

--by Chris Hedges; January 24, 2026

oodles:
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/imperial-boomerang

"IT'S N O T  GENOCIDE!!!"
Not till WE SAY IT IS.

right, wormmy?

oh and
let us not
fail to Remember:

but Hamas!
But Hamas!
BUT HAMAS!!!

looks like you've
Justified it right to
the Homeland, Wormtongue.

Well done!

but
But
BUT

Kshama Sawant!

it Ain'y Kshama.
it Ain''t HAMAS.

But it IS OUR
Complicity.

"We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind."

Tensorna dear, you really are too much sometimes. Touchy as a hen, one might say.

If you look back on my comments, I do not at all tow The Stranger's editorial line, and I don't engage in "strident personal attacks". Your emotional fragility is not my problem. You just don't like your edicts being questioned.

@46: "You just don't like your edicts being questioned."

Oh, gawd, the irony! Thanks for the laughs, you old hen!

(BTW, it's "toe the line." As the comment above yours reminds us, Slog already has a famously illiterate commenter.)

Thank you for the correction. Tensorna dear.

Mrs. Vel-DuRay regrets the error.

(I hope that wasn't too strident, or personal)

@48: Don't feel bad, I thought it was "tow" as well - thinking the idiom had a maritime or work related meaning to tow an actual line of rope or something. It's a very common misconception.

Google:
The correct phrase is toe the line, meaning to conform to rules or standards, stemming from athletes placing their toes on a starting line; "tow the line" is a common misspelling that incorrectly uses "tow" (to pull) instead of "toe," though it's often seen in writing due to the similar sound. Think of runners at the start of a race, standing with their toes on the line, not pulling anything.

speaking of
oh, those silly children!
and 'Their ineffective Demonstrations!'

and

if ICEStapo hasn't been stopped, by Now,
then, don't even Bother with your
silly demonstrations!

we'll be having
an Election,
Soon!

and, Gott dammit,
this Ain't the 1960s!

right, wormmy?

oh. and monsters:

from Paul Krugman's

Monsters.
And their enablers
are accessories to murder.

It has been clear for a long time,
to anyone willing to see, that the
people running the federal government —
Trump, Miller, Noem, Bovino and more — are monsters.

It has been equally obvious that ICE and the Border Patrol
are now filled with sadistic thugs. Yet many people — almost the
entire GOP, everyone serving in the Trump administration, some Dem-
ocrats, a significant part of the media — were too cowardly to admit the obvious.

At this point, however, there are no more excuses.

In a way the cowards and opportunists enabling Trump
are more to blame for where we are than Trump and
company themselves: monsters are monsters and
can’t help themselves, but the enablers have
a choice. And they have chosen, again and
again, to accommodate and facilitate evil.

[just like with bibi's genocide.]

I wish
I could
believe that
the last few weeks
will be the last straw, but I don’t.

To be honest, I wish I believed in Hell,
because if it did exist, the enablers
would be going there along
with the monsters.

What I do believe in is the courage and decency
of millions of ordinary Americans, which have been
so dramatically on display in Minneapolis. We can only
hope that this courage and decency get us through this nightmare —

and we must do all we can to make it happen.

--by Paul Krugman; January 25 2026

more:
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/monsters

@44 You want "answers" justifying the body count less than 24 hours after the second person was murdered? Maybe shut up, take a breath and see what's coming. This feels like a tipping point. Even the NRA thinks the shooting was bullshit.

the AIPAC
is Strong
in that
one,
51.

@51: As I clearly described @44, the Stranger supports these street protests without question. When people are dying, maybe that's a time for questioning whether these street protests are actually the unlimited good the Stranger claims? (Bonus points for telling someone to "shut up" whilst the Stranger extolls street protests. Speaking out is ok for me, but not for thee, eh?)

The swiftness with which you and Mrs. Vel-DuRay demand silence from your fellow citizens, and use bullying words in an attempt to enforce your demands, really doesn't do anything good for the points you think you're making. As the comment above yours reminds us, Slog already has a chronically ineffectual bully.

God you're dumb.

@53: "When people are dying, maybe that's a time for questioning whether these street protests are actually the unlimited good the Stranger claims?"

Wait a minute.... What's wrong with you? Two deaths now of peaceful citizens, plus:

These DHS agents receive only 47 (if that number seems familiar, that's why) days of training.
There was an DOJ secret memo passed around that says an administrative warrant suffices instead of a judge's to break into private homes.
Continuous reports of indisputable abuse of constitutional rights and due process.
People are scared in their own homes, now in Maine too, too scared to go to work or school just because of their skin color. This has a ripple effect on our economy and security.

I'm one of the more right-leaning trolls around here, and even I can see that peaceful protesting is a moral imperative in this case. Don't make me agree with @54!

@53

lol!
speaking of
Bullies, and RWNJs
untethered to Reality &
Projecting their utter Hatred:

"... anyone
who uses the
Lord of the Rings
as a metaphor for the
Second World War, the global struggle
against Fascism, actually wishes genocide upon the hobbits!"

--@the Wormtongue

Tensorna, why do you insist on always being a victim? Neither Our Dear Doug nor I have ever “demanded anyone’s silence”. You’re having a fit of hysteria. Go lay on your fainting couch with your smelling salts until you feel better.

"The way
to address any issues
with ICE is via our elected rep-
resentatives, not through street protests."

tensorna on January 18, 2026 at 2:12 PM

--@the Wormtongue
Obv wishing, "Great
Success!" for our
new ICEStapo,

speaking
of Monsters.

In a way the cowards and opportunists enabling Trump
are more to blame for where we are than Trump and
company themselves: monsters are monsters and
can’t help themselves, but the enablers have
a choice. And they have chosen, again and
again, to accommodate and facilitate evil.

[just like with bibi's genocide.]

--Paul Krugman; January 25, 2026
more:
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/monsters

if there's One
Thing the Wormtongue
absolutely makes him Seethe with
Anger is that we're coming so fucking CLOSE
to our Tipping Point; and he'll, like Cadet Bonepsurs,

do Everything & ANYthing
to keep his ultracomfortable
position high up on the Food Chain

EVEN if it Means
ICEStapo contiunes
and even ESCALATES
it's -- Their -- WAR on
the fucking Citizenry. isn't
it about Time to Call Out the

Wormtongues of this fucking World?

I mean, whilst it's
Still. Fucking.
LEGAL.

Now, Back to The Frontlines:
[and, thank you, Conor]:

Minnesota National Guard members have
arrived at a federal building and were
directed to distribute donuts, cof-
fee, and hot chocolate to
anti-ICE protesters.

Guard members
were issued reflective vests
so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

--@Olga Nesterova; ‪@onestpress.onestnetwork.com‬

Smart.

Get them
mixed in the crowd,
make it so if ICE tries anything Boston
Massacre shaped they risk hitting National Guard members.

---@hikikomorphism

‪hikikomorphism‬; ‪@hikikomorphism.bsky.social‬

hot coffee
hot Chocolate
& fucking Donuts.

God, I Love
Minnesota.

fawkin' Oodles:
https://bsky.app/profile/onestpress.onestnetwork.com/post/3mdbmif4wh224

@55: And, as you and I have previously agreed, the Trump administration never made any case for an intensive focus on the Twin Cities in the first place, so primary responsibility for all of the chaos, including the deaths, rests with them. I'm just questioning whether the modes of response the Stranger has advocated make any sense in this situation, and nobody here has yet answered.

Local law enforcement agencies, who really do want ICE removing illegal foreign criminals from their communities, are now asking if ICE isn't just waging a war on all resident foreign persons, including those who are here legally:

"Police Who Once Backed ICE’s Mission Are Losing Faith in Its Tactics
"In Minnesota and places where agents are deployed en masse, law-enforcement leaders are challenging whether they are adhering to the stated mission."

(https://www.wsj.com/us-news/police-who-once-backed-ices-mission-are-losing-faith-in-its-tactics-e123c348?mod=WSJ_home_mediumtopper_pos_3)

If various armed groups are fighting over turf in your neighborhood, wouldn't the best advice be to avoid them, instead of wading into their fight? During the high-crime days in Brooklyn, I somehow felt no need to demonstrate my constitutional right to walk through Bed-Stuy by myself.

@57: 'Neither Our Dear Doug nor I have ever “demanded anyone’s silence”.'

Please learn to read. From Doug @51: "Maybe shut up, take a breath and see what's coming."

Looking forward to your 'explanation' of how telling someone to "shut up" isn't demanding their silence.

Then you can get to work on 'explaining' how making a rape joke is funny (@20).

@62 - At least she didn't say "youngest daughter" in @20.

From the same URL @62, it now appears ICE has been roughing up local law enforcement as well, and on a blatantly racist basis, too:

'Mark Bruley, the police chief of Brooklyn Park, a Minneapolis suburb, said chiefs had received “endless complaints” and that off-duty police officers—all people of color—had experienced the same treatment. In one case, he said, one of his officers was stopped as she drove past ICE. The agents boxed her in, knocked her phone from her hand when she tried to record them, and had their guns drawn, he said.

'“If it’s happening to our officers, it pains me to think of how many of our community members it is happening to every day,” Bruley said.'

Perhaps the protestors could make common cause with their own local police forces, and take on ICE together?

Looking forward to the Stranger, and sympathetic commenters here, advocating for that approach. (Riiiiight...)

@63: Yeah, I'm sure Mrs. Vel-DuRay isn't happy she missed the chance for some pedophile 'humor' as well. ;-)

Tensorna dear, did that mean ol’ Doug hurt your fee-fees? I would call suggesting that someone shut up as more of a request than a demand. But doesn’t he know that you need to be treated with therapeutic courtesy?

And I’m glad to read that you are now a tireless advocates for sexual abuse victims. Either that or you have a dirty mind. After all, not all enslavement is sexual. There’s also sweatshops and the like. If you want to criticize me for making a joke about trafficking, I shall accept your rebuke.

@65: "Tensorna dear, did that mean ol’ Doug hurt your fee-fees?"

God you're dumb. ;-)

"If you want to criticize me for making a joke about trafficking, I shall accept your rebuke."

Thank you, dear. Humor can be difficult, especially in writing. And I have made a suggestion as what locals can do if ICE invades, please see @64.

Tensorna dear, you’ve had a very long and very emotional day, and I know the sort of toll that takes on people like you. But why would I have a problem with the people of Minneapolis finding common cause with local law enforcement?

I suggest you get a good night’s rest. Everything will better in the morning.

@67: "But why would I have a problem with the people of Minneapolis finding common cause with local law enforcement?"

You lashed out in rage at the very idea that anyone here dared question the Stranger's support of protests there, and bitterly scolded everyone here who did. You offered no ideas of your own, even after we expressed an interest in hearing them. So, it seemed you were simply following the Stranger's lead, and the Stranger never advocates protestors work with police. If you have ideas of your own, well then, let's hear them.

This is just what I was afraid of, tensorna. You're over-tired, lashing out, and projecting your emotions onto me.

Let go and let God, dear.

the
Existential
Threat posed by
Cadet Bonespurs and
his brownshirtted ICEStapo

will soon take Down
our little Democracy; the
Wormtongues of this world
will soon have ALL of the Keys to
this Kingdom - which's why wormmy
cannot Allow we the People to strike out in
Numbers too big for this toxic maladministration

to deal with. if they can just Con-
vince Enough of US that Protest
is Futile the Reichwing takeover
will become a fait accompli in
no time flat. if we choose to
Not stand up for our own
Country, we will soon be
ruled by the Cruel and
unjust and be slaves
to our most corpor-
ate of Masters.

that's why wormmy's
so frantically lashing
out at Catalina et al

@68 Dude. Seriously. Shut the fuck up.

"Somehow 50,000
peaceful protesters in 10
below weather were able to
march without any problems,
and then the next day half a dozen
ICE and CBP agents couldn't handle a guy
with a cell phone taking video of them and shot
him. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here."

--Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar
on ABC's This Week

"ICE management
and agents firmly believe they
can commit such horrors with impunity.

If they’re not stopped now, their bloodlust will
spread like a metastatic cancer, and eventually
they’ll make January 6 look like a family picnic."

--Topher Dina; @toperdina.bsky.social

"This lawless administration
is now operating under the “what are
you gonna do about it” doctrine. A John Roberts creation."

and

"All flags
in San Diego County have
been ordered to fly half-staff through Wednesday
in solidarity with Minnesota, and in honor of those murdered by ICE."

www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/s...

--@Mueller, She Wrote; @muellershewrote.com

as the snowball
becomes the
Avalanche

get onto the
Right Side of History,
wormmy. whilst there's Time

@71 -- sawa dokta

Willkommen bei Derr Schlogg
Der nicht wegspülbare
Kotklumpen

Thank You
at the Stranger
for Your Coverage
of this Existential Danger
to our little Democracy. Keep it UP!

the Fascists
just want for You
and All things Progressive
to just STFUA and to Just Go AWAY.

FUCK 'EM.

@69: No amount of your clucking now can change your combative arrival @8, wrongfully stating that other commenters were objecting to protesting itself, when actually, we'd asked about the efficacy of protests which were (and are) getting persons needlessly killed. (And we have yet to receive any hint of answer for our actual questions, BTW.) In case anyone generously thought you were merely mistaken in your criticism, you attacked all questioners as "fearful." Well, if we feared getting more death for no benefit, I'd say that's something correctly feared, as it happened whilst you were attacking us.

You might want to re-think your commenting stragegy, dear; as the comment below yours reminds us, Slog already has a Failed Concern Troll in residence.

Good morning, tensorna! I hope you slept well. I can see you're still in victim mode, but I'll wish you a good day anyway.

Remember, every new day is a chance to go down a better path than the one you are on. (Not you, specifically, just people in general. Calm down, dear)

"it's merely
PERFORMATIVE!!!"
the Wormtongue screams

at Seattle
from his oh-so-
Cozy perch, high above
all the Madness and well-Protected

"The way
to address
any issues with
ICE is via our elected
representatives, not through street protests."

tensorna on January 18, 2026 at 2:12 PM

sure wormmy.

we're gonna Rely on the same
feckless democrats who
Allowed ICEStapo to
Happen to nip 'em
in the bud - Just
kick back, they
will soon have
it Handled?

that door slammed Shut
fucking Ages Ago.

But you Already
Knew That

"Stupid protests!"
--@the Wormtongue

Yeah. the guy who's
been Supporting the
Genocide in Palestine
here at The Stranger for
the Last. 2. Fucking. YEARS

HE's the Guy we
Really Should
Be Listening
to. HARD
Fucking
PASS.

"All eyes are on Minnesota today,
as millions of us watching make our own
private calculations for how far we’ll go to protect our cities.

Or how we’ll live with ourselves in what’s left of them."

--Conor Kelley

"It has been clear for a long time, to anyone willing to see, that the people running the federal government — Trump, Miller, Noem, Bovino and more — are monsters. It has been equally obvious that ICE and the Border Patrol are now filled with sadistic thugs. Yet many people — almost the entire GOP, everyone serving in the Trump administration, some Democrats, a significant part of the media — were too cowardly to admit the obvious.

At this point, however, there are no more excuses. In a way the cowards and opportunists enabling Trump are more to blame for where we are than Trump and company themselves: monsters are monsters and can’t help themselves, but the enablers have a choice. And they have chosen, again and again, to accommodate and facilitate evil.

What I do believe in is the courage and decency of millions of ordinary Americans, which have been so dramatically on display in Minneapolis. We can only hope that this courage and decency get us through this nightmare — and we must do all we can to make it happen."

--nyt's Paul Krugman, on Substack; January 25, 2026

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/monsters

ignore the
Wormtongues
who're on only here
to prolong the status quo.

This, Just IN:

Kristi Noem Calls On Minneapolis Residents To Stop Obstructing Murders

WASHINGTON—Urging locals to “fully cooperate” with federal agents,
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called on
Minneapolis residents Monday to stop obstructing murders.

“The brave men and women of ICE and the U.S. Border Patrol
are doing their best to carry out these executions
in a safe and professional manner,” said Noem,

who emphasized that public safety depended
on the ability of federal immigration
officers to kill unimpeded.

“These are official, state-sanctioned murders,
and it’s not your place to interfere. Our agents
need to be able to do the job they were hired
to do. And if you do choose to resist being
murdered, well, you shouldn’t be sur-
prised by what comes to you.”

The DHS secretary went on
to condemn the media for
“depicting these murder-
ers as Nazis.”

1/26/26

oodles:
https://theonion.com/kristi-noem-calls-on-minneapolis-residents-to-stop-obstructing-murders

"The way
to address
any issues with
ICE is via our elected
representatives, not through street protests."

tensorna on January 18, 2026 at 2:12 PM

But what about
when/if they should
'just happen' to get some
Balls, wormmy? Should we then
resort to Strongly Worded Letters?

the
Well-
statussed're
gonna Lose ALOTTA
their God-given Quos, you know

IF our
elected
representatives
actually fucking Fight
Fucking Back, fucking HARD.

"Commenters here simply ask what benefit(s) the people of MN would gain from this action, and, without providing a single example of any benefit, you lash out at your fellow middle-aged white guys, name-calling and declaring that we're a bunch of miserable cowards for even daring to ask."

--@tensorna on January 24, 2026 at 9:55 AM

I'm sorry, exactly
what benefit(s) will the
people of Minneapolis or Min-
nesota derive from this "protest"?

(Please do be specific, and in detail, dear; and please do recall name-calling does not equal making an argument, no matter what kristo' says.)

[kristo says, "Wormtongue."
That's what kristo says.]

--@tensorna on January 23, 2026 at 10:15 PM

I’ll continue to ask if these direct actions make sense, but that’s just because I’m an adult, and we ask such questions before acting.

--@tensorna on January 24, 2026 at 12:21 PM

I've asked for examples of the value what they're doing will bring . . . Still, no answer from anyone. Not exactly a ringing endorsement of these protests, would you say?

--@tensorna on January 24, 2026 at 8:28 PM

Asked.

Answered:

Bearing Witness

The civic action of a handful of
Minnesotans is holding
Trump accountable.

We must commend the courage of those who braved numbing cold, clouds of tear gas, and the threat of thuggery to bring us the truth. As difficult as this may be, please continue doing what you do.

Our
nation
desperately
needs you, all of you,
to witness and record these
perilous moments in our history.

The ICE media machine is
doing the White House’s bidding of
“flooding the airwaves” on the taxpayers’ tab.

But they aren’t the only ones who understand this new-media reality.

Thousands of Americans
use their camera phones and
social media to lead a resistance.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker instructed
everyone to “video everything.” Fellow gov-
ernor Tim Walz of Minnesota echoed this advice.

“Carry your phone with you at all times.
And if you see ICE in your neighborhood,
take out that phone and hit record. Help us
create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans

-- not just to establish a record
for posterity, but to bank evidence
for future prosecution,” he said last week.

Taking cellphone videos is the latest form of civil disobedience.

New Instagram accounts and YouTube channels
have recently popped up to disseminate
videos as quickly as possible.

According to a local labor organizer, 65,000 Minnesotans received training in civil protesting. They are patrolling streets, donating food, delivering groceries, and providing legal assistance. What started as a preventative measure has turned into a much-needed service.

--by Dan Rather and Team Steady; January 26, 2026

fucking oodles:
https://steady.substack.com/p/bearing-witness

so
Who
ya gonna
Listen to: Dan
fucking Rather or
some random Wormtongue?

one fights for the Status fucking Quo
Dan Rather Fights for We, the
Fucking People.

speaking of
name-calling.

"What started
as a preventative measure
has turned into a much-needed service."

Be Like
Minnnesota,
Seattle. PNW.
US of Fucking A.

ok, wormmy.

oh, and speaking
of calling for a
General Strike

and wormmy's fave
Tag Line: "Star-
ving Granny":

"According to a local labor organizer, 65,000 Minnesotans received training in civil protesting. They are patrolling streets, donating food, delivering groceries, and providing legal assistance. What started as a preventative measure has turned into a much-needed service."

--@Dan Fucking Rather

Well, the Senate Democrats worked our constitutional system per design, and have set us on a course for full funding of the rest of the federal government, but a re-think of ICE within DHS. We'll see what the House can do on Monday.

Nowhere in the Wall Street Journal's coverage of this story has there been a single mention of a general strike. WTF, WSJ?!? Don't you know BOTH the Stranger, AND some of its most prolific sympathetic commenters, hath declared a general strike essential to the favorable resolution of this matter? How dare you imply they were completely, utterly, totally wrong about that! How can you possibly say you know anything at all about economics -- or about anything else, really -- if you don't fully agree with the Stranger & Co.? THE NERVE!!

Have a nice weekend, everyone! Please stay safe and warm.