Full Blown Police State In Minnesota

 I can't figure out how to simply copy this Bluesky post, so here's a screenshot and a link to the post so you can watch the whole video.   This sort of video is all over social media.  It's appalling that the GOP in Congress have no consciences, not a shred of courage.  But this is the United States at the beginning of the year 2026.  A faltering democracy.  

Some liken this to Jim Crow in the South when thousands were lynched.  Is it different?  I was going to say that now these terrorists are wearing what some call law enforcement uniforms, whereas during Jim Crow they were wearing white cloaks and white hoods.  But some of those in the white hoods were law enforcement.  And law enforcement stopped cars with Black folk in them and treated them like this.

So this isn't new in the US, but it's new that

• it's federal agents
• lighter skinned people are being targeted
• it's in broad daylight in the north with lots of witnesses

Again, here's the link.  It's not pretty, but we have to look and change Congress in November.

https://bsky.app/profile/noturtlesoup17.bsky.social/post/3mcdab3qrvs2g

We have a white nationalist Nazi wannabes acting as immigration prosecutor:

"In February of last year, the Texas Observer reported that t James “Jim” Joseph Rodden—an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) assistant chief counsel who acts as a prosecutor for ICE in immigration court in Dallas—operates a white supremacist X account named GlomarResponder, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details that the Observer matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

The account has over 17,000 followers and has routinely posted hateful statements, including that “America is a White nation,” that “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and that “All blacks are foreign to my people,” in addition to posts with apparent praise of Adolf Hitler." (From Texas Observer)

While this is just one example, the fact that he's back in court after a complaint, reinforces the idea that not only is this reasonable in the eyes of the Trump administration, it's, in my opinion, the dream of Stephen Miller, who is rabidly anti immigrant, especially those whose skin is darker than Scandinavian.  Here's a 2018 article referencing his uncle's condemnation of Miller.  Here's an MSM article saying Miller's target is 3000 arrests per day, and not criminals, but any undocumented immigrant.

From the Libertarian
leaning CATO Institute

3000 per day.  That's 90,000 per month.  That's over a million a year.  The campaign rhetoric about criminals, rapists, murderous gangs, was simply rhetoric.  Somalians eating pets was pure fiction.  But they are Black.  And Miller and others want to protect the "purity" of the white "race."  And they also want to protect Republican candidates who they feel will lose more and more elections if the population gets less pure white.  It's hard to attract people of color to a party that welcomes white nationalists and Nazis.  

So combine Miller's fanatic racism and the GOP's fear of losing future elections, and exporting a million or so darker immigrants makes cruel sense.  

And these arrests, like the one in the Bluesky post above, are violent and intended to intimidate.  These ICE agents have been given a license to be roaming domestic terrorists.  

But the US is nothing but a country of immigrants.  Except for the indigenous peoples who lived here before Europeans came, every one is an immigrant or descendent of one.  

Everyone should be outraged.  Everyone should make a plan to find ways  they are comfortable with, to fight this administration.

For some that may 

• be writing post cards to voters.  
• giving money to candidates who have a record of courage and fighting for people, not corporations. 
• marching in protests.  
• working with refugee and immigration rights groups.  
• joining local groups fighting to save democracy
• volunteering for pro-democracy candidates
• writing letters to you representatives and senators
• pick something from Robert Reich's list of ten things to do

Just feeling helpless will worsen one's anxieties and make one feel hopeless.  Joining a local group of activists will connect you with like minded people and show you ways to fight back.  The recent Democracy Fair in Anchorage showed people a dozen or more such organizations.  This is where internet is you friend.  Just search for "local progressive activist groups in _[your town]_"  I got this FB page, for example, when I put in Boise, Idaho.

found posted multiple times on Spoutible, not sure of the author/creator

While many claim all these current events - kidnapping the president of Venezuela, threatening to invade Greenland,  ICE thugs violently dragging people out of cars and sending them off into a black hole are distractions from the Epstein files.  

Given how much has already come out in the Epstein files, I'm not sure that additional files will change many people's minds.  (But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be continuing to demand their release with pedophiles unreacted.)  

But it's possible that in a perverse way, the Epstein files are a distraction from the authoritarian takeover of the US.