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Mitchell Zimmerman
@mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social
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I’m older than the boomers – and I’ve lived decades of activism, beginning with the civil rights group SNCC, 40 years of pro bono legal advocacy, and commentaries on social justice, war and democracy, from "Dr. Spock on Vietnam" to OtherWords op-eds.
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My Letter in the New York Times on Trump's openly racist post regarding Obamas. mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/trump-shamel
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#TrumpRacism #Trump #RacistMemes #WhiteNationalism #WhiteSupremacy #Obamas
February 10, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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If Minnesota has become an occupied land, we must all be Minnesotans. My substack: An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless? mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/an-army-of... #ICEkillers #ICEout #PrettiMurder #DHS
January 27, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless? mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/an-army-of... #ICEkillers #ICEout #PrettiMurder #DHS #ReneeGood
January 27, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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"I am a Minnesotan." mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/an-army-of...
#ICEkillers #ICEout #PrettiMurder #DHS #ReneeGood
January 27, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless? mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/an-army-of... #ICEkillers #ICEout #PrettiMurder #DHS #ReneeGood
An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless?
Minnesota is an occupied land, abused by lawless thugs. We are all Minnesotans.
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January 27, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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Some reflections from a 1960s civil rights veteran (me) on MLK, leadership, and lessons for the current moment. mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/dr-king-wo... #MLKDay #DrKing #CivilRightsMovement #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #Fascism
Dr. King Would Be Standing Beside All Who Are Now Standing Up For Our Democracy
In the mid-1960s, I joined the freedom movement in the South as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Georgia, Mississippi and Arkansas.
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January 19, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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My Substack post will be useful 4 anyone not clear that Renee Good was an executed. Three images prove she wasn't trying to run down ICE agent. mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/when-an-ic... #Good #ICE #ICEKiller #Immigrants #SayHerName #JusticeForRenee #AbolishICE #StateViolence #EndICEForGood
When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense
Kristi Noel’s Preposterous Lies About the Killing Confirm That ICE Encourages Agent Violence
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January 15, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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DOES SEC OF WAR TRUMP-HEGSETH WORK FOR YOU? mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/trump-cabi... Cabinet Officials add Trump-Hyphenated to their Names bsky.app/profile/mitc... #Kennedy #KennedyCenter #rename #Cabinet #Hegseth #Noem #Bondi
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December 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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DOES SEC OF WAR TRUMP-HEGSETH WORK FOR YOU? Cabinet Officials add Trump-Hyphenated to their Names bsky.app/profile/mitc... #Kennedy #KennedyCenter #rename #Cabinet #Hegseth #Noem #Bondi
December 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Why Stop with Kennedy Center? Cabinet Officials add Trump-Hyphen to their Names. “Good enough for a battleship, it’s good enough for me,” says Homeland Security chief Kristi Trump-Noem mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/trump-cabi...
#Kennedy #KennedyCenter #rename #Cabinet #Hegseth #Noem #Bondi
Why Stop with the Kennedy Center? Cabinet Officials add Trump-Hyphenated to their Names
“Good enough for a battleship, it’s good enough for me,” says Homeland Security chief Kristi Trump-Noem
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December 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Why is Biden's responsible for the bad economy a year later? He never left . . . open.substack.com/pub/mitchell.... #TrumpEconomy #Bidensfault #Inflation #Affordability #tariffs #groceryprices
Trump Reveals Biden Lurks in White House, Raising Grocery Prices
At the end of his address to the nation on the economy, while fact-checkers were taking a break to avoid carpal-tunnel syndrome, President Trump revealed the real cause of the nation’s economic proble...
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December 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/trump-is-l.... #TrumpLies #Inflation #Immigrants #Illegals #GroceryPrices #Tariffs #GulfOfAmerica #Medicaid #WorstOfTheWorst
Trump Is Lying About Grocery Prices. What Else?
Why should you trust someone who says things you know from your own experience are false?
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December 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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My Substack: Trump Is Lying About Grocery Prices. What Else? mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/trump-is-l... #TrumpLies #Inflation #Immigrants #Illegals #GroceryPrices #Tariffs #GulfOfAmerica #Medicaid #WorstOfTheWorst
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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My Substack: Trump Is Lying About Grocery Prices. What Else? #TrumpLies #Inflation #Immigrants #Illegals #GroceryPrices #Tariffs #GulfOfAmerica #Medicaid #WorstOfTheWorst
December 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Trump "insurrection" lies + unleashed ICE + militarization = Chicago raid trashing 4th Amend & individual rights. My Substack post: mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/to-the-fou... #constitution #fascism #militarism #NoKings #ChicagoRaid #MartialLaw #TrumpDictator #ICE
October 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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My Substack on 4th Amend.: Trump is aping George III in attacking constitutionall restraints on unreasonable searches & seizures mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/to-the-fou... #constitution #fascism #militarism #NoKings #ChicagoRaid #MartialLaw #TrumpDictator #ICE
October 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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My Substack post on Trump's war on freedoms over which we declared independence in 1776--and his effort to erase the 4th Amendment and substitute military rule. mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/to-the-fou... #constitution #fascism #militarism #NoKings #ChicagoRaid #MartialLaw #TrumpDictator #ICE
To The Fourth Amendment: You Were a Great and Underappreciated Amendment. Now Trump's Made You an Endangered Species
Trump is aping King George III in attacking constitutional restraints on unreasonable searches and seizures
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October 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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The places you visit on the internet collect information on you. Then they use it to charge personalized, higher prices. Read. Sign petition.
action.consumerreports.org/nb-20251002-...
You shouldn’t be charged more based on who you are
ACTION: Let's ban surveillance pricing!
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October 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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September 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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My letter of The New York Times on Israel & Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/o... #Gaza #EthnicCleansing #Genocide
August 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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"A 'leading' Jewish community organization demands we focus on the plight of one wrongly kidnapped Israeli Jew and ignore the deliberate starvation of millions of Palestinians in Gaza." Compelling evidence the famine resulted from Israeli policy.
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August 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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My letter in the NYTimes on bombing Iran:
"WAR OF CHOICE"? OR "AGGRESSION"? The euphemism “war of choice” is used to obscure the fact that under international law, when one nation attacks another except in self-defense it constitutes the crime of aggression. . . www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/o...
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June 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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IMMIGRATION CAN HELP SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY. mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/immigratio...
No. workers per retiree is plummeting. #SocialSecurity #Immigration #Deport #Illegals #ProtectSocialSecurity #Undocumented #SaveSocialSecurity
Immigration Can Help Save Social Security
By welcoming immigrants, we can uphold the promise of America — and help all Americans enjoy security in old age.
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May 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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SUPREME COURT DEPORTATION CASE: "The dissent is so evasive, so willfully blind to the actual matter at issue, as to make plain the two are happy to watch Trump dismantle the rule of law."
mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/a-dissent-... #AbregoGarcia #DueProcess #50501movement #nokings #RuleOfLaw
A Dissent Worthy of “Truth” Social
In an opinion as self-righteous and senseless as any Trump tweet, Justices Alito and Thomas rail against a Supreme Court decision to pause deporting people to foreign torture prisons
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April 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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My latest Substack post: mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/a-dissent-.... In the confrontation between a judiciary committed to due process and an executive who claims unrestrained power, Alito & Thomas are eager to abandon constitutional limits." #AbregoGarcia #ElSalvador #Autocracy #DueProcess
A Dissent Worthy of “Truth” Social
In an opinion as self-righteous and senseless as any Trump tweet, Justices Alito and Thomas rail against a Supreme Court decision to pause deporting people to foreign torture prisons
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April 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM