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allfor1n1forall.bsky.social
You Just Gotta Love This !
Minneapolis is doing this right !
Like Portland’s infamous Frog ~
Minneapolis has just introduced the World to the Rockets !
Does America Rock or What !?!
Land of the Free ..
Home of Dancing Protests
and Peaceful anti ICE Frogs !
January 17, 2026 at 3:46 AM
ladybuggers.bsky.social
ICE agents are untrained, unskilled, unhinged and anti American.They’re incited by Trump to violate the first amendment using violence while floating immunity.This is Trumps desperate attempt to whitewash America and stay in power. He’s the enemy within. Continue protesting, it’s working!
January 17, 2026 at 3:29 AM
ajsdecepida.bsky.social
Interim Assessment Homans’s core frame —a struggle over whether “America” is civic-principled or ancestry-exclusionary— is intellectually serious and fits plenty of observable rhetoric1. The scaffolding he relies on (refugee history, documented late-2000s al-Shabaab recruitment cases, major fraud prosecutions, a very large federal surge, and polling blowback) is real in broad strokes3,5‑7,9,10,13. Where you should stay sceptical is exactly where the prose gets most confident: claims that (a) Minneapolis is somehow an improbable target on immigrant-population grounds, and (b) Minnesota is uniquely the archetype the administration “must” discredit. Those may be true; the piece doesn’t demonstrate them — it asserts them1,2,12. Citations: 1 Charles Homans, “Trump's Fight with Minnesota is About More Than Immigration”, The New York Times Magazine (Ideas), 16-Jan-2026, — https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/magazine/minnesota-liberalism-trump-ice.html?smid=url-share 2 U.S. Census Bureau, “QuickFacts: Minneapolis city, Minnesota”, (reference table; accessed 16-Jan-2026), — https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/minneapoliscityminnesota/PST045224 3 Minnesota Historical Society, “Immigrants and Refugees in Minnesota: Connecting Past and Present”, MNopedia, 18-Dec-2018, — https://www.mnopedia.org/immigrants-and-refugees-minnesota-connecting-past-and-present 4 Minnesota Historical Society, “Somali and Somali American Experiences in Minnesota”, MNopedia, (reference page; accessed 16-Jan-2026), — https://www.mnopedia.org/somali-and-somali-american-experiences-minnesota 5 Federal Bureau of Investigation, “14 Indicted for Providing Material Support to al Shabaab”, Federal Bureau of Investigation (Minneapolis Field Office), 16-Jul-2010, — https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/minneapolis/news/press-releases/14-indicted-for-providing-material-support-to-al-shabaab 6 U.S. Department of Justice (U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Minnesota), “78th Defendant Charged in Feeding Our Future Fraud Scheme”, 24-Nov-2025, — https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/78th-defendant-charged-feeding-our-future-fraud-scheme 7 PBS NewsHour, “2,000 federal agents sent to Minneapolis area to carry out ‘largest immigration operation ever,’ ICE says”, 06-Jan-2026, — https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/2000-federal-agents-sent-to-minneapolis-area-to-carry-out-largest-immigration-operation-ever-ice-says 8 Reuters, “Trump threatens to use Insurrection Act in Minnesota over anti-ICE protests”, 15-Jan-2026, — https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-threatens-use-insurrection-act-minnesota-2026-01-15/ 9 YouGov, “Do you approve or disapprove of how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is handling its job?”, 08-Jan-2026, — https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2026/01/08/2246e/2 10 Quinnipiac University Poll, “Majority Of Voters Think Fatal Shooting Of Minneapolis Woman By ICE Agent Was Not Justified, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds”, 13-Jan-2026, — https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3944 11 CBS News, “How a viral video prompted investigations into alleged Minnesota day care fraud”, 30-Dec-2025, — https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minnesota-fraud-nick-shirley-video-day-care-investigation/ 12 Opened CUNY (OER Services), “State Political Culture”, (courseware page; accessed 16-Jan-2026), — https://opened.cuny.edu/courseware/lesson/283/overview 13 Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice (University of Minnesota), “The Minnesota Paradox”, (reference page; accessed 16-Jan-2026), — https://www.hhh.umn.edu/research-centers/roy-wilkins-center-human-relations-and-social-justice/minnesota-paradox 14 Stephen Fowler and Jude Joffe-Block, “Minnesota shows what happens when governing and content creation merge”, NPR, 16-Jan-2026, — https://www.ideastream.org/npr-news/2026-01-16/minnesota-shows-what-happens-when-governing-and-content-creation-merge 15 Associated Press, “Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says”, (report; accessed 16-Jan-2026), — https://apnews.com/article/4c7468b0bdc6e23b510d4755c55b9294
January 17, 2026 at 2:59 AM
emeraldtea9.bsky.social
It’s so stupid because America is on stolen land that white ppl toke. So being anti-immigrant is actually wild to me.
January 17, 2026 at 2:20 AM
venikadewan.bsky.social
Hey so the nazis studied Jim Crow and our anti immigration stance. They learned from America
January 17, 2026 at 2:15 AM
theoldprof.bsky.social
I am small potatoes here on this important platform for the Anti-Trump and ANTIFA members, but I would like to propose a counter to the MAGA acronym: BABA. It would mean the following:
Bring America Back Alliance.
#BABA vs MAGA in 2026, 2028, and every election thereafter.
January 17, 2026 at 2:01 AM
jb360.bsky.social
Yes Yes Yes criticizing Israel is in no way anti-Semitic…AIPAC is making enemies in America as they intentionally promote American citizens & politicians who criticize Israel as anti-Semitic,they are evil PAC out attacking good democrats,do not donate to AIPAC,boycott businesses who donate to them
January 17, 2026 at 2:01 AM
hopefullyeveraf.bsky.social
lol
I was put on a blocklist of ‘AI haters’ when I’ve never commented on AI? My gay black ass was put on a ‘transphobes/anti-queer’ blocklist bc I’m mutuals w/ one of the most famous rappers in America.
All for me, who posts maybe once a week?

People be wildin’ out in these Bluesky streets!
January 17, 2026 at 12:41 AM
cynicalzoomer.bsky.social
We put together some of the worst chyrons from Fox News this week -- including graphics that label anti-ICE protesters "insurgents" and declare that “Dems [are] at war with America itself." I've threaded the highlights/lowlights below:

www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/inc...
The incendiary and demonizing chyrons on Fox News evening programming regarding Minnesota, ICE, and protests
After Fox News pushed the Trump administration’s propaganda in its coverage of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent’s deadly January 7 shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, the network has us...
www.mediamatters.org
January 17, 2026 at 12:36 AM
kell54.bsky.social
Look at their hubris.
Calling us anti-American.

They are insane. They love
a version of America that
has never existed.

Not the America we were
taught to believe in.

We have missed that goal
time and again. But most of
us believe in and strive
for the common good.

Do not let evil win.
January 16, 2026 at 11:43 PM
partialtomusic.bsky.social
The cope is real, people! #cdnpoli
Screenshot of a post on Faeceplant by the MP for Saskatoon West, with a pic of Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney sitting next to Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe. He's taking exception to the use of a particular phrase by the PM after the talks he had with China's Xi Jinpeng where he spoke of a new world order, because the United States has decided it doesn't want trade, only to extort. Of course, this tickles the predatorily conspiracist smooth-like-a-baby's-bum forebrain inside the typical Con's cranium. The actual led reads: '"New world order"? Canadians weren't consulted. Parliament wasn't briefed, and even Premier Moe looked blindsided. Our foreign policy should defend Canada's interests and sovereignty, not bow to Beijing's every request.' This is particularly mendacious, even for a Con like Redekopp, because in the same press conference Scott Moe was singing the praises of the deal Carney had worked out with Jinpeng because it was going to open up the Chinese market to Saskatchewan canola and open up the possibility of expanding that trade to other agricultural products... but of course as a card carrying member of the CPC Mr. Redekopp's loyalties lie not with his constituents who are now looking at some improvements in their businesses after the huge tariffs that Trump put on their prorducts, but with the rage farmers for hire* that run his party. * N.B. they were hired by Americans. Article from those noted kam-yew-nists at the official organ of new york hedge fund managers The National Post discussing how Alberta separatists are raising money for their efforts to knob-polish der Drumpfenführer. Shows a guy wearing a cowboy hat and an ill fitting shirt with a poster showing a proposed separation referendum question. The headline reads "After US outreach, Alberta separatests will head to Latin America to rustle up support for their cause" and the hed reads "Andrew Hale of the Heritage Foundation said wooing US support could backfire in Alberta, owing to the anti-American sentiment generated by President Donald Trump" Screenshot of an article from DeSmog Blog. Picture is of an Alberta separatist from a meeting where he revealed (as the headline states) "Trump Officials Discussed $500M Alberta Independence Loan, Separatist Claims." The led says "Private details from a Washingon DC meeting about Alberta becoming the 51st state were revealed at a separation event attended by DeSmog."
January 16, 2026 at 11:40 PM
recon24.bsky.social
Read "Free America Walkout: January 20 protest against Trump presidency at one-year mark, amid anti-ICE movement. Here’s what to know" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6YPDutGg/J...
Free America Walkout: January 20 protest against Trump presidency at one-year mark, amid anti-ICE movement. Here’s what to know (Fast Company)
Next week’s “Free America Walkout” is asking Americans to walk out of work (and school) on Tuesday, January 20, to disrupt “business as usual” in protest of ...
l.smartnews.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:27 PM
nandanainthegarden.bsky.social
Didn't disagree with the first video suggesting protection of immigrants. What I've read is some offshoots of BP are anti-LGBTQ, and antisemitic. Is there an new BP movement based more on BLM? Is the a social movement coming together in opposition to #ICE? BUT can this be a peaceful group? #America
January 16, 2026 at 11:12 PM
chocolatefire.bsky.social
Amen 🙌🏾 “cruelty and humiliation are the point”

Anyone, unwilling to acknowledge the #fact of anti-Black racism as the undercurrent of the GOP/Conservatism/MAGA - even while the target of the moment was Arab or Latino- isn’t anyone’s friend. Period.
#America #EU #Canada #UK
crockett.house.gov Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 7h
What we are seeing in Minnesota is what authoritarianism looks like in real time. Racism, dehumanization, and state-sanctioned violence are tearing at the foundation of this country.
January 16, 2026 at 10:57 PM
manonanai5.bsky.social
What’s behind anti-US chants, from Iran to South America?

#geopolitics

aje.news/tubai4
What’s behind anti-US chants, from Iran to South America
“Down with America” has been among the chants heard in global protests from Iran to Latin America.
aje.news
January 16, 2026 at 10:22 PM
toddkolod.bsky.social
Are we experiencing this in real time?

The Plot Against America is an alternate history novel by Philip Roth where isolationist aviator Charles Lindbergh defeats FDR in the 1940 U.S. presidential election, leading to a rise in American anti-Semitism and fascism under his pro-German administration.
January 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM
essencewarden.bsky.social
I did NOT remember this scene
Dorothy on Jeopardy ina Golden Girls episode, talking to Merv Griffin: "Mr. Griffin, please. You're bright, you're charming, you are the most beloved man in America. You are the anti-Trump!"
January 16, 2026 at 10:04 PM
cmchenderson.bsky.social
Celebrating the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King feels draped with a particular tension this year.

Read the latest installation of The Henderson Brief at the link below.

www.christinahendersondc.com/newsletters/...

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Dear Neighbors, I don’t know about you, but heading into the holiday weekend celebrating the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King feels draped with a particular tension this year. The same people who will inevitably praise and misquote Dr. King about being colorblind are in fact funding a regime that is actively racially profiling individuals on the street to ask for their papers. They are the very same people canceling critical health research grants for the mere mention of the word “diversity” in a grant proposal. Brace yourself – hypocrisy will be on high display in America come Monday. Though Dr. King was committed to non-violence, that did not make him a so-called moderate in his demands for change. Dr. King was fiercely opposed to systemic racism. He was anti-war and critiqued the United States for placing “insatiable military demands” above the critical needs of our own underprivileged citizens. Dr. King called out Democrats and Republicans alike for not doing enough to advance civil rights. He believed in racial alliances and labor solidarity to break economic inequality. It is crazy the number of speeches and writings of King in the 1960s that apply to our current times. But as it turns out, racism was not just “a passing phase” in the cycles of our nation’s life. As I write this, I’m preparing to head into Day 2 of immersive workshops led by the Groundwater Institute with my cohort for Leadership Greater Washington. Groundwater’s approach is grounded in three things: 1) Racial inequity looks the same across systems; 2) Socio-economic difference does not explain the racial inequity; 3) Systems contribute significantly to disparities. I’ve done several racial justice type workshops and trainings in my life, but Groundwater’s focus on systems is unique. I stayed up way too late into the evening looking at my notes and reflecting on this from one of our facilitators: ‘Most of us are trained to fix people. We are not trained to fix systems – infrastructure – “the groundwater.”’ Sometimes even laws do not change systems. For example, in 2018, the rate of black homeownership was virtually the same as it was when the Fair Housing Act passed in 1968. Day 1 was understanding how the system was built. It’s hard to undo a system if you do not understand how it got there in the first place. A wealth of information was shared, and even I as a history buff learned new stories I hadn’t heard about the founding of this country. Do you know the story of John Punch in 1640?
January 16, 2026 at 9:58 PM
jackq.bsky.social
Uh, sure, the "left" isn't protesting because pro Iran is anti America or something. Hey, then why isn't the right out protesting in solidarity even after Trump has said he supports the Iranian protesters?
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11h
Not a single shred of evidence that these views are widely shared on the American left.

It's true that the Iranian uprising hasn't gotten a lot of attention but that's mostly because the Minneapolis ICE shit is so enraging, not because we support the regime. Come the fuck on.
January 16, 2026 at 9:44 PM
smartvpants.bsky.social
Yeah Canada should fold because America strong doesn't seem like the anti-fascist take either. And it also completely ignores a system of global alliances.
January 16, 2026 at 9:26 PM
blue-eyedsamurai01.bsky.social
🇬🇧 nope 😃

Trump isn't America
America isn't Trump.... and the Brits are reliable.

However, pushing over anti-China sentiment, onto ordinary people, when it's obviously a billionaire business issue, isn't conducive to anyone.
January 16, 2026 at 9:23 PM
velvetundergrd.bsky.social
what would such an agent do? Provoke racist division? Provoke international divisions within the western blocks? Undermine the legal system, education system, economic systems? Co-Opt all this is America First?
Time to start thinking of Maga as tools of anti democratic American. Defend the USA!!
January 16, 2026 at 9:18 PM
breadandcircushq.bsky.social
The proclamation says the President has created a White House Faith Office and a Religious Liberty Commission, established a Task Force to Eradicate Anti‑Christian Bias, directed the Department of Education to protect prayer in public schools, and launched 'America Prays' and 'Freedom 250.'
January 16, 2026 at 9:15 PM