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Dan Gillmor
@dangillmor@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

We owe a lot to the people of LA, Chicago, and now Minneapolis for their organized, peaceful, and increasingly successful campaign to save our nation from the fascists who run the federal government. This is great reporting from the Atlantic:

https://archive.is/2026.01.26-040554/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/

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Alison Wilder
@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@dangillmor pretty striking and telling that the Atlantic put a reporter who has mostly covered the Middle East on that story.

Shame on our government.

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Su_G
@Su_G@aus.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@dangillmor
Yes, terrific reporting, love all the vignettes of so many different people, like:
“I met a couple in their 70s who told me they had never considered joining a political protest until ICE came to town, and they realized that their granddaughter was at risk of witnessing a violent immigration raid just by going to school. Dan and Jane (like many others, they asked that I shield their full names) live in a large house in a comfortable suburb, where they welcomed me with tea and cookies.
“When a child witnesses violence or crime, it’s profoundly different from adults,” Dan said. “It leaves scars.”
Dan and Jane resisted the idea that they had become political. A better word, Jane said, was humanist. Their anger was unmistakable as they told me that the Trump administration was violating basic Christian principles. “It became clear very quickly that ICE is the Proud Boys, the Boogaloo boys. They’ve given them uniforms and let them run wild,” Dan said. He attended a legal-observer training—which happened to have been on the day Good was killed—and now the couple delivers groceries regularly to immigrant households

#USPol #Minneapolis #ICE #humanist #ProudBoys #ReneeNicoleGood #protest

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Joseph A di Paolantonio
@jadp@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@dangillmor no one should forget the frogs of Portland, OR

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