I woke up to the University of Illinois College Republicans "Only traitors help invaders" vile graphic story, and their attempt to back-pedal on it.
As I write this, I'm seeing the Montreal Canadiens hockey team — who are in the Twin Cities to play the Minnesota Wild — have been told to stay in their hotel, only go out on the team bus, and make sure they have their passports on them. Sure, the U.S. can host the World Cup and the Olympics! That's how international sports events work.
Later this morning, I read this post by local writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, who happens to live in the middle of South Minneapolis. She describes what it's like to live within an economic blockade in 21st century America. And what it's like right on her own block, day after day. The broken glass of car windows everywhere.
The supposed pivot we've all heard about from national media pretending to be duped by the thinnest of head fakes it is not real.
ICE/CBP, as Dara says and I heard from several other people, was at the Powderhorn Park building yesterday (Sunday), "throwing tear gas where we used to do Family Pottery and the kids would smoosh clay into lumpy adorable cups." I took DN3.1 there for an art activity during preschool. It's next to a playground.
And ProPublica has revealed who shot Alex Pretti: CBP agents with years of experience. Between these two and Ross, who shot Renee Good, they have 40 years among them. So it's not training. It's bad culture, bad at the root, and it starts at Customs and Border Patrol.
They operate like this all the time at the border. "Regular" people didn't realize it before now, and didn't care. But CBP has expanded the behavior into the 100 mile perimeter within any border, including all the oceans. And somehow now, that watery edge includes the Great Lakes all the way to Chicago... and mysteriously, the Twin Cities, too.
CBP is lawless and this government appears intent on destroying this country.
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