Post B2PtSeD9fyEFrd0rdg by Guillotine_Jones@beige.party
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(DIR) Post #B2NvfkSjYYaUbnkqZs by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-17T19:01:48Z
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#GiftArticle#Trump’s Fight With #Minnesota Is About More Than #ImmigrationThe state embodies a #civic ideal that the admin wants to discredit.There are plenty of obvious reasons #Minneapolis, despite ranking FAR DOWN the list of US cities in terms of its #immigrant #population, is the latest #Democratic-led urban area targeted by Trump’s punitive anti-immigration raids. There is #TimWalz, the governor & Trump’s 2024 rival.#law #WeaponizationOfGovernment #DOJ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/magazine/minnesota-liberalism-trump-ice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FFA.Gx2O.2S0Wz5RKPGGx&smid=nytcore-ios-share
(DIR) Post #B2NvlW04EwNHUZ60bA by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-17T19:02:51Z
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There is the genuinely stunning fraud scandal, recently revealed, that happened on Walz’s watch. And there is the long shadow of #GeorgeFloyd. But to understand both the crackdown & its stakes, it’s also worth revisiting a speech #Trump gave in the city in Nov 2016, two days before the election that would first deliver him to the White House.#law #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #DOJ #LegalEthics #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #Fascism #MafiaState
(DIR) Post #B2Nvu94qpt5Z0KRspc by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-17T19:04:24Z
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“Oh, Minnesota,” #Trump told the crowd, dropping into the just-you-&-me-talking mode that has always been one of his greatest assets as a politician. “You know what’s going on. You know what I’m talking about. Do you know what I’m talking about? Be politically correct. Just nod — quietly nod. The whole world knows what’s happening in #Minnesota.”#law #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #DOJ #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship #Autocracy #tyranny #MafiaState
(DIR) Post #B2Nvyw92LVuQLJgv5c by nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social
2026-01-17T19:05:13Z
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@Nonilex "dropping into the just-you-&-me-talking mode that has always been one of his greatest assets as a politician"Thank you for putting that into words.Why does this work on people? Seriously... It's so stupid that it works so well too.
(DIR) Post #B2NwGmo3nvtEapOIaG by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-17T19:08:29Z
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What was happening in #Minnesota then was a tension surrounding the state’s #Somali community, its 2nd-largest #immigrant population. In 2008, a young Somalia-born man from #Minneapolis was recruited by the Somali Islamist militant group Al Shabab & detonated a car bomb outside a govt building in his birth country’s Puntland region, the first of dozens of young men from the community who would fight for Al Shabab in Somalia &, later, for the #IslamicState in Iraq & Syria over the next decade.
(DIR) Post #B2NwTjXrF13eF6zCJU by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-17T19:10:50Z
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#Minnesota had been a haven for #refugees since after World War II, when it was an early destination for #Holocaust survivors in the #UnitedStates, & especially since the late 1970s, when it began taking in thousands of South Vietnamese & Hmong people on the wrong side of America’s withdrawal from #SoutheastAsia.#Trump #WhiteSupremacy #Islamophobia
(DIR) Post #B2NwXqVXIRiWzkrRb6 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-17T19:11:35Z
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This hospitality had historically been a point of pride for the state, a piece of the exceptionalism that Minnesotans, performatively modest as they are, have always claimed. It was a product of a broader, deep-rooted civic idealism: the state’s preponderance of religious charities, community-level nonprofit organizations and in particular its Nordic-style social safety net, among the most generous in the country.#Trump #WhiteSupremacy #Islamophobia
(DIR) Post #B2NxhYq9wDwv3Chh0C by kali@discuss.systems
2026-01-17T19:24:29Z
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@Nonilex meanwhile in minnesota
(DIR) Post #B2NyJCAMgjL7jT6Gtk by rupert@mastodon.nz
2026-01-17T19:31:05Z
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@Nonilex I disagree that the Minnesota fraud scandal is "genuinely stunning". It's less fraud than Don Jr and Eric do on any given Tuesday, though even they aren't the worst fraudsters in a Republican party that includes Rick Scott.
(DIR) Post #B2O1zCQQPnYAYpKhV2 by Npars01@mstdn.social
2026-01-17T20:12:29Z
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@Nonilex Trump's billionaires and their war on empathy would make a state like Minnesota a natural target.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/08/empathy-sin-christian-right-musk-trumphttps://theconversation.com/magas-war-on-empathy-might-not-be-original-but-it-is-dangerous-255300https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/conservatives-declare-war-on-empathyhttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/toxic-empathy-weakness/683355/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/books/review/empathy-paul-bloom-joe-rigney-hannah-arendt-allie-beth-stuckey.htmlhttps://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5321299/how-empathy-came-to-be-seen-as-a-weakness-in-conservative-circleshttps://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-rights-latest-culture-war-crusade-is-against-empathyhttps://baptistnews.com/article/heres-whos-behind-the-war-on-empathy/
(DIR) Post #B2O2Ky8MENFCbjGKlU by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-17T20:16:29Z
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@rupert Oh 100% [I say more, but I understand math]. It was a direct quote from the article.
(DIR) Post #B2OlZkxO061S1MYX7Q by Npars01@mstdn.social
2026-01-18T04:43:19Z
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@Nonilex It's odd that billionaire bigots freak out about cultures with strong mutual aid practices.When facing bigotry & hatred, it's natural to band together. Cultures with mutual aid practices Ayuutohttps://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/4/8/ayuuto-the-somali-female-social-lending-manual-on-braving-crisis https://blog.massmutual.com/planning/what-is-a-money-pool Tzedakah, Tikkun olamhttps://www.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/human-spirit-during-the-holocaust/mutual-aid.html https://sapirjournal.org/money/2025/poverty-and-jewish-community/ https://utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3138/ijcs-2022-0007 https://www.yivo.org/NY-Mutual-Aid
(DIR) Post #B2PtSeD9fyEFrd0rdg by Guillotine_Jones@beige.party
2026-01-18T17:46:22Z
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@Nonilex Re: Trump