Minneapolis readers, how are you? We’re watching the information and fascinated with you on a regular basis. My good friend, who lives in south Minneapolis, informed me that ICE got here to his daughter’s college final week; brokers threw the vice principal on the bottom, shot tear gasoline right into a crowd of scholars, and hauled off two academics and a pupil. Elliott Payne, the president of the Metropolis Council, informed the New York Instances that “it seems like a navy occupation.”
This morning, I requested my good friend how issues have been feeling within the metropolis, and right here was his reply:
“Scary. Unhappy. Enraging. I don’t consider these ICE ways will ever look good in historical past. There’s a robust group spirit right here, and we’re doing our greatest to look out for one another. There are occasions once I sort of numb out to the present injustices, after which I’ll watch a video and simply bawl. I really feel completely different impulses at completely different instances. My strongest intuition is to ask ‘Who can I feed?’ Who’s struggling proper now? The college is gathering meals/bathroom paper/fundamentals for people who find themselves scared to depart their houses. I even have a robust intuition to be a witness and guarantee my youngsters/neighbors are protected. My mind can address the absurdity of this inhumane upside-down world by assembly it with extra absurdity. Proper now as an alternative of hollering ‘fuck you,’ I fantasize about going as much as ICE brokers, asking a barrage of dumb questions like, ‘So, what do you want most about your job? Hey, are you able to guys please cease all of the folks making an attempt to work round right here? Hey, once you guys are accomplished right here, might you go as much as the border and cease the ounces of fentanyl coming down from Canada?’ I actually hope cooler, kinder heads will ultimately prevail.”
I’d love to listen to, if you happen to’re up for sharing: How are you feeling, if you happen to’re in Minnesota? How are you feeling, if you happen to’re watching the information from elsewhere? What information sources or retailers do you discover useful? (We repeatedly take heed to The Each day and Pod Save America.) And listed below are methods to assist these in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Sending a lot love, as all the time.
(Picture of a memorial for Renee Good taken by Charly Triballeau/Agence France-Presse.)