Fuck ICE

[miss_ljv]

If anyone is wondering how it's going in Minnesota dealing with ICE, it's BAD bad. Like, laws and constitutional rights are not a thing. Violence against citizens is everywhere. These untrained morons have zero idea how to safely deploy ANYTHING and injure people indiscriminately. 

 

Yesterday several police agencies were like "omg they profiled US, the COPS, even one at gunpoint!!!!!!" and me being like ooOoOOoOhhhhh, how does that feel? Is it scary when people are screaming conflicting things at you and drawing their guns and you don't know what unhinged thing they're going to do to you??????? 

 

Tomorrow and Friday are going to be insanely cold. Bitterly, bitterly cold. Like, in the -20s cold, with wind chill down to -35. The state is participating in a strike — no work, no school, no shopping. Now, for me, the University officially said it's not doing anything to help (most likely because they get federal funding, I guess, even though Trump has said we DON'T get federal funding anymore? idk), but that we could use vacation time. Sure, whatever. I've been home sick all week anyway.

 

And yet, Minnesotans are coming together in a way I always hoped for. We take care of our people. The level of organizing, care, protection, and standing up for our neighbors is so wonderful and heartening. I am proud to be Minnesotan. Fuck ICE. 

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[elisi]

I don't think I knew that you were in Minnesota (or I forgot!). Wishing you fortitude. Hope you feel better soon (health-wise).

“Wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

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