You’re right. The family driving their car on a road totally had it coming.

1/18/2026 8:04:56 PM

Quote :

"I've seen video of people with kids at these protests, so I'm operating under the assumption that's one end of the extreme. The other end would be like a Mennonite without TV or the internet accidentally ending up in the middle of a protest on the way to Target."

https://www.yarn.co/yarn-clip/9d067072-c875-4e94-a861-d5cb7407cc06

1/19/2026 6:57:08 AM

Don Lemon storms church with Anti ICE protesters

https://ground.news/article/don-lemon-joins-far-left-mob-in-storming-storm-minneapolis-church

1/19/2026 7:17:42 AM

good for the protestors

also lol at the hyperlink for your allegedly neutral site

1/19/2026 11:24:55 AM

https://bsky.app/profile/leahmcelrath.bsky.social/post/3mcqfgecmk22n



https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3mcqwlhmi322y

Quote :

"ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals."

[Edited on January 19, 2026 at 12:08 PM. Reason : .]

1/19/2026 12:07:28 PM

Lots of reports of ice continuing to use tactics a judge has prohibited. Will be interesting to see if these criminal Gestapo faces any accountability— what can the judge even do.

1/19/2026 2:32:41 PM

What was the point of barging into the church? I must have missed that one.

[Edited on January 20, 2026 at 8:32 AM. Reason : f]

1/20/2026 8:32:44 AM

I think I read that the minister is an ICE agent

I wonder who/what they worship in that church


[Edited on January 20, 2026 at 9:36 AM. Reason : could it be]

1/20/2026 9:35:51 AM

Hoffer:

Quote :

" In the practice of mass movements, make-believe plays perhaps a more enduring role than any other factor. When faith and the power to persuade or coerce are gone, make-believe lingers on. There is no doubt that in staging its processions, parades, rituals and ceremonials, a mass movement touches a responsive chord in every heart. Even the most sober-minded are carried away by the sight of an impressive mass spectacle. There is an exhilaration and getting out of one’s skin in both participants and spectators. It is possible that the frustrated are more responsive to the might and splendor of the mass than people who are self-sufficient. The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending—for making a show—and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing mass spectacle. "

Commentary on how it relates:

Quote :

" The anti-ICE disruption at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, on January 18, 2026—where protesters stormed the sanctuary during worship, chanting “ICE out” and “Justice for Renee Good” while livestreamed by Don Lemon—perfectly illustrates Eric Hoffer's insight that mass movements sustain themselves through make-believe spectacle and manufactured contempt for the present. By transforming a peaceful Sunday service into chaotic, performative confrontation, the activists created an exhilarating collective pageantry that thrilled participants (and online viewers) while deliberately making ordinary life—prayer, family worship, personal peace—mean, miserable, and interrupted for congregants, including terrified children. This lumped the present (normal religious gathering) with the “detested past” of oppression, rejecting it as unclean and unworthy; instead, the movement shifted focus to an impractical, glorified future of abolished ICE and systemic “justice,” demanding self-sacrifice and ascetic rejection of comforts like undisturbed devotion. Hoffer’s cycle is evident: illusion and drama breed fanatic unity, impractical goals defy reality, and contempt for the here-and-now fuels ongoing momentum—even as backlash (DOJ probes under the FACE Act) risks creating martyrs "

TLDR: protesters baiting authorities into overreaction which sustains their goals.

[Edited on January 20, 2026 at 9:57 AM. Reason : A]

1/20/2026 9:54:25 AM

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-immigration-us-citizen-detained-hmong-d009590a491c0c8243ef21ef24db7182

Quote :

"US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear after warrantless search"

story about the elderly man ICE abducted while in his underwear

^ why won’t you cite your sources for that commentary?

[Edited on January 20, 2026 at 10:24 AM. Reason : .]

1/20/2026 10:22:18 AM

it's funny to see the protest framed as make believe spectacle and pageantry

but the church service itself is not presented as such

1/20/2026 10:38:27 AM

^ The correct reading would be the church service is, since that is what propels things to last. Religions are defined as a type of mass movement in the book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer

Quote :

"He articulates a cyclical view of history and explores why and how said movements start, progress, and end. Whether intended to be cultural, ideological, religious, or whatever else, Hoffer argues, mass movements are broadly interchangeable even when their stated goals or values differ dramatically.[1] This makes sense, in Hoffer's view, given the frequent similarities between them in the psychological influences on their adherents."

Tactically though what they did forces you to take a side whether you view it online or you were there.

Alinsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals also talked about similar tactics



[Edited on January 20, 2026 at 10:56 AM. Reason : a]

1/20/2026 10:48:25 AM

Movements need marketing yes. We need to cancel out maga marketing.

The ice raids themselves are spectacle more than policy or law enforcement and designed intentionally as such — international visitors see it and decide they don’t want to come here.

The church protest was well done— it shows ice that they will face personal repercussions for abetting fascists. Hope they do more of this even, if they can collapse recruitment into ice it will be good for American freedom and democracy.

1/20/2026 12:24:48 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3mcufejapjc2x

an interview with the disabled woman who got dragged out of her car while on the way to a doctors appointment

1/20/2026 3:06:46 PM

I imagine it's pretty hard for people living on the streets where the protests happen would have a hard time avoiding those same streets (and they shouldn't have to worry about federal agents tear-gassing kids inside cars)

1/20/2026 3:50:27 PM

Just some nobody disabled woman. For someone that pretends to care about sources you seem to fall for everything posted on Bluesky.

http://newamerica.org/our-people/aliya-rahman/

1/21/2026 10:54:23 AM

Damn!

So you are telling me that people with disabilities can graduate college and have jobs AND sometimes need to visit the doctor?

1/21/2026 11:00:12 AM

^^You are so goddamn right it is crazy.

I mean, who in their right mind would ever give a fuck about a nobody disabled woman, amirite???

1/21/2026 11:07:15 AM

And get jobs fighting fascism to get clickable stories written about them! The new American dream!

1/21/2026 11:12:52 AM

you realize that was exactly what rosa parks did? it was an op to bring awareness and it worked

political change always has to be intentional

[Edited on January 21, 2026 at 11:19 AM. Reason : ]

1/21/2026 11:18:54 AM

she obviously made them give conflicting orders, smash her window, and pull her out of her car

1/21/2026 11:29:51 AM

If you get a few hundred people together with whistles and intimidating another 100 people in riot gear you're going to get a clickable story. Mistakes happen. The only way they don't and you don't wind up a statistic is not to play.

The point is to generate these events so TGL can share how bad the fascists are and act smug.

It's all a game. If it's in the algorithm or on TV it's a player in the game not a civilian. The civilians are the people actually wanting to be left alone at a church.


[Edited on January 21, 2026 at 11:35 AM. Reason : A]

1/21/2026 11:31:50 AM

Her being disabled or not shouldn’t be the focus here.

1/21/2026 11:32:54 AM

People shouldn't be reminded that fascists are bad. Just avoid them and go about your lives like good patriotic Americans.

You act like having opinions on current events or reflecting on primary sources and what people actually say is only ever the result of manipulation. I guess I can't have an opinion on anything without being a captured pawn of one side or the other.

If you don't stop trolling, I'm going to recommend you go back to Florida.

1/21/2026 11:48:13 AM

It's not trolling. Don't share obvious fucking clickbait like basically every thing on this page. And don't interact with ICE or protesters if you don't want to be a statistic. If your life lacks meaning or responsibility then go fight the ghosts the matrix is inventing. Stay mad.

[Edited on January 21, 2026 at 12:02 PM. Reason : a]

1/21/2026 12:01:19 PM

I thought you were all about the autists. You should be in love with this girl.

1/21/2026 12:30:36 PM

^^
It’s not clickbait when it represents the overarching trend. It’s anecdata

1/21/2026 1:10:46 PM

It's so funny to see stuff like this from someone who changed his whole political mindset bc he didn't want to get a vaccine and didn't like seeing homeless people.

1/21/2026 1:23:11 PM

I did not like stepping in needles and shit, getting shit stolen or finding dead homeless people in front of my house. But yes, seeing people with rotting necrotic flesh on their legs is also kind of bad.

Imagine you'd like watching them masturbate on public transit though.

[Edited on January 21, 2026 at 1:35 PM. Reason : A]

1/21/2026 1:34:18 PM

- Afraid of stepping on needles
- Vaccine skepticism

It's starting to make sense. It's all based on fear of needles!

Really nothing to be afraid of, Cael! And afterward you get a fun Disney-themed Band-Aid for big kids!

1/21/2026 2:02:04 PM

Great idea! Can I get a watermelon jolly rancher too?!

1/21/2026 2:11:06 PM

If you are lucky!

1/21/2026 3:07:03 PM

probably just another psyop

1/21/2026 4:10:48 PM

Quote :

"While everyone keeps saying he's 14 he is actually 17 and lives at the home of a wanted 20 year old relative. He didn't have his ID on him so they ran his prints and when they didn't match the illegal alien they were looking for they released him. These sort of interactions are very normal when police are looking for a suspect - if you live in the same home and match the description of the person they are looking for you can be detained until they are able to determine if you are the suspect."

Seems like it. Makes good clickbait.

While we are on the subject the old guy allegedly refused to identify. The people they were looking for were sex offenders. Eventually they successfully id him and let him go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_v._Summers

TLDR they detain people around, even minors, while executing warrants.



[Edited on January 21, 2026 at 4:21 PM. Reason : A]

1/21/2026 4:15:46 PM

keep it up, man

they’re still not gonna pat you on the head for your ongoing support

your aversion to posting a link to your source continues to be very telling

[Edited on January 21, 2026 at 4:26 PM. Reason : .]

1/21/2026 4:23:09 PM

Quote :

"...don't interact with ICE"

Would you happen to have any advice on what to do if ICE interacts with you?

1/21/2026 4:26:13 PM

^^ It was on the link you posted.

^ Hands on wheel, car off, yes sir, no sir. Am I being detained? Don't approach them unless you are approached, avoid areas where they are known to be active. Don't do things to attract attention (like whistle at them yell, scream). Remember you can't talk yourself out of an arrest only into one. Don't offer any information they don't explicitly ask for.

Mostly the same as any law enforcement interaction.

[Edited on January 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM. Reason : a]

1/21/2026 4:56:22 PM

bAcK tHe BlUe

Quote :

"Immigration agents have stopped off-duty officers in Minnesota "solely because of the color of their skin," a group of local police chiefs alleged, as concern grows over the handling of immigration enforcement in the state. American citizens are being stopped on the streets "with no cause and are being forced to produce paperwork to determine if they are here legally,” said Mark Bruley, chief of the Brooklyn Park Police Department, which operates in a suburb north of Minneapolis. He added that police officers “fell victim to this while off duty” and that the stops appear to “target” people of color."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/01/20/immigration-agents-minnesota-police-officer/88268058007/

1/21/2026 4:58:10 PM

"cmon guys it's just standard profiling!". Guy was detained for "walking while not white"

Also while Donald Trump may think being 17 makes you an adult, most of us don't

Quote :

"Remember you can't talk yourself out of an arrest only into one"

A legal us resident should not have a way to talk themselves into an arrest by immigration control, short of directly threatening them.

[Edited on January 21, 2026 at 5:02 PM. Reason : E]

1/21/2026 5:00:25 PM

If he came out of a house where the people in question are know to live it's fair game. If he was legit walking on the street randomly and they don't know he was there yeah fuck them. You don't care the truth.

I don't like cops and don't back the blue. However I have had a few positive interactions.

1/21/2026 5:03:48 PM

Quote :

"was on the link you posted."

no, it wasn’t

you quoted from somewhere about the teen being 17. where is that from?

1/21/2026 5:04:30 PM

Scroll down, it's in the thread.

1/21/2026 5:17:22 PM

it’s not in this thread

1/21/2026 5:25:22 PM

AP is reporting a Leaked memo confirms what everyone has already been seeing, that Ice as policy will enter homes by force without a warrant:

Quote :

" BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says. https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-trump-00d0ab0338e82341fd91b160758aeb2d "

1/21/2026 5:59:05 PM

Quote :

" Hands on wheel, car off, yes sir, no sir. Am I being detained? Don't approach them unless you are approached, avoid areas where they are known to be active. Don't do things to attract attention (like whistle at them yell, scream). Remember you can't talk yourself out of an arrest only into one. Don't offer any information they don't explicitly ask for. "

Thanks! I'm not sure that covers all situations, however. Would you happen to have any advice for what to do if the ICE agent points a gun at me and begins roughly dragging me from behind the wheel?

Do you always advocate for obedience to immigration officers, or is there a line that can be crossed where you feel the infringement on your rights supersedes the officer's authority? Do you happen to have any advice for me in that situation?

We all need to be prepared, and you seem to know what you are talking about.

1/21/2026 6:51:24 PM

Laken Riley act cosponsor:

Quote :

" @RubenGallego Follow Yeah I am not voting to give whatever ICE has become more tax payer money. It's no longer an immigration enforcement arm of the US government. "

1/21/2026 7:14:16 PM

^^ I guess self deport and take the $1000. If you can sell your taco stand to another legal immigrant.

1/21/2026 8:50:00 PM

Even given that I am an American citizen? And do not own a taco stand?

[Edited on January 21, 2026 at 9:03 PM. Reason : Taco]

1/21/2026 9:02:58 PM