@edsudden Sadly, I can tell you from experience the media will grow tired of Minnesota and forget that you all are still subjected to the ICE assault. The Olympics may be more compelling.
Yours in sympathy - The residents of the District of Columbia.

@fromjason There is a call to action during every single call put on by Indivisible. The whole #NoKings movement is about training citizens to answer calls to action and not be passive bystanders.

@AkaSci kudos to Bruce Springsteen. He understands the power of protest folk music.

@noodlemaz You don't need to delete. I taught International Criminal Law for over a decade. You are correct legally that genocide does not require the total erasure of a people to still be called genocide, However, that is not really relevant to the point I am making and I intentionally chose that phrasing for the reply guys who will say Native people are still here therefore it wasn't genocide. You know how your people are.

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The attempted genocide of Native Americans, the enslavement of Africans and African Americans, the denial of civil rights, the discrimination against the Chinese, the internment of the Japanese, the ongoing attacks on Mexican Americans and anyone that speaks Spanish or looks a little too brown. All of these behaviors are state sanctioned violence. Organized and state sanctioned violence is hallmark of the US since its founding. 3/8

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I’m not criticizing the wonderfully brave work that is being done in support of our immigrant community. But we must strive to keep ourselves educated about the invisible ways ingrained societal racism impacts us all. The utterance of that phrase masks a refusal to recognize or credit the lived experience of every single group of black and brown people in this country. 2/8

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I enjoy being on Mastodon because of conversations here. I didn’t have to explain to any of you why the phrase “This is not who we are” is ridiculous. It’s like when Kissinger died, you all said he should rot in hell. I was like yes! These are my people. But I do want to talk about how allies and liberals hurt our fight for freedom when they use that phrase in speeches trying to make people feel better. 1/8

@CathyBikesBook Are you having trouble finding us to follow? If so, send me a DM and I'll recommend some folks.