Lydia Polgreen: In Minnesota, I saw scenes that reminded me of the chaos and violence in civil wars I've covered in other countries. Heavily armed agents have rampaged through the streets, assaulting, tear-gassing and arbitrarily detaining people.

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "The idea of using kids as bait, of going into schools, of going into churches, these are the kind of things that Americans reject ... The American people have not lost every sense of what is decent and right, and they think that using kids as bait is wrong."

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-- The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) Jan 29, 2026 at 4:26 PM