Economic Blackout Day Planned in Minnesota to Protest ICE Surge

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ICE took someone in Waite Park today while they were delivering food to their family. ICE violently smashed their car on a residential street and then started pointing guns at children in the neighborhood.

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-- Elliott Payne (@elliottpayne.org) Jan 20, 2026 at 5:16 PM

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The point of ICE is not to deport criminals and thugs.

It is to terrorize blue states.

#1 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-01-21 09:49 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 6

If you don't resist these fascists running over you they are going to run over you.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-21 10:20 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

"Economic Blackout"

Seems like an exercise in futility.

#3 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2026-01-21 01:04 PM | Reply

so they'll hurt they're own economy to...?

#4 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2026-01-21 04:09 PM | Reply

What else can they do beyond lock and load?

That plays right into trumps hands. Trump WANTS to use the Insurrection Act so badly you can taste it.

#5 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-21 04:11 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

so they'll hurt they're own economy to...?
#4 | Posted by kwrx25

Take a step back.
ICE is hurting the Minneapolis economy to...?

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-21 04:13 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I get your point Snoofy, but tanking it harder is to what benefit?

It's like pointing a gun at your head and yelling stop or I'll shoot.

#7 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2026-01-21 04:46 PM | Reply

#7 Yeah!

It is like those soldiers who jump on a hand grenade to save their fellow comrades.

Suckers and losers, right?

#8 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-21 05:19 PM | Reply

"I get your point Snoofy, but tanking it harder is to what benefit?"

That's like asking why would blacks boycott the bus system in the Jim Crow South.
I'm guessing you can't figure that one out either.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-21 05:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"It's like pointing a gun at your head and yelling stop or I'll shoot."

And so it's good when ICE does that, why exactly?

You don't think ICE presence is having a negative impact on business because nobody wants to go near these goons, are you here to tell us you're this clueless?

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-21 05:24 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

ICE is hurting the Minneapolis economy to...?

#6 | Posted by snoofy

not if they're allowed to do their job,.....

BTW...the count of criminals taken off the streets has surpassed 3000....

that's 3000 less sexual assault criminals and rapist / murderers.

OH I'M SORRY...I forgot those are people you and the others want to protect

and the more there the more you people like it

#11 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-01-21 08:37 PM | Reply

that's 3000 less sexual assault criminals and rapist / murderers.

#11 | Posted by shrimptacodan
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I have one response to that, where are the Epstein files?

#12 | Posted by BBQ at 2026-01-22 06:56 AM | Reply

JV Pants is expected in the Twin Cities today for a 'roundtable discussion'. I suspect the RW media will scream that (1) Pants was disrespected by not being welcomed to the head of the (round) table, and (2) his life was endangered by flying ice directed at him and his motorcade (translation: it was snowing during his drive from the airport). Good times...

#13 | Posted by catdog at 2026-01-22 08:22 AM | Reply

boycotting the busses was a huge symbolic win, that didn't hurt the black community beyond not riding the bus.

boycotting your local economy has immediate ramifications that then hurt you. The federal government isn't going to even notice if the Minneapolis economy crashes... hell this administration will probably cheer it.

I'm not saying to do nothing, but this is action with no win and only self harm. Your example wasn't the same thing.

Do you always just immediately refute me, do you even attempt a discussion at any point anymore? I'm actually agreeing with you mostly on this, and you'll still push back.

#14 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2026-01-22 08:23 AM | Reply