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Thursday, January 29, 2026

The Minneapolis revolt tells us this: even in Trump's America, the people have power too

After months of community resistance, the president backed down. Leadership from below succeeded when politics as usual failed

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After months of resistance by Minnesotans, the president's immigration chief, Gregory Bovino, has been forced out of the city.

Trump's head of homeland security, Kristi Noem, faces either the sack or impeachment. Key members of his team are tearing strips off each other.

And the Republicans' signature domestic policy " the terrorizing of multicultural Democratic cities by thousands of mercenary bullyboys, masked up and kitted out like they're taking Basra " is now opposed by a clear majority of Americans.

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"The hub of this work is south Minneapolis, last in the world's headlines six years ago as the site where George Floyd was killed by police officers.

Some of those who rose up in the Black Lives Matter protests of that period have clearly reawakened their old networks.

Others note that Minnesota regularly tops measures of social trust: in other words, its residents are among the most likely to place their trust in their neighbor across the road, rather than the leader at the top of the pile."

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#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-29 01:12 PM | Reply

"People are doing something wildly dangerous. They are singing and dancing"

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Sounds like a Street Executable Offense in Trumplandia.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-29 03:48 PM | Reply

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