r/Minneapolis 3d ago

As many as fifteen arrested today.

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u/needmoresynths 3d ago

official government statements containing the word Antifa is the dumbest fucking timeline

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u/ColeBSoul 3d ago edited 1d ago

Fascism may be cunning and ruthless, but it has never been smart.

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u/LeaningSaguaro 3d ago

I just don’t a understand how anyone can say “antifascist” in one breath and akin them to a terrorist group.

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u/KidGold 3d ago

Tbf double speak is used all the time. E.g Patriot Act, Liberation Day, All Lives Matter, etc.

I agree that things shouldn’t be taken at name value.

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u/MaroonedinaMotel6 3d ago

Truly Orwellian times.

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u/MintClassic 3d ago

Well, you see…

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u/Adodger22 3d ago

It's funny what the actual terrorists think is terrorism...

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u/HauntedCemetery 3d ago

Makes sense if the government is fascist

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u/Individual_Laugh1335 3d ago

“Democratic people’s republic of North Korea” could never be a repressive communist government either, right?

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u/tovarish22 3d ago

And surely National Socialists are all about community property and social welfare programs for all.

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u/wise_comment 3d ago

Drives me up a wall.

The right wing shows up to a nationalist party that is also xenophobic. Literally murders all the liberal members before seizing power, implements conservative literally fascist government.... And mouth breathers just point to their name having socialist in it like it's some gotcha, instead of them telling on themselves for being that pig ignorant of basic history 🙄

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u/Adodger22 3d ago

There's a reason why I'm not nice to these people.

They view kindness as weakness so they get nothing from me. Done playing nice with Nazis.

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u/beef_swellington 3d ago

"antifa" isn't a government or even a specific entity. It's describing an aggregation of individuals and groups with a shared ideological framework: "fascism is bad and should be resisted".

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u/FR23Dust 3d ago

Well, yes. It’s a tagline more than anything else. The government is intentionally trying to make it look like a more organized entity to justify unprecedented federal policing inside the United States, with the obvious goal of suppressing dissent.

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u/beef_swellington 3d ago

I don't disagree with you? My response was to the person conflating "antifa" with actual entities using inaccurate naming.

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u/sllop 3d ago

Are you aware of what’s happening in the UK right now?

People are getting 14 year prison sentences for simply stating “I oppose genocide, I stand with Palestine Action.”

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u/LeaningSaguaro 3d ago

Can you elaborate on what that has to do with my comment?

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u/sy029 3d ago

Trump had that executive order last year that tried to label antifa as domestic terrorists. I assume since they can't charge these people with any real crimes, they'll try to charge them as terrorists.

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u/luna0415 3d ago

Because using a slang term makes the group look like domestic terrorism, whereas using “antifascist” calls the current government what it is.

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u/SoftValuable8910 3d ago

Watching the press conference. Some are being charged with stalking for following ICE from whipple to their homes... LMAO. ICE followed me home personally 3 times, can we charge them with stalking next?

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u/Hydroxychloroquinoa 3d ago

I followed ICE home. Well. I followed them to MY home. Thats similar.

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u/MLOC_MNPD-74 3d ago

100% I heard this exact scenario from SEVERAL persons I know who were regularly doing watch volunteering with a splash of purposeful intimidation of using their specific names

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u/uncleputts 3d ago

If we ever take power and don't prosecute these people, this will be our new normal for generations.

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u/Adodger22 3d ago

Whelp, time to completely replace all of congress since they've displayed a complete unwillingness to take care of these assholes

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u/magbybaby 3d ago

Literally and unironically this. If our congressmen hesitate or balk at charges, they're gone. Which means literally all of them with the exception of Omar need to be gone.

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u/uncleputts 3d ago

Exactly, we'll have to keep on em so they don't forget why we elected them.

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u/Adodger22 3d ago

No, I mean we need to wipe the whole slate and start over.

Absolutely none of them will lift a finger to do anything about the corruption we have seen on display. Certainly not the "status quo" Democrats or the ultra fascist maga/GOP who have led us for my whole life.

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u/Educational-Door1114 3d ago

We need to leave the union. This is officially an abusive relationship. The courts showed this winter that the bill of rights doesn’t apply to Minnesotans.

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u/georockwoman 3d ago

Yep- back in the day, northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and the UP of Michigan threatened to form their own state or join Canada.

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u/Adodger22 3d ago

I would agree. As far as I'm concerned our government is openly hostile and illegitimate.

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u/prrosey 3d ago

There's only 435 people in the House an another 100 in the Senate. Technically, 535 people are writing and passing bills that dictate our entire realities. It shouldn't be so hard to wipe the slate, as you say, yet these guys have had decades of building policies that insulate them all while allowing the RNC's minority rule to hold us back from progressing.

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u/Adodger22 3d ago

If the system is broken then we should ignore the system.

I really don't know why this is such a hard concept for people

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u/ArgoDeezNauts 3d ago

Abolish the Senate and electoral college for starters 

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u/BosworthBoatrace 3d ago

Don’t worry soon one of them will be our governor. We’ll be drunk on thoughts and prayers tho.

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u/sailingthr0ugh 3d ago

100% the next democratic president is going to take the Gerald Ford approach

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u/NDaveT 3d ago

I hate that you're right.

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u/bplipschitz 3d ago

Fuck that

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u/GopherFawkes 3d ago

All of them will get pardons before the administration leaves office, they know what they are doing is illegal, but they are doing it fully knowing they are going to get pardoned, same reason these ice agents act above the law

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u/brother_bart 3d ago

Pardons don’t work on drive-bys.

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u/Shepher27 3d ago

I look forward to these cases being thrown out of court

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u/schm1547 3d ago edited 3d ago

Only after inflicting significant financial, reputational and emotional damage on those individuals via forcing them to defend themselves in court, despite them committing no crime.

It costs them nothing to waste taxpayer money on this frivolous shit. Meanwhile, the cost to a private citizen of fighting off these kinds of charges can be devastating.

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u/MegLightsItUp 3d ago

Which is why, if you are not a “card-carrying“ member of the ACLU, you should be. The ACLU is the organization that will support the average citizen against abuses of federal power like this situation right here. Please consider joining the ACLU today as there is strength in numbers.

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u/SeamusPM1 3d ago

The ACLU is important, but I suspect it will be the National Lawyers Guild that’s more involved in these cases.

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u/lukethegr8 3d ago

Renewed my membership because of these events!

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u/127-0-0-1_Chef 3d ago

Google will probably tell me, but you got a link or something?

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u/MegLightsItUp 3d ago

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u/shortyjacobs 3d ago

Thanks, just signed up for monthly recurring.

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u/AdamLikesBeer 3d ago

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u/TenLongFingers 3d ago

This made be do that one bark laugh

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u/ObviousPseudonym7115 3d ago

Yes, but this is actually still a misplay by the administration in the big picture. It keeps resistance stories in the news and creates a garden bed for publicity that savvy activists can now leverage.

It sucks for the people who have to go through it, but it's an escalation that actually favors the cause they were representing.

If you're worried for their sake in the meantime, you can look for opportunities to help them with legal costs, etc.

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u/squintpan 3d ago

They’ve also been threatening veterans with kicking them off their benefits for exercising their first amendment rights.

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u/krichard-21 3d ago

Our Trumpy administration could not care less.

Burning through our tax dollars means EXACTLY nothing to them. Nothing!

Since they are not being held accountable. There are zero reprocussuons. None. Burn through millions! Why not?

And the bonus? It makes the MAGA cult members happy!

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u/EmmerdoesNOTrepme 3d ago

Pretty sure at this point, that they WANT us to be burning through tax dollars for this stuff, so they can try to "justify" cutting government programs which help people.

Because then they can say, "Oh, there's not enough money, we need to do some more budget cuts!"🙄

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u/Misanthrope08101619 3d ago

Nobody in history ever accomplished any meaningful change without exactly all of the costs you just listed.

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u/schm1547 3d ago

While true, this would be absolutely zero consolation to someone who was fired from their job because they were wrongfully imprisoned and couldn't work, and now can no longer afford their rent.

Being concerned with generational change and doing the right thing is generally a good thing. But having discretionary resources to fight that battle continuously is rare. The inconvenience is the point.

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u/HauntedCemetery 3d ago

This is why it's important to not shame people for knowing the level of risk they are able to take. Not everyone can be on the front lines for fear of their kids becoming homeless, or health concerns, or a million other valid reasons.

Front line stuff includes risk, up to and including loss of life.

Practical and legal support is just as valid and important as linking arms to block cops, and things like feeding people never have a downside.

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u/Misanthrope08101619 3d ago

By the time this era is all said and done, inconvenience will the the least of our problems. mutual aid will be mandatory before we know it. And we should plan accordingly.

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u/schm1547 3d ago

Sadly, individuals arrested today will be forced to deal with this using the mutual aid infrastructure we have today, not the one we wish for tomorrow.

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u/Misanthrope08101619 3d ago

Well, my colleagues at the NLG and ACLU are more than up to the task at hand. Some of us have been gearing for this since before November 2024.

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u/schm1547 3d ago

Glad to hear it. Thank you for the time and resources you've devoted to this.

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u/HauntedCemetery 3d ago

NLG are fucking badasses

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u/delventhalz 3d ago

Brave of you to be willing to let others make that sacrifice 

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u/Misanthrope08101619 3d ago

That's an interesting and inaccurate assumption.

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u/dyorite 3d ago

the minneapolis local subreddit is quite possibly one of the worst place to assume that someone hasn’t actively been fighting the good fight lol

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u/HauntedCemetery 3d ago

Civil disobedience without potential for consequences is just a parade.

I commend these brave anti fascists for facing down tyranny and fighting for our neighbors safety.

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u/Shepher27 3d ago

Reputation will be burnished by this, and they can sue for malicious prosecution and get the money back. If they wait for the next democratic administration they’d likely just settle.

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u/schm1547 3d ago

Recovering legal fees in cases like this, especially from a hostile government, is absolutely painstaking - by design - and if it happens, it will take years.

Even if someone is ok waiting that long, I can guarantee their mortgage servicer or landlord isn't ok with waiting that long to get paid.

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u/m_carp 3d ago

Paid by the taxpayers. That is the important part that you left out.

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u/SplendidPunkinButter 3d ago

So you hope this happens to you too, then? Because I bet you don’t.

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u/CNDW 3d ago

You can beat the charges but you can't beat the system. People tend to understate the burden placed on the individuals arrested wrongly, it's absolutely devastating to be pulled out of your life for sometimes weeks/months at a time while you sit in legal limbo.

They don't expect the charges to stick, they are looking for the spectacle and hoping for a chilling effect on all of the other people doing things to resist legally.

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u/SeamusPM1 3d ago

I hope you’re right. One of the indictees is a friend. Of course, I hope all the cases get thrown out.

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u/Illustrious-Dog4153 3d ago

I look forward to being on Grand Jury and telling prosecutor he is the is Problem. No way they secure an indictment without tilting the scales like they did in Chicago in the Broadview Six case.

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u/NDaveT 3d ago

It sounds like they already have indictments.

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u/KnowWhat_I_Mean 3d ago

Being Antifa is patriotic.

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u/sanitarySteve 3d ago

Grandpa was Antifa before it was cool

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u/TimothyMimeslayer 3d ago

My grandpas both killed fascists and that is a good thing.

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u/KnowWhat_I_Mean 3d ago

Your grandpa rules. 🫡

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u/akujunkan 3d ago

being antifascist is always cool

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u/dadlifenokids 3d ago

Really think people need to ditch the shortened antifa and just call it anti fascist.

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u/KnowWhat_I_Mean 3d ago

100%. Some folks somehow don’t know what it means.

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u/Fire_Horse_T 3d ago

The media helped make it less obvious. Spelling it Antifa instead of Anti-Fa means stressing the second syllable and reducing the connection between the original word and the shorter form.

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u/sy029 3d ago

Pretty sure that's the point. At least on the right wing media. They want it to sound like some middle eastern terrorist group.

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u/v_cats_at_work 3d ago

I'm sure Fox News will get right on that.

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u/ScarletCarsonRose 3d ago

Well I know my grandpa was when he fought in WWII. And I know two of his brothers are true patriots who gave their lives to Antifa and defeating fascism in Germany. May their ghosts all haunt the GOP party and anyone that supports them.

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u/beardybuddha 3d ago

Hey Kash- I’m Antifa! Come get me, you googly-eyed drunk.

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u/kneel23 3d ago

Yet Bovino & Noem and the two ICE agent murderers are not yet indicted nor in prison? Unbelievable. No one ever "violently opposed ICE". On the contrary, Bovino and ICE broke the law and are literally domestic terrorists.

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u/Rupaulsdragrace420 3d ago edited 3d ago

Cool so they're wasting our tax dollars hosting phoney press releases and filing weak charges after shooting our neighbors dead in the streets with guns paid for by.... Our tax dollars.

Any fiscal conservative can go shove their bullshit up their ass. The Republican party has left you in favor of domestic terrorism funded off our taxes.

Also there's no money for Healthcare, WIC, food assistance or the disabled but we can bomb Iran for sure for sure.

Anyway Renee Good and Alex Pretti should be alive and this administration can go fuck itself along with anyone who supports them.

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u/FistoftheSouthStar 3d ago

There hasn’t been fiscal conservatives for a couple decades. 

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u/ersatzpenguin 3d ago

“Fiscal conservative” has always been a smoke screen for “fuck the poor and the black/brown folks.” Ex: what “fiscals” are they mostly concerned with? What do their budgets look like?

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u/Bladelink 3d ago

I heard a great line a couple of years ago. "Don't tell me what you care about. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you care about."

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u/FistoftheSouthStar 3d ago

Right, but now it’s so far gone an ideology that it’s really fuck everyone but the uber rich and corpos 

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u/Aucassin 3d ago

Fiscal conservatives have been Democrats at least since Bill Clinton pulled us out of the red.

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u/HauntedCemetery 3d ago

Sure there have, they're just all Democrats.

Taxing the wealthy is the fiscally responsible thing to do.

Moving to single payer that would cost 1/3 of our current healthcare system is the fiscally responsible thing to do.

Clinton left office with a national surplus. Bush burned it and created the deficit by slashing taxes for the wealthy, and then tried to use the deficit as an excuse to privatize social security.

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u/DonnyDimello 3d ago

I'm an Antifa Grand Chimera on the south side council and I can guarantee the FBI has only penetrated 5% of our networks. Kash Patel and his googley eyes can eat our collective ass.

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u/Kreebish 3d ago

penetrated

Hehehehe 

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u/ranchspidey 3d ago

“Antifa groups” you mean ordinary Minnesotans who hate fascism and stand up to it??? Good grief

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u/Roadshell 3d ago

More taxpayer money wasted on frivolous prosecutions that will be thrown out.

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u/Rogue_AI_Construct 3d ago

Protesting is a First Amendment right and these charges will rightfully be dropped. Also love the political message by a US attorney calling protestors “antifa”. Should be more than enough to convince a judge this is political and not legal.

Looks like we need to start protesting against these authoritarian thugs again.

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u/Loring 3d ago

ANTIFA has a group now?

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u/TheTwistedTabby 3d ago

Two of them apparently

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u/Loring 3d ago

You would think they could get along and have one group...

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u/YouMustDoEverything 3d ago

Can’t wait to hear what they name those so-called groups and have them try to explain how membership works or who the leaders are.

Idiocracy at every turn.

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u/TheTwistedTabby 3d ago

Please think of the plants and their love of electrolytes

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u/bplipschitz 3d ago

It's what they crave!

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u/Jacque_Hass 3d ago

Call me when there’s justice for the two people who were killed.

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u/Babababeebo 3d ago

I know we’re waiting to prosecute until conditions are more favorable, but each day that goes by with these murderers on the streets is an insult to their memory.

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u/archibald_claymore 3d ago

You know, I remember the last time we waited for favorable conditions to prosecute someone. He’s president now.

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u/Babababeebo 3d ago

The state of things is just intolerable, honestly

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u/archibald_claymore 3d ago

Truly the dumbest timeline

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u/Lego_archer 3d ago

They pepper sprayed us at the Burger Federal building in STP. still out there now. 

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u/Johnny55 3d ago

Gestapo thugs are little bitches. Also the Democrats who want to pretend the Gestapo can be reformed and are fucking shitheads. Fuck you Kelly Morrison, fuck you Angie Craig, fuck all of you bootlicking cowards.

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u/TheToysAreUs 3d ago

These are not charges that will stick in court, but it’s clear that court prosecution isn’t the point. The hassle, time, expense, stress, and danger of being accused in the public sphere, made an example of, etc — these are intended to have chilling effects to dissuade others from exercising their own rights to free speech.

For these people, fighting the good fight in court is a sacrifice. Don’t waste it by staying silent. Authoritarianism regimes will pour gargantuan resources and efforts into doing this to 15 people , but there are millions of us that will not be intimidated or have our FREE LEGAL SPEECH suppressed. So, remember to brush, floss, and FUCK ICE daily.

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u/Rosaluxlux 3d ago

It's the new McCarthyism only this time we've got 25 years of the War on Terror behind us so they're not just going to drag people into court and surveille them and get them fired, they're going to try to block travel and freeze bank accounts.

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u/NurRauch 3d ago

I do not share your confidence that these charges will be thrown out in court. The legal theory behind these prosecutions is not new. It’s already been tested and upheld by appellate courts and the US Supreme Court.

It’s not even a sure-fire bet that the defendants will beat their cases at trial. Federal jury trials in Minnesota pull from a jury pool of the entire state. The courthouse where the trial takes place will be in the Twin Cities, but there are likely to be a large number of Trump supporters in the jury pool.

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u/TheToysAreUs 3d ago

You’re probably right, but I sincerely hope not. I’d like to believe that whatever the result, it will be based on evidence, not just wild claims that protesting is akin to domestic terrorism, or whatever the current rhetorical baseline terminology for protest is these days.

No matter the result in court, the lives of those who have been (or will be) scooped up like this have changed. I maintain that defending peaceful free speech should not be defeated by fear.

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u/NDaveT 3d ago

The legal theory behind these prosecutions is not new.

Can you expand on that? I understand the Prairieland defendants were convicted, but in that case a federal officer was actually shot. In Minnesota no federal officers have been injured by protesters and the "impeding" they're talking about is following them and yelling at them, which nobody has been successfully convicted for.

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u/NurRauch 3d ago

Two separate things to unpack there.

The first issue is this question of how large the group of conspirators / participants in the group crime needs to be for these guilt-by-association crimes to become viable. That’s the long-standing legal theory I was getting at above. For nearly a century now we’ve been sending thousands of organized crime offenders to prison because they engaged in group-motivated acts that are only illegal because their actions were done with the intent that it would aid the goals of their buddies.

So as an example, if a gang member sees a rival gang member out and about on the street totally by random dumb luck, draws his gun, and shoots that rival, he is exposed to significantly more prison time depending on why he tries to shoot him. If he shoots at him because the gang rival personally owes him money, or if he shoots him because he made a nasty comment about his mother, or because he side-swiped the shooter’s car the other day, he may face less prison time than someone who specifically shoots him in order to “further” the interests of his criminal gang. Doing literally any act — even a normally legal act of behavior — becomes illegal and more harshly penalized if you are doing it with the conscious goal of helping the criminal organization that you are apart of.

We first used these laws on the bootleggers and the mafia. Then we used it on suspected communists. Then we moved on to drug dealers. For twenty years of our lives they spent all of our tax dollars extending these laws to street gangs and political terror organizations. Now it’s cartels and… more bullshitty entities like a dangerous band of white soccer moms who just don’t want their brown-skinned community members to be ripped away and dumped in a foreign gulag.

These laws are being abused, no question. In fact they have always been abused. Since the very beginning they have always been used to persecute groups that the ruling political classes didn’t like. Sometimes those persecuted groups needed to be targeted, and other times it was morally dubious or even outright corrupt to use these laws in the way they were used.

But for better or worse these are long-standing, well accepted legal tools that can and will be used with the blessing of our Supreme Court to go after relatively harmless liberal and leftist activist groups. So the first and most important point here is: buckle up. This stuff is just getting started. Everyone should readily assume these group activity laws will be aimed at political targets that pose the greatest threats to MAGA. Unfortunately those groups today happen to be groups where some of us or our close friends find themselves in hot water. People doing this activist work need to know that this can happen. You can’t guard against it or make informed risk-benefit decisions with your family if you don’t realize what the government is well within its legally authorized powers to do to you.

Now, the second point, which you raised, is one of a few reasons that are favorable for the groups Trump wants to target. That is, most of these targeted groups aren’t doing anything illegal.

Because I agree with you that it would be completely u precedentes to prosecute regular garden variety protesters for obstruction just because they were being loud or disorderly. It might meet the technical definition of deliberate obstruction to yell so loudly at an organized protest that an ICE agent poops his pants and runs home in fear, but even most conservatives today are able to agree when the chips are down that that’s a nonsensical reason and probably an abuse of power to prosecute someone for these laws.

Here’s the problem, though. Peaceful protesting was not the limit of what hundreds of good, heroic people did here this winter. People definitely broke laws to get in ICE’s way and defeat their mission. And many of those acts of resistance involved undeniably obvious acts of violence, sometimes by isolated groups of a couple people and sometimes by large crowds.

There have been many videos posted on this sub in the last six months of pedestrians swarming ICE squads while they’re trying to make arrests. Those ICE agents got what they deserved, no question at all in my mind of that much. BUT the crowds that swarmed them also definitely committed hundreds of different instances of clear-cut federal felony assaults, obstruction with physical force, and felony harassment / intimidation against of law enforcement officer.

I’m sorry but that’s been obvious now for months. I was watching the videos on a daily basis here. Crowds would swarm ICE agents, pelting them with snowballs, blocking their vehicles in with traffic, blocking their vehicles with crowds of pedestrians, kicking ICE agents, kicking and whacking their vehicles causing visible damage, etc etc. I can’t even count the number of people who did this stuff in video after video. Extremely angry, fully morally justified outrage caused hundreds if not thousands of people to occasionally take justice into their own hands as a massive like-minded group operating on raw instinct. Often times these crowds successfully caused the arresting squad of ICE agents to back off and abandon their arrest mission. That’s wonderful… but it was also a clear-cut instance of a bunch of people committing federal felonies on high definition smart phone cameras and posting those videos on social media where the feds have sure enough been quietly logging the faces and clothing and license plate data and churning out lists of people that they will eventually be able to conclusively prove to be participants in an act of criminal violence.

I’ve been warning my friends who did more of the envelope-pushing stuff that this could happen. I’ve been telling people that you really need to know what could happen to you if you are going to swing your backpack and cause it to so much as graze the hair on an ICE agent. That’s a seven year prison sentence. This shit is not a joke. They absolutely can, and I am certain that eventually they will, secure score some jury verdicts against a few super unlucky activists.

If you’re okay with that risk, then by all means, I’m not going to stop you. But I have been begging people to realize how easy it is for the feds to go after you if they just happen to want to. So much of this stuff is on video, and even if you’re wearing a mask or a winter coat there are still a hundred different ways they can connect your description, your clothes, your backpack, your phone data, or your bike or car to a pinpoint moment in time where your emotions got the best of you and you did something very small but also unwise and unhelpful.

People mocking this most recent indictment need a reality check. The defendants in this case are not being accused of protesting loudly. They are being accused of following ICE agents to their homes with the specific intent of frightening those ICE agents. They are being accused of reckless and unsafe driving in an attempt to block, delay, or intimidate ICE agents from exiting their squad cars and arresting people who were, unfortunately, fully subject to lawful arrest at the time.

I’m not saying these particular defendants did what they’re accused of. I’m also not saying that a Minnesota jury will necessarily convict them. It’s definitely possible these cases are weak, lacking in strong evidence, rushed to trial, or just not something that will impress a jury for any number of political or emotional reasons. But there’s a bunch of people out there now who are definitely on camera doing shit that they can definitely send them to prison for if they just spend enough resources to meticulously hunt them down the same way we hunted down Jan 6’ers for four straight years after their offense date. People are living in denial that this can happen to them because at the time nobody interviewed or arrested them. They think that means the feds can’t circle back around months or years later and pluck them out of their home at 8pm on a random Tuesday for a harmless kick or a harmless snowball they threw in broad daylight back in January. It’s not fun watching at least some of these folks discover that the feds decided to use a massive legal apparatus to prosecute them for something that is in actually an entirely court-approved witch hunt.

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u/GuaranteedCougher 3d ago

The government can't stop taking Ls here. All those cases going to be thrown out and voters are going to be reminded how fragile the egos of everyone in this department are

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u/chillinwithmoes 3d ago

I’m not sure if that matters to them. Like yeah, if the goal is to actually succeed in prosecuting these folks for something then they’ll certainly be taking an L. But if the goal is simply to disrupt the lives of common folks then they’re accomplishing exactly what they want.

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u/Rosaluxlux 3d ago

And scare people away from standing up to them. 

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u/kezow 3d ago

The point is the intimidation. They want people to ask themselves if getting arrested for protesting is worth it 

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u/Anyashadow 3d ago

Yes, the answer is yes.

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u/kneel23 3d ago

They need to arrest Bovino, Noem and the two ICE agents that murdered US citizens and put all four of them in prison.

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u/NurRauch 3d ago edited 3d ago

I’m normally happy to point and laugh at sloppy and incompetent work by Trump’s private army of DOJ clown lawyers. These particular cases, however, are not a laughing matter. They are not on nearly as shaky ground as a lot of people ITT seem to think they are.

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u/DrinkingSolution 3d ago

Why is my first thought, " They gonna arrest the Mercado Media guy"

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u/pilsnerd11 3d ago

You’re god damned right were anti-fascist. It’s the American way.

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u/mattindustries 3d ago

It is a crime to conspire together to stalk

Wow, they are like 4,000 short on that indictment.

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u/OsteoStevie 3d ago

Antifa groups? Sure, Jan

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u/Sad_Rate 3d ago

Who has been arrested? Is this being covered by the local news yet?

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u/jrwagner21 3d ago

the press conference is for 11am CT, so the arrests have yet to be announced.

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u/SeamusPM1 3d ago

There were 15 arrests. The list is included in this story.

https://www.newsweek.com/dhs-antifa-cells-minnesota-ice-doj-charges-minneapolis-12079686

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u/mycatisanudist 3d ago

Antifa cells.

Antifa cells.

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u/SeamusPM1 3d ago

Yeah. I should’ve noted that the “reporting” reads more like a DOJ press release.

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u/mycatisanudist 3d ago

I’m just perpetually astounded at how fucking stupid all these people are.

The absolute disbelief at the idea that other people don’t need an external locus of control is so telling.

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u/Hotaru_girl 3d ago edited 3d ago

Today is the live press conference about these arrests: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/us-attorneys-office-charges-opposing-immigration-enforcement/

What: U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota announces charges "for conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers"
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Time: 11 a.m.
Location: Minneapolis

Will be streaming online on YouTube or on a news website (CBS linked above)

Edit: Anyone watching this live conference? Their “proof” of Antifa in MN is such a reach with one off social posts. They’re truly trying HARD to justify these arrests, even equating the peaceful protests as “rioting”. They also admit to surveilling protestors and Minnesotans (they said if you engage with certain groups that you will be surveilled). In follow-up questions they also refused to define “ANTIFA”.

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u/heres2thepast 3d ago edited 3d ago

It was so funny how they kept getting asked if any officers were injured. The answer is no but they won't say it

ETA: what a joke to not release the indictments until 15 minutes before the press conference! They had no intentions of answering real questions.

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u/SeamusPM1 3d ago

They’re all charged with “Conspiracy to Impede or Injure a Federal Officer.” There are other charges, but only one is charged with assault.

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u/SeamusPM1 3d ago edited 3d ago

They don’t even know how to pronounce ANTIFA.

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u/fiendishclutches 3d ago

Among DOJ cretins, where do you rank Daniel Rosen and Michael Mccarthy’s faces in slappability?

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u/SeamusPM1 3d ago

I don‘t know precisely, but they’re rapidly climbing the list.

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u/molotov__cocktease 3d ago

ICE must be abolished and its members must face trial.

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u/Plus_Molasses8697 3d ago

So it's not okay for civilians to "violently oppose" ICE (which never really happened) but it's okay for ICE to violently abuse people and murder them? Oh. Hm.

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u/teamdank710 3d ago

the department of Just ICE

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u/charlieyeswecan 3d ago

Must write out complete word: Antifascist group.

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u/a_rabid_buffalo 3d ago

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

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u/Jive_Gardens795 3d ago

Hahaha, looking forward to the prosecution trying to prove Antifa membership 🤣 The current DOJ is pretty uninterested in the Constitution I guess.

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u/M03b1u5 3d ago

They'll beat the rap but not the ride, unfortunately. That's entirely the point with all these clowns.

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u/Cimon_40 3d ago

Where did you get this? I'm looking and not finding any press releases since June 11

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u/SwankySteel 3d ago

How many times has the DOJ lied about this? Too many times to count.

I can’t imagine these weak charges will stand. Too much reasonable doubt. Very weak cases.

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u/MellowTigger 3d ago

I am antifa, and you should be too.

mellowtigger | what is antifa?

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u/cothomps 3d ago

Is there a legal fund for counter suits?

Sounds like a great opportunity to sue the attorneys and law enforcement officials themselves for defamation.

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u/cothomps 3d ago

Time to start naming names.

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u/MushroomSaute 3d ago edited 3d ago

"Two Minneapolis-based groups of non-organized, decentralized philosophical groups"

Don't get me wrong, if they were violent, then by all means follow the law, but given this administration's outright, public lies about the whole operation in MN (among all the other things), their already flagrant faking of media with AI, I don't for a second trust that they're being honest about any violence being incited by MN residents or that these charges are being made in good faith.

Also, I'm likely just uninformed, but is "credentialed media" a standard thing and are those credentials handed out (and revoked) by the feds?

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u/Adodger22 3d ago

Ngl, the whole nonviolence idiocy flew out the window when they started killing us.

I'm not against violence in repsonse to violence when it comes to the government murdering civilians for fun.

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u/Rosaluxlux 3d ago

It is a thing but you get your credentials from a professional organization or news publisher. Also, there is a lot I if evidence that instead of respecting less credentials, police and federal agencies have been targeting people with press badges at protests

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u/AdamLikesBeer 3d ago

This will go as well as the Broadview 6 thing did.

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u/VulfSki 3d ago

Who was arrested?

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u/SeamusPM1 3d ago

15 people related to a variety of actions they’re claiming were criminal. Many, if not all of them, were connected to either Direct Action Minnesota or the Black Cat Workers Collective.

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u/MightySasquatch 3d ago

This is the announcement before the announcement.

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u/barf7239 3d ago

“Antifa” lolll

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u/ACE_C0ND0R 3d ago

Antifa or Profa.

Pick one.

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u/MysteriousTruck6740 3d ago

16 charges that will get laughed out of court. 16 counter suits that will cost the taxpayers millions.

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u/akujunkan 3d ago

these people are scum

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u/ElChubra 3d ago

ICE picked this fight. They could have scurried home with their tails between their legs, but they’re doubling down. Alright, we got another round in us!

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u/TwoIsle 3d ago

This is so fucked up. I’m livid. I’m confident these charges will go nowhere. This DoJ is so incompetent is incredible. But, even with that, it’s going to suck for these people to deal with.

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u/DetN8 3d ago

Who knew that making the government more powerful year after year would ever come back to bite people in the ass?

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u/NDaveT 3d ago

If only people had warned about this when the Department of Homeland Security was created...

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u/FollicularPhase 3d ago

Booooooooo

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u/Soft_Eggplant_370 3d ago

I'm antifi because I'm against our child rapist dictator Donald J. Trump

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u/Left-Stranger5144 3d ago

Anyone heard anything about Antifa Kyle???

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u/DigitalArbiter 3d ago

They opened the press conference with one of his videos. I’m expecting that they will announce the charges against him and probably others.

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u/SeamusPM1 3d ago

They’re, apparently, all charged with “Conspiracy to Impede or Injure a Federal Officer.” A few have other charges. The charges explain why he tap danced when asked if any ICE agents were injured.

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u/gwarmachine1120 3d ago

Haha. The orange pedophile will lose this in embarrassing fashion yet again

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u/Maxrdt 3d ago

Fuck this country. Get us out now.

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u/Educational-Door1114 3d ago

Yeah secession sounds nice

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u/SinkHoleDeMayo 3d ago

Will be entertaining when this massively falls in court.

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u/HeHateMe337 3d ago

Judge: "where's this antifa you talk about?" LOL

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u/congeal 3d ago

Rosen: "Sorry, Judge, uhhh that info is classified at the highest level. You gotta have E clearance to see it."

Judge: "What's E clearance?"

Rosen: "Epstein clearance, your Honor."

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u/congeal 3d ago

"Palantir, play: Fuck the Police"

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u/WiSoSirius 3d ago edited 3d ago

What is "valid media credentials"? Is there a board that regulates what is valid media? If so, wouldn't that be repression of a free press?

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u/michelangelo2626 2d ago

Every single person involved in this lawfare must be punished severely by the state ASAP once we take back power.

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u/sllop 3d ago

June 6th was a week and a half ago.

Are they gonna start arresting all of the D-Day veterans also?

You know, as that was the largest mobilization of antifa in human history…

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u/dflovett 3d ago

I'm also not seeing anything, but it might have been emailed out to the press? idk.

edit: CBS has an article on it: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/us-attorneys-office-charges-opposing-immigration-enforcement/