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No Kings Protest, Minnesota
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I was there!
Did the arrow taunt you specifically for a reason? Did you steal its tater casserole?
I'm proud of you.
I found Waldo!
Americans should be proud of this. This is beautiful.
This is incredible.
"small protest, one of the smallest. My speeches are bigger, much biggly"
-turnip
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I heard that the protests in MN were cancelled, which seems like a cut and dry tactical misstep from protest organizers to me, but I haven't been able to find a lot of details.
This doesn't look cancelled.
Anyone on the ground know more details?
According to various news reports, the suspect's car had a manifesto, a hit list of people to target (one report said the list had a bunch of politicians, another said the list had a bunch of pro-choice activists), and apparently the car also had a bunch of No Kings signs in it. I'm guessing they thought he was going to slip into a protest and try to hurt people?
Something important to know about the two people who were shot: until her death, Melissa Hortman was a member of the Minnesota State House of Representatives; and John Hoffman is a member of the Minnesota State Senate. Both were Democrats.
And up until they were shot, the Minnesota House had 134 Members: 66 Republicans vs 67 Democrats (with one seat empty to be filled later). And the Minnesota Senate had 67 members: 33 Republicans and 34 Democrats. If the assassinations had both been successful, both chambers would have been tied. As it is, they're only saying that Hoffman is "stable", but there are no further details.
I'd heard it was over flyers in a car but I was hoping there was more to it than that. That's a pretty flimsy threat to be capitulating to when we're fighting murderous fascists, and sets a bad precedent.
I was not aware of how thin dem majorities were. That's very important context, thank you.
I was there. The organizers were sending updates to anyone who RSVPed. I don't like the idea of RSVPing for something like this, but I did. They announced before the event that they had cancelled any elected officials who were planning to speak. They also said something like, "If you are told that the event is cancelled, that is just a rumor."
Several officials did speak and they were pretty epic, honestly. I don't know if they announced the cancellation as a red herring and had everyone speak as planned, or if the speakers I saw were the late replacements. IMO this was a much bigger crowd than the first Hands Off protest.
Interesting. I'm in small town VA, and moved house today, and am pretty keenly feeling frustration that I couldn't show up today. Searching for local actions, I landed on the base nokings.org page at some point, where there was a bright red banner saying that MN events that weren't already started were canceled at Tim Walz' recommendation, because the assassin was still at large. I can't say what time I saw that, I looked for news several times today
They announced before the event that they had cancelled any elected officials who were planning to speak. They also said something like, "If you are told that the event is cancelled, that is just a rumor."
Ah, thank you! That makes a lot more sense to me now.
I know a bunch of people who went in st. Paul, and in Duluth there was definitely people out with signs. Can't cancel freedom yo!
I was gonna go but heard they were cancelled too because of the shootings this morning
I was a Why don't you fucking protest!?-guy here on Lemmy and I am not, anymore. It takes time to organize. This is beautiful, I'm proud of you. Keep it up!
I'm just glad there was a protest I didn't hear about after the fact. Or like the morning of.
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More people visible at a cancelled protest than some ego-stroking event that happened in DC...
And republicans think trump is loved by the world.
No, they know, but they're trapped by blackmail or greed.
They have to keep pretending, so they remain in power. Political kayfabe.
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To...vote for him? Color me skeptical.
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Now do it again.
Yes, there you go! Good job, USA!
Can I get this side by side with trump’s inaugurations please
This is the picture I've been scrolling for. Thank you.
Was this the one I've been hearing was cancelled?
isn't that the one that got called off
Love to see it
Why isnt anyone swarming the private, for-profit detention centers? People like talking about guillotines but not the Bastille
Because if they go after any corporate entity directly, there will be guns, and death, and the survivors will be arrested for trespassing and vandalism and a slew of other crimes.
They want to be loud and safe, not effective for a cost.
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