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Blue Owl

(60,099 posts)
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 01:22 AM Jan 2026

The size and scale of the Mpls ICE OUT March today is being under-reported

Watch the first minute of this video that shows footage from someone who filmed the crowd from the top of a downtown hi-rise and tell me how many people this looks like to you…

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Most of the legacy media coverage I am seeing is saying “thousands” of protestors, but this is looking like HUNDREDS of thousands to me. Enough to fill several huge stadiums. And there are still many more blocks between the start of where the footage begins, and the final destination of the Target Center, so this still isn’t a complete view of the entire route.

Given the arctic, sub-zero weather this is an unprecedented level of demonstration and it blows any notion of a “paid protesters” scenario to smithereens. This is 100% WE THE PEOPLE of Minnesota.
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The size and scale of the Mpls ICE OUT March today is being under-reported (Original Post) Blue Owl Jan 2026 OP
Born in Iowa... buzzycrumbhunger Jan 2026 #1
Probably not hundreds of thousands, unless the entire population of Minneapolis showed up. Ocelot II Jan 2026 #2
In an earlier post I said tens of thousands. yellow dahlia Jan 2026 #9
Mahalo Blue Owl!.. Of Course it is... That's Cha Jan 2026 #3
Mahalo, Cha! Blue Owl Jan 2026 #4
Yes We Will! This is a Quote by a Ukrainian Cha Jan 2026 #5
Media always attempts to drastically diminish crowd size SheltieLover Jan 2026 #8
Yes it is sickening.. Especially when Cha Jan 2026 #10
Mahalo, Cha SheltieLover Jan 2026 #11
The iconic Mary Tyler Moore statue in downtown Minneapolis Coldwater Jan 2026 #6
Temperature -10F, windchill -30, Hey no sweat Coldwater Jan 2026 #7

buzzycrumbhunger

(2,397 posts)
1. Born in Iowa...
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 01:26 AM
Jan 2026

… which has been a huge disappointment to me since the ‘80s, but goddamnitall, Midwesterners are tough mofos, and it warms the cockles of my heart to see this.

Ocelot II

(131,817 posts)
2. Probably not hundreds of thousands, unless the entire population of Minneapolis showed up.
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 01:35 AM
Jan 2026

But I've heard at least 50,000, which is pretty impressive.

Cha

(321,560 posts)
3. Mahalo Blue Owl!.. Of Course it is... That's
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 01:42 AM
Jan 2026

what they did in 2003 When the World Said NO to War Protests happening in NYC, and around the World.

I was there in NYC for 8 Hours.. the Temp was only 20 degrees then.. I saw how the NYT reported it... I was So Disappointed.. reading about it Below the fold with some Protesters and a policeman on a horse.

There were almost a Million people there.. Electrifying.

Really!!They Wanted War.. Judy Miller and the rest of them.

Media has only gotten exponentially Worse.

Blue Owl

(60,099 posts)
4. Mahalo, Cha!
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 01:57 AM
Jan 2026

I bet that was an experience of a lifetime! Like now, those were some dark days back in 2003.

But WE WILL PREVAIL again!!! Evil never wins…..

Cha

(321,560 posts)
5. Yes We Will! This is a Quote by a Ukrainian
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 02:27 AM
Jan 2026

writer from a War Zone in Ukraine..

This chapter of politics will pass. Systems built on cruelty always collapse under their own weight.


We Will Never Mistake You for Him. A note of solidarity for Americans who did not choose this. From a Ukrainian writer.

https://viktorkravchuk.substack.com/p/we-will-never-mistake-you-for-him

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220963449

Also... Yes ... they were so Dark.. Especially for the Military and their families who got sent to War For LIES.

I wanted to add the date of that World Wide Protest.. February 15, 2003.

SheltieLover

(82,692 posts)
8. Media always attempts to drastically diminish crowd size
Sat Jan 24, 2026, 07:00 AM
Jan 2026

Unless it favors magats.

Absolutely sickening.

Mahalo & aloha. 🌺

Cha

(321,560 posts)
10. Yes it is sickening.. Especially when
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 01:45 AM
Jan 2026

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Many of us have grown up watching Reality News!

Mahalo, Sheltie and Aloha ☮️🌺🌻🕯️🕊️💜

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