Trump and ICE Thought They Knew How to Handle Minneapolis. I Saw Up Close What's Happening Instead.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Aaron Bady
‪@zunguzungu.bsky.social‬

"The first thing I noticed when I got to Minneapolis last weekend was the new language: The work C was doing has a name—“commuting”—a deliberately mundane term for pursuing, tailing, and deliberately irritating ICE agents moving through the city in unmarked cars."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/trump-ice-agent-shooting-minneapolis-renee-good.html

Trump and ICE Thought They Knew How to Handle Minneapolis. I Saw Up Close What’s Happening Instead.
ICE declared war on Minneapolis. The city had its own ideas.
slate.com
6:58 AM · Jan 16, 2026

"The first thing I noticed when I got to Minneapolis last weekend was the new language: The work C was doing has a name—“commuting”—a deliberately mundane term for pursuing, tailing, and deliberately irritating ICE agents moving through the city in unmarked cars." slate.com/news-and-pol...

— Aaron Bady (@zunguzungu.bsky.social) 2026-01-16T11:58:06.376Z

[Ocelot II]

1. This, exactly. This is what's going on here.

There is a very well-organized grassroots resistance movement at the neighborhood level and it's massive. I attended a neighborhood meeting where they expected maybe 100 people and more than 500 showed up, and people are engaged, absolutely determined and defiant. I've never seen anything like it, not even during the '60s antiwar protests. Minneapolis ain't playing.

[yellow dahlia]

4. WE THE PEOPLE!

[mysteryowl]

2. Oh, I am looking forward to reading this tonight. Thank you!

Before I read it, I do want to say that Mpls and Minnesota has taught the world about community non-violent resistance.
It is model that will be utilized again and again, I hope.

It works.

[2naSalit]

3. That's probably...

One of the ways we're going to outnumber them and outwit them.