Peace, peace. I'm not saying any of this isn't happening. I spend as much time spun up and in panic and outrage as anyone else. I just finished writing a parody of Alice's restaurant, called You can kill anyone you want in Donald T's restaurant. All I'm saying is it AI is making it very difficult to sort the passion from the propaganda, and that applies to the left as well as the right.
For those of us living in the Chicago area (me) and Minneapolis, our LOCAL news is full of this. I have no reason to believe that WGN tv/radio Chicago is making stuff up. Not everyone stays glued to social mediaOriginally Posted by kib
What videos are being posted?
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
One of the “ Disrupt ICE” strategies I saw mentioned as strategy was protesters who play copyrighted music during their protest.
That way any counter protesters who want to post THEIR Side of the protest will have their video swiftly taken down from the social media sites due to copyright.
I have to say, it’s clever. But that strategy can be easily copied by the other side.
Extreme cold present at my kids' grocery store now; they just took a child's parent away as parent was dropping child off at school.
If you are interested, look them up.
Videos from observers of ICE activity. I see the same type of stuff filmed by local TV stations. So it’s not like someone is making this shit up.
LOL, we could spend the rest of our lives implying un-named things we saw in videos we don't share and never get any closer to understanding what's real and what's not.
What interests me in cases like this is what is actually happening, who is participating and in what manner. Are confrontations happening only in sanctuary cities/states or across the board? Are protestors being peaceful or are they trying to prevent officers from doing their duty? Are random citizens being shoved into vans and "disappeared" or are people violating federal law being arrested? Are they targeting everyone of a certain perceived race or nationality or are they simply targeting those known to have removal orders wherever they can be found.
I'm having a difficult time finding context in anything found online or in discussions regarding what others have seen, plus I've discovered that trying to inject context just seems to piss people off so I'd love to see someone brave enough to voluntarily supply it outside of an agenda or preferred narrative.
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
congregating at convenience store next to my mom's old nursing home, 1 block from Catholic high school
Not me buddy! I aint stickin’ my neck out for that!
Megan McArdle’s article in the Wash Post from Jan. 10, 2026 is one of several article articles I’ve been reading about Both Sides-ism. I like it, but it’s too much trouble to figure out how to link it. No one will read it anyway.
There are some good, nuanced discussions on my new, secret, probably-not-long-for-this-world Reddit sub About the various ways to look at Minneapolis strife. It’s a discussion format, not a format such as Substack which is someone’s opinion article and then comments following after that. With a forum you can have back-and-forth dialogue where each poster is equal.
Reddit is relentlessly lefty and don’t you forget it! They won’t let you! I got a chiding message from the Reddit overlords on another sub the other day for something I wrote that they considered hate speech. sigh.
if we can find social media discussion sites that support good faith, nuanced discussion, that’s the real deal.
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