How Are Our Readers in Minneap...

Minneapolis readers, how are you? We’re watching the news and desirous about you on a regular basis. My good friend, who lives in south Minneapolis, informed me that ICE got here to his daughter’s college final week; brokers threw the vice principal on the bottom, shot tear gasoline right into a crowd of scholars, and hauled off two lecturers and a pupil. Elliott Payne, the president of the Metropolis Council, informed the New York Times that “it appears like a army occupation.”

This morning, I requested my good friend how issues had been feeling within the metropolis, and right here was his reply:

“Scary. Unhappy. Enraging. I don’t consider these ICE techniques will ever look good in historical past. There’s a sturdy group spirit right here, and we’re doing our greatest to look out for one another. There are occasions after I sort of numb out to the present injustices, after which I’ll watch a video and simply bawl. I really feel totally different impulses at totally different occasions. My strongest intuition is to ask ‘Who can I feed?’ Who’s struggling proper now? The varsity is amassing meals/bathroom paper/fundamentals for people who find themselves scared to go away their houses. I even have a robust intuition to be a witness and guarantee my youngsters/neighbors are secure. My mind can address the absurdity of this inhumane upside-down world by assembly it with extra absurdity. Proper now as a substitute of hollering ‘fuck you,’ I fantasize about going as much as ICE brokers, asking a barrage of dumb questions like, ‘So, what do you want most about your job? Hey, are you able to guys please cease all of the folks making an attempt to work round right here? Hey, whenever you guys are achieved right here, may you go as much as the border and cease the ounces of fentanyl coming down from Canada?’ I actually hope cooler, kinder heads will finally prevail.”

I’d love to listen to, in the event you’re up for sharing: How are you feeling, in the event you’re in Minnesota? How are you feeling, in the event you’re watching the information from elsewhere? What information sources or retailers do you discover useful? (We repeatedly hearken to The Daily and Pod Save America.) And here are ways to help those in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Sending a lot love, as at all times.

(Picture of a memorial for Renee Good taken by Charly Triballeau/Agence France-Presse.)