- You can let your federal officials -- senators and congresscritters, especially if you have Republican ones -- know that the behavior of the federal government, your government, is unacceptable and should end NOW. Yeah -- calling Congress is a drag, but many live in a Fox News media bubble and need to be jarred by their constituents.
- If you have friends in Minnesota who have put out appeals for help for people and institutions they know, send money if you can. This is not a time for someone to be starting a full fledged non-profit. Under invasion, mutual aid between humans is the name of the game.
- If you don't have more personal connections, people I trust say Stand with Minnesota is the real thing. They offer options to get help directly to threatened immigrants and also to the lawyers who have to fight the good fight in the courts.
When the structures of a complex society break down, we are forced to recall that we are dependent on each other.
Donald and the MAGAts want to return us to a 19th century society when government was solely a force of occasional repression and people were on their own to try to navigate a harsh and chaotic world. They think their imagined big white men will be fine and all the other scum will live under the thumb of the big men.
Such a world actually generated Mutual Aid as a deeply theorized response to the cruelty of the emerging capitalist society. DJT and Stephen Miller are trying to take us back to such a society. Are we going to let 'em?
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