You’re right. The family driving their car on a road totally had it coming.

1/18/2026 8:04:56 PM

Quote :

"I've seen video of people with kids at these protests, so I'm operating under the assumption that's one end of the extreme. The other end would be like a Mennonite without TV or the internet accidentally ending up in the middle of a protest on the way to Target."

https://www.yarn.co/yarn-clip/9d067072-c875-4e94-a861-d5cb7407cc06

1/19/2026 6:57:08 AM

Don Lemon storms church with Anti ICE protesters

https://ground.news/article/don-lemon-joins-far-left-mob-in-storming-storm-minneapolis-church

1/19/2026 7:17:42 AM

good for the protestors

also lol at the hyperlink for your allegedly neutral site

1/19/2026 11:24:55 AM

https://bsky.app/profile/leahmcelrath.bsky.social/post/3mcqfgecmk22n



https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3mcqwlhmi322y

Quote :

"ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals."

[Edited on January 19, 2026 at 12:08 PM. Reason : .]

1/19/2026 12:07:28 PM

Lots of reports of ice continuing to use tactics a judge has prohibited. Will be interesting to see if these criminal Gestapo faces any accountability— what can the judge even do.

1/19/2026 2:32:41 PM

What was the point of barging into the church? I must have missed that one.

[Edited on January 20, 2026 at 8:32 AM. Reason : f]

1/20/2026 8:32:44 AM

I think I read that the minister is an ICE agent

I wonder who/what they worship in that church


[Edited on January 20, 2026 at 9:36 AM. Reason : could it be]

1/20/2026 9:35:51 AM

Hoffer:

Quote :

" In the practice of mass movements, make-believe plays perhaps a more enduring role than any other factor. When faith and the power to persuade or coerce are gone, make-believe lingers on. There is no doubt that in staging its processions, parades, rituals and ceremonials, a mass movement touches a responsive chord in every heart. Even the most sober-minded are carried away by the sight of an impressive mass spectacle. There is an exhilaration and getting out of one’s skin in both participants and spectators. It is possible that the frustrated are more responsive to the might and splendor of the mass than people who are self-sufficient. The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending—for making a show—and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing mass spectacle. "

Commentary on how it relates:

Quote :

" The anti-ICE disruption at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, on January 18, 2026—where protesters stormed the sanctuary during worship, chanting “ICE out” and “Justice for Renee Good” while livestreamed by Don Lemon—perfectly illustrates Eric Hoffer's insight that mass movements sustain themselves through make-believe spectacle and manufactured contempt for the present. By transforming a peaceful Sunday service into chaotic, performative confrontation, the activists created an exhilarating collective pageantry that thrilled participants (and online viewers) while deliberately making ordinary life—prayer, family worship, personal peace—mean, miserable, and interrupted for congregants, including terrified children. This lumped the present (normal religious gathering) with the “detested past” of oppression, rejecting it as unclean and unworthy; instead, the movement shifted focus to an impractical, glorified future of abolished ICE and systemic “justice,” demanding self-sacrifice and ascetic rejection of comforts like undisturbed devotion. Hoffer’s cycle is evident: illusion and drama breed fanatic unity, impractical goals defy reality, and contempt for the here-and-now fuels ongoing momentum—even as backlash (DOJ probes under the FACE Act) risks creating martyrs "

TLDR: protesters baiting authorities into overreaction which sustains their goals.

[Edited on January 20, 2026 at 9:57 AM. Reason : A]

1/20/2026 9:54:25 AM

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-immigration-us-citizen-detained-hmong-d009590a491c0c8243ef21ef24db7182

Quote :

"US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear after warrantless search"

story about the elderly man ICE abducted while in his underwear

^ why won’t you cite your sources for that commentary?

[Edited on January 20, 2026 at 10:24 AM. Reason : .]

1/20/2026 10:22:18 AM

it's funny to see the protest framed as make believe spectacle and pageantry

but the church service itself is not presented as such

1/20/2026 10:38:27 AM

^ The correct reading would be the church service is, since that is what propels things to last. Religions are defined as a type of mass movement in the book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer

Quote :

"He articulates a cyclical view of history and explores why and how said movements start, progress, and end. Whether intended to be cultural, ideological, religious, or whatever else, Hoffer argues, mass movements are broadly interchangeable even when their stated goals or values differ dramatically.[1] This makes sense, in Hoffer's view, given the frequent similarities between them in the psychological influences on their adherents."

Tactically though what they did forces you to take a side whether you view it online or you were there.

Alinsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals also talked about similar tactics



[Edited on January 20, 2026 at 10:56 AM. Reason : a]

1/20/2026 10:48:25 AM

Movements need marketing yes. We need to cancel out maga marketing.

The ice raids themselves are spectacle more than policy or law enforcement and designed intentionally as such — international visitors see it and decide they don’t want to come here.

The church protest was well done— it shows ice that they will face personal repercussions for abetting fascists. Hope they do more of this even, if they can collapse recruitment into ice it will be good for American freedom and democracy.

1/20/2026 12:24:48 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3mcufejapjc2x

an interview with the disabled woman who got dragged out of her car while on the way to a doctors appointment

1/20/2026 3:06:46 PM

I imagine it's pretty hard for people living on the streets where the protests happen would have a hard time avoiding those same streets (and they shouldn't have to worry about federal agents tear-gassing kids inside cars)

1/20/2026 3:50:27 PM