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🌈 Lance Trottier 🌈's avatar

THIS IS BULLSHIT*! A LITERAL UNAMERICAN ILLEGAL UNCONSTITUTIONAL OUTRAGE.

*No, NOT your accounting of what you witnessed, but the BS happening at the hands of Führer von Fuckery.

How can any human being, especially true Americans, including those claiming to be Christian, support this BS and cheer it on?

My Wife is a TikTok Content Creator and does Lives where she debates MAGA. We hear it every day. And, for many, they get worse, and sorry to say, they more belligerent and more "stupid".

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Merry's avatar

It’s pure evil incarnate

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pa changa's avatar

Yes

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Exceptionally crafted piece, considering Fort Snellings new information center on the plight of so many tribal members, is located right there… this is heartbreaking!!

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Merry's avatar

Absolutely heartbreaking. As I responded above…👇🏻

This is simply too heartbreaking to read. I felt the fierce, evil energy before I even opened the content to read it.

My great grandmother was full-blooded Cherokee. She lived in Oklahoma in Cherokee Nation. Her name was Cora and she was a simple, kind, loving, soft spoken woman who exuded love, wisdom and grace.

We are all related, we are the family of man(kind). Hence we are ALL connected, whether we like it or not. So what we do to others, we do to ourselves.

Every indigenous tribe expresses this sentiment. It’s a universal version of the “golden rule”.

Mitakuye Oyasin is a Lakota phrase which mean 'All My Relations' or 'We are All Related'

In Lak'ech Ala K'in is a greeting in Mayan tradition that means “I am another yourself" or "I am you, and you are me

Namaste is a greeting from the yogic, Hindu culture that signifies unity and equality. “The Divine within me bows to the same Divine within you, we are all the same”.

Ubuntu is a widespread African expression that reflects the concept that “I am because we are”. It honors our shared “togetherness”.

We all have within us a primordial seed and we express it through our hearts as love and empathy, and most importantly, by how we view and treat each other. WE ALL HAVE A CHOICE. What will we choose today, now, in every moment?

Can we ever truly know who we are without the mirror of others?

https://tapestryinstitute.org/

https://anatomicair.com/in-lakech-ala-kin/

https://www.hinduamerican.org/blog/the-power-of-namaste

https://www.dandelionphilosophy.com/blog/whats-in-a-word-the-meaning-of-ubuntu

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chez lui's avatar

Thank you for this well written and informative but disturbing piece. In what a deceitful time we live; it slowly erodes trust or bolsters our courage to dare.

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Marie-Louise Logan's avatar

This is really a dark time in America’s history. When we have so much knowledge we still stand on the same platform as Stone Age people. What are all so frightened of. Taken their jobs it is proven it is not a rush for farm workers with low wages or for catering jobs with back braken hours and hard work the good white people don’t want it. But treating people worse than livestock is fine that will make America great again. Soon nobody wants to visit your country anymore. I saw 5 billion dollars you are losing because the Canadians are not coming any more.

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Deborah K Davis's avatar

If it can be said this way ... what a beautifully heartbreaking piece. And an outrage.

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Kristy's avatar

Where are our nightly news stories? Every American needs to witness this and so much more.

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Louise Yanuck's avatar

It might help if your readers were told that MSP is the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport.

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Jane 53's avatar

I figured it out.

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Desiree Carter's avatar

Donald Trump AND Kristi Noem, the only fucking thing in all the atrocities you continue doing in your bullshit “roundup” of criminals, that gives me a scintilla of comfort, is knowing full well YOU Kristi, WILL be held accountable for what you’ve done and keep doing, and I know in my heathen heart, you will burn 🔥 within the 1st ring of the 7th circle of hell when you fucking die! You don’t have the same bullshit immunity your boss has, but ALL his promises will fall away when he himself falls away! And his time is getting shorter by the day ⏰

Absofuckinglutely NOTHING will keep US from YOU Kristi!

You can count on that shit, bitch 🔥🫵🔥🖕🔥🖕🔥🖕🔥🖕🔥🖕🔥💋

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Bradford E. Rigby's avatar

That this is being done is awful. That it is being done in our names as Americans... is unspeakable.

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Margo Lindsey's avatar

The ultra wealthy, the ruling class, and their servants in government are constantly trying to figure out what will work this year to keep them in power. They hate progressive democrats pushing generous social programs and raising their taxes. So here’s a tried and true plan, keep Republicans in power through racism and conservative Christianity. Here’s a message, “Your low wages and expensive lousy healthcare and cuts to education for your kids and exorbitant college costs are all THE FAULT OF IMMIGRANTS!” And yeah, Trump and Republicans are going to get RID OF THEM!!! Hey let’s remember, that message and TRANS ARE EVIL got Trump elected! Amirite???

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Yvonne McCarthy's avatar

Thank you for your witness and your voice. You and others who are able to do this will provide the cracks in the dam that is cruelty and injustice.

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Merry's avatar

This is simply too heartbreaking to read. I felt the fierce, evil energy before I even opened the content to read it.

My great grandmother was full-blooded Cherokee. She lived in Oklahoma in Cherokee Nation. Her name was Cora and she was a simple, kind, loving, soft spoken woman who exuded love, wisdom and grace.

We are all related, we are the family of man(kind). Hence we are ALL connected, whether we like it or not. So what we do to others, we do to ourselves.

Every indigenous tribe expresses this sentiment. It’s a universal version of the “golden rule”.

Mitakuye Oyasin is a Lakota phrase that mean 'All My Relations' or 'We are All Related'

In Lak'ech Ala K'in is a greeting in Mayan tradition that means “I am another yourself" or "I am you, and you are me

Namaste is a yogic, Hindu greeting that signifies unity and equality. “The Divine within me bows to the same Divine within you, we are all the same”.

Ubuntu is an African expression that reflects the concept that “I am because we are”. It honors our shared “togetherness”.

We all have within us a primordial seed and we express it through our hearts as love and empathy, and most importantly, by how we view and treat each other. WE ALL HAVE A CHOICE. What will we choose today, now, in every moment? And can we ever truly know who we are without the mirror of others?

https://tapestryinstitute.org/

https://anatomicair.com/in-lakech-ala-kin/

https://www.hinduamerican.org/blog/the-power-of-namaste

https://www.dandelionphilosophy.com/blog/whats-in-a-word-the-meaning-of-ubuntu

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Ani Sweitzer's avatar

Very well told!

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The Famous Hermit's avatar

Your writing is powerful, your witnessing is gut-wrenching. We need leaders to stand up and fight back, now. If our current leadership will not, they need to step aside and let someone braver fight this regime.

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Warren's avatar

Thank you for the reminder. And in St. Paul. Carry on. We are not alone.

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Janet Sanders's avatar

Our eyes, our heart, our soul bearing witness.

Thank you

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