cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42177433
Sat 24 Jan 2026 21.32 EST
Large protests spread across US cities on Saturday – including Minneapolis, New York City, San Francisco, Boston and Providence, Rhode Island – after 37-year-old Alex Pretti, a registered nurse living in Minneapolis, was shot dead by federal agents.
The wave of demonstrations come just one day after thousands marched through the streets of Minneapolis to protest against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Protesters again braved the extreme cold to speak out against the agency and show support for Pretti and others who have been harmed by the surge of immigration agents who have flooded the city in recent week.
Thousands more rallied in Union Square in New York City, with footage showing demonstrators shouting: “Say it once, say it twice, we will not put up with ICE!”
I mean. Small protests. Spreading is… generous.
It’s gonna be business as usual by Monday.
Yell at me to feel better, but I’ll be right on Monday.
It will NOT be all right on Monday. People will go to work outraged about this, and they’ll talk about it. The MAGAs in the workplace will be EXTREMELY uncomfortable, and they should remain that way for as long as this lasts.
Things are not all right, and the mood is slowly, but inexorably, changing.
So you gave up, okay, but it’s really no good sportsmanship to demotivate the other players.
Lemmy is filled with these operatives, urging us to surrender, it’s too late, you’re too weak, nobody will do anything, waaah!
They were all over Reddit before the election, just like this. They are Russian, or Muskian, or MAGA, and the objective is to keep us demoralized. Ignore them.
Seriously I fucking hate people like OP.
Even if all you do is shit post online, you can still contribute by being resistant and encouraging.
Yea, you might be bitchmade not wanting to protest, but somone else more brave might go out after reading another positive comment.
These negative comments add NOTHING, except emboldening the fascists.
It’s like those WW2 motivational posters, if the internet was around back then, OP would be shitting on them because “what’s a poster going to do? Give a Nazi a paper cut???” - he said smugly from his mother’s basement computer
You are probably right, there most likely won’t be societal collapse over the weekend, but you know what will have changed by then?
Tens of thousands of people who are united in their anger will have come together, made contacts, gotten into local organizing groups and signal chats, learned about direct action they can participate in, and learned that there is power in numbers.
You can’t get to a revolution without several protests first. Protests such as these are fundamental steps in our collective journey to dismantle capitalism. Please stop discouraging people from participating.
What are you doing as an alternative
Spreading bullshit online on a brand new account
56 total comments on a 2+ year old account and you call ME brand new? I call you an alt or a fake account.
Most normal contributors don’t comment nearly as much as you. I’ve left probably 30 comments and 3 posts in 3 years across my (same username, different instance) accounts.
“Trying to get enough downvotes to cum” is my guess, I don’t know why else someone would behave this way
Do you think there will be a midterm election?
WTF kind of point are you trying to make here? Sure, everything is totally fucking normal, that’s why we’re here talking about how normal everything is.
Answer.
I’m emigrating. Fuck those people.