News about Friday’s march / rally / general strike in Minneapolis is coming at me from every direction. Temperature right now is -18F / -28C and this thing is still going to be massive. People here are ready to punch a hole through the fabric of the space-time continuum if they have to. Going to be bed. Tomorrow’s going to be a hell of a day.
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in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Good luck. We're all counting on you.
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in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Kristin (vis.social Admin)
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Sending you all love and support. I'd send what strength I have, but I think you've got that in spades!
Still, my heart is with Minneapolis!
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Don’t worry, temperature should be up to about -23C by the time we march
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It’s kind of hashtag free for all? ICEout, MinneapolisProtests, and just Minneapolis are ones I’ve used
Author-ized L.J.
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in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •It’s going to be hard for the press to get their arms around everything going on. Honestly, it’s hard to get my head around it here on the ground: people are marching downtown, people are protesting at the airport, people are holding neighborhood protests, people are holding block parties out in the bitter cold…. It’s hard to even know where to be!
Good news is it will get up to -10°F / -23°C this afternoon.
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NNN
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •We are going downtown to march.
The march was shortened to about six blocks, ending at Target Stadium, with an indoor rally (requiring a free ticket).
The ticket website claims they are sold out. (20,000 seats)
I smell a rat.
#MinneapolisProtests
NNN
in reply to NNN • • •We didn't get into Target Center; people who were inside said the lower level was full, even before the march started.
So maybe it was legit 20k people got tickets.
Paul Cantrell
in reply to NNN • • •Oh, that stadium was legit going to fill. I didn’t stay for the rally, but it was very obvious from the crowd.
NNN
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Before we went, I didn't think there could possibly enough protesters (at -12F) to fill a 20k seat arena.
Turns-out, the indoor rally should have been at USBank Stadium (Vikings) instead
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in reply to E • • •@Dynamicallydisabled @matthew
This is amazing. Thank you.
Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •OK, this is wild
Throngs of people arriving in every direction, signs, cars honking, wave after wave of protesters
…at the NEIGHBORHOOD TRAIN STOP. I’m not even downtown yet.
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in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Well, that was… large!
Not really sure how large. I couldn’t see the other end of it. If you’re looking at video online, you probably have a better sense of the size than I do from being there in person. But damn, that was a lot of people. Probably because the temperature got up to a balmy -8°F.
#Minneapolis #MinneapolisProtests #ICEout
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in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •I’d easily believe 20k–30k, but…I’m pulling numbers out of thin air there. Curious to see some good aerial video once I’ve warmed up a bit.
The tone was notable. Still plenty of witty signs: “Stay salty, melt ICE,” Noem’s head on Cruella de Ville’s body, that sort of thing. But lots of people just had “Fuck ICE.” Nobody was really laughing.
One sign said “ICE will melt in hell.” That kind of captures the mood.
#MInneapolis #MinneapolisProtests #ICEout
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in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •My inability to get a handle on the size of the crowd from inside the crowd is a metaphor for today writ large. In addition to the big downtown protest, there were multiple protests at the airport, clergy arrested for blocking the airport access road, at least two impromptu neighborhood protests I’m aware of near my house. There were food drives. There were street parties. Many businesses that were “closed” kept their doors open and offered free coffee, pancakes, warming spaces. Nobody really knows everything that happened.
#GeneralStrike #MInneapolis
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Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •And in the middle of all of that, people were still out there watching for ICE, driving all over in the cold, trying to observe them and film them, trying to save just one person from being kidnapped, then another, then another.
If these fascists thought they were going to win by breaking us, they thought wrong. This fight may be on our doorstep for a long time yet, but I do now see anybody looking to fold.
Minneapolis and St. Paul will endure. ICE will melt in hell.
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And I’m proud to have made it my adopted home!
Big Ben
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •This gives me so much hope. #Minneapolis and #SaintPaul are setting the example for everyone who will need to know how it needs to be done.
#TwinCities #ICEOUT #FuckICE #ICEOUTOfMinnesota
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in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Gotcha! Drone footage from Minnesota today,
23 Jan 2026.
Source:
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Madeleine Morris
in reply to The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 • • •What did we do before drones?
The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉
in reply to Madeleine Morris • • •@Remittancegirl Well, often we'd be reliant on organisers to provide estimates of numbers, but they can be as biased towards generous estimates as the media is towards downplaying the scale!
For example the last major pro-Palestine match in London: press reported "thousands" of protesters, and featured no aerial footage. Fortunately, someone took a drone and it's clear there were at least 500,000, while organisers claim 650,000.
So yeah, it's good to have a drone operator on side!
Feznander
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •erik
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •we were (I think) near the front of the march. From where we were it was impossible to tell how may people were behind us. We popped into the library and went up to the skyway over 3rd and upon looking back down 3rd to the east, all of us broke into tears. Thousands upon thousands. We stood there watching from the skyway for 45 minutes and we still could not see the end.
Amazing.
I’ve not yet seen any estimates on numbers.
Michael Wyman
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in reply to Michael Wyman • • •Just took us a minute, that’s all
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Artemis
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •I cannot stop laughing at how fantastic this is.
And I can't help but think about the Richard Scarry story where they packed the plane too full, so enjoy the illustration. This is how I am picturing the train right now.
Paul Cantrell
in reply to Artemis • • •That’s exactly how it was!!
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in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •Solidarity from Texas!
Proud of you all!
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