Minnesota Is Just the Beginning. California and New York Are ‘Next’
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The Trump administration appears to be planning to leverage the same playbook used in Minnesota to go after other blue states.
    • pjwestin@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I grew up in NYC, live in Boston now. I would say that New Yorkers are rude, impatient, and short-tempered. Bostonians are mean, with a deep-seated rage that’s always threatening to burst to the surface. I don’t know much about Minneapolis, but if they’re anything like the midwesterners I’ve known, they’re kind, polite, and helpful folks. If a large-scale ICE operation provokes that kind of reaction from them, they are not prepared for what they will receive in the Northeast.

      • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
        2·
        1 day ago

        And Los Angeles is not known for the placidity of its inhabitants either, at least not in the areas likely to be targeted by ICE.

        • pjwestin@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 day ago

          Yes, I seem to recall some kerfuffle between LA citizens and their local authorities over a fellow named Rodney King. If I remember right, things got pretty rowdy