The people of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul) have shown the way for the whole country: To stop Trump, ICE, and the Border Patrol’s reign of terror, we need to SHUT IT ALL DOWN.
On Friday, January 30, 2026, join a nationwide day of no school, no work, and no shopping.
The entire country is shocked and outraged at the brutal killings executions of Alex Pretti, Renee Good, Silverio Villegas González, and Keith Porter Jr. by federal agents under color of law.
While King Dictator Trump [Israeli blackmailed] and other right-wing politicians are slandering their victims as “domestic terrorists,” video evidence from every angle makes it clear beyond all doubt: Innocents were gunned down in broad daylight simply for exercising their First Amendment right to protest mass deportation, Nazi Gestapo tactics, and other racist policies.
Every day, ICE, Border Patrol, and other paramilitary enforcers [not to call them jackbooted thugs because that would be rude] of Trump’s racist agenda are going into our American communities to kidnap our neighbors and sow fear in us.
It is time for us to all stand up together in a nationwide shutdown and say enough is enough! More
Peaceful and legal protests and demonstrations have intensified in Minnesota after federal immigration agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse [like they executed Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother] who worked in the Minneapolis Veterans Health Care System, on Saturday.
ICE: Shoot 'n keep shootin
Democracy Now!'s John Hamilton reports from the scene where innocent Pretti was shot to death, where protesters are clashing with federal agents.
“We’ve seen everything from [teargassed] people that are unconscious, that have fainted, tear-gassed, bruised, bloody noses, can’t breathe,” said Melissa, a local resident.
State Senator Omar Fateh responded to the killing with outrage: “He had a camera on his hand. He was tackled, he was pummeled, and he was executed.” VIDEO:
Democracy Now! speaks with a former colleague of Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old ICU nurse ICE shot to death, acting as Trump's federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. Dr. Aasma Shaukat, who hired Pretti for a research job over a decade ago, says he lived with “kindness, compassion, and a strong sense of civic duty to help his fellow citizens.” VIDEO:
(The Jimmy Dore Show) Israel openly arming Iranian protesters! Lindsay Graham is sad we didn't bomb Iran (with Max Blumenthal): TJDS. Well, at least everyone has forgotten about the Epstein Files not getting released.
How can we understand what Trump and the CIA are doing in Venezuela, Greenland, and numerous other countries it threatens to invade? Read Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by former U.S. official John Perkins
(The Jimmy Dore Show) Jimmy Kimmel explains with co-host Kurt Metzger: False flag operation in Syria as Iowa National Guard pawns ("three great patriots" says dumb Trump) get killed after puppet leader friendly to the West was installed since leader Assad was overthrown.
The No Kings protests, also known internationally as the No Dictators or No Tyrants protests, is a series of demonstrations, largely in the United States, against what the organizers describe as authoritarian policies of Donald Trump and corruption in his administration [3][4][5].
What will it accomplish? - I'dunno. - What is it meant to accomplish? - Absolutely nothing, by design. - It just makes us feel good.
Protests first took place on June 14, 2025 (labelled as "No Kings Day" by the 5051 organizers and participants) on the same day as the U.S. Army 250th Anniversary Parade and Trump's 79th birthday.
We demand more experimental vaccines!
It's George Soros funded? Agenda 2030? Permits were applied for and police consulted for a nice autumn day of funny signs safe for everyone. Organizers have planned the "No Kings protests 2.0" for Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025 [6]. More
(NoKings.org) In June 2025, millions of everyday Americans from every walk of life peacefully took to the streets and declared with one voice: "No Kings." The world saw the power of the people, and Pres. Trump’s attempt at a royal coronation collapsed under the strength of a movement rising against his abuses of power. Now, he’s doubling down — sending militarized [ICE] agents into our communities, silencing voters, and handing billionaires giveaways while families struggle. This isn’t just politics. It’s democracy versus dictatorship. And together, we’re choosing democracy. [And alone, Trump chooses dictatorship. Maybe we should crown him president and put him on the cover of TIME?]
Protest, eat cake, just don't ask me about Epstein
Even as Pres. Trump has cracked down on dissent and illegally sent military and paramilitary troops into multiple cities to conduct police activities (posse comitatus), organizers of Saturday's anti-authoritarian "No Kings" protests expect millions to join at least 2,500 rallies across all 50 states and several U.S. territories.
The turnout could surpass the 5 million protesters who turned out for "No Kings Day" events in June 2025.
We don't do kings...unless they do us first.
"We are engaging in the most American activity in the world, which is coming together in peaceful protest of our government," says Jewish Leah Greenberg, co-founder and co-executive director of the progressive organization Indivisible.
ICE was invented using the pretext of 9/11.
Trump's threats against the protests are a "classic exercise of the authoritarian playbook, to try to create fear, to try to threaten, to try to make people back off preemptively," she adds.
"There will be no fear, but the fear of what will happen to us if we don't mobilize," says Alderman Byron Sigcho Lopez of the 25th Ward in Chicago, where mass protests are expected.
A nice summer No Kings protest day in sunny SoCal, downtown Los Angeles, June 14, 2025
Is 'No Kings' real or controlled opposition?
Indivisible Movement is a crock. I did not authorize it. AOC, Hillary, and Joe don't back it.
"Controlled opposition" means a group that stands as a placeholder for actual opposition, but who are completely ineffective.
Therefore, a ruler controls even the so-called "opposition" in an adversarial relationship. It is as if one's defense attorney were bought off by lawyers for the prosecution to ensure a conviction.
Hey, Leah, stay in your lane! I'm the Savior here
In this sense, everything is controlled by the ruling group, or the Uniparty, without necessarily a direct conspiracy taking place.
Example in 1984
In George Orwell's dystopian novelNineteen Eighty-Four, anyone who thought s/he was rising up against fascism and the Dictator Big Brother would get behind the [Jewish] "opposition" leader Emmanuel Goldstein and his organization "The Brotherhood."
It was fake, as the failed protagonist (Winston Smith) painfully found out. There was no real opposition. It was just a trick of the Inner Party (O'Brien) and Big Brother and the Thought Police, controlled opposition. Read the novel; there's a reason it's famous.
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