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!”
Protesting is good way to connect with others next step is get things done together!! The more of us that are brainstorming, strategizing, and taking action the stronger we all are!!
My town had their contribution today.
Good. Keep it up
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.
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.
Fuck off MAGAt
Kill Trump. Can’t call me magat now honey
Oh yeah, cuz I think the shitbird who is trying to tell people that doing nothing is better than something wouldn’t lie about shit to “prove” anything.
You use magat tactics, you get called a magat. Now fuck off magat.
I’m not saying to no nothing. They are.
“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.
Hope it’s soon
Fuck off bootlicker.
So you gave up, okay, but it’s really no good sportsmanship to demotivate the other players.
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
Exactly. Ignore naysayers–their agenda is to sit on their fat asses and support fascism by discouraging its enemies.
Protests help immensely. We see we aren’t alone, we realize how many people feel the same as we do and join them. Strength in numbers. Not just in protests but in all the other work. Observe, film, document. Boycott bootlicker companies. Do not feed the oligarchs, do not comply.
Encourage and support each other, aid those being oppressed. Everyone can contribute however they can contribute, each action or dollar small in itself but a major force taken as a whole. Large numbers showing up in the open enables the smaller numbers working behind the scenes.
Lol, no. We added in chants to remember Alex today. It was the 48th consecutive Sunday protest in my town against Trump, ICE, and MAGA. They will not be forgotten and it will not go away. We still had George Floyd symbols today too. Eat some butt boyo, better use for your mouth.
Have those chants accomplished anything?
Yes
What?
As in what have they acomplished?
Visibility, stress relief, community closeness, and a way to push back against deluded relatives. That, and people know where to find an ally if they are at risk of being dissapeared.
You’re weak
