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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 23-Jan-2026 15:55:25 JST Paul Cantrell

   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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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 02:04:09 JST Paul Cantrell

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     It’s going to be hard from 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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     Matthew Reinbold (matthew@opinuendo.com)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 03:24:07 JST Matthew Reinbold

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     @inthehands I think, in general, that's what the coverage about Minnesota is missing about community - the collective action, the mutual aid, etc. These are distributed, bottom up, and emergent. There's not the singular heroic figure to interview, no canonical organization directing it according to a roadmap. It moves and feels different because it is fundamentally different than how most western narratives portray change happening.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 05:13:57 JST Paul Cantrell

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     OK, this is wild

     Throngs of people arriving in every direction, signs, cars honking, wave after wave

     …at the NEIGHBORHOOD TRAIN STOP. I’m not even downtown yet.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 05:15:08 JST Paul Cantrell

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     (I did manage to get on the train. First one full. Then the supplemental bus was full. But next train had enough room! It is Tokyo-level packed.)

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 06:02:40 JST Paul Cantrell

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     This is hilarious: STILL not downtown, and the reason is that the passengers are weighing down the train doors so much that they get caught on the platform and can’t close. We accidentally shut down the LRT system!

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 06:13:06 JST Paul Cantrell

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     Brings a special irony to my SHUT IT DOWN sign

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 08:26:17 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Scott Miller 🇺🇦 🇺🇸

     @scottmiller42 go for it!

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     Scott Miller 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 (scottmiller42@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 08:26:18 JST Scott Miller 🇺🇦 🇺🇸

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     @inthehands Do you mind if I quote toot you with some protest related tags?

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     Asymmetricblue (asymmetricblue@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 09:29:10 JST Asymmetricblue

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     @inthehands I took a car for a change to one of these. Highway exits bumper to bumper for 2 miles.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 10:11:14 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Michael Wyman

     @mwyman
     Just took us a minute, that’s all

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     Michael Wyman (mwyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 10:11:15 JST Michael Wyman

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     @inthehands and Europeans complain Americans don’t protest in large enough numbers

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 10:13:03 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Artemis

     @artemis
     That’s exactly how it was!!

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     Artemis (artemis@dice.camp)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 10:13:05 JST Artemis

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     @inthehands
     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.

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     Merson the Person (dynamicallydisabled@spore.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 11:20:22 JST Merson the Person

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     • Matthew Reinbold

     @matthew @inthehands this is one of my preferred sources to send people right now. Compilation of stories people wrote in. Long but so important and helpful thing to send to folks who are not in MN. https://racketmn.com/voices-of-the-occupation-of-mn-ice-trump

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 11:24:52 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Merson the Person

     @Dynamicallydisabled @matthew

     This is amazing. Thank you.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2026 06:42:44 JST Paul Cantrell

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     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