{"id":89688,"date":"2025-06-04T05:43:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T10:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89688"},"modified":"2025-06-04T05:43:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T10:43:19","slug":"twin-cities-left-bring-back-the-good-old-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89688","title":{"rendered":"Twin Cities Left:  Bring Back The Good Old Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A group of federal law enforcement agents &#8211; FBI, DHS &#8211; apparently served a warrant for drug trafficking and money laundering on a restaurant at Lake and Bloomington in South Minneapolis yesterday.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ICE agents surrounding south Minneapolis restaurant <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VNdXiXsvq0\">https:\/\/t.co\/VNdXiXsvq0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Deena Winter (@deenafaywinter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deenafaywinter\/status\/1929963067049451801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And it&#8217;s almost &#8211; I say,\u00a0<em>almost<\/em> &#8211; like Twin Cities Big Left is trying to coax a riot out of the situation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deenafaywinter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@deenafaywinter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarTribune?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StarTribune<\/a>. Will you be investigating what time <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hennepin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Hennepin<\/a> County Sherriff officers arrived, who they were, and why they were wearing face masks with badges covered, despite prior representations from the County that this would not happen?\ud83d\udcf8 by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/taylr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@taylr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JFTsBYFNIe\">pic.twitter.com\/JFTsBYFNIe<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Vince Mpls (@vincempls) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vincempls\/status\/1929977268400730578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They tried lie about an ICE presence. MPD assisted with closing off the area. This is completely wrong. Hennepin County Sheriffs have been helping too. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ambqpK5iI2\">pic.twitter.com\/ambqpK5iI2<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jason Chavez (@JChavezMpls) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JChavezMpls\/status\/1929942683780260194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, a riot over ICE, or whoever, would certainly divert attention away from the collapsing schools, the crime, the downtown that is disintegrating and leaving a gaping maw of taxes that will wind up being made up by an increasingly beleaguered middle class, a dysfunctional city government and a state government run by a bunch wastrels that squandered a $18 Billion surplus, wouldn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of federal law enforcement agents &#8211; FBI, DHS &#8211; apparently served a warrant for drug trafficking and money laundering on a restaurant at Lake and Bloomington in South Minneapolis yesterday.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s almost &#8211; I say,\u00a0almost &#8211; like Twin Cities Big Left is trying to coax a riot out of the situation: I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,435,321,24,17,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-activism","category-big-karen","category-big-left","category-culture-war","category-minneapolis","category-sovereignty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89689,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89688\/revisions\/89689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}