Welcome to a Citation's Needed News Brief. I am Nima Shirazi.

I'm Adam Johnson. Of course, you can follow the show on Twitter and Blue Sky at Citations

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listener funded. We do these newsrease in between our regularly scheduled full-length episodes

of citations needed, and today, Adam, we really want to talk about what is going on in Minnesota.

Obviously, folks who listen to this show, I'm sure have been following the news, the ICE

murder of Renee Nicole Good, the ongoing pogrom racism that is happening toward the Somali

community there, but also, of course, that has not only expanded ICE presence to the point

where Minnesota is pretty much an occupied state,

but also targeting of not only immigrant communities, but also native communities, also

anyone who stands in solidarity against this kind of fascist crackdown. That is what is going on.

And so we want to talk a bit

about what is happening in Minnesota. And we will also be joined on this news brief in a few moments

by Jeanette Corselius, a union and community organizer in Minneapolis who lives in St. Paul,

Minnesota. She's a member of OPEIU, Local 12, Twin Cities, Democratic Socialists

of America, DSA, and the Remember 1934 collective. Jeanette will join us in just a few moments.

But, Adam, let's talk a little bit about what is going on in Minnesota and, of course, how the

National Stage Democratic Party is, unsurprisingly, of course, asleep at the switch.

Yeah, we'll get into more details about the stakes of what's going on in Minnesota, but obviously anyone who follows the news knows that there's a massive influx of ICE and Border Patrol and other federal agents that are harassing, terrorizing far greater than what we saw in Chicago,

which I experienced to some degree, and we talked about on a city that's much smaller than

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