Christy Aston

Proud Grandma and determined to see that my Grandsons live in a free Democratic America. Vote Blue as if your freedom depends on it.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

A heartfelt message from Texas to our brothers and sisters in Minnesota. 🥹🥹🥹🙌🙏🫶💪👏✊️👇

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

BREAKING: The Go Fund Me for TJ Sabula, the ford employee who called Trump a “pedophile protector” in Michigan, has raised over $464,000! Good people stood up and helped TJ after he got suspended from his job. This is awesome!

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

ANONYMOUS LETTER FROM A MINNESOTA EDUCATOR ON THE GROUND

I am a lifelong resident of Minneapolis and an educator who teaches at both a high school and a college here in the city. I have friends, family, colleagues, and students across the political spectrum. I am writing as an American citizen who loves this country and is deeply frightened by what I am witnessing in my city.

Before becoming an educator, I worked with Homeland Security in the early 2000s as a theft and fraud investigator for a major insurance company. I had direct exposure to federal law enforcement at that time. What is happening now does not resemble the agencies or officers I knew then. The ICE agents operating here appear poorly trained, are acting with little oversight, and are being encouraged to treat residents as enemies. They are operating with total impunity. That should concern everyone.

There is widespread disinformation about what is happening in Minnesota. I am asking people, regardless of politics, to stop relying on national pundits and political talking points and instead look to local reporting and firsthand accounts from people who live here. What is happening is real, ongoing, and deeply disturbing.

I am not a protester. I have not attended demonstrations. I am in classrooms and on campuses every day. What follows is what I have personally witnessed, along with what has been consistently reported to me by colleagues, students, parents, and neighbors with a wide range of political beliefs.

Here is what I have seen and experienced:
- Female friends who are U.S. citizens aggressively restrained, choked, forced into vehicles, and detained.
- Native American individuals detained, including citizens and members of sovereign tribal nations.
- ICE agents staking out high school and college campuses, then denying their presence to administrators and local law enforcement.
- I have been followed for miles after leaving a school parking lot by an ICE agent who only turned away after prolonged tailing.
- Emergency sirens at levels I have never experienced living here, including during 9/11, the 2008 Republican National Convention, and the George Floyd uprising.
- ICE agents running residential license plates, pulling personal data, and approaching people already knowing their names and addresses.
- Agents positioned outside churches, schools, and grocery stores, blocking traffic, yelling at residents, and intimidating EVERYONE, including people who are not protesting.
- White residents being offered money or “protection” in exchange for informing on neighbors labeled as non-citizens or “leftist protesters.”
- Door-to-door activity in Minneapolis and St. Paul, with local news now running nightly segments on what to do if ICE comes to your door.
- School buses rerouted to pick up students at individual homes because children are too afraid to walk.
- Parents emailing me asking what will happen to their children if they are detained.
- School administrators stated that local police will not intervene if ICE violates rights on private school property without a warrant.
- Reports from detainees of no bathroom privacy, including officers watching women use the restroom.
- Arrests occurring on highways, with abandoned vehicles left behind, causing multiple accidents.
- There are thousands of ICE agents operating here. It feels like an occupation.
- Residents have also documented aerial surveillance during enforcement activity, including drones over neighborhoods and public spaces. Community-recorded video shows drones hovering while individuals on the ground are followed or detained. Regardless of stated purpose, the effect is widespread fear, self-censorship, and the feeling of being monitored simply for existing in public.

What makes this even more frightening is the complete failure of political leadership.

Republican lawmakers from rural Minnesota openly cheer this enforcement without concern for the harm it is causing to Minnesota families, children, and communities. Democratic leaders speak about stopping it in press conferences but are not on the ground and are not backing their words with action. They return to their homes each night while families here live in fear.

Politicians and Government officials are playing with people’s lives.

I have never been this scared living in Minnesota. Not during past protests. Not during moments of national crisis. The fear now is constant and destabilizing because it is happening in everyday places: churches, schools, grocery stores, neighborhoods, and homes.

I do not care what your politics are. This is wrong and should not be happening in America.

This is not about border security or state fraud. This is about retribution for being a “blue state,” intimidation, surveillance, and the erosion of basic civil rights in a major American city, carried out openly and without accountability. We are being made an example.

We need help. If the government, law enforcement, and politicians will not protect people, then it is up to us to protect each other.

Ways to Help:
Legal Support
Immigrant Defense Network (COPAL) https://t.co/oPfr5rlmQL
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota https://t.co/bIJWwfdP2w
National Lawyers Guild
https://t.co/EiJXYyvnbf
MIRAC
https://t.co/ECoygXNcOA
ICE Watch & Community Defense
Defend 612 https://t.co/RQ0GcgdSAc
Minnesota 50501
https://t.co/kczWSwHxOJ

Food & Mutual Aid
HelpMe Connect https://t.co/qFkQpnoDEc
Twin Cities Mutual Aid Project https://t.co/Ov6VUaRdOp
La Viña Church
https://t.co/BiIO1W4aS1
People Helping People https://t.co/hhGS3giHVn
DHH Church Food Support https://t.co/XvRVjLVIzq

Please rely on local Minnesota news outlets, not national commentary, for accurate reporting. Please share this widely.

People are being harmed. Minnesota residents regardless of their politics are terrified and angry. Misinformation only allows this to continue.

— Sincerely,
An Anonymous Minnesota Educator

[Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog @DougWahl1]

DO YOU WANT HER TO MAKE THIS MOVE?

Rumors are circulating around social media that MTG is trying to lead a revolt against Mike Johnson and try to remove him as Speaker.

Your thoughts?

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

This is Priscilla Williams-Till, a cousin of Emmett Till. She’s running for the U.S. Senate against GOP incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith who infamously joked about attending a lynching in 2018.

RETWEET if you support Williams-Till for the U.S. Senate in Mississippi!

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

TWEEPS: trump’s holding 22 million families hostage—premiums exploding Jan 1. Dems are the ONLY wall between you and a massive monthly healthcare bill.

Smash 1,000 RTs & replies with #GOPHealthCareShutdown to get it trending!

Please and thank you!🙏 💪🏽

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Donald Trump’s approval rating is now the lowest it’s EVER been, so whatever you do — don’t share this tweet.

He would fucking hate that. 😈

[Christy Aston @ChristyAston]

@AZ_Brittney

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

Raise your hand if you supported the No Kings protests and want to see Donald Trump removed from office NOW! 🖐️

I want everyone to follow you! 💙🌊

Drop a 💙
Repost 🔄
You will get MORE FOLLOWERS 💯

4 MEGABOOSTS are dropping in the next 30 minutes in the comments 👀

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Good morning and Happy Sunday to everyone who was THRILLED to see 7 million people participate peacefully in No Kings protests: not just in Blue states, but in red states, and all over the world!

A complete rejection of trump's fascism.
Make sure everyone sees this!

[BlueViking💙 @BlueViking10]

Let’s

Go

Seattle Mariners

💙💚💙💚💙💚💙

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Singer Sarah McLachlan has cancelled her performance at an ABC documentary premiere over their firing of Jimmy Kimmel.

RETWEET to thank McLachlan for standing up for free speech!

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Singer Jewel has cancelled her performance at an ABC documentary premiere over their firing of Jimmy Kimmel.

RETWEET to thank @Jeweljk for standing up for free speech!

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

Raise Your Hand if you support Jimmy Kimmel and Free Speech! 🖐️

I want EVERYONE to follow You! 💙🌊

Drop a 💙
Repost 🔄
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[Just saying @kangaroos991]

👇 Please do NOT share, got it? 😉

[Black, Blessed & Unbothered @MelanatedTalk]

Thank You @BarackObama 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
You and Lady Michelle are appreciated and loved.
#BarackObamaDay
#ObamaDay
#ObamaDayJune14th
#NoKingsDay

[PaulleyTicks @PaulleyTicks]

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[Just saying @kangaroos991]

Drop a 💙 for Barack Obama! 🙏💙💙

[Elsie white @Elsievotesblue]

Peeps💙With great joy , I present to you another New York moment 🤣
#F🤬ck Trump
#DemVoice1
#DemsUnited
#ProudBlue