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Court filings in the Minnesota 15 prosecution describe an extensive surveillance operation against anti-ICE organizing including undercover infiltration of anti-ICE groups, access to activists' Signal chats, drone surveillance, and monitoring of organizing beyond Minnesota. We are witnessing a rapid escalation from immigration enforcement to mass surveillance to repression of domestic organizers. Sweeping up peaceful observers and local watch groups into intelligence databases and dragnets is meant to deter public participation. We're spending millions and possibly billions of dollars spying, repressing, and building cases against ordinary Americans just for exercising their rights and engaging in civic participation. Why are American citizens who express a valid discontent with the current direction of certain policies being treated like terrorists? The main contrast on this issue is that it is NOT actually a rational, civilized ideology to wear masks, abduct people, and human-traffick them into concentration camps. And it is definitely a rational, civilized ideology for civilians to want to resist this, just like rational, civilized Americans often resisted the Fugitive Slave Act.

Protesters in Colombia gathered outside Bogota's National Museum to oppose the government's removal of exhibits covering feminist and LGBTQ+ movements, social struggles, and political violence. President of Colombia Abelardo de la Espriella is a dual US–Colombian citizen who lived in Miami for over a decade. He has aligned his policies closely with Trump. Fascists always attempt to invalidate the struggles of groups who fought a very long time to earn basic civil rights. There's a pattern of authoritarian and far-right movements around the world using identical playbooks: targeting state museums, public libraries, and school curricula to enforce a sanitized ideology that erases any other perspective except their own. I'm proud of these protesters in Colombia for standing up for what they believe in.