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Evergreen tbh.
🧑✈️ 1. Walz has mobilized the Minnesota National Guard — but they are not deployed on city streets yet.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has directed the state National Guard to mobilize and stage to support local law enforcement and emergency management if needed. They are on standby, ready to assist with public safety, protecting life and property, and supporting peaceful protest rights — but they are not currently patrolling Minneapolis streets or engaged in active operations. 
• Guard members would wear yellow reflective vests so they can be distinguished from other agencies like ICE. 
🪖 2. Why this happened: protests and unrest tied to federal actions
Tensions escalated after a federal ICE agent shot and killed a Minneapolis woman during a large federal immigration enforcement operation — described by DHS officials as one of the largest in U.S. history. 
That airline-scale federal presence has drawn protests, with some clashes between demonstrators and officers. Walz’s move to prepare the Guard was framed as a precautionary response to protect Minnesotans and ensure peaceful demonstrations. 
🇺🇸 3. There’s also a federal military angle — but that’s separate from Walz’s orders
The Pentagon has placed about 1,500 active-duty U.S. Army soldiers on standby for a possible deployment to Minnesota — potentially under the federal Insurrection Act — at the request of the White House if state and local authorities cannot control unrest. That is a different authority than the state Guard and has not been acted on yet. 
⚖️ 4. Legal and political fights are ongoing
There’s also news that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Gov. Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for alleged statements or actions that might have interfered with federal immigration enforcement — a contentious legal and political clash. 
🧠 5. Context: how governors control state Guard troops
Under U.S. law, a state governor controls the National Guard unless they’re federally activated. So when Walz says he’s “mobilizing” the Guard, that refers to state control and readiness — not federal military forces or an immediate deployment into cities. 
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Bottom Line — What’s true right now
✔️ Gov. Walz has authorized the Minnesota National Guard to be mobilized and ready.
✔️ They are not actively deployed in the streets.
✔️ The move is tied to rising protests over federal ICE operations and public safety concerns.
✘ There is no current large-scale deployment of troops as martial law or military occupation in Minnesota.
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First hand accounts on the devastation ICE is causing Minnesota. And with the 1000 more of those losers that came that I talked about yesterday, there are more of them than actual police officers there. That is fucking sad.
And I want everyone to remember that ALL of this started because of this assclown
As far as I’m concerned, Renee Good’s blood is on his hands.
