Who instigated the escalation?

On ICE, Minneapolis – and your questions & comments.

Contributing editor Ryan Zickgraf is back from Minnesota and tells us what is happening on the ground. We also discuss:

• If this was Trump picking a fight, why Minnesota?

• Do the slayings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti mark a step-change in who can be killed in the US with relative impunity?

• What are the implications for the 2nd Amendment and will this divide MAGA World?

• Does a hard border necessarily entail a hard, militarised society too? Is the interiorisation of the border inevitable?

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We then discuss listener questions on:

• What is important that Bungacast cover?

• The benefits of citizenship

• Capitalists paying themselves for labour

• The post-doomer personality

Readings:

• South Minneapolis has had enough, Ryan Zickgraf, UnHerd

• Enforcement Regime, Michael Macher, Phenomenal World 

• Minneapolis Is a Second Amendment Wake-Up Call, Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic

• ICE unloads, Ken Klippenstein, Substack