Richard Feidler

And I realized that one of the worst things that can happen to a media outlet is to be owned by somebody for whom it's not a primary business.

So now I work for a family business, which may be the last, you know, yeah, the New York Times, which may be the last journalism outlet in the country.

Well, I think that the Trump administration made a mistake with going to Minneapolis.

I assume, I don't know this for a fact, but I assume that they thought that they were going to be targeting particular ethnic groups in Minneapolis, that Minneapolis is, they knew it was a democratic city, but they also assumed it was a white city.

where people weren't necessarily going to stand up for these immigrant communities.

They also thought it was a nice city, a city of nice, polite people.

What they didn't realize was that they were going into the city where George Floyd was killed, that lived through a period of really profound political organizing, the creation of grassroots political networks and networks of mutual aid.

And one of the first things that happened when ICE invaded Minneapolis, and it really, I think, felt to people there like an invasion, was that these mutual aid networks kicked in.

And so people started delivering food to immigrant families who were afraid to go outside to get groceries.

picking children up and taking them to school and bringing them home from school again for families where adults are afraid to leave the house.

And then, of course, running physical interference where there were ICE raids.

So there are these vast networks of people who are driving around, telling one another where ICE was, blowing their whistles.

And that's what ICE encountered, was actual street-level grassroots resistance, which, unfortunately, and this is where the good news kind of ends, that kind of resistance results in this outsized, terrifying state violence.

Yeah, that's a great question.

What we know about...

or societies that have to sort of reconstitute themselves after extreme upheaval, after a revolution, after genocide, after civil war, is that it all depends on what kind of story they can tell to themselves about themselves.

And at the moment, the American story is not very promising.

At the moment, it's a story about the best democracy ever created and this rogue president who hijacked this democracy and started destroying its institutions.

It's basically the story that the Biden administration was telling.

And it's a story about being able to go back to normal.