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Tonight was a two glasses of red wine with two different cuts of steak night enjoyed at a Brazilian steakhouse bar with dear friends (and my lovely bride of course). Perfect.

Last night we drank a whole bottle of sparkling rosé with buttered popcorn while watching a cheesy show and it was perfect. No notes.

The miscalculation they made here: There are no strangers in Minnesota. Only neighbors you’ve never met.

This has been a reason and opportunity to meet many more of them.

And we are made better and stronger by it.

Constitutional rights regularly ignored and violated by agents of the Federal government here in Minnesota:

The 1st, 4th, 5th, 10th, 14th.

And, in the case of Pretti, the 2nd.

Remember, if they can do it here to us they can and plan to do it there to you.

People who don’t understand the ad-hoc, decentralized, neighbor-focused, hyper-local community organization happening here that practices threat awareness, rapid response, mutual aid, and person-to-person resistance training also don’t understand that is how “well organized militias” worked.

If you are a 2nd Amendment advocate and you see a citizen lawfully executing that right and they are killed by an agent of the government for exercising their 1st amendment right then you don’t understand what the founders intended.

There’s a reason those are 1 and 2. This is it.

Update on Lucio: He has a wife who is 5 months pregnant at home. She was contacted about what happened. Immigrant rights groups/attorneys have his info. He’s likely already been disappeared into the detention system or deported. Who knows if he’ll see his child born… So angering and heartbreaking.