The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.

[demmiblue]

The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.

— Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T23:45:41.304Z

at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-01-09T23:22:14.030Z

[Lovie777]

1. Yea...................

true.

[markodochartaigh]

2. One more way in which

Trump is being useful.
He is giving us a detailed outline of every way in which the office of the president must be curtailed.
Assuming, of course, that we are able to crawl out from under the authoritarian jackboot under which we find ourselves.

[Dave Bowman]

3. That will be great for the economy.

[underpants]

6. He's spending tariff money 14 different ways and OOOH oil money!!!

[vapor2]

4. This revenge needs to stop NOW

DEFUND ICE.

[underpants]

5. Jesus Christ. Minnesota is under a coordinated attack.

If you don’t think this goes back to George Floyd, you don’t understand Miller manipulating Trump. They both know 2020 sunk Trump.

This is after harvest time so it’s intimidation towards next year.

[demmiblue]

8. It's an all out assault.

They're looking for a showdown. I fear what lengths they might go to to terrorize Americans in an attempt to stop all resistance.

— Khashoggi's Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T21:32:34.483Z

Federal officers are leaving Louisiana immigration crackdown for Minneapolis, documents show

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal immigration officers are pulling out of a Louisiana crackdown and heading to Minneapolis in an abrupt pivot from an operation that drew protests around New Orleans and aimed to make thousands of arrests, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The shift appeared to signal a wind-down of the Louisiana deployment that was dubbed “Catahoula Crunch” and began in December with the arrival of more than 200 officers. The operation had been expected to last into February and swiftly raised fears in immigrant communities.

The Trump administration has been surging thousands of federal officers to Minnesota under a sweeping new crackdown tied in part to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents. More than 2,000 officers are taking part in what the Department of Homeland Security has called the biggest immigration enforcement operation ever.

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-new-orleans-minnesota-400be6de1c5712a9dd0ec972907cbd03

[LisaM]

31. This goes back to Paul Wellstone.

For some reason, his perfectly appropriate funeral sent everyone on the right around the bend. The propaganda was exhausting. I remember a guy in our book club (Democrat) saying, "I knew that funeral was going to be a problem". I asked him if he'd even watched it (it was on C-SPAN) and he said no! Even he was buying into the false narrative.

[dflprincess]

34. To be clear, that wasn't his funeral

His funeral was a private, religious service. What sent Republicans over the edge was a public memorial to the public man. They weren't really surprised it was political, that was just a hook the right wing noise machine could hang their faux outrage on.

As Tom Harkin told us that night, "Stand up, keep fighting. "

[LisaM]

40. Thank you for clarifying.

I did watch it and it was incredibly moving. The fact that it got twisted around like that was maddening.

I think that's what got Al Franken into politics. Where I wish he'd stayed.

[yaesu]

7. I think our second amendment right covers not paying taxes to a fascist regime nt

[Phoenix61]

9. Man, they are really terrified of Walz.

I don’t think bullying him is going to work out the way they think it’s going to.

[Cha]

10. Fucking Nazi Assholes.

[70sEraVet]

11. Google maps on 'Constitutional Crisis' --

"You have arrived at your destination!"

[duckworth969]

12. Walz has put MN Natl Guard on Standby

Flashpoint

[Seinan Sensei]

13. He's like the world's biggest and oldest five-year-old

And also …

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

[lastlib]

36. I agree in principle, but......

divide that five by 2.......

Five-year-olds might be offended by comparison--they're better behaved than The Felon.

[angrychair]

14. The Federal Government Has Declared War On Minnesota

I had an OP on this earlier today.
We are not ready for what is about to happen.

[NickB79]

15. Gonna see my extended family tomorrow. Most are Minnesota farmers

And most voted for Trump.

Between this, Trump's soybean wars, and the subsidies (aka welfare) he's giving out to try to shut them up, it's gonna be a fun conversation.

[Cirsium]

20. Not true

There aren't enough farmers to affect electoral politics. They vote the way most business owners do - they skew Republican. Here it is 55-45 Republican, and even in this heavily agricultural district farm owners are only a couple of percentage points of the population. They are not the reason Trump won here, not by a long shot.

[NickB79]

22. Sure going out of your way to defend Republicans from the consequences of their actions there

🤔

[Cirsium]

23. Say what?

That is outrageous. Nothing I said defends Republicans in any way. Shame on you for that.

[mysteryowl]

16. The farmers might blame Trump or the Dems.

Hard to say how they see this.

[Cirsium]

18. Never mind farmers

Farmers are a tiny, tiny percentage of the population. As Democrats we need to stop talking as though they are the critical rural bloc, or even important at all. They are not.

It is a bad look for us. It advances the right wing framing about partisan demographics. The MAGA cultists are NOT farmers, ranchers, cowboys, lumberjacks, et al. they are weak, whiny, cowardly Walter Mittys.

[mysteryowl]

19. They are important. They provide our food.

[Cirsium]

24. Huh?

Can't people read? Someone else accused me of defending Republicans. WTF? I didn't say farmers aren't important, I said there aren't enough of them to affect elections, and it makes us - as Democrats - look ignorant to be harping on about farmers. It reinforces the right wing framing on the issue.

[mysteryowl]

25. I'm not accusing you of being a repuke.

I didn't say that all! Where did I say that?

I am saying they are important. That is all.

[Cirsium]

41. I know

Not you. Sorry for any confusion.

[mysteryowl]

42. Peace...

[Cirsium]

43. No worries

[debsy]

17. I was criticized heavily for saying something similar a few months ago

If we all stopped paying taxes and stopped buying anything but necessities, maybe we could get someone to listen?!?

[sop]

21. I didn't think it was possible, but 2026 is shaping up to be worse than 2025.

[Bev54]

26. Another lawsuit forced onto a state that will surely be knocked down by the courts as has most of

the others.

[PatrickforB]

27. Clearly the federal government no longer represents us. Yet we still are forced to pay taxes.

Say...taxation without representation...hmm.

[AZLD4Candidate]

28. This is Agent Orange's way of punishing Tim Walz for being a veep candidate.

Nothing more.

[AllyCat]

29. I'm with Rupar. Why are we paying taxes?

Even the defense argument has fallen apart here. Their own armed secret police are murdering us in the streets.

We get nothing for our tax money paid.

[bucolic_frolic]

30. Lawsuits incoming

THey just got over-ruled in childcare benefits, wasn't it?

[Bread and Circuses]

32. The Dem governors need to activate their National Histfs

They need to form alliances to protect their communities

[Zelda_Orchid]

33. How is this even legal?

[Wednesdays]

39. Them: "What is this word, 'legal,' of which you speak?" nt

[orangecrush]

35. This

"The fact that not one single spine-having, duty-bound adult in American government exists to slam the brakes on this sh**show carnival is proof enough that this country deserves every ounce of contempt, ridicule, and global hatred it’s about to choke on for the next hundred years."
~Oliver Kornetzke

[W_HAMILTON]

46. This.

"The government you elect is the government you deserve.”
~Thomas Jefferson

PS - Does that imbecile think we are a monarchy or something? Because the reason there is not one single person slamming the brakes on this shitshow is because that person does not exist and never will in our current system of government.

[orangecrush]

48. That's o.k. dude

I'm not mad at you!


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[Norrrm]

37. There are no MAGA farmers in Minn?

[DFW]

45. Too many

I know a House member whose district has plenty of them. Somehow, she has managed to get re-elected several times in a row despite that. She does take serious time to go out and talk to them.

[Justice matters.]

38. Good reason to secede and join up with Canada.

More "like-minded" and peaceful people.

[roamer65]

44. Time for a redux of the Hartford Convention of 1814.

[Norbert]

47. What would be the point of Minnesota sending money to the Federal Government.