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   It's not just the protesters who get paid to act like toddlers having a   
   tantrum.   
      
   Here in Minnesota, the city and sometimes the state will actually pay   
   businesses to take part in the "spontaneous" activism.   
      
      
   Liz Collin   
      
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   Feb 15, 2026   
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   Submitted from Minneapolis resident:   
      
   “So, Walz proposes forgivable loans for businesses affected by the ICE   
   surge, and city council members send out emails telling businesses to   
   close their doors and workers to stay home.  Of course, businesses are   
   affected by ICE when they   
      
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   On top of that, two of the groups hosting this ‘Week of Action’ are   
   getting - and have been getting - state payments. (Posted the details last   
   night.) It’s a never-ending sick cycle of taxpayer-funded activism.   
   ???????   
      
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   Minnesota politicians are crying crocodile tears about how much the ICE   
   surge into Minnesota cost our business community, failing to note that the   
   costs accrued were entirely the result of activism that the government   
   officials at the state and local level egged on.   
      
   Not just egged on. In many cases, it was grants from the city and state   
   that helped fund the organizers, and it was state and local government   
   officials who fed information to the Signal chat groups that coordinated   
   the roving riots.   
      
   iz Collin   
      
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   Feb 15, 2026   
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   Paying taxes to fund Communist and Marxist revolutions is getting old   
   fast.   
   Dug back to 2012 - first state payments kicked in around 2018. Never-   
   ending grift. ???????   
      
   Now the governor is floating the idea of "forgivable" loans (payments) to   
   businesses that government officials actually encouraged to close in   
   protest of ICE activities.   
      
   That's not a joke. The government recruited businesses to close to create   
   the sense that chaos is hurting our economy, and is now making them whole.   
      
   It's all a big show, and it is being funded by Minnesota's taxpayers.   
      
   Not so long ago, I wrote about Minnesota's version of Pallywood, in which   
   an alternate version of reality is created for the cameras to spread a   
   completely inauthentic narrative that is aimed at people who only get the   
   curated version of reality.   
      
   Government-funded NGOs are a key part of the Minnewood infrastructure.   
   They get money from the government, coordinate with government officials,   
   are deeply tied into the Pravda ecosystem, and have ground troops   
   organized through "community activists." They are tied in with the   
   teachers' unions and the Service Employees International Union (which, by   
   the way, recruits illegal aliens for their unions).   
      
   They can create a crowd at a moment's notice. Complete with kids, college   
   students, union activists, paid protesters, and hangers-on.   
      
   It's an ecosystem, and taxpayers pick up the tab.   
      
   I gotta move.   
      
   https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/02/16/in-minneapolis-its-the-   
   taxpayers-who-pick-up-the-tab-for-anti-ice-activism-n3811948   
      
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