In Minneapolis It’s the Taxpayers Who Pick Up the Tab for Anti-ICE Activism

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. 

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. 🤦🏼‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/RI4uAquUQC

— Auburn American (@TaconiteRed) February 15, 2026

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. 

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. 🤦🏼‍♀️

— Auburn American (@TaconiteRed) February 15, 2026

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. 

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