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Nonilex
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Small #Minneapolis businesses hit hard by #ICE crackdown, while [ #complicit] #corporations stay silent

Up & down Lake Street in the heavily #Latin area of south Minneapolis, numerous mom-&-pop #restaurants have hung up signs that say "No ICE”.

#economy #business #SmallBusiness #WorkingAmericans #Trump #affordability #CostOfLiving #authoritarianism #kleptocracy #plutocracy #ForMeButNotForThee
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/small-minneapolis-businesses-hit-hard-by-ice-crackdown-while-corporations-stay-2026-01-16/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

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okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin
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@Okanogen@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

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Minnesota Business Journal has reported that around 60% of the businesses on Lake Street have closed either temporarily or permanently as a result of ICE. Revenue losses of 40-80%.
Commercial real estate vacancies have skyrocketted. This is not only an attack on Minnesota's community, it is an attack on our economy.

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FurballsNHairballs
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@ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@Nonilex
Corporations have no interest in civil rights
Only tax cuts and less regulation.

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Nonilex
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

By contrast, large #corporations in #Minneapolis have been much less vocal about the effects of #immigration enforcement on the city, known as both a bastion of progressive politics in the #US #Midwest & a robust corporate #employer. 17 #Fortune500 companies are based in #Minnesota, including #Target, #UnitedHealth, & #GeneralMills.

#complicit #economy #business #SmallBusiness #WorkingAmericans #Trump #affordability #CostOfLiving #authoritarianism #kleptocracy #plutocracy #ForMeButNotForThee

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Nicole Parsons
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@Npars01@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@Nonilex

In an era where tech oligarchs have been paid by the likes of Paul Singer, Putin, #PrinceBonesaw, and Koch Network to develop digital dossiers on almost everyone on the planet, purportedly simply for "advertising", but it's been morphed into a marketing campaign for a future ruled by fascist corporations & plutocrats, not citizens.

With technology at this scale, why do we have political parties at all?

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Timo
Timo
@timo21@mastodon.sdf.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@Nonilex so many fortune 500 companies are complicit, if not instigators, of the fascist turn in the government.

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