This is the weird brand of Mamdani socialism (although Mamdani has never condoned theft). If you are really anti-capitalist, you stay away from the Whole Foods. Make your own granola! Hold a protest sign outside! This isn't anti-capitalism, it's a weird notion that I am entitled to all these extreme capitalism benefits for free. nypost.com/2026/04/22/us-new…

As is often the case, several things can be true at the same time: ICE is operating within federal law when it attempts to apprehend individuals in urban environments subject to deportation. Minnesota officials show themselves to be entirely unserious when they demand that ICE leave Minnesota. It is a bad idea for civilians to actively interfere with ICE operations, no matter how poorly handled these operations appear to be. Minnesota officials should discourage this behavior. The state and city should set up a clear protest cordon area. It is a bad idea to show up armed to a protest. That doesn't mean you don't have the right to or that you should be shot for it. It just means ... it is a bad idea. ICE, at best, completely botched the initial contact that led to the likely preventable killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. In the latter, many armed officers should have been able to safely neutralize one suspect who was not brandishing his weapon. Angry agents and/or badly trained agents and/or terrified agents (or all three!) can't do these jobs and shouldn't be doing them. Trump and his surrogates are either lying or crazy or both, and they thrive on the chaos they purposely create. If you are analyzing frame by frame videos of the latest shooting or screaming that Trump is a fascist rather than looking at the bigger picture, they are winning. Whenever you are paying attention to them, they are winning. That has been true for 11 years. The bigger picture is that Democrats and whatever uncompromised Republicans are left have to figure out: What's the immigration plan? (It can't be a 2023-4 open border; it can't be that anyone in the world with a self-identified claim to asylum is released into the country with no followup; it can't be defined by AOC and Mamdani.) What should immigration enforcement look like? What's our pitch to the American people for a secure border, swift and sure deportations of recent arrivals with no claim to be here, and for a politically acceptable level of legal immigration, including legalizing some (but not all) of the people who have been here for years already?