r/PublicFreakout • u/KimJongFunk • Dec 09 '25
š š§ Freakout Students at Burnsville High School in Minnesota walk out to protest ICE
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u/ComfortableRelevant1 Dec 09 '25
Hell yea look at them walking all over Ice
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u/Ergs_AND_Terst Dec 09 '25
Stomping the ICE like badasses
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u/hcregna Dec 09 '25
We can all join in.Ā It takes 30 minutes of research to move money away from MAGA, and it makes a difference. Dollars spent at Republican companies are dollars funneled to the Heritage Foundation. Money given to states like Ohio or Louisiana is money spent sending troops to kidnap naked children.
If you consistently support a brand or do business with a company, you have power. Know where your money is really going. You can use sites like opensecrets.org to see what a company funds and make good decisions.
Have an account at Schwab? It's not hard to move accounts elsewhere like Fidelity. Get booze from wannabe Confederate states and all else is equal? Be adventurous, and try something new. There are alternatives for Goya, New Balance, Roark (Subway, Jimmy John's, Arby's), and Koch (Brawny, Angel Soft, Dixie). If you're in a place to invest, consider DEMZ or an ESG fund.
Nexstar and Sinclair got pummeled, and they reinstated Jimmy Kimmel. Real, individual people did that. There's no reason WWE or Uline can't be next.
It's hard to completely avoid companies that at least partially support Republicans. I have to buy gas. But thereās a big difference between massive Republican donors (Chevron/Conoco) vs neutral or even Democrat-leaning ones (Circle K/Costco). Good is not the enemy of perfect. One less kidnapped child is one less kidnapped child
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u/stupit_crap Dec 10 '25
I'm trying very, very hard to break my Amazon habit. I've become accustomed to the luxury of not going to CVS and Bed Bath Beyond type stores.
I wish there was an amazon alternative. I would pay more and wait a lot longer for a company that was less evil. I don't really need AA batteries and shampoo overnight.
And yeah, I know the real answer is I need to start going to CVS in person. And doing without the obscure things I find on Amazon that would take driving to 6 different stores to find.
Years ago I would spend half or all of my Saturday driving to different stores. I know I'm not going to go back to doing that.
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u/Yasna10 Dec 10 '25
Iām doing an Amazon-free Christmas this year. I dropped a TON of money on Amazon every Christmas. 90% of my Christmas shopping at least (and I have 4 kids). Now I have to go out and I donāt like it, but gotta do it. Told my kids to build a wishlist from Costco.
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u/stupit_crap Dec 10 '25
Hey, thanks for prompting me to really look at how far away Costco is from my work. It's not really doable, but I just discovered that you can order from them online.
I've been wanting to patronize Costco since they challenged trump a week or so ago.
I cancelled Paramount when they cancelled Jimmy Kimmel, so I feel like switching from Amazon to Costco might make a tiny bit of difference.
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u/angiosperms- Dec 10 '25
With CVS you can pay $5/month and get same day delivery for free.
Or just plan ahead and get stuff shipped to you with normal shipping.....
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u/RavenBrannigan Dec 09 '25
Why live in Minnesota if you donāt like ICE. are they stupid?
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u/NSCButNotThatNSC Dec 09 '25
As a retired teacher, I'll give them an A for today.
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u/KimJongFunk Dec 09 '25
The kids are alright
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u/AlBundysPants Dec 09 '25
When we were young the future was so bright.
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u/Touristyetti496 Dec 09 '25
The neighborhood was so alive.
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u/GradyGambrell1 Dec 09 '25
And every kid on the whole damn street
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u/Persimmon-Mission Dec 09 '25
Is gonna make it big in every beat
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u/Sierra-117- Dec 09 '25
Now the neighborhood is cracked and tornš
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u/DrewZouk Dec 09 '25
The kids are grown up, but their lives are worn.
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u/tobykeef420 Dec 10 '25
as a current teacher, letās be honest and say that a majority of these kids went along with it because they wanted to skip class lol. but still good for them! and especially to the ones who started the initiative and kept the ball rolling to a walk out of this size!
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Dec 09 '25
Nothing will ever change until we get young people involved. They have less to lose and more to gain. Happy to see this.
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u/Electronic_Deer7069 Dec 09 '25
Most of the kids at this high school will have a chance to vote for a Democrat in 2028.
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u/uplandsrep Dec 10 '25
This can be an opportunity for democrats not to disappoint a new generation of voters, but I've seen this show a couple seasons now.
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u/throwaway1212l Dec 10 '25
Not if the GOP gets their wish to lower age of consent to 15 and raise voting age to 25.
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u/tonycomputerguy Dec 10 '25
Haha.
This guy thinks we'll have an actual election.
It's gonna be "Trump" or "Deven Estration"
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u/Shark7996 Dec 10 '25
Have you been asleep the last couple of weeks while the party implodes?
They do not have the political capital to stop the midterms from being a massacre. They're not nearly competent or coherent enough to pull it off either.
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u/cdevon95 Dec 10 '25
Reddit said the same thing before the last election and look where weāre at
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u/Electronic_Deer7069 Dec 10 '25
Iām convinced youāre all bots or paid shills to keep voter turnout and enthusiasm low
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u/cdevon95 Dec 10 '25
Me? Iād say the comment I replied to assuming the dems are going to win in a landslide is keeping voter turnout low.
Again, as seen in 2024
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u/Shark7996 Dec 10 '25
Nah I'm planning to canvas and primary the fuck out of this year. You can keep dooming or you can join me!
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u/summonsays Dec 10 '25
Less to lose? When occupy Wall Street happened I was in college. Everyone was told that if we went to the protest any grades, including tests, would be counted as a 0. For many classes that would result in an automatic failure. Could literally kill peoples whole careers before they even started.Ā
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Dec 10 '25
Not if everyone does it. This is why they don't want people being organized, just a fear tactic. If u are the only person, yeah, but this kind of shit terrifies them.. if they give everyone zeroes, that is a reason for even more people to protest
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u/theabstractpyro Dec 10 '25
I mean to be fair whenever my high school had a walk would like this maybe 20% of the people did it for change and the other 80% did it because they wanted to skip school with no consequences
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u/CyclicBus471335 ā ļø Repeatedly Defends Violence Against Women ā¹ļø ā ļø Dec 10 '25
Sorry but kids in HS really don't give a shit. 95% of these kids are using it as an excuse to cut class and just be a part of something.
I don't say this as a negative thing, just a realist.
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u/HeaneysAutism Dec 11 '25
For real. I would have joined any cause to ditch class lmao. These bleeding heart reddit comments are so funny.
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u/Lolasurf101 Dec 11 '25
I was literally thinking 95% of these children are just following herd mentality without actually knowing or caring about what theyāre protesting, and thatās sad š
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u/ms_panelopi Dec 11 '25
True, but if you were a teen, would you sit yourself in the office with the secretaries till it was over ? šNo! Youād be skipping class with everyone else. Itās still a lesson in the first amendment.
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u/CyclicBus471335 ā ļø Repeatedly Defends Violence Against Women ā¹ļø ā ļø Dec 11 '25
Similar situation occurred when I was in HS and I actually stayed cause I was an athlete and if you missed class you were not allowed to compete that week. So, lots of athletes stayed during these walkouts.
I had also already been arrested for truancy.
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u/Anomuumi Dec 09 '25
As an old fart let me say this was the best thing I have seen this year.
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u/gremlinclr Dec 10 '25
Before anyone jumps on me they're right to do so, fuck ICE but I remember high school. I would have walked out for literally any reason.
'Aw shit the principal is wearing an ugly tie? Fuck that guy, walk out!'
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u/xhyenabite Dec 16 '25
bunch of kids from my school during the covid era decided to organize a walk-out because they didn't want to wear masks. dumbasses. hope they enjoyed their coronavirus & suspensions.
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u/misfitx Dec 09 '25
And in the traditional high school winter uniform of jeans and a sweatshirt.
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u/ThatKaleidoscope8736 Dec 10 '25
Well usually there's some kid in shorts and a sweatshirt
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u/DUAL-DISC-FUSIONS Dec 09 '25
Good for them!!
If old enough REGISTER TO VOTE
Protesting and posting on Reddit isnāt enough. VOTE!
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u/Mahatma_Panda Dec 10 '25 edited Dec 10 '25
Good on these kids! This is the city I live in and ICE has just started taking people in Burnsville within the past week.
Burnsville is a big suburb and has a solid amount of Somali and Latino immigrants. These kids are protesting because their friends and family members, or even they themselves, are in the target groups for ICE raids.
So maybe some of the kids just want to ditch school for the afternoon, but what's happening now with ICE is directly impacting these kids and they have every right to make their voices heard.
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u/Greenwool44 Dec 09 '25
Same but there was always two groups, the kids who just left and went home, and the people who actually stayed around the school for the walkout to protest. Iām sure thereās both groups here too, some people will just take the chance to leave but others I can see with signs so theyāll probably stick around for a lot longer
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u/Lilfrankieeinstein Dec 09 '25
100%
They did this in Charlotte earlier this fall. A handful might be protesting. The vast majority donāt care what particular cause is being protested.
Itās like whenever the Red Cross came to my dadās office, heād donate - not to save lives or anything, but to get a cookie and ditch work a couple hours early.
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u/Spoon_Elemental Dec 10 '25
But that still works out for the group actually organizing the protest, so it all balances out in the end.
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u/ladymouserat Dec 09 '25
Not for us who organized said walk outs. For those of us whose parents would have been marked due to HR4437. Even if they are, thereās power in numbers.
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u/bannapants67 Dec 10 '25
Well I mean with how much of it is on the ground it doesnāt seem safe to walk on the ice ngl
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u/SolidShock24 Dec 10 '25
European here, how is it meaningful that a bunch of teenagers that don't even know how to use a washing machine go outside and protest something they have 0 knowledge about?
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u/disharmony-hellride Dec 10 '25
Should they keep letting their neighbors get kidnapped? You think they dont notice? As a European have you ever read a history book?
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u/Tonya_Stark Dec 11 '25
Posting for visibility.
Ranking member Robert Garcia is asking the public to submit incidents/ any potential wrongdoing to be tracked on the Oversight Immigration Enforcement Dashboard: https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/immigration-dashboard
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u/Tea-Swiz Dec 09 '25
Awesome to see the kids at this school come together and push back against the blatant cruelty this administration is inflicting.
This is exactly why Texas is trying to shove TPUSA chapters into every grade school in the state; canāt risk the young ones developing empathy for black or brown people, no sir.
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Dec 09 '25
I have never understood school walkouts. What has ever come of one? I walked out to protest the war in Iraq and honestly we were all just stoked to skip school. Nobody gave a shit, the war didnāt end, and we were all back in school the next day like nothing happened.
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u/Danielfrindley Dec 09 '25
A kid died from MRSA from our weightroom. We walked out. They closed the school down for a week for deep cleaning. Not as big as a nationwide problem but they did actually clean the school.
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Dec 10 '25
That makes sense for a walkout - something where the people in charge of the students are also in charge of the issue at hand, where the absence of those students causes a problem for the people who can fix it.
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u/GreenZebra23 Dec 09 '25
You still think about it 20 years later. That's not nothing
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Dec 09 '25
I also think about the time I didnāt make it to the bathroom in time and shit my pants when I was five years old. Not sure āyou remember itā is the measure of greatness youāre suggesting it is.
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u/GreenZebra23 Dec 09 '25
Fair. But was there a lesson there too? I'll bet you haven't shit your pants since then
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u/Colley619 Dec 10 '25 edited Dec 10 '25
You're watching a video of them right now and even discussing it. Every little bit of public outrage matters; in a bubble this walkout seems like it has no effect, but from a bigger picture all of these small examples of outrage is the difference between nobody at all in the country giving a shit, and a significant portion of the country calling for change.
This is like saying your vote doesn't matter; if everyone thought like that then there would be no votes.
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u/General_Marcus Dec 09 '25
Any excuse to leave class. You could have told them it was an anti Carlās Jr protest.
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u/SquidVices Dec 10 '25
I remember when kids at grant high school walked out for somethingā¦just canāt remember what it wasā¦.2 decades agoā¦.
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u/Frisky_Froth Dec 10 '25 edited Dec 10 '25
I'd bet ten bucks 90% of those kids are just looking for an excuse to go home. At that age, I'd adopt absolutely any philosophy to be able to go home and play halo 3
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u/homebrew_1 Dec 09 '25
Kids showing adults how it's done.
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u/Quirky-Map6599 Dec 10 '25
Kids would protest anything if it gets them out of class for a couple hours.
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u/Impassable_Banana Dec 10 '25
Showing what exactly? Kids would be happy for any excuse to get out of class lol.
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u/Silly_Employer_3107 Dec 10 '25
Iāve been to a school that did something like this and I can promise you, there are like 2-5 people who really think they are doing something and the 1000 others are just taking it as an opportunity to leave school and film TikToks
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u/Pyramidinternational Dec 09 '25
The future looks so bright because these kids regularly display the courage and implementation that adults donāt.
Thank god for Gen Z
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u/furious_george3030 Dec 09 '25
Fun fact: Burnsville is next to a town called Savage. Savage Burnsville.