This and that for your Tuesday reading.

– Adam Serwer offers a hopeful take on how Minnesota is proving MAGA social theory wrong, showing that the vast majority of people are caring and supportive rather than willing to accept or encourage the dehumanization of immigrants. Eric Blanc interviews Aru Shiney-Sjay about the successful citizen organization in opposition to ICE. And Brian Beutler writes that Alex Pretti offered a shining example of positive masculinity – in contrast to the violent, bigoted goon squad which murdered him. 

– But Ta-Nehisi Coates highlights how the attempt to retroactively turn Pretti and Karen Good into “others” unworthy of life represents just one more front in the Republicans’ deadly culture war. And Jake Spring reports on the Trump regime’s censorship of basic factual information at national parks and monuments in an attempt to whitewash American history. 

– Charlie Angus points out
the need to move on from any dependence on the U.S. as it once again
seeks to impose intolerable burdens in exchange for a temporary retrieve
from arbitrary abuse. Stephen Maher offers a warning about Steve Bannon’s plans to stoke separatism and subjugate Canada if given the change, while Stewart Prest discusses the need for a firm response. And Don Braid discusses
how the desire of Alberta separatists to tie themselves to the Trump
regime looks like it will help limit the risk of voters getting
bamboozled.

– Finally, George Monbiot examines a UK national security report showing how ecosystem collapse represents a serious risk to security and prosperity. And Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility calls out the Trump administration for trashing the Clean Air Act.