It's very cold today. Cold enough to freeze the tiny balls off a Proud Boy.
Maybe it's a sign from God or Mother Nature or whoever is in charge of such things. NYT has also noticed.
Bundled-up residents who have been protesting for days said that a seriously cold stretch would play only to their advantage. “I want it to get cold,” said Chris Foreman, a military veteran who has joined protesters outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, just outside Minneapolis, for six days in a row. “People know that a lot of these ICE guys are from the South. They’re coming into a different environment and they’re not used to it.”
Minneapolis is unusually icy — literally — at the moment. Walking on sidewalks is treacherous, as an immigration agent in a viral video learned this week. Patches of black ice on residential streets are sending cars skidding.
Protesters who are originally from Minnesota say that they are ready with the proper winter gear. Standing outside at demonstrations, they wear woolen socks, double layers of long sleeves and tights, and sometimes ski goggles for a little extra warmth or insulated bibs from Carhartt that might look more fitting in an ice fishing shanty...
“You have to live through these winters to build the kind of resilience it takes to know how to stomach the cold — and how many layers of clothing go where,” he said, adding that if temperatures plunge further, the early mornings could be especially tough for ICE agents unaccustomed to the cold. “I doubt they know what’s coming at them,” he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/us/minneapolis-ice-protest-winter-weather.html?smid=url-share
I'm looking forward to the freezing of the Nazis, our mini-Stalingrad.
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... they're going to be crossing some freeway overpasses that are completely exposed to the Arctic breeze.
I do hope the little dears don't catch a chill.
In addition to gear, acclimation cannot be overstated. That's why when it warms into the low 40's here in Northern New England, we break out the shorts. You can't just drop into the middle of a northern tier Winter and think you can function outside for very long. Maybe if you're "geared" to the point you can't put your arms down. Maybe. 
Morons don't think ahead which is good for us.
12F today in downtown Minneapolis. Oooo! 4F on MLK! Lows at or below zero. And that constant, northern prairie wind. Welcome to the depths of Winter, boys! Hope you lose some fingers and toes! Or worse. 
Enjoy the polar vortex, boys!