And now a message from Bruce Springsteen

It’s our blood and bones
And these whistles and phones
Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies

Here’s a new song from Bruce Springsteen, written on Saturday after masked government agents pinned Alex Pretti to the ground and shot him in the back:

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The title “Streets of Minneapolis” evokes Springsteen’s “Streets of Philadelphia,” the Oscar-winning song he wrote for Jonathan Demme’s 1993 film about a gay man dying of AIDS. That song concludes with a question: “Will we leave each other alone like this / on the streets of Philadelphia?”

“Streets of Minneapolis” concludes with an emphatic answer to that question: We will not.

We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
We’ll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis

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