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National Shutdown Friday

Time to ride...

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Eddie Huang
Jan 27, 2026
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I’ve been watching and listening, biting my tongue recently because a lot of great people are already speaking out about what’s happening and I told myself I would not say anything until I felt I had something productive to add and an hour ago I saw this National Shutdown happening Friday.

I’ve been looking for some type of public action that could hit this administration where it hurts and found it here.

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There isn’t a ton of information, but from what I can gather it is building off the momentum from the University of Minnesota Student Unions that organized the general strike in Minnesota January 23rd.

According to Left Voice over 700 workplaces shut down in the Minneapolis area and @novaramedia says that, “Payday Report, a strike-tracking website, said there were more than 300 solidarity actions across the US coinciding with last week’s shutdown…

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