- I've heard enough: Bruce Springsteen has just given us the single best traditional protest song written in my lifetime. It is a beautiful tribute to the anger, the tenacity, & the simple hope that ICE can end that Minneapolis has shown the world in the past two months youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
Jan 29, 2026 01:57
- I have been waiting most of my adult lifetime for someone to write a song like this, and appropriately enough I just heard it for the first time after touching down in New Jersey on my way to Minneapolis
- This moment needs more songs that we can sing and appreciate in community, and this one has it all: a clear narrative, an inspirational chorus, and an unambiguous statement of Noem and Miller's moral responsibility. Springsteen even manages to smoothly incorporate a chant of ICE OUT NOW 12/10
- I have been daring to hope especially since the summer of 2020 that someone would write new songs that families, friends, and communities could share to remember who we are and why we fight. The unambiguous moral clarity of this moment has given us this one
- And just to round this thread out, a special appreciation of the best nontraditional protest song of our times youtu.be/WkZ5e94QnWk?...