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Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
January 27, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Gut-wrenching photo.
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
January 26, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Gut-wrenching photo.
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A 51-year-old man shot Saturday by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis has died, a hospital record obtained by The Associated Press shows.
Minneapolis chief O'Hara says man shot Saturday by federal agent has died
Minneapolis police Chief Brian O’Hara has confirmed the man shot by a federal agent Saturday morning in Minneapolis has died. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, MPD Chief Brian O'Hara are expected to brief...
www.mprnews.org
January 24, 2026 at 5:46 PM
A 51-year-old man shot Saturday by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis has died, a hospital record obtained by The Associated Press shows.
Witnesses say they begged ICE agents not to detain Minnesota 5-year-old after father's arrest www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Witnesses say they begged ICE agents not to detain Minnesota 5-year-old after father's arrest
People who saw federal agents detain 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos in Columbia Heights pushed back against claims by ICE and Vice President JD Vance that the child was abandoned, saying neighbors and s...
www.mprnews.org
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Witnesses say they begged ICE agents not to detain Minnesota 5-year-old after father's arrest www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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It’s CONGRESS that can stop ICE and CBP deployment to MN. The Dems (and any responsible Rs?) should introduce legislation and agitate for a vote: “No federal funds may be used for further activities of ICE or CBP in the state of Minnesota, except for their prompt withdrawal.”
January 24, 2026 at 6:15 PM
It’s CONGRESS that can stop ICE and CBP deployment to MN. The Dems (and any responsible Rs?) should introduce legislation and agitate for a vote: “No federal funds may be used for further activities of ICE or CBP in the state of Minnesota, except for their prompt withdrawal.”
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Police Chief Brian O'Hara says they believe the victim was a "lawful gun owner" with no law enforcement record outside of traffic tickets. Says federal agents did not provide them with a "public safety statement" regarding the shooting.
January 24, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Police Chief Brian O'Hara says they believe the victim was a "lawful gun owner" with no law enforcement record outside of traffic tickets. Says federal agents did not provide them with a "public safety statement" regarding the shooting.
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Frey: I'm done being told that our local elected officials are solely responsible for turning down the temperature. Yesterday we saw 15,000 people peacefully protesting in the streets, speaking out, standing up for their neighbors. Not a single broken window, not a single injury.
January 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Frey: I'm done being told that our local elected officials are solely responsible for turning down the temperature. Yesterday we saw 15,000 people peacefully protesting in the streets, speaking out, standing up for their neighbors. Not a single broken window, not a single injury.
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Mayor Jacob Frey: "How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end? "
January 24, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Mayor Jacob Frey: "How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end? "
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Greg Rosen led the team of lawyers and paralegals who prosecuted the Jan 6 Capitol rioters. Remembering how "our democracy was attacked is essential," he writes on Substack. "Five years later, it might be one of the most important things left to do."
The Attack on the Capitol: We Remember
Remembering, with moral clarity, how our democracy was attacked is essential. Five years later, it might be one of the most important things left to do.
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Greg Rosen led the team of lawyers and paralegals who prosecuted the Jan 6 Capitol rioters. Remembering how "our democracy was attacked is essential," he writes on Substack. "Five years later, it might be one of the most important things left to do."
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Shocked, shocked to learn this administration is shutting down effective public programs and forcing us to go through regulatory rentiers instead. Crony capitalism 2.0.
👀 Scoop: IRS Direct File, the free government-backed program that let you file your taxes for free, is dead.
IRS wrote to state tax agencies saying it would not be operational this coming tax season, per records I've obtained.
IRS Direct File: 2023-2025.
(Story from when the pilot launched.)
IRS wrote to state tax agencies saying it would not be operational this coming tax season, per records I've obtained.
IRS Direct File: 2023-2025.
(Story from when the pilot launched.)
IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax-prep giants
The tax agency has quietly built its own prototype system for filing tax returns digitally and free of charge, according to current and former officials.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Shocked, shocked to learn this administration is shutting down effective public programs and forcing us to go through regulatory rentiers instead. Crony capitalism 2.0.
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Automakers urge Trump not to impose tariffs on factory robots, machinery reut.rs/4o3Q5s7
Automakers urge Trump not to impose tariffs on factory robots, machinery
A group representing nearly all major automakers on Wednesday urged the administration of President Donald Trump not to impose tariffs on factory robots and machinery.
reut.rs
October 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Automakers urge Trump not to impose tariffs on factory robots, machinery reut.rs/4o3Q5s7
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Gold inches down as dollar firms, focus on US inflation data reut.rs/47DQJXi
Gold inches down as dollar firms, focus on US inflation data
Gold prices edged lower on Thursday, weighed down by a firmer dollar as investors looked forward to key U.S. inflation data due later this week for more cues on the interest rate path.
reut.rs
October 23, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Gold inches down as dollar firms, focus on US inflation data reut.rs/47DQJXi
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Basically all US policy is at this point about indulging Trump’s irrational obsessions, petty grudges, and corrupt grifts, and then taking secondary and tertiary measures to mask the consequences of those policies.
lol, great, so we're now subsidizing Argentine ranchers at the expense of American ranchers. Seems politically sustainable, no questions from me.
*US SEEKS TO QUADRUPLE BEEF PURCHASES FROM ARGENTINA: POLITICO
*US SEEKS TO QUADRUPLE BEEF PURCHASES FROM ARGENTINA: POLITICO
October 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Basically all US policy is at this point about indulging Trump’s irrational obsessions, petty grudges, and corrupt grifts, and then taking secondary and tertiary measures to mask the consequences of those policies.
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Mike Johnson doesn't know sh*t
October 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Mike Johnson doesn't know sh*t
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The changing face of the ninth circuit really on display in all the senior judges who joined the dissent
NEW: The Ninth Circuit votes AGAINST an en banc rehearing of the case on the deployment of the California National Guard to LA, leaving the panel decision permitting the deployment intact. Eleven judges file a dissent. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The changing face of the ninth circuit really on display in all the senior judges who joined the dissent
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These videos of shocked and shattered people contenting with what their healthcare costs would be without the subsidy are moving and enraging www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMHHSVFb/
Carla and Bartley are retirees in Eugene, Oregon. Their insurance company notified them that their health insurance premiums are going from $443 per month to $2224 per month because Republicans have f...
TikTok video by Ron Wyden
www.tiktok.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:05 AM
These videos of shocked and shattered people contenting with what their healthcare costs would be without the subsidy are moving and enraging www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMHHSVFb/
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Even if the Trump administration pledged tomorrow to stop strangling the goose that lays the golden eggs (the American higher education system, which has been the envy of the world since the mid-20th century), the reverberations of the damage they have already done will be felt for decades.
October 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Even if the Trump administration pledged tomorrow to stop strangling the goose that lays the golden eggs (the American higher education system, which has been the envy of the world since the mid-20th century), the reverberations of the damage they have already done will be felt for decades.
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Second and more important, read Paragraph 8.
The gov't agrees, for now (until it sours on UVA and cancels the agreement), to "treat UVA as eligible for grants, funding, contracts, and awards on the same basis as other universities, and no less favorable than hose available to any other university"
The gov't agrees, for now (until it sours on UVA and cancels the agreement), to "treat UVA as eligible for grants, funding, contracts, and awards on the same basis as other universities, and no less favorable than hose available to any other university"
October 23, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Second and more important, read Paragraph 8.
The gov't agrees, for now (until it sours on UVA and cancels the agreement), to "treat UVA as eligible for grants, funding, contracts, and awards on the same basis as other universities, and no less favorable than hose available to any other university"
The gov't agrees, for now (until it sours on UVA and cancels the agreement), to "treat UVA as eligible for grants, funding, contracts, and awards on the same basis as other universities, and no less favorable than hose available to any other university"
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So, all that is terrible. Where's my glimmer of hope?
In two places.
First, what's not here. Compared to Columbia or Brown, UVA is paying nothing. $0. That's small progress, but I think it's progress: the government's demands in its campaign against universities seem to be shrinking, not growing.
In two places.
First, what's not here. Compared to Columbia or Brown, UVA is paying nothing. $0. That's small progress, but I think it's progress: the government's demands in its campaign against universities seem to be shrinking, not growing.
October 23, 2025 at 3:53 AM
So, all that is terrible. Where's my glimmer of hope?
In two places.
First, what's not here. Compared to Columbia or Brown, UVA is paying nothing. $0. That's small progress, but I think it's progress: the government's demands in its campaign against universities seem to be shrinking, not growing.
In two places.
First, what's not here. Compared to Columbia or Brown, UVA is paying nothing. $0. That's small progress, but I think it's progress: the government's demands in its campaign against universities seem to be shrinking, not growing.
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NEW: Joyce Meyer, President Trump’s nominee for the next commerce undersecretary to oversee the Census Bureau, avoids directly answering whether non-US citizens can be excluded from what 14th Amendment says must include "whole number of persons in each state"
www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
October 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
NEW: Joyce Meyer, President Trump’s nominee for the next commerce undersecretary to oversee the Census Bureau, avoids directly answering whether non-US citizens can be excluded from what 14th Amendment says must include "whole number of persons in each state"
www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
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🚨 NEW: The Trump DOJ has filed its friend-of-the-court brief in the Louisiana case challenging the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act.
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
September 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
🚨 NEW: The Trump DOJ has filed its friend-of-the-court brief in the Louisiana case challenging the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act.
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
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Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it.
It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019.
This is the *23rd* such grant since then.
It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019.
This is the *23rd* such grant since then.
#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.
September 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it.
It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019.
This is the *23rd* such grant since then.
It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019.
This is the *23rd* such grant since then.
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#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.
September 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.
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Phang: Part of the reason the FBI has been showing this level of dysfunction is evidenced by the lawsuit filed yesterday by former FBI officials—what it shows is that the FBI has basically been hollowed out…
September 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Phang: Part of the reason the FBI has been showing this level of dysfunction is evidenced by the lawsuit filed yesterday by former FBI officials—what it shows is that the FBI has basically been hollowed out…