@mattdelong
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"Each person plucked from their day-to-day existence left a whole life behind. There are shoes by the front door and an empty bed. There’s a car in the driveway and a job undone. There are pets that need feeding, bills that keep arriving and leases with months left to pay."
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
BREAKING: About 140 U.S. troops have been wounded in the Iran war, including eight severely, the Pentagon says.
The Phoenix New Times has long been known for its hard-hitting investigative reporting, notably about former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Warren Jeffs and the FLDS church
A high-powered Chicago law firm announced a plan Monday to push for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and potentially charge the agents who carried out Operation Midway Blitz.
@sophiesherry.bsky.social reports: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...
Reporter: You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war. But you're the only person in your government saying this. Why?
Trump: Because I just don't know enough about it.
The Lower Sioux Indian Community is now the eighth Minnesota tribal nation to sign a cannabis compact with the state. Like the others, the agreement will allow the tribe to license up to eight off-reservation retail stores, as well as cultivation and manufacturing businesses outside tribal lands.
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Bluesky post: Just ONE generation ago, our fathers could support an entire family on a single paycheck. Afford homes, buy cars, raise kids, family vacations, and retire with pensions… all on ONE middle-class salary. Today? Two incomes barely cover rent in most cities.
In January, a Moorhead web developer released a symbol combining the loon, Minnesota's state bird, with the “Star Wars’” Rebel Alliance symbol. It blew up overnight.
Here's the link to Bellingcat's investigation
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
Minnesota weighs legalizing psilocybin mushrooms for therapeutic use
When I saw this photo I assumed it was some kind of NSA data center or something
The average price for a gallon of gas in Minnesota was $3.25 this morning. That’s 42 cents higher than a week ago and 61 cents higher than one month ago.
“Gasoline prices in many states could climb another 20 to 50 cents per gallon this week.”
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
“The case was one of the many falsehoods touted by the Trump administration about the people detained, arrested and killed by federal agents during Operation Metro Surge. It also marked the only time that federal authorities admitted wrongdoing.”
Fox News admits to airing an old dignified transfer video on its program this morning, one that did not show Donald Trump wearing a white ball cap.
State media watch:
The image of Trump saluting - without his baseball hat that you can buy at his website - is falsely labeled as Trump acknowledging the soldiers killed on March 1.
This was not a mistake - its also on the Fox News website.
“Of the 279 people accused by officials on X of attacking federal officers in the past year, 181 were U.S. citizens, the Journal found. Close to half of those Americans were never charged with assault. None have been convicted at trial.”
In a victory for Voice of America staffers, a federal judge ruled that Kari Lake unlawfully ran the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) for several months last year. The mass layoffs and other actions undertaken during that time “are void,” the judge wrote. https://cnn.it/46LPSTM
Not the point but I think everyone should know that Moorhead, one of the elite hockey programs in Minnesota, is known as the Spuds because that part of the state was once among the USA's top potato-growing regions
A man who was held at an ICE detention facility in Texas before being deported to the Netherlands told the AP that he heard a guard talking about a staff betting pool on which detainee would be next to commit suicide
Even when the stage looks like it’s full, more people keep appearing like Cletus calling his kids on the Simpsons
“In a video of the encounter, as two protesters blocked their van … the driver opened his door, leaned over the windshield and pointed a pistol at them. Another man in a bulletproof vest and carrying a long gun walked outside the vehicle. One of the armed men shot pepperballs into the crowd.”
just fwiw, here are the arguments being made, in order:
1. iran has apologized to its neighbors and admitted it lost
2. this is unprecedented and because of me
3. iran has not surrendered and will collapse if it doesn’t admit it lost
4. i am going to bomb iran more and worse until it surrenders
Dropkick Murphys performed a free show today outside the memorial for Alex Pretti 🎶
🎥: @chrisrstrib.bsky.social
Wisconsin liberals have a chance next month to go up 5-2 on the state supreme court for the first time in modern history. If they succeed, they'll also block conservatives from earning a court majority through the next presidential election and until at least 2030.
New preview in @boltsmag.org:
“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
