Jon Collins

Videos posted by O'Keefe’s operation show them wearing burkas outside precincts during the primary. Moriarty said the voter names they used included some residents who were dead and at least one who voted. More at MPRNews.org www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...

The feds “have ignored us, misled us and shielded Alex’s killers,” Michael Pretti told reporters. Minnesota U.S Attorney Daniel Rosen has “stonewalled us for nine months, refusing to share a single update of any kind” on the federal investigation into Alex’s killing. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...

More than 5 million people have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits since President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year. That has meant many more people are turning to food banks for support. https://to.pbs.org/47Sb4rd

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

Researchers who track online influence operations say Kremlin-backed groups are renewing tactics they've used to sow distrust and discord in previous elections in the U.S. and around the world. n.pr/4snxJFv

During the pandemic, the wealth of upper-income households in the US grew much more quickly than that of middle- and lower-income households. By 2022, upper-income households had 49 times the wealth of lower-income households. www.pewresearch.org/social-trend...

"In recent weeks, Russia has ramped up those efforts. Most of the Russian content so far, spread by bot networks around the world, has targeted Democratic candidates, especially in closely contested Senate races that could determine control of Congress." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/u...

I suspect this election is going to make it clear exactly how many "people" online are bots, and how social media corporations have managed to monopolize people's attention to limit their awareness of legit journalism, which doesn't earn them as much money as AI garbage or divisive propaganda.

Unidos/Monarca, known for providing some of the backbone infrastructure of this winter's resistance to ICE in Minnesota, has shifted to election protection. The Trump administration has unsuccessfully pushed for access to state voter rolls and will send DOJ observers. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...

The DOJ wants to disqualify two Minnesota federal judges from immigration cases. It comes after the judges and other colleagues spoke to the NYTimes for a story about impact of the federal surge in Minnesota on the courts. Via @msepic.bsky.social share.google/Kr8LYQjo6DE7...

Peggy Flanagan provided evidence of her Phi Beta Kappa membership after a Wall Street Journal report questioned her academic credentials. The honor society confirmed the DFL U.S. Senate candidate has been a member since 2002.

"Both Musk and President Trump have expressed anger at Ukraine for attacking Russian diesel refineries in recent weeks...Last week, Musk capped the speeds at which Ukrainian hardware could stay connected to the satellite-based network" rendering drones useless. www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

Gift link: "They offered her $10 million a year for four years along with a range of bonuses. In total, including bonuses, she was guaranteed more than $50 million over four years..." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Gift link: "More than a third of Idaho’s OB-GYNs have stopped practicing obstetrics, left the state, closed their practices or retired since the ban took effect in August 2022." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/m...

"For a decade and a half, Orbán and his far-right Fidesz party operated a sprawling pro-government media empire that bolstered their narratives, smeared opponents and controlled what an independent analysis found was around 80% of Hungary's media market." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Inside an ICE facility, women talked about the men whose 911 calls landed them there — the boyfriends or husbands who had beat them, choked them, threatened deportation. “I had suffered from domestic violence,” one woman said. “But the one who ended up in trouble was me.”

The scope of the investigation into Omar is unclear, though Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has suggested that authorities were examining potential crimes related to her family’s immigration paperwork.

CPJ’s research found that more than three dozen journalists were temporarily detained, and several assaulted, while covering protests against the country’s chief election commissioner over alleged voter-list manipulation in New Delhi, Ahmedabad, and Pune on October 10 and 11. cpj.org/2026/10/at-l...

Rep. Ilhan Omar's home searched by federal agents as part of a criminal probe, AP sources says | MPR News share.google/dX19SHvQss6S...

MPD chief nominee Bill Peterson says he has seen firsthand over 31 years how MPD actions and failures have caused harm to residents of Minneapolis and broke trust. He says he's committed to setting high expectations, holding MPD accountable etc.

BREAKING: Christa Pike is now awake and talking, per her attorneys:

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa

“ICE never left. Things became less public, became less of a spectacle, but immigrants are still being targeted and persecuted,” Barham said. “And from rumors I'm hearing, things I've seen, I suspect that they're about to amp up again.” story via Cait Kelley www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...

Harrowing story of a couple separated by federal immigration agents: “They threw him to the ground like he was some kind of hardened criminal...They put a knee on his back and started kicking and beating him while he was already on the ground.” Via Regina Medina www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...

MPR: 'Catch, release, catch: Inside ICE's new 'farce' tactic' 'Operation Metro Surge officially ended in Minnesota, but attorneys say federal agents have simply adapted and shifted tactics since last winter' www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...

Icymi, I spoke to author @brian-goldstone.bsky.social about his Pulitzer-winning book, ‘There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America.' It's amazing journalism that illuminates the tension at the heart of our society -- many people aren't paid enough to live. share.google/1DZNPcBxv98S...

"There Is No Place For Us" is one of the best works of nonfiction I've read in a long time — if you're considering reading it, this interview by @jcollins.bsky.social with author @briangoldstone.bsky.social is a good starting point

So grateful to @jcollins.bsky.social for this interview. It was an especially raw conversation, coming just a day after I learned that Maurice had died. "They are working and working and working some more, and it still isn't enough... There are so many languishing in a manufactured invisibility."

ICYMI 👇 And new today: MN lawmakers read it and have vowed action

The Minneapolis City Council narrowly approved an ordinance to require human safety monitors in driverless rideshare vehicles on a 7-6 vote. It's not enough support to overcome a veto, which Mayor Jacob Frey has said he will give.

I'd just like to remind people fighting in my comments that a significant portion of accounts posting inflammatory statements on whatever side are likely bots. That's just gonna become more and more true. It's not worth boiling your blood about it.

Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire is quietly shooting a pro-ICE movie that dramatizes the Renee Good killing. We got the script. My latest False Flag for @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/daily-wire...

The claim says Williams didn’t threaten or resist agents on Jan. 7 but was held down, slammed into the ground and choked. During the drive to Whipple Federal Building, Williams says agents laughed about Renee Good’s killing earlier that morning and said, “hopefully we don’t have to kill you, too.”

The Roosevelt High School teacher who was tackled, choked and charged with felony by feds on school grounds just hours after Renee Good's killing has taken a preliminary step in filing a lawsuit against the federal government. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...