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thread of my work on immigration and ICE in minnesota, updated periodically 👇

similar to mailers targeting amy klobuchar in the twin cities

The Minnesota Vikings have won all their games. Additionally, they have lost none of their games. All 31 other teams in the NFL have lost at least one of their games. However, we still must ask: Are the Minnesota Vikings good at football?

174 former federal and state judges sent a letter Monday requesting the dismissal of a misconduct complaint filed last month by the U.S. Department of Justice against nearly every federal judge in Minnesota.

What’s remarkable here isn’t just the sentiment, which is obviously weird and depressing, but that a media trained executive who has been doing interviews for decades thought this was an anecdote that would land well.

my colleague @maxnesterak.bsky.social on what a flanagan win would mean for minnesota's native communities — and the tension of working within a federal government that has historically been an enemy to tribes

shoulda left jeff banks in dallas two weeks ago

In today's Flyover news roundup... racketmn.com/who-is-poten...

longhorn sighting

ah yes. Mutually Parting Ways six weeks into the season

New: We found cops who kept using Flock to spy on women after they left the force. One used it for five years after retirement, tracking his wife during a custody battle. Another ran searches while he was suspended (and later fired) after killing a 15-year-old boy. Free to read: wapo.st/3UEwWU7

Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine on.wsj.com/4sgcxkt

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we said goodbye to millie today. by my count we lived in 9 places in 3 states together. see ya on the other side ❤️

More than 500 English learner students, many of whom were immigrants, never returned to St. Paul schools after Operation Metro Surge.

bernie coming to duluth on saturday

this day will be redeemed if georgia takes a more embarrassing SEC loss than texas

watched the 11am slate with a mix of indiana and texas fans. the vibes are foul

fire sark and make muschamp interim HC. there i said it

Pain

someone mailed an unidentified white powder to the minnesota secretary of state's office but it was intercepted before reaching the office.

ah yes. this podcast

this is a really great data visualization that underscores how panic over noncitizen voting depends significantly on people not comprehending how big numbers are www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Justice Department cuts off evidence sharing with Minnesota investigators probing fatal ICE shootings

The Crime Index (Crimeindex.org) is updated now through August. Murder is down 16% in our sample of nearly 550 agencies covering 112 million people nationwide. Violent crime is down 6% and property crime is down 9% as crime continues to fall in the United States.

having a 512 area code is a professional inconvenience but you can pry it from my cold dead hands

I've said this before but one thing news publishers have is tons of data on reader behavior. What people say they want and what they actually consume are often very different things.

Demuth on Minnesota’s landmark trans refuge bill: “You know who seeks to harm our children when it comes right down to it? It is Satan. That is his goal: is to harm our children.”