April 20, 2026 Late Saturday evening, Josh Dawsey and Annie Linskey of the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump was so unstable and angry after learning on April 3 that Iranians had shot down an American jet that his aides kept him out of the room as they received updates, simply telling him….

More insider trading on US govt announcements. It increasingly looks daft to be in any of these prediction markets if not corruptly using inside information

Featured story: “It’s showing that the government is willing to literally waste billions upon billions of dollars to make these useless walls … instead of taking that exact same money and making sure that everybody has housing or clean water and food and education.”

i’m at sd39 DFL convention today. hilltop, columbia heights, fridley, spring lake park, area hit hard by ICE. mary kunesh for senate, for house, aaron klemz and jonathan rehlander on the a side, and amada marquez simula, elijah norris-holliday, and justice spriggs for the b side

Hey friends! I will be signing books tomorrow at Stages Theater from 6-7 before their performance of The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Come if you can!

Last week, my narration of The Body was released, just in time to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Stand By Me. Today, we got a lovely mention and review in Kirkus, and I'm just so proud of what we did. This project is deeply personal and special to me, and I love that it's getting noticed.

If Defend 612 was a city department they would give a presentation to the city council with a slideshow charting their amazing response times. And brag about not using any of their overtime budget, because they have no budget.

A Minneapolis woman who opposed ICE woke up to a drone outside her second floor bedroom window. A man delivering groceries to a suburban distro house for mutual aid recorded a drone hovering above the house. Whose drones and why? (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Sumana discusses a bunch of things about Kat Abughazaleh’s campaign. harihareswara.net/posts/2026/w...

Commentary: There’s nothing special about Zion Community Commons. This could be done anywhere, and it should be done everywhere. All it takes are some people who get it: Those who understand that you and I are the same, and that we all belong here. minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/12/w...

I see that the original repost is now deleted. Here is the link to the article: people.com/kristi-noem-...

This will be something that seems like a drop in our daily dumpster fire life, but mark my words, it will be cited in history books.

It often feels like you can't get a lot of leverage against big companies like this, but I that law firms en masse walking away from Westlaw would be a huge hit, and firms large and small should consider it. Law schools too (I say, regretfully, having had full WL access for teaching for 15+ years)

Twenty-one states funneled nearly a half-billion dollars of taxpayer money to crisis pregnancy center organizations between fiscal years 2022 and 2025. In Pa., Gov. Josh Shapiro terminated the state's contract with its crisis pregnancy network in 2023. From @statesnewsroom.com

How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States. snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

what are we doin here man

Bookbinders and restorers in the 1930s and ’40s helped the Nazi regime create a database that was used to persecute and kill Jews and others who were deemed racially impure, a British researcher has found.

If you know anyone who needs coverage for damages of Operation Metro Surge, this may be of interest:

Bringing this thread back. Outstate (meaning outside the metro) Minnesota is getting hammered right now. People continue to forget N. Mpls. If you have links for NOT Minneapolis (except North Minneapolis), drop them in the original thread as a reply. Replies and quotes open there.

Just coming here to inject some positive vibes by way of a way to support small businesses in Minnesota

The problem with standing up to tyranny is that, if you're successful people will say you overreacted. and if you're not successful, there is zero comfort Inn saying "I told you so"

It's like nesting dolls, but cooler #GHWP

I love the mecha turtle on its back. #GHWP

Vouchers were first used after Brown v. Board to avoid integrating public schools. Today, they still operate outside the civil rights and accountability standards that guide public education, and a new federal voucher program could divert $50 billion from public schools nationwide.

This is the eighth death in ICE custody in the last seven weeks.

I’m 1st gen Norwegian-American and have been reconnecting a lot recently. It’s remarkable to me, as an American, how little of the winner/loser mentality they have, compared to here. Your success doesn’t depend on someone else’s failure whereas that’s so built in here you don’t think about it.

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

This is Bogie. This rope is his very favorite toy because it makes his tiny human smile too. 13/10 (TT: _chelsea_brown_4)

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Thinking about this more and I genuinely think they should do it. Pick a specific date, fund 1,000 block parties around the city, advertise it a month in advance, welcome tourists to come and eat and party with us. It would work!! Corporate sponsors can have their name in 6pt type on some list.

1. Internal documents reveal that Freedom 250, which purports to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary, is a vehicle to promote Trump and "America First" propaganda, including election conspiracies Major corporations like Mastercard and Deloitte and spending million to bankroll this effort

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SCOOP: Tensions at Palantir have grown in recent weeks over the company's work with ICE. On Friday, CEO Alex Karp tried to calm concerns in an hourlong video that offered few specifics—instead offering NDAs to workers who want to understand how it's empowering ICE. www.wired.com/story/palant...

I didn't have TikTok on my phone when it was Chinese spyware, I'm not going to have it on my phone when it is US spyware

Another reminder that this is still happening:

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

As a movement to ban books reaches the front doors of libraries across the country, librarians find themselves on the frontlines. Watch @independentlens.bsky.social @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social on the PBS YouTube Channel and PBS app starting February 9. www.pbs.org/independentl...

"An increasing percentage of detainees, 74%, have no criminal history, data shows." stateline.org/2026/02/05/i...

This is magnificent.

TWIN CITIES Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action. No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group. Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest." acatusa.com

I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.

Tonight at 8:30 PM our constituent Ricky was pepper sprayed by ICE on 18th & Polk. 2 agents parked their car, got out and approached observers, started pepper spraying Ricky on public property, and then drove away and left. Nothing is changing on the ground in Minnesota. ICE must be abolished.

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

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Author-vloggers Hank and John Green are turning their educational media company Complexly into a nonprofit.

tomorrow i would really like to challenge a few folks with larger followings than me to adopt a rent and raise it in one day. my little group chat and my followers have paid like 70 families rents in the past four days. i believe that some of y’all could help us keep one family housed.