Relatives of a boat captain from the eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia tell The Associated Press that he is missing after a recent U.S. strike on a suspected drug vessel in the region.

SCOOP: Less than 1 month before Trump came out against a new bridge connecting Michigan with Canada, the billionaire owner of an existing bridge donated $1M to the Trump-backed super PAC, MAGA Inc. with @matinastevis.bsky.social

MAGA's interest in "antitrust reform" was never real, you preposterous fucking rubes.

"prohibition in the united states" has this time lapse map that switches from folksy banjo music to ominous industrial sci-fi for the 15 seconds when alcohol was illegal nationwide

One reason Minneapolis remains in the world's eye is we have one of the most robust & independent media ecosystems remaining in the country. You all need this...and more! @mprnews.org @startribune.com @sahanjournal.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social @racketmn.com etc.

you have wonder if the problem was “world,” “facts,” or “books”

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

This was in the "Jewish Journal" yesterday, arguing that it is inaccurate to compare the actions of any aspect of the Nazi state during the Holocaust to ICE in the US today, because the Nazis went after "legal citizens." Let's count the ways this single paragraph is false.

there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content

Federal agents cornered Marimar Martinez, shot her several times, boasted about it, arrested her, lied about her to the public and in the police report, and falsely charged her with assaulting them. Now the government wants to keep evidence of their lies secret to protect these agents' "privacy."

Happy 3 year anniversary to this post

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

The feds faking a photo is a different order of magnitude, but it comes from the same place - reality isn't making my enemies look bad enough, AI will fix that.

Donald Trump's AI-generated "Board of Peace" logo is so bad it doesn't even have Greenland on it, the territory he almost took the US to war this week to seize. No, really, look closely:

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

A federal appeals court has paused an injunction barring immigration agents from “retaliating” against peaceful protesters and observers in Minnesota. This photo from today shows a federal agent spraying a protester on the ground with a chemical irritant.

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

We're all expecting the talking points memo-era Bush administration approach where they're all coordinated, but each one of these guys has his own little audience and online brand so getting everyone lined up on one official lie doesn't really matter

Very hard to determine why this happened when the principals just ad lib a new reasoning for it every time they're asked

Either it was a limited operation merely to arrest Maduro and move on, or, it is an ongoing major regime change committment that will open up a transition including international and private sector partners. It really can't be both

Rubio: Congress doesn’t need to be notified because this is a law-enforcement operation, besides we’re occupying Venezuela and taking its oil for the foreseeable future.

A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.

Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

An official account of the United States government is dreamposting about deporting 80+ million citizens

And our 2025 "Stories You May Have Missed" list is an excellent cross-section of what our investigative reporters covered this year, independent journalism funded by your donations: from prescription drug safety to mental health to immigration to Nike to reality TV www.propublica.org/article/prop...

The @startribune.com's visual teams crafted custom experiences on everything from mayoral races and vaccines to smells at the State Fair and where Uptown really is. Take a peek and discover one or two things you might've missed from us this year. www.startribune.com/minnesotas-2...

Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.” Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.

Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist. I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵

One big effect of AI hype and promotion of unreliable chatbots is that a significant amount of additional friction and labour is being injected into our knowledge-making and -maintaining systems. At a time when these systems are already contracting and being starved by growing austerity.

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols

remember this "case" began with DHS press person claiming that multiple vehicles had ambushed and cornered CBP agents in a scene reminiscent of Baghdad 2007

A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends. It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.

I’ve said it before but news outlets worry a lot about looking biased and not enough about looking phony. Why should people trust you if you won’t say what they can see plain as day?

Unprecedented corruption - not just monetizing the presidency by selling branded products, but selling those products directly to government employees and having the Department of Homeland Security promote them to the media

MUST WATCH: Tennessee sheriff defends jailing liberal activist for posting Trump meme about school shooting www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

It's wrong to call this "the Justice Department." He wants $230 million from the US taxpayer. Federal dollars. DOJ isn't some private company or NGO.

the most popular smartphone maker in history literally had to stop using "AI" because it would constantly just make things up and had zero contextual "understanding" of what it was doing

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

"Depends on who you ask" framing is one of the most grating tics in modern political journalism. Objective reality exists and your job is to describe it.

The Sora AI disinfo nightmare is here For more like this: tiktok.com/@drewharwell instagram.com/bydrewharwell

I just want to be sure what I'm seeing: the President of the United States, from his actual social media account, is promoting an AI video of himself promoting a made-up medical conspiracy? Is that what's happening?