Miller Lite stat o’ the day 77 The percent of respondents to today’s Michigan Consumer Confidence Survey who DISSAPPROVE of the government’s economic policy. That is an all-time survey high. Chart courtesy Justin Wolfers/Platypus Economics

1. A network of prominent news outlets, including The Oregonian, The Plain Dealer, The Star-Ledger, have quietly published more than 17,000 articles since 2022 pushing promo codes for sports books and prediction markets Advance Local, which owns these outlets, claims this is journalism.

The insider trading problem with prediction markets is bigger than any of us could have known.

The whole point of prediction markets is to bring out insider information. It's not a bug, it's not even a feature, it's literally the fuel that they run on.

the problem with prediction markets is that they try to do on purpose what stock markets do accidentally. like, stock markets developed to help companies raise capital; only after they had existed for a long time did economists figure out that they "predict" the future value of companies

the thing about nuking prediction markets out of existence is that you’re talking about a fraction of a percent of the population noticing, most of whom are in the red. targeting these markets very aggressively will have no impact on more than 99.5% of the united states

Online betting markets are a cancer. www.npr.org/2026/05/07/n...

29 people shackled people boarding the ICE Air flight at MSP today, on the 97th flight of the year here in Minnesota. The bizjet taxiing past is N93VP, which belongs to Värde Partners, a Minneapolis-based investment firm. Stats: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-msp/data

Join us today 12:30 programs starts 1:00pm Somali American Solidarity Day

MNSPJ is partnering with the Minnesota Journalism Center and the Committee to Protect Journalists to provide training focused on digital security and safety online, particularly after the most recent wave of intense breaking news events Minnesota journalists have covered.

MN DFL …guys, guys, we need to protect Democracy, all about that fighting Trump and him taking away Democracy and minority representation. Also MN DFL …hey guys should we like, make there be less Democracy and take away minority representation n’ stuff?

Today the Senate passed SF 3699, the ICE Accountability & Justice Package. I want to thank Ron Latz for lead authoring this critical legislation with me, which bans masks, restricts ICE at schools, courthouses, & hospitals, and gives Minnesotans their day in court.

DFL delegates stand with their backs turned for angie craig’s surrogate at the cd5 convention in protest of her vote for the laken riley act, including one delegate in a “hey ICE! get the fuck out of minneapolis!” shirt

A mass shooting at the world famous Teotihuacan Pyramids killed one person and left over a dozen injured. The shooter was later identified as Julio Ramírez, a 27 year old man who idolized fascism and the Columbine massacre. unicornriot.ninja/2026/the-teo...

Join our partners at CAIR MN for Somali Solidarity Day at the Minnesota State Capitol Tuesday, May 12, 2026 12:30 – 1:30 PM Rotunda, Minnesota State Capitol We're calling for a visible show of solidarity with Somali Americans at a time when our community is under sustained and escalating attack.

everywhere i go in minnesota it’s data centers. today: sign in duluth opposing the hermantown data center and a newspaper headline in hinckley about pine county rejecting a proposed moratorium on data centers

it's the first night of the free friday night parking in uptown!! SOUND OFF: how are you celebrating this bounty?

I am incredibly proud to earn the DFL endorsement! I promise to continue fighting for our values no matter what they throw at us. Onward to the primary! 💪🏽

Palestinians ran in central Gaza for the 10th edition of Palestine International Marathon, which brought together some 1,900 participants, according to organizers. The marathon followed a two-year halt due to the war

ILHAN OMAR IS YOUR DFL ENDORSED CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS IN CD5

Businesses across the US after tariffs get cancelled and they get refunds on their tariff surcharges that they already had passed on to consumers months ago.

Israel bombs Dahieh, Beirut.

Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir posted a video saying he “dreams” of nooses, alongside AI-generated images referencing a proposed death penalty law for Palestinian detainees.

"The governor was previously told by Trump during a White House meeting earlier this year that he would not undertake a Minnesota-style surge of federal immigration officers unless states like New York wanted it." www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Fifty years since the end of the American bombing campaign over southeast Asia and the country of Laos is still littered with unexploded bombs that kill hundreds every year. We heard from locals and NGO's about ongoing efforts to remove the bombs. unicornriot.ninja/2026/the-ame...

I can only describe the racism surrounding the Metro State Graduation shooting on Monday as, "Adolf Hitler level casual racism." It is just sheer absolute hate online and from second hand things I have heard. It is fucking insane. I'm yelling into the void at this point.

About the active shooting incident I was in...I think the police will piece it together, but there was no shooting at Rice Park, it was likely echos and multiple 911 calls from all over the place.

I survived a shooting incident and I didn't give a fuck. I didn't ask where my shoes are or pump my hand in the air and make a big scene. I didn't have secret service protecting me. I really do not give a fuck about these people with the Trump shirt with the hand in the air thinking they are tough.

I was physically present about 50 feet away from a horrifying active shooting incident at the River Center Monday at about 530PM. There were thousands of people present and they fled en masse, mag dump, screams of terror...the stuff of nightmares. No one killed, two injured.

It’s funny how many conservative leaning friends of mine were so up in arms about everything and just constantly up on the news every day in 2024 and prior and now they have, “just been so busy and don’t look at the news or social media anymore.” Sure pal, Americans famously never check social media

About Ton That one of the founders of Clearview AI … a former phisher who was sought by police for his phishing activities and an immigrant from Australia.

Clearview AI built a tool with billions of photos scraped from the internet, deployed it to law enforcement with no meaningful oversight, and offered no accountability for the harm it caused to Angela Lipps. We demand better: civilrights.quorum.us/campaign/153...

Mainers say ICE agents followed them home and called their personal phones after they documented an operation called "Catch of the Day." Rep. Chellie Pingree just introduced HR 7743 to freeze ICE’s Clearview AI contract until Congress knows who’s getting swept in.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This is the most Nazi shit Trump has ever done this far. The Nazis we’re very good at, “the economy.” They boosted their economy by insane war spending to the detriment of Germany and to bamboozle the masses to consent. That is what is happening. SP500 to th’moon.

70 Minnesota children. Delta Air Lines, who likely flew nearly all of these kiddos out of MSP, could publicly condemn this and end the practice tomorrow, as the airlines did in 2018 with family separation, but it’s easier to stay silent.

Unfortunately, these charter airlines, the same ones many college athletic teams use to travel, aren't the only carriers doing work for ICE.

It was about 44 degrees as these shackled detainees were loaded onto today's ICE Air flight in the pouring rain at MSP. ICE hasn't stopped in Minnesota, neither have MN50501's volunteer observers - please help cover our parking fees: mn50501.org/donate Data: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-msp/data

I know this sounds like a joke I swear to god this is true, in early June of 2013 I saw 17 bald eagles in one tiny stretch of the Kawishiwi River…fish were spawning. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

MN50501 volunteer observers counted 18 people, including three women, being loaded at MSP on today's ICE flight. Join us at the airport authority meeting on Monday at 1:00 PM to demand accountability from Delta Air Lines. If Delta didn't operate this flight, why are we demanding accountability? 👇🧵

Many, many brave people are fighting to stop this, and also—our collective failure to stop it from getting this far will haunt us for the rest of our lives.

Capitalism may end up eating itself. This is not an anti-capitalist or pro marxist statement it is a mathematical possibility where (Exploitable Resources) << (Human Capacity to Exploit) | (Augmenting Systems) … cleantechnica.com/2025/04/06/w...

The only person consistently covering DFL conventions and keeping the public updated. Thank you for your service @taylordahlin.com 🫡

You can see this same guy taking photos at 0:29 and at the end of the video not sure if he’s EZ17 bsky.app/profile/unic...

I am not sure but nose sticking out guy might have been Edgar Vazquez. unraveledpress.com/identified-t...