minneapolis police department’s estimated overtime cost from june 28 to july 4 is $379,500 the total cost of OT for 2026 is estimated at $16.8 million, exceeding this year’s OT allocation by $2,265,500 MPD are defunding us, raising property taxes and this could lead to layoffs at the city

TINA SMITH: Researchers in MN made a breakthrough in childhood cancer in Black kids with a grant. But it seems that according to your proposed rule, this type of research wouldn't allowed bc it's 'DEI.' VOUGHT: We are against DEI policies. We have intended to rid of them whenever we possibly can.

Ken Paxton recently bought 3 Utah luxury condos worth $1.6 million. He then put them in a blind trust that shares an address with the Dallas home he appears to be sharing with a woman who is not his wife.

Courtesy of Hegseth, everyone who goes to any beach in America with their families consents to sudden and unexpected low flyovers from military jets as part of your experience. Maybe the pilot will be getting testosterone injections. This is how your tax dollars are being spent.

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

Here's some of what Trump has done in July: ❌ Rolled back major endangered species protection ❌ Stripped protections from 3 million acres of Utah national monuments ❌ Opened up 500,000 sq. miles of protected Pacific waters to commercial fishing ❌ Denied disaster aid for four Democratic-led states

New: cops are using Flock to track people, not cars. We reviewed Flock search data and found many, many cases of cops searching for people based on their appearance, race, tattoos, etc. Some searches are so vague like "tall man" that innocent people likely swept up www.404media.co/how-cops-use...

“I'm constantly reminding myself that my job is to keep my kids safe, and I'm doing that, and that's that's all I can do,” Kate Tovsen told MPR News. She and her family evacuated from near Ely Tuesday.

My daughter just got back from camping on the north shore, and she said it was horrific up there. Be careful if you have to be out. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Update that an hour later that AQI is approaching 500.

really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours

“‘That is RIDICULOUS,’ one person with knowledge of the planned golf trip said in a message. ‘Pence and Harris never pulled anything like that.’” www.ms.now/news/veeps-s...

"Agents have shared concerns internally about Vance and his office pressing them for trips and assignments that some agents consider an inappropriate or even unprecedented use of government resources compared to prior Vice Presidents, they said."

Serviceberries, or juneberries, are a native fruit beloved by wildlife. But now they’re moving from backyards to farms, and some hope they’ll soon be on your plate.

830 wildfires burning across Canada right now. And you know what’s going to make it worse in the future? More oil pipelines. This is why our voice and our vote matters.

Child safety advocates are sounding the alarm about artificial intelligence features now being used by millions of students in classrooms that rely on education tools made by Google. https://to.pbs.org/4yn3vVt

Sen. Kennedy: How many more pages of the Epstein files are there to be released? Acting AG Todd Blanche: To our knowledge, not any

Pave paradise, put up a data centre...

NEW: They wanted to hold Exxon accountable. Then they got hacked A decade after climate activists’ emails were breached, a court case is shedding new light on who allegedly orchestrated the hacking How the mystery unfolded through the eyes of the climate activists: grist.org/article/exxo...

🚨 BURIED LEDE ALERT: The lifelike robot teacher being sold to a rural reservation-area school, will be built by a former Metaverse crypto company that now owns RealDoll™, but in a distinct subsidiary that they swear will have no overlap with the manufacturing of the sex dolls

Trump has personally been gluing those tacky gold decorations on the walls of the Oval Office walls himself.

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The visa process for visiting artists has always been complicated and expensive. Under the current administration, it's gotten significantly worse. n.pr/4gz1mzP

NEW: A GOP operative resigned from a North Carolina election oversight role after records revealed he pressured election officials to enact explicitly partisan early voting plans for the midterms. One voting rights advocate called the campaign, which drew bipartisan backlash, "unprecedented."

US inflation is the highest in the G7.

My second book - Enterprising and Dangerous, sequel to Worthy of Trust - is available! From the Declaration of Independence to the battlefields of Saratoga, see the American Revolution through Whitley's eyes. #indieauthor #yahistoricalfiction #americanrevoltuion

Security camera footage obtained from local businesses showed individuals who are believed to be U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers surrounding a car and pulling the driver onto the street, in events connected to the fatal shooting of a man in a coastal town in Maine on July 13.

Data Centers are being built in secret. 🤐

New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium reut.rs/4pk3q0F

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

Note: in some of the pictures there appeared to be bullet holes in the car, Windshield. It is against ICE policy to shoot into a vehicle.

I wish the Strib had not chosen equal-weight photos of both candidates, but this is a pretty devastating rundown of the dark money & special interests funding Angie Craig: www.startribune.com/dark-money-m... (gift link)

Scholarly folks who have ever received federal funding: today is the deadline for public comment on proposed revisions that will decimate our national research capacity and replace expertise with political whim. Please consider throwing in your 2¢. See below for some useful links and encouragement.

There is exactly ONE active criminal investigation into Epstein's ranch. It's stuck. Not for lack of evidence...because the DOJ won't hand it over. New piece. www.jackhopkinsnow.com

State by state, plastic driver’s licenses are getting a digital upgrade. https://to.pbs.org/4frplQg

Roswell Encina, a gay Filipino American civic leader, said the Fourth of July encounter with Patriot Front was frightening and impossible to separate from American history.

Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it. www.404media.co/henrico-virg...

Sports leagues have more games than ever before—and this growth risks overwhelming even the most fanatic viewer, Jacob Stern argues.

Literacy is not an individual skill. Literacy is a public infrastructure.

Clean energy is cheaper than fossil fuels now in every part of the world. Only fossilized ideas, ossified politicians, and blind, profit-driven corporations are keeping us from moving forward.

📌Just in case a MAGA in your life is lecturing you about respecting Lindsey Graham and the dead. Have a good day, everybody.

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

Lindsey Graham in 2016:

On Friday, Minnesota was names the 5th best state for business. Yesterday, Minnesota was named the 4th best state to live in. Minnesota MAGA is screaming "NO IT'S NOT!!! www.cnbc.com/2026/07/11/b...

The White House was never supposed to be a palace. George Washington and architect James Hoban deliberately rejected the lavish style of European monarchies. Instead, they designed a President’s House that reflected the ideals of a republic: dignified, restrained, and accountable to the people.

In Minnesota, girls sell lemonade on the street to help their sisters arrested by ICE. Stephen Miller’s goons are very much still here. Sign reads, “Please help us raise money for my sisters because they were arrested by ICE” & this has been confirmed by trusted community members.

The Norwegian Football Association donated all proceeds and ticket revenues (totaling over $350,000) from their World Cup qualifying match against Israel to Doctors Without Borders for humanitarian aid in Gaza. Guess which team I’m rooting for . . .

ICE agent tells the New York Times they were nervous showing up in Minneapolis and how they travelled with “girly suitcases” to not be detected. A Senior ICE official details how officers would block in and kidnap United State Citizens. Gift link in next post.

Hypocrisy is the thing that pisses me off the most.

The report from the Office of the Legislative Auditor released Friday found the Minnesota Department of Agriculture certified and provided financial assistance to some farmers who didn’t meet all the program’s standards.