ICYMI over the weekend: My colleagues and I reviewed 15,000 documents to put together a detailed account of how Jeffrey Epstein leveraged medical care to manipulate and control victims, and how some doctors enabled that. Gift link:

After detaining children and parents for weeks, or months, inside Dilley detention center, ICE is dumping them at a shelter in Laredo, TX. They are often thousands of miles away from where they were arrested, with no money to get back home. THREAD (1/) www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/02/i...

"The agency’s Office for Civil Rights aims to protect millions of students from being discriminated against based on disability, race and gender. Under Education Secretary Linda McMahon, that work has become cloaked in secrecy, the lawsuit alleges." www.propublica.org/article/educ...

“They’ve let so many people go. I’m worried we’ve done tremendous damage to our ability to recruit people into government work.” - @carajackson.bsky.social www.chalkbeat.org/2026/02/27/e...

Far from being deterred by the 5th circuit, federal judges in Texas appear to be ordering the release of more ICE detainees than before on due process/constitutional grounds. Here is Judge Jason Pulliam, a Trump appointee, joining their ranks. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"...using misinformation to limit who can seek healthcare is a warning for all patients." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Hundreds of FEMA responders have been grounded amid DHS’s partial shutdown, stymying disaster relief efforts. However, DHS has allowed some FEMA staffers to deploy for immigration-related work, according to agency officials and documents seen by The Post. https://wapo.st/4r00jue

Breaking News: Two transgender Kansans sued the state over a law this week that abruptly invalidated the driver’s licenses of residents who had changed their gender designations.

The nearly $111 billion marriage would unite Paramount and Warner film studios, streamers and television properties — including CNN — under the control of the wealthy Ellison family. n.pr/4rCH4YH

This is still twice as many as they said, and almost 7 times as many as pre-surge.

NEW: When anti-ICE protesters disrupted a church service, the Trump administration vowed to stop at nothing to protect religious liberty. But congregations across the country who welcome immigrants say ICE has been violating their rights on a mass scale. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Inside the Minnesota Capitol sit two desks with the belongings of 8‑year‑old Fletcher Merkel and 10‑year‑old Harper Moyski, killed in a mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. The installation is part of events by the Annunciation Light Alliance, a parent-led advocacy group.

Breaking news: A federal judge found that the IRS violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.

Guards at children's Dilley detention center are confiscating kids' drawings, art supplies: www.propublica.org/article/dill...

Breaking News: Immigration agents arrested a Columbia University student after misrepresenting themselves to access a building, the school said. nyti.ms/4u2Z0xw

'IT ENDS TODAY': A federal judge in NJ says the Trump admin has continued to violate court orders in immigration cases and says he's prepared to haul in DOJ and DHS officials under oath. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

When the incredible @bethhawkins.bsky.social compliments your work. ❤️ Right back at you, Beth.

A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

A newly proposed MN bill suggests a series of changes to the state criminal code, teacher licensing requirements, MDE investigations, mandatory reporter training and school field trip requirements, all aimed at preventing grooming and child abuse in schools. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

More than 1,000 American nurses have successfully applied for licensure in British Columbia since April, a massive increase over prior years. n.pr/4cMnDIm

In his testimony to congress, Ryan Schwank said he witnessed a training scenario where they had a bystander filming and the trainee pepper sprayed the bystander. When he asked the trainee why he did it, he said it was because it was what he saw ICE agents doing in Minneapolis.

Current* conditions near Beaver Bay, MN:

More than half of teenagers in the U.S. use A.I. tools for help with their schoolwork, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center. The results, the report said, indicate that teenagers think “cheating with A.I. has become a regular feature of student life.”

"In several high-profile cases, the prosecutions fell apart because they relied on statements by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers that had no supporting evidence or in some instances were proven by video footage to be blatantly false." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Earlier this month DHS claimed it had found 3k+ unaccompanied minors in MN. @startribune.com found an example of ICE grabbing a 16 year old out of his car, designating him "unaccompanied" and losing him: www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

The continued drain of personnel from the already strained immigration court system has contributed to depleted staff morale, mounting case backlogs — and floundering due process. n.pr/3OmZD4F

Crowd-sourced data shows that while ICE remains active, especially in the suburbs, arrests and sightings are decreasing. minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/23/t...

ICE activity continues to interrupt daily life for students, staff and families, despite the announced end of the two-month surge of federal immigration agents. Students attend school remotely, staff monitor arrival and dismissal, and leaders wonder when they can resume normal school operations.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A federal judge excoriated immigration agents for making arrests while wearing masks that conceal their identities in a scathing opinion that references a “regime of secret policing” and mask-wearing by Ku Klux Klan members, @suzannemonyak.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The kindergarten teacher said the parents seemed nice enough but she could see in the school records they were born in other countries.

The 6-3 ruling is a major blow to the president's signature economic policy. n.pr/3OtEZ2E

Minnesota residents and lawmakers say the promised drawdown has not materialized, and they are seeing ICE use more covert tactics to continue operations across Twin Cities suburbs. By @ncsscibelli.bsky.social

Calling all Minnesota college journalists: Applications for the 2026 student scholarship are now open and will be accepted until May 15. This year, MNSPJ will award one $2,000 scholarship to a student pursuing a career in broadcast, print, online or visual journalism. Find out more here: MNSPJ.ORG

Cities around the country are debating whether to keep their automatic license plate readers. Concerns about privacy and federal immigration agents can access local data are driving these debates. n.pr/4rYXPgy

After one glorious, fleeting day — access to the Apostle Islands ice caves is likely done for the season. The blizzard sweeping across Lake Superior broke up the ice pack along the shore overnight www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The Mexican restaurant in downtown Brainerd, Minn., that closed after an ICE raid last month is now up for sale. El Potro closed after federal agents, assisted by Crow Wing County sheriff's deputies, detained four employees Jan. 26. Video by Kim Hyatt

EXCLUSIVE: ICE officials knew use of force was rising well before the Minneapolis shootings. Internal agency emails show a surge in reports of ICE officers using more force going back nearly a year, but DHS leadership didn't see it as a concern to be addressed.

Most telling line: "DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment about who will take over communications." www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

"Federal authorities have opened a criminal probe into whether two immigration officers lied under oath about a shooting in Minneapolis last month, as all charges were dropped against two Venezuelan men." apnews.com/article/immi...

Minnesota Reformer reports from Worthington: "You can feel it, the sadness from town. There’s no people walking around." minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/13/n...

In January we reported on how this was happening to a "conveyer belt" of illegally detained children in MN: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Terrific story this morning from my @mprnews.org colleague @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Every word of this @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social @mprnews.org piece about teachers in Columbia Heights crossing a Rubicon of trauma will hit you in the soul.

“There's literally no other human response than to just cry. And then you just wipe the tears, and you just kind of walk into class. Or, depending on the class and who the adults are that are here, you just continue to cry, and then they cry with you.” @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social @mprnews.org

Additionally: -$15.7 million in monthly rental assistance needs -$2.4 million to meet monthly food needs -8,700 new kids now need mental health services

The economic impact of ICE in Minneapolis -$203 million total economic loss January alone -$47m per month of income loss to families afraid to go to work -$81m loss to small biz -$4.7b in hotel cancelations -$37.9m loss construction evaluation

Seven children from this MN school district have been detained by ICE. 2 of them are still in ICE custody in TX. The district has lost track of how many parents have been taken. At just one elementary 26 parents have been detained by ICE www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...