“Six, seven” June 2025 - Jan. 2026

“I feel like everybody just needs to be loved and wants to be loved. Hopefully people read these cards and they're like, ‘oh, that's funny.’ And just forget about all the other nonsense that’s going on in their lives, hopefully it makes people laugh.” nativenewsonline.net/a-e/the-rock...

Proud of Clara’s reporting here. And the support from the rest of our politics team that spent nights covering hearings at the Roundhouse so she’d have time to dig into this during a busy legislative session.

That dawg floats away more tragically than Jack in Titanic

It bothered me how terrible everyone’s instincts are in ‘Traitors’. Now it’s just funny how bad reality tv stars are at trusting themselves.

This dog would love the Jemez Mountains

“Instead of teaching a 30-minute class about the Tlingit language where you might be learning some vocabulary and terms, they're taking their curriculum, and they might do a whole science unit in the language.” nativenewsonline.net/education/tl...

Since Jan. 7, Pow Wow Grounds Coffee has served 600 gallons of free coffee to volunteers each week. Owner Robert Rice (White Earth Ojibwe) said last month more 400 gallons of soup were distributed, along with nearly 3,000 pieces of frybread. nativenewsonline.net/currents/pow...

Yeesh Drop the “the” and all the vowels. Just NdNs.

Minneapolis artists are employing the full power of their creativity and community to fight against the ICE invasion of their city, and their message is loud and clear: Get the hell out.

NEW: The DHS arrest records make no mention of the Tren de Aragua gang even though officials repeatedly cited its presence in the building as motivation for the raid, in which agents descended from a Blackhawk helicopter and zip-tied U.S. citizens.

Happy America250 🇺🇸

* clears throat * let him cook

NM Governor Candidates Officially File; Deb Haaland to Face District Attorney Sam Bregman in Democratic Primary nativenewsonline.net/currents/nm-...

*checks app* 95 days since I last used Chipotle

Mayor Brandon Johnson said the executive order will make Chicago the first city in the U.S. “to set the groundwork to prosecute U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Border Patrol agents for criminal misconduct.” thetriibe.com/2026/01/mayo...

Catherine O’Hara SCTV thread youtu.be/990OaFr8EYw?...

"“There was a car seat in the back with one of those baby blankets you get at the hospital. There were broken glass shards all over it,” he said. “I carefully pulled back the blanket and there was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...

The Minnesota Star Tribune, @mprnews.org @minnesotareformer.com , @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:

A New York federal judge dismissed murder and weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione, a major blow to prosecutors that means Mangione no longer faces a possible death penalty if convicted reut.rs/45Fin56

We're going to be featuring a lot of Dan's work the rest of this week, but this is one I especially enjoyed and which no one else could have written. He had a lot of those. defector.com/one-last-tri...

Today was Day 2 of the planned 3 day trial involving NDN Collective CEO & Founder, Nick Tilsen. The courtroom was packed with supporters of Nick Tilsen from the local community. Check out this video hosted by Dr. Valeriah Big Eagle & featuring Gaby Strong for their perspective on the trial so far.

The club for nerds that don’t watch football or ufc

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Show your Lock Screen

Founding Parliament-Funkadelic bassist Billy Bass dead at 74: ultimateclassicrock.com/billy-bass-p...

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DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

“I live on a rural island in Alaska, reachable only by plane or boat. In our little town, 50 to 100 people stand outside each week at our town's roundabout to protest and hold vigil and stand in solidarity with you. We hold signs supporting Minnesota and demanding ICE Out.” Rachel, Alaska

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis protester fatally shot by a federal officer was ICU nurse Alex Pretti, his parents say.

There’s video floating around. You don’t want to watch it. News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Must-read story about the SBA 8(a) program: He Spent Funds Meant for Native Hawaiians on Polo and Porsches. The Federal Government Failed to Stop Him. @nickgrube.bsky.social @civilbeat.bsky.social

The Minneapolis-based Indigenous Food Lab brought out the Fire Cider recipe with the community in mind, including those reacting to the surge of lCE officers that have disrupted every facet of public life for Twin City residents. nativenewsonline.net/currents/how...

Saw Red Panda and a blowout win by the Lobos where everyone left pissed off at the refs. New Mexico True

This anthro-jurist's analysis of the original AIM/Indian patrol is funny cuz she's this close to saying there's an ancient Anishinaabe maxim that roughly translates to "we don't talk to police, we rely on the streets."

At this point, it’s definitely the pope.

Empty calories

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Federal judge tells ICE to cool it minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/16/f...

From me: “ICE agents detain Navajo man in Peoria, ignoring US, tribal IDs”

2016 with a hat, without a hat and with a dog

In the first day, 2,000 families registered. Now, they have more than 24,000 families registered and there is a waitlist. Amezcua said less than one percent of the families they serve are part of the church. www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

Whisky Friday can't even compare

Mero in the Mornings is generational programming.

What does ‘time immemorial’ really mean? nativenewsonline.net/currents/wha...

Congress passes environmental funding without Trump’s deep cuts But the bipartisan effort still trimmed climate research and fails to solve agencies’ chronic underfunding. www.hcn.org/articles/con...

In December, Stan Kroenke completed the single-largest land purchase in the US in more than a decade — more than 937,000 deeded acres of ranchland in New Mexico belonging to the heirs of Teledyne founder Henry Singleton. landreport.com/stan-kroenke...