There's an emerging ideological divide over whether unexplained #SCOTUS rulings must be given precedential effect. Today's "One First" argues that there's nothing "conservative" about saying "yes"; it's just cover for bad behavior that has nothing to do with ideology—and everything to do with power:

Rather than treat Trump’s comments about Pope Leo as deranged, embarrassing and offensive to (many) Catholics, early headlines (and stories) paint it as Trump just bashing back against a political opponent. Truly broken media environment.

The Artemis II mission is special. The photos are something: www.nasa.gov/news-release...

Donald Trump just posted a video of Somali people enjoying the Mall of America to the soundtrack of “Mad World” because he is a bigoted POS

Today is a good day to read the paper.

I joined Amanpour & Company to talk about why "working homeless"—a term that should be a scandal—has become an ordinary fact of American life. 40% of officially-counted homeless people have jobs. And that's before we get to the millions who are rendered invisible, who are never counted at all.

Wyoming Has One University. Can It Survive Its Own Legislature? The state’s flagship dodged a $40-million cut but not the bigger questions it raised. www.chronicle.com/article/wyom...

Perhaps that speech was not a good idea.

Two-year-old Kaleth is being locked away at the Dilley trailer prison. He is getting sicker with each passing day. He will not eat the food CoreCivc serves, which detainees have said sometimes has mold and worms. He now has a fever.

Gift Article - “It is the activities of the three lesser-known Trump allies mentioned in the Danish news report, though, that seem to have most alarmed the Danes. Asked about the three men, the White House declined to comment…” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...

Two more weeks to apply!

The Minnesota Star Tribune has done a wonderful job this year. Much of its reporting has been through photojournalism. Photos tell a story.

Cori Bush is running to reclaim her old seat. And like the left populist she is, she simply cannot admit that people rejected her and her message. I'd just love for some populist on the left or right to admit that they lost their election fair & square.

A month into Iran, the GOP’s political reality sinks in Republicans in battleground states are largely sticking by the president's war — but they’re finding it harder to brush off the consequences. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety. This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them.

One of my biggest griefs about the ongoing destruction of American journalism is it's such a thrill to read about someone's life. No amount of hot takes or superficial "content" compensates for that loss. Susan Du shows how to do it expertly in this story: www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

🚨Job alert🚨 We are looking for two lecturers/assistant professors in environmental politics (permanent!) www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

Hey all, University of Minnesota Duluth is hiring a one-year assistant professor or instructor to offer courses in the judiciary/public law. ABDs will be considered. So come join us by applying here: employment.umn.edu (Search for job requisition 372455 )

Instead of blowing up things in Iran, the federal government could have spent $11 billion in a week paying the entire household incomes for everyone in these counties. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

The Trubio Doctrine: Military power, no allies, no diplomacy, no planning www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/u...

I know our expectations for this administration are in the basement but it is INSANE they started a war without a plan for the Strait of Hormuz.

“A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive government campaign to detain and demonize dissenters” www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

Dione Sims won the Democratic nomination for the 25th congressional district in Texas yesterday. Ms. Sims is the granddaughter of Ms. Opal Lee, the grandmother of Juneteenth. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

WHY IS EVERY PAPER ON EARTH USING SCHUMER’S PICTURE WHEN HE LOST ON A PARTY-LINE VOTE?? THUNE IS THE FACE OF THIS, NOT SCHUMER. I MEAN, COME ON.

So, Mills leads Platner by 31 points in one of Maine’s congressional districts, Platner leads by just two in the other district, but he leads statewide by 7?! Maybe people think the antisemitic bro with the Nazi tattoo who blames rape survivors is winning because polling in Maine is a piece of shit.

This is a dangerous overreach by ICE and DHS that's sole reason is to intimidate critics of the Trump admin's actions and policies www.npr.org/2026/03/04/n... ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it

Wrote about my stalker, Bryan Betancur, who wore an ankle monitor to storm the US Capitol. The monitor was part of his probation for breaking into an elementary school -- years after he was suspended from BCPS for threatening to shoot up his high school. www.turtlediaries.net/p/on-stalkin...

American sympathy shifted away from Israel and in favor of the Palestinians, with the lines crossing for the first time ever. Noteworthy that support for Israel declined in both 2023 (Oct. 7) and 2024 (Gaza) but the biggest drop came this year (Trump effect?) and it started in 2020-21, not 2023-24.

The amount of shit going down on this planet right now because of Donald Trump is truly unfathomable.

1. Major corporations — including General Motors, State Farm, JPMorgan Chase, Delta, and Microsoft — are bankrolling a political ad from Senate candidate Andy Barr featuring a white nationalist slogan.

some things are actually getting worse here.

Nothing has changed in Minnesota.

The media moved on when trump said he had a new tone because as the constitution states the president is the editor in chief of all news outlets

The Trump regime will never forgive or stop trying to punish people for the cruelties it has already committed against them.

Lancet study looked at 232 federal datasets from HHS, CDC, Veterans Affairs. Since Jan 20, half had been substantially altered. Of these, the vast majority (106 datasets, 93%) had "gender" switched to "sex." Only 15 (13%) of the altered datasets logged or otherwise indicated the change had occurred

Legal gambling might be entertainment, but when a culture of gambling takes over a society, it becomes something else entirely. As Super Bowl Sunday approaches, is the bet we should be making?

Todd Blanche (who is also terrorizing a state I love ) is correct, partying with Epstein is not a crime. Knowing the awful things he did and keeping it quiet because that’s what the rich and powerful do is horrible and every single one involved deserves condemnation.

I spoke with Aliya Rahman, the autistic woman whom ICE ripped out of her car, about her experience of being in a viral video, what she experienced in detention and why she thinks we might be in bigger trouble in the future. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The last time he started talking like this, his allies minimized the risks and we ended up with January 6. This time we must take him literally and seriously. These comments are a five-alarm fire for democracy. In a functioning republic, he would be impeached and removed from office today.

it’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend

pretty stunning

@startribune.com is doing a great job. I think its blog is not in the pay wall. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Anti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23. 📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune Continuing coverage: bit.ly/3ZsrBxQ

ICE claims to be targeting about 1,400 people in Maine who it says have criminal convictions – but the agency has not answered questions from the state about specifics, and a list it provided Thursday of “the worst” people it had detained contained only 13 names. mainebeacon.com/as-ice-detai...