Indiana State Senate President Pro Temp Rodric Bray (R) acknowledges that the out-of-state spending in Indiana's state legislative primaries are from Republicans trying to unseat other Republicans who voted against President Donald Trump's gerrymandering wishes.

Minnesota State Sen. @erinmayequade.bsky.social (DFL) says if the child victims of the Annunciation School shooting were alive, they would pass the assault weapons ban in front of the state Senate.

March 17: “You’ll get your oil, we got plenty.” — Mike Rogers, Michigan Senate candidate May 1: $4.86 a gallon. Highest in Michigan since 2022. Rogers’ campaign? No comment.

Wisconsin state Rep. Dean Kaufert (R-Neenah) announced his retirement three days after Heartland Signal asked his office about an investigation into inappropriate sexual comments he allegedly made about underage girls in 2019. https://bit.ly/3Ot2uJK

While Mike Rogers recently dismissed concerns over the Iran War’s economic fallout, Michigan’s average gas price hit $4.86 on Friday — the highest level the state has seen since 2022. heartlandsignal.com/2026/05/01/m...

What, me worry?

We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...

In suit seeking return of 2020 election records, Fulton County requested info from DOJ regarding the timing of events leading up to the search warrant. DOJ says that info is privileged. But Civil Rights Division chief Harmeet Dhillon previously discussed the timeline in a media interview:

NEW: Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.

I wish more people in public office had Ann Johnson's courage.

5/ She would soon find that the choice of how she’d give birth wouldn’t be hers. The judge would decide.

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

🚨NEWS: @knightcolumbia.org & @protectdemocracy.org just filed a lawsuit on behalf of @thecoalition.bsky.social challenging the Trump administration's policy targeting social media researchers and trust & safety workers for visa revocation and deportation. More: knightcolumbia.org/content/tech...

US judge voids 2025 actions taken by Kari Lake as Voice of America CEO, including job cuts. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

I don't know about you, but if I don't show up for my job, I lose my job.

The greatest orator of our times

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

🚨NEW: A federal judge out of Oregon has issued a sweeping rebuke of the DOJ’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls. The opinion released Thursday concluded that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warned that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred ICE and DHS from using taxpayer information provided by the IRS. Judge Talwani says that DHS' view that noncitizens lack 4th amendment rights — combined with ICE use of administrative warrants — is a recipe for abuse. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: As he released 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, Judge Biery warned of vast lawlessness and inhumanity in the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts. He said courts amounted to “a judicial finger in the dike.” www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

From @heartlandsignal.bsky.social “This moment fits a deeply troubling pattern we are seeing across the country — the use of federal power to silence dissent, to target political leaders, and to criminalize those who stand up for their communities.” heartlandsignal.com/2026/01/30/f...

One of the "overt acts" of the conspiracy was Don Lemon and Georgia Fort interviewing the pastor of the church:

"News outlets across the political spectrum need to loudly defend [independent journalists Don] Lemon’s and [Georgia] Fort’s rights. Journalists are not making themselves the story, Trump is.” Full Freedom of the Press Foundation statement below.

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Learn about the different law enforcement agencies involved in immigration raids in the U.S. and understand your rights when encountering them.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

In seeking a fed court order to stop fed agents from “destroying or altering evidence” re the Pretti shooting, granted last night by a Trump-appointed judge, MN’s BCA chief said feds blocked his inquiry for 1st time in his 20+ yrs—even after he got a search warrant to inspect the public space. 1/ 5

AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."

If you are tracking breaking news, read local sources: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

(gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

Featured story, from @josephinelee.bsky.social: 92% of private schools already enrolled in the state's voucher programs serving kids beyond kindergarten are religious. An investigation by the Texas Observer found many of these exclude non-Christian and LGBTQ+ kids.

The @wired.com guide to ICE invading your neighborhood:

per my point about the mercator projection being the root of this whole thing

404 Media has obtained material that explains how two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. One can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

This may not mean much to some of you, but for music nerds, this is quite the reunion. pitchfork.com/news/heavenl...

Listen to Jack Smith push back on GOP House lawyer trying to spin Trump as an innocent dupe of Rudy et al’s Big Lie spin www.tiktok.com/t/ZTheYeUha/

NEW: Jack Smith seemed in total command of the details of his probes and used his deposition to forcefully rebut claims of weaponization and reiterate his belief that Trump was guilty of historic crimes. Our 7 takeaways. w/ @Hailey_Fuchs @jordainc www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

The world has come a long way since the days of “All the President’s Men” and “Spotlight,” movies that favorably portrayed journalists knocking on doors and trying to reach sources to tell important stories. Now Trump officials vilify such efforts. My column on the moment we’re in.

When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day. When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.

There's every reason in the world why the Trump administration chose not to comment on the 60 Minutes segment--namely, that there's little or nothing in it that they'd try to (or could reasonably) dispute: indeed, they've boasted about virtually all of it.

In 2026, writes @rodneygibbs.com, journalism will go from both-sidesism to backbone www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/from...

This is a wild hack. a16z gave a million dollars to startup called Doublespeed. They use a phone farm to flood social media with AI generated influencers and ads. A hacker remotely broke into the phone farm, unmasking the AI influencers/fake accounts, gave us the data www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

If sunlight is the best disinfectant, there's less sunlight on the Wisconsin State Legislature today. heartlandsignal.com/2025/12/15/l...

Teenage me rolls his eyes at middle-aged me admiring photo of Henry Rollins in a bougie airport lounge.

heartlandsignal.com/2025/12/10/h... Smart analysis by @kleinman.bsky.social