weird how so many democrats from competitive seats feel compelled to vote against the party line (and national interest), but republicans don't. makes you wonder if they are taking bad advice that has little to do with electoral performance, and GOP pols know this

what is with these people and dogs?

Alex Pretti's parents keep a box crammed with 200 letters and cards that have poured into their Denver home since their son was shot and killed by immigration agents. "He's my first born," Susan Pretti said. "He's the one that made me a mother. There was no reason he should have died that day."

gross says that there have been no ICE agents arrested for excessive force while 30 people are facing federal charges for being observers

Anyone in Minnesota will tell you that this matches the eye test. They are simply grabbing anyone who's not white. Full stop. There is no other strategy to this at all. It's a racist, heinous federal occupation. Dismantle the agencies. Prosecute everyone involved. Redistribute all the funding.

“Cut ICE’s budget to restore federal health care funding” is an extremely popular message www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

i'm shipping the Credit Card Fraud biathlete and the Cringe Cheater Crying On TV biathlete. they can fix each other

THE OLYMPICS OF BIATHLON MESS CONTINUES GOLD MEDAL FOR THE WOMAN WHO STOLE HER TEAMMATE'S CREDIT CARDS

It’s also why we were warning a CR for DHS that kicked the can down the road was a mistake. Ten days ago the country was paying attention and mobilized. The time was then to shut down a big swath of the government unless R’s agreed to claw back the ICE budget.

Sadly, this is why Democratic leaders needed to act when the iron was hot — to lead, get out on the streets, and mobilize public opinion. It may now be that their moment has passed and the public has moved on. If so, what a shame; what a lost opportunity.

As a collective we need to make sure we ostracize anyone who ever worked or was a mouthpiece for this administration until the end of time

Hang it in the Louvre

As Minnesota's senior senator runs to replace Tim Walz as governor, her votes and positions on Trump, ICE, and labor should be disqualifying to progressive voters.

We should not normalize smashing in people's car windows. That alone is a civil rights violation!

@amyklobuchar.com nor @klobuchar.senate.gov have posted anything about the BWCA bill. Not a surprise but for a senator running for Minnesota governor it's baffling how she doesn't take a position on so many issues that directly impact the state

Minnesota is currently under an economic blockade. So @amyklobuchar.com what are you gonna do? How many businesses are we going to lose without a bailout?

The goal of Tom Homan switching out for Gregory Bovino is purely optics and damage control. It's not actually a change in their tactics of intimidation and indiscriminate apprehension. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

not only were these skaters not disqualified for using AI music, the people in charge of figure skating specifically condoned the use of AI-generated music in the rules meanwhile they stopped another team from choosing a song released in late 1989 for their "Style of the 1990s" routine

I maintain the Seattle Punter deserves MVP

Counterpoint: no serious person in the Twin Cities is worried about any meaningful amount of "destruction" by observers/protestors. Get real.

"Rosen [the prosecutor pursuing felony vandalism charges] himself travelled to Israel with his wife and adult daughter on a “solidarity mission” with the Israel Defense Forces in January 2024, by which time at least 22,000 Palestinians had already been killed."

Full story: apnews.com/article/immi...

Worst of the worst: "Pena Jimenez, a Mexican citizen who lives in Lakeville, came to the U.S. in 2000, owns a tile installation business and has no criminal record, according to his petition." Flown out of the country, against a judge's order. www.startribune.com/judge-orders...

The charging document for Jake Lang is up. It's a short, funny read, but I want to call out one passage: "A trooper advised Capitol security dispatch to save the video of the incident, and Lang replied that he had great video of the incident." drive.google.com/file/d/1wpoR...

It would be interesting to watch how Mamdani's content has been slowly integrated into official Dem party social media accounts.

Good morning Korey

I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend. They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.

A good thing you can do about this instead of dooming is Google “how to become a poll observer in [your town]”

Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”

I get this, but here's where I'm at: Trump & Vance are the worst of us. America is bigger than them, and they win if we let them define us. Team USA is the best of us. It's filled with Americans MAGA hates—first-generation + immigrants, LGBTQ+ athletes, people of color—& I'm gonna root for them.

It is 4am. I am watching American curling. It is 9am. I am watching American curling.

Minnesota has now been turned into a war zone by a federal government that has lost sight of the values that make America great. We must impeach Kristi Noem and abolish ICE.

as i keep saying, the things to do to secure elections are to volunteer to work the polls or to serve as an observer, & to pressure your *state representatives* to take steps to further secure voting locations and ballots. you should also learn about how election administration works in your area.

I just generally think the antidote to dooming and feelings of helplessness is getting involved in any way. It can be as a poll worker, doing ICE watch, running for local office, helping with mutual aid, whatever. You can get so much accomplished in your town or city if you just get involved.

much depends on legislative language but if you want to put some sand in the gears of ICE this is what it would look like

in real terms, #7 would give states leverage to put an end to surges, #8 would give states the ability to outright stop construction of new detention facilities, #1 and #6 would slow the rate at which DHS could train and deploy officers, #2 and #10 would likely shrink the pool of recruits

there's something unholy about the Trump administration being laser focused on "fraud" while Trump pardons an endless clown car of fraudsters and bilks taxpayers at every opportunity. it's just transparently absurd.

If Lindsey Vonn can ski race with a tor ACL, I can send this email.

CURLING MULTIVIEW

To put this into perspective, my Loons season tickets for the supporters section cost $500 a year for 18 games. Those are for a specific standing room section which has a good view, but still shows how little confidence they've shown selling tickets.

While I will continue to post and fight against facism coming to Minnesota and local politics, this space will also serve as a curling commentary space for the next two and a half weeks

IT'S CURLING TIME

with his $253.2 billion, Jeff Bezos could afford to pay 100 sportswriters $100,000 a year for the next 25,000 years

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

Reformer editor J. Patrick Coolican in the newsletter this morning:

Reporter: Do you plan to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti? Vance: For what?

Unbelievable

THEY PUT THE 13 MEN ON THE FIELD PENALTY IN THE AD!!!!

Not saying this is the only factor, but it's rare that a paper's financial troubles can be tied so directly to two boneheaded business decisions by the owner.

Minnesota’s Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz ruled, almost immediately, that ICE could not move the two men out of Minnesota. He gave the federal government until Friday to provide an explanation for their actions.