the Ramsey County Attorney and Sheriff are suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over the feds' refusal to provide evidence related to the potential kidnapping of ChongLy Scott Thao during Operation Metro Surge. Here's the full complaint:

Blanche’s confirmation hearing comes days after a federal judge referred him to the state Bar for disciplinary action.

HIRONO: DOJ has sued 30 states seeking voter lists. 14 of those lawsuits have been resolved. Did any of those 14 judges agree w/DOJ's position? BLANCHE: Yes HIRONO: Pardon? B: The answer to the question is yes H: Actually, that's not correct. The answer is no. Some of them were Trump appointees.

theintercept.com/2026/07/14/i... "Every elected official who is complicit in this border regime should be ousted. It should be a minimum requirement for Democrats running for Congress that they commit to abolishing ICE," Natasha Leonard writes in the Intercept.

On Monday, Joan Sebastian Guerrero was shot and killed by ICE agents in Biddeford, Maine. Reports say Guerrero was authorized to legally work in the US and not even ICE's target. @annayeo.bsky.social was on the ground Tuesday in Biddeford and spoke with locals—including one man who knew Guerrero.

Twin Cities Somali leaders are calling on Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher to increase community engagement around youth gangs after he posted a video discussing the issue without first consulting community members.

Twin Cities, if you participated in any part of Surge resistance on Signal, you know all the cross pollination in the chats. 16 terabytes of data…

Today: The feds have terabytes of Signal chats to indict 15 Minnesota protesters, @combs0294.bsky.social reports. How did they get them? Plus, beyond the bike lane fight. twincities.citycast.fm/podcasts/how...

I'll be on the City Cast Twin Cities podcast 🎙️ tomorrow to talk about my latest peice in Unicorn Riot. Read that shit here📰🔗👉 unicornriot.ninja/2026/governm...

Mainers are not happy with Collins. Demonstrators in Biddeford protesting ICE’s killing of a Colombian workman this morning swarmed her office

Maine’s attorney general is investigating the fatal shooting of a man in Biddeford, Maine, by an ICE officer. Authorities did not identify the man who was shot, but the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition said he was a 26-year-old Colombian national.

Here's what one Minnesota Middle School teacher said in reaction to this story. "The government says terabytes of signal chats are central to the case against the Minnesota 15. I talked to [an activist] ... and she told me that they are not letting the defendants see this data."

Breaking news: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) suffered from an aortic dissection, according to preliminary findings from the D.C. medical examiner’s office. It was caused by arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, his office said.

Activists are staging a protest at the Federal Courthouse in down Minneapolis this Wed. 7/15 5:30 pm. They are calling for the city reject a vote to approve a 75-day free-trial contract with Skydio to pilot a first responders drones program in the Northside. Vote is 7/15 9:30 am at City Hall.

Republicans made higher education the second-largest target of their budget cuts. There will be fewer repayment options as a result of the Big Beautiful Bill. There are a half-million borrowers who have their repayment applications backlogged. The SAVE Plan has also ended. 🧵

Government Says Terabytes of Signal Chats are Central to the Case Against Minnesota 15 The DOJ is sitting on 47,000 pages of documents, nearly 16 terabytes of Signal data, and 960 video and audio files pulled from body cameras, dash cameras and drones. New from @combs0294.bsky.social.

New 🚨📰 🔗 unicornriot.ninja/2026/governm... Prosecutors are sitting on more than a dozen terabytes of Signal chats in their conspiracy case 15 Minnesota protesters that Trump loosely lables as "ANTIFA."

The official announcement wasn't supposed to be till next week, but fuck it... Racket is starting a local newsletter in New York.

Opportunity Crossing on 3030 Nicollet Ave is now available for leasing replacing a Wells Fargo branch that was burned down during the social uprising following George Floyd's murder.

An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Today: What if you could fix the stuff your landlord has been putting off? @forksandfigures.org tells us about a St. Paul ballot initiative to do just that. Plus, Minneapolis considers drones as first responders, @combs0294.bsky.social reports. twincities.citycast.fm/podcasts/st-...

🎙️: megaphone.link/CC68460559 A city committee will vote on whether to approve a 75-day free trial first responders drone contract with Skydio this Wednesday at Minneapolis City Hall at 1 p.m. 📰🔗👉 spokesman-recorder.com/2026/06/30/m...

there appears to have been a pretty wild breach of @theintercept.com's tipline on signal if it's true that they've known about it and covered it up, that's a horrendous breach of trust, idk how you fix that

Duncan’s conviction was based largely on now-discredited bite mark evidence presented by forensic dentist Michael West and pathologist Steven Hayne. He was the 10th prisoner to be freed after being convicted in part due to the pair’s evidence. By @richardawebster.bsky.social

NEW: This is too much. The DOJ accidentally emailed copies of Volume II of Jack Smith's final report to the lawyers representing a woman they charged with obstruction of justice for emailing Volume II of Jack Smith's final report. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/doj-accide...

I will talk to City Cast Twin Cities podcast host Sean McPherson and contributor Hans Buetow on Monday. We are talking about a proposed 75-day free trial with Skydio to launch first responder drones. twincities.citycast.fm Here's that story for your interest: spokesman-recorder.com/2026/06/30/m...

🧵Signal messages obtained by federal prosecutors were a key issue in yesterday's court hearing where 14 of the 15 protesters plead not guilty to assault, conspiracy and interstate stalking charges. The Signal chats are stored on a PDF format on a litigating software program called Everlaw.

On Birthright Citizenship: “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” -Justice Ketanji Brown 💅💕

Iran and U.S.-allied Oman are moving forward with plans to collect payment for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, despite public U.S. objections, according to an Iranian official and four diplomats with knowledge of the matter.

NEW: Former Louisiana death row inmate Jimmie “Chris” Duncan, convicted based in part on forensic evidence now widely regarded as junk science, is officially a free man. “I am flooded with relief,” one of his lawyers said.

Rebecca Slaughter, the former FTC member whose firing was upheld by the Supreme Court on Monday, warned that the justices allowed for the possibility of abuse of presidential power.

Who is Ace Merrill? In Stephen King’s books, he’s a classic Castle Rock thug famously played by Kiefer Sutherland in Stand By Me. In the TV show Castle Rock, Paul Sparks plays him as a bitter slumlord waging a racist, greedy war against a rival Somali commercial hub. 😡🏚️

Breaking News: The Supreme Court ruled to expand President Trump’s power to fire independent regulators but carved out on exception for the Federal Reserve, preventing the president from immediately removing Lisa Cook from the central bank.

Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz dropped significantly over the weekend, as a four-day exchange of attacks between Iran and the U.S. left some shipowners deciding it was too risky to transit.

jacob frey has now endorsed angie craig for minnesota's open US senate seat never forget this old craig tweet from 2022 where she boosted the scott county GOP's racist cartoon featuring keith ellison and ilhan omar doing a tug of war with her and frey

Some of Chadwick Banken's customers lost their life’s savings and their homes, unknowingly violating their religious principles in the process. One testified that he ended up homeless and living in his truck.

Jared Kushner wants Albania's protected wetlands. The government obliged. Protesters said no. 29 days later, they're still saying no — with flamingo cutouts and flags, in the streets, every single night. Europe is watching. Is anyone else?

The "third rate thirst political bouncy castle' known as Alpha News questioned why a local journalism chapter name BLCK Press founder George Fort the 2026 Peter S. Popovich Award Winner. Here's what not in Alpha News reporting:

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty responds to quashing of federal subpoenas:

Today’s layoffs hit the journalists who do the most and get the least credit. The editors, the copy desk, the page designers, the librarian and archivist, the news assistants. My editor led our immigration coverage during Operation Metro Surge and they just…let her go.

Minnesota residents organized to keep their neighbors housed after families went into hiding during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. Residents convinced state legislators to pass a rent relief bill in May, but some fear it won’t be enough.

A family whose daughter survived a gunshot wound to the head during a Minneapolis mass shooting is calling out the gaming platform for hosting a first-person shooter experience modeled after the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

An 18-year-old not using AI to generate newsletter content is a win for us all.

youtu.be/ezsxNiHlNHE Had a good laugh. Northside journalist Melody Hoffman and Wedgelive host John Martin walked up to Little Caesars and pulled a Nick Shirley: What's your fraud rate.

We're running out of words to describe Olivia Miles. Story: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-sports/olivia-miles-set-new-career-high-in-lynx-win-over-sparks

DOJ Invokes McCarthy-Era Law to Strip Somalia-born Minnesotan of Citizenship For the first time, the DOJ is moving to revoke an American's citizenship based solely on a McCarthy-era law, relying entirely on allegations of actions taken while the man was a citizen.

spokesman-recorder.com/2026/06/17/m... The DOJ rolled out charges against 15 protesters who organized on Signal against the immigration crackdown in Minnesota. Later in St. Paul, US court marshals deployed chemicals against protesters sending one woman to the hospital.

film crew packing up outside the now closed quality learning center daycare in loring park after michele tafoya was filming a commercial here early this morning for her run for minnesota’s US senate seat as she challenges peggy flanagan and angie craig from the republican side

Honored to have been selected as Minnesota’s Young Journalist of the Year. Indebted to to all of my sources, who bravely shared their stories, and to my coworkers who hold down the fort when I need time to work on projects. Long live the @minnesotareformer.com!