BREAKING: Court Rejects Alabama House Map, Calling It Unfair to Black Voters Our teams have been working nonstop around the clock since the Callais decision to defend the maps in Alabama. This is a critical victory & affirmation that Black voters deserve fair maps. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

Waiting in line at the DMV is a universal headache. In Ep. 2 of “Paper Trail,” reporters uncover a towing company’s scheme to cut the line in Connecticut — then sell the cars they’ve towed to a DMV employee. Hear the full story:

ICYMI: Ward 2Minneapolis City Council Member Robin Wonsley led a push to dole out $1. 7M in the 2026 budget to fund this preventative measure aimed at curbing gun deaths. Meet MPD's FAST: spokesman-recorder.com/2026/05/22/m...

knicks about to make their first nba finals since 1999... here is 2-year-old jalen brunson in 1999

@nycsanitation.bsky.social I’d like to report a sweep

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty charged ICE agent Christian Castro for allegedly shooting a Venezuela national and then lied about to investigators. Castro was the 2nd ICE official charged for misconduct during Operation Metro Surge. Spoke to a law professor and he said: ..... 🔗👇

The NFL is hosting the 2028 Superbowl in Atlanta as well. If the NAACP actually swung some weight on some real shit. The NAACP and NFLPA should be hounding the league's site selection committee to move these games until states stop crafting maps in favor of white voters.

www.propublica.org/podcast/conn... @jlussenhop.bsky.social talks to Connecticut Mirror reporters Dave Altimari and Ginny Monk on the Propublica's Paper Trail podcast.

Gun play is increasingly less common nowadays. But Minneapolis thinks this crime prevention measure will curb gun violence: spokesman-recorder.com/2026/05/22/m...

We identified 273 individuals with valid work permits who were arrested during Operation Metro Surge. That number is almost certainly an undercount.

bracing story from my colleague @madisonmcvan.bsky.social

HOLY SHIT prosecutors kicked off grand jurors and then re-presented the case against the Broadview 6, then altered the grand jury transcripts to hide it from the judge. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

New from me: spokesman-recorder.com/2026/05/21/o... A second ICE agent is charged for misconduct during Trump's immigration crackdown. Candidates for Hennepin County Attorney react.

The White House’s newly released national counterterrorism strategy identifies leftists as terrorist threats equivalent to al Qaeda and the Islamic State group. unicornriot.ninja/2026/trumps-...

Wow porn AND anti-AI?? Playboy came to Bluesky and read the fucking room.

andscape.com/features/ari... The NAACP/CBC called for Black college athletes to ditch college programs in states that have carved out voting power against Black people. The NFL is set to host Superbowls in Atlanta and Nashville. Will they relocate? It's been done before.

Reading Playboy for the articles is back

While we're at it let's swing some weight on this shit: Atlanta and Nashville will host future Superbowls.

The Afghan Cultural Society is expanding its Minneapolis home in Cedar-Riverside with a cafe, playground, and space for refugees to gather and heal. Written by Shubhanjana Das

🚨🗞️🔗📰: spokesman-recorder.com/2026/05/16/c... DOJ prosecutors on behalf of the Trump Administration have until May 22 to turn over unredacted evidence to defendants who protester a Sunday Service on Jan. 18 challenging David Easterwood's role as acting field director for ICE.

Hours earlier in St. Paul Judge Doug Micko ordered Prosecutor Rob Keenan to turn over evidence to defendants in the Cities Church protests. Now prosecutors want to toss out assault charges against Nasreen Ahmed after they missed their deadline.

I never block people on Bluesky. But I've been doing this on Twitter since Elon Musk purchased the site in 2022. I have never received more requests from sham accounts until he took over. Here's another one that's either a Savannah Hernandez burner or a personal account.

An apparent quid-pro-quo: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/n... An Indian billionaire promised thousands of American jobs and billions in investments, in exchange for charges being dropped after hiring Trump's personal lawyer Robert J. Giuffra Jr.

Here's video of Philippines Sen. Bato dela Rosa, Duterte's former right-hand man on a drug war that killed 8,000 civilians, ducking through the Chambers in Manilla like a scolded dog: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/w...

www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/b... Flordia has redrawn the 20th Congressional District and the Black community is telling incumbent Debbie Wasseeman Schultz to go kick rocks. Schultz may ditch her 25th CD after Gov. Ron Desantis carved out her district in a new map.

www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/n... Amelia Orjuela Da Silva writes about how members of the Black community are opposed to Iron Mountain running a data center in the diverse corridor of Westview.

Wordle for dumb people: poeltl.nbpa.com Was gonna waste a guess on Tristan Thomas or Thomas Bryant..

may be of interest @combs0294.bsky.social

"Live Nation is not the most forthcoming corporation." www.startribune.com/sneak-peak-m...

Poeltl is a color coded NBA player guessing game. A silhouette is released daily giving gamers six attempts to guess a player. It's an addictive combination of a lack commitment and basketball. Call it Wordle for dumb people.

Izzy Canizares dug into why some Minnesotans showed up to the WHCD where suspect Cole Allen was arrested and charged with trying to assassinate President Trump. One Q lingers: Why would Democrats attend a gala featuring a President so hostile to the first amendment?

Salon’s Sophia Tesfaye dissected long-suspected allegations that the Trump Administration is using Axios and reporter Barak Ravid to move oil markets benefiting traders who bet that oil prices will drop. www.salon.com/2026/05/09/a...

New Justice Project's Rod Adams and Fadumo Mohammed celebrated construction that will flip this old Uptown-based YWCA center into Rise Up: A BIPOC job training hub organized by unions, civil rights activists and immigrant rights activists: spokesman-recorder.com/2026/05/06/r...

The Trump EPA has released new guidelines that help water utilities avoid replacing lead pipes. The EPA under Trump has technically upheld the Biden-era Lead and Copper Rule Improvements, but the new guidance grants “flexibility” and allows utilities to get around replacing old lead piping.

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Sen. Sherrod Brown wins Ohio Democratic primary for US Senate, setting up race seen as crucial for national party.

Here's the story from the self-proclaim dope on how one conservative influencer's dry-snitch campaign led to a raid in Manhattan and convinced the Trump Administration to pursue a federal investigation over a pushing match: spokesman-recorder.com/2026/05/04/f...

A subcommittee in the Minnesota state legislature killed a similar proposal.

never has minneapolis needed to celebrate the sun coming more than at the end of winter 2026. ICE are not gone completely, but we still won, and it was incredibly cathartic to see this ceremony at mayday about protecting our neighbors, grounding why we did this work. i love this city

Guttmacher found that medicated abortion accounts for 63% of all abortions. www.guttmacher.org/2026/03/new-... This lower court ruling can pave the way for reinstitating the Comstock Act.

A May Day reminder that since our one-day strike, we still haven't been able to close our contract. I believe that our contract will be used as a reference point by other outlets, so I want it to be as strong as possible on AI and job protections not just for ProPublica, but for the entire industry

Why was secret service security more robust at a local fundraiser inside a Cincinnati-based supermarket compared to a more publicized White House Correspondence Dinner after two failed assassination attempts against the President? NBC's story: www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

spokesman-recorder.com/2026/04/30/m... Few housing programs are as bipartisan and touches urban and rural residents like the State Housing Tax Credit Program.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

From Kurdish to Kichwa, six Minnesotans work to preserve the languages that keep them connected to their home, heritage and history. By Shubhanjana Das

Here’s how environmental activists forced the Hennepin County Commissioners’ meeting into a recess after the board ignored requests to vote on the closure of a trash incinerator in Minneapolis: spokesman-recorder.com/2026/04/27/z...

A former WH staffer publishes an op-ed saying Trump's rhetoric fuels political violence. If we can't roast the President then we no longer have a democracy.

Again, the President's daughter, son, and former daughter-in-law receive enhanced security at a grocery store, where agents are dressed as valet drivers, whereas the White House Correspondents' Dinner, following a second assassination attempt, receives lower levels of security.

Why did Laura Trump, Don Jr and the Butler County Republican Party get higher levels of security at a grocery store in Ohio compared to the WHCD last night?