This is it.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

In today's "libraries are amazing" news: You want a creepy photo from the 1928 World Book Encyclopedia? Internet Archive! You want a 1921 St. Paul city ordinance? Hathi Trust! Oh, they didn't scan 1922 -- walk to the law library!

Re supposed end of the Target boycott: it’s 100% bullshit. See statement below from an *actual* leader of the initial DEI boycott. Even if true (to repeat, it’s not!), it’s not up to any small group. Target has fixed nothing + compounded its DEI sins with ICE complicity. People are done with it!

A week ago a Star Tribune columnist was chiding readers for implying the boycott was a factor for Target at all. And this isn't the first time people who are not the original organizers have tried to claim ownership. Target, my local newspaper, and others sure think we're stupid. It ain't over.

I'm sure that Target would like to believe that the boycott is over.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

NEWS: Grammarly tells me it will let "experts" like me opt out of having their names used against their will and for no compensation as part of its "expert review" feature www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

24 hours later -- not a peep out of any House Republican leaders or any Republicans in Congress or the Tennessee GOP at all about this. I go no responses from anyone I reached out to. Guess they're all fine with comments like this!

“I used to look somebody in the eyes and say, with good faith, ‘You will be fine at the hospital,’” said Emily Carroll, a nurse practitioner. “But now, I can’t make that guarantee.” ... via KFF Health News

It's amazing what you find when you actually look at your own data.

RELATED: Heard last week from several people that the feds got a huge shipment of unmarked cars at Whipple, bigger than shipments even at the peak of Metro Surge. What gives? Doubling down? Replacing rentals? Or did someone order a bunch of cars and now they're stuck with them?

"Person familiar," please do explain to the class why ICE "can't" use these vehicles. Somehow the police muddle through having to identify themselves! If their contention is "we only can do our work if we get to be secret police," then they shouldn't exist!

Even as the Minnesota Department of Highways was planning expressways through Minneapolis, most of the people who lived and worked there rode the streetcar, took the bus, or walked. ...

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors. My report:

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter www.statesman.com/business/art...

“When I think about navigating the start of the year here, especially in our hometown in Minneapolis, the thing that we have kept front and center every single day is the safety of our team.” – Target CEO Michael Fiddelke

Cool cool cool since was he ever supposed to be in?

a lesson to be taken from the Proton email situation is that Swiss law isn’t a get out of jail free card and the Swiss government is a 5 eyes affiliate

Well at least with a name like Markwayne he won't be hard to find in the Epstein files...

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Business reporters usually have just one source -- company officials or analysts parroting company officials -- and NEVER talk the consumers for a more informed column. Instead, they belittle what is quite apparently an effective consumer backlash. www.startribune.com/ramstad-targ...

Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(

The House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Pam Bondi over the DOJ’s failure to make its Jeffrey Epstein records public

The airplane flying the University of Wisconsin men's hockey to Penn State right now, N459AW, was used to fly shackled ICE detainees from Michigan to Louisiana on Sunday.

"I fear some [council members] are indifferent." Have you paid someone's rent, organized a fundraiser, gone on patrol, found someone an attorney, done someone's laundry, delivered groceries, held a baby of someone sheltering in fear? "If not you may be too far removed to have good judgment."

A week ago, the ACLU got DHS officials to admit on record that there would be an additional 407 agents throughout March on top of the 150 CBP agents we would normally have here. The idea that we are down to pre-surge levels is a lie that needs to be corrected for the country. We are still occupied.

This is who the Minnesota WILD GM wanted in the US Men's locker room to celebrate. Someone who is actively covering up the murders of 2 Minnesotans.

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Exclusive: An internal government database reviewed by The Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s effort to revise or remove information on African American history, climate change and other topics at hundreds of national parks.

who could have seen AI become weaponized by a corrupt government, except for literally everyone, as well as decades of science fiction

This is so stupid and I am fairly worried this will, in fact, work.

I have a relative who regularly sends me texts saying "redlining mentioned" with a link to some random thing. I do not know how to tell them again that I study racial covenants, not redlining, and do, in fact, have access to Google.

Man if only this guy had a lawyer!

Unfortunately Scouting USA has shown us again that it cannot be trusted.

Kansans who are being forced to renew their license because they are trans will have to pay for a new license AND be entered into a database noting the change. As others have said, police state shit.

But it is 2026 and I cant remember the last time I heard any major democratic politician discuss the fact that so many Americans are being forced to pack up and move in order to have access to the the human right of bodily autonomy and personal safety. Maybe because they dont actually GAF.

Since Trump began his second term, at least 31 of the 64 lawyers at the MN U.S. Attorney’s Office quit or retired, with attorneys citing concerns about ethics, political pressure and the administration’s decision to make immigration a top priority, according to a 2-month Star Tribune investigation.

Seems like the feds are quite interested in a performative retribution tour. Heads up out there, friends.

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

Dear Excel: Hope this message finds you well. I would like to pass on some feedback. NOBODY. WANTS. SCIENTIFIC. NOTATION. BY. DEFAULT. EVER. Ahem. Thank you.

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

Been wondering about this, since I don't see them using radios.

I’m just a Minneapolitan, standing in front of a country, asking them to stop platforming our mayor for swearing on tv about ICE and then doing nothing substantive while antagonizing city council members that are

“We were stunned [about the prescience] for a while, but we’ve really gotten to the point where it’s really sad. It’s just sad how predictable and lame and obvious and wrong it all is. Fascism is just a total fail in the end.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

OK the uniform color contrast (or lack thereof) in the men's hockey game is intolerable. Seems like it's gotta be confusing for the players too.

Is he going to ask the progressive council members for a briefing on what they did? Because he didn't do a damn thing so what's he going to talk about?

I need non-Minnesotans to understand that Jacob Frey is very much not the savior he thinks he is.

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is suspending evictions for its rental properties in response to the ICE surge. It's the first local government body in Minnesota to enact a rent moratorium because of immigration enforcement.