DHS itself has confirmed that the victims were detainees but Noem and Vance have already jumped to reframe the attack as anti-law enforcement violence.

C'mon...

Local TV station megaconglomerates don’t need to exist. Their entire income stream is 30 second ad slots for used car dealers and injury attorneys and local politicians. The only thing they make is a dying news product that hasn’t changed its format in decades. Break em all up.

Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared

WTF?

This is such a fun idea. (Team Mpls!!!!)

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IT IS TIME.

The editor of St. Paul's KKK paper, "The Call of the North," has thoughts about those things your kids are learning in public schools, Aug. 31, 1923.

Leavitt refused to say whether Tom Homan had returned the alleged cash bribe received from undercover FBI agents posing as business executives. trib.al/lVszzfi

We deserve this... theonion.com/throwback-an...

This cartoon by @slyngstad.bsky.social is a good start. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/gi...

lol turns out the mouse will blink

I was trying to remember how many stories I wrote while I was at the Des Moines Register (more than 500), and every one I have looked at so far, I have absolutely no memory of.

This is why I have a really hard time when people say "we're cooked." I'm not saying things aren't as truly horrible as they are. But we're going to have to get up tomorrow and keep going, one way or the other. So I can't give in to that, and I don't think I will be alone.

Meanwhile, at my alma mater

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When white America catches a cold, Black America gets pneumonia.

Libraries, rec centers are back online in St. Paul. Yes, you can use a library computer to surf the Internet again — for the first time since a July ransomware attack, reports @MarsKingReports www.twincities.com/2025/09/18/p...

Could I just brag about my colleagues for a little bit? In July, librarians at at the University of Minnesota launched Save Our Signs, an effort to preserve interpretive signs at our national parks. So far, they have collected 8,070 images of signs (4 of them my own) from 319 sites!!!

It's not a question of if ICE will show up on your campus, but when, and colleges need to be prepared.

if you think wrestling is fake, explain THIS

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...

Impunity is what fuels political violence, much more than rhetoric.

If you are reaching out for help with someone's data, please don't ask them to find basic base GIS layers for you. This suggests you want me to do your work, and you likely don't know what you're doing. This doesn't mean don't ask for help, but you should demonstrate what work you've already done.

Seeing more people of color in the UK talking about leaving because they feel unsafe and it has really brought out more of my annoyance at Americans who have been acting like moving to the UK/Europe is some sort of magical escape because they’re ignorant of what is happening in the rest of the world

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I want to once again reiterate what I said earlier. The reason the vast majority of Democratic and so-called centrist elites have acquiesced over and over again is that they are COMPLICIT. Because they actually know that direct confrontation is how you defeat fascists and choose not to do it.

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Here's where The Minnesota Star Tribune's news judgement is at today. Target employees' mandated return to the office pinned to the top all day with breathless updates (see next tweet), while a strike that started at the state's university system is buried.

I need people to also understand that faculty have been harassed like this - specifically with staged protests and secret recordings- for decades The ESCALATION (and this matters!) is the president so pathetically caving and firing the dean and department head

Peak cringe boosterism and wishful thinking to boot.

So what will Pioneer Press do now? (They print there, right?)

Wow. Even after print declined, Heritage was a money-maker, as Strib did other papers who had dumped their printers. Outsourced to Iowa(!) has to mean BRUTAL early deadlines & I‘d say this is the final step before digital-only. Big North Loop redevelopment site tho - if you can handle demo/reno $$.

From the Fox News National Security correspondent: "It looks to me like the US military is going to war."

(This type of 4,500-word story only exists in our city because Racket exists, and Racket only exists because of YOU: racketmn.com/products)

Again I am annoyed to report that incorporating testing in your development does actually really help.

The NRA is more on the side of the trans community than Gavin Newsom

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Today I learned in the Strib opinion section that a U of M doctor of Obstetrics and Gynecology gets to be an expert on implanting AI into guns, but if people comment on their actual areas of expertise, they get in trouble. Fun!

It's just a sports ban. It's just a bathroom ban. It's just a healthcare for kids ban. It's just a military service ban. It's just a federal jobs ban. It's just a university housing ban. It's just a passport & visa ban. It's just one Constitutional right. It's just your status as free citizens.

So either no local news outlet has noticed that the Teamsters at the U of M might strike tomorrow (other than a confusing Minnesota Daily article), or I am missing something.

New: Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

“They just see us as little toy soldiers to put on the street to show some muscle.” Alex, a National Guard recruiter who requested anonymity to speak freely, told Mother Jones that the DC mission has deterred potential recruits and pushed soldiers to their breaking points.

THEY VOTED TO RESTORE THE IMLS FUNDING. This isn't the end. It's nowhere near the end. But the House and Senate subcommittees voted to restore the IMLS in their budget markups. Full House budget markup is tomorrow.

homeschooled alumni have been saying this, and it's bad

Oh god the new Zotero is all cheery and design-y no no no.

Look, I know I'm back on the Strib cranky posts, but it really seems like a week where they are doing quite a bit of harm: giving 'gun rights' people platforms as experts without interrogating their positions, lots of coverage of who the shooter was, lots of photos of kids...