Kate Bischoff

Optics.

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At least two people are dead and 14 others wounded after an overnight mass shooting in Austin, Texas. Police fatally shot the suspected gunman. https://cnn.it/4lcgmDV

It’s Captain America:The Winter Soldier AND Age of Ultron.

Henrietta Lacks’s Family Settles Suit With Novartis Over Use of Her Cells Ms. Lacks’s family accused Novartis of profiting from her cells, which were taken from her without her consent in 1951, when she was dying of cervical cancer.

The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells were taken from her without her consent in 1951, has reached a settlement with the pharmaceutical giant Novartis. The family had accused Novartis of profiting from Lacks’s cells, which have been used in groundbreaking research.

Judge: IRS broke law ‘approximately 42,695 times’ in giving DHS data A court on Thursday issued an opinion on a data-sharing agreement between the taxpayer agency and federal immigration authorities.

Breaking news: A federal judge found that the IRS violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.

BREAKING:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton in testimony says she has no information on Epstein's criminal activities and never recalls meeting him.

and now HCMC, the largest social safety net in minnesota, may close, commissioner angela conley said -

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Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

In the Twin Cities and surrounding suburbs, the Trump administration's immigration crackdown has slowed home construction to a crawl – at a time when Minnesota, like much of the country, faces a steep housing shortage. https://cnn.it/4s4wVnu

Trained on the Terminator films perhaps

Hegseth warns Anthropic to let the military use the company’s AI tech as it sees fit, AP sources say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pressuring Anthropic to give the military broader access to its artificial intelligence technology or lose its Pentagon contract.

This is a very big story.

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All from Minnesota. Love to see it.

New gun limits pitched by Walz and Democrats face likely GOP resistance Republicans have focused their legislative response to the Annunciation shooting on school safety and mental health — and specifically not guns.

Gov. Tim Walz renewed his push to tackle gun violence prevention, asking lawmakers in Minnesota’s divided Legislature to meet the moment after last year’s killing of two children at Annunciation Catholic School.

Coast Guard investigating swastika found at recruit training center The incident follows a controversy last year when officials temporarily downgraded the hate symbol to “potentially divisive” in the service’s workplace harassment manual.

The Coast Guard has opened an internal investigation after a hand-drawn swastika appeared at its primary recruit training center, prompting a swift response from its top admiral, who faced intense scrutiny after the service temporarily downgraded the hate symbol in its workplace harassment manual.

Ya know that great person @atrupar.com is going to watch it for me, I’m hoping.

Observing Ramadan Feels Different This Year for Minnesota’s Somali Community Faith leaders said many people were still afraid to leave their homes, even after the weekslong federal immigration crackdown ended.

For members of Minnesota’s close-knit Somali community, many of whom are Muslim, Ramadan is typically a time of reflection, with a renewed focus on community and helping others. But the weekslong presence of ICE has created an atmosphere of fear and apprehension.

One of the first things we were taught at Quantico was that there is never a moment in which you are not representing the Bureau; but, then again, we earned our place there, and weren’t granted its directorship as a sinecure for partisan malfeasance and a willingness to disregard the constitution.

DHS agent killed US citizen in March last year, records reveal Texas shooting appears to be ​the first known instance of US citizen being killed during Trump's immigration crackdown.

Texas shooting appears to be ​the first known instance of US citizen being killed during Trump's immigration crackdown.

ICE detained a Minnesota teen, labeled him an ‘unaccompanied minor,’ and lost him The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.

Show this to the KSTP chucklefuck who insisted to Minneapolis Council Members that DHS “found” 3,300 missing kids: www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

🇵🇸 In Gaza, displaced Palestinians break fast during Ramadan

As the sun sets, Palestinians in Gaza gather at communal tables for the fast-breaking meal of iftar during Ramadan. Organised by the Egyptian Committee in the Gaza Strip, the meals take place in camps sheltering displaced Palestinians.

In all seriousness when I read this I first started to laugh and then a split-second later thought, you know, they actually may do this

🇨🇱 Chilean scientists warn of spread of avian flu in Antarctica

Scientists are sounding the alarm over the spread of bird flu across Antarctica, with a leading Chilean researcher telling AFP of an observed strain "capable of killing 100 percent" of infected fauna.

A 19-year-old Palestinian American was killed and four others injured as they tried to stop a group of armed illegal Israeli settlers from stealing their sheep in the occupied West Bank.

Kash Patel heads to Milan for the Olympics — on the FBI jet The FBI director has plans to watch the U.S. men’s hockey team vie for gold, sources tell MS NOW.

Breaking MS NOW:

FBI Director Kash Patel flew today on the FBI's Gulfstream jet bound for a trip to the winter Olympics in Italy to watch one of his favorite sports: men's ice hockey.

Patel's trip to Milan is likely to cost as much as $75,000. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

The cost of genocide: Israel’s war on Gaza by the numbers

The cost of genocide: Israel’s war on Gaza by the numbers https://aje.news/5k7uza

The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns The less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities make it harder for protesters and observers to organize.

There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

In this immigrant-heavy Minneapolis suburb, schools are still a place of learning.

But now they’re also food banks, counseling hotlines, missing persons task forces, immigration resource centers and places of refuge. https://wapo.st/46bOABc

Directly into my veins.

Over 80 UN member states condemn Israel's de facto annexation of West Bank UN warns that Israel's plan will lead to widespread dispossession of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.

UN warns that Israel's plan will lead to widespread dispossession of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.