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hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message:

- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

Today, ICE engaged in a dangerous, high-speed chase in Saint Paul. Their recklessness and disdain for the safety of our residents led directly to a multi-car collision, even if ICE vehicles weren't the ones to hit other cars.

You'd think that hating soccer would disqualify someone from running Major League Soccer. Given their actions it appears that not only it doesn't, but it is a qualification for getting the job.

Fifteen years ago, I got my dream job writing for MLSsoccer. Last week, that came to an end.

I'm off on my own, and it's time to build something new – with a little help from all of you.
tacticsfreezone.ghost.io/an-end-to-my...

I Had a Dream Journalism Job. Here's Why I Quit. The rot that hollowed out trust in corporate media finally reached OPB. I had to go.

"The OPB on your coffee mug, or on your window sticker, might not be the exact place you think it is."

This week, we're telling you why we started the @thewesternedge.bsky.social. Today read @ryanjhaas.bsky.social's devastating essay about local media:

www.thewesternedge.media/p/i-had-a-dr...

Video: Opinion | ‘The Mistake of Feminism’ Is it possible to support women while also opposing abortion? The pro-life activist Lila Rose argues yes. The key, she says, is to acknowledge that men and women are inherently different.

Love this. Love that we live in a world where the dumbest, most evil motherfuckers alive get to monologue incoherently into a microphone for 3 minutes and it's published verbatim on the website of the nation's most prestigious newspaper. Great work everyone
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Incredible restraint putting “they didn’t ask me” at #2

zakiya bywaters publicly exposed rory dames’ abuse of players in 2016, six years before the yates report. six. years. think of how much suffering players could’ve been spared if the league had simply listened to and believed her.

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting.

Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

I’ve confirmed the Obed Vargas transfer is completed. He’ll join Atlético Madrid. Deal was apparently not quite as straightforward as had been reported. Took some work to get over line.

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."

ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

Washington Post: Trump softens tone on Minneapolis violence amid calls for accountability The White House changed leadership in Minnesota and softened its tone on dead protesters as polls show Americans turning against ICE.

Semafor: Trump softens tone on Minneapolis shooting

AP: Trump administration shifts tone on fatal shooting in Minneapolis

Axios: NEW: Trump spent Sunday lamenting his administration’s botched response to the Alex Pretti shooting, including news conferences by Greg Bovino and Kristi Noem in which they seemed “callous” about the man’s death, a confidant who spoke with Trump told Axios.

Trump is not doing this and the media is lying to you because they want to take him to the dance and kiss

Beyond the obvious need for tribunals for the crimes Noem and others have committed and enabled, bringing shame back seems fundamental to the enterprise of rebuilding this country. No society can survive without a general understanding that this kind of shameless lying is unacceptable.

Remembering how cops tossed Kyle Rittenhouse - who was open carrying a semiautomatic rifle - a bottle of water and told him, “We appreciate you… we really do”

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

ICE executes ICU nurse in broad daylight "Boo hoo," one agent said after he and a gang of colleagues murdered 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who died trying to help a woman who was being assaulted.

"Boo hoo," one agent said after he and a gang of colleagues murdered 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who died trying to help a woman who was being assaulted.

A sobering piece from @lebassett.bsky.social

www.laura-bassett.com/p/ice-execut...

Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

genuinely stunning image

ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.

Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

90 day suspension of US tourist visas and this is all over

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All three is tough! It’s a huge time commitment to check labels or make your own stuff too… if you’re looking for tips, you can do a cheese-ish sauce by blending nutritional yeast, soaked cashews, black pepper, and a soy free miso like chickpea miso

elected democrats who want their constituents to remain non-violent in their protests of these abuses must actually offer a path for ending the abuses non-violently. they currently are not as a party and it’s a major problem.

Ppl keep asking me what it's like here and like obviously there is tension. I walking around w my passport when I shouldn't fucking have to and watch my community get assaulted but I also say it's push-pull bc I have never more strongly felt these are my people. These community bonds are so strong.

the people of MN have been murdered, brutalized and kidnapped for weeks now and have remained *amazingly* peaceful in the face of it. lecturing citizens to not “take the bait” etc is pretty disrespectful after a point and avoids the real question: how long are they supposed to take this, undefended?

wooof having watched that presser just now, "don't take the bait" is a real shit thing to tell people who are, by all knowledge and information and evidence, acting in defense of themselves and their neighbors and their communities

In the last 4 days:

-- Elise Slotkin says she's being criminally investigated by DOJ
-- ICE illegally goes "door to door" in Minneapolis
-- FBI raids the home of a WP journalist
-- DHS illegally arrests, detains 100+ Somalians with legal refugee status

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"

"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.

A citizen.

Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.

"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.

Agents took and sold his phone

And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.