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Trump is the insurrection And the Supreme Court's conservatives are his shock troops.

"The only issue is whether SCOTUS will allow the president to lie that there is an insurrection, then use his own patently false proclamation to justify flooding American cities with soldiers to 'fight crime.' Considering the recent behavior of SCOTUS's 6 conservative justices, the vibes are rancid"

Photo of a blonde female pathological liar wearing a dark suit to match her dark soul, with the words: “Someone should tell Pam Bondi that while Nixon didn't go to prison, his Attorney General did.”

Good morning, Pam Bondi ☕️💅🏽

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

if you weren’t paying attention in 2014, look up “pointergate” to see why KSTP has long been a problem!

More messaging like this please

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

Jared Kushner is going to the Middle East to negotiate a deal on behalf of the U.S. government days after Kushner announced a $55 billion deal between his private equity fund and the Saudi government

One of the most brazen conflicts in history.

If you're in the news, tough facts and full transparency business, the question, "Who paid for this?" should not come as tough or surprising. Like some of you last night, I watched the documentary, "A Precarious State", noting the presence of former KARE-TV reporter Rick Kupchella, its unusual commercial-free runtime on several ABC stations owned by the Hubbard family and its weighted cast of landlords, "business leaders" and conservatives of varying pedigrees. Being a guy who doesn't get out much, I had no inkling of the production until yesterday morning, when I read an infomercial on the Star Tribune's op-ed page. It was a piece written by Kupchella touting his show. I could have thought, "Cool! The Strib is now running paid promos in its editorial section. Kind of like Budweiser decals on Nascars." I hadn't stopped asking, "What the f*ck is this? before several texts arrived asking if I knew anything about the show." Several of my woke, Marxist, anti-capitalist, eat-the-rich, let's all eat bugs-and-roots cronies were already smelling a new variation of a MAGA-marinated Liz Collin/Mrs. Bob Kroll attack on the faerie lefty nymphs running Minneapolis... or in the case of Kupchella's piece, all of Minnesota. Not knowing anything about what was up, I told them that I only knew Kupchella from back in the day and generally liked his work. As they say in the biz, "He's good TV." Not a raver. Not a ranter. Adept at compiling statistics and delivering the goods with a genial, neighborly vibe. To a couple of my pals I did add, somewhat recklessly, that he was also "a relentless self- promoter", "relentless" probably being a bit much. But the point was the guy, even as a staff reporter for a corporate-owned TV station knew how to market his goods. As a media columnist at the time I always knew when a new Kupchella piece was about to drop. And as I say, they were consistently "above average." Quality visuals. Lots of interviews... and stats. Not that any of that guarantees a…

If you missed the show last night, the capsule summary is that Minnesota, Minneapolis in particular, has descended to the levels of depressed, illiterate, crime-ridden hellholes like Louisiana and Mississippi. Everything around us is trending toward disaster. And the main reason is ... wait for it... oh, you already guessed ... radical democratic socialists... who in five short years have emasculated both our prosperity-inducing developers, landlords and cops. But mostly our cops. Now, being an old white guy living in Edina I don't pay as much attention as I should to the daily nitty of the Minneapolis City Council. But even as a delusional, woke, MAGA-resistant scold I can accept that some of the stuff the council's majority yabbers about and proposes is kinda batty. As batshit as Tylenol causing autism? Defunding pediatric cancer research? Or flushing anyone who knows anything about science out of the CDC? No. Not quite that loony and destructive. But counter-productive. IMHO a lot of the current council lacks the realpolitik awareness that any city, especially big cities like Minneapolis, require buy-in from a wider range of influencers than the 40 people who showed up on caucus night and got you on the ballot. Kupchella's film, which plays like it got a script polish by John Hinderaker and Katherine Kersten at the Center for the American Experiment, (another operation from whom I'd love to see a donor list), does make some valid points about the easily-gamed caucus system. But its primary focus is ... crime. Lots of crime. Constant crime. Crime so pervasive "no one" wants to go anywhere downtown. Put simply, the film argues, Minneapolis needs lots more cops. The deep irony there being that the appallingly inadequate vetting and training of cops was what (along with outside agitators) incited the George Floyd riots. But (without new taxes of course) let's quickly put 600 more of those guys out there and hope for the best this time

(In the context of "too few cops on the street", I always like to remind readers that in the George Floyd episode, two MPD squad cars and a third, a Park Police squad, carrying a total of six peace officers, turned up to check out the possibility of a fake $20. And were soon bellowing f-bombs, waving guns and murdering the suspect.) Kupchella's statistics team wove in a lot of gloomy numbers about our crime and student achievement. But, odd thing about Google ... five-seconds of tapping turns up other numbers that paint a far ... far ... less grim picture. Like the stuff US News and World report culled from FBI stats showing that The City of Lakes and Free Fire Hellholes was actually dead last in violent crime among the USA's 25 largest metros. Similarly, the state's academic achievement scores, while certainly in need of improvement (whose aren't?) still hold up well in comparison to say, Texas, which Kupchella and crew regard as a beacon of deregulated, low-tax, free enterprise supremacy... never mind the wretched state of its schools, which landlords, developers and can-do entrepreneurs invariably hate paying taxes to support. (Those Democrat unions, y'know.) And on the topic of schools, at one point Kupchella interviews what I guess he regards as an average, representative suburban Minneapolis couple; parents of school age children. Nice looking folks. Tidy house. But, I'm sorry when the dude with the crucifix necklace starts muttering about "indoctrination" in Minnesota's public schools and how "parents need more input" into curriculum, one guesses, I'm out of there. Similarly, in the context of "good TV" we have "exclusive security cam footage of a wild shoot out last year down off Franklin and 19th. It's berserk. Sixty-some bullets fired. Some guy with an Uzi- style machine gun. Bad. No way to coat it. But for, um, dramatic purposes, Kupchella runs that clip ... three times ... and on the last roll intones, that this ... "is the new normal." Also, just asking…

But that would have ruined the fun. I could go on ... and on ... but the point is that this, very much like, but with far more mainstream polish than your average Alpha News/Liz Collin rabble rouser, is a film with an agenda. And that's fine. For the next few hours at least it's still a free country. You got something you want to say and you've got somebody willing to write the check to buy an hour of airtime on a half dozen network affiliates around the state, knock yourself out. But if the game here includes the pretense of journalistic integrity you owe it to your viewers to show your work. Like a list of who contributed how much to cover the two years of production and tab for an hour of commercial-free network airtime. After the film aired Kupchella hosted an on-line discussion with several of the key sources/subjects and took questions from viewers. Mine was, "Who provided money to produce this film? Did the Hubbard family donate? Why wasn't Mayor Frey interviewed? Did he deny a request?" Unless I missed it, time expired before they got to those

Some of you know me as an OG media reporter, but Brian Lambert, who I don’t think is on here, taught me. He had some great thoughts about Kupchella’s landlord ad & “journalism.” Sorry for no alt-text; these excerpts are too long. If you need alt please message me & I’ll shoot you an email or text.

Editor’s Note: How we reported on text messages between senior Trump administration officials A source approached the Minnesota Star Tribune with photographs of sensitive messages exchanged by a key Trump administration official in a public place. Here are the steps we took to confirm the fact...

200 images! Snapped ”in a crowded, public location where there would be no reasonable expectation of privacy.“ These fuckers are evil & inept! www.startribune.com/editors-note...

CB is a troll at heart, so I try not to get baited. But I can't believe our "moderate" DFLers have their own alpha news style documentary and have pre-injected voter fraud into the city election conversation. It's glorious. Federal troops will be greeted as liberators I guess?

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

Jasmine Crockett: “Stop believing the lies they are putting out there. The only person that is harming you right now is the old white nepo baby that is sitting in the White House that is causing all the destruction, pain, and problems you are enduring”

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.

But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

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Fox News reporter to Mike Johnson: "How can you say 'they take no pleasure in this,' and then the next minute say, 'Oh, they're just having fun and trolling?'"

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

Good work

COLLINS: So you're telling me you're willing to vote no every time?

BERNIE SANDERS: Damn right

Get ready for the next big bailout Trump's tariffs are wrecking the agribusiness economy — again.

New in PN: Get ready for the next big bailout

"What this means is that the farmers will be insulated at least somewhat from the damage Trump’s foolish trade war did to them; in other words, they’ll get a bailout. The rest of us will pay for it. And the economy will get no benefit at all."

It is important to see this sort of straight talking, precisely because of the executive order last week that conflated criticism of the government with terrorism.

Khanna: "We have to understand how abnormal this is. You don't mock someone and put a video out about how they look. You don't ever mock people's ethnicity. How do you negotiate with that? And how have we made this normal?"

This is one of the most demented things Trump has posted

Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other Countries, just like stealing “candy from a baby.” California, with its weak and incompetent Governor, has been particularly hard hit! Therefore, in order to solve this long time, never ending problem, I will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DJT

Trump: "I will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States."

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.

2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.

3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!