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Flights, court filings and encounters indicate fewer federal agents in Minnesota, observers remain wary Observers of detainee flights say fewer are going out, amid other decreased activities, but it’s hard to gauge exact numbers.

Since mid-February, the planes leaving the frosty tarmac of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport are mostly empty; federal agents load less than a dozen immigration detainees on board. It’s a far cry from last month when as many as 127 detainees were loaded and flown out.

U2 drops blistering song about Minneapolis mom Renee Good Good’s family said she would have been deeply moved by the protest tune.

U2 just released a new EP, Days of Ash, that opens with a protest song aimed squarely at the U.S. government's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. In part a tribute to slain mother of three Renee Good, it's called "American Obituary."

Training for New ICE Agents Is ‘Deficient’ and ‘Broken,’ Whistle-Blower Says

ICE cut 240 hours of training from a 584-hour program, among them, classes that teach the Constitution, legal system, firearms, use of force, lawful arrests, proper detention and the limits of officers’ authority, instructor says. That seems significant.

The vanishing newspaper cartoonist - Editor and Publisher When Rob Tornoe sat down with two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Walt Handelsman, the conversation was less about one retirement and more about an extinction. Handelsman’s decision to put down his pen mar...

Tech company changes — X’s new terms of service, Google’s chokehold on search traffic and ad dollars, AI-powered tools that 'adapt' content and present it as their own — have forced many newspapers to reinvent content; sadly moving on from once-beloved newspaper roles, like editorial cartoonists.

Why One Insider Turned Against Big Tech He did PR for Zuckerberg, Musk, and Google. Now he says he '"only told half the story."

The big "unanswered questions” that societies urgently need to address: how to adapt to job losses due to AI, find paths for countries to work together in a climate of increasing geopolitical chaos, and safeguard human rights and liberal democracy.

2 Washington Post writers at the Olympics despite being laid off, say it was important to be there - Editor and Publisher With air tickets and accommodation already paid for, Washington Post columnist Barry Svrluga is one of four of the paper’s journalists who decided to still come: He is in Cortina, Rick Maese is in Bor...

2 Washington Post writers at the Olympics despite being laid off, say it was important to be there

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WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

Under GOP Pressure, Federal Agency Pulls Climate Change Chapter From Official Manual for U.S. Judges The “Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence” — updated for the first time in 15 years — eliminates some 90 pages about climate science and comes just as numerous climate cases make their way through ...

The withdrawal comes as a number of lawsuits seek to hold oil and gas companies accountable for the damage caused by climate change, which has been scientifically linked to the emissions produced by burning fossil fuels.

Nearly 30,000 Minnesotans trained as constitutional observers The Immigrant Defense Network works with more than 100 organizations to help train constitutional observers. At the end of November, there were 2,500 trained observers. That number has soared as more ...

Hail Minnesota . . .
A constitutional observer, a trained community member, observes and documents federal law enforcement activity to help ensure constitutional rights are followed. They don't intervene. They watch. They record. They bear witness.

Opinion | A Lament for the Washington Post The most powerful capital in the world has no major fully functioning newspaper. That’s a huge absence.

The great Peggy Noonan on the demise of the @washingtonpost.com: "The capital of the most powerful nation on earth appears to be without a vital, fully functioning newspaper to cover it. That isn’t the occasion of jokes, it’s a disaster." www.wsj.com/opinion/a-la...

YouTube video by Washington Post 'Democracy Dies in Darkness': Super Bowl commercial (2019)

Seven years ago yesterday, this ad ran during the Super Bowl.

Washington Post Begins Laying Off More Than 300 Journalists

I’d like to report a murder. Trying to fix a legacy media company is hard — we all know the economics — but Jeff Bezos just killed the @washingtonpost.com in the most cowardly & inept way possible. He would never entertain others who wanted to fix it too like me www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

Minnesota schools in ‘crisis mode’ scramble to support students amid ICE surge Across Minnesota, school staff who were already overwhelmed are mobilizing to help families affected by immigration enforcement.

The ramped-up presence of federal immigration agents in the Twin Cities along with the fear it creates has disrupted normal school day routines for thousands of students across Minnesota.

Federal agents arrest journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort in what press freedom groups say is an escalation - Poynter The arrests come after multiple federal judges rejected the Justice Department’s attempts to charge the journalists

“This is not a matter of being cited or detained on the scene. This is a matter of their opening an investigation (and) actively pursuing him weeks after the fact,” Freedom of the Press Foundation chief of advocacy Seth Stern said.

Park Service removes slavery exhibit at Independence Park in Philadelphia Park staff dismantled an exhibit about George Washington’s slave ownership amid a wider push to remove information on racism, sexism and climate change.

In carrying out Trump's executive order . . . the U.S. Park Service has been removing information about historic racism, sexism, LGBTQ rights, slavery, and climate change since last year.

In Washington, Birds Are Giving ‘Yelp Reviews’ of Forest Restoration Work

Birds are key indicators of ecological health . . .

Cursive Is Making a Comeback Cursive is back! California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law in October 2023 that will go into effect in January 2024, mandating cursive writing be taught in state school for grades one through six.

Cursive!

An intense White House response from a single viral video - Editor and Publisher A 43-minute video posted online in the past week, purporting to expose extensive fraud at Somali-run child care centers in Minnesota, has been viewed by millions of people. It has also set off a …

A huge White House response to a single recent viral video that claims to expose fraud at Somali-run child care centers in Minnesota. Viewed by millions of people, it set off a series of events showing the symbiotic relationship between the Trump administration and so-called 'citizen journalists'.

Investigative journalism is leaving television behind - Editor and Publisher The media industry loves to talk about the death of things. The death of cable. The death of appointment viewing. The death of the 30-second spot. But we’re not talking enough about what’s actually d...

Investigative journalism is leaving television behind

There it is. The final print edition, after more than 150 years, of the Atlanta Journal Constitution

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How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?

Big disruption, little saving. Many of the 'savings' DOGE claimed were wrong, notes this NYT report. While DOGE made thousands of smaller cuts – jolting foreign aid recipients, American small businesses, and local service providers – they amounted to little in the scale of the federal budget . . .

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Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life Melissa Hortman died in a shocking act of political violence. This is her story

You should know about Melissa Hortman, Minnesota legislator who was murdered In the early hours of June 14, 2025, along with her husband, Mark, and their dog, Gilbert, in their Brooklyn Park, Minnesota home. You will learn a lot.
This story from Rolling Stone . . .

‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’

‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’

Solstice Peace, Hope, Light... ✌️✨🫶

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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How Project 2025 kneecapped the US press. The Heritage Foundation’s road map for a conservative presidency proposed sweeping media reforms. Trump carried out most of them—and he has three years left.

How Project 2025 kneecapped the US press . . .