Evangelicals wrestle with faith and politics as ICE surge continues in Minnesota Small cracks may be emerging in a denomination known for its staunch support of MAGA.

Minnesota Star Tribune interviews with denomination leaders, churchgoers and former churchgoers in the wake of Operation Metro Surge found that while support remains strong for the president, cracks in the alliance have emerged.

President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion.

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How immigration detainees move around Minnesota and the nation ICE detained hundreds of thousands of people last year, shuttling them between jails and detention centers around the country, limiting access to legal support.

Pretty incredible data viz map by the Star Tribune about detainee rendition www.startribune.com/how-immigrat...

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The Minnesota Star Tribune has reporters write about the ICE crackdown in Minnesota, then emails the next day’s layouts to Des Moines, Iowa, to be printed, then trucks the printed papers back to Minnesota for delivery, then can’t get the newspapers delivered because of the ICE crackdown in Minnesota

Live: ICE agent shoots, kills woman in Minneapolis Video of the shooting shows an agent firing at a vehicle as it drives toward him. The governor and Minneapolis mayor called for calm after the incident. ICE said the agent acted defensively.

Live updates: Minneapolis Public Schools announced that "out of an abundance of caution" the district has canceled classes on Thursday and Friday "due to safety concerns related to today’s incidents around the city."

Ngl, it’s not great!

I’ve never seen the Strib print publish ‘fuck’ before @chrissteller.bsky.social

The end of school break is upon us

Cargo Bikes for Business: Grant Opportunity

Minnesota businesses can apply *right now* for a grant to purchase e-bikes for commercial use through the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's (MPCA) Small Business Environmental Assistance Program!

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Snow emergency declared in Minneapolis for Dec. 28

“An odd offer from a reclusive billionaire: Have one of my babies and every one of them will get a share of my fortune. He has 100 kids and counting.”

The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites build mega-families, testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them

Elon Musk's 14 Children: All About the Tesla CEO's Sons and Daughters (and the 4 Women He Shares Them With) Elon Musk has welcomed 14 children with four different women, including three with singer Grimes

Being a billionaire seems so chill and not pathology-inducing

I let them smash my childhood piggy bank with a hammer

Christmas margaritas

My Favourite Words    Pipette and plectrum, obumbrate and flimsy,  balderdash, spatchcock, flapdoodle and whimsy,  obnubilation and nontrepreneur – these are a few of my favourite words.    Sachet, humdudgeon, haboob, hurly-burly,  scroddled and dottle, goluptious and surly,  mumpsimus, tawdry, decumbent and blurb – these are a few of my favourite words.    Susurrus, zephyr, rubescent, boondoggle,  reboant, gaggle, hubris and hornswoggle,  plethora, refulgent, plinth and perturb – these are a few of my favourite words.    When the rose droops  When the branch snags  When I’m lachrymose  I simply remember my favourite words  and then I don’t feel morose.  Brian Bilston

These are a few of my favourite words …

It’s also weird because the original photo wasn’t of bankers or steel manufacturers sitting on an I-beam.

googled something and clicked a link to a website I'd never heard of that looked like a forum, read the discussion and realized the person asking a question and all of the answers were all LLM generated, the entire website was a fake forum pretending to be people asking/answering questions

The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff From indies like Blue Prince to big console exclusives like Donkey Kong Bananza, NPR staff members and contributors round up their favorite games of 2025.

I gotta say this is a pretty decent list (bolstered by the fact that it's huge, but still). You'll get a better picture of where games are this year browsing through this than anything (literally anything) that happens at The Game Awards.

I think they should count double

Indoor waterpark, my 4yo got yelled at for using a spray gun on three women holding babies. His bad. 3 other kids have done the same thing, now it’s on them for not moving.

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

Saw the fox two more times today

Neighborhood fox in Hale

Hold up

My mom in Iowa vs me in the city

If continuity is a problem, how do you explain that he was played by different actors across a period of 50+ years?

3/4 of my grandparents were born in farmhouses lacking electricity.

A pro-labor wave comes for Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board seats A historic strike motivated fresh challenges against longtime incumbents.

Last year’s historic strike by Minneapolis park workers has motivated union-aligned challengers against longtime incumbents.

Just saw a man in a lizard costume supervise a concrete pour

Worth noting, this is the same big idea of Hamoudi Sabri, the guy who allows an encampment on his parking lot in Mpls