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Democrats push for tariff refunds, daring vulnerable GOP lawmakers to join them A new Senate bill would require reimbursements to businesses within 180 days. House legislation calls for even quicker action.

Three top Democrats are proposing a 180-day deadline for CBP to pay refunds for all of the Trump tariffs the Supreme Court just invalidated. The 180 day timer would kick off once the bill became law.

It directs CBP to prioritize refunding small businesses.

Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

This is a reminder that ICE is still in Minnesota, that people still can’t leave their homes, and that funds are starting to run dry.

Please donate if you can. Places like food shelves are struggling to meet the community’s needs.

Crowd-sourced data gives us a lens into how big the ICE surge was in MN compared to other places, visualized today in the Minnesota @startribune.com

www.startribune.com/is-ice-reall...

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: First grade girl recounts searching for father after ICE detained him In an MS NOW Exclusive, Antonia Hylton sits down with Annabella, a New Jersey first grader whose life was uprooted when her father, Adonay Rodriguez, stepped outside to pick up a food order and was de...

ICE tackles and arrests New Jersey father outside his home, leaving his 6-year-old first-grade daughter at home alone.

She goes out looking for him.

"I got my boots and changed my clothes. I wanted to find some help to find my dad..."

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ICE whistleblower comes forward to testify before Congress Ryan Schwank, a former ICE academy instructor, is expected to testify that ICE “is lying to Congress and the American people” about its training program.

Breaking MS NOW:

An ICE whistleblower is expected to testify at a congressional forum today that the agency is "lying to Congress and the American people" about its training of new recruits.

Ryan Schwank was an ICE academy instructor for new recruits before he resigned earlier this month.

He’s like canonically associated with Highland Park

He’s from St. Paul

This seems to be a common reply to my thread, so I'll address it here. Basically, the argument is who cares if this is a misleading attack on Newsom, he's bad so if it hurts him it's fine.

And I think it's important to push back on misinformation so that when there are legitimate criticisms...

Did you know that the @dfl.org platform does not include anything about protection for trans people?

I certainly didn’t until @dexanderson.com wrote and broadly shared a resolution to change that.

That fact doesn’t excuse Klob. It just makes the entire situation even worse.

"All of us are now engaged in the peculiarly American task of trying to find a reason in our memories why one of our neighbors, classmates, friends or loved ones has committed an act of heinous violence."

Is Minnesota cooperating with ICE after Operation Metro Surge? There have been no policy changes, but law enforcement officials say communication is improving.

Border czar Tom Homan ended Operation Metro Surge without clear signs of the “significant” cooperation that he said was necessary to draw down thousands of federal agents.

BALL IS IN YOUR COURT, @mndot.mn.gov

Billionaire-Funded Anti-Trans Bathroom/Sports Ban Ballot Initiative Moves Forward In Maine The ballot initiative is bankrolled by billionaire anti-trans donor, Richard Uihlein, and represents a new line of attack against transgender people in blue states.

1. A ballot initiative that would ban trans youth from bathrooms and sports in Maine is likely to appear on the ballot in November.

It is bankrolled by Richard Uihlein, an anti-trans billionaire.

It comes after Gov. Mills rejected Trump's anti-trans demands.

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Meet the Trump Official Who’s Trying to Protect Prediction Markets Mike Selig wants to help Trump shield prediction markets from state regulators. So do his former colleagues and one of his old clients.

NEW: One of Trump's top "regulators" is working to block regulation of prediction markets like Polymarket & Kalshi.

Turns out, his old firm reps Polymarket. And he's using his role to join a legal battle his old colleagues are in to defend the markets.

And his old client helped Kalshi raise $185M.

New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.

A MOTHER JONES SCOOP! New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had a years-long business tie with the sex offender. This challenges his claim he had minimal contact with Epstein. The two were involved in a deal for six years, and an email shows they discussed it. @nlanard.bsky.social

Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”

NEW: Meta’s director of AI safety, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes...

Local Republicans would like you to quit reminding them of what they voted for.

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?

Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards

My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M, to detain 4k people of whom only 30 were accused of violent crimes.

$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Plus two citizens murdered.

~ Veterans for Peace

New WaPo-ABC poll:

Trump's approval stands at 39% positive and 60% negative among adults — including 47% who say they strongly disapprove.

The last time Trump's disapproval touched 60% was shortly after the Jan. 6 insurrection.

We probably should have been talking a lot more about how this has gone on all the time and forever.

The U.S. president is about to launch a war without any Congressional authorization or even public debate. Perhaps as soon as tomorrow. You’d never know it.

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.

“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

Every single element of life is either more deadly, more expensive or more inconvenient (often all three) today than it’s been in decades & it’s purely because our robber baron overlords decided to dedicate the entirety of the US apparatus to doing barbaric & culturally suicidal white nationalism

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.

Wait what
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Quakertown parents, groups demand release of students in police clash Civil rights groups and parents gathered in front of the Quakertown Police Department Saturday demanding answers for the violent confrontation Friday.

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday.

They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

Concert review: Brandi Carlile proclaims her love for Minnesotans at joyous Target Center show A live video stream of the concert raised a half million dollars for a local legal aid nonprofit.

Brandi Carlile was magical tonight at Target Center. She talked about how much she loves Minnesotans and I believe her.

My review of the joyous show (gift link):

Daily Memo: ICE Pepper-Sprays and Throws an 80-year-old Attorney, Arrests a Community Watcher, and Takes Seven From Lompoc