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Minneapolis Area Councilwoman Decries Trump’s Reign of Terror

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As immigration officers in Minneapolis and St. Paul target daycares and schools, a growing number of parents are terrified to bring their kids in, according to St. Paul City Council member Molly Coleman. “We’re hearing this from folks regardless of immigration status,” even families who are here legally, she says. Coleman told me that Immigration […]

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Trump’s Withdrawal of US From Global Groups and Pacts Sparks Outrage

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump has sparked outrage by announcing the US will exit the foundational international agreement to address the climate crisis, cementing the US’s utter isolation from the global effort to confront dangerously escalating temperatures. In a presidential memorandum issued on Wednesday, Trump withdrew […]

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They Couldn’t Care Less About Renee Good’s Killing

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“She behaved horribly.” That’s how President Donald Trump described Renee Good, the 37-year-old woman who was repeatedly shot and killed by an ICE officer on Wednesday, roughly one mile from where a police officer murdered George Floyd nearly six years ago. Speaking to the New York Times, the president then pushed the spurious narrative that […]

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“ICE KILLED GOOD”: Protesters Decry Minneapolis Shooting

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Across the country, people are taking to the streets to honor—and demand justice for—Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old US citizen who a federal immigration agent shot and killed in Minneapolis on Wednesday.  Good, according to an interview with her former husband, had just dropped off her 6-year-old son at school and was driving home when […]

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RFK Jr. Just Flipped the Food Pyramid to Create a Funnel of Performative Masculinity

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New dietary guidelines announced Wednesday by Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. crank up the dials on red meat and full-fat dairy. The now-inverted food pyramid prominently features a steak, an entire chicken, and whole milk up top, relegating carbs to the bottom point—minor real estate compared to the portion they occupied before. Untethered […]

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The Trump Doctrine: Violence Is Us

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The military assault on Venezuela, the shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE agent, the launch of the White House’s new revisionist website about January 6—these three events convey a powerful and unsettling message from Donald Trump and his crew: Violence is ours to use, at home and abroad, to get what we want. […]

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Trump’s Plans for Venezuelan Oil Are Rapidly Unfolding

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President Trump’s plans for Venezuela’s oil industry, insofar as there are concrete plans, appear to be solidifying. On Wednesday, Energy Secretary Chris Wright indicated that the United States will control the flow of Venezuelan oil “indefinitely.” The announcement came hours after President Trump revealed that Venezuela would be “turning over” up to 50 million barrels […]

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ICE Agent Shoots and Kills Woman In Minneapolis

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A federal immigration agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday in a deadly escalation in the Department of Homeland Security’s increasing occupation in Minnesota. The woman, 37, was in her car at an active ICE operation when an agent fired multiple shots into the vehicle, according to videos of the shooting and […]

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Experts: Trump Plan to Exploit Venezuela’s Oil Would Be “Terrible for the Climate”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump, by dramatically seizing Nicolás Maduro and claiming dominion over Venezuela’s vast oil reserves, has taken his “drill, baby, drill” mantra global. Achieving the president’s dream of supercharging the country’s oil production would be financially challenging—and if fulfilled, would be “terrible for the […]

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Tony Dokoupil Lavishes Praise on Marco Rubio In Lauding CBS Segment

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Reporting from Miami on Tuesday, newly minted CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil dedicated a lauding segment to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Dokoupil, who started on the job this week after years as a co-anchor on CBS’ morning show, began the around one-minute segment by listing off all the roles that Rubio has assumed […]

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They Fled Maduro and Cheered His Downfall. But They Fear Deportations, Too.

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Word of the US military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro reached Mayra Sulbaran while on vacation in Canada. Sulbaran—who fled Venezuela in September 2018 and lives in Washington, DC—was in Montreal to reunite with her brother, who she had not seen in nine years. “I was hugging him when we found out,” she […]

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A Courthouse Arrest, a Surprise Pregnancy, and One Family’s Shattered Dreams

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It’s the judge who first tips off Daniela that something is wrong. “I am pretty certain that you won’t be coming back to my court,” he tells her and another asylum seeker from Colombia—let’s call her Isabella. (All of the immigrants in this story are identified by pseudonyms, for obvious reasons.)  They’d come to San […]

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