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Trump’s Minions Are Pressuring Prosecutors to Charge ICE Protesters Based on Scant Evidence

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More federal prosecutors in Minnesota have resigned or are preparing to do so, in part because the Trump administration has asked them to file criminal charges against anti-ICE protesters without appropriate evidence, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation. The prosecutors, at the US Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, have been deluged with allegations […]

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The Church at the Center of Don Lemon’s Arrest Has Ties to Christian Nationalism

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On Friday, former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested in Los Angeles for covering a protest that disrupted services at Cities Church in Minneapolis on January 18. The arrest drew widespread attention because of its infringement on Lemon’s First Amendment rights; journalism groups, including the National Association of Black Journalists, condemned it. What got lost […]

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Students Walk Out Across the Country to Protest ICE

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Students at the University of Minnesota, united with hundreds of groups across the country, are imploring people, young and old, to join a general strike on Friday. No school, no work, no economic participation, all toward the goal of ceasing funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  The strike comes after weeks of the Department of […]

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Don Lemon’s Arrest Escalates DOJ Crackdown on Black Journalists and Activists

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Don Lemon, the prominent journalist and former CNN anchor, was arrested by federal agents Thursday in Los Angeles on charges that he violated a law while reporting on a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota earlier this month.  The saga represents a startling, if not new, turn in the Trump administration’s attacks on […]

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Meet the Minnesota Students Behind Today’s National General Strike Campaign

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“No work. No school. No shopping. Stop funding ICE.” That’s the rallying cry behind the campaign for a nationwide general strike on Friday, seeking to galvanize opposition to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. This week, I went to the University of Minnesota, my alma mater, to speak to some of the students behind the effort […]

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ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler

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Just before being put on board her deportation flight, Melissa Tran’s wrists and ankles were shackled to a chain around her waist. It had been more than 10 hours since she’d been given any food or water; for the last seven she had been sitting on a bus on the tarmac. There was no company […]

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Trump’s EPA Protects Big Business, Not People or the Environment, Critics Say

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. After a tumultuous year under the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has adopted a new, almost unrecognizable guise—one that tears up environmental rules and cheerleads for coal, gas-guzzling cars, and artificial intelligence. When Donald Trump took power, it was widely anticipated […]

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RFK Jr. Was Raw Milk’s Biggest Fan. Now He Won’t Return Industry Calls.  

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In May 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat in the White House and downed a shot of raw milk to celebrate the publication of the MAHA Report, a document full of AI slop and fake citations that was meant to present the Secretary of Health and Human Services’s solutions for chronic diseases and other ailments […]

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He Lost an Eye in the George Floyd Protests. Now He Represents the Ward Where Renée Good Was Killed.

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It was Soren Stevenson’s third day in office on the Minneapolis city council when, in the middle of a strategic planning session, Mayor Jacob Frey rushed out of the room. Soon, the council learned why: Federal agents had shot and killed Renée Good. Stevenson hurried down to the site of the killing, on the edge […]

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What Women Said “Melania” Director Brett Ratner Did to Them

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In 2017, at the height of the #MeToo movement, six actresses told the Los Angeles Times that a prominent Hollywood director was sexually violent toward them.  Natasha Henstridge said he forced her to give him oral sex. Olivia Munn said that he masturbated in front of her, then lied to others that they’d had sex. […]

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The Attack on Ilhan Omar and Trump’s Destructive Politics of Violence

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My heart was in my throat as I watched the video emerging late Tuesday. A disturbed, angry man had just rushed Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar during a town hall in Minneapolis and assaulted her. He sprayed her in the chest with vinegar from a syringe, then was tackled by security and arrested. Omar reacted defiantly, […]

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Trump Is Still Posting About Arresting Obama and Prosecuting Election Workers

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Amid multiple national crises, President Donald Trump spent Thursday morning posting—not for the first time—about how his predecessor Barack Obama should be arrested, and how Georgia election workers should be prosecuted, in both cases citing unsubstantiated claims.  Trump’s fixations on going after Obama and Georgia aren’t new, but they now come at a moment of […]

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