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I’ll note that in other parts of the country, local utilities have simply refused to keep high-cost coal-burning power plants running for no reason beyond Trump’s need to satisfy people who bribed him.

Feb. 2, 2026

Feb. 2, 2026

Live updates page, so posting text. I could not find the article “freestanding”.

Far-right influencer Jake Lang was charged Friday with felony damage to property, after posting video to social media showing him damaging an ice sculpture outside the Minnesota Capitol.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260206122932/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/04/pursued-by-federal-agents-suburban-ice-observers-remain-resolved

“The system sucks. This job sucks,” Le told Blackwell. “I wish you would hold me in contempt so I would have a full 24 hours sleep,” the attorney added.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260202130023/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/01/npr-minnesota-citizens-detained-ice

Video of the encounter with ICE: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mdqg7f5u2c27

Ramos, 33, is three months pregnant and in hiding now. She said she fears ICE will detain her despite her legal status to be in the United States. Ramos and her 13-year-old son fled their home after ICE agents took away Liam and his father on Jan. 20.

This is all part of Trumps strategy to create disfunction in U.S. immigration courts.

This is all part of Trumps strategy to create disfunction in U.S. immigration courts.

Good to see our neighbors showing up for our neighbors.

The NYT has a weaker headline:

The NYT has a weaker headline:

“Why detain a 5-year-old? You can’t tell me that this child is going to be classified as a violent criminal,” Zena Stenvik, the Columbia Heights superintendent, told reporters Wednesday.

ICE says Victor Manuel Diaz died at the tent facility on Jan. 14. The 36-year-old from Nicaragua had been in custody since Jan. 6 when ICE says agents “encountered” him in Minneapolis and determined he was in the country illegally.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260122122817/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/17/ice-takes-credit-for-some-criminals-that-were-already-in-minnesota-prisons

ICE says Victor Manuel Diaz died at the tent facility on Jan. 14. The 36-year-old from Nicaragua had been in custody since Jan. 6 when ICE says agents “encountered” him in Minneapolis and determined he was in the country illegally.

A similar decision in the UK resulted in clear-cutting old growth forests to feed biomass-burning power plants, with all the associated increase in atmosphere CO2

A similar decision in the UK resulted in clear-cutting old growth forests to feed biomass-burning power plants, with all the associated increase in atmosphere CO2

There is video

There is video

Six weeks into the immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities, observers say federal agents are employing violence more frequently and with little apparent restraint against citizens and noncitizens, and that stories like Brauch’s have become alarmingly common with some 3,000 federal agents now on the streets.

Elizabeth Shockman and Kyra Miles January 13, 2026 4:00 AM

Since federal immigration enforcement began in December, mutual aid networks have popped up across the state to support immigrant families. A church in south Minneapolis has been a hub for delivering groceries.

Elizabeth Shockman and Kyra Miles January 13, 2026 4:00 AM

Elizabeth Shockman and Kyra Miles January 13, 2026 4:00 AM

Elizabeth Shockman and Kyra Miles January 13, 2026 4:00 AM

Archived at https://archive.ph/gXbsZ

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260115122636/https://www.mprnews.org/social-issues/immigration

And by involved, they mean to say thst preliminary reports are that a federal officer shot somebody

And by involved, they mean to say thst preliminary reports are that a federal officer shot somebody

Agents took photos of Levy and other observers’ license plates. Then a masked agent walked up to Judy Levy’s passenger side window.

Joe Thompson, the career U.S. Justice Department attorney best known for prosecuting social services fraud in Minnesota, has resigned along with other experienced attorneys at the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Joe Thompson, the career U.S. Justice Department attorney best known for prosecuting social services fraud in Minnesota, has resigned along with other experienced attorneys at the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office.

First, I want to extend my gratitude to all the people who have reached out from across the country and around the world to support our family.

First, I want to extend my gratitude to all the people who have reached out from across the country and around the world to support our family.

MN state investigators being sidelined by the FBI

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/36713215

I don’t even know what else to add to this headline. This is so fucked up and tragic scary and infuriating and it will in no way slow the resistance.

Dozens of riders on horseback and travelers on foot arrived Friday morning at Reconciliation Park in Mankato.

Osman said armed ICE agents went to East African restaurants in the neighborhood Tuesday, closed the doors and demanded people’s IDs. They found only U.S. citizens and made no arrests, Osman said.

Osman said armed ICE agents went to East African restaurants in the neighborhood Tuesday, closed the doors and demanded people’s IDs. They found only U.S. citizens and made no arrests, Osman said.

Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity.

Anton Lazzaro had appealed the conviction that led to a 21-year sentence, arguing the sex-trafficking charge was unjust and his trial was unfair. The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed.

Sad news, MN is loosing a non-profit insurance org that has covered many people for decades.

Great news. He is a very competent Mayor. He made housing faster and easier to build. He is also investing in bike lanes and transit.

Hat-tip to Satellite News.

MN dispensary owners are scrambling to find product in a newly open market - to no avail.

Winona's turnout was pretty decent.

A conservative advocacy group sued Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on Tuesday on behalf of three female softball players who say Minnesota’s policy allowing trans athletes to compete on sports teams that match their gender amounts to sex discrimination against female athletes and a violation of Title IX, the federal statute requiring equity in men’s and women’s sports.

If i didn't already have access to an isolated cabin, for this exact type of vacation. I think i could get over all the religuous iconography in order to access this kind of silence and solitude only an hour outside a major metro area. "Don't talk to me" is an actual rule instead of me just being weird and rude.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250506121654/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/05/05/department-of-justice-opens-investigation-into-hennepin-county-plea-deal-policy

The nips have been freed, kinda.

Davis Moturi lay awake in bed last October, eyes on the ceiling, unable to shake the burning image of his neighbor pointing a gun directly at him through the bedroom window.

Preview:

Preview:

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Bloomington police say state Sen. Justin Eichorn, R-Grand Rapids, was arrested around 6 p.m. Monday for allegedly soliciting a minor for prostitution. House and Senate Republican leaders called for Eichorn to step down.

Bloomington police say state Sen. Justin Eichorn, R-Grand Rapids, was arrested around 6 p.m. Monday for allegedly soliciting a minor for prostitution. House and Senate Republican leaders called for Eichorn to step down.

It could be a bad legislative session for bad drivers.