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submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

One of President Donald Trump’s first actions after taking office was an executive order indefinitely suspending the U.S. refugee resettlement program. A family living in St. Cloud who fled Afghanistan a year ago worries about relatives left behind.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

thinking about pulling together an exploratory committee to consider a run for US Senate who’s in?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

New in PN: Trump and his lawyers embrace the logic of dictatorship "The arguments being made by the administration boil down to this: if Trump wants to do it, he gets to. Their stance appears to literally be that laws are irrelevant in the face of Trump’s wishes and the courts can’t stop him."

submitted 13 days ago • 255 comments

Trump: "I would own this [Gaza]." Brett Baeir: "Would the Palestinians have a right to return [to Gaza]?" Trump: "No, they wouldn't." Trump plans on committing multiple, and unprecedented, war crimes.

submitted 13 days ago • 465 comments

"I try to explain how Trump's strategies work, because I think if people can see it for themselves, then maybe they will self-persuade. You can introduce doubt. You want to get them to realize they can ask questions and think critically, because it is cult-like in the way people get programmed."

submitted 16 days ago • 35 comments

this is theft on an unimaginable scale

submitted 21 days ago • 485 comments

there is a very real possibility trump believes DEI is to blame for the crash on account of a horrifically bastardized interpretation of “black” boxes same vein as asylum vs asylum

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I can’t even

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Y’all 😭☠️

submitted 24 days ago • 122 comments

Minneapolis police Chief Brian O'Hara told MPR News that the Capitol attack was shocking initially, but that he’s further shocked by how it’s been publicly normalized.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: OPM has ordered the termination of every DEIA employee across all federal agencies.

submitted 29 days ago • 711 comments

Breaking News: President Trump fired 17 inspectors general in a late-night purge of the internal government watchdogs, people with knowledge of the move said.

submitted 29 days ago • 230 comments

as we’re seeing the endpoint of the anti-DEI hysteria is just opening the door to rampant employment discrimination

submitted 32 days ago • 212 comments

The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate for potential criminal charges any state or local officials who stand in the way of immigration enforcement.

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

This is one of the vilest things he did yesterday!

submitted 33 days ago • 316 comments

Will GMC be required to call its best trim package the “McKinley”? Cuz that’s the nonsense we’re doing now?

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Helluva ratio here, @reuters.com , and well deserved. What a joke of a headline.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Some communities are bracing for potential mass deportations and the impact they may have on schools as a new Trump administration nears power. It’s especially concerning in small-town districts like St. James and Butterfield, where most of the kids are Latino.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

In interviews, Trump has said he would end birthright citizenship, which is included in the 14th Amendment. In response, Minnesota immigrant rights groups say while they want to avoid evoking fear in their communities, they’re finding ways to stay prepared.

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

When the Blue Earth River created a new channel around the Rapidan Dam, it unleashed more than a century’s worth of sediment downstream. The surrounding community is still coming to terms with the damage and its longer term implications.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Employees at UnitedHealthcare and other health insurance companies described being anxious after an outpouring of online rage toward the industry.

submitted 73 days ago • 188 comments

A resident is suing the city of East Gull Lake, northwest of Brainerd, over the use of his private helicopter at his lakefront home.

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

So ready to have #MinnesotaValleyCannabisCompany get rolling!

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment