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We know that ICE never left Minnesota, but there are signs that any drawdown phase is over.
ICE activity is ramping up across the country and Minnesota isn’t exempt from that. ICE has set a new baseline of “normal” ICE activity in our state and that baseline is rising again.
Cheap and efficient: Why everyone wants Ukraine’s drone interceptors
This is the way
One general trait across time is that powerful people have justified systems that maintain and extend their power over others. They have use religion or science for those justifications (see the progressive eugenicists at the start of the 20th century) but the logic is depressingly consistent.
This is absolutely right. What I'd say is that the labor market has continued to show significant weakness and there is worry it's not strong enough to weather significant shocks — like for instance a huge spike in gas prices stemming from an immoral war in Iran, along with mass deportation efforts.
US is not at war with Iran so its decision to sink a ship hundreds of miles from Iran, leading to the drowning of most onboard is...
#warcrimes
ICE protesters keep beating Trump in Chicago court, but the battles take a toll — 'It's about intimidation'
An @wbez.org report with @mariahwoelfel.bsky.social: one.npr.org?sharedMediaI...
Another completely predictable thing has just happened.
Just because we’re law enforcement doesn’t mean we have to be into the whole following the laws thing
I think our country sinks beneath the yoke:
It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds.
Earth is now warming at a rate of around 0.35 ºC per decade, fresh analysis finds.
go.nature.com/4boG2tH
The FBI doesn't conduct multiple interviews with accusers who have no credibility, do they? I mean, like four times...
Justice Department publishes documents with sexual assault allegations against Trump - POLITICO share.google/HRoFX0NLM5Hh...
Jon Tester keeps it real: "I don’t believe that, as none of us were running. He fucked his own party"
"yeah I rigged my race, fuck you" is a fascinating message to go with
Will the $400 million White House ballroom still happen?
"Republicans didn't randomly decide to do a resolution on Iran today. Compare the language of the Mast resolution on Iran (left) with the language of the still-extant 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (right). The overlapping language is significant and not accidental"
Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA08) was the only member of Virginia's U.S. House delegation to vote against this Iran resolution yesterday. Here's his Deputy Chief of Staff's @fritschner.bsky.social explanation as to Beyer's reasoning. bluevirginia.us/2026/03/frid...
Trump and the conservative media ecosystem have done a ton of work to recast the Biden years as a Hoover/Carter disaster that Trump rescued us from. I do think that gets harder every month
NEW @npr.org: The Justice Department has published additional Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor after an NPR investigation found dozens of pages were withheld.
But 37 pages of records are still not public.
More:
The new files do not shed any more light on how credible federal investigators viewed her claims or how they were resolved.
Still unanswered, too, is why the allegations were included in a DOJ slide presentation last year summarizing the Epstein cases.
Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
A military culture where the Secretary say he will ignore “stupid rules of engagement” leads to the US sinking what they likely knew was an unarmed ship, killing more than 80 sailors with 62 others still missing.
a graph of year-on-year change in US tech employment
Brutal numbers for US tech sector jobs released today—overall, employment decreased by 12k last month and is down 57k over the last year
That's now nearly as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, and significantly worse than either the 2008 or 2020 recessions
BLS: Since reaching a peak in October 2024, federal government employment is down by 330,000, or 11.0%.
While employment in health care shrank this month, it continues to account for more than all of the jobs created over the past year.
liberated... from economic growth
Job losses started after Liberation Day
We were definitely liberated from something
“For the First Time, U.S. Sides With Russia and China in Ukraine Energy Dispute - The Wall Street Journal”
apple.news/AC-XfkHjGQEO...
This is your economy on Democrats. This is your economy on Republicans. Any questions?
Check out this week’s particularly excellent edition of Noth Things open.substack.com/pub/paulnoth...
