Daughter Number Three

It seems like most of the time when I catch news stories from National Public Radio, they are regurgitating some Trump regime press release....

As news comes out today that DHS (ICE, ERO, whoever) has killed a third person — this time in Florida, following killings in Texas and Maine...

ICE lies. That's all that needs to be said.   

More to hate from the Supreme Court today. Trans people don't have equal protection under the law. And even though the majority upheld t...

Quoting Minneapolis City Council Member Robin Wonsley : Instead of arresting the murderers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the FBI was out t...

It was one year ago today that a right-wing zealot shot and killed the former speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives and her husb...

He isn't the first and he won't be the last, but Salah Sarsour is a political prisoner of the Trump regime, and even worse, they...

There were two medical stories on the same page of today's Star Tribune , both local, though one with a national focus. One good news, o...

From a Washington Post story today: "Ballroom donors won $50 billion in contracts after giving to the Trump ballroom project, watchdog...

At the Minnesota state Republican convention, currently underway, they held a moment of silence.  Was it for the elementary-age children who...

Steven Thal, a local immigration attorney, wrote in today's Star Tribune about his experience over 43 years representing people with as...

We are in a new bad old age, post- Louisiana v. Callais , with Southern Republican elected officials calling for elimination of districts th...

This morning, before news of Trump's vile Easter morning tweet broke, the big story was recovery of the second U.S. pilot in Iran. Betwe...

Posted by John Gramlich of the Pew Research Center, reporting the gist of a Politico story :  89% – percentage of disaster aid requests T...

So Trump is asking for $200 billion dollars on top of whatever the regime is already spending to bomb the hell out of Iran for no clear purp...

Over the course of the first 15 days of March 2026, there were continuing reports of how much the U.S. was spending on the war in Iran. I ex...

I plan to move some time in the five or ten years. When I do, I will have to re-register to vote for the first time in decades. Currently, u...

There are so many outrages of the Trump regime's racist anti-immigrant purge, it's hard to pick one to talk about. But this story fr...

Of course I hope that Department of Homeland Security will stop its occupation and ethnic cleansing in Minnesota. But I don't want them ...

Another long day in this federal occupation. Today they carried out a high-speed chase (80 mph!) on a narrow street through a busy commercia...