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Supporters of keeping the North Minneapolis trash burner open love to tell stories about how the HERC has been compliant with permit regulations. One former EPA scientist says those permits are outdated.

Job market is rough kids. I'm gonna start binge drinking some gluten free beer 🍻 🍻 A remember a freelancer specifically telling me that Rolling Stone pays their contributors shit while The Intercept and Politico are decent pubs

Zero Burn Coalition HERC Hunger Strike Day Six Zero Burn Coalition HERC hunger strike enters day six as Hennepin County commissioners refuse to meet and scientists.

spokesman-recorder.com/2026/04/19/z... My latest on the Hunger Strike aimed at closing a trash burner in North Minneapolis by 2027.

Seemingly in between drinking binges, FBI Director Kash Patel, agreed to open an investigation into the financial accounts of various activists groups that protest at the Whipple Detention Center.

Turning Point USA's Savannah Hernandez requested that the feds investigate the Ostroushkos. Harmeet Dhillon said she was "on it." Conservative lawyer Mike Davis, who once bragged that he wanted to put Medhi Hasan into the Gulag, promised to protect other journalist like Hernandez.

I'm photographed on page one of the Star Tribune looking like a dope. I'm in the processing of writing 900 words on how the FBI opened a civil rights investigation into Chris and Paige Ostroushko after an advanced pushing match broke out at the Whipple.

Child: I know your name. Mamdani.

Obama: What’s his first name?

Child: Mayor.

The Zero Burn Coalition is outside Target Field on Earth Day calling for the closure of of the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center (HERC).

Exclusive: Russia-linked hackers compromised scores of Ukrainian prosecutors’ email accounts, data shows Russia-linked hackers broke into more than 170 email accounts belonging to prosecutors and investigators across Ukraine during the last several ​months, according to data reviewed by Reuters, a campai...

Scoop: Allegedly Russian hackers have broken into more than 170 inboxes belonging to Ukrainian prosecutors and investigators.

Could help Moscow keep tabs on Ukrainian counterintelligence and sensitive corruption investigations.

www.reuters.com/world/russia...

Also news: Allegedly Russian hackers have broken into the email inboxes of the Hellenic National Defense General Staff — Greece’s top military body.

Romanian military officials and Serbian Ministry of Defense staff were also hit.

Dear Strib: Tired of Minneapolis City Hall Drama? Focus on Something Else. - Racket The Star Tribune's obsession with a supposedly dysfunctional Minneapolis City Council overplays minor issues, lets the mayor oft the hook, and obscures what the city has accomplished.

Dear Strib: Tired of Minneapolis City Hall Drama? Focus on Something Else. By, well, me. racketmn.com/dear-strib-t...

Gabbard sends criminal referrals to DOJ for whistleblower and watchdog who helped launch Trump's first impeachment Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has sent criminal referrals to the Justice Department related to a government watchdog and a whistleblower whose complaint helped trigger President Trum...

www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/gab... Tulsi Gabbard turning the DOJ into Trump's personal law firm.

He Compared a Black Child to a Dog and Withheld Evidence in Death Row Cases. Now He’s Running for Judge. Holland, who once compared a Black child to a dog, has had a career mired in controversy. That hasn’t stopped him from becoming the de facto frontrunner of his judicial race.

Civil rights leaders and defense attorneys say they believe Holland lacks regards for the rights of Black defendants.

“He’s demonstrated that he is untrustworthy, unreserved in his aggression and without any judicial temperament,” one attorney said.

With @veritenews.org

They Needed Treatment for Drug Addiction. The Company They Turned to May Have Used Them to Commit Fraud. Kentucky’s largest drug rehab center touts a Christian message and a selfless commitment to helping others. But internally, the organization prioritized money over the well-being of its clients and st...

Allegations against Kentucky’s largest drug rehab center claim that it knowingly falsified medical records to collect $16 million in Medicaid payments for group meetings.

With @kentucky.com

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announces it has found a buyer to keep the newspaper open Owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said they have found a buyer who had agreed to keep the newspaper open, less than a month before it was due to shut down.

The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for.

apnews.com/article/pitt...

The View From Inside Trump’s DHS Dozens of agents and officials share their stories about working in the Department of Homeland Security during the harsh crackdown on illegal immigration.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... "The Biden administration teed up the tragedy we’re seeing now, including by pushing immigration courts to leave asylum cases in limbo," Ryan Schwank, former ICE attorney said.

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Photo dump from a fight at the Bye Bye Bondi Dance Party at the Federal Whipple Building

Here's me trying to earn a Pulitzer:

NEW: The proposed $68 million settlement involves a Texas land developer that the DOJ had previously accused of preying on Hispanic residents.

It includes no money for victims but more than $20 million for police and immigration enforcement.

W/ @texastribune.org

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Witnesses say that Hennepin County Sheriff's arrived after the fight and said that wanted to talk to the girl. The girl is walking away and then her and another guy was tackled outside the Whipple and arrested.