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.

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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.

A fight broke out at the Whipple Building between Turning Point's Savannah Hernandez and a woman. The woman's mom tackled Hernandez through a gate. Hennepin County Sheriff's declared the protest unlawful

BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey vetoed a 7-6 City Council vote against confirming Todd Barnette as Public Safety Commissioner. Frey said that he would "do everything in his power" to keep Barnette as Public Safety Commissioner.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey accused council of "vote trading on the dias" in a speech regarding City Council's 7-6 vote against confirming Todd Barnette as Public Safety Commissioner.

just filed two habeas petitions 54 mins apart and got consecutive case numbers. even a few weeks ago, if I filed 2 petitions late on a Wednesday, they would be a few numbers apart. it makes me happy that there aren't as many habeas petitions needed such that people are staying up all hours to file

On the subject of police reform. This leads me to believe reports that council doesn't have the votes needed to reappoint Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara.

The New Justice Project, a Black-led organization founded by Rod Adams after the George Floyd Uprisings, called on the Council to vote nominating Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey's appointees. Council did re-appoint Kelliher and Anderson

BREAKING: Minneapolis City Council voted 7-6 against confirming Todd Barnette as Public Safety Commissioner. Council Members Payne, Osman, Chavez, Chugtai, Chowdhury, Stevenson, and Wonsley voted down Frey's re-nomination of Barnette.

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Cities Church Black Man Denied Entry Worship St. Paul Allegations Cities Church allegedly denied a Black man entry to worship in St. Paul as civil rights activists allege a pattern of discrimination tied to the Righteous 39 protest case.

A spokesman for the law firm representing Cities Church denied the allegations. Story here: spokesman-recorder.com/2026/04/08/c...

🚨📰: Cities Church, led by St. Paul ICE Field Director David Easterwood, allegedly denied a Black man entry to worship sometime after the Jan. 18th protests, two civil rights activists said at a press conference on April 7.

Fort Bragg veteran charged with releasing classified information to a journalist The veteran texted family expressing concern that she may be arrested for disseminating classified information after a book using information from her time at Fort Bragg was published, the government ...

I'm going to fish though Seth Harp's Politco expose to find out what the hell DOJ prosecutors are alleging: classified information. I don't think it's in there. www.courthousenews.com/fort-bragg-v...