Slept in my Tom Petty shirt and woke up free falling.

University of Minnesota Raising Funds for Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship - Racket Plus a dumb Twins take from Souhan, outdoor music news, and CVS demolition ASMR in today's Flyover news roundup.

“I was Alex’s nursing student for six months last year in the ICU at the VA. He wasn’t just my mentor, but a friend."

Toyota expands lineup of ‘Tesla killer’ EVs in U.S. car market The world's largest carmaker currently offers in the United States four imported electric vehicles, and will add a fifth this month.

Toyota is betting that more Americans are ready for all-electric cars at a time when many of its rivals are hitting the brakes on battery-powered models.

Gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand calls for term, age limits on elected officials • Iowa Capital Dispatch Rob Sand spoke to reporters Thursday about his policy proposals on age limits and term limits for elected officials and election law changes.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand told reporters Thursday he believes issues like term limits and age limits for elected officials and mandatory prison sentences for stealing tax dollars can gain bipartisan support, Robin Opsahl reports. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/04/02/g...

10 natural spectacles in the US that you must see at least once There’s a lifetime’s worth of landscapes to explore in America. These should be at the top of the priority list

10 natural spectacles in the US that you must see at least once

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Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

Soon we’ll see the begging

ProPublica Adds Ownership Search to Nursing Home Inspect Database Our database helps you find issues that inspectors identified in more than 14,000 U.S. nursing homes. Now you can search by owner, manager or officer name.

To give the public more insight into American nursing homes, ProPublica has added the ability to search by owner, manager or officer name to Nursing Home Inspect, our database that helps you find issues that federal inspectors have identified in more than 14,000 facilities.

Check it out 👇

Jane Fonda read a letter from Renee Good's wife, Becca Good, at the #NoKings rally in St. Paul.

"We were robbed of an incredible human," the letter reads. "It has made people pause, take a breath and choose sides. We choose the side of love."

“Don’t forget me”
MJHiblen

Cancer nurse turned archbishop celebrates election as first woman to lead Church of England CANTERBURY, England (AP) — Sarah Mullally, a former cancer nurse who became a priest at the age of 40, walked into the cathedral to celebrate her historic election as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury since the post was created more than 1,400 years ago.

CANTERBURY, England (AP) — Sarah Mullally, a former cancer nurse who became a priest at the age of 40, walked into the cathedral to celebrate her historic election as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury since the post was created more than 1,400 years ago.

Minnesota State Patrol officials estimate more than 50,000 people have arrived at the Capitol for the #NoKings rally.

📷️: Kyeland Jackson

I was just reading about how they were trying to produce cheaper drones for war.
Imagine if companies competed to reduce our healthcare costs.
Or imagine if they competed to find solutions to the housing crisis. Imagine if they competed to find solutions to
homelessness. Instead

Expert rejoices as judge whacks Hegseth's campaign of 'subterfuge' Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has been on a crusade of "subterfuge" against the Constitution by instituting stealth "viewpoint discrimination" at every turn, former prosecutor Harry Litman wrote for his "Talking Feds" Substack on Monday — and just got curb-stomped for it by an irate federal judg...

Expert rejoices as judge whacks Hegseth's campaign of 'subterfuge'

Via Nada Hassanein and Stateline: Federal Medicaid cuts could exact a heavy toll on psychiatric units at hospitals across the country, many of which are already struggling to keep their doors open but provide essential mental health care to people who need it. https://ow.ly/O7Ny50YxFXN

Meet the Seattle families living communally to bring down costs – in pictures

As Americans face a housing crisis, this development shows how communal living can bring homeownership within reach – and foster connection

Hey Justice Roberts: You started this trump “Shit Show”, NOW you must suffer!
#SheShed

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Indigenous women tour Ecuador oil field as warning against Amazon drilling expansion About 30 Indigenous women from seven Amazon nationalities have traveled to Ecuador’s northern oil region to witness the environmental impacts of decades of oil and gas extraction.

About 30 Indigenous women from seven Amazon nationalities have traveled to Ecuador's northern oil region to witness the environmental impacts of decades of oil and gas extraction.

DHS pick Markwayne Mullin once hired felon who illegally stored guns at work Sen. Markwayne Mullin denied knowing about the employee’s criminal record, but the employee says he did. A “cache” of weapons was found at Mullin’s business.

President Trump’s new pick to lead DHS, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma), employed a supervisor at his family plumbing business who illegally stored weapons and ammunition in an office safe in 2009, according to federal court records.

A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in the Hands of Foreign Spies and Criminals A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.

A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.

The Sound of 62 Percent of New York City Voters Chanting 'Tax the Rich' Maybe we’re going to tax the rich? And why did the NYPD commissioner hang out with someone who repeatedly demeans Muslims and Black women?

NEW MAMDANI'S FIRST 100 DAYS NEWSLETTER

Maybe we’re going to tax the rich????

And why did the NYPD commissioner hang out with someone who repeatedly demeans Muslims and Black women???

Some answers contained within!

New York is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam AG Letitia James will head an "independent assessment" of what happened to the Blind Rohingya refugee who Border Patrol dumped in Buffalo.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who died in the cold streets of Buffalo days after Border Patrol dumped him without coordinating with his family or lawyers.

A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future “This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a special France 24–Mother Jones report.

“It’s dystopian. It’s like Black Mirror stuff.”

This is Mobile Fortify, an app used by DHS that allows officers to photograph a person’s face and immediately query databases for matches against passport records, visa files, and border entry photos.

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What’s plug-in solar? Colorado legislators promote a bill to help eager consumers find out. Colorado is joining dozens of states clearing the way for portable, affordable plug-in solar panels for the home.

Millions of the portable, “balcony” size systems are being installed around the world. Should the state catch up?

Aliens exist — but they haven’t visited Earth, says Nasa veteran

Extraterrestrials are out there but believers in UFOs entering our skies have been ‘misled’, says space engineer

The water emergency in Kashechewan must spur action on federal legislation If the government does not act now, our First Nations communities will continue to be plagued with more critical infrastructure failures.

Opinion: The water emergency in Kashechewan must spur action on federal legislation

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Epstein couldn't stop emailing people about eugenics In the latest files, the trafficker gives it a Silicon Valley–pilled name: "genetic altruism."

Evil men like Epstein are, in the simplest form, obsessed with eugenics because they believe that their ill-gotten gains are the product of some innate superiority.

Trump fails to deport Öztürk; DOJ bar complaint; ICE’s latest transgression revealed YouTube video by Freedom of the Press Foundation

In a video last week, @trevortimm.bsky.social made the point on why the FBI’s raid on WaPo reporter’s home was so shocking -- the gov't failed to disclose a law that specifically bars such raids when it sought its warrant.

Now, most Americans didn't know about this law, but we do.

And DOJ did too.