Morning Digest: Our new Minnesota data shows a divergent election for Biden...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel...
View Article'He couldn’t even stand up': Minnesota nurse alleges jail neglect so rampant...
It took more than two years of a Black mother’s repeated and public questioning for Minnesota officials to take seriously an investigation into her son's death. But Del Shea Perry’s work, bolstered by...
View ArticleCops lie. Look no further than initial press release following George Floyd's...
George Floyd died after former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for more than nine minutes, murdering the Black father. But an initial press release police officials sent to media...
View ArticleSen. Tina Smith keeps sharing her experiences with depression, and we have to...
As the world navigates life amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, we tend to focus on a few key areas: Employment, housing, food access, and of course, health care—specifically, accessing the vaccine....
View ArticleMinnesota Hospital Employees Say "Enough" Of Forced Sedation, Use of the Term...
In a rebuke to their superiors and elements of the medical establishment and criminal justice system, a group of doctors, nurses, and other staff at the Hennepin County Medical Center — known locally...
View ArticleVoting Rights Roundup: Arizona GOP's bill strips Dem election chief's power...
Leading Off●Arizona: Republicans have passed a bill in committees in the state Senate and House that would strip Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs of the power to defend the state in election...
View ArticleTacoma Police Officers Charged With Murder In Homicide Of Manuel Ellis
I've been covering the police killing of Manuel Ellis in Tacoma as a journalist since last year. It looks like we may have finally turned a corner in this country in terms of police accountability...
View Article'Handcuffed and prone': Lawsuit details arrest of Black CNN guard targeted...
A Black security guard hired to protect journalists covering protests after George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis is suing the Minnesota State Patrol after troopers arrested him and bypassed white...
View ArticleAttorney argues Chauvin should be allowed lower sentence because he is...
In laying the groundwork to push for competing sentencing outcomes, attorneys in the case of Derek Chauvin painted quite different pictures of the former Minneapolis police officer who a jury found...
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UPDATE: 200 arrests: 2,000+ WaterProtectors' Nonviolence vs EnbridgeLine3...
Updates beyond these will go in the comments thread.200+ arrests, ongoing blockade at pump station and resistance camp launched at Mississippi river crossing of controversial tar sands...
View ArticleMinneapolis Opens George Floyd Square. Met With Praise and Criticism.
Minneapolis public works staff began the process of re-opening the intersection where George Floyd died under the knee of convicted murderer Derek Chauvin. That intersection, at 38th Avenue & Lake...
View Article'Good Trouble' (or, Call for Mr. Biden on Line 3): 'BradCast' 6/10/2021
Huge, hard-fought win for the environment on KeystoneXLAnother fight builds in MN over another tar sands pipelineMr. Biden goes to Europe (not a moment too soon)TX's corrupt A.G. faces still more legal...
View ArticleOne woman killed and three people injured as vehicle rams into protesters in...
One woman was killed and three people were injured Sunday night when a driver sped his SUV into a protest against police violence. The protesters had gathered in the Minneapolis neighborhood where U.S....
View ArticleNOW:Indigenous&Community Leaders Peacefully Asserting Treaty Rights Face...
Received by email from ienearth.org*Watch Livestream Here**First Photos of Police Encircling Camp HERE, HERE and HERE*
View ArticleDesperate for workers, Minnesota companies try attracting teens the old...
Minnesota companies struggling to hire workers, especially in jobs that often attract teens, and they are finally starting to pay more…..and it is working. What a concept!Cherie Ritter, owner of Two...
View ArticleAs Climate Heats Up, So Must We: Stop Line 3.
As the climate heats up, so must we. Three innocent people were arrested near Palisade Minnesota yesterday, Monday June 21, 2021. They were not the first. They will not be the last. Corporate interests...
View ArticleActivist asks why city honors man who praised Hitler for work ‘to stamp out...
The city of Minneapolis has an opportunity to right a shameful wrong in the city’s history, and that is the decision to name one of its avenues after Charles Dight, a racist, ableist, eugenics touter...
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like Target's red bollards, defunding the police is not what you think it is,...
Friedman Units come to the Twin Cities. Like David Brooks’s conflicts of interest, a Friedman Unit has passed and “defunding police” is another phantasm like “Critical Race Theory”.Now that domestic...
View ArticleWhat to expect when Derek Chauvin is sentenced: Attorneys weigh in
The former Minneapolis cop convicted of murdering George Floyd when he kneeled on the Black father’s neck for more than nine minutes is scheduled to be sentenced at 2:30 PM EST on Friday at the...
View ArticleWhy does Derek Chauvin deserve leniency but not Gwen Levi?
In the hours after former Minneapolis police offer Derek Chauvin was sentenced on Friday to 22.5 years in jail for murdering George Floyd, opinions about the punishment on social media seemed to fall...
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