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One of the natural side effects of flooding the zone with hastily hired, poorly trained immigration enforcement officers is an increase in violence and rights violations. Christian Castro may not have been a new ICE hire, but he’d been there long enough to realize the new White House boss had given him and his fellow […]

An important Indigenous story by Ashley Fairbanks, a true story about a bison, and more new books from MN (and MN-adjacent) authors.

A new CNN/SRSS poll in Maine finds Troy Jackson (D) leading Susan Collins (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 48% to 45%. Maine Senate Race Troy Jackson (D) 48%   Susan Collins (R) 45%   CNN/SRSS poll · ±3.7%

A new CNN/SSRS poll in Michigan finds Abdul El-Sayed (D) leading Mike Rogers (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 47% to 44%. Michigan Senate Race Abdul El-Sayed (D) 47%   Mike Rogers (R) 44%   CNN/SSRS poll · ±3.7%

The FDA has announced a recall of extra virgin olive oil due to contamination with an ingredient not approved for human consumption.

“Hunter Biden’s new laptop-theme meme coin hit the market on Wednesday morning… and then dropped 95% within a few hours of trading, following an initial spike,” Mediaite reports.

So, we've been breaking down the way venture capital has evolved over the last two decades or so (spoilers: it got worse!), but a lot of that has been kind of theoretical. Now it's time for us to talk about how that impacts players in the real world, at a practical level. Le...

Meira Blaustein, a co-founder of the Woodstock Film Festival, will step down as its executive director and head programmer at the end of the year, the organization said Wednesday. Blaustein intends to remain involved as an adviser. The festival’s board is searching for her successor and expects to announce its next executive director in the […]

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Meira Blaustein, a co-founder of the Woodstock Film Festival, will step down as its executive director and head programmer at the end of the year, the organization said Wednesday. Blaustein intends to remain involved as an adviser. The festival’s board is searching for her successor and expects to announce its next executive director in the […]

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. With just two days until the start of the new school year and a preschool payment crisis still simmering, Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday named a new leader for the beleaguered office in charge of executing his ambitious childcare agenda. Erica Phillips, a nonprofit leader […]

The post Mamdani Hires New Early Childhood Education Chief With Free 2-K Program About To Start appeared first on The City Reporter.

A database of 153 million drivers licenses is for sale on the dark web. Brian Krebs has more detail.

During breakfast I usually turn on CNN just to make sure the world hasn’t burned down yet. Today’s headline was an Anthropic employee posting on X there’s a 10% chance AI will destroy all humans. Yikes. Seems a bit high.

Kia has expanded its PV5 electric van lineup to 10 body styles, including a new 7-seater and more.

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They Ran For President. What Did They Learn? • Buttondown In 2004, Charlie Jane Anders interviewed people who ran for President and lost, including Larry Flynt, who said: “⁠⁠[My biggest surprise was learning] what a void existed in American society, and the desire to have a ...

Former Kansas Gov. Bill Graves (R) endorsed Adam Hamilton (D) over Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) for U.S. Senate in a Kansas City Star op-ed. Graves said Marshall “has turned his back on Kansas.”

If the attempted con job by the three stooges hosting Fox & Friends is any indication, do not expect Trump’s in-the-tank approval ratings to get better any time soon. On Tuesday morning, as Canada announced new retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods, the three millionaire co...

The Flight into Egypt, 1500 #earlyrenaissance #botticelli

This is a September blog about the Colorado Rockies. Do you think it will be a positive one? Let's find out. Coming off a series loss at home to the Cardinals, the Rockies traveled to the Bronx this week for a three-game tilt with the New York Yankees. In the first of these...

In her 1980 essay “Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Lesbian Existence,” Adrienne Rich lists over 60 examples of systematized female oppression. To name a few: the power of men to deny women their own sexuality or to force male sexuality upon them via rape, domestic violenc...