CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Will Bunch: "Bad Bunny finally gave voice to what thousands of everyday folks in the Twin Cities have been trying to say with their incessant whistles."We are all neighbors. The undocumented Venezuelan next door who toils in the back of a restaurant and sends his kids to your kids’ school is a neighbor. But Haiti is also a neighbor, as is Cuba. We are all in this together."The word I kept thinking about as I watched Bad Bunny’s joyous performance is a term that didn’t really exist on New Year’s Day 2026 yet has instantly provided a name to the current zeitgeist."Neighborism."Bad Bunny, MPLS, and the ‘neighborism’ saving America | Will Bunch Newsletterhttps://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/bad-bunny-super-bowl-maga-community-puerto-rico-20260210.html#BadBunny #neighborism #Minneapolis #ICE #UncheckedAggression

"Regrettably, the U.S. House passed a measure, H.J. Res. 140, on Jan. 21 that would nullify the moratorium, affecting approximately 225,504 acres of federal forest lands in Cook, Lake and St. Louis counties in northeast Minnesota. The measure’s author is U.S. House Rep. Pete Stauber, who serves the state’s Eighth District but never misses a chance to carry water for Antofagasta’s Chilean billionaire owners, the Luksic family."The House betrayed the BWCA. The Senate is next.By Jill BurcumThe Minnesota Star Tribunehttps://www.startribune.com/burcum-the-house-betrayed-the-bwca-the-senate-is-next/601579333?utm_source=gift#Minnesota #BWCA #CopperMining

If you want a glimpse of what's going on inside the Unorganized Territory of Fort Snelling's version of Orwell's Ministry of Love, have a look at this piece.And for what? for covering a protest at a church."I was transported in a large SUV to the federal Whipple Building. There I was fingerprinted and held in a cell in a wing that I was told was for “U.S.C.s,” or United States citizens. I asked for my lawyer several times. She was in the building, asking to see me. But at Whipple, we were not permitted to meet or talk."I later learned that the agents stayed outside my home for over two hours after my arrest. My daughters and my husband were stopped and questioned when they tried to leave."Two hours after I was taken into custody, I was transferred to another facility, where my fingerprints and DNA were taken. The officers swabbed the inside of my cheek, they said, to confirm my identity."Opinion | I was arrested for doing my job as a reporter. Who’s next?By Georgia Forthttps://www.startribune.com/georgia-fort-journalist-arrest-church-minnesota/601579364?utm_source=gift#journalism #uspol #UncheckedAggression