"Police in Winona disclosed Monday that all eight of their [Flock] cameras were swiped after their mounting poles were cut down with a saw... Plymouth lost use of two cameras to vandalism... The Duluth Police Department... has recorded six times when its cameras were either stolen or vandalized."

Reports piling up of vandals hitting Flock cameras in Minnesota cities, 8 in Winona and 6 in Edina

Law enforcement in Duluth and various Twin Cities suburbs have suffered similar incidents.

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Trump directs Burgum and Park Service to install temporary signage along NPS-maintained sidewalks the public uses to access the Smithsonian to correct “inaccurate information presented in the Museum” and direct visitors to “locations & resources for accurate information regarding America’s history.”

Trump orders signage warning visitors of ‘inaccurate information’ at Smithsonian

The order comes after the White House released a scathing report against the Smithsonian Institution’s leadership on July 4.

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"How can men survive the daily grind of being around women and become the warrior kings the Doug Wilsons and Mark Driscolls of the world want them to be?... [One method they're proposing is] 'lust-free' gyms. 'Christian men are at war daily. There is no base camp.'" (h/t @joestieb.bsky.social)

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2w ago

baptistnews.com/article/men-...

I know some have the propensity to scoff at this sort of thing (and it is very cringy) but this post, the one on energy bills and bus fares all have over a million views on Instagram alone. Huge amount more outreach.

Emma Jacobs@emmavj.bsky.social · 2w ago

Andy Burnham is going nuts for socials

"Last month... Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss and their cryptocurrency company donated more than $10 million in bitcoin to [a PAC] supporting President Donald Trump... less than a month after the Trump admin. moved to vacate a Biden-era enforcement action against the brothers’ crypto exchange, Gemini."

The Lever@levernews.com · 2w ago

Story: www.levernews.com/the-winklevo...

“‘Most little girls go through various stages of wanting to be teachers, nurses, doctors, and even actresses, didn't you?’ we asked. ‘No.’ Jane Bolin answered. ‘I always wanted to be a lawyer.’”

Jill Hasday@jillhasday.bsky.social · 2w ago

On this day in 1939, Jane Bolin became the first black female judge in the US. In 1958, she said this about women’s rights: “Those gains we have made were never graciously and generously granted. We have to fight every inch of the way — in the face of sometimes insufferable humiliations.” #WeTheMen

Ellesse-Roselee Akré, PhD: “What we are seeing is segregation within the healthcare system itself — a sorting of patients of different races, in seen and unseen ways, even within the same neighborhood… Proximity to a high-quality hospital does not guarantee admission.” (h/t @matthewcort.land)

Uché Blackstock, MD@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social · 2w ago

A top-rated hospital nearby doesn’t guarantee you’ll receive care there. New research found that Black Medicare patients were more likely to be admitted to lower-rated hospitals, even when higher-rated hospitals were close by. Access is about more than geography.

“The implication is clear… Marco Rubio thinks there should be a modern-day blacklist of the political left in America. In fact, the report explicitly mentions the ‘blacklists, McCarthy-era investigations and prosecutions’ of the 1950s and their effectiveness at dismembering the Communist Party USA.”

Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 2w ago

New State Department report on foreign "subversion" is a virtual government blacklist that names 43 Americans + domestic orgs, including: - Mamdani - DSA - Hasan Piker - Amy Goodman Full list: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/after-poli...

Almost missed this. Identical quadruplets… “One in every 15 million pregnancies.”

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 2w ago

Rare identical quadruplets born in Australia

Chris Rabb: “Folks who have been identified as hardscrabble, populist, left-of-center white guys get far more leeway than folks like me, Black progressives... If I had some problematic tattoo that related to white folk, I don’t think I would be viable even in a majority-Black district..."

Amanda Litman@amandalitman.bsky.social · 2w ago

I talked with @rachelleingang.bsky.social about who gets the latitude to make mistakes and who doesn’t. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Jon Ossoff unloads on Mike Collins:"Collins is known, even among Georgia Republicans, as a man of low integrity and poor character. Ossoff also said Collins is "hiding" and refusing to answer questions about his alleged ties to white supremacists and his neo-Nazi propagandist son-in-law.

"'The place where I feel safe'... For many of the 8- to 17-year-olds who attend Transcending Adolescence, the weeklong summer camp offers a reprieve from the calculations they have to make in their day-to-day lives: Who knows they are trans? Who can be trusted? Which bathroom can they legally use?"

Transgender World@transgenderreport.com · 2w ago

In the Middle of the Bible Belt, a Summer Camp Lets Trans Kids Exhale www.unclosetedmedia.... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Trump is owned by profiteers in oil, gas, and coal. #ClimateCrisis

Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tonight, he goes after the National Academy of Sciences, regarding climate change:

Just another day at the Arco station on the south side of Minneapolis: www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...

“Donald Trump Jr., called the case ‘absolute insanity’… Carlson… devoted hours of airtime to proclaiming Tate’s innocence; so did the right-wing podcaster Candace Owens… Charlie Kirk praised him onstage. ‘What he says is so powerful. Our society is configured towards collapsing the American man.’”

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 3w ago

If you haven’t read this in full it’s a gutwrenching account of both the sickening serial rape allegations against them and how many friends they have in the Trump administration: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“I noticed a new mirror above one of the eight sinks… this mirror was made of glass. And instead of producing a carnival funhouse reflection of me, this proper mirror produced a clear image... I… wondered how long it had been since I saw myself undistorted. I knew it must have been decades ago...”

Prison Journalism Project@prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"In prison, we often must adapt to abnormal conditions, including seeing distorted versions of ourselves. After I finished my morning routine, I considered whether there were any documented psychological effects of us not seeing ourselves for long periods of time."

“Both UA & Auburn repurposed or closed their minority-outreach offices w/ hardly a word of protest. [UA] shut down spaces for Black & LGBTQ+ students. Later, UA closed two student magazines, claiming that writing stories of interest to women & Black students could potentially violate a [DOJ] order.”

Brian Lyman@brianlyman.bsky.social · 3w ago

My column from Monday. The leaders of the University of Alabama and Auburn University have been notably weak amid escalating attacks on students and educators. That’s only going to encourage further attacks and ongoing erosion of the schools’ core missions.

“To pay their full share of grid connection... to put at least as much energy into our grid as they take out... To be net-generators not net-users. To build new renewable generation... to minimize water use, maximize their energy efficiency, and pay for any additional water infrastructure required."

Robb Edwards 🌱@robedwards1.bsky.social · 3w ago

Australia to legally require large-scale data centers to secure new clean energy supplies Legally binding large-scale data centres to supply their own new clean energy sources of power www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/16/l...

This story is truly amazing. The teleprompter guy -- who has been w/ Trump since 2016 -- would allegedly "back out of certain bets mid-speech when Trump skipped over a portion of the speech that included a word he had previously bet would be mentioned."

Jamie Dupree@jamiedupree.bsky.social · 3w ago

The story of the day - abcnews.com/US/white-hou...

“Trump made at least 44 stock purchases of 21 different companies within a week before he posted a complimentary Truth Social message about the firms, their executives, or their products…”

Common Dreams@commondreams.org · 3w ago

"This is an ethics disaster."

Britt holds up a totally irrelevant mifepristone victim story — akin to pointing out how one person jammed a pencil in someone’s eye, so all pencils should be banned. And by getting Blanche to publicly commit to looking into the drug in the hearing, they inoculate themselves from future scrutiny.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

BRITT: Can you commit to me that this administration and DOJ will prioritize taking meaningful action to address the dangers of mifepristone? BLANCHE: Absolutely

“One of every four vehicles sold globally in 2025 was battery-powered… [Bloomberg analysts predict] that in the next decade, that number will more than double.” [Detroit] “appears to be in the process of sealing its own doom —at the precise moment interest in E.V.s is surging in the United States.”

The Upshot@upshot.nytimes.com · 3w ago

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/m...

“Gilman refers to these imagined unfeeling meat suits — which will ideally be born without brains — as ‘organ sacks.’” Company investor Boyang Wang: “If we can create a nonsentient, headless bodyoid for a human being, that will be a great source of organs.”

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: Alice Gilman, a cofounder of R3 Bio — a startup that's said it wants to create nonsentient "organ sacks" — tried to delay the publication of an interview she gave in February to the podcast Skyline Drive. Why? Unclear. But she alluded to being a "federal asset." futurism.com/future-socie...

“During an anti-Chinese riot in 1871 in Los Angeles, ‘21 Chinese were shot, hanged or burned to death by white mobs’… 100 Chinese were killed in Idaho in 1866-1867… In California… 31 urban centers… underwent burnings of Chinese stores and residences and expulsions of Chinese residents.”

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3w ago

A White House report has defended the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, pushing back against its characterization by a Smithsonian Institution exhibit that the law was racially motivated. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

News organizations should periodically stop and look in the mirror and ask themselves “Have we internalized copspeak to the point that our headlines indistinguishable from police department email subject lines?”

MOU, no MOU... "One hundred eighty members of Iran's 290-strong parliament have issued a statement declaring the end of the memorandum of understanding with the United States."

“Congress bent over backwards brokering one compromise after another, in a valiant attempt to preserve the union. These compromises infuriated Northern abolitionists (‘This word compromise, when applied to human rights and constitutional rights, I abhor,’ trumpeted Thaddeus Stephens in 1850)…”

Greg Olear@gregolear.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Without Addison Mitchell McConnell III, there would be no Donald Trump. Mitch fed the cancer. He prevented the oncologists and surgeons from administering treatment. And knowing he possessed the singular cure, he chose to sit on his hands as the terminal disease ate away at our democracy."

But meanwhile, amidst the chaos which at this point, at this level of absurdity, almost seems like a game — random lives are being wantonly snuffed out for no reason. Add in the Netanyahu dimension, and the Doge dimension, and the ICE dimension, and it's just death all around... while Trump golfs.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3w ago

We’ve opened the strait that was never closed, ceasing a ceasefire for a war that was never a war, stopping Iran from charging tolls because tolls are illegal, all so Trump can charge his *own* tolls because *his* tolls are legal. This will hurt affordability which is a hoax anyway

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 3w ago

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...