Minnesota AG Keith Ellison sues Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to compel the extradition of an ICE agent. Christian Castro faces assault charges for allegedly shooting a man in Minneapolis and lying about it. Ellison warns Castro could flee to Mexico if released.

Minnesota attorney general sues Texas governor to compel extradition of ICE agent for trial

Minnesota's attorney general is suing the governor of Texas, asking a federal judge to compel the extradition of a federal immigration agent charged with wounding a man and then lying about it during an immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.

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Right, MAGA takes Trump's infidelities as a sign that he's a real macho alpha male. Harp being another mistress wouldn't cause a problem at all. They'd probably applaud him for it. But if Harp is there to cater to a feeble old narcissist who's too fragile to handle the news? Oof.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 8h ago

What folks miss is MAGA doesn't care if people think Trump cheated for the 1900th time. What worries is the image of an 80 yr old man wildly dependent on a clincially fangirlish 30-something who he appears to use as a kind of human emotional support blanket as his faculties & political power fade.

Of course transphobe Lucy Mangan is a big fan of ADHD denialism.

Electoralism Will Not Defeat This

Truthout@truthout.org · 8h ago

Marco Rubio has announced that the U.S. is imposing sanctions on two key figures in the International Criminal Court, including a prosecutor who has led charges against top Israeli government officials like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

JFC.

Zehava Galon, Former Head of The Israeli left-wing party "Meretz", harshly condemned the Palestinian numbering incident, comparing Israeli occupation to Nazi Germany

Resist 🕎🍉@antizionistjew.bsky.social · 9h ago

Zionist Israel is not very different from Nazi Germany

Mykhailo Fedorov, ousted as Ukraine's defense minister in July after reportedly clashing with the country's top general, is now urging a "lawful, safe, realistic" way to resume elections even during the war. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

‘Democracy cannot be held hostage by Russia’: Ousted after clashing with Ukraine’s top general, Mykhailo Fedorov now argues elections can’t wait for peace — Meduza

In a video address, Ukraine’s former defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for a “legal, safe, and realistic mechanism” that would allow Ukraine to “resume a fully functioning democratic process…

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Note how he didn't outright ban them...

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h ago

#Pennsylvania

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Lost another member of ZZ Top. The Reaper comes for us all. The one that dies with the least regrets wins. apnews.com/article/fran...

Frank Beard, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame drummer of boogie-rock trio ZZ Top, dies at 77

Frank Beard, the drummer for ZZ Top, has died at 77. He passed away Tuesday at his ranch in Richmond, Texas, with family by his side.

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Yeah, but you know, feeding kids pizza and chocolate milk is a whole lot better than making them go hungry because of lunch debt.

Cooper: When Whatley was chair of the NC Republican Party, he appointed a guy who was on the sex offender registry. So that’s the kind of thing that we’re dealing with here: people who pretend to be tough on crime, yet when it comes to politics, they want to protect people who are child predators.

Voting by mail is evil and corrupt...for you.... because Trump just voted by mail, again, for the second time this year.

All I know is that the country really needs @rosie.com to have her own TV show again for our collective well-being. Until then, her guest hosting this week on @jimmykimmel.com will have to do because it gets her back to us where she belongs. You are crushing it, Ro! 🩷

Does Polymarket let you bet on whether or not the CEO of Polymarket will die in the coming week? No? Huh. So you can bet on lots of *other* people suffering, and you can potentially profit by *causing* that suffering. Just not them? They're off limits. OK.

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 2w ago

Lawmakers from Oregon, California, Nevada, Minnesota, and New Hampshire specifically called out Polymarket, which hosted bets in January 2025 on the wildfires in Los Angeles.

Personal heuristic: If the lead story on the NY Times website is about the bond market, things are not going well with the economy.

Trump is blowing through our Strategic Oil Reserve like the money he inherited from his dad.

Making the Dodgers visiting the White House look even worse.

Baseball Enthusiast@iluvbaseball.bsky.social · 18h ago

I don't know what to say anymore ICE is a dangerous institution and must be abolished

US spends unlimited money on wars; next-generation blackboards in China🇨🇳. Different choices define different futures USA: no $ for that; we spent $ on shock gloves to torture children in concentration camps..China’s doing this for their kids, and we’re putting the Ten Commandments in public schools

The escalation ladder Russia and NATO are on is reaching the dangerous rungs. US intelligence assesses Russia is planning another direct provocation on NATO. NATO is flying their most aggressive ISR routes/show of force around Kaliningrad in recent memory. Easy to see how this could go sideways.

Short lesson. Years ago the government said my union couldn't be trusted with our pension fund. They turned it over to wall st. We had $65 billion. They released it back to our control. We got $5 billion back. Wall Street can't account for the missing $60 billion. You figure it out.

Achievement Unlocked: Destroyed the Dollar

fine-tuned machine™️

When Japan starts selling US debt to steady their currency. We might just see the interest rates of the early 80’s overnight. If it’s going to happen let it be just before the midterms.

and a backup for the backup plan....

Penny escaped one too many times. #Dachshund #DachshundLove #DachshundLife #WienerDog

Looks like the WH put out the bat signal in the influencer groupchat because hit dogs are hollerin'. Ossoff's "travel with Natalie" is causing a nuclear-level MAGA meltdown and a lot of inference is happening from just 3 words, so Trump's camp seems to be telling on him. Yikes.

"who was president in 2020" is the most confounding political question of our age

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Rep. Mike Collins: "Fast-forward to the Biden administration. They put this on steroids. Example? Summer of love, where rioters were out there burning police stations, assaulting officers." (Donald Trump was in fact the president in 2020.)

Jon Ossoff: "I don't think anything illustrates the times more aptly than that the draft-dodging crook president, who has plunged our nation recklessly into a war he knows not how to end or to win, tried to imprison this man who embodies American heroism."