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ICE cut off her wedding ring.
Sue Tincher is a 55-year-old American citizen: a grandmother, 5’4’, and white. Just in case you thought you’d be safe.
She walked to her neighbor’s house after getting alerts that ICE was nearby. She stood across the street and asked an officer if they were ICE.
Sue Tincher is a 55-year-old American citizen: a grandmother, 5’4’, and white. Just in case you thought you’d be safe.
She walked to her neighbor’s house after getting alerts that ICE was nearby. She stood across the street and asked an officer if they were ICE.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
ICE cut off her wedding ring.
Sue Tincher is a 55-year-old American citizen: a grandmother, 5’4’, and white. Just in case you thought you’d be safe.
She walked to her neighbor’s house after getting alerts that ICE was nearby. She stood across the street and asked an officer if they were ICE.
Sue Tincher is a 55-year-old American citizen: a grandmother, 5’4’, and white. Just in case you thought you’d be safe.
She walked to her neighbor’s house after getting alerts that ICE was nearby. She stood across the street and asked an officer if they were ICE.
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
www.propublica.org
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
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It is particularly galling that Trump is calling for the execution of people who actually served honorably in the military, while he took a bone spur exemption and famously boasted that his Vietnam was dodging syphilis in 70s New York.
Just a historically loathsome figure by any measure.
Just a historically loathsome figure by any measure.
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It is particularly galling that Trump is calling for the execution of people who actually served honorably in the military, while he took a bone spur exemption and famously boasted that his Vietnam was dodging syphilis in 70s New York.
Just a historically loathsome figure by any measure.
Just a historically loathsome figure by any measure.
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Ohio food pantries see record demand in food crisis. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/11/o...
Ohio food pantries see record demand in food crisis • Ohio Capital Journal
Many food pantries in Ohio are seeing record demand as President Donald Trump has resisted court orders to provide food aid to 42 million Americans.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Ohio food pantries see record demand in food crisis. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/11/o...
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
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An Ohio writer returned to her hometown to see what she’d missed. It was a lot ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/04/a...
An Ohio writer returned to her hometown to see what she'd missed. It was a lot • Ohio Capital Journal
Author Beth Macy returned to Urbana, Ohio to write a memoir about her hometown. She was shocked at the despair she found — and how little she knew. Her new book, “Paper Girl,” explores what’s…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
An Ohio writer returned to her hometown to see what she’d missed. It was a lot ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/04/a...
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There's been a lot of crowing that the House has "done its job" by passing a bill, but the job is actually making law, not passing one-chamber bills. The word Congress means "come together" in Latin. Congress is failing to Congress.
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
There's been a lot of crowing that the House has "done its job" by passing a bill, but the job is actually making law, not passing one-chamber bills. The word Congress means "come together" in Latin. Congress is failing to Congress.
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For my mother's anniversary this year, my family and I journeyed back to our parents' Fermanagh homeland.
On memory, storytelling, and a letter than left us stunned.
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
On memory, storytelling, and a letter than left us stunned.
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
An anniversary, a trip to Ireland, and a lot of family st...
A weekend in County Fermanagh with my dad and (10) siblings to remember our mother
observer.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
For my mother's anniversary this year, my family and I journeyed back to our parents' Fermanagh homeland.
On memory, storytelling, and a letter than left us stunned.
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
On memory, storytelling, and a letter than left us stunned.
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
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Commentary: The 340B Drug Pricing Program is supposed to save hospitals money on drugs to serve low-income and uninsured patients, but Ohio's largest health systems are running away with the savings as profits, instead of investing them to serve the underserved.
A federal safety net program is leaving Ohio patients behind • Ohio Capital Journal
The 340B Drug Pricing Program is supposed to save hospitals money on drugs to serve low-income and uninsured patients, but Ohio's largest health systems are running away with the savings as profits,…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Commentary: The 340B Drug Pricing Program is supposed to save hospitals money on drugs to serve low-income and uninsured patients, but Ohio's largest health systems are running away with the savings as profits, instead of investing them to serve the underserved.
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The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.
October 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
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Analysis: Universal school meals in Ohio would pay for themselves — and then some ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/14/a...
Analysis: Universal school meals in Ohio would pay for themselves — and then some • Ohio Capital Journal
Most Ohio school kids already get free meals. Making them free for all students would produce big social benefits, new study says.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Analysis: Universal school meals in Ohio would pay for themselves — and then some ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/14/a...
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Making free meals available to all public students wouldn't only produce benefits equal to the costs, it would produce social benefits with a net worth of about $520 million a year, according to an economic analysis released last Monday. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/14/a...
Analysis: Universal school meals in Ohio would pay for themselves — and then some • Ohio Capital Journal
Most Ohio school kids already get free meals. Making them free for all students would produce big social benefits, new study says.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Making free meals available to all public students wouldn't only produce benefits equal to the costs, it would produce social benefits with a net worth of about $520 million a year, according to an economic analysis released last Monday. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/14/a...
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We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
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Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
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A Republican lawmaker introduced a bill this week that would require Ohio public schools to show a video about fetal development to students starting in the third grade.
Ohio Republican lawmaker trying to require public schools to show video about fetal development • Ohio Capital Journal
A Republican lawmaker introduced a bill that would require Ohio public schools to show a video about fetal development to students starting in the third grade.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A Republican lawmaker introduced a bill this week that would require Ohio public schools to show a video about fetal development to students starting in the third grade.
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The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
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Homework is just a way to teach kids that they should always be willing to work more than their assigned hours. Prove me wrong.
September 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Homework is just a way to teach kids that they should always be willing to work more than their assigned hours. Prove me wrong.
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Like every mf that’s been forced into our public consciousness via him since 2016 has been wack as hell. No swag, unfunny, zero bitches, clearly hated by everyone they’ve ever met, no homies, weird smile, probably fuckin stink and go to hotel breakfasts barefoot and drink milk. You know they type
September 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Like every mf that’s been forced into our public consciousness via him since 2016 has been wack as hell. No swag, unfunny, zero bitches, clearly hated by everyone they’ve ever met, no homies, weird smile, probably fuckin stink and go to hotel breakfasts barefoot and drink milk. You know they type
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In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.
If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there
September 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.
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Commentary: About 1 in 7 Ohio five-year-olds entered kindergarten this year unvaccinated, up from about 1 in 10 in 2019. If Ohio creeps closer to 1 in 5 children unvaccinated, children will approach the point where they are no longer herd immune to polio ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/11/h...
How can Ohio protect children from measles and polio? • Ohio Capital Journal
About 1 in 7 Ohio five-year-olds entered Kindergarten this year unvaccinated, up from about 1 in 10 in 2019. If Ohio creeps closer to 1 in 5 children unvaccinated, children will approach the point…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Commentary: About 1 in 7 Ohio five-year-olds entered kindergarten this year unvaccinated, up from about 1 in 10 in 2019. If Ohio creeps closer to 1 in 5 children unvaccinated, children will approach the point where they are no longer herd immune to polio ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/11/h...
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Yup -- it was said in happier times, but the fundamental wisdom of Dave Barry still applies: "someone who is nice to you and a jerk to the waiter is NOT a nice person."
September 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Yup -- it was said in happier times, but the fundamental wisdom of Dave Barry still applies: "someone who is nice to you and a jerk to the waiter is NOT a nice person."
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Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
September 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
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More Trump in charge of the IRS consequences www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b... Trump Administration Halts I.R.S. Crackdown on Major Tax Shelters
Trump Administration Halts I.R.S. Crackdown on Major Tax Shelters
www.nytimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
More Trump in charge of the IRS consequences www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b... Trump Administration Halts I.R.S. Crackdown on Major Tax Shelters
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Commentary: President Trump mobilized the D.C. National Guard under the guise of restoring security — despite D.C.’s crime rate being at a 30-year low. But at a cost of $1 million each day, it would be less expensive to just house people without homes. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/03/t...
Trump’s invasion of D.C. costs over $1 million a day. What could that fund instead? • Ohio Capital Journal
President Trump mobilized the D.C. National Guard under the guise of restoring security — despite D.C.’s crime rate being at a 30-year low. But at a cost of $1 million each day, it would be less…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Commentary: President Trump mobilized the D.C. National Guard under the guise of restoring security — despite D.C.’s crime rate being at a 30-year low. But at a cost of $1 million each day, it would be less expensive to just house people without homes. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/03/t...