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Why is it so hard for people to praise Trump for ending the Israel war with Hamas?
As the Gaza ceasefire holds, Hamas security forces have returned to the streets, clashed with armed groups and killed alleged gangsters in what the militant group says is an attempt to restore law and order in areas where Israeli troops have withdrawn.
The show of force, welcomed by some Palestinians after months of lawlessness, could threaten the truce now that all the living hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack have been released.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly said the war will not end until Hamas has been dismantled, and U.S. President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan calls for Hamas to disarm and hand power over to an internationally supervised body that has yet to be formed.
Hamas has not fully accepted those terms, saying more negotiations are needed. It says it is willing to hand over power to other Palestinians but will not allow chaos to prevail during the transition. Israelis fear that as long as Hamas is armed, it will exercise influence in Gaza — and could rebuild its military capabilities — even if an independent body exercises nominal rule.
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Offering plea deals and the stance of being soft on crime is what is ruining our once great city!!
Former state trooper pleads guilty in child porn production case
A former state trooper has pleaded guilty in a child pornography production case.
Jeremy Plonski entered guilty pleas to one count of producing child pornography and one count of distributing child pornography. Additional counts of each offense will be dismissed at sentencing.
Minnesota State Patrol Colonel Christina Bogojevic confirmed that Plonski has been terminated.
Authorities said that Plonski sexually assaulted an infant and wore his state trooper and Army Reservist uniforms while committing the crimes. Plonski then sent videos of the assaults to a user on Kik.
He was also charged in Scott County with one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct of a person under the age of 14. It’s unclear how Plonski’s guilty plea in federal court will impact the state’s case against him.
Ex-Northfield middle school teacher pleads guilty in student sexting case
A former Northfield Middle School teacher accused of sending lewd photos to students on social media has pleaded guilty to a felony charge in court on Tuesday.
Former teacher Katie Hanson, 38, was charged with two counts of engaging in electronic communication relating to or describing sexual conduct with a child. She is accused of sending nude photographs to underage students on Snapchat in 2024.
Hanson filed a petition on Monday to plead guilty to one of the felony charges in exchange for the dismissal of the other. Under the agreement, Hanson is expected to be on probation for the next five years, spend a month on electronic home monitoring, and be ordered to complete 300 hours of community service.
She’s also expected to testify against former school resource officer Gabriel Crombie, who is accused of failing to file reports made by students, should his case proceed to trial. The two worked at Northfield Middle School in 2024 and eventually entered into a relationship together.
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Jim Rubin owner of Mint Properties who was featured in the documentary A Precarious State joins Reuvers in studio.
When the Truth Is Hidden, Communities Suffer
A Precarious State reveals what many residents already sense: that without clear, honest information, communities are left in the dark about the systems shaping their lives. Through powerful interviews and investigative storytelling, the film brings transparency to issues like public safety, education, and business. In a time of confusion and noise, it offers clarity—giving Minnesotans the context they need to better understand the world around them. It’s not about sides—it’s about truth.
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Bad Bunny is named as the Super Bowl Halftime show, uh, who the ($%#!) is Bad Bunny??
Mike has thoughts on the behavior at the Ryder Cup.
Rocco Baldelli is out as Twins manager.
25% of the youth get all of their news from Tik Tok.
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Charlie Kirk’s wife Erika was left shaken by report that a curse had been placed on him
Megyn Kelly has claimed that Erika Kirk, widow of the slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, was left “genuinely rattled” by a tongue-in-cheek article by a journalist claiming to have paid a witch to place a curse on her late husband.
The story was published by the feminist publication Jezebel on September 8 – two days before Kirk, 31, was shot dead by a rooftop sniper while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah – without attribution to a particular writer.
Jezebel took the story down once news of Kirk’s murder broke and issued a statement denouncing political violence, but, according to Kelly, not before the Kirks had learned of its contents and been distressed by it.
Executive Director of American Frontline Nurses got a “very frantic call at 4am from a husband whose wife is now dying of liver failure on a ventilator in an ICU, because she was trying to prove that Tylenol doesn't cause autism because of what Trump said” She’s going to die “Whether or not you believe the Harvard study or not is not, not the issue here. The issue is that she's somewhere between 23 to 25 weeks and she overdosed on Tylenol, and she's going to die” This video is INSANE
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The Whistleblower Protection Act needs to be promoted heavily in the state of Minnesota.
The term "Whistleblower Protection Act" (WPA) primarily refers to the U.S. federal law enacted in 1989, which shields federal employees who report government waste, fraud, and abuse from retaliation. Subsequent legislation, like the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (WPEA), has strengthened these protections.
The scope of whistleblower protections in the United States extends beyond the original WPA to cover employees of federal contractors and specific industries. Several federal agencies, including the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), enforce these laws.
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Jimmy Kimmel and ABC might be headed down a dangerous road in the very near future.
Ted Cruz compares FCC Chair Carr to Mafia boss in Jimmy Kimmel warnings
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas sharply criticized Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr for his comments related to late-night host Jimmy Kimmel shortly before ABC pulled his show off the air.
Cruz said he took issue with Carr threatening to cancel ABC’s broadcast license over Kimmel’s remarks about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
“He says, ‘We can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way,’” the senator said of Carr in the latest episode of his podcast, “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” which aired Friday morning.
“And I gotta say, that’s right out of ‘Goodfellas,’” Cruz said, referring to the classic mob film.
“That’s right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, ‘Nice bar you have here, it’d be a shame if something happened to it,’” he said.
“Look, I like Brendan Carr. He’s a good guy, he’s the chairman of the FCC. I work closely with him, but what he said there is dangerous as hell,” Cruz said at another point in the episode.
Cruz’s comments put him at odds with President Donald Trump, who applauded Kimmel’s suspension and later called Carr “outstanding.”
Cruz said he’s no fan of Kimmel’s and that he is “thrilled that he was fired” over his comments about Kirk.
“But let me tell you, if the government gets in the business of saying, ‘We don’t like what you the media have said, we’re going to ban you from the airwaves if you don’t say what we like,’ that will end up bad for conservatives,” Cruz said.
Kimmel, who has been suspended but not fired, said in his opening monologue Monday night that “the MAGA gang” is “desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”
On Wednesday, Carr slammed Kimmel at length during an appearance on right-wing commentator Benny Johnson’s podcast.
ABC has “a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest,” Carr said.
“But frankly, when you see stuff like this, I mean, look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way,” he said. “These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or you know, there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
Hours later, ABC and Nexstar Media Group, which hosts ABC-affiliated local stations, pre-empted “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” indefinitely.
Nexstar in August announced a planned $6.2 billion acquisition of Tegna — a merger that will require the FCC’s approval.
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The role of social media and why those deranged people need to celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk.
Washington Post columnist fired over social media posts after Charlie Kirk's assassination
A left-wing columnist revealed in a Substack on Monday that she was fired by the Washington Post over social media posts amid the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the Colorado school shooting.
"On Bluesky, in the aftermath of the horrific shootings in Utah and Colorado, I condemned America’s acceptance of political violence and criticized its ritualized responses — the hollow, cliched calls for ‘thoughts and prayers’ and ‘this is not who we are’ that normalize gun violence and absolve [W]hite perpetrators especially, while nothing is done to curb deaths," Karen Attiah wrote.
Kirk, a leading conservative activist, was assassinated at a campus event in Utah on Wednesday. That same day, a separate shooting at a Colorado school left two students injured and the assailant dead.
Attiah included multiple screenshots of her posts on Bluesky, including one that read, "Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness and absolution for [W]hite men who espouse hatred and violence."
"My only direct reference to Kirk was one post— his own words on record," Attiah wrote on Substack.
In a post to her Bluesky account, Attiah wrote, "'Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a [W]hite person’s slot'- Charlie Kirk."
Attiah appeared to reference a July 2023 remark made by Kirk during "The Charlie Kirk Show" about affirmative action in which he named Joy Reid, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee, according to Reuters, rather than speaking broadly about all Black women, as one viral X post suggested.
Attiah said she was fired for speaking out against political violence, "racial double standards" and America's "empathy towards guns."
"The Post accused my measured Bluesky posts of being ‘unacceptable’, ‘gross misconduct’ and of endangering the physical safety of colleagues — charges without evidence, which I reject completely as false. They rushed to fire me without even a conversation. This was not only a hasty overreach, but a violation of the very standards of journalistic fairness and rigor the Post claims to uphold," Attiah wrote in the post, where she included a 2019 photo of herself and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos.
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If the murder of Charlie Kirk did not cause you to have a reaction then I don't know what will.
Charlie Kirk shot and killed at Utah event; manhunt for shooter still ongoing
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Alleged Charlotte light rail attacker facing federal charge
Federal criminal charges were filed in Charlotte on Tuesday afternoon by the United States Department of Justice against the man accused of fatally stabbing a 23-year-old Ukrainian woman on a Charlotte light rail over two weeks ago.
The Department of Justice said on Tuesday, Aug. 9, that they have filed federal criminal charges against 34-year-old DeCarlos Brown Jr. He was charged with one count of committing an act causing death on a mass transportation system.
“Iryna Zarutska was a young woman living the American dream — her horrific murder is a direct result of failed soft-on-crime policies that put criminals before innocent people,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “I have directed my attorneys to federally prosecute DeCarlos Brown Jr., a repeat violent offender with a history of violent crime, for murder. We will seek the maximum penalty for this unforgivable act of violence — he will never again see the light of day as a free man.”
The FBI is investigating the case with the assistance of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
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