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Tampa Free Press: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz Says ICE Is ‘Trump’s Modern-Day Gestapo’ In Commencement Speech

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Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz compared the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel executing the Trump administration’s immigration agenda to the Gestapo in a Saturday commencement address at the University of Minnesota law school.

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Walz, the failed Democratic nominee for vice president in 2024, suggested during the speech that Trump is using ICE to implement his immigration agenda in similar fashion to how Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler used the Gestapo secret police to target opponents, according to RealClearPolitics.

“Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets,” Walz claimed. “They’re in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons—no chance to mount a defense, not even a chance to kiss a loved one goodbye, just grabbed up by masked agents, shoved into those vans, and disappeared.”

“To be clear, there’s no way for us to know whether they were actually criminals or not, because they refused to give them a trial,” Walz continued. “We’re supposed to just take their word for it.”

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz Says ICE Is ‘Trump’s Modern-Day Gestapo’ In Commencement Speech
Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz compared the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel executing the Trump administration’s immigration agenda to
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz Says ICE Is ‘Trump’s Modern-Day Gestapo’ In Commencement Speech

MarketWatch: Millions of Americans may lose health insurance under GOP tax plan. Here’s who will be affected most.

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The plan would represent the largest cut to Medicaid ever

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the bill could lead to at least 8.6 million Americans losing health coverage, with the majority expected to lose Medicaid. Most affected would be low-income adults without dependents, earning a bit more than a poverty income of $15,650 for a single person.

Go for it, suckers! Mid-terms are coming, and they will come with a vengeance!

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Newsweek: Trump Administration Accused of Declaring ‘Fake’ Emergency By 15 States

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A coalition of attorneys general across 15 states is suing the Trump administration over declaring a “national emergency” on the first day of Donald Trump‘s presidency.

On January 20, President Trump declared a “national energy emergency” via executive order, over what he claimed to be “our Nation’s inadequate energy supply.”

The attorneys general from Washington and California say this is not true, and that US energy production is actually at “an all time high.”

“Washington state filed suit today alongside 14 other states to challenge the president’s fake “energy emergency,” declared to line the pockets of Big Oil by handing out free passes to pollute our environment,” said Washington Attorney General Nick Brown on May 9.

Trump administration accused of declaring ‘fake’ emergency by 15 states
The president has been accused of creating a “fake” energy emergency in order to “line the pockets of Big Oil,” according to 15 states.

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-fake-energy-emergency-15-states-2070864

Reuters: Trump cannot use new executive order to skirt ‘sanctuary’ cities ruling, judge says

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  • Judge William Orrick’s order follows new executive order from Trump
  • Judge has blocked Trump administration from cutting off funding
  • Dispute is over federal immigration law enforcement

A federal judge warned on Friday that a new executive order from President Donald Trump that calls for cutting off funding to so-called sanctuary jurisdictions that do not cooperate with his immigration agenda cannot be used to evade a court order barring his administration from doing just that.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco issued Friday’s order, opens new tab at the urging of 16 cities and counties nationally that had already secured an injunction barring the administration from withholding all federal funding to them.

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Minneapolis Star Tribune: MPR and TPT brace for future after Trump seeks to end federal funding for PBS and NPR

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Public media’s future has been threatened before. But Congress has always agreed to keep allocating money to the CPB, as much as $535 million last year in taxpayer funds.

This time around, Trump is trying to terminate the relationship without congressional approval. It’s unclear whether he can do that. CPB, established in 1967, is a private entity designed to be protected from government interference. Trump and his supporters have justified the order by claiming NPR and PBS engage in biased reporting.

“The difference this time around is that we really don’t know what rules we are playing by,” said Pagliarini, who retired in 2020 and now lives in Reno, Nev.

MPR and TPT brace for future after Trump seeks to end federal funding for PBS and NPR
For more than 25 years, “Lakeland News” has been serving Minnesota households from Little Falls to International Falls with stories that could otherwise get overlooked. But the newscast, available in 400,000 households at 10 p.m. weeknights, might have to shut down if President Donald Trump gets his way. “That kind of service could be in jeopardy,” Lakeland PBS President Jeff Hanks said…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mpr-and-tpt-brace-for-future-after-trump-seeks-to-end-federal-funding-for-pbs-and-npr/ar-AA1E4QrZ

WCCO Radio Minneapolis: Possible Trump executive order could target sanctuary cities. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says it’s not the city’s problem

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says President Donald Trump is wrong and told Vineeta Sawkar on the WCCO Morning News says that it would be against Minnesota state law, and is also a violation of a separation ordinance between the city and the federal government.

“Look, I’m the mayor of this city and my responsibility is to make sure that people are safe and I want our officers, I want them stopping violent crime,” Frey explains. “I don’t want our officers spending a single second assisting someone who’s undocumented, and that’s the only issue.”

Mayor Frey says that the Minneapolis police department has more important things to do and adding immigration enforcement duties would be unsafe for the city.

“I’ll just ask kind of the, the basic question like what’s more dangerous? A serial killer who’s on the loose or a guy that’s just dropping his kids off at school and then going to work a landscaping job? There are more important things that we need our officers to do and we’re able to prioritize that,” Frey said.

Possible Trump executive order could target sanctuary cities. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says it’s not the city’s problem
The Trump administration escalated its showdown with Democratic-led states and cities over immigration enforcement on Monday, but Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says the order would be “illegal” and it’s not a priority for the city’s police department.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/possible-trump-executive-order-could-target-sanctuary-cities-minneapolis-mayor-jacob-frey-says-it-s-not-the-city-s-problem/ar-AA1DQWek

The Dispatch: Trump’s Team of Losers

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The president has hired lots of people who couldn’t win their own elections.

He’s not alone. Hegseth is only one member of the second Trump administration to have been plucked from the pantheon of electoral duds and given a second lease on political life. From the Cabinet all the way to high-profile White House aides, there are failed candidates for major office who might have otherwise toiled for years in obscurity or, even worse, local politics if not for Trump’s magnanimity. Contrary to the president’s boasted affection for winners, it’s loyalty to Trump, sometimes even in the face of defeat, that remains the most valuable characteristic for a Republican looking to get ahead these days. Even the losers.

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So the pathway for aspiring MAGA politicians is clear: in order to get the Trump administration imprimatur to win a future race for office, try losing one first.

Trump’s Team of Losers
The president has hired lots of people who couldn’t win their own elections.
Trump’s Team of Losers

Dogukan Gunaydin, University of Minnesota student disappeared by ICE

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So now they claim to have filed new charges against the University of Minnesota student, Dogukan Gunaydin, who was disappeared by ICE. However, when I log in to my federal PACER account and search for a case file and documents, there is … nada. So what’s next for Dogukan? Secret arrest? Secret charges with no public case file? A real gulag? A bullet in the back of the head, Russian style?

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/university-of-minnesota-student-detained-by-ice-immigration-court

Mediaite: Fox News Panel Goes Off the Rails After Pod Save America Host Insults Network and Accuses Pete Hegseth of Drunkenly Sharing Classified Info

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America doesn’t have a DEI problem right now. We have a competency problem because we have a Fox News Weekend anchor named Pete Hegseth, who, you tell me, may or may not have been tipsy at the time he was sending around this classified information, breaking all the rules, putting at risk service members, and making terrible decisions while Mike Waltz, the national security advisor, is adding journalists to the group chat.

Fox News Panel Goes Off the Rails After Pod Save America Host Insults Network and Accuses Pete Hegseth of Drunkenly Sharing Classified Info

Fox News Panel Goes Off the Rails After Pod Save America Host Insults Network and Accuses Pete Hegseth of Drunkenly Sharing Classified Info

Star Tribune: ‘I’m going crazy’: Delays, confusion as ICE moves Minnesota detainees across the country

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This is not my America.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is transferring immigrants arrested in Minnesota to jails in Texas, Louisiana and Colorado as the agency runs out of space in the three local jails contracted to provide beds for ICE detainees.

The practice is leading to delayed hearings and longer detention times — and sometimes panic for people stranded a thousand miles from home.

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But, she said, she could not hear his case that day because he was not being detained in Minnesota. If he wanted to be released, he would have to ask a judge in a Louisiana court.

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The man was scheduled for a hearing in Fort Snelling in late February, a few weeks after his arrest. He could have been released on bond then.

But the transfer led to a series of delays. By the time of his first hearing at the Conroe, Texas, court in mid-April, he will have been locked up for two months.

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Attorney Cameron Giebink had a client with no criminal record who was moved from Minnesota to Texas, had his hearing delayed two weeks and had to find his own way back home after being released on bond.

“This practice is delaying custody hearing by weeks in many cases, at significant cost to taxpayers and the prospective immigrants who often face significant costs as a result of the move,” Giebink said in an email.

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Mazzie told the Texas deputy to stay connected, though it would be a while before she got to the detainee there. And she explained she was somewhat glad Denver did not connect because it’s a “nightmare” when a bond hearing is scheduled from a place where she has no jurisdiction.

Legal counsel for the Denver detainee, who is a Mexican national, raised concerns. An attorney said their client was anxious to have a hearing “and so we’re chasing rabbits.”

“Exactly … same here,” Mazzie said.

‘I’m going crazy’: Delays, confusion as ICE moves Minnesota detainees across the country
Minnesota is running out of space to house ICE detainees, so some are ending up in jails in Texas, Louisiana and Colorado.

‘I’m going crazy’: Confusion as ICE moves MN detainees to other states