Eric Beckman

Reading Russ Feingold's speech against the USA PATRIOT Act (yes, for the kids out there, it is an acronym). Our current dystopia has been building at least since 2001.

Noteworthy: "...if we lived in a country that allowed the government to hold people in jail indefinitely based on what they write or think, or based on mere suspicion that they are up to no good, then the government would no doubt discover and arrest more terrorists.

But that probably would not be a country in which we would want to live. And that would not be a country for which we could, in good conscience, ask our young people to fight and die. In short, that would not be America."

#uspol #uspolitics

https://archive.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/usapatriot/feingold.html

Multimember districts now!

Reading, hoping local #journalism #MNastodon
"Ramsey County weighs kidnapping charges against ICE agents who arrested ChongLy Scott Thao"
https://sahanjournal.com/public-safety/ramsey-county-federal-immigration-agents-kidnapping

Interesting analysis of Target's decline. As a St. Paulite living 1.5 miles from T1, the original Target store, this all tracks.

61 year streak of sales growth broken!

How Target lost its nerve — and then lost its business https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/30/how-target-lost-its-nerve-and-then-lost-its-business/

Ghouls terrorizing #MNAstodon local #journalism https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/08/ice-labeled-1300-arrests-during-operation-metro-surge-as-collateral/

Via the valuable @mnreformer@newsie.social a tool for find local #journalism
https://localnewsday.org/newsrooms/