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L.A. neighborhood installing sirens to warn of federal immigration agents
By Will Conybeare and Jocelyn Fiset
KTLA: Because the effort isn’t city-sanctioned, organizers say they’re working directly with willing homeowners and local businesses, placing the sirens on private property rather than going through city permitting channels.
“Really taking a lot of that influence from Minneapolis and trying to turn it into our own here.”
"They say only a Scot can enjoy sliding 40-pound blocks of granite across the ice. But though we're not all Scots, we enjoy the game, and the arguments that go with it."
https://www.nfb.ca/film/curlers/
Almost everyone at the club curls, whether they were born to play or started later in life. (Those who don’t are offered lessons on the spot.)
—Christa Lawler in the Minnesota Star Tribune
At Duluth Curling Club, everyone’s rooting for ‘Boy Korey’ and ‘Girl Cory’
Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin, Team USA’s mixed doubles team, has big support at its home club.
Wait a minute, that doesn't make sense either. Better: "…unless you're NOT talking about our weather."
The declaration in the lede that Minneapolis is "famously uncool" is not supported by the evidence, unless you're talking about our weather.
Support music in public school.
"Prince also grew up in Minneapolis, which had one of the most advanced, mandatory public school music education systems in the United States. Students received comprehensive K-12 training in notation, voice, instrumentation and sight-reading, providing the foundational skills for Prince to become a multi-instrumentalist.
"And then there were the sounds that surrounded him growing up in the segregated Black world of south Minneapolis."
https://news.asu.edu/20260205-arts-humanities-and-education-road-royalty-becoming-prince
@gleick Doesn't solve the root problem but I just unsubscribed from this nonsense.
I hope my doing so doesn't eff up my receiving important personal Medicare account mailings.
All's well that ends well.
At gunpoint.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Immigration officers with guns drawn arrested activists who were trailing their vehicles on Tuesday in Minneapolis, while education leaders described anxiety and fear in Minnesota schools from the ongoing federal sweeps. …
Several cars followed officers through south Minneapolis after there were reports of them knocking at homes. Officers stopped their vehicles and ordered activists to come out of a car at gunpoint. Agents told reporters at the scene to stay back and threatened to use pepper spray.
https://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-immigration-crackdown-arrests-29ab636ca0f7db5389418463ca8b67c7
Holy mackerel.
The Port of Duluth-Superior saw its lowest tonnage shipped for all cargoes since 1938.
https://www.wpr.org/news/trumps-trade-war-took-a-toll-on-shipments-in-the-twin-ports-last-year
Hundreds of people attended the ceremony in south Minneapolis, many in ribbon skirts and regalia.
“The dress came to our people when there was a time of sickness. And so that's what we do. We show up when there's people suffering,” [organizer Star] Downwind said.
Jingle dress dancers hold healing ceremonies at memorial sites in south Minneapolis
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/02/jingle-dress-dancers-hold-healing-ceremonies-at-good-pretti-memorial-sites-in-minneapolis