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Dispatches from Minneapolis

Published by Jim Heaney

Editor’s note: This weekly newsletter, formerly called Monday Morning Read, has been renamed Off the News. Lydia Polgreen, a columnist for The New York Times, penned a piece published Saturday that carried the headline: In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War. Thousands of masked, heavily armed agents, some with minimal training, have been unleashed on the streets of an American state. They have been promised near-total legal immunity by the president, effectively unshackled from any constitutional constraints. They have been given limitless license to abduct anyone, not just the undocumented immigrants but American citizens who happen to look foreign, whatever[...]