No one wants this paper, when I go into convenience stores in the morning the employees all tell me they sell no papers, the sports news is a day old; the news is all recycled from other sources. It is pathetic. But it is the main source of news for many people and it does damage to the public discourse by what it ignores as much as what it prints. The Strib sticks strictly to the Dem line on any issue and does not even bother to give serious analysis to the issues plaguing the state.
July 1–half the stories on the front page and all the stories from the second and third pages come from outside sources. Minnesota refuses to give the feds food stamp data, even though the program is largely federally funded and there has maybe been a little fraud in Minnesota. One Minneapolis city council member takes a mental health leave. They are all mentally ill so would be best if they all took permanent leave and maybe things would get better in the city.
July 2–the Strib appears to complain about ICE letting an illegal immigrant criminal stay because he has cancer. Appears the Strib just hates ICE, no matter what they do. Trump is making money in office, appears to be completely legal, and I don’t recall any Strib articles about the Biden family’s blatant exploitation of the office to make lots of money. Climate terrorism about heat waves, including a quote from disgraced hysteric Michael Mann, the notorious liar and publisher of fake research. The Strib is surprised (or at least the NYTimes article in republishes is) at the closeness of the birthright citizenship decision, but there is ample evidence that the authors of the 14th amendment did not intend for people who came here illegally to be able to have children who became citizens because they were born here.
July 3–The business section notes that electricity prices are way up, but fails to connect it to the renewables mandate. It also attempts to justify the primary electricity company’s thinly veiled pricing scheme to jack most people’s costs up even more by charging depending on when you use electricity. It’s cheap at 2 in the middle of the night and expensive in the evening when you need it most. More patients are falling in the state’s hospitals; we used to be a high-quality health care state, not any more with the flood of DEI hires, etc. Another article attempting to minimize the level of fraud in the state. Trump’s crypto business lost money for people. Trump is always bad, really bad, in case you didn’t know. Our violent ICE protesters plead not guilty to criminal charges, assuming whacked judges will let them off.
July 4–The Minneapolis police are racists, unless they are making racist statements about white people. Walz pardoned a scumbag child rapist; the Strib pathetically attempts to cover for him by saying the victim forgave him, without noting that evidence was presented at trial that the victim was pressured to not testify and it appears that at the pardon hearing the victim and her family were also pressured to testify favorably. Disgraceful to pardon this sicko and even more disgraceful for the Strib to try to justify it. Minneapolis claims it will attempt to end blatant drug-dealing, which it has tolerated, even encouraged in the past. Apparently the city has just learned that this has a negative effect on residents’ quality of life. More heat terrorism, more Trump is making money alarmism.
July 5–anti-depressants are grossly over-used, despite a lot of adverse effects, which are generally downplayed. But the Strib runs an article expressing alarm over RFK Jr’s attempt to rein in the abusive over-use. More Trump is making money alarm.
July 6–Trump made Independence Day political. Many Minnesota cities have struggling economies. More European heat terrorism. No stories on the murders and shooting in Minneapolis this weekend.
July 7–Inflation is up and hurting food shelves. We aren’t doing enough for Venezuela. We aren’t getting enough PhD students, and I hope that is true, we don’t need any more woke social justice PhDs. Another whacked judge forces a housing program to continue so fraudsters and scammers can continue ripping it off.
July 8–The Strib’s biggest lie of this stretch–climate change concerns are forcing the Twin Cities Marathon to move to later in October. This is something the Strib could easily have checked by using data from good quality weather stations. It might also have noted that any increase in temps in the Twin Cities is due to the urban island heat effect, as there is not outstate warming. I predict that it will now snow in late October this year. Dems are getting nervous about growing electricity costs and are willing to look at more nuclear power. Gee that Maine Dem senate candidate we were so fond of might turn out to be a problem after all. Buried is a story about the Rep Speaker of the State House being repeatedly harrassed by a whacked Dem.
July 9–the burdensome and expensive state family paid-leave program is a resounding success according to the Strib. Small businesses in particular have a different perspective. Iran is heating up again, hot damn, that’s great, we can start going after Trump about this again. EPA scientists who were justifiably fired are heroes for suing over it. The Feds aren’t helping Minnesota with election security–this one is just hilarious, Minnesota encourages illegal immigrant voting and allows all kinds of voter fraud, and won’t let the feds see the voter rolls because they know what they will show.
And that’s it for this stretch.
