10-04-2025
ICE detains second Minnesota college student
📚 Robbinsdale Area Schools says it could lay off 200 staffers after a budgeting error led to a $21 million funding gap. (KSTP)
A second Minnesota college student was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Friday. Minnesota State University Mankato's president said the school doesn't know why. (Star Tribune)
The Department of Homeland Security told The AP that the University of Minnesota graduate student detained a day prior had their visa revoked over a past DUI, not involvement in student protests.
🗳️ Attorney General Keith Ellison has endorsed Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in what could be a hotly contested DFL primary for an open U.S. Senate seat, removing his own name from the list of potential candidates. (Background via Axios)
Former Senate DFL Leader Melisa López Franzen is also running, and U.S. Rep. Angie Craig is mulling a bid of her own.
👀 Gov. Tim Walz took another shot at prominent Democrats questioning or walking back the party's support for trans rights during yesterday's Trans Day of Visibility rally at the Capitol.
"We don't need to recalibrate to think we can win elections by throwing some people under the damn bus," the DFL governor said.
