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Wisconsin's DNR repeatedly requested Enbridge keep its Line 5 pipeline shut down following the largest oil & gas spill in state history on Aug. 25.

Enbridge defied the requests, built a new pipeline to bypass the rupture and restarted Line 5’s operations: https://t.co/4MEAXJ1tlb

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Hate in the World’s Borough: How the Far-Right Has Flourished in Queens, New York

After Donald Trump’s presidential victory in 2016, hate crimes incidents rose dramatically across the country, including in Trump’s birthplace of Queens, New York. Once an enclave for whites fleeing Manhattan, after decades of immigration, Queens is now one of the most diverse places on Earth (its slogan: “The World’s Borough”). Despite facing housing discrimination and political and economic exclusion, its non-white population has flourished.

But this diversification has fueled generations of white resentment across the still deeply segregated borough. Queens has seen a range of far-right groups and individuals, from the Ku Klux Klan to neo-Nazis to ultra-nationalist organizations (including from immigrants’ countries of origin).

Read full article: https://t.co/RoWct6qApT

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“I’m not a racist,” said Joel Tenney, a pastor from Iowa who follows far-right provocateur 'Jake' Lang across the U.S.

“I’m a white preservationist, a white continuationist, and I love white pride.”

The White Supremacist Pastor in Jake Lang’s Shadow

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Canadian Oil Giant Enbridge Builds Unauthorized Pipeline Bypass Following 1.3 Million Gallon Spill
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Unicorn Riot has been on the ground since 2023 providing coverage of Enbridge's Line 5 re-route project, tracking the environmental damage and its impacts on nearby Indigenous people, including the Bad River Band of Anishinaabe.

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Wisconsin's DNR repeatedly requested Enbridge keep its Line 5 pipeline shut down following the largest oil & gas spill in state history on Aug. 25.

Enbridge defied the requests, built a new pipeline to bypass the rupture and restarted Line 5’s operations: https://t.co/4MEAXJ1tlb

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“The CRU was created after us sitting at the table with Amy [Klobuchar],” said Ianna Burrell, the sister of Myon Burrell who was incarcerated when he was just 15 and spent 18 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted for murder before getting his sentence commuted and released in December 2020. “He still has not went in front of the CRU,” Ianna said. Burrell’s CRU application to get the wrongful conviction off his record was not completed before the Conviction Review Unit was closed.

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NEW: Minnesota Ends Conviction Review Unit With 160 Cases Still Under Investigation

Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison has decided to “eliminate” the state’s Conviction Review Unit (CRU) less than six years after he created it. The closure is a devastating blow to around 160 CRU applicants in Minnesota prisons whose cases were pending final investigation into their claims of wrongful conviction.

Designed to “identify, remedy, and prevent wrongful convictions,” the CRU was ultimately stunted by limited funds and officially completed just four investigations after receiving over 1,150 applications. Ellison said he closed the unit “due to budgetary constraints.”

“How can this be a funding problem,” asked Marvina Haynes, who successfully fought to free her innocent brother Marvin from prison after 20 years.

Haynes led a press conference among family of the incarcerated, advocates, and activists at the Minnesota State Capitol on July 14, 2026, calling for the state to fund the unit. “We are here today to demand that legislators move forward, fund the [Conviction Review Unit].”

Full article: https://t.co/BkPZBdXxwD

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“We’re not staying silent. We’re not backing down. No to the camp.” The slogan, painted in red and black across a large banner, hangs from the gate of a factory across from the Skouloudis facility. A few yards away, a second banner reads: “No camp — the people have a voice.”

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NEW: Villagers in Crete are fighting the government’s plan to convert a disused factory into a reception center for people on the move, escalating a monthslong standoff that pits xenophobic backlash against an increasingly securitized EU border regime. 

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The main temporary holding site in Heraklion remains the former psygeio — a Coast Guard cold-storage building in the port area. Meant to hold just 70 to 80 people, the site held more than 450 in the first months of 2026, forcing men, women and children to sleep on the floor.

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- Facing four state felony assault charges and federal charges of lying to the FBI over a shooting in Minneapolis
- ICE Agent Charged for Shooting and Lying Appears in Minnesota State and Federal Courts

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After causing the largest oil and gas spill in Wisconsin history last month, Enbridge's defiance of legalities raise serious questions about the state’s ability to regulate large, multinational corporations and its willingness to enforce its permits.

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NEW: Canadian Oil Giant Enbridge Builds Unauthorized Pipeline Bypass Following 1.3 Million Gallon Spill

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) repeatedly requested Enbridge keep its Line 5 pipeline shut down following the largest oil and gas spill in state history on Aug. 25. Enbridge defied the requests. Without receiving the required permits, it built a new pipeline to bypass the rupture and restarted Line 5’s operations.

Enbridge’s actions raise serious questions about the state’s ability to regulate large, multinational corporations and its willingness to enforce its permits.

Bad River Tribal Chair Liz Arbuckle asked DNR officials if the permits meant anything at all: "What are the consequences if they are violated?”

Read article at our website.

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The Wisconsin DNR repeatedly requested Enbridge keep its Line 5 pipeline shut down following the largest oil and gas spill in WI history on Aug. 25. Enbridge defied the requests, built a new pipeline to bypass the rupture and restarted Line 5 operations.

https://t.co/4MEAXJ1tlb

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Months after ICE agent Christian Castro shot a man in north Minneapolis and lied about, the City of Minneapolis released video from a city-owned camera that contradicted Castro’s story that he had “fired a defensive shot to save his life.” Castro's facing state & federal charges.

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NEW: Facing four state felony assault charges and federal charges of lying to the FBI over a shooting in Minneapolis, 52-year-old recently suspended ICE agent Christian Castro made appearances in Minnesota state and federal courts last week.

https://t.co/OYHSldL9FY

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Family and Advocates Demand Funding for Minnesota's Conviction Review Unit After its Closure

Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison has decided to “eliminate” the state’s Conviction Review Unit (CRU) less than six years after he created it.

Article: https://t.co/o3xMmaeUCN

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Canadian Oil Giant Enbridge Builds Unauthorized Pipeline Bypass Following 1.3 Million Gallon Spill

https://t.co/4MEAXJ1tlb

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NEW: Canadian Oil Giant Enbridge Builds Unauthorized Pipeline Bypass Following 1.3 Million Gallon Spill

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) repeatedly requested Enbridge keep its Line 5 pipeline shut down following the largest oil and gas spill in state history on Aug. 25. Enbridge defied the requests. Without receiving the required permits, it built a new pipeline to bypass the rupture and restarted Line 5’s operations.

Enbridge’s actions raise serious questions about the state’s ability to regulate large, multinational corporations and its willingness to enforce its permits.

Bad River Tribal Chair Liz Arbuckle asked DNR officials if the permits meant anything at all: "What are the consequences if they are violated?”

Read article at our website.

[UNICORN RIOT @UR_Ninja]

NEW: Facing four state felony assault charges and federal charges of lying to the FBI over a shooting in Minneapolis, 52-year-old recently suspended ICE agent Christian Castro made appearances in Minnesota state and federal courts last week.

https://t.co/OYHSldL9FY

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Minnesota's Conviction Review Unit (CRU) was ended in July by AG Keith Ellison. The closure is a devastating blow to around 160 CRU applicants in Minnesota prisons whose cases were pending final investigation into their claims of wrongful conviction. 📹

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