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MAJOR BREAKING: CBS News has parted ways with longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley after tensions between Pelley and network leadership escalated into an irreparable dispute.
Sources say the fallout followed a contentious clash earlier this week involving Pelley and newly appointed editorial executive Nick Bilton, who joined the organization under the leadership of Bari Weiss.
Pelley’s departure marks the latest shakeup at the iconic news program, which has now lost four correspondents since February. With the exit, only Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim remain on the reporting roster as “60 Minutes” works to assemble stories for its upcoming 59th season.
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May 9
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May 5
Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.
He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.
Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.
Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.
Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.
Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.
Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.
The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.
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Winston Churchill used to lay 200 bricks per day to keep his mind busy when feeling down. Depression hates a moving target.
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Mar 26
Rudy Gobert when asked about his numbers being elite in isolation on defense.
"Say that again. That's not what I hear on Instagram and Twitter."
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Mar 7
BHS
Class A State Championship
Warroad > Hibbing/Chisholm (5-4, FINAL OT)
ALL ROADS LEAD TO WARROAD
WARRIORS WIN FIRST STATE TITLE SINCE 2005
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Mar 7
Another spectacular night here in State of Hockey’s cathedral to the sport.
This tournament never ceases to amaze me.
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Mar 4
This war is costing a billion dollars a day. In one fucking month we will spend more over there than we needed to save healthcare for more than 2 million Americans. They literally are taking away your food and your healthcare for this regime change war of choice.
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Feb 28
An Iranian man left this comment on my YouTube channel. This is without a doubt the single best explanation of the reality facing Iranian people today👇
"As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political—it's existential. We are trapped between two collapsing structures: one internal, one external. On one hand, we face a deeply dysfunctional government, led by the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic’s unelected institutions.
Decades of economic mismanagement, suppression of dissent, and brutal ideological control have alienated multiple generations. No one believes in reform anymore—because every attempt has either been co-opted or crushed. But here's the paradox: We are also terrified of regime collapse—because we've watched the aftermath of Western intervention in countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan. Each was promised freedom; each descended into chaos, civil war, or foreign occupation.
So no, we don't trust the U.S. or Israel. Not because we support our regime—but because we know how imperial powers treat ‘liberated’ nations in the Middle East.
Freedom, in their language, often means vacuum, fire, and permanent instability. Right now, many Iranians live with three truths at once: The Islamic Republic is morally and politically bankrupt. The alternatives offered by foreign actors are not liberation—they’re collapse.
A bad government is survivable. No government is not. We are not silent because we agree. We are cautious because we’ve learned—too well—what happens when superpowers decide to "help." In a sentence: Iran is a nation held hostage by its own regime, but haunted by the fate of its neighbors. We are stuck in a house we hate, surrounded by fires we fear more."
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It’s The Story by Brandi Carlile @TargetCenterMN
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Feb 21
“Spending three days on the ground brought home something that may not be obvious from afar: Minnesota, especially the Twin Cities, has been—and still is—under a paramilitary occupation in which the federal government is at war with the population.”
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Feb 21
The numbers keep getting progressively worse for Drumpf. Here are his updated state-by-state net-approval ratings. They're bigly bad. Make sure to spread them far and wide. He'd hate that.
Idaho: 28.0%
Wyoming: 21.9%
West Virginia: 16.4%
North Dakota: 9.7%
Tennessee: 5.1%
Montana: 3.8%
Alabama: 3.0%
Oklahoma: 3.0%
Arkansas: 2.4%
Utah: 1.5%
Louisiana: -1.6%
South Dakota: -1.9%
Mississippi: -3.0%
Nebraska: -3.5%
Kentucky: -3.6%
Missouri: -4.9%
Florida: -6.7%
Kansas: -7.7%
Alaska: -8.8%
South Carolina: -9.2%
Iowa: -10.9%
Indiana: -11.1%
North Carolina: -11.9%
Ohio: -13.1%
Arizona: -14.1%
Virginia: -16.1%
Nevada: -16.4%
Michigan: -16.7%
Texas: -16.7%
Georgia: -17.9%
New Hampshire: -18.2%
Wisconsin: -18.8%
Pennsylvania: -19.4%
Minnesota: -21.3%
New Jersey: -22.3%
Maine: -23.0%
Delaware: -23.4%
New York: -25.9%
Colorado: -26.4%
California: -27.0%
Oregon: -29.4%
Massachusetts: -30.2%
New Mexico: -31.2%
Rhode Island: -32.6%
Connecticut: -33.4%
Illinois: -34.1%
Washington: -35.2%
Hawaii: -37.8%
Maryland: -38.1%
Vermont: -42.0%
Washington, D.C.: -77.7%
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Feb 10
Don’t look away from Minnesota. ICE is still wreaking havoc across the state - changing their tactics to deceive Minnesotans - pretending to be construction workers or folks delivering groceries. There’s still over 2,000 ICE agents in the state. They’re not going anywhere, your anger and outrage shouldn’t either.
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I love the country I live in and played for. I also really respect athletes who are mindful and thoughtful when they answer questions like this. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Edina Mayor Jim Hovland: “ In these trouble-filled days, the nation should know that Minnesota has not resisted legal immigration enforcement; it has resisted excess. It does not reject law; it rejects lawlessness clothed in authority. It does not deny the nation’s right to govern its borders; but it insists that such governance be worthy of and deferential to a free people.”
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Feb 3
Today @CatoInstitute published our report providing the first look at the fiscal effects of the wave of legal & illegal immigration over the last 3 decades. It shows immigrants created surpluses every year, by a combined $14.5 trillion, even as deficits grew
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.@RepTedLieu: "Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands & thousands of times. In those files, there's highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children, of Donald Trump threatening to kill children."
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"If this hangs on for 2-3 months I don't know what we're going to do! I don't know what a lot of restaurants are going to do!"
My friend Tim Mahoney, owner of The Loon Cafe in St. Paul and MPLS, on the huge challenges brought on by Operation Metro Surge.
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Say goodbye to your second amendment right. x.com/thejfreakinc/status/20…
🚨BREAKING: ICE/Border Patrol agents pulled guns on a car full of legal observers, saying they needed to “ID” them TODAY, because agents claim they had guns YESTERDAY.
Read that again.
Agents openly admit this stop had nothing to do with anything happening now, but with something they claim happened the day before.
That sounds a lot like U.S. citizens being stopped and detained for exercising their First Amendment rights, while agents catalog people they believe exercise their Second Amendment rights, into their database.
A database that, allegedly, included Alex Pretti.
In the video, agents surround a car of U.S. citizens who were legally observing law enforcement activity this morning in Minneapolis.
Multiple agents have their weapons drawn… guns turned sideways… pointed directly at a car full of U.S. citizens, ordering everyone out of the vehicle.
Not just the driver.
Every single person in the car, including people in the back seat.
This was a full-vehicle detention of legal observers, at gunpoint, with no immediate threat, and no lawful basis.
That alone is an excessive and illegal use of force.
The agents then demand that the people filming produce press credentials, further confirming that agents are illegally denying people their First Amendment rights to observe and record law enforcement activity…
Because press credentials are not required to film police.
They never have been.
And then, at the very end of the video, the justification for the illegal detainment finally slips out.
An agent admits the stop happened because YESTERDAY they claim these same people “threatened” agents with handguns.
Then the agent’s story changes…
The agent says, “they pulled them out, trying to engage us.”
A member of the press asks, “Pulling out literal guns?”
Then agent’s story changes AGAIN…
“No. Assuming that we were going to do something.”
So, no guns were actually pulled, and no threats were actually made.
The “threat” was that people disclosed they were armed… which is exactly what concealed carry holders are trained to do when law enforcement engages with you.
And then the agent finally admits what this stop is really about.
Saying, “That’s why they are being IDed right now.”
So TODAY, agents illegally stopped a car full of legal observers, at gunpoint, to illegally identify and catalog U.S. citizens…
Because YESTERDAY, those citizens lawfully exercised their Second Amendment rights.
If this doesn’t set off blaring alarm bells for the NRA and anyone who claims to be “pro–Second Amendment,” nothing should.
ICE/Border Patrol agents just used guns, intimidation, and an illegal detention to punish U.S. citizens, after the fact, for lawful gun ownership.
That is government retaliation.
And it’s exactly what the Second Amendment was supposed to protect people from.
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Feb 1
Trump reversed decades of national security objections to selling advanced AI chips to UAE. National security experts were alarmed.
But there was a secret. Before the deal, UAE had sent $187M to the Trumps and $31M to the Witkoffs in secret payments.
Mind blowing corruption.
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