
Opinion: How the story of The Villages explains America's deepest political divisions
CNN
Nicole Hemmer writes that recent stories from The Villages in Florida and about Mark Meadows in North Carolina reveal how politically important the fiction of nostalgia really is. It disguises a desire for power as a longing for the past, creating a justification meant to excuse all kinds of behavior.

Judge restricts federal response to Minnesota protests amid outrage over immigration agents’ tactics
Immigration agents carrying out a sweeping operation in Minnesota can’t deploy certain crowd-control measures against peaceful protesters or arrest them, a federal judge ruled Friday. The order follows widespread outrage over a fatal shooting, reports of US citizens getting detained and Minnesotans getting asked for documents for no clear reason.

The smell of wet grass from the recent atmospheric river rains, mud and gasoline wafts through the warm Southern California air as Alec Derpetrossian works the chainsaw with a foreman, Randy Magaña, who helps him guide where to put the blade. Derpetrossian is still learning how to adequately use the large tool.











