- A scary scene in northeast Minnesota on Monday evening.
Three people were killed, including the suspected gunman, in a Monday evening shooting at a motel in the northeastern Minnesota city of Cloquet.
Authorities initially reported four fatalities overall but later revised the figure downward.
According to the Cloquet Police Department, an employee of the Super 8 motel called 911 around 6:30 p.m. to report that another motel employee had been apparently been attacked.
Police responded to the motel at 121 Big Lake Road and found a 22-year-old woman with a gunshot wound. She was transported to a Duluth hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
As officers investigated, they discovered a 35-year-old man in a vehicle in the motel’s parking lot. He had been fatally shot.
Officers later found a deceased 32-year-old man outside the motel. He appeared to have suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and a firearm was located next to his body.
Police reviewed surveillance video from the motel and confirmed that the 32-year-old man was indeed the suspect.
Turns out the suspect resided in my current home town of Ramsey.
Interestingly, Gov. Tim "We don't hide behind thoughts and prayers" Walz had this reaction:
I am praying for those killed in another senseless act of gun violence tonight in Cloquet.
— Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) January 9, 2024
To the law enforcement officers who responded, thank you.
The state stands ready to provide continued support to local authorities.
Nebraska Fats was rejoicing just last week over the new gun laws which went into effect on January 1. With the next Minnesota Legislative session slated to begin next month, Walz's reaction to the Cloquet incident was his shot across the bow that more stringent "gun control" proposals will be forthcoming.
- I was absolutely shocked when I read this news headline.
Watchdog finds 81% of all political late night show jokes in 2023 targeted conservatives https://t.co/zHlQjG1YLr
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 6, 2024
Shocked that late night show hosts targeted cons??? Of course not. No, I'm more stunned that the number is less than 90%.
Biden’s re-election campaign has begun organizing a series of off-the-record trips for top political reporters and editors to the team’s headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware and meet senior officials, including the campaign manager, deputies, and other high-ranking advisors for background briefings on campaign strategy.
They’re also using it as an opportunity to tell them what they’re getting wrong. Two people with knowledge of the situation told Semafor that during meetings with reporters from outlets like The New York Times, the Washington Post, and others, campaign officials have invoked a coverage spreadsheet laying out areas where the team believes their reporting has fallen short.
Yes, journalism has a tendency to be much more shoddy today than a half century ago. But if these current day reporters did their job properly, then it was their sacred duty to tell the Biden camp to whizz off.
Instead......
A source familiar told Semafor that with the exception of its recent meeting with the Times, the campaign meetings had been “substantive” and “productive,” and that Biden staffers were scheduled to meet in the coming days with political reporting teams from ABC, NBC, The Wall Street Journal, Fox, NPR, Reuters, Bloomberg, and others in Wilmington.
What kind of alternate universe are we living in when the New York flippin' Times is the only publication to covey some semblance of scrupulous behavior?
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