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This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: We catch up on some of the ways we're winning with food, farms, kids, cannabis, collaboration and so much more.

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: We catch up on some of the ways we're winning with food, farms, kids, cannabis, collaboration and so much more.

“Freedom is the recognition of necessity.” — Friedrich Engels

It started off with “a call” to police. It always starts off with a call to police. This time, the call was to report a possible burglary in progress in a residential home in the Minneapolis suburb of Coon Rapids.
Coon Rapids police sped to the scene and spotted a person rummaging through a shed with a flashlight, issuing several orders to come out.
When the person did not come out, they sent a police dog to attack the suspect, who turned out to be an 82-year-old woman rummaging through her own shed in her own back yard.

Collin Peterson-- not a real Democrat, a Dreck DemocratThe other day, I mentioned on twitter that 3 House Democrats-- all extremely reactionary, odious Blue Dogs-- had voted with the Republicans to make it more difficult for women to exercise their constitutional right to Choice: Henry Cuellar (TX), Dan Lipinski (IL) and Collin Peterson (MN).

A Minnesota cop with three disciplinary actions on his record is facing 90 days in jail for twice punching a handcuffed 14-year-old Native American girl in the face, then grabbing her by the jaw and calling her a “fucking bitch.”
The Minneapolis city attorney’s office charged him Monday with one count of misdemeanor fifth-degree assault, according to the Star-Tribune.

A Minnesota cop who shot at a car filled with young women after they accidentally backed up into his patrol car was charged with two felonies Tuesday.
It was a fender bender, but Minneapolis police officer Efrem Hamilton said he was in fear for his life when he jumped out his car and fired a single shot within three seconds.
The bullet struck the side of the car, not striking any of the six women inside, who had nothing to do with the nightclub fight he was responding to in November.

In this Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016 photo, Larry Jefferson, playing the role of Santa, smiles with Auden Good and his one-year-old brother Ezra of Ramsey while posing for photos at the Santa Experience at Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn. (Leila Navidi/Star Tribune via AP)
For the first time in its 24-year history, the the largest mall in the United States has hired a Black Santa, a retired U.S. Army veteran from Irving, Texas, named Larry Jefferson.

Last week, the Washington Post posited the assertion that A Democratic party that can't win rural districts... can't win national elections. They happen to be incorrect on two counts, one that Democrats can't win rural districts and the other that they can't win national elections.

A Minnesota sheriff’s deputy who was convicted of animal cruelty on his own K9 service dog in a video recorded beating has been rehired by the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office.