Minnesotans are particularly bad at a number of things: taking the last piece, the zipper merge, and catching turkeys.
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Enes Kanter is from Turkey, an American ally that has given a despot — Recep Tayyip Erdogan — free rein after a failed coup. Tens of thousands of political opponents and journalists have been jailed.
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It’s a stunning display of courage in the interest of journalism turned in by a photographer for the Associated Press today. Read more →

What’s our ally — Turkey — doing today? Oh nothing, just using water cannons on journalists who are trying to cover the protests against the government there. @dlepeska She is Ulusal TV reporter Husna Sari, Hurriyet reports. #Turkey http://t.co/EIAbkd7qkD @oemoral pic.twitter.com/YWHvRqnKAw — Merlinka (@Meralink) February 13, 2014 Here’s another angle. Fifty-nine journalists have been forced Read more →