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AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸

@annefrommtka.bsky.social
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From Twitter, same handle. Historian. Photo archivist. BA. MS. JD. Loves DC history, architecture. Pets ❤️🐾 🌈 Minnesota, USA #MN03 🇺🇸 politics 🐈 occasional cat photos 📚 📝 vintage ephemera

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 10h
Umm, *I was the “somebody”! www.c-span.org/clip/house-c...
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Cathy Olson from MN @ckolson1.bsky.social · 18h
This is Tracey - no script; no pretending! She will always stand up for us. She will stand strong for gun violence prevention action! Vote @traceyformnhouse.bsky.social Leadership you can Trust!
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Cathy Olson from MN @ckolson1.bsky.social · 16h
Take action to support @traceyformnhouse.bsky.social - no more gridlock - protect our children! @momsdemandaction.org @cd3dfl.bsky.social @indivisiblemn03.org @indivisiblewmetro.bsky.social
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 18h
I mean, I know that he's only capable of repeating talking points but on some level you'd hope he'd at least be in the ballpark. Instead of taking a swing and missing the entire stadium.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports
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amstermom.bsky.social @amstermom.bsky.social · 19h
Replacing American workers with foreign workers so you don't have to pay Americans a decent wage is actually peak Capitalism, but this answer just proves that "Socialism" means "Everything that I don't like."
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The roof starting to go onto Tina’s hospital. I still genuinely don’t feel like it’s real. All I can think of is the 1000s of street dogs who will have their lives changed here. Tina would just love it 🎾❤️
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@hillaryclinton.bsky.social has spent five decades fighting for working families, dedicating her career to making the case that every child in this country deserves a fair shot. I’m honored to have Secretary Clinton’s support, and I’ll proudly carry on her fight in the US Senate.
A photo of Hillary Clinton smiling and text below reads, "Peggy Flanagan is proud to be endorsed by Hillary Clinton"
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Minnesota, you have an opportunity to select an extraordinary person and public servant as your next U.S. senator. Please take it!
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MaryMM @marymm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You know what? The international med student who performed much of my life-extending surgery a couple years ago should not have to pay $70,000 more to learn how to save American lives.
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Matthew Vinge @mvinge.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White Pine Lake -> Honeymoon Trail, Tofte, Minnesota 😍🍂🌿🍁🌲🌳🍃🎃 This is yesterday. Probably a few days past peak and you can see high winds have blown many leaves off the trees but if you can make it up there in next day or two it would be worth it! The Sawbill Trail is the one to see this week!
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Matthew Vinge @mvinge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When you commit to going north in Minnesota for fall colors and/or northern lights, you accept risk that you might see nothing... But I hit triple jackpot on Sunday Started with 3am aurora on edge of BWCA, Crazy foliage on Sawtooth & Honeymoon Trails 🍂😍🍁 10:30pm aurora going home.
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Project True North @projtruenorth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Lisa Demuth was the chief author of this bill. This is the extreme anti-abortion agenda she wants to force on Minnesotans.
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Brian White @brianwhite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE has now signed 2,589 287(g) agreements deputizing local sheriffs and police to do immigration enforcement, 225 in the last 30 days alone. Most were signed without a public vote. Is your local police department one of them? Look it up, and find who to call.
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Is your local police working with ICE?
Look up which sheriffs and police departments in your county have signed 287(g) agreements with ICE, read what they signed, and find out who to contact.
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JoyousPanther @joyouspanther.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cartoon: pink person says "I want things to be different" and then makes a mess "oh no"
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/10/2026
Here’s a sample of the translation, it’s a great piece.
"Everywhere I looked, I saw companies that shouldn't exist. Companies built around misleading their customers, saying Al could do all sorts of things it couldn't do. And I hate people getting rich by conning people."
Zitron vented his incendiary monologues on
¡HeartRadio, America's largest radio publisher.
"The people at the radio company told me to lean into who I am. It helped me grow as a person."
It also spread his disgust and contempt for Silicon Valley. In Zitron's view, tech executives are trying to pull the wool over everyone's eyes: claiming that Al will acquire godlike powers and pose a threat, while insisting that development must move so quickly that nobody has time to think. That, according to Zitron, is "the oldest trick in the con artist's book." In a recent podcast episode, he told Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to shut up twelve times.
"That was fun. I'm proud of that episode," he says with a smile.But somewhere along the way, he has also grown into a new role - that of a serious commentator. And he is careful to point out that there are reasons for his anger. Focusing on the anger, he says, is a way of sidestepping the real issue.
"It's easier to see an angry man than to deal with a complex, uncomfortable truth."
His answers come quickly. Talking to him is both entertaining and mildly dizzying. Zitron is engaged, articulate and full of metaphors. He also mixes categorical pronouncements — such as the claim that Al almost exclusively makes people stupider - with a barrage of hard data.
For example, he points to OpenAl and Anthropic's spending, which is set to rise next year as computing capacity they have ordered becomes ready to come online. Claims like this, along with his reporting that hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs are sitting unused in warehouses, have led outlets including the Financial Times to quote directly from Zitron's blog, Where's Your Ed At.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/10/2026
Got interviewed by one of the largest Swedish newspapers and they led with the best headline/photo (translates to “it’s easier to see an angry man than the truth”) www.svd.se/a/pB7E0G/ed-...
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”Lättare att se en arg man än sanningen”
Han har kallats galen, bett en AI-vd att hålla käften – och i åratal varnat för en börskrasch. Nu har den högljudda outsidern tagit klivet in i finrummen. Ändå känner sig Ed Zitron fortfarande behandl...
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When you attach 10 images, a link with preview and a quoted post to your skeet—*plus* you max out the character count
A fire hydrant with multiple brass attachments sticking out horizontally from it
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Minneapolis right now
Sunset, puffy clouds, a big road, green trees and the downtown skyline
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Project True North @projtruenorth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
During the ICE surge, Lisa Demuth signed a letter thanking ICE and praising Kristi Noem for her "steady leadership."
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Team Ilhan @teamilhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Deal with it. 🕶️
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wanting lower property insurance and healthcare for everyday families isn't un-American; it’s what working people deserve. They can take their tech-bro cash and their weird, intrusive agenda somewhere else, because I'm not going any damn place. /3
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
JD Vance on Angie Nixon: "Get the hell out of here. You don't belong in America"
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
time.com/article/2026...
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What Trump Has Built
An interview with the President at a pivotal moment in his second term
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Picture of him with me would probably be worse for him tbh
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That cocky, misplaced look of smug success on Senator Eric Schmitt’s face—moments before everything came crashing down around him because he’s so carelessly incompetent.
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Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ummm...Senator Schmitt....? Just this...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
Today I learned that Jack Smith is a Caitlin Clark fan and that Amy Klobuchar knows more about sports than Eric Schmitt.
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AnneFromMtka 🇺🇸 @annefrommtka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🧵 I enjoyed this whole nested conversation on To-do lists and “can AI do your to-do lists?” Makes me think about daily tasks, human cognition and “artificial cognition” in a new way - what do we really want, I mean, just “large language models” to do/interfere with in our lives? 🤔
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this is hilarious. why would he think this is a mic drop. what is going on
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lotta talk right now about the President using public money to push political propaganda. It didn't start with these TV ads. Let me remind you of the political nonsense he forced the Census Bureau to publish: newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-to-fak...
newsletter.platypuseconomics.com
Who Put the Census Bureau in the Propaganda Business?
A once-trusted agency has dressed up partisan election claims as official statistics—and hidden the evidence needed to test them.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)
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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
His PAC must be sued to get our money back plus legal fees and interest at the earliest opportunity. This is Russia and North Korea-style propaganda being shoved down our throats.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie
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Andy Lettuce @andy.hopepunk.club · 26/09/2026
MN voters: amending the state constitution requires a majority of voters to vote yes - abstaining from the school funding question on your ballot this year is effectively a no-vote. Please take a sec to get informed before you submit your ballot! www.lwvmn.org/2026-constit...
A portion of the MN official ballot that reads

Constitutional Amendments
Failure to vote on a constitutional amendment will have the same effect as voting no on the amendment.
To vote for a proposed constitutional amendment, fill in the box next to the word "Yes" on that question. To vote against a proposed constitutional amendment, fill in the box next to the word "No" on that question.
Increasing funding to school districts
Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to increase the funding going to all school districts from the permanent school fund, which is a fund that supports school districts without raising individual income or property taxes, effective July 1, 2027?

(This is a photo of my ballot where I have selected yes)
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This place is free. What a treasure.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 25/09/2026
For decades, the Mystras palace has been closed to the public. But now, after renovation work lasting 40 years, this UNESCO World Heritage Site is open for all to see. to.pbs.org/4itKb3B
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Restored Greek Byzantine palace offers blueprint for preserving cultural heritage
History buffs heading to Greece are mostly drawn to the country’s wealth of classical temples and amphitheatres. But now the culture ministry has opened a stunning, restored palace from the Byzantine ...
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Liz Oyer @lawyeroyer.com · 23/09/2026
Extremely disturbing news about the lawyer defending Donald Trump’s media ban. Watch this sitting down, and please help spread the word. youtube.com/shorts/veF5d...
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Trump’s media ban gets even more disturbing
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Listen to Liz ⬇️ This freak worships Hitler, graduated from Harvard yet refuses to read anything written by women and currently works for our Dept of Justice. Shocking.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i've always wanted to visit iceland sure wish i hadn't been holding that monkey's paw when i said it
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