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Anne Holzman

@anneholzman.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, teacher, mom of three young adult children. Amateur orchestra musician. Bloomington, Minnesota

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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Bessent's "I am the house now" pretty much describes the current authoritarian regime. Good that the market is showing up with some resistance, hopefully not too little and too late. #CorruptGOP
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/09/2026
"The Women’s Invisibility Network (or WIN) is a neighborhood support group for women in their sunset years. We assist aging women tossed aside by society, who are still capable of great feats, because they’re invisible." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...
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FAQs for the Women’s Invisibility Network
“The Women’s Invisibility Network (or WIN) is a neighborhood support group for women in their sunset years. We assist aging women tossed aside by society, wh...
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
... As this reminds us to subscribe to a few publications from somewhere in flyover country. So lovely and so necessary.
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Appreciate this thoughtful column in this morning's @startribune.com www.startribune.com/rash-the-911...
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Rash: The 9/11 lesson America risks forgetting
Allies rallied to America’s side 25 years ago. Nicholas Burns, ambassador to NATO on 9/11, says those friendships — and the trust behind them — should not be taken for granted.
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Jill Burcum @jburcum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
GIFT LINK: www.startribune.com/walz-nonferr...
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Burcum: Walz order strikes sensible middle ground on mining near the Boundary Waters
Gov. Tim Walz’s new executive order does not ban mining in the state. It stops nonferrous mining in one fragile area: the Rainy River Headwaters Watershed, columnist Jill Burcum writes.
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 27/07/2026
Barnard Construction’s leadership donated over $1 million to the president’s campaign. They’re among the administration’s top wall contractors.
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Billions in border wall contracts are going to a Montana firm run by a Trump donor - High Country News
Barnard Construction’s leadership donated over $1 million to the president’s campaign. They’re among the administration’s top wall contractors.
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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Rep Lauren Underwood was the first Black person, first woman, and first millennial elected to represent her Illinois district, which she flipped from red to blue, defeating a four-term GOP incumbent. She’s had 14 bills signed into law by both D and R presidents. She’s the future.
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Looks like we need to be growing more candidates in vats.
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Love this concept! Library with apartments, in Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. #LocalJournalismMatters #housing
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I subscribe to the @startribune.com because it's excellent and necessary, but it's pretty satisfying to be invested in a Pulitzer winner (again). Congratulations to a great paper! May Minnesota's next year be so boring that no one will even be nominated. We all need a rest. #LocalJournalismMatters
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Caught a little of the citizenship debate at SCOTUS this morning (thank you @npr.org ), and basked in the sound of women's voices- lawyers and judges all - charged with guarding the common good. I'm old enough to remember when those voices were almost all masculine.
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
@startribune.com continues to hound this. Subscribe to your local paper, please. This requires resources! #LocalJournalismMatters #ICEout #corruptGOP www.startribune.com/ice-surged-i...
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ICE surged in Minnesota to arrest criminals. Many of them were already in jail.
An analysis of the Trump administration’s “worst of the worst” list shows about half of the immigrants detained were not taken off the streets.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 27/02/2026
Minnesota’s chief federal judge Patrick Schiltz rejected allegations by Minnesota’s U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen that the judge overstated the number of court violations Rosen’s attorneys have made in immigration cases.
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Chief federal judge skewers U.S. Attorney’s Office, raises threat of criminal contempt over violations
Minnesota’s chief federal judge said he’s found another 113 orders ICE has violated since late last month.
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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Trump Hails an Economic Turnaround Many Voters Don’t See
The U.S. is ‘bigger, better, richer and stronger than ever before,’ Trump said in his State of the Union address.
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 19/02/2026
🚨The most important graph in the world has another year of data, and it doesn't look good!🚨 NASA CERES satellites measure how much sunlight Earth absorbs and how much heat is radiated back to space. The difference is heat accumulation, which has more than tripled!
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Another day, another extrajudicial killing by our federal agents. This one breaks my heart: I have young adult children. #ICEout #RubenRayMartinez
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Oh, look at that, the people being imprisoned by the Trump administration were doing important work. Now we're paying prison operators thousands of dollars a day to prevent workers from building houses. Nice job, #corruptGOP ! www.startribune.com/ice-immigrat... www.startribune.com/ice-immigrat...
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Twin Cities immigration crackdown delays home construction, slows real estate market
As immigrant workers move or stay home, a shortage of workers in the trades also is affecting the existing home market and rental owners.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 11/02/2026
Minnesota electricity customers still might be on the financial hook for coal plants in other states that were scheduled for retirement but ordered by the Trump administration to keep operating, including a plant in Michigan.
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Trump orders some U.S. coal plants to keep operating. Will Minnesotans foot part of the bill?
Electricity customers in 15 Midwest states, including Minnesota, might bear the costs of continuing to operate a Michigan coal plant. A week before it was scheduled to shut down, the U.S. Department o...
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Minnesota needs help on this front too- please call your GOP Senators . I'm not sure it's unrelated to the ICE occupation ; the colonial hunt for minerals sorta looked similar ? www.startribune.com/bwca-copper-...
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Opinion | Don’t forget ― the Boundary Waters are still under threat
"Behind the smoke bombs and tear gas and rubber bullets (and real bullets), another assault is happening, an assault on our public lands," Tony Jones writes.
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Remind me which Senators voted to confirm Bovino and Noem? #ICEoutMN #ImpeachNoem #AlexPretti #CorruptGOP
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Every now and then I find something of interest in the @startribune.bsky.social sports section. www.startribune.com/2026-world-c...
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Souhan: Boycott the 2026 World Cup
A country shouldn't be allowed to feign unity and patriotism at an international event. Boycott the 2026 World Cup in the United States.
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
If you are just doing your job, why would you mind if a bystander takes a few pictures? You might get Employee of the Month! #ICEout #MinnesotaNoICE #ImpeachNoem
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
To be clear, #fraud is not a form of terrorism. Armed, masked agents breaking down doors and attacking peaceful demonstrators DO count as terrorism, however. And #Minnesota is getting very weary of the thuggery. #ICEout
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
If you're tired of paying these goons to harass my friends and neighbors, call your members of Congress and get out in the streets, please. Now would be great. Today. Thank you. #ICEout #MinnesotaNoICE #LocalJournalismMatters www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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The latest: 1,000 more federal officers heading to Minnesota, according to reports
As they announced a lawsuit against federal authorities on Monday, Attorney General Keith Ellison, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her called for an end to the increased federal...
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
This woman's son, born in Minneapolis, got roughed up by ICE, and she is NATIVE! Think about that: If anyone has a claim to be here, it's the son of an enrolled member of a Minnesota tribe. #ICEout #LocalJournalismMatters @startribune.com www.startribune.com/us-citizen-a...
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U.S. citizen swept up in ICE enforcement as Twin Cities operation continues
The arrest in a Robbinsdale parking lot was streamed live on Facebook and comes a day after the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by an ICE agent.
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The feds don't want @marymoriarty.bsky.social investigating. Of course they don't. Anyone can see that she's smart, thoughtful, and relentless in pursuing justice. Afraid of Minnesotans? Fine, then, take your goons and get out of here! #ReneeGood #ProsecuteNoem #ICEout #MinnesotaNoICE
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
It turns out the puppy was just practice. #ReneeGood #ProsecuteNoem
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
@governorwalz.mn.gov you've done a lot to earn the esteem of your constituents. Yesterday's announcement took the game to a whole new level. You put your state's people -- ALL of us, from our many backgrounds and experiences -- ahead of your own desires. Thank you!
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Working my way through this inspiring essay in a back issue of the @washingtonmonthly.com (this is why I need print, so I can have piles). Raise a glass to Sam Adams! washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/01/r...
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Resurrecting the Rebel Alliance
To truly end the age of Trump and his loyal oligarchy, Democrats must relearn the language and levers of power.
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Lisa Demuth, Republican House member now running for governor, garnered my respect for her gracious comments after Melissa Hortman was murdered. But encouraging a young man with a camera to invade day care centers based on the ethnicity of the people inside ... yikes!
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Inflation in Iran at 42%. Journos, please reserve the use of the term "skyrocketing " for circumstances closer to that. Six percent is annoying but hardly a vertical climb. #inflation
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
"It's important that people know that it's happening." Sure is! Excellent reporting by Bill Lukitsch @startribune.com #localjournalismmatters #ice #corruptGOP www.startribune.com/under-the-ra...
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Under the radar: How charter airlines fly ICE deportees at MSP
Some charter airplanes use a government list to mask operations. This Minnesotan is exposing them.
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I forget, where does the buck stop? #hegseth #venezuela #corruptGOP
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
A proposal worth considering if we're serious about #housing for all: www.startribune.com/mn-housing-a...
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Opinion | No one’s come up with a better model for affordable housing than this
With more than 100,000 “affordable” housing units needed in Minnesota, the current methods of addressing the problem will never solve it. Enter the Community Land Trust model, Richard McGuire writes.
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
#PeteHegseth can't possibly believe the guards were shot because they were protecting the community. He can't actually be that stupid. I was teaching at Forest Lake HS when he was a student there, and if he was that foolish, my colleagues who knew him would have said so by now. He's lying.
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 23/10/2025
The Border Lands Conservation Act gives the Department of Homeland Security the power to waive myriad federal laws, including the Wilderness Act, under the pretense of border security, shares Public Domain. buff.ly/S4kysfY
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Sen. Mike Lee’s new bill permits ‘tactical infrastructure’ in wilderness areas - High Country News
The Border Lands Conservation Act gives the Department of Homeland Security the power to waive myriad federal laws, including the Wilderness Act, under the pretense of border security.
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Andrew L. Seidel @andrewlseidel.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
No for-profit private corporation exists to protect free speech, even as an American value. They exist to make money. But it's as ridiculous for these execs to think that caving to an authoritarian to lessen the pressure, when it gives Trump more power and will do the opposite.
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I visited downtown Rochester on a summer day. I remember a riverside park with few features and almost no people; wide streets that were hard to cross; long stretches of blank building facades. Seems like a big opportunity for fresh ideas. #urbandesign #bikes www.startribune.com/booming-down...
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Downtown construction gives Rochester the chance to expand walking, bike paths
Reconstruction along 6th Avenue W. means the Minnesota city can increase pedestrian and bicycle routes.
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
After a trip to Japan and Korea, where there are clean public restrooms everywhere, I'd like to see us give this a try. Among other advantages, it makes long walks possible, and we really need to walk more. www.wsj.com/tech/persona...
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The ‘Smart’ Restrooms That Can Solve America’s Public Bathroom Crisis
Throne Labs is betting that Uber-like ratings and privacy-protecting sensors can lead to a better, more enduring system of public toilets.
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
More good work from public media. I guess we can see why Rump and Co. want it to go broke. #LocalJournalismMatters #publicbroadcasting #NPR
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Devastated in Minnesota. Still planning to attend a rally but right now the one I'm signed up for is under shelter-in-place. Whatever this day becomes, "fun" is off the list.
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Well at least the auctioneer is in charge of our taxes not our national parks.
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I'm just one of many frustrated denizens of northern latitudes waiting for the air to clear so we can enjoy our fleeting summer warmth. #climate #wildfires www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Linda McQuaig: As climate induced hell-fires rage across the country, Canada looks to build pipelines — in the name of national unity
Even as the hell-fires rage, forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes, the media barely mentions climate change, presumably due to fear of being accused of destroying the new-found
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Rep. Lauren Underwood @underwood.house.gov · 11/06/2025
House Republicans funding bill will raise costs, slash investments to rural communities, and tear food away from hungry kids and pregnant women. All to hand a massive tax break to billionaires. TODAY at 10AM ET @democrats-appropriations.house.gov are fighting back: www.youtube.com/live/N2bbh7-...
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 05/06/2025
$16 million bill for taxpayers just to fix the streets...   And it's entirely separate from the grand total of Cadet Bone Spur’s egotistical, nonsensical birthday parade.
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Army estimates that Trump's military parade could cost $16 million in damage to Washington streets
The repair costs are part of the estimated $45 million price tag for the upcoming parade.
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Amy Gage @amygage.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Kudos to @macalestercollege.bsky.social student and urbanist blogger Adam Schwalbe for a provocative response to our recent rah-rah pieces in @streets.mn for the Northstar Commuter Line.
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Anne Holzman @anneholzman.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
If you're spooked by Wall Street volatility, just wait until our climate starts behaving similarly. It may already be happening. #climatechange
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Paul Henderson @mdscrivner.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I applaud Justice Barrett, for recusing herself. It was a display of judicial ethics otherwise lacking on the court.
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