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Betsy Baker

@betsycbaker.bsky.social
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Former IT person, now retired. Volunteers for progressive candidates & issues. Artsy-Craftsy. Organic yard for pollinators. Minnesotan.

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Betsy Baker @betsycbaker.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Another thought I keep having is how I feel sorry for Hegseth’s kids. I can’t imagine what kind of a parent he is.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/10/2026
Jake Bauers went back to baseball for healthcare coverage for his pregnant wife. Don’t get me wrong, I love sports. But having to return so you won’t go bankrupt for having a baby is insane.
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Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸 @ebridget.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ms Rachel from the top ropes
From Ms Rachel's account on Threads, she writes, "CORECIVIC, a company that makes hundreds of millions locking up KIDS in immigration detention
has a PAC that's sending campaign checks to Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Susan Collins chairs the Senate committee that writes ICE's budget.
ICE is CoreCivic's customer.
The company gets paid out of a budget she controls, and it pays into her campaign."
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Betsy Baker @betsycbaker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
No, this must not be allowed.
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Betsy Baker @betsycbaker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
4 No Kings: Vote Early Events in St Louis Park, MN! All are from 11am to 1 pm on Saturday October 17.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12/10/2026
For a decade, Trump has targeted Rep. Ilhan Omar with grotesque, racist rhetoric that has fueled threats against her. This federal raid on her home is a dangerous escalation. Rep. Omar has done nothing to warrant this kind of intimidation.
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Elon Musk was violating his visa when he started his first business here and very likely obtained his U.S. citizenship through fraud. Where is that investigation?
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Today seems like fitting day to point out that Trump’s great grandfather was a fugitive and his mother overstayed a “vacation” as an immigrant. His grandfather was a crook and so was his father. If we want to clear the country of corrupt immigrant families, he should be first.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.
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Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
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Betsy Baker @betsycbaker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I never took my whistle out of my purse.
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Betsy Baker @betsycbaker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The intent to intimidate voters. We Minnesotans will NOT be intimidated. It might even have the opposite effect.
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Betsy Baker @betsycbaker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The intent to intimidate voters. We Minnesotans will NOT be intimidated. It might even have the opposite effect.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It pays to have a reporter's daily commute take him past your protest messages. Thank you, @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social!
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❌👑 Indivisible NE Minneapolis @indivisiblenempls.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Andrew Zimmern makes an excellent point.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/10/2026
ProPublica designed a reporting experiment to demonstrate how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. We succeeded in opening two schools. No credentials or background checks required.
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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's like if Benghazi was what Republicans pretended it was, but times about 12.
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/10/2026
Gov. Josh Shapiro: "Here's another example of the cruelty: they have decided to livestream the execution of another human being. That's how they do it in North Korea, not the United States. We are better than this."
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
One key point @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social makes here is that if Dems win the midterms (and win in 2028), deploying congressional power creatively to unwind Elon Musk's sway over the government (contracts, etc) will be essential to any reconstruction: www.ms.now/opinion/elon...
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Opinion | Oligarchs like Elon Musk are tightening their grip on the Pentagon
A new initiative named Project Meridian is just one way GOP donors’ influence over defense policy is increasing.
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A vote for Michele Tafoya is a vote for Donald Trump. A vote for me is a vote to put a check on his corruption.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 08/10/2026
I wonder how nice Lisa Demuth & Michele Tafoya feel about the president inciting a pogrom on my neighbors. Will the Strib political desk look up from its civility politics and push them, noting Demuth effectively invited ICE here before or will they just accept an email from Tafoya’s human shields?
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Climate Elf @climateelf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thank you Mark for all you do to fight for our democracy! Vote every Republican out in midterms.
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 07/10/2026
Twenty people were flown out of Minneapolis by ICE today. If you may have had a loved on board, full footage can be seen here: youtube.com/watch?v=xYA0I6s7fKw
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The latest “rigged election” strategy from the Trump administration involves producing a series of strategically timed arrests of non-citizens for alleged voter fraud & promoting those events to feed the false narrative that non-citizen voter fraud is widespread. uwcip.substack.com/p/federal-fr...
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Federal Fraud Charges Resonate With Debunked Non-Citizen Voting Narratives
A flurry of recent charges and press conferences amplifying alleged non-citizen voting make a small phenomena seem bigger
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Here is some great Democratic messaging created by a group of activists that designed signs in red with simple and yet devastating anti-Republican messaging. You can order the signs on-line.
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Moth @walkingminnesota.com · 05/10/2026
What if we had a Minneapolis spooky bike parade
An e cargo bike rider with a skeleton in the back
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 04/10/2026
The next No Kings Day is almost here. Let’s make it clear that We The People won’t let the fascists sabotage the midterms: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 04/10/2026
There are a bunch of specific things I like about our permitting bill, beyond the big important stuff — that it will lower electric costs and emissions, and lift wind, solar and battery power (BIG lift for battery), and add LOTS of good jobs.🧵
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 03/10/2026
40 people on today's ICE flight out of Minneapolis, 38 men, and two women. If a loved one may have been aboard, full footage of the loading can be seen here: youtube.com/watch?v=UaNQj8rTpJo
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 03/10/2026
Of recent interest here in Minnesota is that ICE is releasing detainees to satisfy Habeas requests, and then immediately detaining again. This really ought to be national news.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
All Republicans have to offer voters in the midterms is failure, lies, corruption, cover ups, fear mongering, name calling, enrichment of oligarchs, christian nationalism, racism, data centers everywhere, flock cameras, higher prices, new wars and fake bribes. Hell of a platform.
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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
DHS is simply buying local cops’ support with our tax dollars. Like I’ve been saying, they own a lot of these cops. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...
Even if Boring's deputies don't take any others into custody, his department is eligible for a payment equal to more than a quarter of its annual budget. Those are the terms of a Department of Homeland Security task force program that enlists local police as paid partners in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
Jurisdictions similar to Doddridge County-sparsely populated with few immigrants-make up the majority of new recruits to the
DHS task force program, which has become a cash cow for state and local law enforcement agencies nationwide. After turning over a single deportable immigrant, departments qualify to receive $60,000 a year for each deputized officer, regardless of additional arrests.The Venice Police Department in Venice, Fla., tallied one federal immigration detention in September 2025 and has since requested a total of $895,000. The department can continue collecting funds every quarter as long as it remains on the task force.
The program is most profitable for large departments. The Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office in Florida signed up more than 970 deputies, making it eligible for roughly $14.5 million in DHS funds from April to June, state records show. That pencils out to more than $2 million for each of its seven immigration arrests in that quarter.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 03/10/2026
The administration is threatening access to historical and irreplaceable records, including closing down one facility in California that is home to countless photos and family heirlooms. Congress must exercise its oversight power to save decades of regional and national history.
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Betsy Baker @betsycbaker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Quelle surprise!
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Lynn @lynnf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I got back home a bit ago from Tennessee's execution of Christa Pike. We sat in the witness room for nearly 2 and a half hours as she received two rounds of pentobarbital. She was taken away in an ambulance shortly after that and I can't say for sure if she is dead or alive at this moment.
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Indivisible Twin Cities @indivistwincities.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well said and well done. Worth 2 minutes before heading to the polls. Vote early! MNVotes.gov
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Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh, she might be going for Senate instead
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AOC test-runs a Senate bid in upstate New York
She says her goal is to "transform the state."
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@citizensforethics.org are you on this?
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Betsy Baker @betsycbaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🙄
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump’s illegal war may be happening over there, but we're paying the price right here. My TV ad on rising prices is premiering during the Vikings game today. I hope you’ll tune in.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The headlines on the SCOTUS SAVE ruling are doing Trump's PR for him. 2 things they skip No mass voter purges before the midterms. The law bars them 90 days out & we're in that window Noncitizen voting? FL, IN, IA & OH ran voters through SAVE & found almost NOTHING -TN
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The Big Lie aka La Gran Mentira
This analysis exposes Donald Trump and his allies’ disinformation campaign around immigrants and voting.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

FLOCK OFF
CEO of Flock Garrett Langley doesn't like his photo being shared publicly
NOTICE NEWS
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s a good day to reject corporate PAC money.
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The folk protest music scene is back
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 26/09/2026
⚠️ Tens of thousands of Texas voters are missing from the voter rolls after the state failed to process their voter registration applications properly. But it doesn’t mean they won’t be able to vote in the midterms: demdock.com/46PkXFM
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Indivisible Twin Cities @indivistwincities.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Indivisible Twin Cities is no longer surprised by the actions of a rogue Supreme Court but that doesn't mean we are not deeply troubled by the decision handed down today allowing the Trump administration to use the poorly designed SAVE Program to run verification on voters. This will likely disenfranchise voters across the country. But not in Minnesota:Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon issued the following statement:  

“I want to be very clear – this ruling has no effect on Minnesota elections. Minnesota has never used the SAVE Program for voter verification, we’re not permitted in state law to do so, and we have no plans to do so.

Even if it were lawful, reports have shown the SAVE Program to be deeply flawed when it comes to transparency, accuracy, and data security.  

Minnesotans should rest easy knowing that their right to vote won’t be impeded by this faulty project.”ITC has proudly endorsed Steve Simon for Minnesota Secretary of State based on his impeccable record of following the rule of law and protecting voter access for all Minnesotans.



During this election like no other, Vote Early In-Person if you are able and vote for the candidates, up and down the ballot, who put Minnesotans first - like Secretary of State Steve Simon.
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