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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 20/08/2026
Hundreds of people attended the first public airing of a developer’s plans to build a data center in the Minnesota Star Tribune’s shuttered printing print on Wednesday, revealing tensions over the future of one of downtown Minneapolis’ last remaining large industrial sites.
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North Loop residents blast developer’s data center plans for former Star Tribune printing plant
Legacy Investing envisions a mixed-use development on the prime downtown Minneapolis property.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 21/08/2026
A former supervisor and recent city study say the city is failing to properly track the private contractor staffing the city’s behavioral crisis response team.
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Minneapolis diverted thousands of mental health calls from police. Its costs and oversight are under scrutiny.
A former supervisor and recent city study say the city is failing to properly track the private contractor staffing the city’s behavioral crisis response team.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/08/2026
Far-right agitator Jake Lang was arrested Saturday after the vehicle he was in drove onto a sidewalk in front of Minneapolis City Hall and towards a crowd of people.
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Far-right agitator Jake Lang arrested on suspicion of rioting in Minneapolis
Two vehicles drove towards a crowd outside of City Hall before a planned rally by Lang.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 23/08/2026
Four Annunciation families recorded their lives in the year following a mass shooting that left two children dead and injured dozens more.
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The Annunciation diaries: Four families reflect on life in the year following the mass shooting in video diaries
As the first anniversary of the Annunciation school shooting approaches, four families take us inside their lives in the year following the tragedy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/08/2026
WELKER: Collins says Trump's Canada tariffs will increase costs on families. Is she right? SCOTT: Let's look back at Biden-- W: Wait. Trump has been in office for two years. Inflation was at 3% when Biden left office. It's at 3.4% right now. S: Joe Biden ... W: The Biden administration is over!
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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 23/08/2026
😡😡😡😡 The Trump administration on Tuesday advanced a plan to open nearly 45 million acres of wilderness in national forests to road construction and logging, removing protections that had been in place for a quarter century. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/c...
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Trump Administration Moves to Allow Logging in Pristine National Forests (Gift Article)
The move to repeal the ‘roadless rule’ would pave the way for road construction and logging in nearly 45 million acres of untouched back country.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Playing in our faces
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Benefits of Being a U. S. State: 1) No universal healthcare. 2) Your kids get shot at in school. 3) You get no disaster relief if you didn’t vote for the malignant crazy person in the Oval Office. 4) Get diarrhea from your food. Think long and hard before saying “no” to such a utopia, Canada!
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
When science wins over ignorance...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Yes, it does sound familiar.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Gary, Indiana is 77% percent Black. Thousands have been without power for nearly two weeks. Many are without safe water. Yet every data center is operational & using enormous amounts of both power and water. This is what oligarchy looks like. Everyone suffers so the 1% can make even more.
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
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Missteps Mount in Justice Dept.’s Case Against Minnesota Anti-ICE Protesters (Gift Article)
The problems plaguing the case have not only hurt the government’s chances, lawyers say, but have also undermined the bonds of trust that prosecutors have traditionally enjoyed in court.
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Do My Grocery Store Blueberries Come From Farms Where Workers Were Harmed?
Max Blau spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers. It left him wondering: Is the produce he buys at the grocery store part of the problem?
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Was It Worth It, Lindsey Graham? Lindsey Graham sold his soul, reputation, and values for the sake of "relevance" and power. Now, he's dead. Look at what they make you give, MAGA? open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Buttigieg: You can see it in the carnival of corruption that is Washington, D.C., today. The leader of the free world flying around in a secondhand jumbo jet from a foreign country while he makes a billion dollars on crypto deals propped up by foreign leaders.
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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham 1955-2026 71 years spent terrorizing humanity Truly an achievement
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
If you didn't object when Donald Trump gloated about Robert Mueller's death your scolding over responses to Lindsey Graham's death isn't about respect for the dead, it's about censorship of the living.
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Wall Street Wants to Change the Rules for Your 401(k). It Could Put Your Retirement at Risk. www.propublica.org/article/401k... Greedy corrupt Republicans are trying to steal our Social Security AND 401ks!!!!!!
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Wall Street Wants to Change the Rules for Your 401(k). It Could Put Your Retirement at Risk.
Financial firms want a bigger piece of the $10 trillion in America’s 401(k) plans, and the Trump administration is planning a regulatory rollback to encourage  less-regulated — and often riskier — inv...
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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False Promises: The “Solution” to the Climate Crisis That Won’t Work
As global leaders look to tech advances to solve climate change, one leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and burying it underground forever. While carbon capture may sound pr...
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
“A Huge Grab of Power”: Trump Is Defying Congress on Foreign Aid www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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“A Huge Grab of Power”: Trump Is Defying Congress on Foreign Aid
Lawmakers gave specific orders to Trump officials on foreign aid spending, but officials have refused to follow many of them — likely in violation of the law, experts say. In doing so, they’re escalat...
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...
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Frustrated by Courts, Trump Weighed Suspending a Constitutional Right
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...
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How an Addictive Gas Station Drug Found Allies in Trump’s Cabinet
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/m...
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Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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“I Was Just Forced to Resign from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory”: Climate Scientist Peter Kalmus
We continue to follow the impact of the Trump administration’s ongoing assault on scientific research in the United States with an update from climate scientist Peter Kalmus, who says he has been forc...
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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Trump Admin Guts Vital Sea Monitoring, “Tears Out the Eyes and Ears of Science”: David Helvarg
We’re joined by ocean policy expert David Helvarg to discuss the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Ocean Observatories Initiative, the “cutting-edge eyes [and] ears” of the ocean. The program’...
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...
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Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/u...
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Why Are Birthrates Down? Two New Studies Point to Phones.
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations
The church's culture of forgiving and forgetting sins has absolved abusers and silenced victims across the country.
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...
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A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart.
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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“No One Is Watching”: How Trump Reversed Biden’s Crackdown on Gun Trafficking
After Biden clamped down on the flow of illegal guns, Trump has referred fewer ATF trafficking charges for prosecution, eased up on irresponsible gun shops and shifted hundreds of ATF agents to immigr...
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
So many lessons like this one: “Old-fashioned in-person politics can be a powerful antidote to media fearmongering.” That’s called showing up!!! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...
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Opinion | This Is the Formula That Defeated Orban. It Would Defeat Trump, Too.
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sharonfisher68.bsky.social @sharonfisher68.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This is unsustainable. Time for the many to reassert their rights over the few.
Screenshot of an X post from @MorePerfectUS reporting that workers are now taking home the smallest share of America's economic output since records began in 1947, while corporate profits are simultaneously at their highest point since 1950. Text only, no image.
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Essence of RBG 🦋 @rbgprevails.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
These tech bastards are going to destroy everything!
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.
About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 26/05/2026
Under Weiss's stewardship, CBS News has killed critical stories in order to save face for the Trump administration. trib.al/Yrimc8g
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Bari Weiss Is Already on the Outs at CBS News
Weiss’s bosses are considering pulling back her control over content.
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Ken Martin Has to Go open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
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Ken Martin Has to Go
The autopsy fiasco is the final straw
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Everyone Thinks Trump Won Last Night. They're Wrong open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
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Everyone Thinks Trump Won Last Night. They're Wrong
Trump's revenge tour just made the GOP's midterm problem a whole lot worse.
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs
A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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He Was Fired for Sexually Harassing Students. California Allowed Him to Keep Teaching Anyway.
Math teacher Jason Agan was deemed “unfit to teach.” But the finding was never made public. This is how the state allowed him — and dozens of other educators found to have committed sexual harassment ...
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Has Harmed Scores of Kids With Tear Gas, Pepper Spray
In several cities, judges have chastised federal officers, saying they used excessive force. One former DHS leader called ProPublica’s findings a “bright red flag.”
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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ProPublica and The Connecticut Mirror Win Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
The award, for uncovering predatory state towing practices, marks ProPublica’s 9th Pulitzer; two additional investigations were named finalists.
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/04/2026
A rally today against the weed-killer Roundup and its active ingredient, glyphosate, included speakers from both parties—a public demonstration of MAHA’s horseshoe politics, @nancywalecki.bsky.social reports:
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MAHA’s Perfect Villain
Glyphosate highlights the movement’s horseshoe politics and has nothing to do with vaccines.
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/t...
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Immaculate Wilderness, Uncertain Future: Paddling the Boundary Waters
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/m...
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Cellular Rejuvenation Has the Potential to Reverse Aging (Gift Article)
A new therapy has the potential to cure hundreds of diseases — and even reverse aging.
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bluewisco.bsky.social @bluewisco.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...
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Employment Agency Pushes Discrimination Cases That Match Trump’s Agenda
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