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Carolyn (she/her)

@carolynlb.bsky.social
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Minnesotan, Methodist, cook, cat lady, healthcare chaplain turned legislative staffer. Opinions = my own

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max nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Minnesota AG candidate’s stock portfolio presents 174 potential conflicts of interest minnesotareformer.com/2026/09/29/m...
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Minnesota AG candidate’s stock portfolio presents 174 potential conflicts of interest • Minnesota Reformer
If Republican Ron Schutz wins the attorney general’s race in November, he will be responsible for enforcing Minnesota’s laws against the country’s biggest and most powerful corporations. His own perso...
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
We are publishing the name of the alleged shooter because we believe transparency in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s killing is of vital public interest as investigators, lawmakers and the public seek to understand what happened and how ICE operates more broadly in this state. Read more here:
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
texastribune.org
ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.
A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.
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WhinterQueen @whinterqueen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
bismarcktribune.com
ICE surge prompts protest in Bismarck
A weeklong spike in immigration enforcement in the Bismarck area prompted a protest downtown on Friday evening.
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WhinterQueen @whinterqueen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE has detained almost 30 people this week in bismarck, nd
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The sweep by agents with U.S Customs and Immigration Enforcement appeared to have begun Monday and lasted at least through the workweek, with nearly 30 people who are allegedly in the U.S. illegally being booked into the Burleigh Morton Detention Center over those five days. Two of the people arrested by ICE were reportedly employees at the Bismarck restaurant Charras, prompting the business to temporarily close.
Several of the protesters said they were spurred to act by the news of the Charras employees being arrested.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"
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frankenstein friday @frankensteinfriday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
there is literally no good reason to be skittish about this issue in this state in this year. NONE.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The thing that's infuriating about our squeamishness about consequences for traitors and corrupt officials is that we are one of the most punitive countries in the world in most other respects.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026
Thousands of detained immigrants with “Final Orders of Removal” have had their records hidden or deleted from ICE’s tracking system, leaving families and lawyers unable to locate them.
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ICE wiped thousands of people from its database. Families are paying the price.
Lawyers and loved ones are scrambling to find people suddenly culled from DHS rolls.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump admin to immediately restore access for news organizations that Trump banned.
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POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access
The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"they're just abducting the worst of the worst" has all but evaporated from their paltry defense of this inhumanity.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
CNN pulled a clip of Michele Tafoya recently saying "I've never said I was embarrassed to be from Minnesota" and then displays an unearthed and deleted tweet of her saying "I am embarrassed to be from Minnesota" 🥴
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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Keith sues people like the folks defrauding Somali families for places to live, or mega landlords whose places are slums because they want to squeeze every dollar out of tenants. He sues employers committing wage theft and companies engaged in illegal price fixing. It’s ALL affordability.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Minnesota is a shit hole that I’m embarrassed to live in. Here’s why Minnesotans should make me their next senator. by Michele Tafoya
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
Man and police officer wounded in gunfire near Ontario synagogue on Yom Kippur
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Man and police officer wounded in gunfire near Ontario synagogue on Yom Kippur
Authorities say a man was critically injured and officer was wounded in exchange of gunfire near a Belleville synagogue
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
you can learn a lot about America by remembering that this man lived through the coronavirus
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Carolyn (she/her) @carolynlb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
trying to figure out why there’s a massive backup on I-94W going into downtown Saint Paul. Checked the Xcel/Grand Casino Arena calendar and mystery solved: Weezer is playing tonight.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ICE officers reportedly shot and wounded a man today in Austin. Details still coming in. www.statesman.com/news/local/a...
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ICE agent shoots and wounds person in North Austin, officials say
An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Jesus Christ, this article will enrage you like nothing else
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Tesla driver charged with murdering 2 in San Jose shows no remorse, prosecutors say
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) — When Ivana Balistreri and her baby were trapped inside a “fireball,” a Tesla driver who had just crashed into the victims’ car on Highway 87 in San…
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
"I only thought the leopards would eat the face of trans women" The leopards have already said they want to eat your bodily autonomy! With you standing right there! PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YESTERDAY HAPPENED.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
Also: I really need people to understand that yes, this will harm gender-nonconforming cis people, but it's also literally everything.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
Stand in solidarity with them because they're standing there with us, when the people who claim this is for your good are gleefully ripping your rights away, too.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
THEIR BODIES THEIR CHOICE. Come the fuck on! It's that. simple.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
LOOK AT THIS FUCKING SHIT. The easiest way to tell that trans women are women is that the right is so desperate to control what they do with their bodies. WE HAVE EVERYTHING IN COMMON.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.
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Carolyn (she/her) @carolynlb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
first Sunday of church choir and wonder of the wonders the largest section was the TENORS and the smallest was the SOPRANOS!?!
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Carolyn (she/her) @carolynlb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cybertruck in our parking ramp 🤢
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 19/09/2026
if you’re the white woman who was picking up a bat in downtown minneapolis on hennepin ave between washington & 3rd on 9/15 at noon, the minnesota department of health would like to talk to you because that shit was RABID! i would also like to talk to you because girl, wtf
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
protecting, maintaining and improving the health of il Minesotans
RABID BAT FOUND ON SIDEWALK
On Tuesday, September 15 at about 12pm, a bat was found on the sidewalk on Hennepin Ave between N. Washington Ave and N 3°St.
The bat died and was sent for rabies testing. This bat tested positive for
rabies.
A woman was seen crouching by the bat and putting it into a bag. She was described as a 25-to-30-year-old white woman, about 5'5", with curly brown hair and a curly-haired golden retriever-like dog. If this was you, please call 911 and ask to be connected to Animal Care & Control.
Bites from bats are tiny, may be painless, and may not leave a mark. An person who had physical contact or touched this bat should talk with health care provider this weekend for assessment. During the week, Minnesota Department of Health can also provide rabies assessments at 651-201-5414.
If vou did not touch or have any contact with the bat, you have no risk of rabies and do not need shots.
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Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭ @truthaddictvt@masto.ai @truthaddictvt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A lot of cis "allies" seem to think we're overreacting to Talarico. This is why it's hitting many of us so hard. Like yeah he's not overtly calling me a man like some other trans-excluding Dems, but it's part of a pattern, and he's a flagship candidate whose lead a lot of people will follow.
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smcgee @smcgee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hi friends - learn from me, please. Vote early so when your family member ends up in the ER on the eve of an election, you can leave the state guilt free. (Dad is fine, although who really knows, boomer parents aren't great at communication).
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
and so white nationalism must be a response to something, it can't be it is own ideological formation with its own history driven by people with their own agency
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
beyond bad faith part of what is happening here is that people who think this are basically incapable of thinking historically and see the political world as simply a set of actions and reactions.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Rev. Angela Denker @angeladenker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A church can become smaller and recover its voice.
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Rev. Angela Denker @angeladenker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
thehill.com/opinion/camp... I am a Presbyterian minister. I have spent most of my adult life organizing people of faith around poverty, racism, war, immigration and democracy. Mainline membership decline is real. But decline has too often been confused with irrelevance.
thehill.com
Move over, evangelicals: Mainline Christians are the 2026 swing voter
This fall, keep an eye on the Christians everyone assumed had already made up their minds.
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NBC10 Philadelphia @nbcphiladelphia.com · 18/09/2026
ICYMI: Possible measles exposure reported at the NICU at CHOP in Philadelphia, officials say
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Possible measles exposure reported at the NICU at CHOP in Philadelphia, officials say
Health officials say that a possible measles exposure was reported in the NICU at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia last week.
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Carolyn (she/her) @carolynlb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
LDS (Mormon) leaders in Idaho are encouraging members to vote no on proposition 1, the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act www.eastidahonews.com/2026/09/chur...
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints announces opposition to Idaho abortion initiative - East Idaho News
IDAHO FALLS — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is taking a stand on the Idaho Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act, a proposition that will be voted on in November. The act, known as Id...
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Carolyn (she/her) @carolynlb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This but for political and community orgs.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Along the same lines, the Government of Norway donated 71 lighting fixtures to the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in 1965, designed by Jonas Hidle and produced by Hadeland Glassverk and Høvik Verk. It's a central element of the Hall's atmosphere.
the concert hall with spectacular crystal and gold hexagonal chandeliers, amid rich woods, red carpets, and a copper-faced pipe organ behind the stage.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A detail worth noting in all this madness is a magnificent 12,000 crystal lighting array at Kennedy Center Opera House created by J & L Lobmeyr, who also made chandeliers at Schönbrunn Palace and Vienna State Opera. It's an official gift from the Government of Austria, meant as a permanent memorial.
a starburst of brilliant crystals in circle on the ceiling, with rich red background
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Carolyn (she/her) @carolynlb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NOTHING in medicine has saved as many children's lives as vaccination. Absolutely nothing. To be giving oxygen to anti-vaxxers is helping to kill children. That may sound like hyperbole, but it 100% is not.
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Carolyn (she/her) @carolynlb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“The rule of law to democracy is like oxygen to a human body.“ — Judge Patrick Schiltz
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 17/09/2026
something is only a “culture war issue” to you if you think it’s not about you; otherwise it’s just “politics” or (maybe) “life”
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Carolyn (she/her) @carolynlb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
static.klipy.com
I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect
Alt: I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this”
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Moe @verdantwonder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you live or work in Eagan, please provide feedback online and/or show up to the community listening session about data centers! You have a chance to influence the ordinance and thereby, the city's priorities. Sept 30, 5-7pm, city hall polco.us/n/res/vote/e...
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Data Center Community Survey
Polco is a secure and reliable place to provide input directly to local and state leaders, as well as other socially minded organizations.
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