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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wealth tax pays for everything but Medicare? A bargain green new deal? Based!

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 02/10/2026

I wonder what Chris Phelan's gotten up to since becoming chair of CEA? www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/09/2026

Program's up! 30+ teams share evidence abt impacts on health, educ, & econ + community response. Great folks @ziibiing.com @ottergoose.net @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social @chrisuggen.bsky.social @casemcnich.bsky.social @ngraetz.bsky.social @craigstetter.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/u/1...

Documenting the Impact of US DHS Activity in MN

Conference Date: Sept 22, 2026

Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs

Purpose

In December 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began a significant, sustained agent surge in Minnesota that affected the daily lives of many residents, but had severe impacts on immigrant communities and communities of color.

This one-day, in-person convening provides researchers from across disciplines and organizations with an opportunity to share and discuss research related to the effects of Operation Metro Surge and Operation PARRIS.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 07/09/2026

Registration is open, free, limited, & required. Great set of research presentations lined up on education, health, economy, mutual aid & more. Learn about the frontier evidence and connect with those working to generate it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Or if you can't - take an Evie and park right next to the gate :)

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Me trying to explain to my parents how all my friends know each other (minus twin cities intramurals)

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Don't forget to vote! If you live in Minneapolis or St. Paul and hit a down-ballot race you've done no research on, my blog has a roundup (with my recommendations but also links to info) and you can find links to all my primary season posts here: naomikritzer.com/2026/08/06/p...

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Primary Election 2026 Sample Ballot / Index of Posts

Minnesota’s primary election is TUESDAY, AUGUST 11TH, which is this coming Tuesday as I post this. For the convenience of everyone looking up races from the voting booth (or the people who ar…

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

and still somehow not make it to the St Paul campus 💀

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

seu cachorro precisa jogar com voce!!! 🐶

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Happy to see our work (w/ my amazing advisor) out!

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

e em intervalo commercial dos jogadores para estados unidos

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

accidentally went to work at a coffee shop that all the Morocco fans were at and instead of work they fed me dinner and taught us all the cheers. I love the world cup.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/06/2026

Oh, so they have NOTHING nothing

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

at least one of us is happy to be living in the living room during this heat wave 😂😂

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

ikea, facebook marketplace, or highland nursery/mother earth gardens for slightly more but higher quality so it equals out!!

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

almost emailed you with this exact comment haha we lucked out!

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

when you're just tryna nap and get woken up by people talking about economics 😂

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Bring Me The News @bringmethenews.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

German soccer team awards peace prize to St. Paul bar owner More: bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifest…

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

she was better behaved than your average economist ;)

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

cars: 🚫 skiing down main roads: ✅✅

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Begging you to start broadening your geographies. We and lots of burbs have been hit incredibly hard but risk not being a part of these measures or having as much support for our businesses and students if we talk about Minneapolis alone.

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I sure hope that this doesn't impact my job of studying ice!!

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LA Star @lastar.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

as someone who now dates her union organizing walkthrough buddy, 100% correct take

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The important lesson for the Feds to take away from this is that if anyone interfered with their operations this afternoon, or tracked them, there's a minimum of this much still in reserve.

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

if i see one more strike poster that is mpls specific....🙄

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Thorpe Langton @mspdawg.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The combined populations of Mpls and St. Paul is about 740,000 (thats not even counting the metro area). If just 0.8% of us show up that’s easily more than double the goons ICE has sent.

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

unfortunately ICE being here has made me finally learn my cardinal directions :/

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da birchman @brch.mn · 10/01/2026

One detail about the MPLS ICE invasion that I haven't seen many comment on: these goons drive like maniacs and they're eventually going to run someone over. They speed, run red lights every chance they get, and because they don't know the roads, they're constantly going the wrong way down one-ways.

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I like to tell them that women think they're disgusting and they'll end up alone

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Lemme just barricade off a street and shoot anyone who tries to turn around...

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Something apparently kicking off in Minneapolis: we're awaiting formal confirmation but it looks like ICE shot and killed someone

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

George Borjas posting a paper about researchers selecting models that best fit their ideological assumptions

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 03/01/2026

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

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L S D @lsdaif.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Teach a man who hates socialism and votes for authoritarianism to farm and he can receive socialist handouts for life from the government that bankrupted him in the first place.

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

i want somewhere to practice trumpet

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Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Don't just repost this and think "I did a politics." Put the number in your phone as a contact. The Goon Squad got their budget multiplied by 10x next year and not if - when you see them you're not gonna remember the tweet or the number so put it in your phone now.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.

MNSPJ condemns St. Paul police attacks on journalists

The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists strongly condemns attacks on journalists by law enforcement on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, during a federal operation in St. Paul.

At least three local photojournalists were injured by less-lethal munitions deployed by St. Paul police officers while covering the story. One was transported to the hospital in an ambulance. All three journalists were clearly identified as press with badges and/or vests, in addition to having cameras in hand, clearly at work. All three photojournalists and multiple other local journalists on scene were also injured by chemical irritants.

Kerem Yücel, with MPR News, was hit by a less-lethal munition in the shoulder and was transported to a hospital by ambulance. He has since been released and is recovering. Tim Evans, a freelance photojournalist with Reuters, was struck in the stomach with a pepper ball round. Aaron Nesheim, a photojournalist with Sahan Journal, was struck in the head with a pepper ball round. Evans and Nesheim did not require hospitalization.

The three journalists hit by munitions shared with MNSPJ that they believe they were targeted by law enforcement for doing their jobs. Photojournalists are on the frontlines of documenting history and it is imperative that they are kept safe and their First Amendment rights are protected.

Attacking journalists sends a message to both journalists and everyday citizens that their First Amendment rights will not be respected. The First Amendment protects the rights of journalists to report on their communities and provide information that communities need — information that, on Tuesday, was not transparently available from any law enforcement agency.

We demand answers from St. Paul city leadership about why the city’s police department attacked our colleagues and a commitment to seeing that this will never happen again.

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Shit St Paul ICE agent aims gun

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casey mcnichols @casemcnich.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

why did your officers mace our neighborhood despite the fact that they are prohibited from working with ice

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