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@cedrickfrazier.bsky.social is the far better choice for Hennepin county attorney. Anyone can promise more convictions -- but true public safety means fewer victims. That's what will make our community more peaceful and safe.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10h

WSJ reports that Ken Paxton celebrated NYE 2025 in Dubai with two U.S. fugitives; they’d been indicted on healthcare fraud and failed to return to the country. One had donated tens of thousands to Paxton. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Exclusive | Ken Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Ahead of High-Stakes Texas Senate Race

Trump backed the scandal-plagued Paxton in one of the riskiest bets of the midterms

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 18h

the path to legitimacy was paved by folks trying to cut a deal to avoid getting screwed all were #humiliationcurious and got humiliated

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 19h

Virtue signaling is good*, actually, because it signals an endorsement of virtues. Given the tremendous right-wing effort to signal and perform vice (televised executions, racist politicized raids, denigration of empathy, etc.) turns out we cannot actually take "lip service to virtue" for granted.

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richardcarlbom.bsky.social @richardcarlbom.bsky.social · 21h

President Trump’s retribution campaign continues as he weaponizes the federal government to attack his political enemies. Minnesotans see this for what it is - a blatant abuse of power weeks before an election. Rep Omar and Minnesotans will stand strong against these attacks.

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Jamie Long @jamiemlong.bsky.social · 21h

I stand with Ilhan. Weaponizing the federal government to attack political enemies is an outrageous abuse of power. Once again, Trump is attacking Somali Americans and Minnesotans. Our best answer: vote against Trump candidates this fall.

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 21h

just absolutely wild that dems continue to subsidize X with content, both from states they lead and w their own individual accounts

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Disclosure Day was like a first act of a story, stretched to movie-length Felt like it was from the show The Studio: Rogan greenlights a Spielberg movie, but finds out it's all about a superhuman who can avoid any conflict--w/o an ending He can't fix it because Spielberg is similarly untouchable 🙃

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In AZ this weekend and it's so weird to see Walz show up in GOP ads down here

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 10/10/2026

My car broke down. In the middle of Duluth. I’m so upset. I need to tow it to a mechanic and it’s going to be very expensive. Please help. Venmo @ dexanderson. I need at least $500

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Anders Folk is like running an alternate history for "would Jeff Johnson have been gov if he focused on crime instead of taxes while he was a conservative Hennepin County leader?" Folk's he best shot the GOP's had for a statewide candidate (if he wins the Hennepin county attorney race) in some time

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

" you attack the Jewish people (ie the right wing government I love) you support the Jewish people (ie the people I have bigotry towards) "

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

immediately after that, I finally got a job back in MN, got married, etc -- it was bizarre i learned that bob mould energy has cosmic powers

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

back in 2012, I was at my absolute lowest -- living in dc away from friends/fam/my future wife, unable to make payments on my school loans, in a terrible job, etc Then one night, I caught @bobmouldmusic.bsky.social *absolutely destroy* this song on Letterman youtu.be/I64eiiX157A?...

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Bob Mould - The Descent (live on Letterman)

YouTube video by Alessandro Ariozzi

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it.

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

if I had a dollar for every time I heard this

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 09/10/2026

We do not have a serious economy in this country, we have an ongoing series of expensive brazen insults to all the hard-working people who *actually make things* despite the incompetent whims of mediocre upfailing assclowns like this guy. No greater lie than the meritocracy.

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"And everyone in Balencia gowns with red corsages, and big dance palaces full of music and lights and racial impurity and gender confusion. And all the deities are creole, mulatto, brown as the mouths of rivers. Race, taste and history finally overcome. And you ain't there."

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Shark Tank pitch: An AI solution to educate founders and AI-boosters on why AI might fall short in areas that depend on human connection (music, therapy, relationships, etc)

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

seems like "turning the page" is part of the rot

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"i know you want to connect with your dad, but I've disrupted parenting: I've paid a random dude to visit you with a ventriloquist dummy that sounds exactly the same as me"

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The media on Trump: While he said "bomb US cities," it's unclear what he meant The media on Mamdani, AES, etc: While he said "peace," it's clear he meant "antisemitism"

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

HUD sent $WFC a letter "saying it would examine whether the bank violated fair lending laws by favoring Black or other minority homeowners, according to a copy viewed by The Wall Street Journal. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/bank...

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Exclusive | Wells Fargo Faces Regulator Probe Over Efforts to Boost Black Homeownership

Trump’s Housing and Urban Development is seeking to crack down on race-based lending, calling it a potential violation of the Fair Housing Act.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am aware of the history of 20th century fascism and grew up around Holocaust survivors. When fascism returns, they said, expect indifference or outright cowardice from 90% of your friends, neighbors and colleagues. AND YET, it still shocks me to see this groveling cowardice in real time.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Cory Booker — who is being floated as a 2028 contender, and who just the other day did not deny the possibility of wanting to become leader of the Senate Democrats — promotes the book of Brett McGurk, a chief architect of the US-backed Israeli genocide of Palestine:

Cory Booker tweet:
@brett_mcgurk
is one of our nation’s great experts on the Middle East and has spent decades working at the highest levels of diplomacy through some of the region’s most consequential moments.

I’m really looking forward to reading Brink and learning from his firsthand account of the extraordinary efforts to free the hostages, and confront the extraordinary challenges of the region.

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I wonder if 2028 will again bring a "slowly bring along Baucus/Manchin/Sinema" impulse or whether it'll be focused on a Walz-like momentum to solve lots of things quickly

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I remember grabbing Luce shortly after this and hearing on MPR that Arlen Specter switched to the Dems -- I thought, wow, a leftish party had finally achieved a permanent majority Then Jim Messina/Baucus ensured that it was short-lived by making ACA into a political debacle for Obama

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Can you imagine the president of Cornell doing this for pro-Palestine protesters, rather than evicting and suspending them ... should've been a clue the guy was more focused on status quo power structures than justice

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, stood in front of student protestors to defend them from police" ~ @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Reminds me of when the Mpls Mayor physically defended neighbors from ICE agents or when he protected George Floyd protesters from police dude walks the talk 🙃

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 06/10/2026

🚨NEW: The Trump admin has demanded local & state collusion on immigration enforcement, promising to pull back on community arrests in return. But new data reveal that it never delivered on that promise, and ICE's assault on communities only worsened 🧵

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Cooperation with ICE doesn’t stop community arrests: New data on the results of state strategies

The Trump administration has demanded local and state collusion on immigration enforcement, and promised to pull back on community arrests in return. But our analysis ...

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

An app for this "collective choice" could be designed! A "Groupon for quitting bad platforms" would be amazing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assuran...

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Assurance contract - Wikipedia

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

my cousin is a prominent Christian nationalist pastor (sorry, self-described theonomic pastor) and this is dead-on perhaps the unifying principle in so much of this is using the gospel to have power over others

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

also, few know the dead-serious news stories behind other hits: Disco Duck I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus Amish Paradise Who Let the Dogs Out

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Last Kiss, J Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers Jeremy, Pearl Jam What's the Frequency Kenneth, REM Zombie, The Cranberries

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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Citizen kids have been swept up too — at least 70 of them. We’ve found about 20 kids who were handcuffed or zip-tied.” “… agents handcuffed a 15-year-old w/disabilities outside a school in Los Angeles in 2025. The agents said they mistook the teen for an alleged gang member.” #AbuseofPowerWatch

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm so old I remember when this poll/metric inspired a thousand hot takes about the Dem Party image being irretrievably damaged by cultural excess via @simonwdc.bsky.social's indispensable newsletter... www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/dems-up-11...

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

remember when david shor had that big analysis that said dems would lose for the foreseeable future nymag.com/intelligence... "the electoral college bias is probably going to hold steady over the next decade" is a sentence that gave many dems nightmares

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David Shor’s Unified Theory of American Politics

A socialist data scientist (and supposed cancel-culture victim) details all he learned from eight years at the apex of Democratic consulting.

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Handmaid's Tale The Affair Orange Is the New Black People will say Westworld but they are wrong; the last season is amazing Also -- sort of odd that if a series runs forever, it gets over this hump and is effectively isolated from this -- eg SNL, The Simpsons

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The people who'll laugh or shrug off the 'nuke Los Angeles & San Diego comment' are the same people who wanted Mamdani to not be at the 9/11 commemoration.

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the bad plus is apparently retiring in december, w a 5-night stint at the dakota 🫤 youtube.com/watch?v=T6vl...

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The Bad Plus - Anthem For The Earnest (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

you can sometimes judge a campaign by how sweaty their ads seem (eg “I’m not a witch, I’m nothing you’ve heard, I’m you,” “totally exonerated, no wrongdoing”)

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“When milk cartons feature missing kids Ken Paxton quickly chugs them and throws them in the GARBAGE”

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Blur's Coffee & TV Milk Carton

ALT: Blur's Coffee & TV Milk Carton

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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Atlantic: What Trump means is that depressing oil demand could help turn the tide in this war Also The Atlantic: AES has called for "peace in the Mideast," so why won't Democrats call on him to denounce this obvious antisemitism?

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