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There are still people claiming Trump isn't racist, if you can believe it.

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Lincoln: “This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom” Kennedy: “Ask not what your country can do for you” Reagan: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Trump: "I examined his ass"

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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 7h

This is what the Hennepin side of block E looked like in 1969 vs the exact spot today. I don't think it's hyperbole to say this is an abject failure of urban renewal. Like today's Nicollet Mall, we keep designing these dehumanizing places, then get baffled why people don't want to to there.

the barren wasteland of Mayo Clinic Square, the 2nd attempt at redevelopment. blank walls face a nice bike lane and some trees. one lone person walks.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1h

since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h

“Make accessible” a thing humans have been doing for as long as there have been humans.

In a January 2025 appearance on The Twenty Minute VC, a venture-capital podcast, Suno CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman said that his company’s mission is to make the joy of music-making accessible to billions of people. A clip from this interview went viral among musicians — not because they applauded his sentiments, but because it enraged them.
“It’s not really enjoyable to make music now,” Shulman said. When asked to elaborate, he said, “It takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of practice, you have to get really good at an instrument or really good at a piece of production software. I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music.” The implication appeared to be that Suno offers customers the experience of making music without any of the tedium or expense involved in doing it the old-fashioned way. What could be better than that?

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Joe Davis @doeyjavis.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

This person cannot represent us, to put it mildly.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Took a break from writing about climate change to write about the leap second (just kidding, the leap second is a climate change story because of course it is)

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Pour One Out for the Leap Second

The metric might not mean much to laypeople, but leap seconds have been a source of contention in the timekeeping community for years. Now, they’re dead.

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DeJota Mac @dejotamac.bsky.social · 20h

#FuckWhiteSupremacy The white supremacist Vice President of the United States crammed at least six dog whistles into three sentences before plainly saying that 'they' are coming for your white privilege

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

anyway, here's some photos of 50,000 people peacefully walking through downtown minneapolis in subzero temperatures

People protesting in downtown Minneapolis last winter

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/10/2026

SULLIVAN: We weren't supposed to get these questions beforehand, were we? MODERATOR: No, neither one of you got questions beforehand PELTOLA: I'm prepared!

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DeJota Mac @dejotamac.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I got hired to perform ABA therapy with young autistic kids straight out of college before I knew what ABA was (essentially: behavioral conditioning). I made it through 2 days of training/shadowing and I quit. Couldn't see any good in forcing a 5-year old answer a question before every bite of food.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

There is no gray area about practicing as “general counsel” in California without having passed the bar exam. I took this screenshot on Ms. Zacharia’s LinkedIn page at 10 pm on October 15.

Katie Zacharia’s admission to unlicensed practice of law in California.

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Donie O’Sullivan @donie.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

WATCH: Moment former MAGA diehard comes face to face with Epstein survivor

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

this guy was one of the dopes who thought They Really Had Something There with the fake talarico story and this tweet will live in meme’dom like a dril tweet forever

@RheinAmacher
Never lied, I just doubled down on wrong information.
09:13 • 10/15/26

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Elon Musk is single-handedly funding the Ken Paxton campaign:

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Republicans like JD Vance actually think that a man who was born in Michigan, (graduated from high school in Michigan, went to University of Michigan, and went to University of Michigan Medical School), isn’t a real American because he’s Muslim. Just rank, gutter racism.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15/10/2026

Your occasional reminder that polls don't mean shit, you have to show up and vote, preferably early and in person if you can

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This Brian Flores document is some one the most racist dogwhistle shit *put in writing* I've seen in an employment discrimination suit. frontofficesports.com/article/bria...

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Controversial Search Firm Memo on Brian Flores Unsealed by Court

The memo says Flores is “Polished and a good presenter despite growing up in Brownsville, Brooklyn.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The person who trained the officer testified that ICE does not consider pulling a gun on someone a "use of force" and that ICE has no policies expressly banning pointing guns at other motorists. However, he was so evasive on the stand that the judge considered disregarding his whole testimony.

ICE training officer John Parodi, who trained Morgan, testified that displaying or pointing a firearm is not a “use of force,” and standard police restrictions, like not pointing firearms at motorists, do not apply to ICE.

“There is no tit-for-tat matching force; there is no policy that limits or forces the agent to react to a specific defined force or specific defined response,” Parodi said. “Our officers have the ability to judge and deploy a reasonable level of force.”

Under cross-examination, Minnesota offered department policy stating officers may use force only when no safe alternatives exist — exhaustively questioning Parodi on what constitutes force, if a firearm is a lethal weapon and how officers are trained.

Parodi, who noted he is under a Touhy demand, often said he could not comment on agency protocols or insights into training beyond general concepts, though his shifting testimony drew sharp criticism from Brasel.

“This witness is all over the place in terms of what he answers and what he doesn’t,” Brasel said. “I can’t discern any line. I’m really close to just disregarding his entire testimony.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The ICE officer who faces charges for road raging in Minneapolis (pulling a gun on a random motorist who blocked him from driving his unmarked SUV on the shoulder) broke into tears on the stand and said he was under a lot of stress, ok?

Morgan, who was abruptly called up to the Twin Cities from Washington, D.C., said he did not want to join the surge because he was unfamiliar with the area and had heard reports of animosity toward immigration officers.

“I’m not used to that, I’ve never seen something like that in policing,” he said.

The agent broke down in tears while testifying about feeling unsafe and overwhelmed during Operation Metro Surge, describing the atmosphere as a “riot” where he faced relentless harassment, racial slurs and threats of death.

Through a shaky voice, Morgan described the toll his brief deployment took on him and his family.

“I’ve never experienced something like this before,” he said. “I had to take my daughter out of school… because I did the job I’m supposed to do.”

Morgan’s second-degree assault charges stem from a Feb. 5 incident during the surge, when state prosecutors say he illegally drove an unmarked SUV on a Minneapolis freeway shoulder before pointing a firearm at the occupants of a white Cadillac that repeatedly swerved to block him.

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

DHS investigators not only took Ilhan’s cell phone, they took her computers, notebooks and her passport! These seem like important details. (You can tell who doesn’t read the full Wall Street Journal article: me.)

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Bro, if your doctor is doing a cognitive test every time you get a physical, there’s a reason for that, and it’s not because you keep acing them.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Authoritarian regime grabs electronic communication devices of prominent opposition member. Since it’s highly unlikely there is anything on her phone about immigration paperwork from 30 years ago we can assume this just became a fishing expedition.

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Hugo Lowell @hugolowell.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

NEW and BREAKING @wired.com: Trump White House aides see almost no paths to Republicans keeping control of the House, according to three sources familiar with the situation — and are more focused on trying to save the Senate majority www.wired.com/story/trump-...

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Trump Aides Admit the House Is a Lost Cause

With the midterm elections just a few weeks away, the White House knows it has to go all in on Senate races—while virtually forfeiting the House.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Instead of allowing harrassment of Rep. Omar, impeach Todd Blanche

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a birb @rhiolit.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

worth also noting that both the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti happened in her district, and on top of the obviously racist targeting of her personally this is also an attempt to deny the people of Minneapolis their democratically elected representative

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 14/10/2026

Confirmation that the Feds convened a grand jury here in Minnesota to investigate Ilhan

The Justice Department on Friday issued about a dozen subpoenas as part of an investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar, including to members of her family, a person familiar with the investigation said.

The congresswoman herself was not subpoenaed, the source said, adding that the orders seeking information are tied to a federal grand jury in Minnesota, Omar’s home state.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

back in the olden days DOJ would investigate a particular crime it believed had been committed, rather than just poking around to see if anything was wrong

The investigation is seeking information to see where it leads, the source said. For example, if records, representations related to age and immigration status contain false information, that would provide material for investigators to scrutinize further. They could also examine communications related to such matters.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Elon's apparent cutting off of Ukraine's Starlink access underscores the dangers of the U.S. contracting with an unstable Nazi. There is no way a deranged civilian (or any civilian) should have that much power over an ostensible American partner.

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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

JUST IN: DOJ has NOT been sharing evidence with Minnesota in the ICE shootings of Good, Pretti, and Sosa-Celis since the July 13 presser where local prosecutor Mary Moriarty announced an evidence-sharing agreement with the USAO, a state official now says: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Declaration of Drew Evans – #25, Att. #1 in STATE OF MINNESOTA v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01007) – CourtListener.com

Memorandum in opposition to re 23 MOTION to Dismiss filed by DREW EVANS, MARY F. MORIARTY, STATE OF MINNESOTA. (Attachments: # 1 Declaration of Drew Evans, # 2 Exhibit Index and Exhibits 1-4 to Evans ...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."

In conducting this hearing, the Court is not called upon to resolve factual disputes between
the parties. The facts set forth in this Memorandum Opinion and Order were proposed by the
Plaintiff, unobjected to by the Government, and then deemed admitted by the Court. Dkts. 74, 75,
77.2 These facts establish that high-ranking government officials, including then Secretary of DHS
Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, engaged in a coordinated public relations campaign to impugn the
personal and professional integrity of Ms. Comans. For reasons unfathomable to this Court,
officials chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an
impeccable record of public service. In short, Ms. Comans was professionally targeted and
personally attacked by government officials for no legitimate reason. The attacks against Ms.
Comans were based entirely on false information, and many government officials knew the
accusations were untrue at the time they were made. With no regard for the truth and with no
consideration for the personal and professional effect on Ms. Comans, government officials
exploited their access to mass media outlets to broadcast false information. These false
statements reached hundreds of millions of people. The purpose of this Order is, to the best of
this Court’s ability, to correct the public record and establish as a matter of law that the
statements made by these officials about Ms. Comans were objectively and demonstrably false.

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 13/10/2026

Some people arrested by ICE in the Twin Cities then ordered released by a federal judge are being arrested again as they try to leave detention. One man said ICE agents taking him back into custody told him the judge was wrong to order his release.

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‘We’ve been doing this since May’: ICE admits instant re-arrest strategy

ICE officials say if a federal judge orders a detainee released because the judge finds fault with how the person was arrested, ICE can tell the person they’ll be released, give them their belongings,...

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DeJota Mac @dejotamac.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It's not even that she got caught - Tom Homan got caught and he is still standing. It's that she looked weak sending messages pleading and begging for $100K. If she had said "Pay my credit card bill or I'll cut your nuts off" Trump says either he hasn't heard anything about it or it's a witch hunt.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Okay, Katie Zacharia's claim to have passed the bar in China appears to be collapsing very fast. The South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (paywall) just published this. www.scmp.com/news/us/poli...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Over 100,000 people have already voted today in Georgia in the first day of in-person voting.

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Author Alexis “AC” K. @acknight3.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I love us for real lololol

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13/10/2026

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Read every word of this and share it.

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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

For an idea of how billionaire math works, when MacKenzie Scott started giving all this money away in 2020, her net worth was about $30 billion. Since then, she's given away $26.2 billion... and her net worth is STILL just about $30 billion. She literally can't give it away fast enough to run out.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The official U.S. Department of Education account posted a Columbus Day video set to the song L'Amour toujours, which, if you don’t know, is a random dance song that’s been song co-opted by Nazi groups across Europe, complete with new (nazi) lyrics. link in next post. x.com/usedgov/stat...

a screenshot from x. the U.S. department of education account has posted a video. in the screenshot it’s conquistadors with a cross from the movie apocalypto.

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DeJota Mac @dejotamac.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The most narcissistic narcissist to ever narcissize

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

To start with, this is happening because the president has targeted a member of Congress as part of a broader explicitly racist hate campaign against Americans of a particular ethnic origin. There's no other way to put it.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This obviously violates the longstanding DOJ policy about a lockout on taking actions against candidates in the weeks leading up to an election.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The supposed basis of this "criminal investigation" is a twitter-grifter conspiracy theory about her immigration and naturalization, paperwork filled out by her father when she was a child.

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