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David Erickson

@derickson.bsky.social
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Sr. Director of AI & Emerging Technologies, guitarist, MN Vikings & Twins fan, curious customer.

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David Erickson @derickson.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Call your state's US Senators and tell them to oppose DHS funding in the appropriations bill. 🧵👇 1/6
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 25/01/2026
You know the fascist police state has gone too far when WCCO anchors are stunned.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 25/01/2026
Hundreds of people gathered in Whittier Park to denounce the Border Patrol killing of a Minneapolis man earlier Saturday. 📸: Katio Galioto
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.
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Chris Uggen @chrisuggen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
We're mourning yet again in Minnesota — and struggling to square the gut-churning video of Alex Pretti's final moments with official accounts. I'm teaching techniques of neutralization this term, so I made this quick slide on the DHS statement. Share if it's useful. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This was murder. Pretti did not initiate the confrontation. He didn’t strike them. He didn’t brandish his gun. They tackled him, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him.
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MrBuckBuck @mrbuckbucknba.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Doc Rivers: "What happened in Minnesota was a straight-up murder"
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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
They hate Minnesota because we are a people who believe that "we all do better when we all do better." Minnesota is one of the wealthiest, safest, and cleanest states in the country *because* of our openness and generosity. Our quality of life is a direct challenge to their zero-sum worldview.
A photo of a protest against ICE at Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Google the video & see for yourself. This is not law enforcement. This is murder. Sickening.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/01/2026
Her vehicle's right front panel cleared the ICE agent who didn't open fire until after he was at the side of her vehicle. He used deadly force on a fleeing individual, which is against DHS policy. This is murder. He needs to be arrested.
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David Erickson @derickson.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
No Ho Ho Ho (#Christmas In DC) Santa’s done playing nice. 🎅🔥 Trump’s economy has Santa cutting corners. He’s checked his naughty list: There will be no Christmas in DC this term. 🧵
Cover art for the song No Ho Ho Ho (Christmas in DC) showing an apocalyptic Washington DC and a dejected Santa dragging a bagful of coal to put in the stockings of the MAGA cronies.
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David Erickson @derickson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
This election guide for the Southwest Metropolitan suburbs of the Twin Cities, #MN includes candidate listings for Mayoral, City Council, and School Board races, as well as referenda on the ballot. Check it out if you live in the Southwest suburbs. Also includes a Rank Choice Voting explainer.👇
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Southwest Metro MN November 4, 2025 Elections
Southwest metro election information & a Rank Choice Voting explainer
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Emily Baker-White @ebakerwhite.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
New from me: TikTok ignored repeated questions about whether and how they share data with ICE. Also, earlier this year, they quietly updated their policies about what happens when law enforcement asks for your data. 1/ www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
forbes.com
TikTok Won’t Say If It’s Giving ICE Your Data
Changes to TikTok's policies make it easier for the company to share users’ personal information with governments. TikTok did not respond to questions about the changes.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
In the midst of a government shutdown, and in the face of fundamental challenges to the rule of law and to democratic accountability, the House of Representatives--the people's house, the heart of our democratic republic--hasn't cast a vote since Sep. 19. An extraordinary failure of responsibility.
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David Erickson @derickson.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
#ProtestSong They call truth the enemy and flood our feeds with lies, Ban books our children read, redraw lines to shrink our size; Trumpist rallies, strongman pomp, a counterfeit parade; We link our arms, we meet the dawn, still here, undismayed. 🧵 1/8
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David Erickson @derickson.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Good point 👇
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David Erickson @derickson.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
If you live in the Southwest Metro #Minnesota, Chaska is the location for the longest-lasting weekly pro-democracy rally. Every Saturday, 1-2 pm at the corner of Hazeltine Blvd and Highway 41. 🧵 1/3
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Biggest story in the world, told in the mainstream press perfectly well: AP/PBS headline: TRUMP'S MOVES AGAINST MEDIA OUTLETS MIRROR AUTHORITARIAN APPROACHES TO SILENCING DISSENT www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Trump's moves against media outlets mirror authoritarian approaches to silencing dissent
Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has waged an aggressive campaign against the media unlike any in modern U.S. history, making moves similar to those of authoritarian leaders that...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/09/2025
Pulte should resign
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David Erickson @derickson.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This is a very insightful piece by Kahlil Greene explaining why Gen Z isn't buying the canonization of Charlie Kirk.👇
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Millions of Gen Z’ers Don't "Feel Bad" About Charlie Kirk's Murder. Here’s Why.
The online reaction to Charlie Kirk's assassination reveals a generational (and partisan) disconnect on issues of gun violence, systemic injustice, and the nature of political hatred.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Matt Bai: To put a happier, less discomfiting spin on the exhibits in this museum would make us more like Russia or China or North Korea, or any other country where history becomes a strongman’s self-serving fairy tale that no one outside the country believes. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | What the Smithsonian taught me about Trumpism
Trying to sanitize the American story is the antithesis of what makes the country exceptional.
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David Erickson @derickson.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Didn't that magazine make a loud statement about how it would never bow to trump?
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The Iowa Senate seat that Democratic candidate Catelin Drey flipped tonight has been in GOP hands for 13 years. Not anymore.
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NPR @npr.org · 22/08/2025
An estimated 218,000 people in the U.S. are stateless or are at risk of becoming so. As a result of President Trump's aggressive policies, people without any citizenship are more vulnerable than ever.
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Living in the shadows: Why stateless people fear Trump's immigration crackdown
An estimated 218,000 people in the U.S. are stateless or are at risk of becoming so. As a result of President Trump's aggressive policies, people without any citizenship are more vulnerable than ever.
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Dave Winer on Bluesky @scripting.com · 19/08/2025
I've been building around WordPress to create a social network based on RSS. I want to get out of being controlled by billionaire-owned sites. I have a feeling we may need a good backup given where we are now.
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David Erickson @derickson.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Thugs.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/08/2025
Fox News falls for it hook, line, and sinker.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
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janki77.bsky.social @janki77.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The fun never stops... wIth the Blame Game!
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David Erickson @derickson.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
❤️
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TizzyEnt @tizzyent.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Des Moine, Iowa. Who is he?
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Marketplace @marketplace.org · 14/08/2025
Since President Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner over a weak jobs report, we’ve been thinking a lot about the trustworthiness of U.S. economic data. China can offer a glimpse of what happens when that trust erodes. Today on Make Me Smart 👇
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China has an economic data problem. Is the U.S. next?
Marketplace's China correspondent Jennifer Pak shares her experience with unreliable government statistics.
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David Erickson @derickson.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Trump cuts in the line: “Texas, deal me five more seats.” Abbott stacks the deck—thirty days, repeat, repeat. No new shuffle, same old count, switch the cards mid-hand, Move the borders, move the voters, make the House your brand. #OneMillionRising
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David Erickson @derickson.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Protest songs at www.Movements.Rocks #OneMillionRising
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
“He said DACA was canceled, that I would stand no chance in stay in the country.” That’s the lie an ICE agent told “Edgar,” a DACA recipient, during his detainment months ago. This administration terrorizes our communities with deception. They lie because cruelty is the point.
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DACA recipient with no criminal record detained by ICE
YouTube video by CBS Evening News
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Camus: Under conditions so desperate, the hard, marvelous task of this century is to create justice in the most unjust of worlds, and to protect freedom from those souls who, out of principle, choose servitude. If we fail, man will return to darkness. But at least we will have fought to find light.
Under con-
ditions so desperate, the hard, marvelous task of this century is
to create justice in the most unjust of worlds, and to protect freedom from those souls who, out of principle, choose servitude. If
we fail, man will return to darkness. But at least we will have
fought to find light.
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David Erickson @derickson.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
👏👏👏👏
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 08/08/2025
Following Texas's lead, the Florida House is creating a committee on congressional redistricting. It's yet another naked attempt at using gerrymandering to stay in power after 2026. floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/07/f...
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Florida House creating a committee on congressional redistricting • Florida Phoenix
The Florida Legislature appears to be on board with Gov. Ron DeSantis stated desire to convene a mid-decade redistricting process this year. House Speaker Daniel Perez announced on Thursday that he is...
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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
And here we go. The plan seems to be to go full 𝕾𝖈𝖍𝖚𝖙𝖟𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖋𝖋𝖊𝖑, to turn the nation into a military police state. They’re telling each other to be careful what they write down, but they’ve already written down too much. 🧵:
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WIRED @wired.com · 01/08/2025
Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know. wrd.cm/4fqM8dC
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How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To
Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The original borders of Minnesota 1858. RETVRN
Color map of Minnesota Territory 1858. Borchert Map Library, University of Minnesota
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
jonathan capehart, subbing for an msnbc host, just used the last minutes of the show to explain his departure from the washington post, specifically citing management's insistence on an optimistic vision of america while a corrupt president flouts the law and deploys troops to march american streets
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 31/07/2025
Exclusive: The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History removed references to President Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit — an apparent change to its plans to update its collection of artifacts about the historic U.S. proceedings.
washingtonpost.com
Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum
A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Lordy, there are tapes
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate is set to vote as soon as Tuesday evening to confirm former Trump lawyer Emil Bove for a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals court judge despite vocal Democratic opposition and a new whistleblower complaint against him.
The whistleblower provided Congress with an audio recording of Bove that runs contrary to some of his testimony at his confirmation hearing last month, according to two people familiar with the recording.
The audio is from a private video conference call at the Department of Justice in February in which Bove, a top official at the department, discussed his handling of the dismissed corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, according to transcribed quotes from the audio reviewed by The Associated Press.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/07/2025
ATTN: If you’re a DoJ employee and have knowledge of the missing minute (or 2:53) of Epstein jail video, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻
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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I've loved wiggly wind-powered advertising signs since Breaking Bad but this one takes the absolute cake.
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AnnieForTruth @anniefortruth1.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The orange buffoon said he would lower grocery prices on day one, stop the Ukraine war before getting into White House, and release the Epstein files. All more LIES from the pathological liar. 😡
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