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Robert Haider @roberthaider.bsky.social · 8h
Put another way: the City could cover the full funding gap with nine days worth of MPD overtime pay.
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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Appleton, MN Detention Facility is expected to be fully operational by the end of this month. A coalition of ngo’s, non-profits & local citizens are working to slow down the process. Including Immigrant Defense Network, ACLU-MN, Indivisible Twin Cities & others Donate to help support locals
secure.actblue.com
Fundraise to Oppose ICE Detention in MN
Don’t Make the Prairie Scary: Oppose ICE Detention in MN
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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isaac @sevier.io · 05/10/2026
Really important point i hadn't seen yet, which is that AI data center proposals are concentrated in gas reservoir basins, bypassing federal permitting altogether by avoiding the need for interstate pipelines. All of the smoke about transmission costs reforms look different in this light.
oilchange.org
Senate permitting bill would be a gift to data centers and their massive gas buildout - Oil Change International
In short:
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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A federal district court just held that police use of Flock cameras without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
constitutionally collect this information about one car-and its driver-by
following that vehicle on public roadways over a month. But this leaves the
question of why is it the government's business where everyone goes all the
time? The government cannot go snooping through our personal lives and
business without an adequate basis to do so. That is what the Supreme Court
has said since its decision in Katz through its decision in Chatrie this year,
nearly sixty years later. It is not too much to draw the line at indiscriminate
mass surveillance.
No doubt, ALPR technology comes with remarkable benefits that the
Court cannot ignore. But the Fourth Amendment requires courts to draw a line when the cost is too great. Alaniz's search in just the ALPR system
provided him with more than 50 individual records of Kyle's whereabouts
across the country for an entire month. The Court finds that because the
ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle's historical location information
intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical
movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the
information in the record, the only reason Alaniz conducted that search was
because he saw her license plate was from California. That search was not
supported by probable cause, and it was done without a warrant in violation
of Kyle's Fourth Amendment rights. That search also has a nexus to the
remainder of the traffic stop because Alaniz began following Kyle's car while
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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yesterday, the Council passed Workers Drive Minneapolis. Proud to have co-authored it with CM @robin4mpls.bsky.social, CM @aurinmpls.bsky.social & CVP Osman. Unfortunately, Mayor Frey sided with Elon Musk's Tesla, Amazon & Google over public safety and vetoed it. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...
startribune.com
Frey vetoes Minneapolis ordinance that would have required human drivers in driverless vehicles
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said the measure represented a “back door ban that belies our progressive tradition in Minneapolis.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have never heard of any newsrooms with alarming practices like those described in this thread. If you have, I’d like to hear from you. Contact in bio.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/09/2026
Hey y'all, I don't usually share GFMs but Katra is a good friend and the fact that her job was terminated literally a day before her bottom surgery is atrocious. Definitely go give her some help if you can.
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 30/09/2026
Austin man shot by ICE agent charged with assault, resisting arrest
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Austin man shot by ICE agent charged with assault, resisting arrest
Federal prosecutors have charged the Austin man an ICE agent shot earlier this month with a single count of resisting and assaulting a federal officer, according to court documents.Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a Venezuelan national, was shot by an ICE officer in Austin on Sept. 20. He was taken to Dell Seton Medical Center, where he was released and taken into ICE custody three hours later with the bullet remaining in his back. He had been held at a detention center in Pearsall.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 23/09/2026
Vote early in-person (every MN county has at least one location open now; many cities will now or opening Oct. 16). Vote by mail still works - Mn tracks your ballot & you have plenty of time to know if it lands: mnvotes.sos.mn.gov/abstatus/index). Finally, Election Day!
mnvotes.sos.mn.gov
Absentee and Mail Ballot Tracker - MNVotes
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.
npr.org
Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas
The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.
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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This statement from Greta Callahan at the School Board meeting the other night is worth your time, MPS fam.
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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
TELL YOUR DOCTOR TO TURN OFF AI RECORDINGS. If you have not spoken to your doctor, they may be doing this without your consent. All of my doctors have been feeding my information into these systems, and I can't find ones who aren't. Blame insurance.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
inquirer.com
A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/09/2026
We're rejecting that. We're making it explicitly clear that if they lose by a narrow margin, it's because they threw trans people under the bus. If they lose by 1-2%, it will be because trans people and their allies refused to vote for them. We have to send a message.
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JazzReads📚🏀 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
700,000 Black women because this administration was mad at us.. the sadness I feel for my sisters… the rage
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/09/2026
In an incredible move, Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada has announced a gender-affirming care clinic for trans youth, asserting tribal sovereignty and defying the region's ban. It is one of the biggest cross-movement solidarity moments in Canada. Subscribe to support our journalism.
erininthemorning.com
Canada First Nation Leaders Announce They Won’t Comply With Alberta Trans Care Ban
“This is about more than one health service,” officials wrote. “It is about Indigenous sovereignty. It is about our responsibility to care for one another.”
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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
@elliottpayne.org Ban Waymo on the city level. @doronclark.bsky.social Ban Waymo on the state level. Protect immigrant jobs.
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Radiant Starlight 🔜 Fables ✨ and Flames 🔥 @radstarcos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
$90,000 IN TARIFFS?!!! AND UPS DIDN'T INVOICE THEM PROPERLY UNTIL NOW?!! many have pitched in to the point of half the tariff bill being able to be paid but that's still 45k of bill needing to be paid. sidenote iirc maya is MN based so if ur seeing this on the msp feed consider throwing cash!
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
People should also read this thread also. www.threads.com/share/BAf6CN...
threads.com
Abiola Agoro (@ahbeeolah) on Threads
You can grieve someone you view as a force for women’s rights while also recognizing that said force failed often and loudly at intersectionality. Gloria Steinem while an icon to many, perpetuated an...
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
I hope people read Gloria Steinhem's criticism of white feminism.
stylist.co.uk
Gloria Steinem on "white feminism", racism and why white women voted for Trump
The feminist leader says the feminist movement should be for everyone - but that we need to be prepared to have difficult conversations about race.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
no amnesty
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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This makes me ill
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 28/08/2026
Minnesota voters should have an early-voting strategy this year, and to help I made this FAQ. Feedback/questions encouraged. It’s aimed at Democracy Defense trainers who are informing/organizing voters, but we want everyone to do this work & uphold voting rights! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com
Nov 3 2026 voting FAQ
This Frequently Asked Questions document is for Democracy Defense facilitators to better understand how early in-person and mail voting works as of August 28, 2026 for the 2026 general election in Min...
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National Women’s Law Center Action Fund @nwlcactionfund.org · 26/08/2026
What's happening to Congresswoman McIver is chilling. Rep. McIver dared to do her job and protect her community via an ICE oversight visit. Now, the Trump administration is trying to put her in prison for nearly two decades.
nytimes.com
Judges Reject Plea to Toss Federal Charges Against Democratic Lawmaker
An appeals panel ruled against Representative LaMonica McIver, a Democrat accused by the Justice Department of assaulting immigration agents outside Delaney Hall. No one was injured in the clash.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"At a time when most Americans can barely afford to survive, U.S. taxpayers should question why our government spends $5.6 billion every year maintaining a permanent U.S. war footing on the Korean Peninsula — money that could ... fund universal school lunch for every child in the [U.S.]"
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Anybody who’s still advocating putting these tools anywhere near a school is not doing so despite the cognitive collapse they cause, but because of it. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
Abstract
Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative Al affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered Al adoption in a difference-in-differences design. Al adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months.
High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of Al users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. Al users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-Al users experience small learning losses.
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Disembodied Head Lynch @goatburgler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Myth: The "Natalie" question clearly got to Trump! Keep it up! Reality: They are happy the media is focused on the scandal instead of the criminality so they feed it with fake outrage.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/08/2026
Gary, Indiana is 76% Black.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 12/08/2026
Fascists lie all the time not to make the lies matter but to remove weight from the truth. In this way, sincerity is a weapon against fascism. It is how we embrace the heft of truth.
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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This man is ALWAYS trying to consolidate power. Loves enshittification, too.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026
That's when things get dangerous: when aristocrats grow bored with leisure and mobilize their inherited capital to change the way we all live. Billionaire dilettantes are weapons of mass destruction, and their special projects have a wide blast radius and inflict a *lot* of collateral damage. 33/
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
READ THE WHOLE FUCKING ARTICLE AGAIN Build cognitive endurance again Sacrifice ease to not support environmental racism again Rely on your own skills and limits again.
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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Minnesota just plugged a 710-megawatt #solar farm into a coal plant that once burned 30,000 tons a day. The unique approach to connecting the panels to the grid allowed it to sidestep a typically years-long connection process.
autonocion.com
Minnesota just plugged a 710-megawatt solar farm into a coal plant that once burned 30,000 tons a day, the two sharing wires until the last boiler dies in 2030 — and one retired coal unit will keep sp...
Retirement does not mean the old hardware stops working entirely, either. One of the retiring units is being converted into a synchronous condenser, a huge
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“OneCity Vancouver is promising to make it cheaper to install heat pumps, provide cooling systems to hundreds of vulnerable residents, and reverse building-related climate policy changes made under Mayor Ken Sim...” Vancouver must be a climate action leader again. dailyhive.com/vancouver/on...
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Hey Minnesota won and the nudification technology ban will go into effect tomorrow at 12:00AM!
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Ali D. @aliinmpls.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My name is Ali Daniels. I took the photo of Liam Ramos, and the PAC North Star Dawn is using that photo in paid advertisement to spread lies about Peggy Flanagan. They do not have my consent to use the image, and I am prepared to take legal action if it is not taken down. @angiecraigmn.bsky.social
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D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
bruh, you cannot, must not look away when they trying to sell you $31 million in police overtime (to an already bloated $230 million budget), sell you a "mysterious" $30 mil budget deficit and need for you to pony up more cash. You should be outraged. You should demand better.
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"Unlike many others forced to halt their research [due to Trump cuts], Sehgal and his co-authors released their study anyway...with a fraction of the intended sample size. Still, removing the gas stoves relieved the participants’ asthma so much that the results were clear even with only 85 of them."
wapo.st
The EPA halted a study on gas stoves and asthma. But even partial results were striking.
Research that used a federal grant to pay for asthma patients to have their gas stoves replaced showed a dramatic fall in asthma attacks. The program was cut short after President Donald Trump took of...
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Morgan Thompson @morgankthomp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Woah, this is huge news: most ovarian cancer begins in the fallopian tubes, which can be removed (if patient desires) during other abdominal surgeries. Ovarian cancer has vague symptoms and often isn’t diagnosed until late stage with low survival rates. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/h...
nytimes.com
There’s a Way to Prevent Ovarian Cancer. Few Know About It.
The vast majority of cases begin in the fallopian tubes — and removing them can reduce the risk by nearly 80 percent.
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Elon Musk is suing to block my law that bans nudificafion technology. It’s time to Rein in Big Tech. secure.actblue.com/donate/rein-... #ReinInBigTech #nudification #mnleg
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.
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I am Jane Doe. @yourfavecussy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
During this dangerously hot weather, a small group of Whittier residents have been trying to keep seven coolers full of water but they need your help. It costs at a minimum $50-$75 per day to keep them full if you can’t stop by with water, please donate to their Venmo:whittierwatercoolers
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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I want to see immediate action from State and City on this. They have short memories when the 1995 heat wave killed over 700 people in Chicago. This is that. If they don't act now they will be accessories to murder. Where is the so-called "Strong Mayor"?
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 28/07/2026
Folks act like cities are so unsafe, but the biggest threat to my kids' lives so far this week was walking through a parking lot into a pediatric dentist's office in Edina... a suburb that loves to force car dependency on everyone who lives there and visits. www.startribune.com/edina-bike-l...
startribune.com
In this battle over an Edina bike lane, the cars won
A unanimous vote to largely preserve parking on Wooddale Avenue in Edina reflects the growing tension between long-term bike plans and established neighborhoods.
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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"Just when hope seemed lost, they came. Young roaches riding in on the rain." Such marvelous writing from Arundhati Roy on the current moment in India.
thewire.in
Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous
Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 27/07/2026
Illinois woman with green card has been detained by ICE for 12 months. Her daughters plead for her release.
chicagotribune.com
Illinois woman with green card has been detained by ICE for 12 months. Her daughters plead for her release.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
No escape from the world on fire. Except to stop the fire starters.
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