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Dex Anderson

@dexanderson.com
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Trans, non-binary, Minnesotan. Working to make the DFL more trans-inclusive because being a trans refuge state does not mean we are actually doing the work. South Minneapolis, Stonewall DFL, and Constitution, Bylaws, and Rules. linktr.ee/dexanderson

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 7m
Thank you.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 9m
Yeah, Audrey, you’re the one who said it, sorry. I’m very tired of this
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 29m
You don't get to spend time mocking a key part of the harassment and then turn around and be the good guy. You don't get to do that. I told Wes more was coming. I told him it was not the dunk he thought it was. And he still went forward. And still hasn't apologized, to my knowledge.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 32m
And now he's calling for her resignation. I'm not letting this go.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 32m
I was sexually harassed by people on here, people Wes is mutuals with, when I objected to the Weiner Wednesday promotion. I told Wes that was happening and he said "I'm sorry to hear that but we're going to have to agree to disagree on the interpretation."
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 37m
The place that hosted a Weiner Wednesday when the first allegations broke, mocking the very real and substantiated allegations over which yall are now calling for the mayor to resign? That place?
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 2h
you should only mock people for their choices. Michael CHOSE to dress this way and deserves to be mocked for it.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 2h
Hm.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 2h
you know what, i'm not even gonna ask. I believe you.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 2h
oh shut the fuck up
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 2h
Roofers are back. No safety ropes or even harnesses today.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 6h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 4h
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 4h
Oh that’s the worst, I’m so sorry.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 4h
The mom is forcing him to put on a mask because he refuses to cover his mouth. He is not happy.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 4h
It’s funny to me because kids will be kids and that is why masking in healthcare is good
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 4h
I’m at urgent care and this toddler with a cough is running laps in the waiting room while his mom chases him going “STOP COUGHING ON EVERYONE.”
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 4h
Norm!
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 4h
The ways people are reading PRIMETIME are absolutely killing me. It’s a dark comedy, guys.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 6h
I once - ONCE - got $400 from a lawsuit against Facebook in Illinois.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 6h
i keep getting emails to collect my $5 payment from a BCBS settlement
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 7h
I have some pending big news and if that happens, I'm celebrating by getting one of these.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 7h
why are you trans? wrong answers only i really wanted to be able to walk around alone at night
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 8h
this is based, actually
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 8h
The DFL is working on that. There's specific targeting going on to increase turnout. The best thing you can do is get connected with local door knocks on mobilize and get on the doors to talk to people about the election!
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 8h
Exactly. Why would I want to read a computer's aggregation? We like art because it allows us to see how another person sees the world! The point of Starry Night isn't that it's pretty. It's that it was painted by a man looking out the window of his room in an asylum.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 8h
if i may be so bold: that's a transcriptionist, not a journalist and we have way too many people call themselves "journalists" who think their job is to merely transcribe what people tell them
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 19h
RETVRN
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 19h
that's kind of adorable
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 21h
Shut every fraternity down.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 22h
round pupil means it's a bird
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 22h
say what you will about the instant message statuses of the past but there was something to posting lyrics when you were having big feelings and struggled to process them
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 29/09/2026
If there's one thing we know annoys her, as a former prosecutor, it's people acting like they made some big point when they proved absolutely nothing.
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The non-Minnesotans may need a translation because Klobuchar's tone and phrasing *seem* kinda low-key, but her levels of exasperation and disdain are at 11; she's basically yelling in his face and telling him to meet her outside
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 29/09/2026
it's literally this simple
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 29/09/2026
oh buddy
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Whoopi Goldberg: You In Danger, Girl
ALT: Whoopi Goldberg: You In Danger, Girl
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 29/09/2026
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Ha! Gay!
ALT: Ha! Gay!
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 29/09/2026
i really love being gay.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 29/09/2026
I picked mine up this afternoon and I'm excited to dive into it later this week when I have time!
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 29/09/2026
I'm an autistic person who is a slut and I'm very much the type of person who will not touch you until you give me permission BECAUSE when I was younger, I was very touchy, and my friends made it VERY CLEAR that it was not okay! To be an adult and not understanding that is unbelievable.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 29/09/2026
see, i hear "Please baby please" and I think of this song about alcoholism: youtu.be/Nj8gU96pJsM?...
youtu.be
Please, Baby, Please
YouTube video by David Bazan - Topic
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 29/09/2026
FUN FACT: i was working at the USF library when they were filming this, and a researcher from the film called wanting to know what archive materials we had.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 29/09/2026
Babe that’s what it was.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 29/09/2026
Incredible.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 28/09/2026
the most millennial of posts
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 28/09/2026
today i learned that Michelle Branch wrote "Are You Happy Now?" about Taylor Hanson.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 28/09/2026
she's my 15yo little baby!
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 28/09/2026
i'm seeing Bright Eyes on Saturday and I honestly don't know which songs I'm hoping to hear but I wouldn't be disappointed if he just played the entirety of I'm Wide Awake It's Morning.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 28/09/2026
Good news! She's gained weight!
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 28/09/2026
She doesn’t know she’s about to go get shots.
Minerva the cat rests her white chin on my hands. Her face is very close to the camera, giving it a fish bowl effect.
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