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MPR News @mprnews.org · 10/02/2026
"I think that the goal of Tom Homan switching out for Gregory Bovino is purely optics and damage control. It's not actually a change in their tactics of intimidation and indiscriminate apprehension,” said Minneapolis City Council President Elliott Payne.
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Minneapolis City Council president says immigration enforcement still active in Minneapolis
Five days after federal officials announced hundreds of immigration agents would be leaving Minneapolis, City Council President Elliott Payne says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is still vis...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
After giving Argentina $60 bn to bail out its wannabe dictator, Trump has now ordered the purchase of $1 bn in Argentine beef to flood US markets with less expensive meat. A disaster for US cattlemen. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-b...
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More Argentina beef imports won't do much to ease costs for consumers, according to experts
Taming runaway U.S. beef prices will require more than stepping up imports, economists said. Here's the key to cutting costs.
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Elliott Payne @elliottpayne.org · 09/02/2026
Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.

But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain.

He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again.

He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.
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Joan Resnick Ehrlich @jremmc.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Concentration camps. That's what they are.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 30/06/2025
The Senate’s version of Donald Trump’s tax cut bill will cost the bottom 20% of taxpayers an average of $560 a year while giving an average boost of $6,055 to those at the top end.
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Richest 20% Get an Average $6,055 Income Boost in Trump Tax Bill
The Senate’s version of President Donald Trump’s proposed tax cut bill will cost the bottom 20% of taxpayers an average of $560 a year while giving an average boost of $6,055 to those at the top end.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I assume Trump's political appointees including those in the Cabinet would be interested in knowing whether all of their private, vetting info turned over to the White House has gone directly into Russian, Chinese and Iranian spy agencies for future exploitation and blackmail.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I challenge the Trump Administration to produce the birth certificate of “Sergio Gor”, or whatever his name is.
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CNN @cnn.com · 20/06/2025
Facing the possibility of losing control of the US House next year, Republicans are weighing aggressively redrawing congressional districts in two states in hopes of ousting several longtime Democratic lawmakers: cnn.it/4liEUdp
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Republicans might redraw House districts in Ohio and Texas to push out Democrats in next year’s midterms | CNN Politics
Facing the possibility of losing control of the U.S. House next year, national Republicans are pushing two GOP-led states are weighing aggressively redrawing their congressional districts and pushing ...
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Bob Pockrass (Mirror) @bob-pockrass-tw.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Truck pick for today at Pocono: Corey Heim ... top-5: Heim Smith Caruth Hocevar Riggs ET 12:35-FS2-Truck p&q 5-FS1-Prerace 5:22-FS1-Truck race 20-20-40 @NASCARONFOX
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
If you took the $1.1 trillion earned by just 100 billionaires last year and mailed every household a check, it'd be $8,700 each. The thing is most billionaires don't actually pay taxes anymore. What the GOP bill is really doing is selling off public lands and cutting Medicare to pay off oligarchs.
A bar chart titled “The Cost of Billionaires Visualized” compares major U.S. expenses to the 2024 year-over-year wealth gains of just 100 billionaires. Bars represent spending or gains in billions of dollars and are labeled with household-level (HH) equivalents. Categories shown include:
	•	Ending homelessness: $20B ($159 per household)
	•	Federal employees: $210B ($1,670/HH)
	•	Teacher salaries: $214B ($1,702/HH)
	•	Gasoline: $307B ($2,449/HH)
	•	Groceries: $664B ($5,278/HH)
	•	Defense budget: $824B ($6,553/HH)
	•	100 billionaires: $1,094B ($8,700/HH)

A red banner at the bottom reads: “If we can’t afford groceries, we definitely can’t afford billionaires.”
Sources listed include HUD, NEA, BLS, USDA, OPM, and Bloomberg (Dec. 31, 2024).
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50501 New York @50501newyork.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The U.S. Army swore in four Big Tech executives as Lieutenant Colonels: - Palantir’s CTO - Meta’s CTO - OpenAI’s Chief Product Officer - OpenAI’s former Chief Research Officer All of these people are surely connected to fascist Peter Thiel, as Zuckerberg (Meta) and Altman (OpenAI) are his protégés.
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US Army swore in tech executives as lieutenant colonels
The Silicon Valley executives will serve as senior advisers as part of the U.S. Army Reserve, according to a news release.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 15/06/2025
Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
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"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions
Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The news isn’t being clear about this but to people hearing about these Minnesota shootings: Melissa Hortman is the Dem leader in the Minnesota House and was Speaker of the House 2019-2025. She’s probably the most influential state-level Democrat barring the governor.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/04/2025
it has become a Republican article of faith that Trump won a majority of votes in the 2024 election. The only problem is that he didn't win a majority of votes in the 2024 election. A subvariant of the big lie.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/04/2025
FOX: Is that something you'd like the administration to explore -- sending American criminal to El Salvador? SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: *immediately changes topic to Abrego Garcia, never answers question*
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This Administration is trying to erase a human being. Don't allow it. We are all connected.
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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Most folks don't understand how many things were made possible by federal research funding (e.g., Google). Here are 50 of them, and it barely scratches the surface. (The list is from 2020 and, ironically, includes Tesla.)🧪 stacker.com/stories/busi...
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50 inventions you might not know were funded by the US government
Stacker compiled information on 50 inventions funded by the United States government using government and scientific reports, and news articles.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17/04/2025
In classic Trump fashion, the president furiously smeared Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for contradicting White House rhetoric and lied that "groceries (even eggs!) are down." In fact, egg prices have once again risen.
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Trump Melts Down Over Fed Chair’s Dark Warning About Tariffs
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell had warned that Donald Trump’s pet tariffs would cause inflation to skyrocket.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
NEW: Blue Cross authorized mastectomies & breast reconstructions at one hospital, then refused to pay the full doctors' bills. BUT... The insurer did make some exceptions. On several occasions, Blue Cross execs signed deals to pay for their wives’ treatment. By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/04/2025
Given Trump’s flagrant lawlessness, in a sane country we would’ve been talking about impeachment and removal weeks ago.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
6 April 1892 | Russian Jewish woman Eugenie Wechsler (nee Peschkin) was born in Leningrad. She emigrated to Berlin and was arrested in occupied France. She was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
A portrait photo of a smiling woman with neatly styled long hair shaped in waves. She is wearing pearl beads and has some rectangular brooch at her blouse.
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CNN @cnn.com · 06/04/2025
Millions of people took part in protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk across all 50 states and globally on Saturday: cnn.it/4hYKFL3
People take part in a nationwide "Hands Off!" anti-Trump protest in New York City on April 5, 2025. | Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
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Reuters @reuters.com · 04/04/2025
Exclusive: Elon Musk's SpaceX and ULA are expected to each win a US Space Force rocket launch contract worth billions over the next several years to send some of the Pentagon's most sensitive satellites into space, two people familiar with the decision say reut.rs/3RoWyiN
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Exclusive: SpaceX, ULA to clinch multibillion-dollar Pentagon launch contract
Elon Musk's SpaceX and United Launch Alliance are expected to each win a U.S. Space Force rocket launch contract on Friday worth billions of dollars over the next several years to send some of the Pentagon's most sensitive satellites into space, according to two people familiar with the procurement decision.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
The “methods for doing so” are (1) getting two thirds of Congress and three fourths of the states to repeal the 22nd Amendment and (2) declaring himself king. That’s it. Stop treating this despotic bullshit as if it’s some worthwhile thought experiment we have to consider as legitimate.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 30/03/2025
President Trump did not rule out the possibility of seeking a third term in the White House, which is prohibited by the Constitution under the 22nd Amendment, saying in an exclusive interview with NBC News that there were methods for doing so and clarifying that he was “not joking.”
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Trump won’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, tells NBC News ‘there are methods’ for doing so
President Donald Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call that he was “not joking” about a third term, adding that “it is far too early to think about it.”
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Bob Pockrass (Mirror) @bob-pockrass-tw.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Kyle Larson wins the Cup race at Homestead for his first Cup win of the season.
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The Daily Gopher @thedailygopher.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
It will be a 7PM tip on Thursday night at Williams Arena. Ticket info coming tomorrow Unfortunate conflict with the Gopher hockey game in Fargo, but that's March for you.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 19/03/2025
US institutions fail again. The crime spree will continue as scheduled.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 19/03/2025
US ‘deletes evidence’ of Russia’s kidnap of thousands of Ukrainian children
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US ‘deletes evidence’ of Russia’s kidnap of thousands of Ukrainian children
Researchers at Yale University had been compiling database of alleged Russian war crimes, including abduction of up to 35,000 children
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
DON'T GO TO A TESLA DEALERSHIP is good advice
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Actually you did vote for this. You got a taste in his first term & WE TRIED TO WARN YOU, but Tim Walz is coastal elite, right???
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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
BREAKING: A federal lawsuit filed overnight says the Trump administration is sabotaging civil rights enforcement at the U.S. Department of Education. Brought by parents & advocates, the lawsuit says actions and mass firings at OCR violate the Constitution. w/ @jodiscohen.bsky.social
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Parents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging Education Department’s Civil Rights Division
The class-action lawsuit claims that decimating the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of discrimination at school — violating the equal protection clause of the F...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/03/2025
Donald Trump just congratulated Chuck Schumer on his decision to vote YES on the Republican CR. @schumer.senate.gov , you are on the wrong side!
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
How badly do you have to fuck up being the Democratic leader that Trump is praising and congratulating you????
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I can't remember the last time I saw an article just focus on this. Not that they've bent the truth or misrepresented a few facts a little, but that every single solitary thing that the GOP says on the topic is a stone cold lie with absolutely no basis in reality. ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...
They're lying to you about transgender women and girls in sports
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For The WinThey’re lying about transgender people in this world. They’re lying about what LGBTQ+ inclusion in society really means, and they’re lying about trans people in sports. They’re lying about a “transgender cult” and “transgender insanity,” about teachers indoctrinating kids with “transgender ideology” and about “making mice transgender.” 

Right-wing activists, anti-trans bigots, many politicians, the president — they’re lying to you about many things but especially trans women and girls in sports. They’re lying about transgender athletes supposedly ruining women’s sports, and they’re lying about this being a ubiquitous “problem.” 

They are deliberately and strategically lying about trans folks’ lives, about trans athletes and about their own disingenuous motivations for pushing these lies. They don’t care because they keep doing it. 

Worse, it’s working. They're lying about trans people, especially trans women and girls in sports, probably, in part, because the actual data doesn't support their arguments. 
Yet several states have their own bans against trans athletes competing in sports consistent with their gender identity, despite expert estimates of fewer than 100 trans high school athletes nationwide. In 2022, Utah's Republican governor, Spencer Cox, vetoed an anti-transgender bill - it was eventually overruled by the legislature - and outlined his rationale. Along with the high suicide rates for trans youth, he noted that of 75,000 high school athletes in the state, four identified as trans and just one student was playing girls' sports. A whole state bill targeting four athletes, but really, one.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
When you are so afraid of Trump calling you Shutdown Schumer that you willingly accept Surrender Schumer as your legacy.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 12/03/2025
Robert Morris, Texas megachurch pastor and former Trump adviser, indicted for child sex crimes.
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Robert Morris, Texas megachurch pastor and former Trump adviser, indicted for child sex crimes
Morris is a former spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, and Gateway — one of the nation’s largest megachurches — has been particularly active in Dallas-area GOP politics.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
OK, so Rubio announced Ukraine signed a cease fire agreement, and that now the ball is in Russia’s court. This is Putin’s response. So maybe Trump & Vance can finally admit that Ukraine wants peace and Putin wants war? Of course they won’t. The question is why?
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Habitat for Humanity. For fucks sake.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Critical messaging for Dems if they're being forced into a shutdown. Undo the cuts to Social Security, VA health care, cancer care research. Put the DOGE boys into a boxes w chaperones if the Republican want help. NEED TO BE CRYSTAL CLEAR about what's at stake immediately in peoples lives.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The federal civilian worker payroll totaled $271 billion in 2022. The annual cost of permanently extending Trump's tax cuts that primarily benefited rich individuals? $400 billion. Keep this in mind as Trump and DOGE lay off thousands of federal workers.
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Sawyer Hackett @sawyerhackett.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Senate Democrats— A vote AGAINST the Republican CR isn’t a vote to shut down the government—they’re in charge and need your votes. But a vote FOR the Republican CR is a vote to allow Elon Musk to continue shutting down the government and nullifying the role of Congress.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/03/2025
President Trump inherited an economy that was, by most conventional measures, firing on all cylinders. Just weeks into his term, economic forecasts have deteriorated, reflecting the upheaval from federal layoffs, tariff moves and immigration roundups. nyti.ms/43sbBz5
President Trump stands at the top of a stairway as he exits the presidential plane. He is holding his right fist aloft and wearing “Make America Great Again” hat. Text reads: "How Trump’s Policies Have Shaken a Once-Solid Economic Outlook." Photo by Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I would note that this message is full of (a) kitchen table issues and (b) both rhetorical and material moderation and people love it because it is clear, mobilizing and oppositional this is what the national Dems just don't get
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
“I won’t forget” ?
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