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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1h

I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say

Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 17h

This should be obvious, but don’t trust the guy who makes money helping predators create child sexual abuse material with your credit card.

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 17h

Minnesota was the third state in the nation to abolish the death penalty. 115 years ago.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 22h

1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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

@kylec.bsky.social is truly one of the most incredible journalists I’ve ever seen and, frankly, should be moderating every debate. He’s fair, calm, and refreshingly direct

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

The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.

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American Oversight @americanoversight.org · 10/10/2026

NPR reports ICE is detaining people in a New Jersey warehouse. Stephen Miller “did not want facilities that were humane,” said a government contractor. We need to know the conditions inside. We asked ICE for related planning documents and communications. www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...

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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say

Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'm old enough* to remember when calling a woman a dog because she was a political opponent would be a career-ending moment. *More than ten years old

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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 09/10/2026

A shackled detainee was thrown to the ground, placed in a WRAP full-body restraint, and carried onto today's ICE Air flight at MSP. This is the first time we've seen the device used in Minnesota. If a loved one may have been aboard, full loading sequence is here: youtube.com/watch?v=MEMv2ngB1GI

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What a strange story. California woman finds a man, allegedly drunk, sleeping on her lawn early in the morning & sends her dad out to move him. The man wakes up & allegedly assaults the (elderly) dad, who shoots him Turns out the man is off-duty ICE agent David Gonzalez abc7.com/story/off-du...

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Off-duty ICE agent shot after assaulting 72-year-old man and his daughter at Fresno home, police say

Authorities say a woman found the ICE agent sleeping on her front lawn.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 09/10/2026

My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

it's a bit concerning that instead of responding to obvious political incentives and moderating on some of their worst and most unpopular policies, the Trump administration is getting more and more extreme

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A reminder, the federal government lynching's of Alex Pretti and Renee Good were livestreamed (the lynching of Ruben Martinez was kept secret for over a year).

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The racists in the federal government can't fathom a state where neighbors love their neighbors, even when we don't look or speak or pray the same. But that is Minnesota. The attacks on our Somali and immigrant neighbors are disgusting and we won't stand for it. #MinnesotaStrong

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Mpls.St.Paul Magazine @mspmag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Stolen Neighbors Quilt, made of 12,500 fabric squares and unveiled at the State Capitol’s rotunda, represents the lives of the estimated 11,000 people deported in Minnesota between the beginning of President Trump’s second term and the end of Operation Metro Surge.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Salena @salena.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Republican answer to their bad midterms outlook appears to be: stoking a race war. When you have nothing left to offer but hate.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

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Doron Clark @doronclark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Honestly. If that guy’s strategy is to wear us down, then he doesn’t understand Minnesota and our winters. We endure and thrive because of each other. To my Somali neighbors and friends - you are needed and loved.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026

Remember when Trump said there was "very fine ppl on both sides" of a white supremacist rally, & everybody heard it loud & clear, but then he spent years gaslighting about it bc at another point he said "you had some very bad ppl in that group" as if that excused him praising violent racists? I do!

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

‼️ Women athletes make up ~43-45 percent of the population of athletes, but media coverage typically shows only 2-5 percent, according to the University of Minnesota’s Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Today, women & survivors are rising up across the country for a day of rage. We are rising up because we are sick of it all. Sick of the cover-ups. Sick of the injustice. Sick of the good ole boys club. Swipe through our demands & find an action near you today at: womensmarch.com/stop

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Phoenix New Times @phoenixnewtimes.com · 07/10/2026

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congre…

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Eric Harris Bernstein @ehbinmn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They started texting with a 16-year-old. After two years, they offered to sell him a gun. They consider that "stopping a terrorist attack." And they are calling it heroic. What an absolute embarrassment.

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Many people (myself included) don't even trust Mark Zuckerberg with our family photos, whyyy would you trust him with you BANK ACCOUNT?!

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don’t think people understand how unusable the internet is about to become. Yes, it’s currently overrun with AI slop and bots. Just wait until AI agents become ubiquitous. The internet will be unnavigable. Consumers and businesses will suffer immensely.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/10/2026

Minnesota’s economy is among the strongest in the nation. There’s never been a better time to move here. www.newsweek.com/new-york-lea...

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Map shows which state economies are growing and shrinking ahead of midterms

The Bureau of Economic Analysis said that 44 states saw their economies grow in the second quarter of 2026.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026

Trump calls Natalie on stage, checks out her legs, calls her "perfect," then floats creating a reality show w/ her -- & other lowlights from his rally tonight in Nebraska (Including Trump saying of Iran, "Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is very small price to pay")

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ICE has disclosed another detainee who died We know: -After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.* He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.* austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...

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Julian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on Record

According to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

people have BEEN organizing their lives around Dobbs, choosing (if they’re even lucky enough have that privilege) where to work, where to go to college, where to live…and for centuries have had their realities dictated to them by sadists like Alito

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ACLU @aclu.org · 04/10/2026

This week, we testified before the UN Human Rights Council about the alarming number of Black people who have been found dead, hanging, or drowned in the U.S. over the past decade. We urged UN human rights experts to investigate these deaths properly as our government continues to fail the public.

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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Gophers win!

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