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Minnesota 50501 @mn50501.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Official statement on today's DOJ press conference.
The DOJ came to Minnesota with accusations and a narrative already written.

But ten individual cases aren’t proof that Minnesota’s elections are broken. Charges are allegations, not convictions, and Minnesotans won’t let isolated cases be weaponized to cast doubt on millions of lawful votes.

Their obsession with Minnesota is telling. We are diverse, educated, civically engaged, and loudly opposed to authoritarianism.

They hate us because they ain’t us.

And they still can’t stop us.
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I don't understand why supposedly intelligent people lend their efforts to the Vichy Times, which does so much to subvert democracy and shred our social fabric. Shameful.
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank you for echoing Pope Leo's powerful words!
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The SCOTUS ruling in favor of resuming deportations of migrants to unknown countries is an abomination. As Pope Francis often said: “Migrants are not pawns of the chessboard of humanity; they are people with stories who deserve our love and care.”
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Susan Collins has abandoned the mandate of the Catholic faith she professes to believe by funding the killing and inhumane incarceration of legal residents of this country." #MEpolitics
Press Herald letter.
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You really want to be a propaganda outlet for some GOP hack? It's soullessness like that which has bled your audience away from you. Get a damn spine & stop both-sidesing this crap.
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
All changed, changed utterly.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
‪“Jesus weeps. We can pass by no more. We must must act now, or replace those who enact these policies.”‬
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thanks so much for posting this -- so depressing following this self-inflected wound by MPS.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Any other previous president" would have faced a Media and Congress that still mostly did its job, as well as an electorate that didn't spend half its time staring at phone screens.
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Excuse me, but we're waaaaaayyy beyond "caus[ing] a grave threat to the rule of law" (whatever the hell that means) -- we're into "shitting all over the rule of law".
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Unlike Deshaun Watson, who they paid for no discernible reason whatsoever.
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sorry, Chris, but you yourself don't care. If the Dems cared, they would have stopped this shit in its tracks. Hell, one GOP dude, like Rand Paul or Tuberville, can grind business to a halt. Yet Dems just keep approving tRUmp's appointments while shrugging that there's nothing they can do.
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
First time I'm reading you. I get that football is a game of numbers, but I don't think that means sports writing should read like a long ACT story problem. Football is also America's Ring Cycle, our closest thing to Shakespearean drama, so maybe think 'arts criticism' more & math test less? SKOL!
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no one (spooky👻) @gregory-c-leavitt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
you really aren’t angry enough they poison the air and water, drive species into extinction, force slaves to exploit natural resources, traffic children for sex, and bomb schools and hospitals these people are traitors to creation and it’s time we stop being politic about it be serious people
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Live Laugh Listen to opera
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I vote LESS talking heads writing books and doing podcasts and appearing on those silly split-screen things. Enough with the bloated gas-baggery. 'Pundits' should re-direct the energy they put into self-aggrandizement into Local Community Action. No hollow fame there, of course, just change.
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 11/09/2026
There are ~65,000 people in ICE detention right now. ~70% don't have a criminal conviction. Per habeasflightwatch.org, over the last 24 hours, 4pm Thu - 4pm Fri CDT, detainees were flown on these tracks by about two dozen aircraft.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Because they're "serious journalists," Maggie and Swan treat DHS' bullshit number about assaults of goons as if it MIGHT BE real. If you can't recognize THIS as propaganda, how much else can't you see for what it is?
The conspiracy Miller described was so vast that it evoked the anti-communist “Red Scare” of the mid-twentieth century. He was not basing his crackdown entirely on a hallucination; data showed there had been a recent uptick in left-wing violence, including an elevenfold increase in physical violence against ICE officers in 2025 compared with 2024, according to the Department of Homeland Security
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
PolitiCON
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Like to see some stuck-up jockey boy sittin' on Dan Patch? Make your blood boil? Well I should say!" (Meredith Wilson, THE MUSIC MAN)
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Stop focusing on the then & work on the now. Use your followers to get an oligarch-owned Vichy MSM boycott going, along with idiotic streaming services that distract with nonsense. Get a groundswell going for general strikes. Wish-casting is time-wasting.
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Not mind-blowing at all. The MSM has been the oligarch-owned enemy of democracy at least since 2016 & HRC, then the massive coverage of tRUmp and his hate rallies, and the crucifixion of Joe Biden. We can't keep getting faux-shocked. Start a MSM boycott campaign w/ yr followers.
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
PolitiCON
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 24/08/2026
"ICE tactics, already sadistic, are looking increasingly like torture," writes @judith-levine.bsky.social. "The slim avenues to legal recourse and the refusal of transparency or accountability by the perpetrators of de jure and de facto torture are driving detainees to desperate measures..."
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ICE’s tactics look increasingly like torture | Judith Levine
Plans for gloves that can deliver electric shocks underline the homeland security department’s sadistic practices
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We're living in the darkest moment www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRkH...
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Wake Up Before It's Too Late! Richard Gere's Powerful Plea: Stay Vigilant Against Authoritarianism
YouTube video by The World
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If you want to know what is happening to the $1B being withheld, it's going to Peter Thiel's little buddy Michael Kratsios who was installed at Trump's science advisor, so that he can give it to corporations.Your tax dollars, that Congress allocated for science, are being given away.
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Again, lived it, read it, canceled my subscription over it. Cover picture of Biden, old, on a dying horse, to illustrate a hatchet-job pre-election essay by an Irishman they called in for the job. Active measures. Again, whatever, sorry to bother you.
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Assume you know Edward Snowden, Russian spy, and NYRB' s incessant, strident support of him before he fled to Moscow. Also assume you were reading them in run up to 2024 election, and their scurrilously nasty commentary thru the election cycle. But whatever.
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
They were a little too pro-Snowden & anti-Biden for me. Seemed Kremliny AF.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Target has shown that its leadership can change course. But it still refuses to call for an end to ICE’s occupation of the Twin Cities. Until Target stands with its own community, we’re asking members and allies to shop local instead. shopsmart.aft.org
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 20/08/2026
Those who raise their hand to serve deserve the best care our nation can provide. The Trump Administration cut 35,000 jobs at the VA last year - now our veterans are left with longer wait times for the care they need. www.startribune.com/staffing-sho...
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Staffing shortfall disrupting surgeries at Minneapolis VA
“Is the VA leadership allowing the hospital to fail?” one provider asked.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 18/08/2026
The state of Minnesota has sued the state of Texas, seeking to compel Gov. Greg Abbott to extradite an ICE agent who has been charged with shooting a Minneapolis resident and falsifying a report about the incident.
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Minnesota Sues Texas to Extradite ICE Agent Accused of Shooting Resident, Falsifying Report
It’s been over two months since ICE agent Christian Castro was arrested in Texas for shooting a Minneapolis resident.
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
For those who don't know, PolitiCON is sort of like the GOP's house organ. If you think they're in any way unbiased, go back to see the hatchet-job they did to HRC. Total tools, so of course they're going after one of the few true voices.
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"tRUmp 2: The Fast-Track Shithole-ization of America"
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 18/08/2026
I’m using my executive authority to ban nonferrous mining in the Boundary Waters.    As far as my administration is concerned, the fight for the future of the Boundary Waters is over. The verdict is in. The decision is made. We will protect this place.
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
THANK YOU!!!
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Absolutely beautiful and sacred as hell. Thanks so much for posting this!!
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daviss @daviss.org · 16/08/2026
"“We Rise” was created as a reflection on resilience and renewal. The mural combines bold lettering with flourishing flowers, using growth as a visual metaphor for the strength of a community that continues to move forward through hardship." -- SHEVA
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Sara Nelson @flyingwithsara.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Here is another article from @labornotes.bsky.social that’s more comprehensive on the issue. 2/2 labornotes.org/2026/08/fede...
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Federal Spies Hunt Minnesota Unions in Search of Conspiracy, But Find Solidarity
Yesterday news broke of a sweeping undercover investigation by the Department of Homeland Security in Minnesota early this year to infiltrate and surveil meetings and obtain the financial records of n...
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Assuming the company hired for the billions-wasted retro-fitting will be 'chosen' thru a no-bid contract, after agreeing to kick back a bunch of those billions to the Grifter-in-Chief?
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Grifter-in-Chief siphoning off America's wealth like Putin pocketed Russia's rubles.
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Anyone still paying money to the Vichy New York Times needs their head examined.
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
How much of that $875 million is going right into the Grifter-in-Chief's pocket?
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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
They started out quieter abut this. They’ve been getting more brazen. We’ve gone from tens of millions with no paper trail to authorized transfers or almost $1B in a little more than a year. bsky.app/profile/samh...
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Why on earth does anyone intelligent pay any attention to Politicon, even just to dunk on them? They lost me with their HRC coverage 10 years ago.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/08/2026
Peggy Flanagan: "We need to rip ICE apart and stop from them from terrorizing our communities"
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gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Normal is NEVER boring. I pray for normal.
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