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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 16/09/2025

I've decided to take a break from social media. I'll leave my accounts active for now, but I'm deleting the apps and choosing to stay away for awhile.

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 08/09/2025

Related data point: Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in the United States.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders gets the #1 spot, with 46% of adults saying they view him favorably and 39% unfavorably. Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer, at -33, is almost as unpopular as the oh-so-toxic Democratic Party (at -35).

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 28/08/2025

There are more guns in the United States than anywhere else and more mass murders, too, so maybe, “How could this happen?” isn’t the right question 🤷‍♂️

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 25/08/2025

I graduated with a degree in mathematics, so I'm pretty good at this stuff. $100 drug. 50% off = $50. 75% off = $25. 90% off = $10. 100% off = $0. The president keeps saying he's going to reduce drug prices by 1500%. Can someone do that math for me?

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 15/08/2025

For too long, Democrats have defended the rules while Republicans smashed them. It’s time to start fighting fire with fire. This is a great article.

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How the Democrats Became the Party That Brings Pencils to a Knife Fight

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 14/08/2025

Not the biggest Newsom fan here but this is right on.

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Netroots Nation @netrootsnation.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

"Are we thermostats or are we thermometers?!" asks @keithellison.bsky.social. Instead of bending to transphobia "it is not a good idea to sell out your base. If you want to redeem yourself come up with a story that is inclusive and doesn't feed into rightwing scapegoating." #NN25

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 18/07/2025

ranked choice voting question from aurin chowdhury, asks each candidate say what they admire in each other and why the other 2 should be on our ballots too, starting with dewayne davis on jazz hampton and omar fateh @dewayneforminneapolis.com

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Trump's agenda is getting destroyed among independents

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 02/07/2025

This is a must-watch. It’s Mamdani explaining how Democrats can win back voters they’ve lost—and how he pulled it off last week. Tl;dr: Listen to voters, fight for them, and give them something to be FOR, not just talking about what they should be AGAINST.

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 01/07/2025

This is true, if you don't think poor people count as human beings.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29/06/2025

I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Viktor Orban tried to ban the Budapest Pride parade. He got the biggest one yet. Steve Hendrix reports from the Hungarian capital www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 28/06/2025

Minnesota. Go see Cabaret at the Guthrie before the Administration cancels theater. It’s absolutely chilling.

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Adam S. Hersh, Ph.D. @ahecon.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Gross indeed. The Democrats now smearing Mamdani are the same Democrats who did nothing to stop Trump's return to power and are doing nothing now to oppose his rampant corruption and authoritarian power grab.

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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

16 million people would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda, including 137,000 people in Minnesota. Policymakers should protect people’s health care, not cut it.

137,000 people in Minnesota would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda.

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 25/06/2025

We should be so lucky! (Screenshot from www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/n...)

Mr. Mamdani’s relentless focus on economic affordability resonated widely and could be a playbook for the party’s success as well. “There is no doubt that Trump and Republicans will try and seize on him as a kind of exemplar of what the Democratic Party stands for,” Mr. Axelrod said.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

it turns out that embracing a multi-racial, multi-faith democracy is the best path towards peace in this chaotic world.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Imagine if the Democratic Party actually helped Zohran instead of trying to kneecap him at every step. A better party is immediately possible if they stop shoving money into the anti-trans combination Racism Dial/Money Toilet and instead get behind candidates people actually want.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

It’s true we don’t have a “vaccine” for HIV, but we *do* have an injectable long-lasting HIV prevention drug that was supported by NIH research dollars and approved by the FDA literally days ago. So stupid to back off on vaccine research when we’ve made so many promising breakthroughs recently.

Yeztugo® (Lenacapavir) Is Now the First and Only FDA-Approved HIV Prevention Option Offering 6 Months of Protection

Approval Based on Phase 3 PURPOSE 1 and PURPOSE 2 Data that Showed ≥99.9% of Participants Remained HIV Negative on Twice-Yearly Injectable Yeztugo –

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Democrats are racking their brains trying to find the "Joe Rogan of the left" while doing everything they can to defeat people like Zohran Mamdani and AOC, who actually possess the skills they're so desperately looking for.

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 22/06/2025

This is how you speak about God when speaking of God authentically is completely foreign to you.

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 19/06/2025

“Ideological flexibility,” or what some might call “extreme hypocrisy.” But what else is new.

Screenshot of a New York Times article: “A proposed $5 trillion debt limit increase would underscore the ideological flexibility that many Republicans are willing to embrace when they are in power.”

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 19/06/2025

I held it together at tonight’s vigil until the brass ensemble from the Minnesota Orchestra started playing Amazing Grace and the crowd spontaneously joined in singing 💔 It was good to be with others tonight, lighting candles, sharing hugs, and petting golden retrievers.

A photo of the makeshift memorial that has appeared at the state capitol honoring Melissa Hortman.

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 18/06/2025

This administration is literally in favor of LGBTQ dying.

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 16/06/2025

Earlier this year, my pastors attended a Kingian nonviolence training. They came back and began to share new ideas with the congregation, and one Kingian principle has been sitting with me ever since: “Avoid internal violence of spirit as well as external physical violence.”

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Rep. Leigh Finke @leighfinke.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

She never backed off her commitment to us. And for that I will always be grateful.

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Lindsay Bacher @lindsayinmpls.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

When I think about Melissa Hortman, I think about this list. Rest in power.

List of top 30 bills for the 2023 legislative session, with a check box next to every single one for “enacted” and “passed”

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 14/06/2025

Take a few minutes to watch this interview with Republican former Rep. Pat Garofalo as he reflects on the loss of his friend Melissa Hortman. His vulnerability is a reminder of the humanity and compassion we all need to reclaim in our public life. youtu.be/G1LkMsduWMw?...

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Minnesota Rep. Hortman killing: She should be 'celebrated and honored'

YouTube video by FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 14/06/2025

This is a great post capturing the critical role Speaker Hortman played in engineering the 2023 Minnesota miracle.

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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Two children have lost their mom and dad. A family has lost its daughter. I have lost a dear friend. Minnesota has lost a passionate leader.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/06/2025

Speaker Hortman was a bold and brave leader who made hard decisions and fought for the people of Minnesota every single day. She and her husband Mark did not deserve to die. My heart goes out to their children.

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 13/06/2025

Life is hard! Call someone this afternoon who you know could use it and let them know you care.

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

This quote captures the empty Christianity of so Republicans perfectly: “The role of the church – the role of people of faith – is to care for our neighbors. Yes,” said Rep. Isaac Schultz, R-Elmdale Township, during the House floor debate. “But not in this instance, specifically.”

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 07/06/2025

We grabbed dinner last night at Taco Taxi and tasty pastries afterward at Panadería San Miguel. 10/10 would recommend.

Selfie in front of Panadería San Miguel with pastries in hand.

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DeWayne Davis @handle.invalid · 05/06/2025

It's been a bit over 48 hours since the Federal raid in South, and I'm still struck by the impact that such a large, armed presence has had on our community. Impact matters, especially given the fear that our immigrant communities are facing from this Federal administration.

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 05/06/2025

"It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep on conjuring and proposing futures alternative to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one." Rest in peace, Walter Brueggemann.

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 05/06/2025

“Have you even said thank you once?”

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babsbeaty @babsbeaty.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

If this the execution of a criminal warrant why were ICE and Home Land security agents there? If it was an immigration case, why were military vehicles needed. In either case, why were Minneapolis and Hennepin County officers involved but no one seemed to know why? Can’t have it all ways

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 03/06/2025

i saw so much leadership from the mayoral candidates on site. @omarfatehmn.com talking to an upset woman who saw agents take people away. @jazzformayor.bsky.social running around trying to deescalate. @dewayneforminneapolis.com checking on the person who was injured no mayor frey

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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

O'Hara was quoted in the paper *today* saying MPD didn't have enough staff for an 8-person investigative unit for non-fatal shootings—the same program St. Paul is using to cut its gun related homicides in half. Got plenty of guys to run interference for ICE tho.

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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

the fact that the democrats are feeding republicans tacos that democrats paid for is such a clear picture of the dynamics in this stupid country

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 31/05/2025

You know things are bad when KARL ROVE starts sounding like the voice of reason.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Asked about Medicaid and SNAP cuts killing people, Senator Joni Ernst replied: “Well we all are going to die.”

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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 29/05/2025

Target vs. Costco stock prices since Target abandoned its DEI initiatives and Costco doubled down on theirs. It's almost as though DEI is good for business 🤔

Stock chart showing Target down 30.42% and Costco up 7.82% since January 24, 2025.

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Julia Coronado @jc-econ.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Real businesses embraced efforts aimed at diversity and inclusion because it allowed them to better serve their customers and compete for talent. Period. Pundits have fried brains & Americans are overly susceptible to divisive propaganda. Diversity OTOH is just good business

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