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jdavnie.bsky.social @jdavnie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This directly into my veins. And yours is hope.
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jdavnie.bsky.social @jdavnie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Can we just agree that privatizing Medicare is a failure and just stop it?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The feds have charged ICE agent Christian Castro with making false statements in the Jan. 14 shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, per NYT. DOJ leaders in Washington overruled local federal prosecutors, who wanted to bring hefty civil rights charges against Castro, ProPublica reported this morning.
minnesotareformer.com
Report: Feds charge ICE agent Christian Castro in connection with Minneapolis shooting • Minnesota Reformer
Federal prosecutors have charged U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Christian Castro with making false statements about the shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis Jan. 14, the N...
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jdavnie.bsky.social @jdavnie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Spread the word. Voting early, in person, is what all the cool kids are doing this year. Some are even helping neighbors do it.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to compel Minnesota to provide access to its statewide voter registration data. Another victory for my firm and our clients. DOJ is now 0-23. ELG is undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/minnes...
democracydocket.com
🚨 United States v. Simon
Learn more here.
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Lisa Demuth has caused more harm to this state than a locust plague. Not only did she sic a bunch of fascist jackboots on us, she looked at the grieving parents from Annunciation who begged her to take a stand against the gun industry and said "Nah."
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jdavnie.bsky.social @jdavnie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Pretty dang amazing.
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jdavnie.bsky.social @jdavnie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Remember when this Administration said they were all about meritocracy, but then implemented DOGE, the reflecting pool, and now this?
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 10/08/2026
A record number of Minnesota voters have cast early ballots ahead of Tuesday’s primary election.
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Minnesota sets early voting record ahead of Tuesday’s primary
Secretary of State Steve Simon attributed the turnout to high-profile governor and Senate contests.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
In 75% of US industries, fewer corporations control more of the business than 20 years ago. That's especially true in the food industry. Just four corporations control 54% of the fresh-cut salad industry, including Taylor Fresh Foods. We're seeing in real time the danger of monopolization.
bloomberg.com
Taylor Farms Produce Is Sold Everywhere, Making Outbreak Difficult to Escape
Taylor Farms produce is everywhere, and comes from everywhere.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/07/2026
"It's not really a trade strategy so much as a demonstration that no American commitment is durable past the next mood swing — which is its own kind of cost, distinct from whatever the tariffs themselves do to the price of Canadian whisky." — @lizdye.bsky.social
publicnotice.co
Tariff Man's new assault on Canada is his dumbest yet
The madman theory works ... right up until it doesn't anymore.
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jdavnie.bsky.social @jdavnie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We are being governed by the stupidest people.
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jdavnie.bsky.social @jdavnie.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Well this isn’t good. Another step along the path to authoritarianism.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 15/07/2026
Naïve to think he was ever going to end ICE traffic stops. He LIKES that his secret police force can do whatever they want with no repercussions. The cruelty is the point.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Every authoritarian action Trump is taking must be understood against the backdrop of his declining popularity. He feigns strength, but he's operating from a place of weakness. This is yet another desperate attempt to undermine the midterms.
nbcnews.com
Trump ousts remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission ahead of midterms
The dismissals hamstring a key bipartisan agency just months before the midterms.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
KEY: all three witnesses are being detained apart, and their story is consistent. They say that there were agents along the side of the vehicle but none in front. When you add the videos showing a lack of evidence of damage to the front despite ICE's ramming claim, ICE's story is falling apart.
“That is a lie,” wrote Jose Trinidad Rojas, 51, in a handwritten statement. “It is impossible for them to say that they were going to get run over … there were no officers in front of or behind the vehicle. They were on the sides.”

Balderas-Ibarra spoke to Rojas, Daniel Tirado Pantoja, 43, and the shooting victim’s brother, Victor Salgado, 44, and said he heard the same story from each as he interviewed them separately. The men are not being housed together, the attorney said. All three are undocumented Mexican immigrants who are now facing removal proceedings.

“All of them reiterated that there were never any ICE agents in front of the van,” Balderas-Ibarra said. “They came in and started shooting from the sides.”
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 09/07/2026
wes, MN 50501 on ICE murder of lorenzo salgado araujo: “authoritarian regimes depend on ordinary people staying home. democracy depends on ordinary people showing up. history is not written by presidents, it’s by ordinary people who decided there was a line they would not let their country cross.”
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jdavnie.bsky.social @jdavnie.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Preach. Center the kids, not the World Cup.
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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
In Minnesota, ICE was split by two goals: arresting immigrants and brutalizing the community. But speeding around in huge convoys of 12+ agents and gassing business districts at random is, frankly, a wildly inefficient way to snatch people. (Recall the huge, quiet deportation machine under Obama.)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.
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Steven @lovekaupo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Bill Clinton “With the help of lifetime appointees to the Supreme Court and a compliant Congress, they have weaponized government to settle personal scores, prosecute enemies, stamp out free speech, and made the federal government a new profit center for themselves and their allies”
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Today is a reminder that the work of protecting our country never ends. Democracy isn’t something we inherit and then forget about. Every generation has to decide whether it will stand up for it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 02/07/2026
minneapolis mayor jacob frey has vetoed city council's appointment of former state rep jim davnie to minnesota ballpark authority, which had passed council 8-4 (1 absent). local NAACP opposed justin baylor's removal frey said council's idea of davnie's qualifications was out of scope of the role
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/06/2026
It is core to the nature of reactionary politics that its adherents *always* conceive of themselves as aggrieved victims, no matter how much power they amass. It's a permission structure for their own lawlessness & violence.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/06/2026
Ossoff: "When they gathered in Atl to remove Black elected officials not by defeating them at the polls, but by manipulating maps to dilute minority power, they saw you mobilize & they backed down. A wave is building ... let's make sure they hear it down at Mar-a-Lago, that GA will bow to no king!"
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Please read and call. Flood the zone.
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jdavnie.bsky.social @jdavnie.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Wait, you're saying the Wedge is in southeast Minneapolis?! Rock my world. I'm going to have to sit with this a bit.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 25/06/2026
I disagree with Tom Suozzi about a lot, but he’s right about this: DSA is organizing while its opponents whine at cocktail parties. You can’t complaint about the left losing elections if you can’t beat them at the ballot box. www.axios.com/2026/06/24/m...
axios.com
"Huge defeat": Democrats left reeling after socialist "earthquake" in New York
"It was a tough night," said Rep. Greg Meeks, the chair of the Queens Democratic Party.
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol... National NBC News poll finds 81% of Americans say there is more that divides than unites the wealthy and those who aren’t wealthy. Wealthy people “don’t have empathy right now because they’re not suffering how other people are suffering.”
nbcnews.com
‘Different worlds’: Americans see a huge divide between haves and have-nots, new poll shows
A national NBC News poll finds 81% of Americans say there is more that divides than unites the wealthy and those who aren’t wealthy.
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jdavnie.bsky.social @jdavnie.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Remember during the 24 campaign when the GOP ran against the alleged censorship of the Biden Administration? Authoritarianism requires compliance across all sectors. So we see attacks on the press, academia, cultural performers, and in this case, the National Parks.
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jdavnie.bsky.social @jdavnie.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Its not great when the DOJ complying with a federal judges order is considered news worthy.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Ossoff: He’s trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone… because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.
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jdavnie.bsky.social @jdavnie.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
So glad Dustin found his in pro-choice self.
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The DOJ dropped misdemeanor charges against anti-ICE protesters, admitting it used improper tactics to secure the indictment. Kat Abughazaleh, one protester and former Democratic congressional candidate, said the administration's attempts to silence them are "not going to work.”
democracydocket.com
DOJ drops charges against Chicago ICE protesters over prosecutorial misconduct
A federal judge said she was “shocked” by the tactics federal prosecutors used to secure the charges.
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
While we slept the DOJ deleted all press releases about charges against January 6 defendants: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
nbcnews.com
Justice Department deletes press releases on charges against Jan. 6 rioters
The Justice Department confirmed that it had deleted the press releases as part of “stripping DOJ’s website of partisan propaganda.”
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jdavnie.bsky.social @jdavnie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
But wait. The City has an emergency training facility already in the 'burbs. If South Minneapolis doesn't want it and North Minneapolis doesn't want it why not just have it on city owned property in the suburbs?
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jdavnie.bsky.social @jdavnie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"As God as my witness I thought beavers could fly!" (IFKYK).
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jdavnie.bsky.social @jdavnie.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Best and most accurate use of the word "collusive" I've seen in a long time.
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jdavnie.bsky.social @jdavnie.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Is the livestream archived for later watching?
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 17/05/2026
There's still a chance for Frey to resurrect this and give Elizabeth Shaffer credit.
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jdavnie.bsky.social @jdavnie.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The corruption is the point with the Trump Administration.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/05/2026
the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history
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jdavnie.bsky.social @jdavnie.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
A rotisserie chicken in every pot!
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jdavnie.bsky.social @jdavnie.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
!!!
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