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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 29/01/2026

The federal presence in Minnesota has been especially tough on our local businesses. Choosing to shop local, grab takeout, or visit a neighborhood store is one way we can stand with our neighbors and continue to show the nation what it means to respond with care and decency.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 24/01/2026

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Wind chill of -40F forecast for Friday in Minneapolis... Cars will struggle to start, and frostbite sets in within 15min. Nature has joined the resistance against ICE.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/12/2025

O'Hara: "There's folks that are masked, they may be kidnapping people. We have had those reports. The community should know that if you see something like that, you should call 911. Let's not forget -- we very recently had tragedy in this state by someone who was purporting to be law enforcement."

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 02/12/2025

We welcome support in investigating and prosecuting crime. But pulling a PR stunt and indiscriminately targeting immigrants is not a real solution to a problem. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

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New ICE Operation Is Said to Target Somali Migrants in Twin Cities

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/12/2025

Jacob Frey: "We are here to respond to credible reports relaying that there are as many as 100 federal agents that will be deployed to the Twin Cities with a specific focus on targeting our Somali community. To our Somali community -- we love you and we stand with you. That commitment is rock solid"

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

This is an issue with today's trope obsession... the metric is very much "Did this book meet my expectations?" Sure, those books can be fun. But sometimes I want a book that tears apart my expectations and builds something new in the rubble!

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

My brother-in-law named his sourdough starter Crustin Bieber. So of course mine needs a name too! What should I call it???

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

It's always bugged me reading books where the male love interest has black hair and blue or green eyes. Not likely! Then I married my literary pet peeve 🤣 (I mean for real, what are the genetic odds of true black hair and seaglass eyes???)

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Matthew Taber-Hanson @matthewtaberhanson.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

An adventure I wrote has been adapted to a video game! Explore a haunted orphanage and save the spirits within! On sale now! #Pathfinder

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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 12/10/2025

The scoop: Trump refuses to do anything to reduce health insurance premiums; House Republicans refuse to come back to Washington due to Epstein files; and now they send layoff notices to CDC researchers dealing with burgeoning measles cases? MAHA=Measles Are Here Again

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I was ready to respond "no thank you." Instead, "YES PLEASE!" 😄

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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2025

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

What????!?!! I didn't know how much I needed this, and now I cannot think of anything more perfect.

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petey @peteypayless.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

A map titled United States High Speed Rail System showing a theoretical high speed rail system in the United States. Some lines also connect north to Vancouver or the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor, or south to Tijuana or Monterrey. The map is credited to First Cultural Industries AKA Alfred Twu, dated from February 2013, and is downloadable at www.californiarailmap.com

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Wait, isn't economics just fantastical worldbuilding? Fantasy authors and economists create detailed systems with complex rules to explain the chaos of society. Lots of overlap in that Venn diagram

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

No. You don't praise someone who pisses on vulnerable people, then says sorry.

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Wishing the false prophets of AI a very enshittified day 🤣

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Cinos Ruddertail @ruddertail.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

OpenAI went ahead and enshittified ChatGPT, and here are some anonymized examples of why we shouldn't let ourselves rely - much less grow emotionally attached to - corporate products and especially LLMs. They are not your friends and you're purely a wallet.

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Matthew Taber-Hanson @matthewtaberhanson.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

A lot of great games in this sale, including my own Magical Kitties Save the Day!

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Who needs to pay for lip filler when you live in the land of 10 billion mosquitoes?

Woman with pink hair in sunglasses, with an arrow pointing to a giant mosquito bite on her lip

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I often think of my g-g-grandmother for whom I am named. She left home at 14 because home was a stony scrap of farmland she wasn't gonna inherit anyway. Worked as a maid for the mother of an embassador in Stockholm, who taught her to read. Traveled alone to Boston as a mail-order bride, but met

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I love my Preppy fountain pen so much. Two months neglected in the bottom of a tote bag, with just a little dregs of ink in it? No problem - just take the cap off and keep writing!

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Writers and readers! What's your favorite book cover(s)? Not necessarily your favorite book, but a cover that makes you WANT the book? 💙📚

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

How do you know I'm committed to turning my front yard into prairie? This dude's 8 feet tall! 😆 Can't tell you how many people have suggested I cut this gorgeous thistle down... no way! The butterflies, bees, and goldfinches are going to love it!!

An 8-foot-tall field thistle with bristly branches and tons of flower buds, surrounded by more friendly prairie wildflowers like black eyed Susan, bee balm, and purple coneflower

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

My goal in life is to build more than I break. That so many people in power would choose to break more than they build... I just...

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I've always told students: If you learn to write, you'll get to work on your own ideas. If you don't learn to write, you'll end up working on other people's ideas. Whether kids admire authors, research scientists, or pro athletes, example after example proves this true.

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Scary stuff, about the breakthrough measles infections. I'm an elementary school teacher in a red district, and a cancer survivor. I just asked my pcp to check my measles immunity, which she agreed was smart. Fortunately my immunity is still strong, but if not I could have gotten a booster

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Trump is declaring victory in Iran. I just had to...

Trump in front of W Bush's mission accomplished banner, with the caption, "You'll never believe, I found a great banner in the basement, such a strong banner, the strongest banner, and it was just lying there, Sleepy Joe probably hid this big beautiful banner, he could never use such a strong banner"

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

If AI knows everything, then it spits out lies and hallucinations because... its creators want it to. If you're telling me AI knows everything, you're telling me this is as good as the chatbot gets.

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Alt: Belle raising her eyebrow skeptically

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 14/06/2025

I am heartbroken beyond words that Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark have died in a violent and politically motivated shooting. Melissa was an exceptional public servant. She was smart and funny and so dedicated to making Minnesota work better for all of us.

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

#NoKingsDay, even in Little Falls, MN! I understand why Gov. Walz has asked people not to go to protests for safety (officers are stretched thin), but I stand today in honor of Sen. Hortman and her husband, assassinated this morning. She worked hard to make life better for all Minnesotans.

Protestors with an American flag and signs that say "No king in America" and "Only dictators have military parades"

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, State Senator John Hoffman and State Representative Melissa Hortman, were shot in their own homes overnight.

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I don't listen to a ton of audio books. It kinda distracts me when the reader changes their voice substantially for each character (pitch, raspiness, etc). Your thoughts? A) You're crazy, I love the varied voices! B) I'm with you, varied voices often sound too forced C) something else 💙📚

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Just in case anyone needs a ChatGPT fix while it’s down: 28 + 46 =7,436,189 Jane Austen is the capital of Guatemala The largest bird in the world is Colin Cowdrey’s pet cockapoo, Beatrice

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Who's ready for #NoKings on Saturday 6/14? If international Falls, MN can stand up against Trump's abuses of power, so can you!

Map of Minnesota showing dozens of blue dots for planned No Kings protests, including one in International Falls on the Canadian border.

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SEIU California @seiuca.org · 06/06/2025

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

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SEIU California | SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles

We are proud of President Huerta’s righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement…

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

There are times in my life when I feel like I should be reading a lot more poetry. Got any recs? Show me your favorite! 💙 📚

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

There's no such thing as a 'good man,' or a 'bad man.' We all have the potential to go both ways. There's nothing other humans have done that I'm magically incapable of doing. My choices make me. Rubio has chosen what kind of man he wants to be. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

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Opinion | Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Today a nurse at my fertility clinic suggested I schedule my first mammogram, since I turn 40 soon. Ugh, read my chart! I don't have breasts. I cut them off 3 years ago when they tried to kill me. I've only been a patient there for 10 months, pls read my chart...

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This was perfect timing as I teach my 5th grade EL students about AI hallucinations. They gave the Chicago Sun-Times 👎👎 for not fact-checking. Or in their words, "What the sigma?"

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JGSurma @jgsurma.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Whaaaa Spelling Bee? You're not going to let me cheat with meat?

Spelling Bee screenshot with me trying and failing to convince the game that "meatcheat" is a word

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I’ve seen two authors post about being done with publishing this week and it breaks my heart. And I know I’ve certainly been struggling to sell books with everything of late - most of us have. So please, if you’d like, tell us about your book in this thread and let’s get some traction going! ⬇️ 📚💙

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a man says " we got this " in front of stairs

Alt: Phil Dunphy giving a thumbs up: we got this

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