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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 20h

Kristi Noem characterized Renee Good as a “domestic terrorist” — and and Lisa Demuth thanked her

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

“I am not afraid to die. I’m only nervous about the process.” Just an unbelievable failure of governing and the legal system and basic decency.

Before learning Monday that Lee would not be intervening in her case, Pike wrote in a letter to NBC News, shared by her spiritual adviser:
"Whether my clemency is granted or not, l am at peace."
"I am not afraid to die," wrote Pike, who has been on death row for more than three decades. "I'm only nervous about the process."

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The timing on this ruling, as we are all learning more about the assault perpetrated by young men at Cornell, is just impeccable

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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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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 23/09/2026

TODAY: I'm introducing the Youth Voting Rights Act. Donald Trump is trying to limit young people from voting and going after campus polling places. If your vote didn’t matter, Trump wouldn't be doing this. We need to fight back.

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’ll just add to this thread, I guess

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Is anyone keeping a tally of how many Republicans have hired Nazis for their congressional offices or campaigns?

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In actual democracies, a National Voter Registration Day is completely unnecessary, since access to suffrage is easy, often automatic, & not the subject of endless pitched legal & political battles about its restriction.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Except… none of this happened?

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Remember when John Kerry got swiftboated for his ACTUAL Silver Star, Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts?

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 08/09/2026

Naloxone is saving opioid users who otherwise might have died, and getting the opioid antidote in the hands of people who need it most has been key. In Duluth, Harm Reduction Sisters are handing it out for free.

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In Duluth, advocates say wider access to anti-overdose drug is saving lives

Naloxone is saving opioid users in northeastern Minnesota who otherwise might have died. Getting the opioid antidote in the hands of people who need it most has been key. In Duluth, Harm Reduction Sis...

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.

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Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)

The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Dr. Amy Acton, Democratic nominee for Gov. of Ohio, was the target of a failed attack by an armed individual this afternoon. I hope Republicans in Ohio and across the country will condemn this and make it clear political violence is always unacceptable. I know Trump will not.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A Florida grand jury found $10 million meant for poor kids' medicine was "misappropriated" and spent on political campaigns. That report sat sealed since January. It's public now. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-judge-to...

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is downstream of America's oligarchy problem. The GOP is the party of the top 1% of the wealth distribution, but also the ~25th-80th percentile. Meanwhile, media is the provenance of the 90th-99th%ile where you'll encounter dumb campus leftism, but not Nazism or Christian nationalism.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

People with elite media jobs live in like 6 American metros and never interact with people who don't have bachelors degrees (62%.) As a result, they create a fake form of Republicanism based on things that annoy them personally and the most genteel Republicans who exist only to interact with them.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Imagine if American newspapers survived and made punditry a distributed network of major metro columnists. You would hear about the Republican Party from the state flagship college grad who makes $95k writing for the Kansas City Star or the Arizona Republic about the things Republicans actually do.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

life comes at you fast

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Going to be honest, after MapQuest refused to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario, we looked them up thinking we might have to print out directions like the old days. 😂

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/08/2026

Got a painfully high electric bill this summer? Record heat meant cranking the AC and watching your electric bill climb. Trump’s response: killing clean energy projects that would lower your energy costs.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Markwayne Mullin told election officials that refusing to help him purge the voter rolls could mean prison. His department had a list of 15,903 names. A computer made that list. Nobody had finished checking it. Nevada got them on a video call and pressed record.

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The Trump Regime Built A National Voter Purge On 185 Names

What we found in 61 pages of a court opinion, a federal complaint, and a Florida election return

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I can't get over how irresponsible this NYT oped was. The Sumerians did not cancel sovereign debt. This is an undergraduate fail-level misreading of financial history. The whole piece is based on a mistake.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A Chilean copper giant spent a decade trying to dig above America’s most visited wilderness. The Senate cleared the way in April. On Tuesday a governor with five months left in office shut the state’s door in their face.

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Republicans Sold It By One Vote. Walz Took It Back.

Plus: 16 former DOJ lawyers turned on their old department, and a town of 7,500 beat Big Tech

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 21/08/2026

I want my tax dollars to give the people of Gary, Indiana their power back instead of being used to murder and imprison children.

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pixiemona @mwest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“This judiciary committee is no longer an independent branch of Congress... The Senate is supposed to be. But we’re an arm ... of the Trump White House. A resemblance of independence has just disappeared. Its gone.” Ghost Senate @sarahkendzior.bsky.social sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/ghost-sena...

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Ghost Senate

The vanishing of Mitch McConnell.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Spoilers: it's racism. It's capitalism and greedy for-profit healthcare corporations, but even more, it's the long and lasting legacy of racism in the US. White Americans would rather go without the human right of healthcare than extend it to their Black neighbors. We can change that.

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The real reason we don't have Medicare for All in the US.

YouTube video by Parkrose Resistance

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One of the smartest ideas I've seen in the last few years is instead of trying to find "the Joe Rogan of the left," buy up the news sites of defunct papers and put some money into providing local news coverage in rural areas.

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Dr. Dave @drdave1999.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I wasn’t at all surprised by the behavior of the demented madman Americans insisted on making President, but I was horrified and sickened by the extraordinary and indescribable cowardice displayed by Kristen Holmes’ fellow WH correspondents. Every one of them should be jobless.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A win! Huge move by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to protect the Boundary Waters!

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I am almost without words for what has become of this once proud newspaper. I will only say this: Support independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. demdock.com/4w6emld

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

That’s the gist of it.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

January 6 was only 5 and a half years ago, and we’ve already cycled through investigation, indictment, conviction, pardon, and now gleeful promises to do it again only with actual hanging rather than just chants about it. Nice job GOP.

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They're still doing it because we didn't hang them
last time.
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 16/08/2026

US DOJ finds 'unbroken pattern' of sexual abuse by California prison staff A two-year federal investigation found decades of staff sexual abuse against incarcerated women at California correctional facilities.

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US DOJ finds 'unbroken pattern' of sexual abuse by California prison staff

A two-year federal investigation found decades of staff sexual abuse against incarcerated women at California correctional facilities.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Been screaming this since early 2025. We live in the era of the Swill Mill Scandal Reconstituted. Food safety, regulations, inspections: these are what our tax $$ should fund. If they find it profitable, corporations will poison your food, sell you infected/rotten/adulterated food every time.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 07/08/2026

It's very telling how every word a Black or Muslim or Brown candidate like Darializa Avila Chevalier or Abdul El-Sayed or Zohran Mamdani or Cori Bush says is scrutinized, turned around, overanalyzed, and endlessly debated by the same people who see Elon Musk *literally sieg heil* and shrug.

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is exactly the same thing John Sununu did while chief of Staff under Bush I, which caused a months long scandal resulting in Sununu’s resignation and reimbursement of the cost of travel.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 06/08/2026

The St. Paul Charter does not permit the Council to deny access to the ballot because of their own opinions on the substantive law. All they can do is examine the petition's "sufficiency," i.e. the form of the petition and number/validity of signatures.

Sec. 8.03. - Determination of sufficiency.

Any petition seeking initiative, referendum and recall hereunder shall be deemed received by the council when it is filed with the city clerk, for which filing there shall be no fee. Immediately upon receipt of the petition the city clerk shall examine the petition as to its sufficiently and report to the council within twenty (20) calendar days, except that in the case of a recall petition it shall be thirty (30) calendar days. Upon receiving the report, the council shall determine by resolution the sufficiency of the petition.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 06/08/2026

The St. Paul City Council just voted to refuse to put the Tenant's Right to Repair law on the ballot for voters, claiming it conflicts with state law even though Duluth passed a nearly identical law last year. A press release from the Safe Homes coalition which has pushed for the law:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 5, 2026
St. Paul City Council Blocks Certified Right to Repair Petition, Coalition Says City Broke Its Own Charter
Saint Paul voters collected over 8,000 signatures to put Right to Repair on the November ballot. Ramsey County Elections validated 5,440 of them against voter registrations, after duplicates and errors were accounted for, and submitted their report to council. Today the St. Paul City Council chose not to send the measure forward anyway. Safe Homes St. Paul (SHSP) considers this a breach of our city's charter and protocols that have guided ballot measures in our city for years.
The St. Paul city charter is not ambiguous on this point: section 8.03 requires the council to determine "the sufficiency of the petition" by resolution. Section 8.04 gives the council exactly two options once a petition is sufficient: enact the ordinance as written within 60 days, or place it on the ballot. There is no third option where the council simply declines because the Mayor and her attorney found a new legal theory weeks after the deadline to act. We have seen the Mayor's approach to public disclosure over the past week, and are not surprised to see the everyday residents of our city who signed our petition treated with similar dismissal. As our democracy faces unprecedented threats at a national level, it is the responsibility of our local leaders to demonstrate not just that democracy can function, but that it can deliver results for everyday people. This decision does the opposite by choosing fear of wealthy interests over the actual residents of our city.
As has been communicated to SHSP organizers, City Attorney Irene Kao's office told council members this week that Right to Repair conflicts with state law and is "too broad", even though it is nearly identical to language passed in Duluth nearly one year ago. The same office had several months to raise that argument while the campaign spent it gathering signatures. Instead it surfaced on…

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/08/2026

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. This is what they wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)