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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 12/09/2026
Cheat like hell is the Trump family motto.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Together, we proved that Minnesota is not for sale. When we work together, when we organize together, and when we fight together—we are unstoppable.
Minnesota is not for sale
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Free Press @freepress.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
To recap: Last Monday, the SCOTUS upheld Trump’s power grab by endorsing his ability to fire independent federal agency commissioners at will. Our statement: www.freepress.net/news/supreme...
freepress.net
Supreme Court Destroys Independent Agencies and Sets Up Even More Opportunities for Corruption and Corporate Capture
"Today’s Supreme Court ruling is a tragedy for good government, and for the ability of federal agencies to stand up against the overreach and favoritism of this president or any other," says Free Pres...
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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
In honor of 500 days of Trump’s presidency, here’s a thread of 500 ways he’s helped lower costs for working-class American families:
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This is flying under the radar, but Trump's cronies have started their own organization to plan 250th anniversary events. Not only is their "Freedom 250" receiving taxpayer funds, it's also soliciting big donations from corporations in exchange for face time with Trump. Everything is for sale.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Trump has shredded the Constitution. He's taken an axe to checks and balances. He's using the presidency to line his own pockets. This is why we need to make sure that on March 28 — two weeks from today— we march across America in the largest demonstration in the nation’s history. NoKings.org
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Free Press @freepress.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
🚨 Another journalist arrested. Estefany Rodríguez is a reporter in Nashville who has covered immigration enforcement and its impact on the immigrant community. Now, she's the one detained. 🧵>
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2026
Tillis to Noem: "A 14 month old dog is basically a teenager in dog years. You decided to kill that dog bc you hadn't invested the appropriate training, then you have the audacity to write a book & say it's a leadership lesson! ... Those are bad decisions not unlike what happened in Minneapolis"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks. They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors. Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption. Watch how they vote this week.
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Free Press @freepress.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
⚠️ Beware of the military-technological complex. Musk, Bezos, Google, & Musk send a clear message to Trump: Give us military and surveillance contracts and we'll help spread your authoritarian gospel to billions of people every day. @timkarr.bsky.social explain: www.freepress.net/blog/big-tec...
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York
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justinsimmonsne.bsky.social @justinsimmonsne.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me - corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Trump was able to find $40 billion to bail out Argentina and $300 million for his new ballroom. Yet he can't find funds to prevent millions of Americans from losing access to healthcare or stop kids from going hungry. Cruelty is the point.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
$170B for ICE and Border Patrol $40B for Argentina $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation" $200M for Kristi Noem's jets $98M for Trump's golf outings But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 04/10/2025
Yesterday, I asked Americans to tell me what a DOUBLING of health care premiums would mean for their families. Here are just a few of their responses:
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Bernie Reads Your Health Care Stories | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
#France Happy Bastille Day #ViveLaFrance
#France Happy Bastille Day #ViveLaFrance
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 13/07/2025
At a comedy show, Mahmoud Khalil told Zohran Mamdani, “I am excited about the possibility of raising my son in a city where you are mayor.” It was a stunning moment, Hanif Abdurraqib writes.
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Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are In on the Joke
What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I hold a town hall every single month because it gives me an opportunity to hear from my constituents on what they need. Every single Member of Congress should be doing the same.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
As my friend Bernie Sanders says, "They've got the money, but we've got the people."
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Free Press @freepress.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"Attacking journalists and the media is on page one of the authoritarian playbook." - @notaaroncraig.bsky.social "At a time when networks need & merit public support, Trump and Congress are angling to defund the CPB, which provides 10% of WPR and PBS Wisconsin budget." captimes.com/opinion/edit...
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Editorial | WPR and PBS Wisconsin sustain Wisconsin democracy
Editorial: The notion that public broadcasting is a liberal propaganda machine that serves the left is a conservative myth.
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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This is indefensible. At a time when health insurance companies are charging more and more and families are struggling to pay their monthly premiums, CEOs should not be getting massive salary increases. www.startribune.com/blue-cross-o...
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Blue Cross of Minnesota CEO saw 34% pay increase to $4.3 million
Big bonus drove annual compensation jump of nearly $1.1 million for Dana Erickson, chief executive of the Eagan-based health insurer.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
100 men vs. 1 gorilla? How about the working class against the oligarchy? The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. This is the real fight we need to be talking about.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 15/04/2025
One thing I've learned over the last 85 days - believe these guys when they say what they're going to do.   Elon Musk called Social Security a Ponzi scheme and said it had to be eliminated - consequences be damned, apparently. They're gambling your future and don't care who gets hurt.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.
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Kanela @2learnmore.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I don’t want out of Trump‘s America. I want Trump out of my America
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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Massive turnout at today's #HandsOff! rally against Musk and Trump in St. Paul, Minnesota 🔥🔥🔥
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/03/2025
O, he’s drunk
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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Medicaid covers nearly 1/4 of our state's population and 41% of our children. We stand united against the GOP's extreme proposal to cut Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and corporations.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
“…the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.” - FDR, 1938
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 06/03/2025
The stakes are just too high.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 28/02/2025
If this were play’d upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 27/02/2025
The next time you hear Republicans mention tax cuts, ask yourself: For who? Because unless you’re in the top 5%, it’s probably not you.
Graph titled: trumps tax proposals cut taxes for the richest 5% while raising taxes for other groups.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This is what democracy looks like! Coverage from @theguardian.com in the graphics, and continued in this 🧵 #50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #March4thForDemocracy #ImpeachTrump #NoKings #PoliticalRevolution #BuildTheResistance
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
House Republicans released a draft budget that aims to cut $2 trillion in spending. The programs impacted could include Medicaid, SNAP, and education programs. Why the cuts? To finance another round of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It's reverse Robin Hood.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Trump just directed the DOJ to stop enforcing an anti-corruption law prohibiting corporations from bribing foreign governments. Tasked with implementing this order is none other than former corporate lobbyist, and current AG, Pam Bondi. It's open season for corruption.
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Trump pauses DOJ enforcement of bribery laws for US firms overseas
The President says his new executive order was needed because the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act puts US firms at a competitive disadvantage overseas
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 20/01/2025
Mine honest friend, Will you take eggs for money?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
truthout.org
Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income
This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.
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General Strike US @generalstrikeus.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Want to participate in another act of resistance as we build toward the strike? Take a look at this spreadsheet shared by one of our coalition members to see what companies to support (or not): docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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DEI Policy Tracker for the People
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The President of the United States is calling for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. There are more than 2 million people in the Gaza Strip, nearly half of them are children. Absolutely vile. He must be held accountable for his genocidal remarks.
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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Lotta people don’t want to be seen driving the Nazimobiles
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justinsimmonsne.bsky.social @justinsimmonsne.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We are unstoppable a better world is possible. #StopFascism #StPaul
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Call me crazy, but I think Justin Sun, a Chinese national being prosecuted for fraud by the SEC, sending Trump $18 million should be a bigger story The direct enrichment of Trump by a foreign national weeks before he takes office has merited no coverage in the NYT or Washington Post
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A Chinese national, charged with fraud by the SEC, just sent Donald Trump $18 million
Chinese Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun paid $6.2 million for a banana — sold by Sotheby's as conceptual art — and then ate it last Friday.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 30/11/2024
Bluesky is winning because both twitter and threads have gone out of their way to make their platforms inhospitable to reputable journalists and news. @kattenbarge.bsky.social reports: www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
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Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.
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