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Former librarian, climate action volunteer, history, sociology, biography, mystery reader, Mpls transplant, happy grandmother of 3, political junkie

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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 1h
2026 Tue Oct 6 Weeks before the midterms, election deniers on Georgia's election board quietly asked Trump's DOJ to intervene. Their letter is full of excuses: attacks on the state's voting machines, demands for last-minute software changes and unsubstantiated claims of "altered records." Democracy
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 5h
2026 Tue. Oct 6 I like to read the candidate assessments by Naomi Kritzer on her elections website: naomikritzer.com/2026/ She is thorough and explains the significance of any points she makes. This important election is fast approaching. Maybe you have already voted with a mail-in ballot.
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
2026 Mon Oct. 5 More potential lawsuits: In April the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice issued an opinion that the president doesn’t have to comply with the Presidential Records Act. In May a federal judge said they did, in fact, have to follow the law. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
2026 Trump is announcing that he is going to send $100 dollars to seniors to 'pay' their Medicare Part B premiums. First, that money is not his to use, and second it looks like a bid for votes. Congress established the Medicare Improvement Fund in 2008 to enable improvements to the program and
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
2026 Sun Oct 4 New permitting legislation in Congress. Some Democrats argue that the legislation will help efforts to address global warming by accelerating construction of wind, solar and battery projects — even if it also eases barriers to new fossil-fuel ventures. TWO PRELIMINARY
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
2026 This morning's NYT reports that President Trump personally directed the use of taxpayer money for ads praising his presidency, according to people familiar with the matter. Maggie Haberman, the White House correspondent reported. The story further says "Trump’s use of the presidency to
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
2026 Heather Cox Richardson, Oct. 2 John Hudson of the Washington Post reported this evening that the Trump administration is openly defying Congress, taking $52 million in military assistance lawmakers appropriated for European and Middle Eastern countries hurt by Russia’s war on
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
2026 Dan Pfeiffer wrote this week about Trump's stupid ads. "Using taxpayer money for these ads is Trump once again leading with his chin. Plenty of polling shows voters are furious about what Trump and Republicans are spending money on while they cut health care and food assistance and close rural
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
2026 @levernews.com I have read Sarah Longwell's and Tim Miller's books wherein they look back to their early careers as Republican operatives, mostly communications directors. I am not holding their youthful careers against them. They have been out of that world for a long time.
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
2026 Holding ICE Accountable Michael Stokes Paulsen MN Star Trib 10/01/2026 The federal government has for months mostly refused to cooperate with Minnesota authorities' efforts to conduct criminal investigations of federal officers' wrongdoings in Minnesota. The Trump administration has obstructed
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
2026 A new rule quietly passed by a Trump-appointed financial regulator now means a single hand-picked Trump regulator could wield complete power over Wall Street oversight without any checks — just as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is poised to decide on major rules related to
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
2026 MN Star Tribune Thu Oct 1 p A8 Quentin Williams, whose students call him "Mr. Q," was one of the people arrested on Jan. 7 during a clash outside of Roosevelt High School, the same day Renee Good was shot and killed by an agent in south Minneapolis.
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
2026 Wed. Sep 30 NYT Data Centers They thought no one would notice or care... Under scrutiny is the strain these gargantuan projects have brought to local power grids, causing steep increases in local electricity demand and in some cases driving up residential utility costs.
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
2026 Sep 29 @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social At Strength in Numbers, G. Elliott Morris reported on September 25 that only 24% of American adults say the U.S. is better off under Trump than it had been under Biden. Fifty-eight percent say it’s worse off, and most of them say it’s much worse. Morris
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump’s Illegal and Politically Asinine Ad Campaign open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
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Trump’s Illegal and Politically Asinine Ad Campaign
The White House is spending more than $1 million of your money to air campaign ads
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
2026 Trump has some plans for after the Mid-terms. Maybe new Congressional members and @democrats.org can stop some of them. Whistleblowers who worked at the Kennedy Center claim that $1.4 million that had been allocated to make repairs to the building's roof was redirected to painting the
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Is he maybe mixed up on what his goal is? Or is the offer not real? Weird.
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway👇 Write a letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway
Contact Congress today!
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: Farmers Turn on Trump, DHS Caught Spying on Journalists, Ex-Republicans Are Running as Democrats, and more... www.adamkinzinger.com/p/breaking-f...
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BREAKING: Farmers Turn on Trump, DHS Caught Spying on Journalists, Ex-Republicans Are Running as Democrats, and more...
Top Stories for August 31, 2026.
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2026 Dan Pfeiffer, answering a reader's letter... So many Democratic politicians and staffers feel as if the game has changed and they are no longer rewarded for the reason they originally got into politics: to pass good policy. Most Democratic elected officials are policy wonks. It’s the part
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2026 Sept. 16 Impeach Them All by Jonathan Last of The Bulwark Yesterday Rep. Thomas Massie introduced articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. There are eight charges. The first three are for waging war in contravention of the War Powers Resolution of 1973. The fourth
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2026 Chris Bowers of Bowers News Media Sat. Sept. 26 reports today President Donald Trump informed congressional leaders Friday that he has UNILATERALLY CANCELED ALMOST $1 BILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDING WITHOUT CONGRESS' CONSENT - employing a budget maneuver many lawmakers consider illegal.
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2026 Sat-early Sun Sep 26-27 MN Star Tribune p. D1 The average for a 30-year fixed mortgage loan increased to 7.03% this week, up from 6.3% a year ago. Rates have been on the rise since the U.S. launched attacks on Iran. Mortgage rates and high home prices are pushing couples to
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2026 US in the middle east. MN Star Tribune Sat. Sep 26 A7 From the NYT: A month before President Donald Trump launched his war against Iran, construction crews broke ground on a multimillion-dollar renovation of sailors' barracks at the U.S. base in Bahrain. The project was just the latest
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2026 Amanda Nelson reporting. In MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being born. Data shows that populations are growing only because of immigration. In MN, we are losing people, but they are not dying. MN has a cold winter, which bothers some people, so there's that.
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On Fascism (Kharkiv Meditations, 6/10) snyder.substack.com/p/on-fascism...
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On Fascism (Kharkiv Meditations, 6/10)
Kharkiv Meditations, 6/10
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2026 Recently the administration "has proposed trading away a small parcel of land in Yosemite National Park in California so a private developer can gain access to the park." The potential swap to benefit a real estate private equity firm has galvanized conservationists and environmentalists.
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2026 Protecting Public Lands John Rash MN Star Trib Sat. Sep 26, p. A6 Back in 1903, Pres. Theodore Roosevelt went camping with author John Muir. He was so awed and enthralled by the majesty of Yosemite that he began a process of designating for preservation 'national parks.' We and thousands of
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2026 The problem with the lists Trump wants to use is that while there may be a lot of information about you, likely there is also alot of inaccurate information in these files because they are not actually voter lists from the state election offices. It is all a sham, and should not be
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2026 Barely a month out from the Nov. 3 election, Trump is still trying to purge citizens from the voter roles. In primaries where they tried to say thousands of non-citizens voted, the truth turned out to be 100+/- voters. His goal is to cause so much disruption that he can say the election was
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
2026 Fri. Sep 25 HCR Early today, US District Judge Timothy Kelly granted the request of media outlets to stop Trump’s order banning members of their organizations from the White House, Kelly ordered the credentials of 78 journalists restored immediately
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2026 Sep 24 The US is not sending the missile interceptors Ukraine needs. Lives are being lost. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Ukraine needs roughly 100 Patriot interceptors per month—or about 300 total—to protect the country and survive the winter. Ukrainian officials reported that
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
2026 Sam Sifton in the NYT this morning Sep. 23 The Trump administration defended its expulsion of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House in a court filing that described access as a privilege, not a right. No. Journalists are there to report what Trump and his government say and do
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
2026 Sept. 23 NYT Jamelle Bouie Calls for self-regulation from the chief executives of Anthropic, OpenAI and other such companies rest on the idea that the A.I. labs and their funders are the only people equipped to handle and regulate this potentially dangerous technology. This is why,
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
2026 “But the answer from journalists is simple. To report more, with more sources, more digging, more facts.” Trump has his own answer. The White House YouTube channel announced this afternoon that at 7:00 tonight it will launch
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
2026 More on Trump and the press, in Letters from an American Peter Alexander of MS NOW had his own response to Trump’s attacks on the press: “This is not normal. This is not business as usual,” he said. “What’s happening right now is different. The latest threat against our cherished freedoms
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
2026 Sep 21 HCR On September 18, while White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was out of town, Trump suddenly announced he was banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House. “Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Minnesota judges are standing up too. Warrants, hearings...
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They left the shovel story on the DHS website. The camera, the closed door, and a county attorney did not. State charges. No pardon. November 3.
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Trump’s DHS Said Minnesota Couldn’t Arrest ICE Agents. Here’s The Booking Photo.
Also: four places moved to stop data centers last week, a court struck down the regime’s six-hour deportation rule, and thousands linked arms around the Kennedy Center
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Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · 21/09/2026
Farmers were already getting crushed by the Trump-Vance Administration’s tariffs. Now they can’t afford diesel for their tractors or fertilizer for their fields because of the war. Instead of helping them, President Trump is fixating on plans for a ridiculous 250ft arch! www.npr.org/2026/09/21/n...
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How a national farm leader is dealing with record diesel prices
John Boyd Jr., president of the National Black Farmers Association, says soaring diesel costs are deepening a farm crisis as farmers face sharply higher fuel costs in the middle of harvest season.
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A single county official cannot simply overturn an election by refusing to certify it. But since 2020, certification has increasingly become a tool for fringe local officials to delay results, force state intervention and cast doubt on votes they are legally required to finalize.
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He always says massive deals and throws around the word Treasury, but in Congress Sec. Bessent did not really know where the Venezuelan money went to.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 21/09/2026
NEW: After ICE agents killed two Americans in Minnesota last year, immigration officials offered to stand down in exchange for the state's voter rolls. Now, pro-voting groups are arguing that was one part of a wider pattern of law enforcement interfering with elections.
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Ban ICE from polls now because Trump admin is already violating law and intimidating voters, civil rights groups argue
Civil rights groups argue their lawsuit to block Trump from sending ICE to the polls should move forward now because the administration's already taken concrete steps to chill democratic participation...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
honestly laughing so hard. we're doomed. but we'll be able to laugh at his fails a lot as we swirl the bowl
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Absolute Cinema
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NBC Poll: The Midterms Are a Referendum on Trump, and He's Losing open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
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NBC Poll: The Midterms Are a Referendum on Trump, and He's Losing
A new poll finds voters are more motivated to oppose him than in 2018—and they're punishing every candidate tied to his agenda.
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
2026 Sept. 21 On Tuesday, September 15, the Department of Justice announced charges against five people working for Russian intelligence “to conduct attacks and murders around the world, including in the United States.” The indictment alleges that a network of Russian hit men has operated since
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
2026 Sept 21 HCR Kurt Volker, who served as U.S. ambassador to NATO under President George W. Bush, told NPR’s Elissa Nadworny that President Trump “has largely looked at all of this and said, that’s a European problem. He doesn’t feel a threat to the United States from Russia, and he doesn't see
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la4ygogo.bsky.social @la4ygogo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
2026 Mon Sep 21 HCR Russia has been pushing NATO countries with what European leaders call “hybrid attacks.” Rather than launching classic military attacks, Putin has been allowing drones to go into NATO airspace, cutting undersea telecommunications networks on which European countries
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