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MN Dad. Policy, politics, poetics, and poop scooping

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ISAIAH @isaiahmn.org · 09/10/2026
🚨 Trump keeps attacking Somali Minnesotans to distract from his failures. But Minnesotans aren’t falling for it. Today, neighbors across the state stood watch outside their local mosques during Friday prayers. Enjoy this thread of Minnesotans loving our neighbors, & reply with your own photos! 🧵👇🏾
Multiracial group of people stand outside mosque with signs that read “welcome the stranger” and “human rights are not political”Group of people standing outside mosque with signs about loving our neighbors
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Paging Michelle “Florida Woman”Tafoya
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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.northsky.social · 09/10/2026
Target on 225th St in the Bronx/Marble Hill permits ICE to use their parking lots as a staging area. Oct 5th letter from (8) area Bx City Council Members requesting leaseholder to disclose who authorizes ICE use of these (private) lots & demanding they withdraw ICE's permission immediately.
ATTN: PAUL TRAVIS
As Managing Partner for KINGSBRIDGE ASSOCIATES, LLC
675 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Transmitted via electronic mail on October 5, 2026

Dear Kingsbridge Associates,
We write as elected officials representing the West Bronx regarding reports and increasing sightings of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) using the parking lot at Target’s 40 W. 225th Street
location as a staging area for immigration enforcement activity.

REQUEST: We request a response confirming whether Kingsbridge Associates LLC, Target or another controlling entity has authorized ICE’s use of the property. If authorization has been granted, we urge the responsible entity to immediately withdraw or terminate that authorization and take measures to prohibit ICE from using the parking lot for staging, absent access required by law.

Our communities are outraged. In April of this year, more than 50 residents from the Bronx, Upper Manhattan, and Westchester wrote to Target calling on the company to end cooperation with ICE and establish protections against immigration enforcement on Target property. 

This is private property operated by or for Target, where
our neighbors shop, work, and bring their families. In a borough home to hundreds of thousands of immigrants, our residents should not have to fear that their neighborhood shops are being used as a staging ground for immigration enforcement.

We respectfully request a written response by October 31, 2026.
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Punching down is so much easier
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Beyond disgusting. This madman must be stopped. In the meantime, we Minnesotans will keep protecting our neighbors.
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
El-Sayed: "He's personally invested in a company that controls the real estate for the Saline data center. I should ask him: If he wants a moratorium, should the construction stop on his personal investment? Because I'd love it to. We need government that is not bought off."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"
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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨New AD🚨 When Trump tried to take over our streets with armed, masked ICE agents, he found out what Minnesotans were made of.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 07/10/2026
Differences in housing policy post-Surge couldn't be more stark. Both councils passed a temporary 60-day notice requirement for nonpayment evictions. Minneapolis: the mayor vetoed and council centrists refused to override. On pace for record evictions. St. Paul passed it veto-proof. Down 15% YOY
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ISAIAH @isaiahmn.org · 02/10/2026
🔊 “ No one is walking around shopping for the best price in the middle of their heart attack.” MN Senator Dr. Alice Mann is right. Minnesotans can’t afford unchecked corporate consolidation of our healthcare. #mnleg 🏥 Our care is not for sale. Learn more: SaveMNHealthcare.com
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In 2027, MN Hospitals are going to claim they need a bail out from the legislature. Legislators need to remember: Most MN hospitals, especially the big systems, are NOT struggling.
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mayo charged private insurance over 4 times more than Medicare for outpatient procedures in 2022 minnesotareformer.com/2026/09/28/m...
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Mayo charged private insurance over 4 times more than Medicare for outpatient procedures in 2022 • Minnesota Reformer
Mayo Clinic charged admitted patients on private insurance more than twice as much as Medicare patients in 2022, according to a RAND study from 2024 on hospital pricing. For outpatient services — proc...
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ah now it all makes sense... it was a Hollywood pitch gone wrong: Schmitt's Veep
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Minnesota AG candidate’s stock portfolio presents 174 potential conflicts of interest minnesotareformer.com/2026/09/29/m...
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Minnesota AG candidate’s stock portfolio presents 174 potential conflicts of interest • Minnesota Reformer
If Republican Ron Schutz wins the attorney general’s race in November, he will be responsible for enforcing Minnesota’s laws against the country’s biggest and most powerful corporations. His own perso...
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
not to mention isn't that Martin Sabo?!?
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Mitchell Hansen @hansen13.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Minnesota Lynx blow out the Indiana Fever 86-66 in the regular season finale, ending the season with a record of 33-11. Minnesota finishes with 30+ wins for the third straight year, the first team to ever do so in WNBA history. Next up? The WNBA Playoffs starting Sunday.
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And the Mystics win!!!! Suck it Fever!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Tafoya described herself on her podcast as 'sort of a Florida woman'..." www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/p...
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Republican Senate nominee said she was ‘embarrassed’ to be from the state she’s now running to represent | CNN Politics
In a local radio interview earlier this month, Michele Tafoya, the Republican Senate nominee in Minnesota and former sports broadcaster was asked about her past criticism of the state and whether she ...
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
le twat c'est moi
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
👀 www.startribune.com/allina-quiet...
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Allina quietly started, then stopped, saving appointment slots for privately insured patients
Minneapolis-based nonprofit health care provider was courting people with employer coverage. Critics worried about the impact for low-income patients.
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Look at this happy fella
Bright red/orange Mushroom with white spots in pine needles near purple asters
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Chamber of Commerce likes to pretend they were essential to fighting for our neighbors. But MN remembers. Thanks @minnesotareformer.com editor Coolican for this reminder Big Minnesota companies keep quiet as Trump’s immigration crackdown squeezes the state minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/16/b...
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Big Minnesota companies keep quiet as Trump's immigration crackdown squeezes the state • Minnesota Reformer
More than 100 Twin Cities clergy gathered at the skyway entrance to Target’s downtown Minneapolis headquarters Thursday to sing, pray and demand the retailer take a stronger stand against federal law ...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
the lesson from the right is not that their obsessions with trans volleyball, anti Haitian blood libel, or reversing the change in teen pregnancy rate are actually the well framed kitchen table issues of the volk but simply that political discourse becomes about things people say often and loudly
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m sure I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again. Football is stupid.
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Elon Musk: I fed USAID into the wood chipper and killed 700,000 humans. OpenAI: hold my beer.
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Salaam Bhatti @salaambhattiva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Votesafe(dot)org is funded by Elon Musk. Don’t enter your information there. Pass this on.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The tax rate for the richest was much higher when the middle class was strongest It was much higher even under Reagan But now they want you to behave raising taxes on the rich is “COmMuNiSm” ? Bottom line: They think we’re all idiots
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I can’t believe this piece has exactly zero mention of the 1/23 Day of Truth & Freedom general strike and March of 75,000 in subzero cold… incredible erasure of the depth of resistance
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
One of my students came up with this great analogy: using AI to write assignments for you is like using a robot to do your bench presses.
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🤔 "Klobuchar said the red tape around construction was what was hurting housing supply, while Demuth took aim at labor policies like paid family leave implemented by the Democratic-Farmer-Labor trifecta a few years ago."
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Klobuchar, Demuth pledge to boost housing construction though neither commits to zoning reform minnesotareformer.com/2026/09/02/k...
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Klobuchar, Demuth pledge to boost housing construction though neither commits to zoning reform • Minnesota Reformer
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and House Speaker Lisa Demuth, two candidates running for Minnesota governor in November, broadly agree that the state needs to build more homes to increase supply and slow ris...
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I’m old enough to remember the original New Yorker piece by Ian Frazier. And then the book. So funny!
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 31/08/2026
my sense for why data centers have become heinously unpopular in the space of one year prospect.org/2026/08/31/d...
The AI rollout has been the ne plus ultra of Silicon Valley arrogance. A handful of billionaires—whose steadily more incomprehensible podcast appearances indicate participation in some truly unhinged group chats, or consumption of heavy-duty chemicals, or membership in literal, no-joke cults, or all three—declaimed that AI was going to revolutionize all human society, take everyone’s job, and/or maybe wipe out the human race. Therefore they needed to spend trillions and trillions of dollars building AI data centers everywhere, as fast as possible. When the tech barons blearily realized that this wasn’t the best sales pitch, and pivoted to ads about how AI had dull business applications, the damage was already done.

In the meantime, it turns out that while AI technology might not be at the HAL 9000 level yet, the various models are unsettlingly capable and potentially dangerous. Some models seem to touch off psychotic episodes in some people. A “swarm” of hundreds of OpenAI agents recently went rogue and hacked the Hugging Face site used by open-source AI development, causing severe damage. The potential AI use for mass surveillance is particularly troubling.

In short, AI is manifestly a technology in need of democratic deliberation and regulation, and the Big Tech billionaires manifestly are not going to listen to anyone but themselves, unless we force them. Take the simmering unease about AI risk, add in irritation at 20 years of Silicon Valley megalomania, as well as the increasing popular backlash against tech companies—Meta recently settled an enormous lawsuit about harming children for almost $17 billion—and you get a good old-fashioned NIMBY frenzy against the one Big Tech thing Americans can obstruct: data centers. And this time, Big Tech has no one to blame but themselves.
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Lunar eclipse. My photo looks like a painting lol
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It's a great night to rewatch Nine To Five, a genius farce that—unlike many film comedies!—holds up brilliantly AND is packed with great performances and legit political insight
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Also, I highly recommend the amazing podcast Dolly Parton's America, which is full of tremendous reporting and unusual insight, as well as a terrific interview with Dolly: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...
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Dolly Parton's America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts
The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
💔 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
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Dolly Parton, Country Music Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80 (Gift Article)
Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 25/08/2026
Lisa Goodman's job (created specifically for her after retiring from the city council, in appreciation for years of friendship to the mayor) is about 10% of the gap between Frey and the park board. I found an inefficiency. Just find 9 more.
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
how d'you like them apples, Appleton
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Everyone benefits from Paid Leave, including new fathers www.startribune.com/new-mn-paid-...
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Opinion | Everyone benefits from paid leave, including new fathers
One of the most interesting — and hopeful — lessons from paid leave programs is about new fathers. Before 1994, 29% of women but only 4.5% of men used paid parental leave. Since then, though, men have...
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
TIL that over 70 golf courses in MN get tax breaks to the tune of $17M.... raising taxes on other property owners within those jurisdictions. Looking at you, St. Paul Town & Country Club.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/08/2026
"Ultimately, the gadflies don’t seem to actually understand how being a transgender athlete works. The idea that cisgender men like Enes and Royce would voluntarily undergo chemical castration to try to join the WNBA and make a minuscule rookie salary is farcical on its face."
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Transgender athletes are a red herring
It's a non-problem meant to exclude people from public life.
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 14/08/2026
Happy 91st Birthday, Social Security! Now is the time to protect and expand benefits by making millionaires and billionaires pay in at the same rate as the rest of us.
A graphic with a photo of Robert Reich. The quote says, "A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income. Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap."
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I remember only seeing one Hao sign, and it was in Highland Park lol
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Republican Gubernatorial nominee Lisa Demuth is the person who brought Metro Surge down on us. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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Demuth: GOP caucus directed YouTuber to Minnesota. A professor explains why it went viral
University of Minnesota media law professor Jane Kirtley says the new viral video is flashy but absent of facts to back up its claims.
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
she didn't lose, top 2 proceed
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Larsn @larsn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Minnesotans voting for Amy Klobuchar: 614,358 Minnesotans voting for all Republican candidates for Governor combined: 413,548
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