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Laurie LK

@laurielk.bsky.social
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Dabbling in cities, gardening, books, bikes, dogs and cats. Saint Paulite

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Laurie LK @laurielk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This doesn't get the attention its impact deserves. You think your money is safe. Without strong regulatory enforcement, it's not. The finance bros cannot be trusted to do the right thing.
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Laurie LK @laurielk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If anyone is a PM with banking/mortgage experience -- I'm retiring -- come take my job. careers.mn.gov/psc/mnjob/MN...
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Careers
When all employees are embraced, respected and heard, we will build a collaborative, equitable, inclusive and anti-racist culture where everyone thrives.
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Laurie LK @laurielk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
OMG, when you think they can't sink any lower.
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National Fair Housing Alliance @natfairhouse.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Transparency is key to fair lending enforcement. The CFPB’s decision to stop publishing consumer complaint narratives will make patterns of discrimination and consumer harm harder to see, investigate, and address. Read more from @nclc4consumers.bsky.social: www.nclc.org/cfpb-hides-c...
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CFPB Hides Corporate Wrongdoing from Public View
Trump Administration Removes Consumer Reports from Public Database
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Lauren in Saint Paul @comobelladonna.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Jesus fuck 😂
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Laurie LK @laurielk.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
We don't have $ for HCMC but can find $2 million for subsidizing racehorse owners?
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Bryan Hansel @bryanhansel.com · 15/04/2026
This is the Boundary Waters. It's a million acres of wilderness with 1,000s of lakes with water so clean you can drink it. Today, the Republicans in the Senate are trying to sell it out to a foreign mining company. Call your senators today at (202) 224-3121 and tell them to vote no on HJR 140.
A canoe sitting on a pristine lake at sunrise
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
13/ "Republican Minnesota state legislators said that they helped [Nick] Shirley prepare the video... purporting to expose fraud in Minneapolis’ Somali community." www.mediaite.com/media/tv/rep...
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Republican Minnesota Lawmakers Admit They Worked With Nick Shirley to Expose Daycare Fraud
Minnesota Republicans admitted steering YouTuber Nick Shirley and his researcher “David” to daycare sites for viral fraud investigation video.
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Kathryn Kysar @darklake.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.
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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Spring has sprung.
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Laurie LK @laurielk.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Kids did not go on expensive field trips in the 70s. the big one for Girl Scouts was to take a school bus the 60 miles from LaCrosse to Prairie du Chien to visit the robber baron mansion Villa Louis and the Fort Crawford Museum of Medical Progress. I think I did that one 2 different times.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.
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Laurie LK @laurielk.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Pie slices are BOGO at Hot Hands today. I highly recommend the Toasted Vanilla; I had it for breakfast. Support small business. 😀
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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
interesting that it wasn’t 8 arrests *of actual undocumented immigrants* interesting in the same way we built camps that could detain anyone, rather than ways to more effectively find, process, and deport undocumented folks it’s “policy by other means” — the policy being ethnic cleansing
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Jason @jasonsamuels.net · 06/03/2026
So does everyone understand now that the sitting President of the United States is devoid of empathy and does not care if his constituents get killed?
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Oh yes
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Jene O'Ween @luckymud.myatproto.social · 24/02/2026
Seeing this visualization has been really impactful for me. There were times when people tried to come at us sideways for claiming this is *different* and massive in a way that we hadn't seen other places. But it really really has been.
A graph using reports from people over papers showing Numbers of reported kidnappings and activity from Minnesota, California, Florida, Texas, and then a combination of all other states. The highest Spike is in mid-January showing that Minnesota was reporting 500 incidents a day while California was reporting right around 100. Along this whole graph, Minnesota is showing at least double reports compared to everyone else with the exception of a time in very early January when California was almost on Pace with what we were seeing here. There is a small heading up top that says: immigration enforcement in Minnesota dwarfed the rest of the nation.
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Eric Hart @erichart.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
School Choice is like the myth of colonizing Mars. A lot of public money and effort wasted on creating whole new solutions that are more expensive, time consuming, and upward wealth transferring than just fixing the existing environment
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Act free to be free @mikerollin2.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I'm so grateful for @aishagomez.bsky.social's leadership. So many of our leaders disappeared while our community was under attack. Aisha was there with us always - on the streets, behind the scenes helping build webs of mutual aid, & now here on the floor of the MN house. Listen to every minute 💜
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Dani Minneapolis @mplsmndani.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The senate will vote on this soon! We need friends in all states to pressure their senators to vote against this very destructive resolution.
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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I pulled together a small list of body camera-related resources, just in case anybody is curious about how abolitionists think about them. - Mariame Kaba wrote a blog post in 2014 about police reforms to oppose: www.usprisonculture.com/2014/12/01/p...
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Prison Culture » Police “Reforms” You Should Always Oppose…
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Over 35,000 munitions have been sent to Minneapolis "intended to battle protesters": “Fucking overkill,” a homeland security official said of the inventory. “I’ve never seen this amount of shit being used.” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/in-ices-wa...
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In ICE’s War, the Public Is Winning
Feds stockpile 35,000 munitions in Minneapolis - but suddenly withdraw
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Laura Flynn @lfly.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
We have trying to tell people in other parts of the country that this is an occupation straight up. And they tend to think we are exaggerating- or its hyperbole. Nope, straight up ICE and Border Patrol view Minnesotans as a population that must be suppressed.
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Kyle @kylehebert.net · 29/01/2026
Minneapolis, the city I live and work in, was just called a “theater” by a representative of the federal government. And just to disambiguate he meant theater (warfare) not theater (muppets).
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Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
We have already seen that the law and various signs saying federal agents could only enter without a judicial warrant didn’t make a difference. Now we know why.
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Turning a Phrase @turningphrases.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
"Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states” Was MN one of the targeted states and did Trump and Elon ask them so they could fix elections? @ag.state.mn.us
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Laurie LK @laurielk.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
AI is new Coke.
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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
20 Republicans with integrity could stop all of this today, but they don't exist in those kind of numbers any more.
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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
@pdouglasweather.bsky.social is one courageous upstanding dude. www.startribune.com/bwca-mining-...
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Paul Douglas: My eyes are wide open to Boundary Waters threats
"If you contaminate the headwaters, you don’t kill just one lake; you poison the entire bloodstream of Minnesota’s last untouched wilderness," Douglas writes.
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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Stauber is doing this right now, while the state is under federal occupation.
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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
For fuck's sake. (If you think Minnesotans are enraged now . . . well, there are a lot of things to be enraged about.)
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
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Bree 🇵🇸👍 🧊🚫 @breeminneapolis.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
ICE is apparently slapping "student driver" stickers on their cars for today and that's the funniest possible tactic to cover for an asshole who can't drive in snow.
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Making a free cycling game @dfeldman.org · 18/12/2025
Rep. Beatty is on the Kennedy Center’s board and says she was not allowed to speak out against renaming it. Also, coincidentally, she has over 67,000 followers on X, yet almost no views on any of her posts.
Rep. Joyce Beatty @RepBeatty
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For the record. This was not unanimous. I was muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition to this move. Also for the record, this was not on the agenda.
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Making a free cycling game @dfeldman.org · 16/12/2025
It’s important to know what they want here. They want it to be legal to sell health insurance across state lines, so you could get a cheap South Dakota policy in California that covers the bare minimum.
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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Meet one of St. Paul's wonderful utility box artists. www.parkbugle.org/ruby-thompso...
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It’s Julie. Dr. Tilsen, if you’re nasty (or use AI) @queeringtherapist.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
IT’S “SOMALI” NOT “SOMALIAN” CORRECT EVERY MFER WHO DOES THIS WRONG
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Sustain Saint Paul @sustainstpaul.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🚨Proposed zoning changes to the Mississippi River Critical Corridor could severely limit development downtown. 🌇 With a thriving downtown being essential to the health of our tax base, we ask you to submit a public comment before the city's hearing on Wednesday, Dec. 3rd🧵
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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I feel like there’s this Minnesota liberal idea that we’re in a blue state so things are better here in terms of detentions and deportations. Our state protections aren’t strong enough!!! Kidnapping is happening every day here!
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Bluntzkrieg420 @bluntzkrieg420.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The next president better start tearing this garbage down day 1
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ndndad @ndndad.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Trump is cooking the Fed and they didn't even get to fire Lisa Cook. www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/min...
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Statement from Senator Warren on the Federal Reserve’s Reported 30% Staff Cuts on Supervisory and Regulatory Team | United States Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
The Official website of The United States Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
If you don’t think this is a dry run for the midterms, buddy, well…
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Trevor Burns @burnsiemn.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Seems bad. www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/p...
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Federal agency overseeing US nuclear stockpile will furlough most of its workforce starting Monday | CNN Politics
The federal agency responsible for overseeing and modernizing the US nuclear stockpile will furlough the vast majority of its staff Monday as the government shutdown drags on, according to the Departm...
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
DoD today confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. - Pentagon Press Association
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Holy crap. This is terrible. The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.
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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
They'd better start protecting or selling to private land trusts all the Northern Forests in Minnesota or they will be destroyed for lumber.
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Doron Clark @doronclark.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Help keep the Minnesota Senate in the DFL’s hands by giving $5 directly to one of our swingiest districts: the White Bear Lake/Vadnais Heights area. Give $5 to Heather Gustafson’s campaign now: secure.actblue.com/donate/5doll... Thanks!
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Five Dollar Friday!
Five dollars. Thousands of voices. One strong campaign. #GusForUs
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strangepuppy @strangepuppy.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Please note: if you see stickers or posters advertising an “Active Club,” they are not some sort of benign fitness club. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
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Patriot Front is hidden hand behind dozen active clubs
The white nationalist hate group is trying to boost recruitment by secretly controlling a large swath of the active clubs network.
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