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Sen Lindsey Port

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Mom, wife, friend ❤️ Minnesota State Senator 💙 Elder millenial filled with fury 🔥 Long Covid chronic fatigue expert (not by choice)

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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Looks about right.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
No.
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
for years us white folks have been willing to turn a blind eye as people of color were shot dead in the streets by cops for any reason or no reason. our whiteness would protect us. what we are finally now seeing is that whiteness is revocable. we must learn to tolerate this brutality for NO ONE.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Event invitation for all people to step outside at 7pm on Sat Jan 24th and light a candle. In our own communities, on every corner. ICE OUT NOW
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I'm unsurprised but grateful for all the love minestrone is getting from across the country.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The horrors just keep coming. ICE and CBP are inhumane, cruel, and cowardly. There is no real, lawful reason for their actions. The cruelty is the point.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Federal Agents Keep Invoking Killing of Renee Good to Threaten Protesters in Minnesota In apparent references to Renee Good, multiple agents have asked protesters: “Have y’all not learned from the past couple of days?” theintercept.com/2026/01/14/i...
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Federal Agents Keep Invoking Killing of Renee Good to Threaten Protesters in Minnesota
In apparent references to Renee Good, multiple agents have asked protesters: “Have y’all not learned from the past couple of days?”
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Make no mistake: Republicans caused our top attorneys prosecuting fraud, racketeering, and the Trump supporter who assassinated and attempted to assassinate Democratic members of the Minnesota legislature to resign. This is not happenstance, it's ON PURPOSE.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Our tax dollars, that used to go to services to make our lives better, are paying for this occupation and violence.
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Elvia Malagón @elviamalagon.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
After border patrol agents fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, agents showed up to a high school and released chemical weapons during dismissal, Minnesota Public Radio reports. Their live reporting here: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Live updates: Minneapolis confirms name of woman shot by ICE agent
Renee Good, 37, was identified as the woman shot and killed Wednesday morning by an ICE agent in south Minneapolis. ICE said Good was shot while trying to run over agents with her car. Mayor Jacob Fre...
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This is the image I'm going to try to keep with me. This image is Minnesota. It's hope, and looking out for your neighbor. It's compassion and shared comfort. It's community in action. It's exactly the kind of thing Renee Good was doing when she was killed. I'm heartbroken and furious.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 08/01/2026
We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.
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Bryna Godar @bgodar.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Wrote a piece for @slate.com explaining that states have a long history of prosecuting federal officers when they allegedly use excessive force. Federal officers are only immune from such prosecutions when they act reasonably in carrying out lawful duties.
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Minnesota Could Prosecute the ICE Shooter. Trump Can’t Pardon Him.
Shortly after an ICE officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, city leaders began looking into whether the officer had violated state criminal law.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Trump and the GOP are shifting costs to local taxpayers, while cutting the services they pay for. Minnesotans know they’re getting ripped off, paying more to get less. We’re hearing the same story everywhere we go, everyone we meet with in Minnesota, but only some of us are listening.
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Federal SNAP, Medicaid changes force Minnesota counties to raise property taxes
The Blue Earth County Board votes next week on a proposed property tax increase that officials say is needed to pay for the rising costs of administering SNAP, Medicaid and other federal programs that...
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
BREAKING: Resident of Washington state dies after being infected with H5N5 bird flu A Grays Harbor County resident receiving treatment for H5N5 avian flu has died. The Washington State Department of Health extends its condolences to the family.
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Erin Murphy @epmurphymn.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This president endangers lives.
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
WTF. This is so dangerous. Please stop calling for the killing of your political opponents. Some of us have already had our colleagues assassinated by far right extremists. Some of us were on his list. Stop. Just stop.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 19/11/2025
Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble. A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments. We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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November 6th Headline: Did Women Ruin the Workplace? November 13th headline: A central Minnesota man beat his coworker, Amber Czech, to death with a sledgehammer
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I am really furious about this.
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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Seems like a massive deal to the state economy, to just destroy our THC beverage market According to one estimate, it's a $200 million/year business! www.politico.com/news/2024/07... For comparison, "snow activities contributed $238 million to MN's economy in 2023" mn.gov/deed/newscen...
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"This could take down Democrats, too." I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office. Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Same, Chris. Same.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The passage of the bill to end the shutdown included a provision that will likely kill the low-dose hemp edible and beverage industry that Minnesota pioneered over the last 3 years. $200 million dollar industry, thousands of jobs, and hundreds of businesses gone. What a travesty.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I am so furious right now. AGs across the country fought to get SNAP benefits. Federal workers suffered with weeks of no pay. Millions of people showed up to protest Trump. Democrats showed up in record numbers at the polls to say 'we've got your back!' And you caved for literally nothing.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
How tone deaf can you be? What an absolute embarrassment. People will literally die because of this. Since you can't lead, get out of the way for someone who can.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Yep.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This capitulation to Trump is nothing short of a betrayal to the Americans who will lose their healthcare as prices skyrocket. Since we're getting nothing else out of this travesty, we sure as shit better get a new minority leader.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Can we finally put to bed the idea that we should be meek and "safe" and run to the middle?? Universal (or at the very least, affordable) childcare and healthcare. Housing that fits our families and our budgets. Trans rights. Repro rights. Free and fair elections. And oh yeah, hope and joy.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
With tonight's results strongly favoring Dems, cue a bunch of bullshit anti-election orders from Trump in 3, 2, 1....
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/10/2025
This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Women, trans folks, and POC in our armed forces have fought hard to have even a small amount of protection from bigotry, sexism, and sexual assault at their workplace. Hegseth just told them he won't protect them, while sounding the dog whistle to tell predators they can have at it. Shameful.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Pushing right wing trolls to female democrat lawmakers social media pages to threaten them is despicable. We will continue our work to pass gun violence prevention legislation, but we shouldn't have to do it in terror for ourselves and our friends. You won't take our political will to do this work.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
"We are the leaders we've been waiting for." I strongly believe we should have a special session to ban assault weapons, binary triggers, and high capacity magazines. And we should institute a buy back program for people who have those weapons.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Exactly right. Equity, accountability, agency... these do not equal "hating" or "roadblocks" unless all you want is entitlement.
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Minnesota Senate DFL @senatedfl.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
The cost of housing is rising, and too many Minnesotans are being priced out of homeownership. As federal housing aid is cut and costs increase, the Housing budget we passed today takes critical steps to ensure every Minnesotan can find or keep a safe, stable place to call home. #mnleg
“This legislation will help us build more homes by investing in Greater Minnesota's
infrastructure needs; it will support diverse first-generation homebuyers with down payment assistance programs; and it will provide stability for renters through the Family Homelessness Prevention and Assistance Program”
- SENATOR LINDSEY PORT
Burnsville

Image of Senator Lindsey Port speaking on the MN senate floor.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
We passed the Housing Finance and Policy bill off the Senate floor today with bipartisan support. Now it just needs to pass the House and be signed by the Governor.
A photo of Senator Port speaking on the senate floor with text beside the image that says "This legislation will help us build more homes by investing in Greater Minnesota's infrastructure needs; it will support diverse first- generation homebuyers with down payment assistance programs; and it will provide stability for renters through the Family Homelessness Prevention and Assistance Program." - Senator Lindsey Port, Burnsville
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
What could possibly go wrong? We should be spending zero dollars of taxpayers' money on data centers. Unregulated AI is not a positive for humanity.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I'm proud to be a co-signer of this letter, and horrified we even had to write it. Every Senator who voted to confirm RFK is complicit in this bigoted, anti-science, ableist agenda. Folks with autism, you are loved. You are worthy. You belong here.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The Jungle was published just over 120 years ago
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
In a world full of crap news, find a moment of joy. I choose to find joy in an article about potentially cool space shit. I find even more joy in the fact that the article was shared by one of my absolute favorite sci-fi authors, @scalzi.com. He's a great follow, too. Read Old Man's War.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
THIS. We are in a different world, and if we can't get our shit together, our party will be complicit in the downfall of American democracy. This is a moment to do what is morally right. I believe people will support that with their votes, but if I'm wrong, so be it. I'd rather lose than comply.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Join us Monday night for a town hall to share your concerns and fight back! iqconnect.house.gov/iqextranet/E...
South Metro townhall Monday April 14th.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Trying to keep up with all the awful shit Trump and his lackeys do is exhausting. This week has felt like 3 years, and we still have their favorite day of the week to do horrible things left. Get some rest, friends. We've got work to do. Also, wtf, dems who voted for the SAVE Act. WTAF.
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Sen Lindsey Port @lindseyportmn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
We are legally obligated to balance the budget. The committee I chair (housing) has a 2 year budget of $165M. We cannot absorb the cost if Trump cuts rental assistance that over 20,000 MN families rely on. We will have an overnight homelessness crisis.
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