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Eric Harris Bernstein @ehbinmn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They started texting with a 16-year-old. After two years, they offered to sell him a gun. They consider that "stopping a terrorist attack." And they are calling it heroic. What an absolute embarrassment.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Which is why it was/is so gross that Klobuchar voted for so many of Trump's appointees---because it made her appeal ,ore "bi-partisan." Yes, I'll vote for her in November but God, I am so done with Klobuchar.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's all about emphasizing White unity and both sides, Stacey! Both sides!!!🤢

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

💯!I grew up in White evangelical culture. I went to Wheaton College where I knew plenty of LGBTQT kids whose parents looked at their faces and at a Bible verse & then chose....the Bible verse. The awful human wreckage that resulted is such a condemnation of White evangelicalism.....and today's GOP.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

……and he still went the wrong way. Eyes wide open. Which is even more damning.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And this isn’t some old recycled clip. She said this on Friday, October 2, 2026

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The bird was in such distress. Several of us stopped. It was awful to watch. We didn't know what to do. I sent a message to Minneapolis Animal Control when I got home, but does anyone know anyone else to contact?

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

While walking around the south side of Lake Harriet (near the elf house, around the area below Penn or Queen & Lake Harriet Parkway ) at 4:45 p.m. today (Friday), I saw a Canadian goose wildly thrashing in the water, about 50 yards offshore--it looks like fishing line is tangled around its neck. 1/

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

they became so nervous and skittish, they abruptly left. And we weren't yelling at them! We were just mildly asking them their opinions and they fled. Maybe they were just there on the owner's nasty order. In short, NEVER patronize Southwest Tire and Auto at 50th and Xerxes.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I remember holding signs supporting the amendment to transform public safety on election day in 2021. We were standing in front Michael's Lamps and the owner of SW Tire and Auto sent two workers to stand in front of us waving American flags. When we talked to these guys.....1)

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Jon Collins' reporting has been outstanding. Read this whole 🧵.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As usual, the Onion nails it. Truly America's best News Source.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 29/09/2026

The current widespread displeasure with MPD for mismanaging their budget was preceded by years of false claims from mindless police boosters that cops were starved of funding. It gave political cover for shoveling piles of money into a furnace as a proxy for safety.

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

MPD reports directly to Jacob Frey. This is entirely his responsibility.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Frey, the Strib and downtown business donors don’t seem to mind overspending if it’s the Minneapolis police, which is their modern version of the slave patrols. It’s pretty sick.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Stopped watching TV news in the 80s!

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Evangelicals love Catholics as long as they are pro-Trump, i.e. racist and sexis. White evangelicalism is basically the Confederacy dressed up with Jesus talk. I say this as someone raised in White evangelicalism

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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Maybe it's just me, but it's hard to get worked up about what well-intentioned lack of fraud prevention like this when the President and his administration are openly, brazenly bragging about far more massive levels of fraud and corruption nearly every day. www.startribune.com/mn-gov-tim-w...

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Inside the Walz administration’s fraud response: Missed warnings and a late reckoning

A trove of newly public records and interviews with people in and around the administration provide the clearest picture yet of how Gov. Tim Walz and his team failed to see the threat posed by fraud i...

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Is there a story behind this? Please tell us!

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Thousands of us are deprived of bus rapid transit because Jacob Frey, our dumb-ass mayor, thought it was more important to give his big donors more on-street parking in front of their florist and balloon stores. It pisses me off every single time I'm on the bus on Hennepin Avenue.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Shit like this is why I no longer support public radio—after decades of being a “Legacy” (or whatever the hell it was called) member. The constant “both sides” bullshit, interviews with MAGA officials who lied through their teeth, but were never challenged, just politely thanked…..nope, no more,🤮.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

He means not enough WHITE teens are delivering WHITE babies. And that's all he means.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is why it's so important to support independent journalists, especially independent journalists who are people of color, female and White Guys willing to call this sh-t out. END

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A corporate media--owned by White guys; which mostly employs White Guys (and a smattering of women and people of color who will think and write like White Guys) is utterly unequipped to even see how White Supremacy frames their stories, much less challenge it. 6/

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This isn't a revelation to me, but I'm so grateful Stoehr will say stuff like this outloud. The weird, bizarre double-standard of the press--and almost all outrageous, bizarre stuff about this political moment--almost always boils down to the unspoken status quo of White Supremacy & patriarchy. 5/

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"To the press, Respublicans therefore represent to the media, politically, historically and culturally, an automatic natural legitimacy. That I wish more people would really understand. That is the double standard that animates all of political journalism." 4/

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"But that's why the press looks at the Democrats as slightly illegitimate, because the Democrats are a multiracial, multi-ethnic, and multi-religious party, whereas the Republicans are white, white and white, all the way through. 3/

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"What they are really agreeing on, and they won’t say this, is that the true center of power in America is whiteness, and the true consensus is white supremacy. That’s what they’re really saying, but they’re not gonna say that, because that would be a gauche. 2/

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Agreed! And John Stoehr at @editorialboard.bsky.social explains this very directly and honestly. "There really is a consensus within the rarified circles of a political journalism in DC and NYC where they actually agree that the Democrats can’t go too far, can’t be too extreme. 1/

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The most corrupt president in history, using paramilitaries to wage war on the population, awarding himself billions of dollars, bulldozing the White House to build himself a golden palace, unilaterally torpedoing millions of ballots Democrats: five working groups on affordability

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Strib has been running against Ellison for as long as I remember. When he first ran for Congress, Strib reporters were collapsing onto their fainting couches because he had unpaid parking tickets. Oh the lawlessness! The criminality!!! I wish I was making this up

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wait until she’s a freshman in high school. You blink and she’ll be graduating and off to college. Seriously, the time just keeps speeding up!

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

How soon after this did you deliver?

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

RIP Dolly. One of my favorite clips is Dolly making a surprise appearance with Brandi Carlile and the Highwomen at the 2019 Newport Folks Festival. The audience went nuts. Scroll to 12:30 to listen to her sing I Will Always Love You with Brandi. She closes the 25-minute set singing 9-5.😍❤️💋

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Dolly Parton The Highwomen She's an Eagle Live at the Newport Folk Festival 2019

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Micah @deadserious.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Let me recap: the MPD is 30 million over budget, helped Lang plan his riot, set up barricades for him, let him drive multiple vehicles into a crowded area, one of the cop had their foot run over, and now we can’t press charges because the cops are in on it in the first place.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Whew, you scared me into looking it up. Thankfully, Jamie Long has endorsed Cedric Frazier for Hennepin Cty Attorney. But man, the DFLers endorsing Folk---🤢 what a rogue's gallery of the city's worst "centrists" who are really GOPers at heart.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hussein was so great: funny, kind, direct, brave and creative .I still miss him

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Juan Williams has always been such a total tool—-he also comes with a long list of accusations of sexual harassment of female colleagues

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

On apples, celery, toast or waffles.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 24/08/2026

It’s just malpractice if the Strib doesn’t do a real examination of what a Republican Attorney General would mean, instead of centering all of its coverage on DFL vulnerabilities. www.startribune.com/minnesota-at...

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Keith Ellison wants to run on fighting Trump. Republicans want to make it about fraud.

Republican Ron Schutz is betting Ellison’s vulnerabilities can flip an attorney general’s race expected to be among Minnesota’s closest this fall.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Mississippi or Minnesota River? So beautiful!

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

In this Ohio diner, the airport Muslim rooms are a big issue.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I DRIVE A 2014 PRIUS HATCHBACK AND IT IS THE GREATEST!!! (Except I can’t tow a utility trailer with it.)

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

And she said, “ma’am,ma’am, sir, sir”

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johhnypbrclops.bsky.social @johhnypbrclops.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm an attorney who lives in Hennepin County. You shouldn't vote for Anders Folk unless you want a Republican Hennepin Co Attorney. You're allowed to be a single-issue voter in this race. Vote for the person who will prosecute ICE. Vote for Frazier.

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Lynnell Mickelsen @lynnellmick.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I have found biking to be the easiest, most relaxing way to get to the state fair and I'm an old lady biking from southwest Minneapolis. But it's almost all bike lanes and once I get there, the bike parking lot is great!

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