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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 53m

“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

"For decades, we've provided election coverage that's based on in-depth political reporting by an experienced team of journalists backed by commentary from political leaders. But now we're throwing that aside so we can tell you what some of the most irredeemable uninformed gamblers are guessing."

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 11h

Some of the “left-wing” responses to this great video and initiative are so incredibly stupid — and some stupid as well as antisemitic. 🤯

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3h

These American Jewish advocacy organizations are actually more threatened by Mamdani releasing a comprehensive anti-antisemitism plan than they would be by him being openly antisemitic, because it forces them to admit that one can be an anti-Zionist without being antisemitic.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 7h

So there is clearly a moral basis for Dems to become at least as uncompromising as the GOP. But there are practical and political bases as well. The demands they would make aren't crazy or selfish or extreme. And the public appears to be with them. www.offmessage.net/p/the-new-ra...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h

Dems now leading GOP on every issue Quinnipiac polled, including the economy, national security, and immigration:

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Nick Harper, he/him @nharper.bsky.social · 3h

Seems to me like St. Paul should start a recall? And also amend the city charter to allow the city council to remove the mayor by a unanimous vote like Minneapolis’s charter?

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FinchBeak @finchbeak.bsky.social · 4h

Jesus fucking christ. Let people sit!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

LMAO

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 7h

The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.

techcrunch.com

Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch

The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 7h

To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 5h

People who want to ban abortion want to ban it everywhere, full-stop — flowered words about 'leaving abortion to the states' notwithstanding.

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D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · 10h

You have to ask yourself why do you need The Star Tribune pretending they’re saying something relevant when you’ve heard it 100 times from folks to the left of you, but ignored it every time you heard it? Even though it was just as reasonable and prudent then as it is now.

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D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · 10h

Huh, u don’t say? I wonder where we’ve heard this before, years before? many times before? Minneapolis needs a true reckoning with itself the residents as well as the politics, particularly the comfortable residents

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 11h

Lot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 10h

Just a reminder that the last time DOJ filed a misconduct complaint against a district judge, it was dismissed in a ruling by Chief Judge Sutton that was all but dripping with contempt (for the government): www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/internet/jud...

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 12h

It’s too late, but I appreciate Laura Yuen naming the media’s complicity about Omar Jamal. As I’ve long said, the biggest journalism corruption is source corruption (amplifying voices who voices spoon-feed you instead of using independent judgment) www.startribune.com/omar-jamal-m... (gift link)

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Yuen: Omar Jamal fooled the media for years. We helped him do it.

Journalists have long treated Jamal as a trusted spokesman for Somali Minnesotans despite his reckless relationship with the truth.

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Adam @wyseapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meanwhile, CM Shaffer wrote an op ed in the Minneapolis Times saying we need to cut $25 million more, didn’t say what we should cut, and then proceeded to complain about how city council meetings are often awful (news flash: we knew that already)

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 29/09/2026

Holy shit. Friend of a friend encountered a driver on Sabo Bridge today. Driver apparently seemed very confused and lost. Howwww did they get past the concrete barricades on both ends? (For non Mpls folks: this bridge is bike/ped only & paths up are narrow w/ bollards on both ends.)

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is one of the most maddening thigns about this court: Not just the substantive rulings, but how they think about “irreperable harm.” If the Most Special Boy has to wait a month to do a thing he REALLY wants to, that’s irreperable harm. Actual large-scale human suffering? Meh.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can’t do student loan relief. Can’t mandate vaccines. Can’t help home owners. Can commit human rights abuses.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

1 - You have got to be fucking kidding me. 2 - I’ll take it. A win’s a win.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

First KARE11 relegates Jana Shortal to digital-only, and then follows that by using harmful, transphobic language in reporter Gordon Severson's coverage of two civil rights cases. What is going on over there?! The story is quoted in Ethan's post. It takes just a minute to reach out to the station.

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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There’s also a direct line from “protect women and girls” to repealing the 19th amendment because it is the father or husband’s role as protector to vote on behalf of his family. This is not hyperbole.

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Nate Pentz @natepentz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Writing was on the wall over the last year with the new owner. Number of posts in service worker FB group about issues with the new owners along with posts in the vegan MN fb group about a significant drop in food quality.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.

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Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amazon promised its Mississippi data centers would generate millions in taxes for schools and local services. Now it’s fighting the county’s valuation of those data centers. If Amazon wins, the community will lose $5–6 million in tax revenue next year.

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Amazon challenge of data centers’ value could reduce tax payments to Madison County by millions

Madison County residents were told that Amazon’s data centers would pay significant property taxes that would boost school and government budgets. But the actual amount may be lower than was…

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is important, not because many regular people read SCOTUSblog, but because media outlets still treat it as a good resource

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How it started/how it’s going

Trevor Lee
@VoteTrevorLee
Thanks @nickshirleyy for hoodie.
We're cleaning up the fraud in Utah

BREAKING: Utah state Rep. Trevor Lee has been charged with mortgage and communications fraud ksl.com/article/
516296... #utpol @KSLcom @KSL5TV

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EHB on BET @ehbforbet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Many people who were critical of MPD cost overruns were denounced as alarmist or anti-police. Now MPD has admitted to the abuse of overtime hours. I am grateful current leadership is cracking down but deeply frustrated by this betrayal of the public trust and the time it took to get answers.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And so they should be called to the carpet to answer how the budget got this way. I’m absolutely sick of the news framing this as if the city council is a bunch of screeching harpies for demanding answers. The council is correct!

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 29/09/2026

Weird, the Minneapolis City Council was right. I feel like the Frey administration was singing a different tune that their All of Mpls lackeys were amplifying, but mayor Isn‘t pit on the spot here. That’s only for progressive electeds. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... (gift link)

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Interim Minneapolis police chief says he inherited a budget ‘mess’

Police leaders acknowledged during a City Council budget meeting that overtime was handed out too loosely in years past and said they’re now monitoring it more closely.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 29/09/2026

A Meta service, ignoring user privacy instructions? Well I never.

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Nick Harper, he/him @nharper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s so weird seeing him on tv/social media. He used to sit in front of me in AP Calculus in high school (back when he went by Casey).

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Greg Shill @gregshill.com · 28/09/2026

Notably, travel times also did not increase outside the congestion zone. This mirrors what we have seen in other aggregate congestion pricing impacts. For example, it was predicted that drivers would change their routes to avoid the zone, creating new congestion; this, too, did not happen.

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Nick Harper, he/him @nharper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

BOOOOOOOO! BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...

John Anzalone &
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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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6:47 AM • 9/26/26 • 274K Views

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also no House candidates -- Texas races could decide whether Democrats have a majority and if so, how big it is.

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Major u-turn from Justice Alito as Supreme Court reveals he will no longer participate in the big climate change case being argued next week. Previously, the court told NBC News there was no reason for him to step aside despite his earlier recusal in same case.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

CEO: I have invented the off button.

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They committed crimes and were held accountable. That's what happens in a country with the rule of law. May we act as a nation of citizens in November to restore our democracy.

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