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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 2h

They have no say in the matter

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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 5h

The Appleton, MN Detention Facility is expected to be fully operational by the end of this month. A coalition of ngo’s, non-profits & local citizens are working to slow down the process. Including Immigrant Defense Network, ACLU-MN, Indivisible Twin Cities & others Donate to help support locals

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Fundraise to Oppose ICE Detention in MN

Don’t Make the Prairie Scary: Oppose ICE Detention in MN

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Steve Timmer 📷🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 @stevetimmer.bsky.social · 4h

Anders Folk's demographic, in case you were wondering. These are among the safest homes in Hennepin County. #andersfolk

Giant single-family homes with an Anders Folk sign.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6h

It should come as no surprise that a mean, angry man married to an unpleasant kook is not in favor of allowing other people to be in happy marriages. But Christian Nationalists are notorious busybodies.

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 6h

Beauty and the beast: Picture of the Dark River, polluted with sulfates from the Minntac tailings basin at the top

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 19h

Diplomatic cable leaked to me shows Marco Rubio order embassies to bar people from the US for speech-related reasons. Hours later, Rubio gave a speech at the Acropolis celebrating "free debate and public discussion": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-speech...

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The Speech That Gets You Banned From America

Leaked Rubio cable details “far-left” speech that bars people from entering the U.S.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 19h

Not the odds, but the stakes. That's my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need in election coverage. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for American democracy. Not the odds, but the stakes. Sep. 11, 2023

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Max Hailperin @maxhailperin.bsky.social · 10h

Walter Hudson is a master of word choice. Here, he demonstrates the difference between being "pro cop" and being "pro law enforcement."

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 9h

"In 1966, a state wildlife survey found wild rice growing thick on Little Sandy...The next year, U.S. Steel's Minntac taconite operation opened nearby. By 1987, state surveyors reported that wild rice was, for all practical purposes,' gone from both lakes." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 10h

Before the Twin Cities embark on yet another "Gang task force" perhaps we should look what happened to past ones - they turned into "law enforcement gangs" which massively broke laws

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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 10h

Amazing how many artists doing work about the Surge were inspired by Guernica.

From The Rebel Loon Archives
“Get the Fuck Out of Minneapolis”
Guernica inspired piece - but the animals and agonized humans are all skeletons
CASEY SLACK is the artist

Artists document what history might forget.
Long before news reached millions instantly, artists recorded wars, political violence, migration, and resistance.
Their work helps future generations understand not only what happened, but how people experienced it.
International Human Rights Art Movement
humanrightsartmovement.org

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The Lever @levernews.com · 20h

.@governorwalz.mn.gov says Democrats’ 2024 strategy of campaigning with @lizcheney.bsky.social risked losing sight of their own base. Asked whether @kamalaharris.com’s appearances with Cheney misread who the real swing voter was, Walz said yes.

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 21h

This is the Dark River, just off the northwest corner of Minntac's tailings basin in Mt Iron. The basin at the top is 3 miles away, and polluting this river with sulfates.

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 23h

I remember someone giving advice to politicians to never do something you'd be uncomfortable seeing on the front page. These Republicans can't look two days into the future

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Don Carr @doncarr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That we fund.

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You don't put Republicans in charge of ANYTHING that you don't want destroyed

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We can’t just move past what SCOTUS has permitted this Administration to do to people who have lived and worked in the U.S. for years and even decades.

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🚨NEW🚨 A man abused access to a BMW app to mess with his ex-wife's car, turning the engine on and off, opening and closing windows to let rain in, and track her location. She says BMW dealership told her there was no way to remove his access, so go buy a new car. www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

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How A Man Used A BMW App To Terrorize His Ex-Wife

A domestic abuse survivor’s ex-husband used his access to her BMW’s connected smartphone app to open car doors and windows, start the engine and track her location. She claims BMW didn’t help.

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think it's more like, there's a certain percentage of people who vote who really don't know much about politics or how to think, and they are easy prey for the advanced black arts of political manipulators who have unlimited amounts of money and also own all the media

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

AI is making possible an entirely new level jackassery

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daviss @daviss.org · 06/10/2026

People cheering when the President of the United States says another country could take out the second largest city in the country is really something else.

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

From my own wayback machine: The guy I wrote about here - inducted into the Charter School Hall of Fame! - eventually had to resign because he coddled a sex pest for years, all while he & his wife grifted the school for millions www.edhivemn.com/story.php?st...

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Beating the odds, or beating the test?

High performing Charter Schools

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

3) So ask yourself why it is that the main issue of the campaign isn't an historical assault on the state by the Republican Party, and is instead pretty ordinary government corruption. I sum up the reason in one word, even for "public" media: Ownership.

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

2) But the main narrative for the campaign is FRAUD, and while there was a lot, it was less in almost all respects than in a lot of other states. And the perpetrators have been caught and put in jail.

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

1) As you watch media coverage of the 2026 campaigns think about this: Last Winter & Spring, and continuing now, the Republican Party has been using the federal government to almost literally wage war on Minnesota, on a whole bunch of fronts.

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Republican terrorists are terrorizing US citizens

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

ProPublica is the indispensable journalistic institution of today; MUCH better than both the Washington Post, which has crumbled, and the the New York Times, which is in the pocket of Israel & the weapons industry

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I rarely criticize the local PBS because it is so useless and ossified.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

one funny thing about Alito is he is constantly fuming over his critics. just a big blubbering baby.

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Where's Minnesota PBS' three part series on Operation Metro Surge? It was an historic siege of a state by the federal government. Instead we get this nonsense

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is mindless, sugar free programming. Happiness isn't a measure of anything because it is so individualistic and relative. Minnesota PBS is nearly worthless www.startribune.com/new-pbs-docu...

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New PBS docuseries asks how Minnesotans pursue happiness

The series, produced by Minnesota PBS, will debut Oct. 5.

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This building looks like what's you get from a Stalin-era Soviet architect designing a ziggurat

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 05/10/2026

for 25 years, versions of "need to fix declining trust in news" has been code for 'gotta get more right wing'

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 05/10/2026

Show up at the polls w/fluorescent vests & whistles? Cruise around polling place in car, bike or foot? Think how that looks to Jo Median Voter who has never seen that outside their polling place before. Remember how scary the trucks felt during the Uprising? Don’t do initimidators’ work for them.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 05/10/2026

Getting reports of bad election ideas in Signal groups. Defend democracy by shooting these down. No, you can’t show up at a precinct & be a challenger/observer. Those must be appointed by a party, nonpartisan campaign or ballot initiative. Letter must be accepted by officials. No letter, out you go.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 05/10/2026

"The most important fact they establish is that the traditional narrative of Marbury v. Madison—the decision that supposedly established judicial supremacy in the United States, as taught in high schools across the country—is an invented tradition." prospect.org/2026/10/05/o...

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The Supreme Court’s Power Is Based on the Lie of Its Supremacy - The American Prospect

The Constitution does not establish a judicial dictatorship.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There's a case to be made against impeachment, but the alternative should be a scorched-earth effort to destroy and discredit the Trump administration and everything the Republican Party stands for. If you think "passing an ethics reform package" is the answer, my god what is wrong with you?

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Largely because, once you extract the tech bros and their projects to eliminate the workforce, there is no booming economy. www.ft.com/content/8f45...

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Why a booming economy is not helping Trump

Anxiety about AI and affordability has turned his populist party into a popular target

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Iowa deserves clean water. Sometimes I wonder whether the people who live there believe that

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Republican murderers everywhere

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Made it back to the Meta data center in Rosemount, if you're in need of pictures of it

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Republicans think women are second class citizens

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just because something is in the "opinion" section doesn't mean you just get to lie, right @startribune.com ? "We’ve seen dozens of fraud scandals, and we know that nonpartisan former U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson called out at least $9 billion in fraud" www.startribune.com/mn-legislati...

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Counterpoint | Unlike the DFL, Minnesota Republicans' 2027 plan won't cost taxpayers more

"In their fantasy land, everything is free, life is perfect, and nobody has to think about how to pay for it," state lawmaker Harry Niska writes.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

people who got angry about those buddha statues should be even angrier about this

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

John Kennedy is a literal Rhodes Scholar who then ran for office as a Republican & now talks like a man named Earl who steals chickens.

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