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Taylor Carik @taylorcarik.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Shout out to every news media outlet running unchallenged pressers and quotes about a metro-wide gang task force from Bob Fletcher, here's how that worked out last time: reason.com/2012/08/06/b...
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Brutal Revelations Add Up For Minnesota's Defunct Metro Gang Strike Force
What happens when you unleash police in quasi-military, no-holds-barred, special-forces style against a perceived social problem? As Minnesotans could tell...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.
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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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Dan Marshall @danmarstp.marshallwords.com · 02/10/2026
Well, Wes, this sent me down a bizarre astroturf rabbit hole. Let's see who the super creeps behind this are! WakeUpSaintPaul.org is a generic site with some bogus survey likely designed to collect names. It says its a "project of the Domestic Policy Caucus".
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Let me give you the actual solution to this problem. Universities and colleges have to hire football players as union employees (AFL-CIO, same as the NFL), with no requirement to attend school. They get health and retirement benefits, and are limited to a five year employment contract.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026
EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.
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mollypeonies @mollypeonies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW! How MPD Built a Police Surveillance Operation Around Renee Good’s Memorial — and What It Cost the Community MPD dedicated 101 personnel to a memorial deployment where just seven people were holding vigil. It was part of a four-day MPD operation that generated $1.92 million in overtime.
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How MPD Built a Police Surveillance Operation Around Renee Good’s Memorial — and What It Cost the Community
Records reveal a coordinated system of drones, city cameras, command-post intelligence, body-worn and helmet cameras, person and vehicle checks, and evidence preservation around the memorial site as p...
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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Charging for parking at (some of) Como Park nets the city, conservative estimate, $1M a year. Axing this library is a $270K savings. www.startribune.com/daytons-bluf...
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Looming library closure in St. Paul highlights city’s hard budget choices
One East Side City Council member worries the neighborhood is facing too many budget cuts in Mayor Kaohly Her’s proposal.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Can’t think of a better example of late stage capitalism than turning the incredibly popular “Here Is Why Rich People Are Miserly Bastards Whose Only Road To Redemption Is Giving Away Their Wealth” story into “But What If The Rich People Are Just Misunderstood?” story
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026
Our whole digital world has been wrapped in chains by rent-extracting monopolists who gloried in their power to use hook IP to deprive you of the right to use your property in ways you see fit, writing private laws that made it a crime to displease them. 87/
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
tell us about whether Tim Walz should have called them "weird," also, we want to read your thoughts about that on X, the totally normal website
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Tom Wright @tomwright.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Salesman meme in front of SCOTUS

*slaps roof*

“This baby can fit so many justices in it”
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Your voice and your vote matter. Make a plan to vote or return your ballot by 8 PM today when polls close. You can find your polling location here: MNVotes.org
Vote today by 8PM
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/07/2026
See you in court, creep.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 21/07/2026
This isn’t about fraud - it’s about cutting your healthcare so that Trump can afford the tax cuts he gave to billionaires. They’re cutting more money in healthcare than they’ve prosecuted for fraud. The math doesn’t add up. www.cbsnews.com/news/medicai...
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Trump administration halts $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota as part of fraud crackdown
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said his agency is pausing $867.5 million in Medicaid payments to California and $199 million to Minnesota.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Don’t take the bait. Whether ICE planted drugs or there were drugs DOES NOT MATTER. It’s irrelevant to the murder. Feds want us to debate drugs in a story that’s about murder. Stay focused on the murder. It’s not about the victim’s virtue or lack thereof. It’s about ICE murdering people.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Donald Trump has made more than $1 billion (yes, with a B!) from his crypto schemes. And last year, Angie Craig was the only Minnesota Democrat to vote to let Trump get rich selling crypto coins. It's just wrong - and we deserve better.
Trump filing shows he took in about $1.2 billion from crypto businesses last year
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.
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Paul Alan Levy @paulalanlevy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
If you use PACER, your social responsibility is to include the RECAP extension on your browser to that every court document you pay to examine gets uploaded to CourtListener for free access by others. free.law/recap/
free.law
RECAP Suite — Turning PACER Around Since 2009
RECAP is an online archive and free extension for Firefox, Chrome and Safari that improves the experience of using PACER, the electronic public access system for the U.S. Federal District and Bankrupt...
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The Atlantic today posted a story you can pay to read about Christian propaganda/lies in the Freedom 250 trucks. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026... Or you can read my story, free, from more than two weeks ago: jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/trumps-fre...
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Trump's Freedom 250 Trucks Are Smuggling Antisemitism and Christian Nationalism
Mobile museums feed into antisemitic canards and promote Christian myths over historical accuracy
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Sean McPherson @twinkiejigggles.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Doing a live podcast taping at Pilllar in Northeast at 12:30pm on Thursday. Free coffee compliments of @citycasttwincities.bsky.social. Swing by and say hello. Pavielle, Tane Danger and more!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/06/2026
NEW: A Minnesota home seller has been found liable for violating state laws in a "contract-for-deed" home financing scheme that targeted East African Muslims in Minneapolis with deceptive real estate deals marketed as “sharia compliant.”
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Jury Finds Home Financing Scheme That Targeted Muslims in Minnesota Violated State Law
In a civil case stemming from a joint ProPublica-Sahan Journal investigation, a home seller has been found liable in a ploy that targeted East African Muslims in Minneapolis, marketing deceptive real ...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
One important note: One of the states within the 8th circuit, Minnesota, passed its own voting rights act in 2024, specifically with an eye to countering this coming threat and allowing individuals and third-party groups to sue over voting rights violations. boltsmag.org/minnesota-vo...
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Minnesota's Voting Rights Act Preserves This Key Protection A Federal Court Has Erased - Bolts
Minnesota ensured that voters and private groups can sue over VRA violations, restoring a longstanding right that federal judges had gutted last fall.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
If you credulously do a segment about the vote in California in which you don’t say the president is lying, you’re spreading disinformation to your listeners.
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J. Anderson Coats (she/her) @jandersoncoats.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/
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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/06/2026
There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 26/05/2026
Rest in peace. 🕊️ You should be here today watching your baby grow up.
George Floyd with his daughter, Gianna, who looks to be about 3 years old. George is sitting in the driver’s seat of a car, wearing a black T-shirt and black baseball cap with the word houston emblazoned in cursive letters above the brim.
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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Giving insurrections who beat a cop a billion dollars is particularly infuriating if you live in Minnesota and the feds won’t even investigate the execution of two unarmed bystanders. We need vengeance for this shit
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singlecatlady23.bsky.social @singlecatlady23.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.
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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Letting six lawyers, hand-picked for their extreme views and subject to no democratic accountability, decide whose votes matter in our country—in what should be a democracy—is a choice. It’s a choice that nearly every Democrat in Congress is currently making. We can, and must, make a different one.
Screenshot of SCOTUS opinion in Louisiana v. Callais, from Elena Kagan’s dissent. “implement the great statute Congress wrote. I dissent because the Court's decision will set back the foundational right  Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity. I dissent.”
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
This is an actual line that was added to the official system prompt for Codex for GPT-5.5 by OpenAI. Usually the system prompt is as minimal as possible, so I assume it would otherwise mention goblins a lot. AIs are weird.
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Koreen Brennan @koreen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?
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samholle.bsky.social @samholle.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Some of those that work forces
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
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If the ID I use to drive and fly, it’s not enough to vote, that’s voter suppression and a poll tax
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 12/03/2026
on the bright side i can't imagine losing a democratic primary against ilhan omar as an ICE lawyer is much work at all
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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
‘Muscle Brain’ literally obscures sight. Not protective. Just limiting. Not shielding vulnerability. Just preventing clarity. ‘Muscle’… not as armor. But as blindfold. What happens when stubborn clinging to illusions of brute force there’s nothing but override vision Britt-Ingrid Persson 🇸🇪
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CNN @cnn.com · 06/03/2026
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died. cnn.it/4l9weqG
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Elliott Payne @elliottpayne.org · 25/02/2026
ACLU MN reported yesterday that the federal government filed sworn statements that there are 970 agents in Minnesota for Operation Metro Surge & that 407 agents will remain here in March. It’s important to note this is on top of the 190 agents that were already assigned before this surge started.
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marymoriarty.bsky.social @marymoriarty.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This is disturbing. The Chief Justice of the MN Supreme Ct met with Homan, worked out an agreement, and never announced it publicly. ICE appeared to violate it days later by violently tackling a person in the Gov Center w/out a judicial warrant. We need transparency.
startribune.com
White House, Minnesota Supreme Court chief justice quietly negotiated deal over ICE enforcement in courts
Four days later, chaos unfolded inside the Hennepin County Government Center.
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story: racketmn.com/corporate-co...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
To explain: When you come in from out of state to represent someone, you have to get a local counsel to sponsor you in "Pro Hac Vice." That's what Abbe Lowell et al are doing for Don Lemon. The guy who is sponsoring them in is the lead prosecutor who quit bc Pam Bondi is so corrupt.
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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.
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Black Hart of Saint Paul @blackhartstp.com · 28/01/2026
You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
They wore yellow stars to complain about vaccine mandates
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
WE HAVE MOUNTAINS OF ICE TO MELT
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/01/2026
This is ok tho
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bearwitness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Baptists split over slavery in 1845 & theological divide still exists. American (Northern) Baptist pastor @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social has been on front line of protests against ICE in IL (publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/baptist-pa...) while a Southern Baptist pastor is an ICE leader in MN:
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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
NYT writers referring to moms outside of their schools watching for ICE as "activists" is stupid and makes their reporters look like Cletuses. Local reporters know because their friends & loved ones are out there doing the same.
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