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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As Senator, I'll be a voice for Minnesotans. Michele Tafoya will be a voice for MAGA extremists.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026

Q: China is one of the most repressive countries for journalists in the world-- TRUMP: Well, I don't know about that. I think we're repressive also

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Thanks, Trump. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08...

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'm not a big fan of celebs in politics, but after watching all of this, I think it's Jon Stewart, moreso than Fetterman, who should be in politics. Informed, mentally quick, unflappable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3BM...

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Sen. John Fetterman on Democratic Divides, DSA & Israel | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

What if it is not a civil war but just the natural evolution of a party at a moment of generational transition?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/06/2026

I need y’all to remember this: Trump gets to keep Air Force One. It cost taxpayers nearly $1 billion to upgrade, and before he leaves office, ownership transfers to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation, which he himself said is “most likely going to be a hotel.”

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Dan Marshall @danmarstp.marshallwords.com · 17/06/2026

2026 @amyklobuchar.com Pride Month tracker, Day 16. Nothing about Pride. But also, Not a GODDAMN THING about the arrest of 15 Minnesotans--her constituents--who protested ICE. 2026 stats: Posts supporting Pride: 1 (recycled) Posts supporting trans rights: 0

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Congrats to Dr. Adam Hamawy on his resounding victory tonight in the NJ-12 primary! Special interests lost. Justice, dignity, and compassion won. I can’t wait to work alongside him to guarantee Medicare for All, end forever wars, and abolish ICE. 💪🏽

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The Minnesota Republican Party holding a moment of silence for the man who brutally murdered George Floyd might be one of the most fucked up things I’ve ever read. Evil.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Goodbye, get lost, and we'll see you soon.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

My statement on the end of the old InfoWars, and the imminent beginning of a much better one.

“Good riddance to the world’s worst rubbish,” The Onion’s CEO, Ben Collins, wrote in a text to MS NOW. “The second this man is disallowed from abusing these courts, from paying out the $1.4 billion he owes to these families, we are ready to take over with something that will make you forget about what was ever there before. We have a deal with both the Sandy Hook families and the court-appointed receiver, and we look forward to taking over this hellhole imminently.”

“War is over, if you want it,” Collins said, quoting Yoko Ono and John Lennon.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/04/2026

Trump Appears To Doze During Stroke

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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 20/04/2026

A Primer on Just War Theory and the Iran War Assessing the Trump Administration's Response to the Catholic Church By @mikeschmitt.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/136692/just-...

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A Primer on Just War Theory and the Iran War

Leading scholar explains just war theory and the Iran war. An assessment of the Trump administration's response to the Catholic Church.

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Aaron Brakel @junolocal.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Sen. Murkowski voted to strip protections from the Boundary Waters. Pleas call her DC office at (202) 224-6665 and tell her to switch her vote to a No vote tomorrow on HJR 140. The vote was 51-49!!! A changed vote by Murkowski would do the trick.

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Wake up, grab the phone Hello there, New York Times app Has he kicked it yet? (Haiku for 2026)

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Friends of the Boundary Waters @bwca.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

225,000 ACRES OF PUBLIC LANDS AT RISK. Senate votes tomorrow on HJR 140. It would strip protections from the Boundary Waters watershed and open the door to toxic sulfide mining near one of the most protected wilderness areas in the country. Call your Senators: 202-224-3121

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

‪I helped organize boycotts of The Last Temptation of Christ and the art exhibition featuring "Piss Christ". Here's why I don't care that Donald Trump is attacking the pope.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Pope Leo is no angel.

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“There was a kind of cognitive dissonance of having my lips and my embouchure so close to the barrel of what used to be a firearm." —flautist Jeremy Tatar on playing a flute made from surrendered guns by artist Pedro Reyes.

A pan flute made from eight gun barrels, with a black pistol grip beneath.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

It's scary to think that if anything happens to Bibi Netanyahu, JD Vance would become president of the United States.

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

why yes, I'd like to listen to that grating voice spouting lies for an hour, sign me up.

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 07/04/2026

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Seems we only realize we were living in a heyday after the fact. Sarah Hromack on digital museum publishing (incl. the Walker Reader) before the era of AI bots.

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From Blogs to Bots

Sarah Hromack traces how museums have used digital media to take—or lose—control of the narrative.

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"Clearly, the tree of liberty also must be refreshed, year after year, by a new class of teenagers learning to wrestle truth from the same eternal questions." @deardara.bsky.social on living blocks from the site of Alex Pretti's murder during Operation Metro Surge: www.carleton.edu/voice/storie...

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Ice Lab - Carleton College

A Carl in Minneapolis considers the lessons of Operation Metro Surge.

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The Democrats’ text strategy makes me never want to donate to them again.

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Can you _really_ call it a movement if you only can muster millions of protesters three times? Real @nytpitchbot.bsky.social material here.

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

“It’s the role of the artist to make the revolution irresistible,” Alsa Bruno told me about the work of Brass Solidarity, the street activist band he sings with and an integral part of the Minneapolis resistance to ICE. “By coming together in music...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/03/2026

Trump: "In Minnesota, it's very Somalia-oriented. These people come from a crooked country, disgusting country, one of the worst countries in the world. They come to our country -- low IQs -- and they rob us blind. Stupid people, and they rob us blind."

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 24/03/2026

The state of Minnesota has sued the Trump administration, accusing its top law enforcement agencies of withholding evidence from the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

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Minnesota sues Trump administration for evidence in Good, Pretti killings

It’s the latest and most drastic legal maneuver taken by state officials to try and gain access to federal evidence from Operation Metro Surge.

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This. Or I might just post a gif of dancing Ewoks at the end of that Star Wars movie.

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

We should probably just stop naming places after people.

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Does no one know what "decimating" actually means?

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Right on. Next up: the "American Spring" movement.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/03/2026

watch Markwayne Mullin's facial expression as Rand Paul confronts him for "never having the courage to look me in the eye and tell me that the assault was justified. Today you'll have your chance. Tell it to my face."

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Puffing Trump’s delusions about the economy as if they were on track until ten days ago is peak NYTimes soft-pedaling Trump’s furious unreality and both-sides-ing it with actual documentable reality

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 13/03/2026

Minneapolis WE KEEP IS SAFE t-shirts/stickers site is NOW LIVE: we-save-us.cheddarup.com The shirts honor everyone who resisted ICE; all $ after shipping/making costs go to Lucy Laney school mutual aid in N Mpls. Buy as much as you want; you have to add shirts to cart 1 at a time (sorry). Please RT!

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

A Minneapolis woman who opposed ICE woke up to a drone outside her second floor bedroom window. A man delivering groceries to a suburban distro house for mutual aid recorded a drone hovering above the house. Whose drones and why? (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Drone sightings drove surveillance fears as ICE surged in Minnesota

Some Minneapolis residents who took to the streets to document U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids believe federal authorities used drones to record and intimidate them. Despite laws govern...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

THE WORLDWIDE FLAG OF ANTIFASCIST RESISTANCE

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Davey Wilbury @daveishere.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

we can all guess his last 14 words

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I'm sure when Trump finally does die, his propagandists will fabricate some patrotic pap as his "last words." Wonder what his actual last words will be...

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This is the kind of smarts Justin Fox (below) brought to his work with DOGE.

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Antifahhh @lunaticleft.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Project 2025 collaborators and number of YEA votes confirming Trump appointees: Jeanne Shaheen (NH): 54 Maggie Hassan (NH): 47 John Fetterman (PA): 46 Tim Kaine (VA): 39 Mark Kelly (AZ): 36 Jacky Rosen (NV): 34 Mark Warner (VA): 33 Ruben Gallego (AZ): 31 Amy Klobuchar (MN): 31

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