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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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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I wrote the first big piece on Piotr Szyhalski's daily COVID-19 poster project; he's now best known for the large-scale banners ubiquitous at recent MN anti-ICE protests. Here's how it looks now: www.walkerart.org/reader/piotr...

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No Holds Barred: A Look at Piotr Szyhalski's Daily COVID-19 Reports

On March 23, Donald Trump announced that amidst a global pandemic, "America will, again, and soon, be open for business," famously adding: "We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself." Da...

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Looks like old content all (mostly?) has new URLS, hence so many errors, and a new look. Must've been some automated way to skin everything on the site to match?

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

(at least the pdf I embedded still shows the downloadable codex)

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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The search function doesn't include authors, so no curatorial essays appear when you search (unless the curator's name is in the headline). So sloppy.

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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

Ha, he thinks this is a just war.

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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

For some 20 years, Reyes has been transforming "instruments of death into instruments of life"—flower vases, shovels, musical instruments... www.carleton.edu/voice/storie...

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Gun/Culture - Carleton College

How Pedro Reyes uses art to recast tools of violence.

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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

"....by coming together, serving one another, and dancing even when we’re sad. By moving our bodies, by letting trauma not stay locked up inside of us.” Read about him, then head to the flagship #NoKings rally in St. Paul today to hear the band in person: www.carleton.edu/voice/storie...

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Making the Revolution Irresistible - Carleton College

Alsa Bruno ’12 and the Soundtrack for Community

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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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Paul Schmelzer @schmelzer.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Or name things after what one might see in a place or what happened there, instead. theostracon.net/bulbancha-in...

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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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