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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."

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Patrick @sharkey.fun · 2h

Literally today I started noticing them a ton as well. Encouraging to see!

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Patrick @sharkey.fun · 5h

A good national year for Dems doesn't erase local frustration, and Minnesota has had a rough few years. So maybe not doom, but a reason not to take this one for granted.

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Patrick @sharkey.fun · 5h

However plenty of Minnesotans can not love Peggy and still vote for her, because control of the Senate is bigger than any one candidate. That's her path, and I think it will take her to a narrow victory.

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Patrick @sharkey.fun · 5h

Apologies for the doom on your timeline today. I still think Peggy wins, but they make a case for why it's close: voters are souring on the Democrats already in power in Minnesota, and she's less liked than Tafoya.

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Patrick @sharkey.fun · 5h

Comments about Peggy's style notwithstanding, this was an interesting discussion on the senate race in MN and is what got me all freaked out. (link should open to discussion with timestamp at 9:15) youtu.be/5wqkn2CsJzY?...

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Drafting the 2028 Democratic Presidential Field

YouTube video by Still Counting

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Patrick @sharkey.fun · 9h

Did that make it to any mainstream outlets or is that something us on Bluesky know and no one else? Genuine question

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Patrick @sharkey.fun · 10h

Thank you for sharing this!

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Patrick @sharkey.fun · 12h

Polls show it to be a very close race, and I believe Tafoya is running a much smarter campaign. I don't think Peggy is doing nearly enough to attack Tafoya and Tafoya is, at least on the surface, appealing greatly to the "moderate" vote. Peggy has been invisible anywhere other than the metro.

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Patrick @sharkey.fun · 14h

Genuinely hope you are correct!

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Patrick @sharkey.fun · 14h

Tafoya is running a pretty damn good campaign and Peggy, well, is not. What a disaster it will be if Minnesotans respond to Metro Surge and political assassinations by electing a Republican Senator.

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Patrick @sharkey.fun · 14h

Is Peggy going to lose?

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Need this energy from the MN Democratic candidates in their own debates, please and thank you

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Eric Harris Bernstein @ehbinmn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They started texting with a 16-year-old. After two years, they offered to sell him a gun. They consider that "stopping a terrorist attack." And they are calling it heroic. What an absolute embarrassment.

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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 04/10/2026

... separation has taken a toll. The Pennsylvania couple have been together for over 17 years and have two children. “My children often ask where their father went and why he left, especially our 5-year-old son who doesn’t understand what happened to his father,” Reyann said.

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3 Minnesotans deported to Somalia after a month at Guantánamo

Nine men, part of a group of a dozen held in U.S. facilities in Guantánamo Bay, have been deported to Somalia.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 03/10/2026

Strib: “it’s a month from Election Day but we’ll keep writing gauzy soft-focus profiles of Republicans with exactly the message they want even though the keep refusing to talk to us”

Demuth and Tafoya would make history, but race and gender aren't their pitch

Both declined to comment to the Minnesota Star Tribune for this article.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.

Graphic showing a single lane 9 m wide track for metros, a 35 m wide road for buses with four lanes, and a 175 m wide road for cars with seven lanes, making the point that one single track of Metro replaces seven lanes of car traffic. Mobility in cities is about space.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is depressing that few public officials are stepping up to defend the university of Minnesota from crippling cuts. Investment in it generates enormous return. You can’t trim 10-15% of the budget and pretend that all will be well. Austerity leads to mediocrity 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Nietifa Van Suiker @lukewanderer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

MnDOT has identified revenue for roads of $37B over next 20 years and says it needs $15B+ more. So minimum $52B+, or $2.6B/yr. The MAX proposed amount in Bike+ Plan = $146M/yr.or. 5.6% Nowhere near enough.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s going to be pretty fucked up when this baby yeti starts telling people to kill themselves.

Subway display ad for meta’s muse ai product billed as “ai that gets it done.” The mascot is a little smiling fuzzy white puppet guy.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Patrick @sharkey.fun · 29/09/2026

They call him Mr. Pump

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Ducking Grey Duck @duckinggreyduck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

FUCK NICE NO MORE MINNESOTA NICE See, not that hard. And maybe if you don't want to be villainized, you should stop being fucking villains

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Patrick @sharkey.fun · 27/09/2026

Nine more months before the Green Line extension opens is insane. Whole thing has been a god damn disaster from the start.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 24/09/2026

I don't have time to write more, but ICE is working to remove people to third countries in violation of D.V.D. v. DHS. I've been up since 5:20 A.M. working with two other attorneys to prevent our client from being shipped out. If you rep someone at risk of third country removal, check on them NOW

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 24/09/2026

Frey talking past the critics here. Question is about MPD financial mismanagement. He insists the overspending is a function of necessary overtime. But MPD overspent it's budget in nearly every category. youtu.be/d9HIZe3g4bQ?...

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Full interview with Mayor Jacob Frey on Minneapolis Police Department spending

Watch 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS' full interview with Mayor Jacob Frey on the oversight of Minneapolis Police Department spending.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

More bad apples. But again, I must remind you the barrel is almost certainly fine 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There are a lot of things about this winter that I still find hard to believe or process, but one of them is that the federal government singled out a state and city, more or less at random, upon which to intentionally inflict massive economic damage.

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Patrick @sharkey.fun · 22/09/2026

Looks like he’s taking the news well

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Patrick @sharkey.fun · 21/09/2026

Be warned: this will quickly spiral from a spare hard drive or two, to buying a Synology, to buying full-on enterprise-grade servers. And then you'll give it a fun name like The Sharkive and insist on others addressing it as such.

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Patrick @sharkey.fun · 21/09/2026

This is me! I'm the Plex Guy!

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Tom Olsen @olsenforparks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My argument is simple; our parks are worth it. In the last few years our park levy has been consistently under what we need to fully function. This led to rec center cuts. We are facing cuts again, while the city has been far less fiscally prudent. Gift link: www.startribune.com/mpls-green-s...

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Park Board president: Minneapolis parks are among the best in the nation. Fund them accordingly.

The Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation must vote to fully fund the park board’s levy request of 5.86%, which is far below what the city is asking for itself, Park and Recreation Board presiden...

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

💥 ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident. Still wearing hospital gowns. Both victims of car collusion, with asylum case pending in good standing & valid work permit. Grace Calero 39, & Giulianna Carriel 19, from Ecuador.

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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Abolish ICE.

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Patrick @sharkey.fun · 22/08/2026

Don’t forget to turn on your mic!

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I know there’s numbness to the authoritarian drumbeat but this is rubicon-crossing. DOJ subpoenaed years of records from some of the largest unions in the country, infiltrated protest groups & tried to engineer a takedown of the institutional left in MN/nationwide. It is making COINTELPRO look tame

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U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown

The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.

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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I appreciate this video, not just because it's complimentary towards the work that we're doing in Minneapolis, but because it reflects the same sense that I have about our *momentum* towards building a better city. I think we've got something special here and I'm glad people are noticing.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 27/07/2026

I need put some Minnesota Senate race thoughts into a post that I can reference for out-of-state folks who keep getting this wrong: - Angie Craig is to the right of state DFL and was even before her Laken Riley vote - This is not establishment vs. insurgent. Peggy Flanagan is a two-term Lt. Governor

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I went to an event Angie spoke at a couple of years ago and clearly for her it’s a point of pride to piss off progressives. So if you’re a DFLer who wants to be trolled by your own Senator for the next six years, go for it. Otherwise, vote for Peggy, who takes her commitments seriously

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Patrick @sharkey.fun · 11/08/2026

It’s so good. It’s on the university side as well

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Joe Davis @doeyjavis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

One city department shouldn't be able to go so far over budget that it wrecks the rest of the enterprise, imho.

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Dominic @domoffinland.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

this guy gets it

Listen to this king at a Huntington City Council meeting on Flock Cameras:

"I'm not gonna waste your time, I'm kinda hungry, but one last thing. Every single Flock camera has about 2-3 lbs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold. Do with that information what you will."

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Dan Devine @yourmandevine.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Patrick, it would be my absolute pleasure. This is from my friend @midevenings.bsky.social's talk show, "Midevenings with Jay Miller," and I don't think it's an overstatement to say that it is one of my favorite things that exists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYp0...

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We Built This City

YouTube video by MidEvenings

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Patrick @sharkey.fun · 27/07/2026

Dan, can you please share again a link to the video of that guy dancing to We Built This City and one of his dance moves is preparing and then eating a large sub? I can't find it and I need it.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Read this. It’s shocking. It’s murder. Not manslaughter, murder. He did it on purpose and then tried to ridiculously lie about it. But here’s the main point. Every politician, media person, ANYONE who has deliberately sought to “other” or lessen the humanity of people on bikes is an accomplice.

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‘Our hearts are crushed’: Hannah Rapp’s violent death sparks outpouring of grief

Family and boxing community grieving deeply after Rapp was killed by motorist while she was cycling in Texas

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