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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 13h
Better luck next time, Ron.
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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 18h
The choice is clear. I fight for Minnesota. Ron stands with Trump. I hold the powerful accountable. Ron makes an extra buck when you get squeezed. I'm the People's Lawyer. Ron wants to be Trump's lawyer. Vote today.
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 19h
Trump’s war in Iran has cost taxpayers over $40 BILLION (yes, with a B!) and skyrocketed the price of gas and groceries. But Michele Tafoya is still all in for it.
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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 18h
As Attorney General, I have won lawsuits against the insulin cartel, numerous price fixers, and greedy corporations from John Deere to Ticketmaster--all to lower the cost of living for Minnesotans. And I have no plans to stop that fight.
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Minnesota DFL Party @dfl.org · 19h
Michele Tafoya thinks masked agents detaining a child, separating him from his family, and flying him across the country is “humane” because they bought him a snack first.
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 01/10/2026
Many Minnesotans will face significantly more expensive health insurance next year. The average increase for individual and small group insurance plans is 17% for 2027, raising costs for the 203,000 and 184,000 Minnesotans covered by individual and small group plans respectively.
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Double-digit health insurance increases will hit individual and small group plans in 2027, again • Minnesota Reformer
Hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans are facing significantly more expensive health insurance next year. The average increase for individual and small group insurance plans is 17% for 2027, the state’...
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Minnesota DFL Party @dfl.org · 01/10/2026
Poll tests are unconstitutional. They were used in the Jim Crow era in the South to disenfranchise Black voters. GOP candidate William Beck just said he wants to bring them back.
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Minnesota DFL Party @dfl.org · 01/10/2026
Lisa Demuth thanked ICE for Operation Metro Surge. Unbelievable.
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Project True North @projtruenorth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
During the ICE surge, Lisa Demuth signed a letter thanking ICE and praising Kristi Noem for her "steady leadership."
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 30/09/2026
A company as rich as Starbucks can afford to treat their workers with respect. Thank you for standing alongside workers and pledging to BOYCOTT STARBUCKS, @gregcasar.bsky.social !
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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Minnesota DFL Party @dfl.org · 28/09/2026
Michele’s got her mind on Mar-a-Lago, not Minnesota.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A strike around the domination of production by the employer is hard to win. The employer is much more likely to cave on wages than this. When it ended, it was with a lot of opposition from the lesser skilled workers but the more highly skilled workers ratified the agreement by a large margin.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This Day in Labor History: September 27, 1972. Workers represented by the United Auto Workers at the General Motors plant Norwood in Norwood, Ohio, ended their strike after 174 days. Let's talk how workers fought the horrors of automation and the speed-up in American auto!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
8/ As the @nytimes.com reported, DraftKings uses machine learning and data scientists to entice losing customers with promos to keep them going — even if those are the customers at risk of becoming addicts. The company says it doesn’t unfairly target people.
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How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose
Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social @teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Meischa was Roger Marshall's patient. This is her story.
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Doron Clark @doronclark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Vote yes! Passing the MN constitutional amendment on this year’s ballot will increase funding to all public schools including about $1,000,000 per year to Minneapolis Public Schools. Don’t skip it - leaving this question blank is the same as voting no. (PS - Edison scored!)
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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have and always will step up for the people of Minnesota. Ron can't even say where he stands when two Minnesotans were gunned down by federal agents on the streets of Minneapolis.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 24/09/2026
#OtD 24 Sep 1883 during his Address to the National Convention of Colored Men in Kentucky, Frederick Douglass criticised trade unions that refused to organise Black workers. But most unions continued to be whites-only, with exceptions like the @IWW. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9696...
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Patricia Pino @patriciapino.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Greens propose to drop interest rates as the main inflation tool. So it's a good moment to ask why we discarded the world Kalecki knew (full employment as the aim), for monetary policy primacy, independent central banks & a buffer stock of unemployed labour. open.substack.com/pub/patricia...
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The Political Aspects of Unemployment
Why price stability does not require an army of the unemployed.
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Patricia Pino @patriciapino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The old settlement broke when supply shocks left the blunt tools of Keynesian demand management scrambling for answers. But we were too hasty to abandon the govt's role in creating employment. And what replaced it is now once again failing under the very same supply shocks.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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MAPEunion @mapeunion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
MAPE member Megan Eiting spoke with Minnesota Public Radio about the unfavorable overtime compensation for the heroes fighting wildfires in Minnesota. Read the full story here: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/09/21/dn…
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 23/09/2026
The #BoycottStarbucks movement is growing - and Senator Ruben Gallego ( @gallego.senate.gov ) is not only standing with workers, but calling on everyone to join the Boycott. ✊
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This Day in Labor History: September 22, 1946. The Food, Tobacco, Agricultural & Allied Workers of America (FTA) reached a contract agreement with the Piedmont Tobacco Company, marking an early victory in the CIO’s Operation Dixie campaign. Let's talk Operation Dixie and why it eventually failed!
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.
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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records
Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...
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shaunladen.bsky.social @shaunladen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
These Obama folks keep ending up in these headlines. It’s almost as if the most talented politician of his era didn’t need brilliant handlers to be successful. But they keep cashing in! 💵 💰 💴
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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’m not seeing this talked about a ton, but in regards to MN public schools there is a constitutional amendment to get people to vote yes on that will increase distribution from a very large pot of money. (It would go from 2.5% of dividends/interest to 4.5% of full market value).
CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT 1
Increasing funding to school districts
Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to increase the funding going to all school districts from the permanent school fund, which is a fund that supports school districts without raising individual income or property taxes, effective July 1, 2027?
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
fox news is a danger to society, especially children STOP FUCKING APPEARING ON FOX NEWS
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shaunladen.bsky.social @shaunladen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I can’t imagine the Strib and MPR, the two largest media outlets with the money to do it, being run by the Taylor GOP machine has anything to do with it?!?! I’m sure they’re busy covering all of Trumps crimes and lies. That must be it.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
huge cuts to our healthcare and infrastructure, bags of cash for the gulf monarchies
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shaunladen.bsky.social @shaunladen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
These words are 💯 for our Minneapolis moment. No MPS action will address what is state imposed doom. Make no mistake, this is not a unique issue to Minneapolis either. St Cloud and Monticello are also making huge cuts because of “The Choice is Yours.” We’ve built a broken system. #MNLEG
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shaunladen.bsky.social @shaunladen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Incredible to think how low these numbers would be if employment wasn’t being held up by Biden’s Infrastructure Bill right now. As in, no massive Federal spending influx on construction jobs right now. So much of that road construction is Biden dollars getting spent on Trump’s watch.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22/09/2026
The deals were made at the behest of Stephen Miller. trib.al/0n1ZGfS
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Trump Sends Millions to Authoritarian Leaders in Deportation Crackdown
The deals were made at the behest of Stephen Miller.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How do we make teaching a sustainable career? We need: 🎒Education budget tied to the defense budget 🎒Teacher minimum wage 🎒Strong teacher unions 🎒Investment in the paraprofessionals that a kid needs to be their best learner and so teachers can focus on teaching
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This Day in Labor History: September 19, 1945. 24 fired female employees of the Lindstrom Tool and Toy Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut picketed outside the factory in protest of their firing to replace with returning men. Let's tell the often untold story of women workers in World War II!
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Last week, an attendee at the Republican Convention repeatedly shouted that Democratic candidates should be shot and not one person at the convention said “no”. Not even the U.S Senator who was speaking at the time, who very clearly heard what was being shouted.
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Becky Zosia Dernbach @bzosiad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm seeing some chatter about whether the education funding ballot amendment could help Minneapolis schools. The answer is it would boost MPS funding by about $1 million a year. You can see how much it would boost funding for any individual district here: voteyesmnstudents.org
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Vote Yes: Boost Funding for Minnesota Public Schools
Vote Yes for a constitutional amendment to boost Minnesota public school funding without raising taxes, benefiting every student statewide.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"In past conflicts, preparing lists of proposed targets — work that includes assessing how they align with an operation’s objectives — had taken hours for staffers to complete. Ahead of the US attack on Iran, much of that work was condensed into several minutes via Maven," a Palantir AI system.
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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What a night at Latinos con Keith. Thank you to everyone who brought the energy, shared their stories, and showed up ready to fight for this campaign. We’re powered by people coming together, neighbor to neighbor, community to community. ¡Sin miedo al éxito!
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shaunladen.bsky.social @shaunladen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Friday Blooms from Whittier. #Bloomscrolling
Rain drops dot the petals of a pink tipped red and yellow centered dahlia. Green foliage is in the background.
Raindrops are spread across a peach/pink tipped dahlia with yellow surrounding a dark pink center. Other dahlias are out of focus in the background surrounded by green foliage.A spiked dahlia with a bit of white and then dark pink  tipped ray like petals come together with a light pink and white center. Green foliage surrounds this dahlia, including a large green leaf from a zinnia plant touching it on top.
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Sean Lim @seanlimmn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Today is Karen Clark Day in the City of Minneapolis 🌱 We gathered at City Hall in honor of her decades of public service, trailblazing legislative career, and enduring legacy in East Phillips & the Southside Gratitude to @jchavezmpls.bsky.social & @mplsward9.bsky.social office for this Resolution.
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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We said from day one that Christian Castro would not escape accountability. We said it when he fled to Texas. We said it when Texas refused to extradite him. And we said it when we took the fight to court. Now, Castro is facing his charges and the legal process can move forward in Minnesota.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It is authoritarianism 101 to blame all of the ills of society on "those people," a would be tyrant's choose your own adventure of scapegoats depending on time and place. To blame said scapegoats for potential electoral outcomes is more of that same impulse.
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marymoriarty.bsky.social @marymoriarty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Gov. Abbott's attempt to shield Mr. Castro from accountability has failed. We look forward to commencing our prosecution," Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said in a statement Wednesday.
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