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Politico @politico.com · 12/08/2026
🚨 Progressive Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan has defeated moderate Rep. Angie Craig in the Democratic primary to replace retiring Sen. Tina Smith.
politico.com
Peggy Flanagan delivers another win for progressives in Minnesota
The lieutenant governor defeated moderate Rep. Angie Craig in the Democratic primary to replace retiring Sen. Tina Smith.
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Chicago Dubs @dstrickland621.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The wnba needs to find a way to shut this Sophie Cunningham crap down, and fast. Lawmakers calling for the arrest of players who foul her is insane.
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the lakeshore undead @thecorlew.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
all every team has to do is just not sign Sophie Cunningham when her contract expires and like 60% of problems go away transphobes never fully go away but getting rid of one can have a chilling effect on the rest
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 12/08/2026
minneapolis vote totals on minnesota state primary election, comparing turnout numbers from 2014, 2018, 2022, as of 5pm today we are approaching 2018 levels!
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EvolvingWild @evolvingwild.evolving-hockey.com · 11/08/2026
If you’re in Minnesota, remember to vote in the primary today!
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silly goose, esq. @sillygoose-esquire.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
i was proud to cast my vote for nick benson today
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alyson sorensen @alysonsorensen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
they murdered two of our neighbors, shot at more of our neighbors, tear gassed thousands of us, and will now try to disappear us like they did our beloved neighbors. we know how to protect each other and we know not to be afraid. I love you, Minneapolis.
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la flaneuse 😷 @laflaneuse.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Your reminder that “antifa” is short for antifascist. And you should be against fascism.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 16/06/2026
There are multiple arrests of observers happening in the Twin Cities today. If you go out, please have your security settings on and seriously consider having a buddy with you
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Minnesota 50501 @mn50501.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Have you observed or protested Federal operations? Know your rights and defend them.
BE PREPARED
Have you exercised your constitutional right to observe and protest federal actions in Minnesota? 

The FBI may visit you. 

For criminal and immigration support: 
612-444-2654 - NLG Hotline (Protest related) 
612-337-0030 - Legal Rights Center (Hennepin County)
651-222-4703 Neighborhood Justice Center (Dakota, Ramsey, or Washington Counties)
651-641-1011 - Immigrant Law Center of MN

https://www.legalrightscenter.org/firstdefense/

If you're facing intimidation or civil rights violations:
https://www.aclu-mn.org/ice-feds-form/

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS • DEFEND YOUR RIGHTS
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Can’t Stop Twinkling 💕💚 @proftolson.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Yes, and Section 2 applies to any abridgment or denial of the right to vote...not just race based abridgment or denials so you don't run into the discriminatory intent issue. I write about it in my book. www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
cambridge.org
In Congress We Trust? | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/04/2026
Struggling with the work/WW3 balance.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/03/2026
The push for sex verification tests is rooted in racism and they're explicit about it. Not a surprise they want to eliminate the 3 Black women in this photo.
A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Mark Shearman MBE (@AthleticsImages).
​The text of the post reads: "After today's excellent decision by the IOC.,if the Rio 2016 women's 800m. was held today, the 3 medallists in my photo. Wambui, Niyonsaba & Semenya would be barred and the medals would go to Canada's Melissa Bishop, Poland's Joanna Jozwik & GB's Lynsey Sharp @AthleticsWeekly"
​Below the text is a photograph of several female track athletes running a race on a blue track. Prominently featured in the front pack are runners wearing race bibs that say Wambui (wearing a red Kenya uniform), Niyonsaba (wearing a green, white, and red Burundi uniform), and Semenya (wearing a green and yellow South Africa uniform). Several other runners, including one with the name Arzamasova, are visible trailing slightly behind them.
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Stina @stinah.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Absolute Queen behavior from the Zamboni Rider today at the Minnesota Frost game. No ICE No War No Kings No Fear.
A woman in a light purple wig sits in passenger seat of zamboni, holding a banner which states "no ICE, no more, no kings, no fear" in same font and colors as Minnesota Frost team iconography.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
“…it appears from the historical record that unlawfully present aliens would not have been considered under the protection of the sovereign, and their children would not have been considered birthright subjects...” The man has never done any serious archival work. americanmind.org/salvo/cleari...
americanmind.org
Clearing Up Confusion on Birthright Citizenship
History shows that temporary visitors are not fully subject to the jurisdiction of the United States under the 14th Amendment.
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☀️Huma☀️ @huma.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
just type type click clicking thru world war 3 as the dystopia foretold 😭🫩
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 10/02/2026
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
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‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I don't know if non-lawyers understand how insane this statement is. I honestly can't think of anything remotely comparable in non-lawyer speak. I guess the closest would be a surgeon saying "Imagine if I had to wash my HANDS before doing surgery!"
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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Anyway almost every organizer from BLM is dead now
Post from will stancil "protesting inst risky"
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/02/2026
there’s no way we get through a Super Bowl halftime show with Bad Bunny and Green Day without a total crashout from the president
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
Alex Pretti’s Sig handgun has history of accidentally firing — offering possible clue to why Border agent shot him
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.
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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I have full confidence that the two bylined reporters indeed heard this from U.S. officials, but to go ahead and uncritically report it as such when we all saw the video is just humiliating. What is happening at CBS, man.
cbsnews.com
ICE agent who shot Renee Good suffered internal bleeding, officials say
Jonathan Ross, who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis last week, suffered internal bleeding after the incident, two officials said, though it's not clear how extensive the bleeding was.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The thing that really makes Minneapolis different, other than the fact that they straight up murdered someone, is that they've dropped all pretense that this is just about immigration. The state has declared war on its own people, or at least those people who live in cities.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Unarmed woman executed by state may have been on committee to fight against unarmed women being executed by the state
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Ilhan Omar “Renee Nicole Good should be alive. We will not stop fighting until we achieve real justice & accountability — that must begin with impeaching Kristi Noem & ensuring no federal agent can act as a judge, jury, & executioner in our streets”
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar speaking to reporters from a lectern
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026
Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
DHS tweeted this yesterday. Little more than 24 hours later, ICE agents just shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis.
DHS tweet:
"GOOD MORNING MINNEAPOLIS!"
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/01/2026
CBP just shot a woman "in the face" as she attempted to drive away in Minneapolis. Unconfirmed reports are that she's dead.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
13 years ago today.
In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Undecided voter: “How can someone like you convince me that my vote matters” James Talarico: “They wouldn't be trying so hard to stop you from voting if your vote didn't matter — Texas is one of the hardest places to vote in the entire country. That is by design”
James Talarico speaks during a rally
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son was pulled over by ICE and forced to prove he is an American. Two options: 1) ICE deliberately targeted him. 2) ICE is stopping all non-White people without any probable cause and forcing them to prove they are citizens. Hard to say which option is scarier.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Gov. Tim Walz says Democratic Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed last night in “a political assassination.”
Tim Walz speaks in a blue jacket
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silly goose, esq. @sillygoose-esquire.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
just jumped out of my seat #teamjewelssparkles
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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silly goose, esq. @sillygoose-esquire.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
loving the drag race finale so much #teamjewelssparkles
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bex 🤍🏳️‍🌈 saw afraid of heights!! @bexxyyboo.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
gaga being weird again. i’ve prayed for times like this
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silly goose, esq. @sillygoose-esquire.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
i am (un)fortunately the target audience
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Andrew Kinsey @andrewkinsey.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
My lawyer hot take is that the lawyers defending the birthright citizenship EO should be driven from the practice. They shouldn't know a day's rest and should never get to practice law again.
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Sanctuary Supply Depot @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
It's important to know your rights -
The back and front of a red card on a table. One side is English and the other is Spanish.

Usted tiene derechos constitucionales:

NO ABRA LA PUERTA si un agente de inmigración está tocando la puerta.

• NO CONTESTE NINGUNA PREGUNTA de un agente de

inmigración si el trata de hablar con usted. Usted tiene el derecho de mantenerse callado.

NO FIRME NADA sin antes hablar con un abogado. Usted tiene el derecho de hablar con un abogado.

Si usted está afuera de su casa, pregunte al agente si es libre para irse y si dice que sí, váyase con tranquilidad.

ENTREGUE ESTA TARJETA AL AGENTE. Si usted está dentro de su casa, muestre la tarjeta por la ventana o pásela debajo de la puerta.

www.ilrc.org/red-cards

I do not wish to speak with you, answer your questions, or sign or hand you any documents based on my 5th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution.

I do not give you permission to enter my home based on my 4th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution unless you have a warrant to enter, signed by a judge or magistrate with my name on it that you slide under the door.

I do not give you permission to search any of my belongings based on my 4th Amendment rights.

I choose to exercise my constitutional rights.

These cards are available to citizens and noncitizens alike.

www.ilrc.org/red-cards
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This is your regularly-scheduled reminder that prominent evangelicals have been preaching about “the sin of empathy” for years now. Ben Garret’s take is nothing new.
Ben Garrett on Twitter:

“Do not commit the sin of empathy. This snake is God’s enemy and yours too. She hates God and his people. You need to properly hate in response. She is not merely deceived but is a deceiver. Your eye shall not pity.”An article from John Piper’s website, “Desiring God.” The article is called “The Enticing Sin of Empathy: how Satan corrupts through compassion.”
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
you won't often see a judge come closer to calling a DOJ attorney a Nazi than Judge Coughenour does here: "There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?"
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silly goose, esq. @sillygoose-esquire.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
#minneapolis from reddit: HSI/ICE spotted Heading into downtown this morning and there were several undercover vehicles, a van, and HSI agents near the 36th entrance to 35W. Stay safe. ETA: www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
aclu.org
Know Your Rights | Immigrants' Rights | ACLU
Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.
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Rae.of.hope @rae1989tv.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I am Bernie & Bernie is me
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silly goose, esq. @sillygoose-esquire.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
#inauguration
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