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Mary Burke

@slapshoe.bsky.social
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Loon fancier, bread baker, movie lover, gorehound.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 3h
TODAY: New SNAP cuts are kicking in because of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." 5 million people have already lost food assistance, including 1.5 million+ kids since the bill was enacted. No kid deserves to go hungry so Trump can give his billionaire buddies another tax handout.
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oaklander94611.bsky.social @oaklander94611.bsky.social · 6h
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 9h
Please reskeet
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h
The most corrupt administration in the history of the US by far. You could add up all instances of corruption by every other admin in US history and it will not equal the amount of corruption perpetrated by this one in less than 2 years.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 10h
Next Wednesday, October 7th, and the Parkway Theater here in Minneapolis, Trace Beaulieu and I are riffing a short film as part of @rachellichtman.bsky.social’s brillant and groovy @programme4.tv show. We’d love to see you there!
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Tim “Los Ingobernables de Minnesota" Nichols @timcities555.bsky.social · 10h
Demuth and the MNGOP brought Nick Shirley to Minnesota to create agitprop.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 28/08/2026
The correct question and narrative frame was never “why are we polarized?” It was “why are we so solicitous of evil, lawless people?” — and it was that all along.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 12h
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Ann Tandy-Treiber @anntandy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is not the usual budget woes, MN folks. These cuts will fundamentally damage our flagship university, one of the biggest economic drivers of the state, possibly irrevocably.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/09/2026
The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I might be a little less distrustful of AI if the dudes promoting it, supporting it, insisting on it, and advocating for it weren’t the worst fucking people on the planet.
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Memorial Blood Centers @memorialblood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 Platelet donors are critically needed right now! 🚨 Everyone who stops by a donor center to give platelets between September 30 & October 6 will receive a $20 e-gift card as a thank-you! Registration is required ➡️ bit.ly/4dJa9ga
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Scott Demeranville @andthemuppets.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We are starting work on our pride tifo this weekend. Sign up here if you can help out: www.signupgenius.com/go/60B054EAA...
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Pride Tifo
The Pride game is in October this season. Please sign-up below if you can help out with tracing, painting, setup, and/or deploying the tifo. Double check that the email you provide is correct.Instruct...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Awful: The Supreme Court just let Trump's third-country deportations move forward. Still a shot at stopping them later but unlikely. Reminder: If Dems win power, they can and should defund both the white-nationalist Office of Remigration and third-country deportations, as I argue in this piece:
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Laurel Davila @laureldavilacpa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump officials may end weekly CDC reporting from 15,000 nursing homes on COVID, flu, RSV cases, hospitalizations, & vaccines because tracking outbreaks feels “burdensome.” Sure, let’s make nursing-home outbreaks harder to see. What could possibly go wrong? #GOPWarOnHealthcare
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Susan Collins and all Republican Senators and Members of Congress VOTED FOR THIS. ↘️
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Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Stacy Kess: the revolution will be accessible. @stacykess.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump admin will rewrite Section 504 after settlement with TX, AK, FL, LA and MT to remove references to “most integrated setting,” removing protections for disabled people.
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Trump Administration Gets OK To Scale Back Disability Protections
The government will do away with rules requiring that people with disabilities be served in the community under a settlement with a handful of states that advocates say sidesteps decades of precedent.
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A college degree shouldn't require life-crushing amounts of debt to obtain to begin with. Like, literally nobody else in the world has to worry about being in debt up to their eyeballs if they want to obtain a bachelor's degree.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jesus fucking Christ
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's already estimated that the richest 1% alone evade $163 billion in taxes every year. But Trump gutted the IRS — including the unit tasked with auditing billionaires. The agency's audit revenue fell 35%. Now, Trump's IRS is not publishing data on unpaid taxes. See the problem?
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Craig Crawford's Trail Mix @craigcrawford.com · 27/09/2026
Republicans just reserved $888 million in campaign ads. That's almost exactly how much they cut from global health programs last year. Denying health care isn't cheap.
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Jon Eisenberg 🇺🇦🪧 @jon-eisenberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
2017 tweet, still valid, but the driving has gotten worse than drunk.
John Fugelsang 
@JohnFugelsang 
It's like a drunk is driving the bus & we're all just staring at each other bc 27% of the passengers like how he drives.
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Susan Marie Swanson @susanmarieswanson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Louise Erdrich's response to receiving the Gish Prize is so inspiring. Her prepared statement appears in the Minnesota Monthly piece about the prize and is well worth reading. www.minnesotamonthly.com/arts-enterta...
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Louise Erdrich Wins Dorothy and Lillian Gish Award
The Minnesotan author was announced as the 33rd Dorothy and Lillian Gish Award winner on September 25.
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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Blood boys OVER we’re out here Renfieldmaxxing now
He’s on a quest to live forever.
Mr. Emanuel’s morning routine involves waking up at 4 a.m., stretching for 40 minutes and then doing breath work, sauna, meditation, an ice plunge and infrared light therapy before ingesting a protein shake and a cup of live worms to fight off “the bad bacteria in my gut.” He describes a recent lunch with his old CAA boss, Michael Ovitz. Mr. Emanuel writes: “He goes to the gym; he thinks that means he’s taking care of himself. But it doesn’t. I scold him. He hasn’t gotten his blood work done in years, he isn’t doing ice plunges, he isn’t doing daily breath work, he isn’t fasting. And he needs to be eating worms.”
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 26/09/2026
President Trump announced he has moved to significantly reduce gas mileage targets as part of his larger push to eliminate federal support for electric vehicles. According to the government’s own analysis, the move could lead to drivers paying hundreds more for gas each year.
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Trump Says He Has Reversed Biden-Era Fuel Efficiency Standards
The government’s own analysis of the proposed rule said the move could worsen the country’s ability to weather shocks to oil prices.
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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Killing the for-profit health insurance industry would immediately improve American life, and is probably the single biggest improvement to Americans' lives govt could provide. It devolved into 'scam' 20 years ago; now it's a nest of scams within scams.
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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Next time you’re struggling to pay for gas or groceries, remember this image.
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are only 39 days left until the Midterms but 848 days until the next President is Inaugurated. If America wants to win, we’ve all got to work hard the entire 848 days, not just the next 39. #FDT #FMAGA #FGOP
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just so pathetic. One after the other, Trump nominated people to the most important positions solely because they’re sycophantic cultists who refuse to even say he is wrong about something that impacts public health even when they know he is. This is a nightmare for America. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please remember this when Trump or anyone else from his regime talks about "waste, fraud, and abuse."
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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bummer that no one at the Star Tribune has access to the Internet and couldn’t find all the examples of Tafoya talking about how much she hates Minnesota!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Republicans' fear of fake socialism in the United States is bringing about real fascism in the United States. Mainly because they are too ignorant to know the difference.
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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As a rule, I don’t often think about economists. But I do think about this 1963 quote from economist John Kenneth Galbraith quite a lot: “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026
I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The White House ballroom's first architect reportedly quit the project after he warned Trump that he was bypassing emergency exit routes and fire safety codes. Trump's response to the architect: "I am the code."
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Mendeia @mendeia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you haven't kept up your annual COVID vaccinations, get on that sooner rather than later. Also, shout-out to all fellow still-maskers!
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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is fucking insane. Absolutely fucking insane. So, if you're healthy and haven't needed to use your insurance policy, these dumbshits think you're committing fraud?! What?!
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Daniel @daringstumbles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Art & Language are a facsimile of human consciousness, ai outputs are a (poor) facsimile of Art & Language. So, somehow, we are expected to believe ai has created a lossless compression algo for consciousness? Big ol doubt button
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the political instincts of a jackhammer
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Neville Eclov @neclovian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Literal Nazi shit
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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wish we had more heads up about this. Hermantown has been fighting the good fight for well over a year. If we don’t want the techno-fascists coming for Lake Superior, we have to stop them now. ⬇️
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Horrifying as usual. Randomly atarted chasing a guy, shot mutiple times into his car, didnt render assistance ince he was in custody. Local cop ended up ended up doing that. Isnt even in thr country illegally, tho obvs that shldnt include a death sentence open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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ICE Shot a DoorDash Driver in the Back in Austin
Rather than getting him medical help, they carted him off to an ICE detention complex—and the bullet is still in his back.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 21/09/2026
It will put CNN under the control of the same people who took over CBS News last year and have remade it to be more friendly to the White House.
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 21/09/2026
'This is how I get your tax dollars into Putin's pocket to cause more harm to Ukraine and Europe, thank you for your attention, etc.'
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