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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thank you for posting that here. I do a bad job of tracking Bluesky.

Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In spitting distance of the sand creek massacre site and the site of a Japanese intern camp. Maybe the ghosts have done their magic.

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

A wealth cap in the attention economy - that is gorgeous. I know it wouldn’t be as simple as that, I mean books become popular because they touch a nerve, but finding a way to assess sincerity from syncopation- at least I like to think about that

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Talking with national friends, who say that the word assassination is not being used at all in their local while it is everywhere here in the cities. I keep thinking of how Minnesota is treating this against how representative Padilla was treated last week.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 14/06/2025

Bring Me The News, The Tribune, MPR News, and other local places are much better sources than national ones who barely know what the DFL is.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

STOP SHARING THIS. The legislature is out of session and this is very unlikely to be the motive. Hortman was for a long time the top-ranking legislative Democrat, Hoffman lives nearby. Speculation about partisan balance is nonsensical, unfounded, and irresponsible.

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Kate Baxter-Kauf @kbaxterk.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

It's hard to understate how important Representative & former Speaker Hortman was to Minnesota politics - she was probably the most prominent woman politician & integral to the recent budget deal. She was also incredibly kind and a real person - Kiernan sold her girl scout cookies. It's horrifying.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 14/06/2025

gonna caution everyone about national accounts covering the news in MN - stick to locals. already seeing lots of misinformation coming from people who do not live here

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Oh my god, I already have like three outlines for exactly this

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Heart smiles sparkles stars and then what else is a good emoji to just show appreciation

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 02/02/2025

great to watch conservatives try to illegally defund nonprofits that provide social services when the only reason those nonprofits exist is because reagan wanted to shrink the government and it turns out you actually have to help people in a society for it to function

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

(18) align with have not, and never will win a power struggle. We are not self-centered in the same ways as those willing to use fear and control to push their agenda through. We have other gifts, so many other gifts. We get lost when we try to play the same game, or our version of the same game.

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

(17) there are other practices here, things that are about how we envision a world for our descendants, and about how we truly learned to live with people who we viscerally disagree with. I have no idea what the answer to any of this is, but I do know that the movements and frameworks I most

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

(16) and not always for white people as well as for people of color in support of Trump. Challenging the coup is not just about asserting the moral high ground of collective care and safety because that has already not worked for everyone. Too many people are pissed off.

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

(15) opening space for them to take care of their own families with the economic sustainability needed to ensure a future because those networks of collective care established in the 1920s were not working for them. And yes, for some this is laced through with white supremacy, but not always.

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

(14) nationalism that is rooted in the development of capitalism, generations old. I also know that this is NOT what this looks like for many of the people I met who voted for Trump while I was walking across the country over this past year. Many people I spoke with saw these changes as potentially

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

(13) country. It is why Bishop Budde’s words were so important, she is the other half of WASPdom, an evangelical Bishop, who is grounded in collective care that comes from a moral ground. It is why he and his acolytes could not tolerate her. So this coup weaves together a form of Christian

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

(12) anything that gets in the way of the patriarchal head of household from doing exactly what he wants to do to build his particular lordship. Most American presidents up until the 1920s and then picked up again by Reagan and Trump cite Anglo-Saxon inheritance has one of the cornerstones of this

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

(11) authority than what honoring a pope allows. This is an old western European Christian fight over who has what kind of power and who does not. But it has morphed now to being about capitalism, a framework that emerged alongside the church. This all depends on repealing anything that challenges

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

(10) you can see this when Hegseth and other Trump and Catholics struggle when the pope and Bishops assert a pro worker and pro-immigrant stance. The struggle is not so much about Catholicism, but it is one way of interpreting the Protestant reformation: the right for an individual to have more

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

(9) many things have unraveled, including any kind of a rural infrastructure. This moment of administrative coup is working to bring back the militarized wealth worshipping of this country’s origins - and the WASP part of this is important

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

(8) this put those who were focused on justice in the position of trying to save something that never really worked to begin with, but the alternative, a lack of any resources devoted towards an interdependent collective, seemed much worse. This means that over the last 40 or so years,

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

(7) in the year since then, many Americans have fought to expand who has access to a collective safety and care system and to transform that system so that it is truly just. Reagan’s administration began the dismantling of this collective care net.

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

(6) shore up WASP (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) superiority. So a contradiction emerged, the creating of collective care strategies along side, the doubling down of who a “real” American is. In other words, who deserves care and who deserves to be a part of the safety net.

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

(5) the deepening of the anti-black strategy of Jim Crow, the deepening of indigenous disappearance strategies, including boarding schools, and the assertion of immigrant acts that excluded the immigration of Chinese and other API people and put quotas on Jewish & Catholic immigrants in order to

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

(4) socialist revolutions, which is why, generations later, the resistance to this expansion of economic and military power is still called Marxist, even when the action has nothing to do with a Marxist framework. These cultural shifts in the 1920s deeply imperfect because they happened alongside

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

(3) the shift in the 1910s and 20s - an imperfect global shift - evolved the idea of a state as having the power and responsibility to build a safety net for its citizens in order to ensure some measure of collective care. This happened all over the industrial world and resulted in a range of

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

(2) of economic expansion on behalf of the monarchy. The “revolution” replaced the monarchy with the State and supported citizens to expand State power by homesteading and building economic infrastructure. Up until the 1910s/20s, the State was focused on military defense and economic extraction

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Susan Raffo @susanraffo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Yes, this is an administrative coup. This is what years of planning have made possible. Part of the brain hurt of this is that the coupsters are bringing the US back to its origins. This country was founded as a corporate entity, enabled to empower regular folks to do the work (1)

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

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