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In the Break Room: 👉Minnesota state workers say they’re ready to strike over return-to-office 👉Job Corps students face homelessness after Trump cuts 👉 Minnesota surpasses 3 million jobs in 2024 👉doctors and nurses picket across the state. minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/06/m...

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Gov. Tim Walz to call special session for Monday, Legislature aims to pass 14 bills in one day minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/06/g...

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Gov. Tim Walz on Thursday said that communication between states and the federal government under the second Trump administration “is nonexistent,” opening the door to catastrophe in the case of a natural disaster or other emergency.

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Gov. Tim Walz called Tuesday’s major law enforcement presence in south Minneapolis “chaotic” and said his Department of Public Safety had no advance notice.

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Minnesota Pollution Control Agency moves to shut down Northern Iron Foundry on St. Paul’s East Side. Expect a fight: www.twincities.com/2025/06/05/s...

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MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship

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“Maybe he’s a wunderkind. Maybe he’s Doogie Howser and has everything at 21yo... to lead the office. But that’s not likely the case,” said one counterterrorism researcher who has worked with CP3 officials for years. “It sounds like putting the intern in charge.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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This criticism makes no sense. They're taunting Trump for chickening out on policies which they oppose. Would they rather he followed through on them?

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CBO projects that if enacted as written, the legislation would result in 10.9 million people losing access to health insurance by 2034

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American Public Media eliminating positions while still paying former execs half-a-million as part-time consultants... www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

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Hennepin Sheriff posted the following to X about the law enforcement raid in south Minneapolis this AM:

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SCOOP: An Iowa health care center has terminated gender-affirming care for adult transgender patients, and a former employee tells @iowacapitaldispatch.com it's out of fear of losing federal grant funding under shifting Trump administration policy iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/06/03/i...

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Members of the country's largest private-sector doctors union walked picket lines outside four Allina clinics this morning — a first for Minnesota — as contract negotiations stall after 15 months of negotiations minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/03/u...

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Rank-and-file reject Minnesota legislative leaders’ ‘skinny’ tax bill minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/02/r...

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They posted a 'skinny' 12-page tax bill over the weekend but Sen. Ann Rest told me it's been obsolete since she rejected it Friday morning

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I can't believe @cingraham.bsky.social is actually leaving us. He's made an incredible impact on us and the state in the few short years he's been with the Reformer: minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/02/t...

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Job Corps center in St. Paul sends students home after federal funding pause

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Building trades hold out hope for data center tax breaks in Minnesota budget — and other labor news minnesotareformer.com/2025/05/30/b...

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I spoke with international student workers about the Trump Admin's attacks on Harvard, the university's lack of support for international students, and the broader impacts of these attacks for research and education in the US www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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In the Break Room: 👉 Building trades push for data center tax incentives 👉head of violence intervention nonprofit charged with felony wage theft 👉Trump flips on Nippon-U.S. Steel deal 👉trade war hurts global jobs outlook 👉 even more minnesotareformer.com/2025/05/30/b...

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A bill to fund critical public works projects — including upgrading the state’s roads, protecting Minnesota’s drinking water and expanding city sewers — is dead this year, legislative leaders said Thursday.

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new loyalty tests for federal workers www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

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It's gonna take a big-time community push before June 1 💪 racketmn.com/help-racket-...

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Some of us are too fucking online that we remember that she actually went viral as a high school senior after writing an entitled essay in the Wall Street Journal for not getting into an Ivy League school because she was too white or not woke enough or whatever.

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"We humans are stability-seeking creatures. Getting accustomed to what used to seem unthinkable can feel like an accomplishment." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...

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Republicans changed the rules, & now practically any action the executive branch takes can be challenged in Congress. Any 30 Senators can bring up a vote, & get a guaranteed 10 hours of floor time. Meaning that Democrats could hold the floor indefinitely, if they wanted. prospect.org/politics/202...

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NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said prepackaged foods have “mass poisoned” tribal communities. But the Trump administration ended a program that tribal food banks relied on for fresh, locally produced food important to their traditions and cultures. By @maryhudetz.bsky.social

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A 110-year-old pharmacy on St. Paul’s West Seventh Street closes forever on June 30. It couldn’t find a buyer. Here’s why. www.twincities.com/2025/05/27/w...

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Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging state-mandated holiday pay for nursing home workers minnesotareformer.com/briefs/judge...

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Giving +$313/mo ($3756/yr) in unconditional cash to low-income U.S. families with new babies doesn't seem to improve the children's development at age 4, per multi-city field experiment by child poverty & development researchers. Relevant to debates on CTC & baby bonus www.nber.org/papers/w3384...

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Former Midwest Mountaineering employee opens outdoor store in North Loop

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Laid-off miners will receive year of unemployment under legislative deal — and other labor news minnesotareformer.com/2025/05/23/l...

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In the Break Room: 👉laid off miners to receive a year of unemployment under leg deal 👉 lawmakers still deadlocked over noncompete agreements 👉 nurses union accuses health systems of skimping on charity care 👉 Colorado governor blocks repeal anti-union law minnesotareformer.com/2025/05/23/l...

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Why has Walz been cussing so damn much? minnesotareformer.com/2025/05/22/w...

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This analysis of the "summer reading list" debacle is excellent. It starts here - the freelancer was asked to do something impossible for (I assume) a very small amount of money - and then observes that future AI nonsense will surely rely on this AI nonsense. slate.com/technology/2...

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ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing, Threatening Deportation www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...

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Today's #UIClaims data out from the Department of Labor (www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf) continue to show significantly higher continued unemployment insurance claims for federal workers than this time last year, up 36% for the week ending May 3. #EconSky @epi.org

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Vento, who spent years assembling funding to convert old rail yards into the nature sanctuary outside downtown, was a supporter of tribal sovereignty, said the mayor. No official word yet from his family about the decision to drop his name from his namesake natural area.

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Burned out by workplace violence, nurses demand higher staffing from Minnesota hospitals minnesotareformer.com/2025/05/21/b...

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I happened upon American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio's 990s from the past two years today. I guess the going rate for being a former executive and part-time consultant is about $560,000-$600,000 a year (or a little over 1/2 of a historic member drive)

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🚨 BAD COMPANY ON TOUR! I am so excited to be going to some of my favorite cities on a real live book tour! Please come hang? (Some require tickets or RSVPs, details at each bookstore’s website.)

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I worked in hospitals, off and on, for about a decade. I was always in positions just about as far away from the daily patient interactions that nurses provide, yet even I was assaulted twice, as a 6.2 ft. 200+ lb. male. When nurses talk, believe them.

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