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Nonprofit political law & policy attorney. Proceduralist & anxious, jealous guardian of democracy. Tweets are mine, not my employer's. Minneapolis. Idealist w/ weltschmerz. I’m on Signal. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nharpermn/
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The existence of a Home Depot AND an Office Depot implies the need for a “Third Space” Depot.

The political binary of left and right isn't our reality anymore. Let's consider levels of MAGA obedience instead. Here's how: open.substack.com/pub/ctrlaltr...

Unacceptable. They're also using lot of resources to arrest people for interfering with immigration raids. I guess when you're no longer investigating public corruption, you have more time to hunt down ladies who make it slightly more difficult to arrest immigrants showing up for court hearings.

This Pride, I think about how several years ago, I watched Target's Director of Public Policy and Civic Engagement or whatever give lofty speeches about civics and respect and all that jazz, and how they *had* to make PAC donations to both parties because, you know, bipartisanship!

How dare they make me tear up! And during pride month! 💖

Erratic mad king praised for being erratic

DUIs. Attacking a prisoner. Battery on a law enforcement officer. Violating prison rules. Guards on Alabama's execution team have been accused of violence and misconduct but were allowed to carry out executions, our investigation found: boltsmag.org/alabama...

Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says

Troopers in Central Florida appear to have been given direction not to wear their name tags during ICE operations.

just checking in on the president before bed… he just reposted some qanon brain rot about how joe biden was secretly executed in 2020 and replaced with a clone and/or robot 👍

Minneapolis, we are in a battle for the soul of this City, and it's pretty much landlords who see it as something to extract from, and those of us who want to live here and make it a good place. And VP Chugtai makes those on one side so mad THEY ASSAULTED HER TODAY. Let's get her DFL endorsed today

PR funding?! Why the fuck do they need that!?!?

Every time the "Police need more funding" folks scream I want them to: 1) acknowledge that MPD have never been defunded 2) acknowledge that MPD is better funded now than it has ever been. It's the same dead horse every cycle now. Y'all are playing republican's cards here, stop gaslighting folks.

Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social

Tim Walz takes a shot at Susan Collins: "She's always 'deeply concerned' about things. Well do something then, about being 'deeply concerned.'"

Chatbots tuned to win people over can end up saying dangerous things to vulnerable users, a new study found.

Andrea Corbin, the suburban republican funding We ❤️ Mpls, films herself crashing a luncheon she was not invited to, & wonders loudly why “the uptown association” wasn’t invited to the event. fine, i’ll say it, bc u are an asshole. u represent everything the folks at that lunch are fighting against.

LOL that’s funny

This is the kind of sweeping, truth-telling journalism we need more of. Good job, AP.

Support local journalism (that covers the local glove repair shop). racketmn.com/now-open-the...

Yes, you did vote to deport moms.

I'm so down this friggin rabbit hole, but this line from the Senate Report accompanying the 1982 reauthorization of the VRA caught my eye

kind of obsessed with 2025 pride merch...I'm calling it cowardcore.

They really don't want Americans to do science anymore

The world sure has changed since the days of skinny jeans… 👴🏻

Time I spend shopping for a cute festive formalwear outfit for a work event should count as work hours 😫

If Dems don’t play this on repeat 24/7 in every ad medium possible, they’re idiots.

Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night. When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠

There’s your empty shelf. US goods imports drop 19.8% in April — largest on record

This makes my night. Some of the best (and most ridiculous) work I ever did is in that repo and now it’s not lost to time.

NEW: Citations in the MAHA Report have telltale signs of AI chatbot use -- we reviewed all 522 of the listed citations, and at least 37 of the footnotes appear multiple times in the citations with another 21 having dead links w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

In addition to this being appalling from Sen. Gallego, the fact that the senior editor at The Dispatch frames it as coming from a "rising star" Dem and in opposition to "progressives" — as opposed to in opposition to virtually every elected Dem except Suozzi, Moulton, and Newsom — is trash.

I don't need every dem to be perfect but this is is an unexceptable fuckup.

This is horrific. The antisemitic “Great Replacement Theory” institutionalized within the US government. Grateful to @marisakabas.bsky.social for the critical scoop.

Is this bad? Seems bad.