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This says more about the Dems than Trump. A total failure to listen. Not in the last 3 months of the election cycle, but in the final 3 years of the Biden administration. @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov @morrison4mn.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

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Trump says he gave Iran permission to bomb US airbase. Any other president would have been impeached before sunset www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/ju...

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That ship has sailed. Straight into the darkness.

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Too little, too late.

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I assure you, none of them are mine.

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Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA. on.ft.com/4kSuQYO

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Thank you to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for pointing out that we make money on our public lands every single year. Why would we sell them when they are a reliable form of income? www.blm.gov/sites/defaul...

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These are not “new” tax cuts. This bill would simply extend tax programs that have been in existence for more than 7 years. Why would we expect different results from doing the same thing? GDP growth is not going to suddenly explode. The deficit will.

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The Senate’s failure to perform their oversight duties has resulted in a failing Judiciary and a Supreme Court that lacks integrity and respect. We should elect 2 Senators from each District Court jurisdiction who will serve as the Judicial Oversight Committee. @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov

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Hard to overstate the degree to which there appears to be literally no one in the president's current circle who has any experience, even at a low level, managing ANY kind of national security crisis or even situation. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/thoug...

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This is exactly the kind of dangerous and harmful rhetoric we need everyone to call out and condemn. This is the watershed moment where things need to change.

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From the Editor: And then it’s your hometown. share.google/4X7iBK0U8kwO... @dbrauer.net

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Sharing this amazingly moving statement from the children of Melissa and Mark Hortman, Sophie & Colin. They have put together a beautiful list of ways to honor their parents. You can hear Speaker Hortman's influence in their words. We are heartbroken. Please take steps to honor their memory.

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At the least, the Senate should censure him. Tina Smith confronted him and he mumbled an excuse. Silence is not OK. @smith.senate.gov @amyklobuchar.com

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Fact check: 37% of the increase in the national debt since 2001 has come from tax cuts. Source: www.crfb.org/papers/riche...

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HUGELY Important.

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. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com BRAVO! Thank you for reading the letter sent by Tina Smith's aide Ed Shelleby to his colleagues in Senator Mike Lee's office I did two tours of duty in the Senate and Shelleby has the integrity I remember colleagues on both sides of the aisle sharing back then

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This had to be either an intentional F-up in protest or bad actors who had no idea how to march in lockstep. Did the $40 million include pay for these terrible actors?

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We need 11.5 million to hit the tipping point!

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Look who was out in solidarity today in Minnetonka! Thanks @mattmcneilshow.bsky.social for sharing this amazing turnout to resist the Trump regime's oppression and honor the memory of Speaker Hortman. @45xiatai.bsky.social @indivisiblemn03.org @indivisiblewmetro.bsky.social

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I am going to guess that this is not the first time those grandmas have heard, “You’re not the boss of me!”

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This is what Reps Emmer, Fischbach, Finstad, and Stauber unquestioningly support. You are kidding yourselves if you do not believe that their silence, and that of every other state and federal GOP official, has contributed to yesterday’s tragedy.

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Minnesota’s flags will fly at half staff in honor and remembrance of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman. She woke up every morning determined to make Minnesota a better place, and she will be greatly missed.

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Yes, they have, but why have they not denounced a military parade, a president saying protesters will be met with “big force,” masked, body armored, non-uniformed armed forces on our streets, military activated against on our soil? That all made today tragedy possible. Failure to lead.

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Out of an abundance of caution my Department of Public Safety is recommending that people do not attend any political rallies today in Minnesota until the suspect is apprehended.

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Another example that Congress is broken. The Senate fails to provide oversight. The House fails to provide representation. Together, they attempt to govern through Continuing Resolutions and the Reconciliation Process. Failure all around. #UnCapTheHouse

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GOP isn’t fixing education — they’re pulling resources from schools and calling it a solution. Sec of Education Linda McMahon demonstrated her complete incompetence yesterday. She was unable to answer most basic questions about programs SHE TERMINATED as well as basic elements about our history.

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Sunset on Lake Minnetonka

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A new poll shows that if AOC would beat Chuck Schumer in a Democratic primary in 2028 by TWENTY ONE POINTS. I truly hope she runs for that Senate seat. His words and deeds have proven him to be utterly ineffective in fighting the clear and present fascist danger.

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If they do a military parade on June 14, there better be a Million People + March in every city that has more than 2 million people.

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Impact of "The Big Beautiful Bill" on Different Income Groups 🚨 budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2025/...

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Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

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🚨Hot off the presses: the CBO Score for the 2025 GOP tax scam to be heard in Rules tonight. Key takeaway—the wealthiest Americans will get more $$$, while those with the least will lose almost 4% of their income.

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It’s actually insane that there’s an argument happening here over whether the plane grift is “corruption” What are we even doing?

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I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

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We have NOT made a deal with the WH as of yet. We have made a concept of a sub deal to a deal. A covfefe if you will.

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The FBI director flew this government plane (or one just like it), possibly from Las Vegas, where he still lives, to see a hockey game in Long Island. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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History always has a lesson.

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You can not have shame when you have no Honor. The last phrase of the Declaration of Independence is, “… we pledge our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor.” This administration has no Honor. The GOP’s blind support demonstrates a total lack of Honor. They have no Shame.

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potential message: the GOP just raised taxes by $6 trillion potential message: the GOP is kidnapping and trafficking people for things they MIGHT say dem message: the GOP might be insider trading—a thing you associate nancy pelosi with—and we're sending them a nice letter asking them for evidence

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