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Love Minnesota and my fellow Minnesotans! Land of Paul Wellstone. Favorite Singers: Layne Staley and Prince Advice: Be unafraid, Stay in the present, Find others who you trust "Politics is about the improvement of people's lives." Paul Wellstone
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You can really feel the anti-Trump sentiment building, and it's not Kitchen-Table Americans complaining about egg prices, it's about the contempt for the rule of law, the reckless cuts, the abandonment of allies, the mistreatment of other Americans

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

BREAKING: USCP is arresting Enrique Tarrio for swiping his hand at a counterprotester who got in his face.

The unraveling of Medicare has begun👇

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

Now if only we could do that here in the states

Minnesota is now South Manitoba. I don't make the rules.

Not worth getting angry over the inevitable, but still tragic watching these fascist cretins shit on the arts. Which just makes actual art all the more essential right now. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...?

americans are ahead of the politicians "Americans disapprove by a 2-to-1 margin of Musk shutting down federal agencies that he decides are unnecessary, and most (63 percent) are concerned that his team is gaining access to sensitive personal data of individuals"

UnitedHealth is under investigation by the Justice Department over its Medicare billing practices and how it records diagnoses

Carville: USAID spent $41 billion the federal budget is 6 trillion. Actually comes to something like .014%. So take that and put it against the 6 trillion and see what you have done when your president is responsible for more federal debt than any president in the history of the United States.

I believe in us #bluesky

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

I have a little context to add to this outstanding reporting. ICE lawyer James Rodden is a devout white christian nationalist who has appeared in the network built around the Lutheran nazi podcast Stone Choir. He has promoted it & has regularly interacted w co-host Ryan Dumperth aka Treblewoe. 1/

On congestion pricing, the correct framing isn't that the Trump admin killed it, it's that the Trump admin announced that they're going to TRY to kill it. This is going to court, and there's no guarantee Trump is going to win there.

That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

🚨BREAKING: @democracyforward.org files emergency lawsuit to halt DOGE from taking taxpayer data at the IRS. Visit Democracy Docket for full coverage. www.democracydocket.com

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

Whatever else emerges in time about the Delta crash in Canada, one thing is certain: the importance & amazing professionalism of flight attendants who safely evacuated the plane in a matter of seconds.

I don't want you to just call your Senators about RFK Jr.'s plans to take life saving anti-depressants and other drugs away. I want you to talk to the pharmaceutical companies that are making those drugs. Ask them when they are going to defend/speak up about the lives they save.

Important read by @marisakabas.bsky.social. This would be a disaster. www.thehandbasket.co/p/antidepres...

This is the way… “The elected officials in Washington have to stop protesting in Washington. They have to go back to their districts…show the consequences…show the school that isn’t operating…they have to make it real.” With social media, word will spread to neighboring districts—even red ones.

After being seen leaving a party together at 2:30AM, GOP Rep Lauren Boebert and Kid Rock got matching tattoos the following morning.

If you are looking for someone to say that all is lost and the courts can't help protect democracy, you are following the wrong guy. If you are looking for someone who fights hard and will never give up, I'm here for you.

Fox ran a superbowl ad from Kanye for a website that, then and now, is selling only one thing: a white tshirt with a black swastika printed in the middle of the chest. It hasn’t attracted much coverage or comment at all outside of progressive spaces like this. But it’s nuts.

Eric Adams sold out this city to get the Trumps to fix his personal problem, simple as that.

Minnesota is still a state where we can work across lines of difference to get things done. There’s no better way to kick that work off than with some bipartisan bars for our friends in the legislature.

Maddow: If you don't have Bluesky yet, I recommend it. It is a social media network that doesn't make me want to stab myself in the eye with a rusty fork

NEW: National Jewish Health ends its DEI efforts amid pressure from President Trump #copolitics www.9news.com/article/news...

"The halftime show was boring." Look, you may not be familiar with the genius of Kendrick Lamar and couldn't quite hear the lyrics and don't know the backstory and the symbolism went over your head, but trust me when I say you'll want to read an analysis of it and rewatch. A true masterpiece.