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SGA is a problem

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my first piece for The Atlantic. i will be providing more incisive commentary like this, when called upon to do so.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Winter makes our transportation priorities so clear: Street: perfectly clear Taxpayer subsidized (“free”) on street car storage: almost perfectly clear Bikeway: doesn’t exist here Sidewalk: covered in snow w/ hundreds of footprints almost 2 weeks after the last snowfall. #PlowMPLSsidewalks

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Lame duck Tina Smith setting the example 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

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Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota. But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies

submitted 23 hours ago • 613 comments

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

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Fire Elon (into the sun)

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Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

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This is how it’s done.

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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Who are the electeds who understand the moment we’re in and are responding proportionately? I can think of AOC, JB Pritzker, maybe Keith Ellison and Walz? Who else?

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If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

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It’s neither here nor there with respect to the demise of our constitutional order, but I’m still struck by how absolutely Walter Isaacson got played by this guy.

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Mitch is one of the singular villains of American history, personally responsible for the destruction of our democracy and our government at a level above anyone save Trump himself he is a vile man on the level of John Calhoun and should be remembered as such

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Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

submitted 3 days ago • 348 comments

When elected Dems whine “what do they want us to do about it,” show them this

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@pxmolina.bsky.social

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I think you hit send before finishing this! “And therefore I am taking the following actions:….” 👀❓

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

submitted 6 days ago • 167 comments

What this shows is that Trump is, as promised, using the DOJ to go after political enemies to the point that senior prosecutors are quitting.

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This, by itself, should be impeachment-level stuff.

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This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 6 days ago • 8253 comments

They’re trying to drive @nytpitchbot.bsky.social into obsolescence

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Flight attendants just calmly doing their job keeping people safe despite their feet being on the roof of the plane 😮👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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If you are a federal employee in Minnesota and recently lost your job, we'd like to talk to you. Please contact reporter Janet Moore at JMooreStrib.60 on the encrypted messaging app Signal. You can also email us at [email protected]. We strongly encourage you to use a personal device.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Pretty clear this is where we were headed. They’re going to weaponize audits and private data to go after political enemies.

submitted 7 days ago • 51 comments

Department of Education FAFSA changes are open for public comment. The changes include requiring trans students to misgender themselves and removes the nonbinary option on forms. Note: comment period is 60 days, and comments are publicly visible. Form here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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A 24-year-old transgender man from Minnesota who had been missing since December was subjected to violence and torture before his body was found last week in a field in New York, the authorities said. Five people were arrested in connection with his death and charged with murder, the police said.

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jacob frey has yet to reach out to @jchavezmpls.bsky.social after the homophobic attacks he faced from jerry mcafee, a city contractor meanwhile, all 3 mayoral challengers - @omarfatehmn.com @emilykoskimpls.bsky.social and @dewayneforminneapolis.com - have all checked in on jason

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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 8 days ago • 5663 comments

I’m struck by the extent to which my BlueSky feed appears to be a competition for who can be the most defeatist, who can express the least resolve.

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yeah the issue isn't that salmonella never appears here in the US, it does; the issue is that when it does, teams of dedicated civil servants track the outbreak, find the source, spread the word, and recall the bad food. and will they keep doing that? will "they" still exist in any meaningful sense?

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What’s happening now is orders of magnitude worse than Nixon. News organizations have to catch up. This should be blaring-headlines stuff.

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“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

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Anyway here's how it played in the press last time anything went this far, just for reference

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