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KedricKillian @kedrickillian.bsky.social · 1d

The sad thing is, essentially a Republican *can* win in Minneapolis they just have to be Jacob Frey and pretend to be a Democrat while vetoing labor standards, Accepting love notes from ICE for facilitating their Lake St raid, and failing to reject a slanderous documentary that insults his city.

Zack Kaylor @zackkaylor.bsky.social · 2d

If a Republican could win in Minneapolis, then this is what their donor base would look like.

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KedricKillian @kedrickillian.bsky.social · 1d

If you're keeping score at home, the Republican chair of the National Governors Association has expressed more resistance to sending in the National Guard to states than the Democratic chair - Maryland Governor Wes Moore who has been silent. www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/08/m...

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Nat @njcherne.bsky.social · 1d

Moderates should read this. Please share 💙💙

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Dear Minneapolis Moderates: A 2025 Election Open Letter » The Wedge Times-Picayune

Hello, True Blue Moderates. I knew you’d come. Let’s talk about Mayor Jacob Frey, the enigma. He’s a two-term mayor with a message suggesting he’s got a zero tolerance policy on encampments. Yet he ha...

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amityf @amityf.bsky.social · 1d

it's just a t-shirt, but honestly, I need the reminder. the back says "it will take all of us", and maybe that's what I need the reminder of.

black t-shirt with white lettering, reads "The future is worth fighting for"

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 1d

Just saw someone angrily blustering on Facebook that if the scaremongers were right, 30% of people would have long covid by now!!! And welp…
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...

Studies across 14 nations show 25% to 30% rate of long COVID

Among the 25% of participants in 1 study who said they experienced long-COVID symptoms, 13% reported sleep disorders.

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 2d

That’s how you know it’s a good and accurate headline.

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so damn spooked by this headline

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National Guard poised to enter Chicago as Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 3d

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.

As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.

(Published July with @texastribune.org)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers

Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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Racket @racketmn.com · 2d

PACs will flood this November’s election in Minneapolis with almost $2 million, most of that going to boost the chances of Mayor Jacob Frey and centrist City Council candidates. Who’s bankrolling this fundraising bonanza, and what do they want in return? racketmn.com/meet-the-big...

Meet the Big-Money Donors Trying to Buy Your Vote in Minneapolis - Racket

PACs will flood this November’s election in Minneapolis with almost $2 million, most of that going to boost the chances of Mayor Jacob Frey and centrist City Council candidates. Who’s bankrolling…

racketmn.com

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James Wheeler @hueybeardwalks.bsky.social · 2d

Ranking for Change:
OMAR!
DEWAYNE!
JAZZ!
You pick the order, Minneapolis gets a new Mayor.

Minneapolis for the Many @mplsforthemany.com · 2d

Fill out this form to get on the list for your own yardsign today:

buff.ly/m2llBEX

And then share the link with 3 friends to let them know why you’ll be voting for a new mayor in 2025!

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

This is well said. Trump and Noem need to back off before we have another Kent State tragedy.

Tweet from Aaron Reichlin-Melnick quoting Laura N. Rodríguez Presa.
Aaron’s comment: “DHS is an escalation spiral; the more they do things like this, the more people on the ground push back... and I'm deeply worried what the ultimate result will be.”
Laura’s tweet reads: “A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them... Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents ICE activity, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.”
Attached photo shows a federal agent inside a vehicle pointing a rifle out of the driver’s side window.

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🧣 Scarf-by Capa-cozy 🍄🍂 [Feral Edition] @virtuistic.bsky.social · 2d

With the MNDFL rescinding the endorsement for mayor and rejecting the appeal, 😤 I also updated this digital graphic. Plz feel free to save + share, and if you'd like the design files to print, get @ me.

Many thanks to @viamarsala18.bsky.social for the inspo + everyone who joined the collaboration.💖

Design featuring text and two columns of vertically stacked images of candidates for mayor of Minneapolis - MN Sen. Omar Fateh, Rev. DeWayne Davis, and Jazz Hampton - and their campaign imagery above the lit skyline of downtown, with the lit clock tower at City Hall in the lower center. Text reads: "MPLS: RANK THESE 3; FATEH: *Labor Endorsed! LET'S WORK TOGETHER; (don't rank frey) DAVIS: WE DESERVE BETTER; (don't rank frey) HAMPTON: TURN THE PAGE; (don't rank frey) for mayor on election day; 11.4.25"

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 2d

Assume ICE agents are warrantless thugs. Do not treat them as legitimate figures of authority; there’s a strong chance they’re not even real government agents.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops.

📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 2d

Mayor Frey is an enigma: A 2-term mayor with a message suggesting he's the zero tolerance on encampments candidate, yet he has presided over an endless string of encampment tragedies. The shootings, fires, the wackamole strategy, those are his results. The rhetoric doesn't match reality.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

Prosecuting political opponents, abducting immigrants, deploying troops in our streets, silencing voters, defying the courts — this is a dictatorship in action.

Trump thinks his rule is absolute. Join millions of Americans to remind him there are NO KINGS in the USA: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Governor Pritzker on Bluesky: “I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?”

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 2d

In all seriousness: every public statement about Trump needs to begin by pointing out the obvious: that his brain is soup and he's not really running the country anymore. bsky.app/profile/crai...

Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 2d

Trump and whatever advisor last spoke to him.

Wormtongue and Théoden in Lord of the Rings

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is misappropriating life-saving funds without explanation, and saddling us with a weakened disaster response for 2026.

FEMA employees spoke out, and now they are being retaliated against. Stand with the #FEMA36 as we point the finger at Trump and Noem for putting Americans in danger.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 2d

White House and DHS cancelling a $11b payment in disaster-relief funds meant to reimburse states that have already had to bear the brunt of recovery — from NC to TX.

It becomes an IOU for next year, reducing FEMA's already diminished $26.5b by nearly half. We'll have only $15.5b until Sept. 2026.

FEMA canceled $11B in disaster payments to states

The unannounced move came after President Donald Trump threatened to reduce FEMA aid, jarring emergency management professionals.

www.eenews.net

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2d

Wish we had a press corp that would actually ask something like “where are you getting this information from?”

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 3d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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