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MN State Representative serving Rochester, MN (25B) I also love 🎥 📚 🥾 ✈️ ⚽ 🏀 🏈 ✍️ 🏕️ 🚆 linktr.ee/andysmith

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Rep. Andy Smith @andysmithmn.bsky.social · Feb 26

Christian Nationalism is a real threat to American liberty.

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · Feb 26

DFL Rep. Andy Smith grew up in an evangelical family. Now, he's warning about the threat of Christian nationalism, writes columnist Rochelle Olson.

Olson: 'Exvangelical' warns: Christian nationalism a looming threat

Minnesota state Rep. Andy Smith of Rochester says religious liberty ought to supersede partisan politics.

www.startribune.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 20h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Rep. Andy Smith @andysmithmn.bsky.social · 3d

Who are the Minnesotans who will lose #healthinsurance because of #Trump and republicans? #politics #healthcare

Rep. Andy Smith @andysmithmn.bsky.social · 3d

Democrats are fighting so 140,000 Minnesotans and millions of Americans in other states don’t lose access to healthcare.

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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 4d

For so many, the effort to end gun violence is not just political; it's personal.

We're collecting stories from across the state about how gun violence has impacted Minnesotans and their communities.

Please take 3 minutes to fill out our community survey here: tinyurl.com/housedflsurvey

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Rep. Andy Smith @andysmithmn.bsky.social · 6d

#Trump cancels energy grants for #Minnesota. Another example of authoritarianism hurting everyone, regardless of how you vote. #mn #politics

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State Innovation Exchange @stateinnovation.org · 10d

We spent the morning at Kilimo Farms with @mwfarmersofcolor.bsky.social during our @farmaid.org 40-legislator delegation and left with full hearts, fresh veggies, and a deeper understanding of what farming for justice really looks like.

A few 📸 from the visit:

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State Innovation Exchange @stateinnovation.org · 10d

Legislators came ready to listen and learn, and heard loud and clear that land access remains the #1 barrier for new and BIPOC farmers.

We’re proud to support leaders and lawmakers who are showing up in the field, not just at the Capitol.

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Rep. Andy Smith @andysmithmn.bsky.social · 10d

You have now passed me on my own read-along 😂

Michael Bradford @librarian04.bsky.social · 14d

I finished a 2nd book this weekend, another in @andysmithmn.bsky.social’s #PresidentsBookClub “The Life of Andrew Jackson” by Robert V. Remini. I was not looking forward to reading about Jackson and am glad to move on past him.

Cover of the book “The Life of Andrew Jackson” by Robert V. Remini

Rep. Andy Smith @andysmithmn.bsky.social · 10d

Can’t build a bigger tent by pushing people out of it.

One more thought on the Ta-Nehisi Coates/Ezra Klein conversation.

Rep. Andy Smith @andysmithmn.bsky.social · 10d

3 takeaways from the #EzraKlein and Ta-Nehisi Coates interview.

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Rep. Andy Smith @andysmithmn.bsky.social · Sep 12

Many of us politicians are struggling with a new reality that our friends and colleagues and families are in physical danger of political violence, and the longer we serve the more likely that we will loose some of them (or more than we already have).

Rep. Andy Smith @andysmithmn.bsky.social · Sep 1

Don’t ever lose to your mom in fantasy football.

Rep. Andy Smith @andysmithmn.bsky.social · Sep 1

How am I supposed to choose between Osaka and Gauff!?!? #USOpen

Rep. Andy Smith @andysmithmn.bsky.social · Aug 29

I'm still in the middle of this one! Took a little break, so this is a good reminder to get back to it!

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Rep. Andy Smith @andysmithmn.bsky.social · Aug 26

I can’t believe I am watching Venus Williams at the U.S. Open right now. What a delightful twist to a mostly bad year.

Rep. Andy Smith @andysmithmn.bsky.social · Jul 7

"The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity."

Rep. Andy Smith @andysmithmn.bsky.social · Jul 7

I'm re-reading the majority Obergefell opinion this morning and getting a bit teary-eyed remembering when I had more hope for the future of our nation.

www.justice.gov/sites/defaul...

www.justice.gov

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Rep. Andy Smith @andysmithmn.bsky.social · Jun 16

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Rep. Andy Smith @andysmithmn.bsky.social · Jun 14

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · May 27

the plan to make america great again is to make us an impoverished garrison state dominated by trump and his oligarch buddies

George Pearkes @peark.es · May 27

*US ORDERS HALT TO STUDENT VISA INTERVIEWS: POLITICO

Trump team orders stop to new student visa interviews, as it weighs expanding social media vetting

The directive came in a Tuesday cable obtained by POLITICO.

www.politico.com

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Rep. Andy Smith @andysmithmn.bsky.social · May 27

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · May 27

the plan to make america great again is to make us an impoverished garrison state dominated by trump and his oligarch buddies

George Pearkes @peark.es · May 27

*US ORDERS HALT TO STUDENT VISA INTERVIEWS: POLITICO

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · May 25

if your grand approach to politics is bloodless poll-testing so that you're always aligned with wherever public opinion happens to be, you've already lost

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Rep. Andy Smith @andysmithmn.bsky.social · May 9

#Agriculture conference committee and what it looks like in the #mnleg

#mn #politics

Rep. Andy Smith @andysmithmn.bsky.social · May 9

First meeting of Agriculture Conference Committee. The first Conference Committee of my career!