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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · 23d

Remember when the right was pissing their pants in hysterics over "cancel culture"?

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · 25d

your daily StudBud

photo of 2 sports section front pages, 1 featuring photo of Courtney Williams and 1 featuring photo of Natasha Hiedeman

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · 25d

In New Jersey, Benefits Bloom in Tiny Forests

www.nytimes.com

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · 26d

Has there yet been a lawsuit in those conservative states over the teaching of “gender ideology” for a class that includes Romeo and Juliette, or Jane Austin, or even Fun with Dick and Jane? It would at least be a chance for these bozos to learn what “ideology” actually means.

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · 26d

Willie be Willieing

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · 28d

So glad they caught the “radical left” guy! Did he have a copy of Das Kapital in his backpack?

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Sep 6

I saw that, but only after I’d sent it!

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Sep 5

Among the details in Seth A. Richardson's excellent, heartbreaking new Racket piece on the death of Palmer's Bar: owner Sarah Dwyer wrote to Mayor Jacob Frey twice to ask for more enforcement of city code to help clean up the neighborhood. Neither letter even received a reply. #DontRankFrey

Goodbye to Palmer’s: A Requiem for Minneapolis’s Weirdest and Wonderfullest Bar - Racket

The landmark West Bank bar will close in 10 days. Here's why that happened—and what will be lost.

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Sep 5

They should also call the Department of Health the Department of Sickness, the Department of Justice the Department of Retribution, and the Department of Education the Department of Ignorance.

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Sep 3

The fact that the Democratic Party is terrified of what the dynamic and popular Zohran Mamdani might do to the public perception of Democrats, yet oblivious to the awful damage Schumer and Jeffries are constantly doing to the same is all you need to know about how brain-dead the party is.

It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down | Mehdi Hasan

This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition. We all deserve better

www.theguardian.com

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hey all you assault weapon-owning, gun-loving dipshit Americans, wasn't your excuse all along that you might need them to fight the US government if it suddenly became authoritarian? Are you all just super busy right now or something?

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Aug 24

I got coffeed up and pissed off yesterday morning and sent one in!

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Aug 22

Just want to say publicly in advance that if I'm ever in a federal prison, then anyone who has the power to pardon me is and has always been, in my estimation, an absolutely perfect gentleperson in all respects and has never done anything even remotely inappropriate.

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Aug 21

“You couldn’t feel safer anywhere in the world than at a ukulele gathering.” —wisdom from MPR this morning (I believe it, though a Lynx game might be a close second)

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D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · Aug 19

I mean, its hard to argue with “Fuck Jacob Frey, fuck fascism and fuck Donald Trump.” but leave it to the fucking Star Tribune to write a fucking article about fucking decorum, so fuck the Star Tribune along with this other list.

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Aug 12

Since October 7, 2023, more journalists have been killed in Gaza than all these wars combined:
U.S. Civil War, World War I and Il, Korean War, Vietnam War, wars in Yugoslavia (1990s & 2000s) and the Afghanistan War.
Brown University Watson School of International and Public Affairs

Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Aug 9

Trump’s concern about antisemitism is about as selective as his concern for birds: it’s only there if there’s a university he wants to shake down or a windmill he wants to take down.

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Aug 9

LTE in today’s Minnesota Star Tribune

MINNEAPOLIS MAYORAL RACE
Fateh's accomplishments far outstrip Frey's Julius Hernandez, shilling for Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, says not to vote for DF L-endorsed mayoral candidate state Sen.
Omar Fateh because "the DFL Party was built by people who believed in results" ("Democratic socialism isn't the future of the DFL Party," Strib Voices, Aug. 8).
OK, here's a test for Minneapolis voters: Off the top of your head, name a single major accomplishment achieved by Frey in his 7½ years as mayor. I'll wait. Finding it difficult?
If someone asked me the same of Fateh's recent tenure as state senator, I'd have to decide between the North Star Promise Act, which made higher education feasible for thousands of lower-income Minnesotans; the legalization of fentanyl test strips, which saves the lives of people who could otherwise potentially die of a fentanyl overdose without even knowing what they were taking (as did my own brother-in-law in the very month before the act was passed); and the bill to ensure that Uber and Lyft drivers were paid a living wage. Fateh led on all those initiatives, and they were based on the desire to make a real difference in his constituents' lives, not to serve any ideological agenda.
If you want "results" rather than showboating, vote DFL-endorsed Fateh for mayor.
JASON McGRATH, Minneapolis

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · Jul 20

#TIME4UNITY: Both sides in our city must recognize the unique & valuable contributions of the other. Young DSA-types provide energy, activism, & idealism we need to keep striving. Old school DFLers provide the anger, resentment, & cash needed to crush that first faction to dust.

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Jul 20

Let's call out red-baiting and McCarthyist rhetoric for what it is, whether it's corporate Democrats threatened by the popularity of democratic socialism or Trump screeching about "Radical Left Lunatics" whenever anyone opposes his lawlessness. (2/2)

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Jul 20

Let's make a rule that everyone who scaremongers about "socialism" in local politics is required to state exactly what public assets or services they wish to return to private hands or what proposed public benefit or service they wish to block from being enacted. (1/2)

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · Jul 19

omar fateh had a video message from sen john hoffman who is still recovering from being shot last month

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Jul 18

Now even the Radical Left Lunatics at the Wall Street Journal are joining the pile-on against Trump over the Epstein Hoax.

Trump mired in Epstein controversy as Wall Street Journal reports on 2003 letter

The controversy over President Donald Trump’s handling of records from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation entered a new dimension Thursday as his administration struggles to make good on its promises t...

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Jul 16

"Look at a place like Minneapolis. Post mass migration they're unsafe, they're violent, you cannot use the public parks." – Stephen Miller
I still go to them regularly because it's only when I'm close to death that I feel most alive.

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Jul 16

Can we just pause to appreciate the irony of this moment, when Trump’s habitual ass-kissers dare to defy him because they feel they must pander to the MAGA base?

screen shot of newspaper headline saying “Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans break with Trump on Epstein”

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