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Startlingly True @startlinglytrue.bsky.social · Mar 6
“We all do better when we all do better.” #TheWellstoneWay
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We’re winning.

You can tell because Tom “go get ‘em ICE” Emmer suddenly wants to talk about tax relief and school choice.

Don’t let him.

Mayhem, kidnapping, violence and murder aren’t things you can just pivot away from.

You broke it, Tom. Now, you own it.
January 28, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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Another ICE shooting in Minneapolis

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Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say
A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.
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January 24, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋 #AsianLit #Contemporary #KiyoshiShigematsu

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The Blanket Cats by Kiyoshi Shigematsu
Is three days with a cat enough to change your life?The troubled and anxious of Tokyo are desper...
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January 22, 2026 at 5:52 AM
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I'm attending Peggy Flanagan for Minnesota's event, “How to Caucus for Peggy - Virtual Training” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/peggyflanaga...
How to Caucus for Peggy - Virtual Training · Peggy Flanagan for Minnesota
Precinct caucuses are the first step for a proven progressive champion who has delivered for Minnesotans to win this open US Senate seat. Whether you've attended your local DFL precinct caucuses eve...
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January 20, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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North Minneapolis shooting tonight. Gift article

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Live: Shooting reported in Minneapolis allegedly involving federal agents
Gov. Tim Walz address Minnesotans in a live broadcast Wednesday night on the surge of federal immigration agents in Minnesota. A federal judge has declined to immediately rule on the ICE surge in Minn...
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January 15, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋 #History #Politics #DavidGraeber

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The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber
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January 14, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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ICE RAIDS DAY 37 - MASSIVE 2,000 AGENT SURGE - Minneapolis/Saint Paul, MN www.youtube.com/live/6f2uyGk...
ICE RAIDS DAY 37 - MASSIVE 2,000 AGENT SURGE - Minneapolis/Saint Paul, MN
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January 7, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋 #MG #IndigenousLit #Fantasy #DavidARobertson

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The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson
Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle grade...
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January 6, 2026 at 7:42 AM
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Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋#IndigenousLit #Literary #MagicalRealism #JessicaJohns

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Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a...
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January 6, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋 #Mystery #BritLit #ValMcDermid

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The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid
The bodies of four men have been discovered in the town of Bradfield. Enlisted to investigate is ...
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January 4, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋 #Literary #SciFi #DaveEggers

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The Every by Dave Eggers
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle comes an exciting new sequel. When the w...
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January 1, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋 #Economics #History #Politics #DavidGraeber

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The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber
A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—as seen through the ...
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December 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋 #Literary #Historical #JamesMcBride

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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the Nat...
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December 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋 #Memoir #Journalism #BethMacy

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Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America by Beth Macy
From one of our most acclaimed chroniclers of the forces eroding America’s social fabric, her mos...
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December 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋#History #Feminism #EleanorRoosevelt

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It's Up to the Women by Eleanor Roosevelt
Written at the height of the Great Depression, It's Up to the Women is Eleanor Roosevelt's advice...
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December 25, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋 #Mystery #MattGoldman

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A Good Family by Matt Goldman
New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award-winner Matt Goldman's A Good Family is a grippin...
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December 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋 #Essays #Politics #CassRSunstein
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This Is Not Normal: The Politics of Everyday Expectations by Cass R. Sunstein
How our shifting sense of "what's normal" defines the character of democracy"A provocative examin...
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December 24, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋 #Classics #SciFi #Literary #JulesVerne

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
During the year 1866, ships of several nations spot a mysterious sea monster, which some suggest ...
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December 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋 #Mystery #MattGoldman

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Carolina Moonset by Matt Goldman
Joey Green has returned to Beaufort, South Carolina, with its palmettos and shrimp boats, to look...
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December 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋 #Mystery #Minnesota #MattGoldman

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Still Waters: A Novel by Matt Goldman
If you’re reading this email, I am dead. I know this will sound strange, but someone has been tr...
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December 21, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋 #Mystery #MattGildman

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The Murder Show by Matt Goldman
The Murder Show is a pulse-racing novel about secrets, old friends, and how the past never leaves...
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December 20, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Which explains why we have the Cabinet and Speaker that we do.
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I don’t know who made this, but it’s spot on!!
December 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋 #Classics #Literary #AutobiographicalFiction #MargueriteDuras

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The Lover by Marguerite Duras
An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's ...
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December 16, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋 #Economics #Politics #Healthcare #AbdulElSayed

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Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide by Abdul El-Sayed, Micah Johnson
A citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waitingThere are few issues as consequentia...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋 #Psychology #Sociology #Gender #bellhooks

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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at th...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:12 AM