Matt Erickson
@thematterickson.bsky.social
At least as uninteresting online as I am at the other places. he/him
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I never met Melissa Hortman, but, each in our lane, worked on a bunch of the same issues. No one gets all the credit for legislation, but I think its important for people to understand how much good Speaker Hortman did/led/was a part of. That's something being an aging union guy equips you for 1/12
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it's so weird how the president just went missing on January 17, 2026 at approximately 2:13PM Eastern Standard Time
December 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
it's so weird how the president just went missing on January 17, 2026 at approximately 2:13PM Eastern Standard Time
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This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.
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Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
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January 14, 2026 at 10:31 PM
This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
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Everything going on in Minneapolis is horrific and there need to be trials and people going to prison when we can get ahold of it.
But I would also note that it is kind of a demonstration of how stretched thin the feds are that -one- moderately sized urban area requires this level of resource.
But I would also note that it is kind of a demonstration of how stretched thin the feds are that -one- moderately sized urban area requires this level of resource.
January 14, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Everything going on in Minneapolis is horrific and there need to be trials and people going to prison when we can get ahold of it.
But I would also note that it is kind of a demonstration of how stretched thin the feds are that -one- moderately sized urban area requires this level of resource.
But I would also note that it is kind of a demonstration of how stretched thin the feds are that -one- moderately sized urban area requires this level of resource.
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BREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked the clean ACA tax credit extension that the House passed to save millions of people thousands of dollars each.
If you’re paying double or even triple for health insurance, blame Trump and the Senate GOP.
If you’re paying double or even triple for health insurance, blame Trump and the Senate GOP.
January 14, 2026 at 6:02 PM
BREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked the clean ACA tax credit extension that the House passed to save millions of people thousands of dollars each.
If you’re paying double or even triple for health insurance, blame Trump and the Senate GOP.
If you’re paying double or even triple for health insurance, blame Trump and the Senate GOP.
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Polling during Biden's Presidency showed that Americans believed unemployment was at *all time highs* when it was actually at all time lows. The media comprehensively and systematically lied to Americans
Despite years of "economic anxiety" discourse, the core drivers of Trump support have always been bigotry and misinformation.
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January 14, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Polling during Biden's Presidency showed that Americans believed unemployment was at *all time highs* when it was actually at all time lows. The media comprehensively and systematically lied to Americans
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Despite years of "economic anxiety" discourse, the core drivers of Trump support have always been bigotry and misinformation.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
January 14, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Despite years of "economic anxiety" discourse, the core drivers of Trump support have always been bigotry and misinformation.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Claudette Colvin, RIP www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/clau...
Claudette Colvin, RIP - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The way we teach the civil rights movement–or any movement–has gotten massively oversimplified, with a focus on just a few people. This may be inevitable, but we lose something by it. One of the ways ...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Claudette Colvin, RIP www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/clau...
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Claudette Colvin was a leader in the Black struggle for freedom and a constant inspiration that reminds us that our fight against today’s organized hate and the aggressive attacks on our civil rights that we have what we need and know what we need to do. #WeMarchOn! #RIJ
WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.
January 14, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Claudette Colvin was a leader in the Black struggle for freedom and a constant inspiration that reminds us that our fight against today’s organized hate and the aggressive attacks on our civil rights that we have what we need and know what we need to do. #WeMarchOn! #RIJ
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We really don't talk about the sunk costs Trump squandered. Billions and billions and billions of both public and private dollars wasted bc he's still humiliated he got beaten by Joe Biden.
"The vindictive, oil-loving Mr. T**, who equates green with woke and views climate change as heresy, has worked assiduously to undo it, working to cancel consumer tax incentives and billions in funds for E.V. charging and battery manufacturing projects." Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/o...
Opinion | $25 Billion. That’s What Trump Cost Detroit.
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:30 PM
We really don't talk about the sunk costs Trump squandered. Billions and billions and billions of both public and private dollars wasted bc he's still humiliated he got beaten by Joe Biden.
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over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
January 14, 2026 at 2:06 AM
over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
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After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
April 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
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I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
January 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM
I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
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Rest in peace to Scott Adams, creator of the beloved comic strip Dilbert and the somewhat less beloved comic strip Racist Dilbert
January 13, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Rest in peace to Scott Adams, creator of the beloved comic strip Dilbert and the somewhat less beloved comic strip Racist Dilbert
A DC judge just gave canceled DOE awards a path forward www.latitudemedia.com/news/a-dc-ju...
A DC judge just gave canceled DOE awards a path forward
Former senior officials say the agency risks hundreds of lawsuits if it doesn’t reinstate awards canceled last October.
www.latitudemedia.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:30 PM
A DC judge just gave canceled DOE awards a path forward www.latitudemedia.com/news/a-dc-ju...
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one of scott adams best posts
January 13, 2026 at 5:41 PM
one of scott adams best posts
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Scott Adams is exemplary of a large group of Americans whose brain was not built to handle one (1) Black president.
January 13, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Scott Adams is exemplary of a large group of Americans whose brain was not built to handle one (1) Black president.
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I did not log on today to be a Michelle Goldberg booster, but “those who make a show of their dispassion” is a descriptor that I’ve been searching for for a while, and I’m glad that I now have it.
January 13, 2026 at 2:03 PM
I did not log on today to be a Michelle Goldberg booster, but “those who make a show of their dispassion” is a descriptor that I’ve been searching for for a while, and I’m glad that I now have it.
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Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting
At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...
At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...
A new spate of Justice Department officials quit because their section didn't want to probe Renee Good's shooting
At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
www.ms.now
January 13, 2026 at 7:51 AM
Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting
At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...
At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...
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The federal government is now a southern sheriff in 1894 bsky.app/profile/pbum...
DOJ staff resign over the department’s disinterest in Good killing.
A new spate of Justice Department officials quit because their section didn't want to probe Renee Good's shooting
At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
www.ms.now
January 13, 2026 at 12:06 PM
The federal government is now a southern sheriff in 1894 bsky.app/profile/pbum...