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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 8h

landlord john wall, minnetonka resident who caucuses and votes in ward 2 minneapolis and held a role on credentials committee that ousted the 80+ robin wonsley supporting delegates at the convention, found in violation of renters' rights voting law and fined

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Landlord John Wall Found in Violation of Voter Rights Law

This morning, the Minnesota Court of Administrative Hearings found landlord John Wall of the Wall Companies in violation of Minnesota Stat. § 211B.20 on 3 occasions, assigning a penalty of $1,450, for...

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Sara 🏳️‍🌈 @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t know what other cities look like, but I think that the commissioner of health role is one I want the Council to vote on. Probably others as well, but there are real implications to the way that position approaches public health that directly affects residents.

Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 9h

POWER GRAB: 6-5 majority of commissioners on this work group say council shouldn't get a confirmation vote for mayor's picks for directors of public works, community planning/economic development, civil rights, health, emergency management, regulatory services, assessor.

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Racket @racketmn.com · 9h

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…

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Throw enough people under the bus and the bus doesn't fucking move for anyone.

Also it's fucking evil.

Stand up for EVERYONE, friends, and demand politicians do the same.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Eat shit, haircut

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 1d

The political right's greatest project is discrediting experts. Only in a "do your own research" world can their cultural preferences - anti-abortion, anti-gender affirming care - claim equal legitimacy to the left's medically-backed positions on those issues. SCOTUS is a full partner in that effort

TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 1d

The Supreme Court's conservatives advanced the right's greater project of discrediting experts Tuesday, feigning that there is no medical consensus against conversion therapy.

The Medical Science Is Always ‘Uncertain’ When It Pushes Against Supreme Court’s Bias

If you came into Tuesday’s oral argument over Colorado’s conversion therapy ban...

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

No Country for Old Cows (2007)

Edited screenshots from No Country for Old Men. Anton Chigurh (with cow horns and cow ears) sits in a hotel chair and asks someone across from him, "If the tool you followed brought you to this, of what use was the tool?"

In a zoomed out view, Anton sits silently behind a table with the 4 cow tools look8ng at his victim as if studying him.

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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 1d

My parents still live in the suburb I grew up in 20 miles south but thinking of having to move from MPLS down there into the 'burbs makes my skin crawl.

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 2d

Ummmmm fucking hello??? Conflict of interest? @dfl.org does anyone there even care about the implications of this??

The investigation is being conducted by a panel subcommittee of the CRBC led by Latonya Reeves. Reeves is the author of one of the original challenges to the Minneapolis DFL convention, calling for the revocation of Sen. Fateh's endorsement. Reeves later withdrew her challenge, choosing instead to participate and vote on the CRBC ruling which retracted Sen Fateh's endorsement. Along several other members of the CRBC, Reeves is also a voting member of the DFL State Executive Committee, which absolved the CRBC of error in their handling of the challenges to the Minneapolis DFL convention,

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

blue maga mindset believes the democrats have never done anything wrong, that voters should just see the obvious superiority of the party without being sold, and that the left has to never criticize dems for not delivering and should instead just show up and vote and accept gruel

Joe Flaherty @joef-3.bsky.social · 1d

I would really love this person to explain their theory of politics, which somehow doesn’t require politicians to frame the debate at all for voters.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a snarky but accurate header: there’s good reason to believe Trump genuinely doesn’t know what’s going on because of his info sources, and his underlings are enjoying the power vacuum. Multiple levels of evil.

Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 1d

Sundowning demented elderly man continues to confuse five-year-old B-roll on Fox News for the nightly news

Sundowning demented elderly man continues to confuse five-year-old B-roll on Fox News for the nightly news - Lawyers, Guns & Money

And now this, as Neil Postman once said: On Sunday, NBC’s Yamiche Alcindor nailed an exclusive phone interview with President Trump. A good deal of news came out of that, and a story that followed highlighted Trump’s vague and ominous threat to investigate former FBI director Christopher Wray amid false claims that FBI agents were part of […]

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

One should assume, if one had not already, that every single thing the GOP has to say about pretty much anything is a lie or fabrication.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 2d

Hey @governorwalz.mn.gov why so many crickets from you?

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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Nick Harper, he/him @nharper.bsky.social · 2d

Just bullshit and corrupt behavior up and down from the state DFL.

Minneapolis DFL @mplsdfl.org · 2d

Minnesota DFL opens new investigation of Minneapolis DFL:
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Minnesota State DFL opens new investigation of Minneapolis DFL — Minneapolis DFL

The Minnesota State DFL has opened another investigation of the Minneapolis DFL focused on mailers announcing the original slate of 2025 endorsed candidates. Following its July convention the Minneap...

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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 3d

Wild how she is so completely unwilling to say a single thing positive thing about Minneapolis, like not even a favorite restaurant or anything, almost like she hates the city... 🤔

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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 3d

Another week of listening down.

#WeeklyTunes

#LastFMCollage

#LastFM

#musicsky

A grid of album covers, 5 by 5. From left to right, top to bottom:
Castle Rat - The Bestiary
David Bowie - Outside
Midwife - No Depression In Heaven
Herzschlager - Buried Deep In The Heart
Chris Connelly - Firth Rebirth

Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Yarın Yoksa
Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin & Ultan O'Brien - Solas an Lae - The Light of the Day
Faetooth - Labyrinthine
The Young Gods - Appear Disappear
Årabrot - Rite Of Dionysus

Madame Reaper - Madame Reaper's Gentlemen's Club
Scott Walker - Tilt
Froglord - Metamorphosis
Lankum - The Livelong Day
Loot the Body - You Feel Completely Peculiar

Patty Waters - Sings
SUMAC and Moor Mother - THE FILM
Boris - LOVE & EVOL
Jolie Laide - In The Low Light
Panopticon - The Poppies Bloom For No King (EP)

Blixa Bargeld & Nikko Weidemann - Blixa Bargeld Sings David Bowie
Pharaoh Overlord - Louhi
Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld - Fall
Meat Beat Manifesto & Merzbow - Extinct (CSR330CD/LP)
Edward Ka-Spel & Nuits Rouge - Midnight Pharmacy

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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 5d

Again... also why aren't you saying who funded this deceptive propaganda? 🤔

a man says " fart noises " in front of a shelf of toys

Alt: a man says " fart noises " in front of a shelf of toys

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Lady Christy @ladychristyk.bsky.social · 5d

Damnit, Paul. Are we not already dealing with enough as Witches of the Revolution without having to handle this BS? 😑 #boardgames

An Objective card from the deck-building board game Witches of the Revolution that reads ‘Cure Paul Revere of Lycanthropy’ and shows the the icons necessary to achieve the objective and features artwork of a werewolf in a silversmith’s shop

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 5d

Good to see resolve/resilience from rank and file and House Democrats. Good on @rephuffman.bsky.social daring the republicans to abolish the filibuster ▶️ "[L]et them proceed with GOP votes and let the country see with perfect clarity who owns all the damage and destruction they're fomenting." (1/2)

"🩺 Zoom in: Some Democrats openly acknowledge that, while health care is extremely important to them, it's not the only thing at stake.

🛑 "People want this to be a sort of reckoning, where people finally said, 'No,'" Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio) told us.
"We're going to start with these ACA subsidies because it's the most urgent," Landsman told us.
"But ... you're creating a really important moment where sh*t didn't fly."
The bottom line: "I marvel at the naivete of any Democrat who thinks we should give them Dem votes so they can just turn around and ignore us, crash the health care system, and dismantle what's left of our democracy," Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) told us.

"The filibuster is toast anyway," he added, effectively daring Republicans to ignore the Senate's requirement for 60 votes and pass a party-line funding bill.
"So let them proceed with GOP votes and let the country see with perfect clarity who owns all the damage and destruction they're fomenting.""

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 5d

every single ice agent deserves to spend the rest of their life in prison

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 5d

This ostentatious Christian with the big cross around her neck is really saying that people who cannot prove their citizenship in an emergency room should be left on the sidewalk to die. And that's what she believes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."

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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 5d

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d

This is critical. I asked Chris Murphy if Dems risk sending the message that they're okay w/Trump's lawbreaking provided they extend ACA subsidies.

His answer was striking: On the full year budget, Dems cannot give a bipartisan imprimatur to Trump's lawlessness. 7/

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Mr. Zack @thatwordyguy.bsky.social · 5d

Counterpoint. You need to fucking fight for more than just a few scraps. You need to fight for Minnesota where the Trump regime is withholding infrastructure funding out of spite instead of worrying about red states-your Republican "colleagues" certainly don't seem to be... bsky.app/profile/greg...

Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 5d

The President needs to stop making childish, offensive videos and come to the table to make sure millions of Americans do not lose their health care or see their premiums double.

This will cause major devastation, especially in Republican states.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 5d

Shout out to @eyesontheright.bsky.social for spotting this white supremacist meme on the DHS Twitter last night.

I followed up and DHS responded with more memes. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-inc...

DHS Includes ‘White Supremacist’ Meme in Video Promoting Deportation Blitz

A video posted on X by the Department of Homeland Security included...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

Republicans believe free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/bern...

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 5d

Criticizing Charlie Kirk is a fireable offense that incites domestic terrorism. But calling political opponents "the party of hate, evil, and Satan" is proper and good. Got it.

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