“We blew it up.” On Trump’s orders. Even Rubio wants a little distance from this.
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“We blew it up.” On Trump’s orders. Even Rubio wants a little distance from this.
The Grievous Angels revolution 2025 tour is returning to the @horseshoetavern.bsky.social in Toronto Sunday matinee Dec 14. We will be at the Rainbow Bistro Ottawa for an afternoon matinee Nov 30. Cobalt Classic Theatre Saturday Oct 18. www.horseshoetavern.com/event/the-gr...
Twin Cities roofing contractor charged with stealing $118,000 in wages on publicly funded project minnesotareformer.com/2025/09/03/r...
Hewlett Packard beats quarterly revenue estimates on robust server demand reut.rs/47JOqCT
At this week's military parade, China showed off land, sea, and air-base nuclear capabilities for the first time. What's so significant about these weapons and China's choice to display them so prominently? @nktpnd.bsky.social explains: youtube.com/shorts/mj8S2...
Now these Trump insurrectionists want reparations. They want the federal government to fix their pain having participated in a violent takeover of the U.S. Capitol. In addition Sitting Republicans have introduced a Bill to ioen another investigative to undo the non-partisan House investigation.
Wow, Florida at it again… planning to become the first state to end all vaccine mandates, even for schoolkids. Don’t let the facts of decades of preventing outbreaks and protecting public health get in the way.
Yes 👍
The House and Senate are back in session this week. Who else thinks it's time to ban members of Congress from trading stocks?
Federal oversight of Seattle's police department ends after 13 years reut.rs/45N9F5i
Today on Minnesota Now: Megan Walsh, the director of the Gun Violence Prevention Clinic at the University of Minnesota Law School, joins host Nina Moini after Twin Cities-area mayors gathered Tuesday at the Capitol to call for more authority to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
🫤 It’s grotesque. It’s dangerous. And if we don’t push back with the truth, they’ll rewrite January 6 as a story of martyrs instead. It is timely, practical and prudent to calmly call out the lies, the misinformation, the grift, and ignorance.
This remains the same MAGA Inspired budget slashing food stamps, stopped child tax credits, wasted U.S. emergency aid overseas, undermined help to struggling families, and is rewriting science-based public health guidance creating danger. So, this group wants taxpayer help for insurrectionists.
Now these Trump insurrectionists want reparations. They want the federal government to fix their pain having participated in a violent takeover of the U.S. Capitol. In addition Sitting Republicans have introduced a Bill to ioen another investigative to undo the non-partisan House investigation.
They stormed the Capitol. Beat cops. Tried to end democracy. Many received their due-process being indicted and convicted for their crimes. Then, this year they were pardoned.
Yes, we have a housing problem. Making systemic change will rebuild incentives and help create a solid floor for people struggling… substack.com/@paulkrugman...
BREAKING: Trump’s team has reportedly advised Republican lawmakers to describe his “Big Beautiful Bill,” which slashes taxes for the wealthy and health care for the poor, as a “working families tax plan." Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Yes 👍 A change, in the 80s was a drive to a party Congress voting as a block; we had 2-party approach with left/right leaning Senators & Representatives together in each of the two primary parties. They could and did split on regional issues. Perhaps to represent the people. ..or special interest.
Words matter: It's not "ICE enforcement" it's "secret police violating the Constitution." It's not "Trump sends National Guard to Chicago," it's "President Orders Texas to Invade Illinois."
Many students in Minnesota are heading back to school this week. Some are entering new buildings and getting new school supplies with with help of donations. And some public school districts report increased enrollment including St. Cloud and the Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop district.
NEW: Man who wants Nobel Peace Prize creates Department of War.
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"They started it, mom," was not a reason for doctors to reverse course on their own advice. Human and understandable layperson reaction, but imo, Fauci was right and 1500 doctors were wrong.
An incredible story of courage in the face of danger. Ryan Palattao, in a wheelchair, survived because his teacher, Becca Heer, pulled him under a pew and threw herself over him to protect him. His family calls her a "guardian angel." www.startribune.com/he-couldnt-r...
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The poster boy for Trump’s unpopular federal funding freeze is a deeply unlikable and outspoken guy, one who looks and talks like the stock villain in a TV drama about politics and who has a confirmation to a powerful role pending before the Senate. Democrats need to beat him like a piñata
There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 - the teeth of the #COVID pandemic. Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates...
About the weird DOJ Trump/Epstein interview: “It was a damage-control operation… not so much investigating Epstein and Maxwell’s crimes as attempting to exculpate President Donald Trump….“
“What independence means is that the technocrats at the Central Bank use economic reasoning, data” to achieve economic goals, says Fmr. Fed Chair & Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen. ‘Americans need to worry’ about political interference. It’s “a recipe for runaway inflation.” #Velshi
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You cannot convince me that AI is not being misused and is not a danger www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/i... Why Is ChatGPT Telling People to Email Me?
Because even grand juries are seeing this is all just performative and not really about "fighting crime"
This is not true, they are firing longtime employees who are speaking out, and not just there but several longtime EPA employees were fires at 5PM on Friday fir signing a similar letter.
O'Keefe to Noem: "At least 20 people who signed this letter were current FEMA employees & they've been placed on administrative leave. Is it now the policy of DHS that anytime an employee puts their name on something criticizing you or POTUS, they should anticipate being put on leave or fired?"
This is literally the opposite. It is like he is a bizarro superman.
DeSantis destroys the Pulse Nightclub memorial.
Cruelty is the point
The biggest takeaway from this article is Kennedy and HHS leadership have refused to show the underlying science behind their decisions to limit various vaccines including the Covid one to their own scientists. www.thebulwark.com/p/kennedy-rf... This Is What—and Who—We’re Losing in RFK’s Purge
Cancelling the wind, renewal energy project will be setting back sustainability and climate emergency objectives. This far into the project wastes the resources already used. 🫤 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Clean energy isn’t “woke.” It’s an essential part of our energy future and saves us all on power bills. This administration’s war on offshore wind and solar is just going to raise Americans’ utilities.
I’m absolutely begging reporters to stop suggesting that Lisa Cook stated that she would use both properties as a principal residence on her mortgage APPLICATIONS Mortgage APPLICATIONS and mortgage AGREEMENTS are not the same thing We have no idea what she represented on the APPLICATIONS
NEW: More than two decades after victims and families of the 9/11 attacks began trying to hold the Saudi government responsible for aiding the Qaida terrorists who carried out the plot, a judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the kingdom can go to trial.
What we’re into is not a left–right struggle, but a struggle on the U.S. continuing a rules-based path, reliance on science seeking improvement of our understanding, and prudent/practical governance. This is guided by founding revolutionary human rights assertions. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
I don’t think it was Putin, at least hope not, but the problem no doubt concerned that his reading of the facts and objective analysis conflicted with their opinion, wishful beliefs, and ignorance. 🫤
It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.
Brewers activate OF Jackson Chourio ahead of game vs. Jays reut.rs/3UVj5W3
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✉️ Rebooting the Minnesota Star Tribune: A Conversation With Steve Grove: "'We're trying to move from a place of being the paper of record to the paper of relevancy. Where can we tell stories that aren't being told? Where can we drive conversations?'" dicktofel.substack.com/p/rebooting-...
Listen to my conversation on MPR News with Steve Grove, the publisher and CEO of The Minnesota Star Tribune. We talked about the future of journalism, the challenges and rewards of public service, and his new book about finding purpose in life. www.mprnews.org/episode/2025...
My statement with @markwarner.bsky.social and @bobbyscott.house.gov on the Trump Administration’s withdrawal of funding for Fairwinds Landing:
imagine
The SCOTUS majority continues to suffer lack of scholarship and thinks thru decision that fail to realise abrupt change of precedent.
We'll see what Scotus thinks, but this story from May is aging pretty well so far, I'd say. Federal Circuit leans into "major questions doctrine" in declaring Trump's global tariffs illegal. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social Excellent discussion tonight on PBS News hour. Appreciate your insight and ability to communicate the heart of an issue or important contextual element we are ignoring. 😎
I appreciate the sentiment, but where was this clarity when these dudes held all three branches? Ah, bailing megabanks out of the GFC, which Holder himself played a key role in creating. Well, nevertheless.
Complement this move by overturning the Reapportionment Act of 1929, which capped the house at 435 members—well short of the ideal rep to voter ratio that stable democracies have converged on. Happily, neither of these reforms require amendments to the constitution.
'We didn't do enough': How U.S. policy failed Palestinians in Gaza www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...
“You risked your life out here to save the community,” the firefighter said. “This is how they treat us.” @cantwell.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
'We didn't do enough': How U.S. policy failed Palestinians in Gaza www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...
Trump's agenda is destroying science and making political decisions on feelings and not evidence www.bloomberg.com/news/article... RFK Jr. Says CDC Needs to More Closely Align With Trump’s Agenda
And not just the government, this will threaten the lives of every one of us. Plus our commercial corporate billing insurance approach is not equipped to make medical decisions.
This
Corruption
He's going to make sailors drag a destroyer down Pennsylvania Avenue, isn't he
This should be the key point.
And the follow up question should be, "why is this administration replacing these experts with people who are antiscience?"
This is a dumb reason to fire a health expert
Good
Sen. Smith: The number one cause of fatalities for young people in this country between 1 and 19 are firearms. This is a choice that we are making in our country. No one thing is going to solve this, but we can't just sit back and say there's nothing we can do
Dangerous and life threatening opinion over study and analysis.
The senator, whose support was pivotal in RFK Jr.’s confirmation as Secretary of HHS, is criticizing a vaccine panel that the health secretary falsely promised he wouldn’t overhaul.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Even when it’s hard to find hope, I will keep working on it.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
www.startribune.com/annunciation...
Excellent question….
What civilian needs a gun that fires 116 rounds that quickly
The gun industry's secret project fundamentally transformed the American lawmaker. In a span of a few years, state and federal politicians morphed from actively seeking solutions to "thoughts and prayers." Read these two stories to find out how. www.propublica.org/article/guns...
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Introducing Sources and Methods, a new podcast/newsletter from NPR…
We should take off the ceiling for Representatives and require a more independent State process for district maps.
Yes, the number of voting representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives is fixed at 435, a limit established by the Reapportionment Act of 1929. This number has not changed since then, despite the growth of the U.S. population. …but one systematic change we need to make.
www.wgbh.org/news/nationa... We miss the days when @npr.org’s @hansilowang.bsky.social would talk about the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 and how it’s messed everything up. It’d be great if they’d reach out to @casten.house.gov to talk about #hr4125, a bill to #UncapTheHouse to ~660 reps! 🇺🇸
After watching and reading comments about the horrific Minnesota shooting, it appears most Americans people missed our stories about the secret roots to the madness. I pray this repost helps. www.propublica.org/article/gunm...
Yes, the number of voting representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives is fixed at 435, a limit established by the Reapportionment Act of 1929. This number has not changed since then, despite the growth of the U.S. population. …but one systematic change we need to make.
You just can’t make this stuff up. Not even half-baked; still frozen cookie dough. 🫤
DOT secretary said the transportation agency will better "manage" Washington's Union Station, including exploring private sector involvement.
“The Federal Reserve is meant to be protected from these types of political pressures. It is an independent institution.” Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the Fed’s Board of Governors, is an incidental target of Trump’s larger “desire to exert control over all parts of government.”
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook is suing President Donald Trump to challenge his attempt to fire her from the board of the central bank. A president cannot get rid of Fed officials over policy disagreements, but he can dismiss someone “for cause.”
So, we are doing this?! 🫤
The Trump administration is running Russian-style active measures…in Greenland www.bbc.com/news/article...
"The oft-mentioned tyranny being opposed by gun owners is really just the sense that the wrong people are encroaching on the privileges and prerogatives of whiteness." From 2020: