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🔴 Minneapolis, City of Lakes 🟠 We all do better when we all do better 🟡 Healthcare is a Right 🟢 Trump = Republicans = MAGA 🔵 Prioritize SCOTUS Reform 🟣 End 'Citizens United'

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@benurban.bsky.social

Consider the exponential nature of extreme wealth and how much that really is by converting it to time. In seconds, most of us are worth less than one or two days. An oligarch worth $272 billion is worth 8,636 years. Take away 99% and they're still worth 86.4 years. 86.4 years vs. >2 days

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@benurban.bsky.social

49 years ago today, professional hater Anita Bryant took a pie to the face in Des Moines, IA. Later she would break a much ignored commandment by divorcing her husband and remarrying. Much later Bryant's lesbian grandaughter refused to invite her hypocritical, adulterous grandmother to her wedding.

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Unicorn Riot
@unicornriot.bsky.social

NEW: Teacher and labor organizer Treasure Thoreson spoke to Unicorn Riot about being one of the 15 Minnesotans who were federally charged with conspiracy over their organizing earlier this year against ICE's deadly Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis. [More on the Minnesota 15 at our website]

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@benurban.bsky.social

The depravity in the US continues unabated as six evangelicals on the supreme court allow the inhumanity of deporting immigrants to countries they are not from with no chance to contest their removal to continue. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

theguardian.comGone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than everAfter public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
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@benurban.bsky.social

Justice no pardon style is coming for Vance Boelter. 2 counts first-degree premeditated murder (Melissa and Mark Hortman) 4 counts attempted first-degree murder (Sen. John, Yvette and Hope Hoffman + Rep. Kristin Bahner) Felony cruelty to an animal (Gilbert) bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

bringmethenews.comVance Boelter to make first appearance on state charges in Hennepin CountyAlthough his federal case is over, Boelter still faces eight state charges in connection with the June 2024 lawmaker shootings.

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HELL Kennedy
@helenkennedy.com

There's a famous story about Joe Stalin making a speech in 1937. When he was done, the audience began clapping wildly but then everyone was afraid to stop. They kept going for 11 minutes. Finally one guy had enough and stopped, and then everyone else could too. That guy was imprisoned for 10 years.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

cult shit at the White House as Trump's cronies give him a standing ovation for minutes on end. Note how nobody wants to be the first to stop clapping.

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leftylady.bsky.social
@leftylady.bsky.social

Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient.

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Digital Relic 🌀
@damop.bsky.social

Replying to @christopherjhale.bsky.social

Many Americans don't know that Jesus and his mother, Mary, are mentioned in the Quran. In fact, Mary is the only woman mentioned by name in the Quran and is honored as the mother of the Messiah. Muslims regard Jesus as the Messiah, though they do not believe he was the final prophet.

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TheRoadie.
@roadie63.bsky.social

1500 Beagles were being mistreated and they were liberated from captivity. It was a beautiful thing. Can we not do the same for humans being mistreated at Delaney Hall?

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Abilu Tangwa.
@abilutangwa.bsky.social

Let's champion sustainable agriculture 🌱 By embracing regenerative farming, we heal our soil, secure our food, and empower a brighter future for all. Say NO to slash & burn farming. Like, comment, repost if you agree! #SaveOurSoil #RegenerativeFarming

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@benurban.bsky.social

This is how you do it.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

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Sherrilyn Ifill
@sifill.bsky.social

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

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@benurban.bsky.social

Governor Tim Walz gave his last State of the State address on Tuesday night. I'm grateful for his leadership and decency and for making MN a better place in spite of the efforts of Trump, the Republicans, ICE, and the magats. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

bringmethenews.comKey points from Gov. Tim Walz's final State of the State speechIn the wake of Operation Metro Surge, Walz says it is Minnesota's people, not its politics, that makes the state strong.
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@benurban.bsky.social

The WBL PD didn't bother to check for an open bottle. They didn't determine if the other legislator was drunk while carrying. They don't know who the third rider was because they didn't bother to check. Once again Republican hypocrites in power get a pass. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

bringmethenews.comDFL leader questions if Engen, Hudson were impaired on House floor before DWI incidentRep. Zack Stephenson is seeking more answers about the conduct of Reps. Elliott Engen and Walter Hudson.

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Dan Weber
@dan-weber.bsky.social

Replying to @muellershewrote.com

What is war? This is the first poem I’ve ever written. As a combat Marine deployed in two of the three worst years for WIA and KIA through the two decades of war in Afghanistan.

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@benurban.bsky.social

As our Minnesota neighbors are murdered and kidnapped and our kids are traumatized daily, these MN Republican asshats grandstand for the media and for the orange pedophile and his magat base. Emmer, Finstad, Fischbach, and Stauber hate the people of Minnesota. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

bringmethenews.comMinnesota Republicans propose to withhold federal funding unless state hands over voter rolls to TrumpThe legislation introduced by Rep. Pete Stauber would withhold federal election funding from Minnesota until the state shares voter data with the DOJ.
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@benurban.bsky.social

18.3 trillion seconds is equal to 580,289 years*. 18.3 trillion seconds ago was the Ice Age, a time when wooly mammoths and the ancestors to the Neanderthals roamed the earth. *A reminder that 1 million seconds is equal to 11.5 days. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

theguardian.com‘Brazen’ political influence of rich laid bare as wealth of billionaires reaches $18.3tn, says OxfamGovernments opting for oligarchy while brutally repressing protests over austerity and lack of jobs, charity report says
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@benurban.bsky.social

Trump, the Republicans, and their goons are terrorizing Twin Cities residents. A shout out to Richfield protesters and staff for speaking truth to power as TARGET allows their employees to be kidnapped and customers to be endangered by ICE. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

bringmethenews.comProtesters demand action after ICE arrests of U.S. citizen Target employeesDemonstrators gathered after two U.S. citizen Target employees were arrested by ICE, calling on the retailer to bar agents without judicial warrants.