bmkowski.bsky.social

bmkowski.bsky.social

@bmkowski.bsky.social

Union Teacher. Voracious reader. Movie lover. Distance walker. Mother. Also, is there a better Polis than Minneapolis?

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Rather be poor and not famous than have anyone question in twenty years where I stood on human rights, or if I was afraid to take a stand against evil.

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I'm an attorney who lives in Hennepin County. You shouldn't vote for Anders Folk unless you want a Republican Hennepin Co Attorney. You're allowed to be a single-issue voter in this race. Vote for the person who will prosecute ICE. Vote for Frazier.

taylr@taylordahlin.com

anders folk went from speaking to washington county GOP to campaigning with andrew myers, the republican state rep for 45a, a seat that could decide whether or not the DFL gains a trifecta in minnesota again. myers is being challenged by tracey breazeale, a democrat taylordahlin.com/f/anders-fol...

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Rep senate candidate Tafoya thinks that kidnapping a 5-year-old child in Minneapolis, separating him from his family and sending him off to a concentration camp in Texas is a commendable activity. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Michele Tafoya claims that Liam Ramos, who was detained in Minnesota by masked ICE as he returned home from pre-K and then flown to San Antonio, was “treated very humanely, very kindly by a couple of ICE enforcement agents when they couldn’t find his father, and they took him to get some food”

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“Racist attempts voter fraud” is both accurate and succinct

MPR News@mprnews.org

A new video from conservative provocateur James O’Keefe shows him and members of his team posing as Muslim Minnesotans and questioning Minneapolis election workers about the state’s vouching system. State and local officials are reviewing the encounters.

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Apple: ~$2.2 billion Nike: $986 million FedEx: ~$800 million Amazon: $640 million General Motors: $500 million Giant corporations are raking in millions in tariff refunds and getting even richer. But remember: corporations passed tariff costs on to you. Where's YOUR refund?

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The most painful budget cut was firing the person in the mayor's office whose job it was to tell him not to do this.

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wow: Marianne reports for @truthout.org that a high school social studies teacher was investigated by LAUSD's Student Civil Rights office in part for a class assignment that included one of my articles for Teen Vogue on the modern history of solidarity between Ireland and Palestine.

Marianne Dhenin@mariannedhe.bsky.social

Black Lives Matter, Land Back, and Palestinian flags have been ordered removed from a Los Angeles high school after a complaint that one 11th-grade social studies teacher discriminated against Jewish students by "fail[ing] to present pro-Israel or pro-Zionist ...classroom content."

“None of the other children had physical injuries and were reunited with their family members, Johnson added.” This is the first version of this news that accounts for the trauma of gun violence. (1)

MPR News@mprnews.org

Three people, including a child, are dead following an isolated attack at a Hopkins daycare Wednesday morning. Police say there is no ongoing threat to the public.

Most stories say that the children were “uninjured”. As a witness of gun violence at my school in 2021, I can say that those poor kids at that day care will have a lot of injury to overcome. My heart goes out to them and their families. This will take a lot of healing work for them. 💔 (2)

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FUCK ICE is a winning message. And I don’t think many in the media realized how broad support for that message really is. Like, who did you think the Lutheran ladies holding clandestine no-phones ICE resistance and mutual aid meetings in church basements were gonna vote for???

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my buds and i are linking up to do a training series for Minnesotans that want to help change the narrative this election season by creating short video. a lot of us resist creating video content, but the algorithm thirsts for it and our opponents have a lot of ad money we need to compete with.

If, as a candidate, you cannot understand the courage the folks of the Twin Cities (and around MN) showed when faced with government terror and oppression, you will never get my vote.

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I want medical scientists and doctors to lead recommendations about public health, not conspiracy theorists. I know this is an echo chamber, but I also know vaccine skeptics on the far left. Get your kids vaccinated.

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Multiple ICE agents and vehicles seen at the quarry tonight. Let’s make sure we’re getting out and keeping each other safe while voting tomorrow.

Doron Clark@doronclark.bsky.social

Multiple ICE vehicles were reported at the Quarry tonight so I went down there and saw so many observers out answering the call and keeping people safe. Tomorrow is Election Day and we’re going to go make our voice heard and protect one another while exercising our right to vote.

Hoping to get help for my high school, alt ed English classroom from the Bluesky community. My classroom needs some book refreshing, and I’d love help with fidgets and snacks for my high school students. Most of this usually comes out of my own pocket. Any help would be appreciated! 🔗 in comments.

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Violence thrives in silence. The Senate confirming Todd Blanche — a man who has treated the Epstein survivors like shit — in the silence of the middle of the night is an act of violence.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

If you’re just waking up: the U.S. Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general at around 4:30am ET in a 50–49 vote.

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If the U.S. can't afford to take care of its veterans, then we can't afford to go to war. That's how @maurasullivan is feeling after Congress proposed to cut veteran disability benefits for tinnitus & sleep apnea. Navy veteran @rebeccafornj07 speaks firsthand to the importance of this care.

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Frey took office in 2018, which means his first budget was the 2019 budget.

Greg Murphy@gregrmurphy.bsky.social

Strib quotes Steve Brandt, president of the Board of Estimate and Taxation, "the mayor plans to more accurately budget police overtime. Last year was the seventh straight year of record overtime costs; the last time the city stayed within its overtime budget was 2018." Frey was elected in 2018 😑

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Police in Winona Minnesota are stunned after EVERY SINGLE ONE of their Flock cameras were suddenly removed in a single night. The people don't consent to a surveillance state

WTF…after all we have been through in this state. Tim Walz?? @amyklobuchar.com?? @smith.senate.gov?? WYA??

Jon Collins@jcollins.bsky.social

Breaking: CoreCivic has announced they've sold the 1,600 bed Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Minn., to the U.S. through the Department of Homeland Security for $495.6 million. CoreCivic will still manage the facility, which is expected to start receiving ICE detainees this fall.

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On this day in 1944, the Gestapo found Anne Frank and her family in their Secret Annex. Her diary stands as a warning against hatred and persecution. Eighty years later, we should recognize the warning signs before it’s too late.🙂‍↕️

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chopping it up with the transphobes before the Fire-Fever game on Friday really hammered this home: they want to endlessly "debate" abstract gender concepts because they have absolutely no way to implement any kind of sports-gender policy that doesn't require a whole lot of child genital inspection

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

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Replying to @soraya.press

"THE FUCKING PEDOPHILE-IN-CHIEF IS NOT GOING TO PROTECT YOU" This is the most patriotic, neighborly, First Amendment American ass shit. I'm so proud.

How on earth are we supposed to take Republicans seriously when this is who they are behind in MN. I am being so serious.

MPR News@mprnews.org

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is among the frontrunners for the GOP nomination for Minnesota governor, propelled in part by President Donald Trump’s endorsement. As primary election day approaches, Lindell hasn’t spelled out in much detail what he’d do if elected.

I voted early yesterday in the primary for @peggyflanagan.bsky.social. We deserve better than Angie Craig and her nonsense. Please vote in the primaries.

Briana Rose Lee@brianaroselee.swifties.social

Just when you think @angiecraigmn.bsky.social can’t get any lower… she is using that image of Liam without permission in an ad to vilify her opponent. Reminder that Angie voted for Laken-Riley, Angie voted to bring ICE into our community and then she voted to THANK ICE. Liam deserves better

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TX police searched 83K cameras across state lines to hunt a woman down. Not a missing kid. Not a violent offender. A woman, weeks after a legal abortion, turned in by her own partner. Let’s Address TX State Director @saadia---m.bsky.social covers how cops are using Flock cameras to stalk women.

letsaddresstexas.substack.comTexas Police Used 83,000+ Flock Cameras to Hunt Down A Woman Who Had An AbortionFlock cameras are being used by stalkers.

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Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

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Hey I know inflation is out of control and a lot of folks can’t afford basic necessities, but at least we’re tackling waste fraud and abuse by buying… *checks notes* 250 Escalades for the government.