Dan

Time for this gem, again: youtu.be/gp5JCrSXkJY?...

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

When the next US Congress investigates corruption, Trump's oil-deal-of-the-century with Alejandro Betancourt, the face of Venezuelan corruption, should be top of its list. Two kleptocracies working together. Brilliant essay by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

This warms my independent, pragmatic, good governance heart. Way to go gentlemen!

The White House Council of Economic Advisers claims mass deportation pays for itself because illegal immigrants impose such huge fiscal costs. What are these costs? It doesn't say, so I figured out what CEA did to invent them... www.cato.org/blog/white-h...

Amen, Sisters!

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

So now it is official White House policy that the President can lie to the public with impunity. No correction, no apology, just the straightforward statement that the President lied, a statement by the President that he lied—and everyone is expected to move on. We, America, can’t allow that.

When the US President first made this statement at a White House meeting in January 2018, many attendees told the public he didn’t. Now he confirms it. What is worth sacrificing your honor and integrity? Slobbering racist bigotry harms all Conservatives and all Liberals. It poisons America.

I have read dozens of outraged posts because the US special envoy Witkoff called Putin a "humanist." But no one is writing about the fact that the American negotiators are simply not doing their job. Let me explain.

Why wouldn’t he admit it? The Supreme Court immunized this kind of stuff. It’s why Jack Smith had to take the Jeffrey Clark/DOJ/Trump conspiracy out of his Jan 6 indictment.

Our veterans fought to protect our democracy, and I will stand up for our veterans as Governor. They deserve a leader who works for them. I have as Senator and I will continue to as Governor.

The youngest to be shot was 11 years old. ELEVEN YEARS OLD. In 2026, in the United States of America, the leading cause of death for children is a bullet. The victims and families are in my prayers. But they are also in my actions. We must end gun violence.

BASH: The worry is that we end up in a situation where President Trump tries to overturn the election and the result of that could be like what we saw after January 6-- BLANCHE: Stop it! You gotta stop it with that! That's crazy BASH: This is a president who has a history

maga said the cared about this kind of stuff

Nicole Smith-Holt's son died because he couldn't afford insulin. Lisa Demuth voted against capping the cost of insulin. Minnesotans deserve a governor who will stand up to Big Pharma – not a reliable ally for their lobbyists.

The Trump administration has signed an oil deal with a Venezuelan energy baron who has faced money-laundering investigations in three countries. ProPublica reviewed a copy of the 18-page agreement.

Incredible if predictable betrayal of public trust: you have industry lobbyists become appointees, exploit unitary executive theory to undermine environmental laws and ride roughshod over staff.

This short thread is incredibly important. #WeShouldAskOurselvesWhy

#WeShouldAskOurselvesWhy #ThisIsOurGovernmentNow

From Bemidji to Rochester, from Fergus Falls to Duluth, Forum papers serve communities across our state and cover the issues that matter most to them. I'm grateful to be the first Democrat running for Governor to receive their endorsement in 24 years.

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

And all these yahoo who "support our troops" clap and cheer for their golden idol.

Trump is siding with Russia. Again. He’s attacking Zelenskyy for striking Russian oil refineries, while Russia has been relentlessly bombing Ukraine’s energy grid and civilian targets. 1/

Ukraine actually STOPPED hitting refineries after Trump announced his fake ceasefire, as a show of good faith. Russia kept attacking anyway. And Trump claims Russia is doing “very little” to help Iran, even though multiple officials have testified that Russia is actively helping Iran. 2/2

One of the most disturbing aspects of the MAGA era is the willingness of people to go along with lies when it advances their political agenda.

Lisa Demuth told voters she voted to cap insulin prices. She did not – she voted against it, twice. I’m grateful to have the support of Nicole Smith-Holt, who took on Big Pharma to fight for affordable insulin after her son, Alec, died after having to ration his insulin.

#ThisIsOurGovernmentNow

Humiliating and dangerous: Trump has now finally just made America an ally of the Kremlin and is aiding Putin in his war against an American friend and partner. Shameful betrayal of a US friend, and pathetic submission to a US enemy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Ted Cruz is always lying

Ossoff: "The crisis we must meet is deeper than this presidency. Trump's rise is proof that business as usual has failed, that our politics, sickened by corruption, is failing the American public and compromising our national integrity. And that the hour is late to fix what's broken."

He says that he wants allegations of corruption to be based on “facts and not based on one random news media report that I read”… but when it comes to immigrants eating dogs and cats, I guess that’s just completely different?

OSSOFF on Trump Corruption: If you're involved in any of this, next year, you'll be raising your right hand and swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth, and and nothing but the truth, so help you God in front of the United States Congress

if your great love for your fellow human almost always takes the form of finding ways to direct cruelty and anger towards someone, I’m at least a little bit suspicious that you’re finding exactly what you’re looking for. good people are good to people

I’m alarmed that more people aren’t alarmed by Trump targeting Somali Americans and labeling them “garbage” and “crooks” who “contribute nothing.” Most of them are U.S. citizens, yet Trump says, “I don’t want them in our country.” If you know history, you know the horror this can lead to.

They're not the only ones!

Military leaders becoming amplifiers of obviously false politically-motivated messages is a norm breaking danger sign.

Interceptor drones are defensive. They are used to knock down Russian missiles and drones targeted at civilians. What would be the justification for cutting them off?

huh. what could this posssssssssibly mean. the US media willful professed ignorance on this stuff is increasingly embarrassing. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Oh, Donald . . . That's not a gym. It's a gay bathhouse. And you have *never* looked like that.

He has nothing but contempt for the people he’s talking to. Even though he doesn’t even bother to try & hide it anymore, they are so deep in the cult that some still don’t get it while others do but enjoy being treated like something unpleasant on his shoe that he stepped on bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Update: Trump has now contributed $0.00 of his own money towards the ballroom. bsky.app/profile/ronf...

This is a sitting member of Congress who called for immigrants to be executed by throwing them to their deaths out of helicopters. Mike Collins personally amplified neo-Nazi propaganda online. It's disqualifying for a member of Congress and for a candidate for the U.S. Senate.

Every article needs to note “Trump’s first choice for Attorney General”.

Minnesota public school kid mom here: You can’t even get sunscreen on your kid at school without parental permission, renewed annually, surely there is someone somewhere in touch with reality?

This is a great, heartfelt post from a guy I truly admire. I think it speaks to what many of us are feeling.

I need to share something personal with you that I don’t talk about much: I often struggle with a feeling of helplessness. I look around and see so much that is plainly wrong. But over the long run, the truth has a way of winning. And telling the truth is more powerful than we think. (link below)

Let me be specific: Donald Trump is an f-ing traitor. He is in cahoots with Putin and Russia to break our democratic ally, Ukraine, which makes all of us less safe. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...