Jen

Jen

@jenpg.bsky.social

Native Minnesotan transplanted to North Texas. It’s hot here. Vote 💙

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SKOL!!!! 💜💛💜💛💜 6-0!!! ***AND*** Gopher 🏈 took home Floyd and Gopher 🏒 swept the NoDaks It’s a good weekend to be a MN sports fan!

I thought it was funny 🤷‍♀️

Jen@jenpg.bsky.social

Add “for Tax Purposes” to a movie: Dick for Tax Purposes

Holy s#!t this man* is the real deal. It’s worth watching through to the end. *future Senator El-Sayed, not Tommy. I do hope for Tommy he has some true introspection after his experience.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

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Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

Jen@jenpg.bsky.social

@msnowcomms.bsky.social I’m disgusted you are running the political ads endorsing the illegal war on Iran paid for using our tax dollars. This is in direct contradiction of everything said on your network. Repulsive decision to run these ads.

@msnowcomms.bsky.social I’m disgusted you are running the political ads endorsing the illegal war on Iran paid for using our tax dollars. This is in direct contradiction of everything said on your network. Repulsive decision to run these ads.

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Replying to @timothysnyder.bsky.social

For people still wondering what fascism is, Hegseth’s proposal to livestream an execution and Trump’s “love me” ad are useful introductions. (2/3)

The President of the United States is pery publicly asking a foreign country to kill thousands of Americans on American soil. Again.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles on the way. You want to see a horror show? Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit Los Angeles. You want to see some bad things happen?"

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Replying to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

When you hear a fantastical story about AI, you should ask yourself, "How does this serve the political project of AI?" Because, as others have pointed out, that's what AI really amounts to: a political project.

Clearest effin real life example I’ve seen of how insane and harmful these tariffs are to small and mid sized businesses ⬇️

Effin' Birds@effinbirds.com

listen, Americans you guys have a pretty neat country but every day you’re finding a new way to pour lighter fluid all over your pants

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the patriots are at home this week and unrelated but did you know you can write stuff on a beach ball and if its deflated you can put it right in your shirt and no one will know until you bring it out to inflate it?

Bill Amend@billamend.bsky.social

Imagine every music act playing Gillette Stadium now saying “Free Palestine” as an f-you to the Krafts of the world

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There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Talarico: "I oppose trans athletes playing in girls' sports if it endangers safety or fairness"

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Agree. We’ve been reporting lately on ICE ramping back up to 11, but the trump administration is trying to do it without Minnesota type headlines. The secret police are trying to be more… secret

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

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Just 10 people have already poured $617 MILLION into this year’s midterm elections. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. This is not sustainable. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.

Project 2025 in action

NPR@npr.org

Just ahead of closely contested midterms, Texas is about to get a new top voting official. Many locals there fear the frontrunner is a state lawmaker and pastor with no election experience.

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Enjoy this article from a Minnesota newspaper in 1882 noting that Scandinavians love their home countries so much that it will take them generations to assimilate into America. www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Tom Emmer: "Minnesotans are so afraid that you're gonna call us a racist, you're gonna call us an Islamophobe. You know what? I'm done being even the least bit careful. Somalis don't assimilate. And if they don't assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from."

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MSM, some quick notes: 1. It’s not a settlement (the case was dismissed). 3. It’s not a ballroom (it’s a bunker). 3. It’s not a library (Trump said it will be a hotel). It matters that you get it right.

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Every citizen of Minneapolis, please step up 💥

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

VAN HOLLEN: Will individuals who assaulted Capitol Hill police officers be eligible for this fund? BLANCHE: Anybody in this country is eligible to apply if they believe they are a victim of weaponization

Continued evidence that ‘ai hallucination’ is just a fun way to say it doesn’t fucking work 🙃

Jake Lahut@jakelahut.bsky.social

This is an absolutely wild correction from The Verge www.theverge.com/features/916...

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Replying to @swin24.bsky.social

Do not take your eyes off Minnesota, the trump administration and gop aren’t done with it yet and lack of public attention helps them

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I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

My uncle has called Columbia Heights, MN home for 96 years and counting - please support this great community if you are there and able.

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social

Columbia Heights is the suburb where Liam Ramos lives, a small working-class highly diverse community just savaged by ICE during its occupation. There's a mutual aid fund and benefit this Saturday. 1) Please come if you're local. My band is playing a set and we're not bad! 2) Please share & donate.

Three generations at the Plano, TX No Kings protest. I would estimate over a thousand people were in attendance ❌👑 #nokings

I’ll be at the Plano TX rally where will you be?

Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org

There will be more protests on March 28 than any previous day in American history. Find your local No Kings event and join us in the streets again next weekend: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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There’s still an occupation on our state by the federal government. We’re still asking community to patrol and observe the illegal actions committed by ICE. Please continue to support our neighbors with mutual aid. Our neighbors are struggling to stay afloat. Ask your electeds to do better.

Elliott Payne@elliottpayne.org

ACLU MN reported yesterday that the federal government filed sworn statements that there are 970 agents in Minnesota for Operation Metro Surge & that 407 agents will remain here in March. It’s important to note this is on top of the 190 agents that were already assigned before this surge started.

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Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

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This is all performative bullshit. Believe it when you don't see ICE in Minneapolis/Saint Paul anymore.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Homan: "Operation Metro Surge is ending. In the next week, we're going to deploy the officers here on detail back to their home stations or to other areas of the country where they're needed."

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AG Keith Ellison: "The surge is contributing to violent crime. Two of the three homicides committed in Minneapolis in 2026 have come at the hands of federal immigration agents."

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Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

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Minnesota still needs your attention

Andrew Karre@andrewkarre.bsky.social

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

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Don’t look away from MN. ICE is still wreaking havoc across the state - changing their tactics to deceive Minnesotans - pretending to be construction workers or folks delivering groceries. Still over 2,000 ICE agents in the state. They’re not going anywhere, your anger and outrage shouldn’t either.

Hundreds of millions of OUR MONEY is being spent on human rights abuses against our own neighbors.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

Hundreds of millions spent on human misery

Been thinking a lot about this again today. My sympathies to those who were laid off today, and my sympathies to the world at large for losing those voices. Democracy dies in darkness.

Jen@jenpg.bsky.social

When I was a college freshman in the late 90s those of us pursuing an international relations degree were required to have a subscription to WP and read our paper copies every morning as the professor would quiz us on the content in class. It was THE source of truth. I think of that often lately.

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There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.

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I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity