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Today’s Letters from an American 🇺🇸 by @hcrichardson.bsky.social reminds me of Russell Vought saying Trump 2.0 would rapid fire Executive Orders to outpace the courts. “By the time they figure out what's going on, we will have already done it" 👉🏼vote heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-23...

Today, The Cook Political Report is moving 19 more House races, all in Democrats' direction. Six districts are moving from the Toss Up column to Lean Democrat. Two more open seats are moving from Lean Republican to Toss Up. Read more from @erincovey.bsky.social:

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

Pure, unadulterated sociopathy: Tom Tiffany actually sits there grinning and laughing on stage while his opponent calls out his record of cutting healthcare and doubling premiums for thousands of Wisconsin families. They think your medical financial ruin is a joke.

The timing of this raid and reports that a White House official was involved raise serious questions that should concern all Americans, regardless of political party.

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Reading this clarified for me that Trump's decision to invade Iraq and put an incompetent fool in charge of our military is designed to help Putin in his plan to weaken NATO and invade the Baltic states. Do not believe that Trump acts alone. Trump is Putin's puppet.

Not so sure Republicans want the Dobbs decision back in the spotlight like this as the Midterms approach…

In the 1950s and 1960s, doctors gave the drug thalidomide to pregnant patients without telling them — and without FDA approval. Now those patients' children want recognition. n.pr/3VweixJ

Definitely want to see who tries to sanewash this right here.

Lie after lie

ICE Air flight coming to MSP, Fri Sep 4, estimated arrival: 3:10 PM. Shackled detainees will board the plane at Signature Aviation. Since January 1, MN50501 has tracked 131 ICE Air flights through MSP, carrying 4,458 people. 📑 ottergoose.net/ice-flights-msp/data 📡 adsb.lol/?icao=a82a75

I am slowly deleting Google products from my life. No more Chrome or Google as my browser and now no more Google Maps. And guess what? My life goes on and I'm happy.

This. The whole thread.

Lisa Demuth and Michele Tafoya are going to work hand-in-hand to pass Donald Trump's anti-choice agenda. Minnesotans deserve better.

Holy shit. No wonder Carney told the US to pound sand.

Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

Even for a regime with more scandals than you can count, this ranks near the top as one of the most egregious and criminal abuses of presidential power in history.

A scoop from me: The Trump administration is about to release a proposed rule that would gut most of the quality standards that define Head Start while blocking undocumented immigrants from enrolling their kids www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Minnesota State Rep. Jessica Hanson (DFL) responds to Elon Musk/xAI suing to stop a bill to ban AI nudification technology: "When the richest man in the world hangs out with the Epstein class ... we cannot act surprised when he's trying to protect the #1 tool used to make CSAM."

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pulitzercenter.org/stories/samo... Until we stop ignoring wealthy criminals, the cycle will never end. Kennedy wasn't even given a slap on this wrist for this and yet here we are going after Fauci?

Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime. This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.

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Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 6 weeks(!) in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave—is now getting all three.

News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW

Graham chose to support Trump and the January 6th insurrectionists, so we must not allow a whitewashing of Graham and his career in the Senate.

A reminder to all US news media: Graham Platner is a candidate for the US Senate. Senator Mitch McConnell is a sitting US Senator. Which is the more important news story?

Let's welcome our new acting Director of National Intelligence.

m gonna post this video everyday so we NEVER FORGET what the INSURRECTIONIST Donald J. Trump did on Jan 6th

GOP last year: “Make America Healthy Again!” GOP this year: “Maybe we’ll get measles under control.”

The sooner the better. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Join us at the MSP airport on Monday to tell our airport authority: no funding for Delta's new luxury lounge until Delta's leadership meets with the community. Details: linktr.ee/mn50501

That Aliya is willing to go out into the public and hold DHS accountable for their actions is one thing, but as someone who has a disability and has suffered considerable trauma, she shows incredible courage and determination. We need people like Aliya in public office, she should run for something.

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸 THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️

MN50501's Spring lecture series continues this Wednesday, April 15th, with Peter Rachleff, Macalaster College Emeritus Professor, on the history of general strikes and how to make permanent change. Doors @ 5, talk @ 5:30pm Minneapolis Central Libray Pohlad Hall (S-280) 300 Nicollet Mall

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸 THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

Republican Bryan Steil defends SAVE Act by comparing women to used cars PLEASE CALL OFFICES OF REP BRYAN STEIL OF WISCONSIN DC (202) 225-3031 Beloit (608) 752-4050 St Francis (414) 285-2120 Janesville (608) 752-4050 Bristol (262) 654-1901 www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Reminder: DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August. He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA. The grift continues.

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. How it works:

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

I want to say this too: this victory was won because we had observers EVERYWHERE. ICE and CBP couldn't set foot in our city without cameras rolling. Much of the nation seemed determined to ignore our plight for weeks, but the avalanche of documentation we produced dragged the nation to us.

“Permit to carry holders, they’re allowed to carry in public," said Rob Doar, president of the Minnesota Gun Owners Law Center. "There’s nothing inherently criminal about that activity. You also don’t have to choose between exercising your First Amendment rights or your Second Amendment rights.”