Joe LaBeLLe

Joe LaBeLLe

@rollingjoe77.bsky.social

Sports and politics: the two worlds I live in 🏟️🗳️ | Gophers, Lynx, Wolves | Vikings, Twins, elections, media, and local scene | Bot-free community 🤖

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I voted on the first day of early voting in #Minnesota. Everybody, come out and participate in democracy. Don't wait until the last minute. #PeggyFlanagan #Vote #Democrat #Mittroms2026 #Midterms

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Minnesotans know that you get what you organize for. President Obama knows that too. We stood up to Donald Trump once. On November 3rd, let’s do it again.

Post 1/2 The Gophers defeated #Iowa! 🚣 Outgained 288-209, but our defense played out of their minds & special teams came up clutch. With this win, Minnesota holds Floyd of Rosedale, Paul Bunyan's Axe, AND the Little Brown Jug for the 1st time since 1978! 🏆 #Gophers #SkiUMah #RTB #FloydOfRosedale

The atmosphere around campus was incredible! Everyone was smiling, hanging out, and even the Iowa fans were surprisingly nice. What an amazing weekend for University of Minnesota sports! 〽️ Goldy is smiling today! Final Score: Minnesota Golden Gophers 13, Iowa Hawkeyes 10

Post 1/3 The #Gophers swept the #NorthDakota Fighting Hawks! It was a tough, physical game by both teams, but North Dakota still loves those cheap shots. They outshot us and won more face-offs, which is not ideal, but we still found a way to win tonight. I love it. 🏒〽️ #SkiUMah #B1GHockey

Post 2/3 I love it even more when the band plays "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," especially when it’s against North Dakota. The atmosphere at Ridder was electric, and it was a fantastic crowd all weekend long. Unbeatable energy in the building! 🎺🇺🇸

Post 3/3 And hey, a special shoutout to all the North Dakota fans who made the trip, thank you for coming down and spending your money in our local economy! Safe travels back across the border. Great weekend to be a Gopher! 💸🐻👋

Post 1 I can’t stand North Dakota, the Fighting Hawks, their alumni coaches, or their fans. I despise them even more than Wisconsin, Iowa, or the Packers—putting them right up there with the Yankees. It’s a legendary rivalry that will never die. 🏒 #Skyama #B1G #Gophers #GopherHockey #CollegeHockey

Post 2 I dislike UND, their coaches, and their fans even more than Wisconsin, Iowa, or the Packers, right up there with the Yankees. Legendary rivalry that will never die. Huge win in a raucous arena! What a great first victory for Brett Larson as Gophers head coach. Now let’s get the sweep!🧹

Post 1 First game of the season for the #Minnesota #Timberwolves. It'll take time to mesh fully, but who'd have expected the #Wolves to dominate end-to-end against the Miami #Heat? Great shooting from LaMelo Ball and Anthony Edwards. 🏀🐺 #NBASky #NBA  

Post 2 Barkley is right; they have to take it inside more. It makes teams play both ends of the floor and gets you to the line. Hope everyone enjoys this NBA season! Inside the NBA is a staple, and Ernie, Charles, Kenny, and Shaq make it the best. I really hope this isn't their final season.

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Mississippi AG Lynn Fitch, who just determined that a white police officer was justified in fatally shooting 1-year-old Kohen Wiley, has quite a record. Let’s review: 🚩 ROE V. WADE: Led the Supreme Court challenge that overturned Roe, ending nearly 50 years of abortion protections 🧵

Gophers women's hockey splits the series against #OhioState after tonight's 6–5 loss. Ohio State's forecheck really gave us trouble tonight, but the #Gophers kept battling. The game could have gotten lopsided, but our goal-scoring kept us in it. Tough series for us to sweep. #SkiUMah

The #3 women’s #Gophers scored 3 unanswered in the 1st and added a 4th early in the 2nd against #1 #OhioState! 🏒✨ I didn’t know what to expect this early in the season, but it was a good crowd inside Ridder Arena and the atmosphere is good. The gophers played solid defensively—so much fun! #SkiUMah

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Reuters: The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials Defense Department leaders were told that SpaceX’s Starshield service for the Ukrainian military needed to be slowed

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What did I tell you about my guy Talarico? I told you the Democrats have fielded the best slate of candidates in decades! VOTE!!!

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“Let us pray for Leo, our Pope.” Those words open the Oremus pro Pontifice, a chant drawn from Psalm 41 that the Church has sung over its popes for centuries. The choir sang it in the Sistine Chapel after Leo’s first Mass. The clip is spreading after the Vatican announced Leo XIV has lung cancer.

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This is a gross abuse of power & the latest in a decade-long, racist smear campaign against a duly elected Black Congresswoman. Trump is a coward who is weaponizing his DOJ to fuel hate & intimidate opponents with baseless attacks like these, just like with Rep. McIver, Lisa Cook & Tish James.

The Vikings did what they were supposed to do and did what they had to do on the road against the New Orleans Saints. We even scored an offensive touchdown. Special teams once again played extremely well, and the Vikings got the win, and that's what matters. #Vikings #SKOL #NFL #Saints #NFLSky

Post 1: The Gophers with another embarrassing loss... we seem to have one or two of these games almost every single season where we just completely fall apart. 〽️🏈 Look at what we allowed against Purdue: Rushing Yards: 305 yards Passing Yards: 159 yards Total Yards Given Up: 464 yards

Post 2: I honestly didn't see this coming, but I know I'm not alone in feeling extremely frustrated that this keeps happening. #Gophers #Minnesota #CollegeFootball #RowTheBoat

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ICE agents fired into the back of a car with a 5 year old inside, trying to arrest a guy. Miraculously, she survived. If you're not furious about what happened in the Bronx yesterday, you're not paying attention. FUCK ICE.

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Celebrating Franni’s 75th birthday today. I’ve known her since she was 17 and we've built a beautiful life together. Here’s us and the kids sometime in the early 90s. Love you, honey! Happy birthday!

#MinnesotaVikings #Vikings #NFL #SKOL #NFLsky A win's a win. The defense stepped up, special teams delivered, and the Vikings made the plays that mattered.

The first time the #Gophers beat Michigan at home since 1977—the year I was born! We never gave up. We basically dominated all phases of the game statistically, and even when some things went wrong, we just kept fighting. Proud of my team, my state, and the University of #Minnesota. #SkiUMah! 〽️🏈

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He had already surrendered. Video captured today in Oasis, California shows a federal goons kneeling on a man he threw to the ground while tasing him. This whole time the man is surrendering.

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BRUTAL! Watch this video until the end and tell me Alaska can’t flip blue. Broken promises and $9 gas. 3X Trump voters: “He’s just lying.” #LetsGetVoteReady

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Do you know how to tell you are talking to a bot? They are talking about Sharia law or Muslim takeovers.

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This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

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@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "I am incredibly skeptical of Florida, but I still think people should give money to Angie Nixon. It's a really tough race, but she's doing the work…She is an all-out grinder and she's also pretty funny. She's a good, charismatic candidate."

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This poverty rate statistic he keeps mentioning was released in March of 2025, so it had nothing to do with Donald Trump. And the poverty rate has only been measured since 1959, so it's only the lowest since then and not all time.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Trump: “We have the highest level of individual wealth, meaning a person’s wealth, individually.”

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Eric Schmitt is what happens when a state becomes so red that you don’t need to be a talented politician to become a US Senator. And to be fair, there are examples of this in blue states too. Iron sharpens iron.

Post 1 of 3 Around the #WNBA and the basketball world, some people are very happy that the #Minnesota #Lynx were the first overall number-one seed to lose to an eighth seed in this playoff format, and we got beat pretty badly. 1/3 #WNBAplayoffs #NewYorkLiberty #WNBASky 

Post 2 of 3 I will say, #CourtneyWilliams gave it everything she had. I knew a lack of size was going to hurt us in a playoff series, especially since coaches scheme much better over a multi-game series. I didn’t think this was going to happen in the first round, though. 2/3 #WNBAplayoffs

Post 3 of 3 The Lynx are going to have to make some tough decisions to get some more size in the interior of our defense. Thank you to the players and the coaching staff for everything they did for us this season. 3/3

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Passive aggressive dig, “which I do knowing MY MIDWESTERN SPORTS” followed by a demand that someone apologize may be the most Minnesotan thing that has ever happened in those chambers.

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Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"

Post 1 Huge props to #CherylReeve on winning #WNBA Coach of the Year for the fifth time! 🏆 Given everything the team lost over the winter in free agency and the expansion draft, nobody expected the #Lynx to perform at this level. # #WNBASky 1/3

Post 2 As the winningest coach in WNBA history, both in the regular season and the playoffs, Coach Reeve is truly one of us: beloved in Minnesota, deeply respected, and we love how she always tells it like it is. 2/3