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Ben Urban
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🔴 Minneapolis, City of Lakes

🟠 We all do better
when we all do better

🟡 Medicare for All

🟢 Republicans = Trump: Depose
Republicans, rebuild America

🔵 End Citizens United

🟣 Tax the rich, end extreme wealth
ICE presence is lighter this week than it has been but cruelty and deviance are still on full display as the kidnapping of our neighbors continues in Minnesota.

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Watch: Columbia Heights man detained by ICE after agents pose as stranded motorists
Family members and neighbors say Jesus Flores was lured from his home.
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February 17, 2026 at 12:05 PM
As our Minnesota neighbors are murdered and kidnapped and our kids are traumatized daily, these MN Republican asshats grandstand for the media and for the orange pedophile and his magat base. Emmer, Finstad, Fischbach, and Stauber hate the people of Minnesota.

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Minnesota Republicans propose to withhold federal funding unless state hands over voter rolls to Trump
The legislation introduced by Rep. Pete Stauber would withhold federal election funding from Minnesota until the state shares voter data with the DOJ.
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February 5, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Don't fall for it ...
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 PM
18.3 trillion seconds is equal to 580,289 years*. 18.3 trillion seconds ago was the Ice Age, a time when wooly mammoths and the ancestors to the Neanderthals roamed the earth.

*A reminder that 1 million seconds is equal to 11.5 days.

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‘Brazen’ political influence of rich laid bare as wealth of billionaires reaches $18.3tn, says Oxfam
Governments opting for oligarchy while brutally repressing protests over austerity and lack of jobs, charity report says
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January 19, 2026 at 3:12 PM
January 12, 2026 at 1:33 PM
It was great to see members of the St Cloud, MN Somali community drive away ICE while exercising their First Amendment rights on Saturday. (Apologies for the Musky link.)

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January 12, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Trump, the Republicans, and their goons are terrorizing Twin Cities residents. A shout out to Richfield protesters and staff for speaking truth to power as TARGET allows their employees to be kidnapped and customers to be endangered by ICE.

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Protesters demand action after ICE arrests of U.S. citizen Target employees
Demonstrators gathered after two U.S. citizen Target employees were arrested by ICE, calling on the retailer to bar agents without judicial warrants.
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January 11, 2026 at 6:17 PM
What say you Hilton Hotels?
Dear @hiltonhotels.bsky.social,

THESE the people you want all your franchisees to welcome at your branded facilities? Wanna rethink that maybe?
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.

A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."

Bovino was there.

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January 7, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Reposted by Ben Urban
5 years ago, there was a bloody, lawless, and deadly attack on our nation’s Capitol. A group of criminal thugs broke out in riots and stormed our Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of a free and fair election at the direction of the President of the United States.
January 6, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Reposted by Ben Urban
Inspectors find day cares 'operating as expected' despite viral video fraud claims

More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/inspectors-find-day-cares-operating-as-expected-despite-viral-video-fraud-claims
January 4, 2026 at 8:51 PM
101 years ago today Mussolini declared himself a dictator. He worked loosely within the confines of the constitution to accrue power as he eroded democratic institutions. He dared prosecutors, the king, and Italy's democratic institutions to challenge him. None did.
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Benito Mussolini declares himself dictator of Italy | January 3, 1925 | HISTORY
Similar to Adolf Hitler, Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini did not become the dictator of a totalitarian regime...
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January 3, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Word is out at the local market.
December 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Reposted by Ben Urban
I met Melissa Hortman in October of 2024. She was smart and kind. I heard about her murder in a LA hotel room and it dropped me to my knees. So I went to Minnesota and talked to her kids, parents, and friends. This is not true crime, this is Melissa in real life. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
Melissa Hortman died in a shocking act of political violence. This is her story
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December 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I am so fortunate to have Ilhan Omar representing my community in the US House. The humanity and courage she exhibits as she navigates the hatred, abuse, and persecution fomented by the orange pedophile and his lackeys is inspirational. A true American hero.

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‘An unhealthy and creepy obsession’: Ilhan Omar on Trump’s attacks
The Zen-like US representative from Minnesota has had the highest level of death threats of any congressperson because of the president’s attacks
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December 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Watching "The Onion Looks Back at 'It's A Wonderful Life'" is a very short but much revered tradition at our house.

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The Onion Looks Back At 'It's A Wonderful Life'
YouTube video by The Onion
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December 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Really big numbers get thrown around all of the time. Millions, billions, trillions. It's easy to lose track of how big these numbers actually are.
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon 51 years ago today was the beginning of the "national nightmare" we are currently living in. With accountability out of the picture, Republicans doubled down on the division the pardon was supposed to heal.

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Ford pardons Nixon | September 8, 1974 | HISTORY
President Gerald Ford pardons his disgraced predecessor Richard M. Nixon for any crimes he may have committed as part...
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September 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM