Susan Kent
@susankentmn.bsky.social
Retired MN Senate Minority Leader. Co-founder, Woodbury News Net, a new, nonprofit, community-led local news site. Wife. Mom. Daughter. Longhorn. NOLA native. Happy place = MN north woods.
🧵Excellent thread covering yesterday’s court ruling on federal agents’ actions in Chicago…
Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs.
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Judge Set to Rule Thursday in Case Centering on Federal Immigration Agents’ Use of Force: ‘I Could See Inside the Barrel’
Protesters, clergy members and others who say they’ve been directly impacted by a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs will testify before a federal judge weighing wh...
news.wttw.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
🧵Excellent thread covering yesterday’s court ruling on federal agents’ actions in Chicago…
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This man-baby even laughs like Tucker
TRUMP SUPPORTER: “If Trump is anti-constitution, good. I think he should go further.
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social : “This is wonderfully revealing.”
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social : “This is wonderfully revealing.”
July 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This man-baby even laughs like Tucker
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Fox News: "A shocking poll shows Texas Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is leading in the race for incumbent Republican John Cornyn's Senate seat."
July 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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It shouldn't get lost that just today, Senate Republicans have voted to close nursing homes, close rural hospitals, and cut food stamp benefits for children and veterans.
July 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
It shouldn't get lost that just today, Senate Republicans have voted to close nursing homes, close rural hospitals, and cut food stamp benefits for children and veterans.
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Are we great yet?
May 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Are we great yet?
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So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
May 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
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I grew up believing that we had learned the lessons of the German poem and Martin Luther King Jr's speeches. We would all speak out if we saw democracy threatened and the rule of law under attack.
I will always speak out against wrong. I will always stand up for democracy. I will not back down.
I will always speak out against wrong. I will always stand up for democracy. I will not back down.
May 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I grew up believing that we had learned the lessons of the German poem and Martin Luther King Jr's speeches. We would all speak out if we saw democracy threatened and the rule of law under attack.
I will always speak out against wrong. I will always stand up for democracy. I will not back down.
I will always speak out against wrong. I will always stand up for democracy. I will not back down.
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May 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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In space, Venus flanks Earth on the left, with a hellfire greenhouse effect. Mars on the right, which long ago had running water. Today, it's bone dry. Something bad happened on each planet.
Seems like the wrong time to limit the Nation’s capacity to conduct climate research.
Seems like the wrong time to limit the Nation’s capacity to conduct climate research.
May 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
In space, Venus flanks Earth on the left, with a hellfire greenhouse effect. Mars on the right, which long ago had running water. Today, it's bone dry. Something bad happened on each planet.
Seems like the wrong time to limit the Nation’s capacity to conduct climate research.
Seems like the wrong time to limit the Nation’s capacity to conduct climate research.
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Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented.
His argument fails even on its own terms.
His argument fails even on its own terms.
May 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented.
His argument fails even on its own terms.
His argument fails even on its own terms.
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Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world
May 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world
And we thought the 100-day poll numbers were bad for Trump and his Republican Party! 👀
(gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...
Retailers Fear Toy Shortages at Christmas as Tariffs Freeze Supply Chain (Gift Article)
Toy makers and stores are freezing holiday orders, predicting shortages and higher prices. Some are consulting bankruptcy lawyers, fearing their firms won’t survive.
www.nytimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
And we thought the 100-day poll numbers were bad for Trump and his Republican Party! 👀
(gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...
Ridiculous, ok. Also, deeply alarming….
So to sum up the Wisconsin arrest issue:
ICE didn't have a juridical warrant. They only had an administrative warrant.
The DOJ has not convened a grand jury to indict the judge. They only got a criminal complaint before a magistrate judge.
This is ridiculous.
ICE didn't have a juridical warrant. They only had an administrative warrant.
The DOJ has not convened a grand jury to indict the judge. They only got a criminal complaint before a magistrate judge.
This is ridiculous.
April 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Ridiculous, ok. Also, deeply alarming….
A Trump-appointed federal judge in western Louisiana (my home state)…
Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’ politi.co/42TgorF
Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’
The girl was deported Friday with her mother to Honduras, despite her father’s efforts to keep her in the United States.
politi.co
April 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
A Trump-appointed federal judge in western Louisiana (my home state)…
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ICE can enter anyone’s home, and abduct and deport them to a foreign prison indefinitely because the DOJ says they can ignore the 4th, 5th and 15th amendments.
If there’s no due process or protections against illegal search and seizures, none of us are safe.
If there’s no due process or protections against illegal search and seizures, none of us are safe.
April 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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It only took 95 days to get to “arresting federal judges for defending due process.”
April 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
It only took 95 days to get to “arresting federal judges for defending due process.”
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Just in time for the legacy media to fete the administration in a weekend of parties.
April 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Just in time for the legacy media to fete the administration in a weekend of parties.
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I’m sure this is all completely on the up and up.
April 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I’m sure this is all completely on the up and up.
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@governorwalz.mn.gov is right: “We’re not walking away from the commitments we’ve made to our schools and our health care, to green energy and public safety, to feeding our kids and taking care of our seniors.” #MNSOTS #mnleg
April 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
@governorwalz.mn.gov is right: “We’re not walking away from the commitments we’ve made to our schools and our health care, to green energy and public safety, to feeding our kids and taking care of our seniors.” #MNSOTS #mnleg
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I don't think it gets more Second Gilded Age than this.
April 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I don't think it gets more Second Gilded Age than this.
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See this is what I mean. Mississippi is a state with a 40% Black population. African American candidate Mike Espy garnered nearly 45% of the vote in the 2020 General Election for the U.S. Senate.
Why isn’t there a 10 yr Dem plan for organizing Mississippi? Why concede the state w/a 40% Black pop?
Why isn’t there a 10 yr Dem plan for organizing Mississippi? Why concede the state w/a 40% Black pop?
NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month.
He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵
He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵
Mississippi Governor Declares April Confederate Heritage Month
Gov. Tate Reeves declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive a 32-year-old tradition that began in 1993.
www.mississippifreepress.org
April 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
See this is what I mean. Mississippi is a state with a 40% Black population. African American candidate Mike Espy garnered nearly 45% of the vote in the 2020 General Election for the U.S. Senate.
Why isn’t there a 10 yr Dem plan for organizing Mississippi? Why concede the state w/a 40% Black pop?
Why isn’t there a 10 yr Dem plan for organizing Mississippi? Why concede the state w/a 40% Black pop?
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Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me
April 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me