Susan Raffo
@susanraffo.bsky.social
Just completed spending a year walking across Turtle Island. Writer, cultural worker, bodyworker. Author Liberated to the Bone. www.susanraffo.com
Talking with national friends, who say that the word assassination is not being used at all in their local while it is everywhere here in the cities. I keep thinking of how Minnesota is treating this against how representative Padilla was treated last week.
June 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Talking with national friends, who say that the word assassination is not being used at all in their local while it is everywhere here in the cities. I keep thinking of how Minnesota is treating this against how representative Padilla was treated last week.
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Bring Me The News, The Tribune, MPR News, and other local places are much better sources than national ones who barely know what the DFL is.
In re: LRT, Minnesota is the opposite of a news desert - the Twin Cities has dozens of responsible news outlets staffed by incredibly professional journalists. They do not need your breathless, speculative assistance in covering this story. Post *local* coverage as it emerges, and ignore the noise.
June 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Bring Me The News, The Tribune, MPR News, and other local places are much better sources than national ones who barely know what the DFL is.
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STOP SHARING THIS. The legislature is out of session and this is very unlikely to be the motive. Hortman was for a long time the top-ranking legislative Democrat, Hoffman lives nearby. Speculation about partisan balance is nonsensical, unfounded, and irresponsible.
June 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
STOP SHARING THIS. The legislature is out of session and this is very unlikely to be the motive. Hortman was for a long time the top-ranking legislative Democrat, Hoffman lives nearby. Speculation about partisan balance is nonsensical, unfounded, and irresponsible.
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It's hard to understate how important Representative & former Speaker Hortman was to Minnesota politics - she was probably the most prominent woman politician & integral to the recent budget deal. She was also incredibly kind and a real person - Kiernan sold her girl scout cookies. It's horrifying.
June 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It's hard to understate how important Representative & former Speaker Hortman was to Minnesota politics - she was probably the most prominent woman politician & integral to the recent budget deal. She was also incredibly kind and a real person - Kiernan sold her girl scout cookies. It's horrifying.
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gonna caution everyone about national accounts covering the news in MN - stick to locals. already seeing lots of misinformation coming from people who do not live here
June 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
gonna caution everyone about national accounts covering the news in MN - stick to locals. already seeing lots of misinformation coming from people who do not live here
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great to watch conservatives try to illegally defund nonprofits that provide social services when the only reason those nonprofits exist is because reagan wanted to shrink the government and it turns out you actually have to help people in a society for it to function
February 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
great to watch conservatives try to illegally defund nonprofits that provide social services when the only reason those nonprofits exist is because reagan wanted to shrink the government and it turns out you actually have to help people in a society for it to function
(18) align with have not, and never will win a power struggle. We are not self-centered in the same ways as those willing to use fear and control to push their agenda through. We have other gifts, so many other gifts. We get lost when we try to play the same game, or our version of the same game.
January 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
(18) align with have not, and never will win a power struggle. We are not self-centered in the same ways as those willing to use fear and control to push their agenda through. We have other gifts, so many other gifts. We get lost when we try to play the same game, or our version of the same game.
(17) there are other practices here, things that are about how we envision a world for our descendants, and about how we truly learned to live with people who we viscerally disagree with. I have no idea what the answer to any of this is, but I do know that the movements and frameworks I most
January 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
(17) there are other practices here, things that are about how we envision a world for our descendants, and about how we truly learned to live with people who we viscerally disagree with. I have no idea what the answer to any of this is, but I do know that the movements and frameworks I most
(16) and not always for white people as well as for people of color in support of Trump. Challenging the coup is not just about asserting the moral high ground of collective care and safety because that has already not worked for everyone. Too many people are pissed off.
January 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
(16) and not always for white people as well as for people of color in support of Trump. Challenging the coup is not just about asserting the moral high ground of collective care and safety because that has already not worked for everyone. Too many people are pissed off.
(15) opening space for them to take care of their own families with the economic sustainability needed to ensure a future because those networks of collective care established in the 1920s were not working for them. And yes, for some this is laced through with white supremacy, but not always.
January 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
(15) opening space for them to take care of their own families with the economic sustainability needed to ensure a future because those networks of collective care established in the 1920s were not working for them. And yes, for some this is laced through with white supremacy, but not always.
(14) nationalism that is rooted in the development of capitalism, generations old. I also know that this is NOT what this looks like for many of the people I met who voted for Trump while I was walking across the country over this past year. Many people I spoke with saw these changes as potentially
January 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
(14) nationalism that is rooted in the development of capitalism, generations old. I also know that this is NOT what this looks like for many of the people I met who voted for Trump while I was walking across the country over this past year. Many people I spoke with saw these changes as potentially
(13) country. It is why Bishop Budde’s words were so important, she is the other half of WASPdom, an evangelical Bishop, who is grounded in collective care that comes from a moral ground. It is why he and his acolytes could not tolerate her. So this coup weaves together a form of Christian
January 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
(13) country. It is why Bishop Budde’s words were so important, she is the other half of WASPdom, an evangelical Bishop, who is grounded in collective care that comes from a moral ground. It is why he and his acolytes could not tolerate her. So this coup weaves together a form of Christian
(12) anything that gets in the way of the patriarchal head of household from doing exactly what he wants to do to build his particular lordship. Most American presidents up until the 1920s and then picked up again by Reagan and Trump cite Anglo-Saxon inheritance has one of the cornerstones of this
January 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
(12) anything that gets in the way of the patriarchal head of household from doing exactly what he wants to do to build his particular lordship. Most American presidents up until the 1920s and then picked up again by Reagan and Trump cite Anglo-Saxon inheritance has one of the cornerstones of this
(11) authority than what honoring a pope allows. This is an old western European Christian fight over who has what kind of power and who does not. But it has morphed now to being about capitalism, a framework that emerged alongside the church. This all depends on repealing anything that challenges
January 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
(11) authority than what honoring a pope allows. This is an old western European Christian fight over who has what kind of power and who does not. But it has morphed now to being about capitalism, a framework that emerged alongside the church. This all depends on repealing anything that challenges
(10) you can see this when Hegseth and other Trump and Catholics struggle when the pope and Bishops assert a pro worker and pro-immigrant stance. The struggle is not so much about Catholicism, but it is one way of interpreting the Protestant reformation: the right for an individual to have more
January 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
(10) you can see this when Hegseth and other Trump and Catholics struggle when the pope and Bishops assert a pro worker and pro-immigrant stance. The struggle is not so much about Catholicism, but it is one way of interpreting the Protestant reformation: the right for an individual to have more
(9) many things have unraveled, including any kind of a rural infrastructure. This moment of administrative coup is working to bring back the militarized wealth worshipping of this country’s origins - and the WASP part of this is important
January 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
(9) many things have unraveled, including any kind of a rural infrastructure. This moment of administrative coup is working to bring back the militarized wealth worshipping of this country’s origins - and the WASP part of this is important
(8) this put those who were focused on justice in the position of trying to save something that never really worked to begin with, but the alternative, a lack of any resources devoted towards an interdependent collective, seemed much worse. This means that over the last 40 or so years,
January 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
(8) this put those who were focused on justice in the position of trying to save something that never really worked to begin with, but the alternative, a lack of any resources devoted towards an interdependent collective, seemed much worse. This means that over the last 40 or so years,
(7) in the year since then, many Americans have fought to expand who has access to a collective safety and care system and to transform that system so that it is truly just. Reagan’s administration began the dismantling of this collective care net.
January 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
(7) in the year since then, many Americans have fought to expand who has access to a collective safety and care system and to transform that system so that it is truly just. Reagan’s administration began the dismantling of this collective care net.
(6) shore up WASP (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) superiority. So a contradiction emerged, the creating of collective care strategies along side, the doubling down of who a “real” American is. In other words, who deserves care and who deserves to be a part of the safety net.
January 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
(6) shore up WASP (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) superiority. So a contradiction emerged, the creating of collective care strategies along side, the doubling down of who a “real” American is. In other words, who deserves care and who deserves to be a part of the safety net.
(5) the deepening of the anti-black strategy of Jim Crow, the deepening of indigenous disappearance strategies, including boarding schools, and the assertion of immigrant acts that excluded the immigration of Chinese and other API people and put quotas on Jewish & Catholic immigrants in order to
January 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
(5) the deepening of the anti-black strategy of Jim Crow, the deepening of indigenous disappearance strategies, including boarding schools, and the assertion of immigrant acts that excluded the immigration of Chinese and other API people and put quotas on Jewish & Catholic immigrants in order to