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Brandon Schorsch
@bschorshy.bsky.social
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@Schorshy@union.place on the elephant app
OPEIU member, ☭ , ✡️, Fmr CD5DFL Chair, opinions own, rt≠endorsement, i often upvote for visibility
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Big Van Buren energy from the former Vice Presidential nominee!
Martin Van Buren (gleeful) with a beautiful goblet of Whitehouse champagne Martin Van Buren (repulse) with an ugly mug of log cabin hard cider
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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How do we do this?

1) lift up & pay incredible gumshoes we already have like @taylordahlin.com + folks at @racketmn.com

2) build your tool chest!

Like data maps?
Check out stuff from @mapthepower.bsky.social make local versions!

Like writing or interviewing?
Attend this class! [Link is next]
LBR X1023 - What is Movement Journalism? Delivery Options Instructor Led Online Description With each narrative, there is a counter narrative. The news media often serves as a platform for those in so-called power to elevate their narratives above others. But there is a long history of working class audiences and producers taking matters into their own hands. How has media played a role in building power and solidarity, and how are workers building on that legacy today? In this class, we will review U.S. labor movement history through a communication lens, looking at the evolution of the organized labor press as well as the labor beat, and where they are today with the rise of social media all while unpacking questions of objectivity and consumerism. This class is for anyone interested in exploring and expanding how and where they get their news and how to support movements through media-making. Facilitator: Amie Stager
November 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Hey @kenmartin.bsky.social, I may be an annoying fmr Dem official but I think it's valuable to listen to suggestions like this

This is Farmer Labor spirit

Its the kind of stuff the FL did that made Dems irrelevant from 34-44.

This is a better investment than TV ad buys & fmr McKinsey consultants
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to https://runforsomething.net
October 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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even the funnyman film adaptation meant to explain it to MSNBC-Americans got memoryholed
Man of the Year (2006)
October 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Bush learning about 9/11 meme: Mr President there's been a second "Please Clap"
September 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Blois wasn't there because it wasn't anywhere near the best taco places in Minnesota
Blois Olson tweet from 2021: MN Taco Rankings first DRAFT 1. Lagos 2. Teresa’s 3. Nicos 4. Pineda 5. Centro 6. Los Ocampo 7. Sonora 8. Panchero 9. Taco John’s 10. Taco Bell
September 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Big 30 Rock, Tracy Jordan getting fined by the FCC energy!
Screen grab from 30 Rock (2006): Jack: "Tracy the FCC is going to fine you personally $50,000" Tracy: "$50,000?! Anyone want to buy half this watch?"
September 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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I'd like to know how the DFL's new Farmer Labor picnic happened, ending Founders Day is a big deal. People get mad when their social dinner disappears!

Because I've been burned in the past I sincerely hope this is a genuine effort and not an attempt to Aquatennial the last elements of Farmer Labor
Screenshot of Minnesota DFL Farmer Labor Picnic event poster. More information in next image alt text. Email screenshot: Sunday, September 28. This is a new event for the Minnesota DFL, replacing the Founders Day Dinner of years past. We're excited about the Farmer Labor Picnic, which will be celebrating the work and workers that move Minnesota with a fun, affordable, and family-friendly event. There will be delicious food, music, and plenty of activities for all ages to enjoy. It's a chance to connect and celebrate our shared values. It is sure to be a good time!
September 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Reminds me of this 1977 Minneapolis Tribune piece & 1978 New Ulm anti-Minneapolis schools piece I found in the UofMN archives celebrating legal attacks on affirmative action & equal access to schools
August 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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My wife was the chair at the time, so I'm kinda biased. My fave moment was when this reporter legit was asking her if Lori Swanson was "in the pocket of big patriarchy" and she had to explain to him, like the child-sized package he was, that patriarchy is not a lobby or industry.
Garden gnome asks Gorgeous Goddess about "Big Patriarchy"
August 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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The DFL Feminist caucus used to be something, like in 2018, years before Joe Rad's takeover

Back then the caucus took charge & joined TakeAction & OutFront to call out how Lt. gov candidate Rick Nolan had rehired his harasser friend & aide to his campaign after he got gropey on the official side
August 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Mayor Corncob 🌽
Dril tweet: "I'm not owned! I'm not owned!", I continue to insist as I slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob'
August 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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already been done
Movie poster for Man of the Year (2006)
August 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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This is the type of insufferable argument made during the last Gilded Age about why we shouldn't have direct election of US Senators (17th Amendment).

It's fair to advocate for constitutional changes and even reconsider (!) bicameralism, as Nebraska did a century ago with their state legislature
Screenshot of Nebraska Legislature website: George Norris, a "New Deal Republican" who settled in McCook, wore out two sets of tires while he drove throughout the state campaigning for the measure. He said the two-house system was outdated, inefficient and unnecessary. Norris said the bicameral system was modeled after the British Parliament, which is made up of the House of Commons, with representatives elected by the people, and the House of Lords, with its aristocratic members appointed by the king. "...The constitutions of our various states are built upon the idea that there is but one class. If this be true, there is no sense or reason in having the same thing done twice, especially if it is to be done by two bodies of men elected in the same way and having the same jurisdiction," Norris said. The one-house system differs little from most city, county and school district governing bodies. All Canadian provinces operate with single-house systems.
July 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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perfect album that came out when you were 16
Album cover. Flobots "Fight with Tools" (2007)
July 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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While Scott Graham (Current CD5 DFL chair) collects signatures today to purge dedicated young left-flank DFL elected officials from the party, his most recent Facebook post is still about how Zohran Mamdani is the kind of candidate that he supports...
July 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Can he purge himself given he posted this a week ago?
July 9, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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I recently found these collections of 9-11 news strip comics.
"9-11 Artists Respond" Graphic Novels volumes 1 & 2
June 20, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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The officer from the first attached photo (credited to Elizabeth Flores/Strib featured in article) is I believe the same officer with the questionable Norse patch. Images attached. Can provide additional images if needed
Law enforcement officers stand outside Las Cuatro Milpas restaurant on Tuesday. (Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
June 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Just want to emphasize it was an ICE agent (images attached of the agent's side profiles), and that it was in Minneapolis!

Support the restaurants & businesses on Lake Street this week!!! This stunt was meant to scare an entire swath of our community- it is imperative we support our neighbors!
June 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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ok tony! thanks for contributing to the conversation!
June 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Thanks for the clarification- makes sense with the ICE 'special response' patch on his opposite arm
June 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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That looks like the same ICE agent I captured with the 'questionable' viking patch. Image is from video where he double backed so I got both profiles.
June 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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ICE agent, masked with camouflage+ full militarized gear escorting a black van, with a deeply questionable 'Nordic' patch Same ICE agent as prior image in this post, now with opposite arm visible adorned with an ICE 'special response' patch
June 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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I am deeply concerned about this patch on one of the "officers". Have more images/footage for press & antifascist researchers
June 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM