Kevin Pranis
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Creating family-supporting jobs and building a better future w/LIUNA. Skilled Laborers build safely and well, plus we're smart - don't sleep on us! @weareliuna.bsky.social
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Wow
“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said.
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September 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Wow
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This is the kind of choice that leads to a military that tells you you’ll take Kyiv the first day
BREAKING: Pete Hegseth fires the general whose agency's initial intel assessment of damage to Iran nuclear sites angered President Trump, AP sources say.
Hegseth fires general whose agency's intel assessment of damage from Iran strikes angered Trump
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of damage to Iran nuclear sites from U.S. strikes angered President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the decision.
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August 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This is the kind of choice that leads to a military that tells you you’ll take Kyiv the first day
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WATCH: Ghislaine Maxwell says Trump was "never inappropriate with anybody in the times I was with him." In the same interview, she says she never saw Jeffrey Epstein engage in "unconsensual" behavior.
August 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
WATCH: Ghislaine Maxwell says Trump was "never inappropriate with anybody in the times I was with him." In the same interview, she says she never saw Jeffrey Epstein engage in "unconsensual" behavior.
Solid overview of debate over @alleteinc.bsky.social sale.
@liunamnnd.bsky.social answer is Yes.
Infrastructure funds (whose investors are public + union pensions) can finance the energy transition under the same rigorous public utility commission oversight as publicly-traded companies.
@liunamnnd.bsky.social answer is Yes.
Infrastructure funds (whose investors are public + union pensions) can finance the energy transition under the same rigorous public utility commission oversight as publicly-traded companies.
Private equity is planning to take over northern Minnesota utility Minnesota Power. What does this mean for ratepayers?
@zeitlin.bsky.social dives into the controversial acquisition feat. @karleeweinmann.bsky.social, @jennayeakle.bsky.social, and @kevinpranis.bsky.social.
@zeitlin.bsky.social dives into the controversial acquisition feat. @karleeweinmann.bsky.social, @jennayeakle.bsky.social, and @kevinpranis.bsky.social.
Can Private Equity Give Minnesota Carbon-Free Electricity?
An agreement to privatize Minnesota Power has activists activated both for and against.
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August 22, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Solid overview of debate over @alleteinc.bsky.social sale.
@liunamnnd.bsky.social answer is Yes.
Infrastructure funds (whose investors are public + union pensions) can finance the energy transition under the same rigorous public utility commission oversight as publicly-traded companies.
@liunamnnd.bsky.social answer is Yes.
Infrastructure funds (whose investors are public + union pensions) can finance the energy transition under the same rigorous public utility commission oversight as publicly-traded companies.
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The NIMBY three step: “I participated in the public process and did not get my way” becomes “I was left out of the decision making process” and then turns into “I deserve the power to overturn the result of the public process and impose my will on the majority by lawsuit.”
August 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The NIMBY three step: “I participated in the public process and did not get my way” becomes “I was left out of the decision making process” and then turns into “I deserve the power to overturn the result of the public process and impose my will on the majority by lawsuit.”
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🤝 Congratulations to all our endorsed At Large and District candidates who secured DFL endorsement this weekend! #ProLaborParks won big — a *win* for workers ✊
July 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
🤝 Congratulations to all our endorsed At Large and District candidates who secured DFL endorsement this weekend! #ProLaborParks won big — a *win* for workers ✊
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very funny to read walter lippmann capture the basic dynamic of 21st century housing politics in 1922
June 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
very funny to read walter lippmann capture the basic dynamic of 21st century housing politics in 1922
Using Texas workers to fill Iron Range jobs during mine shutdowns is like kicking someone who's down, but apparently that’s how Northern Natural Gas does biz.
Minnesotans who help fund NNG pipelines thru utility bills deserve more. Info: www.localjobsnorth.org/nng @weareliuna.bsky.social
Minnesotans who help fund NNG pipelines thru utility bills deserve more. Info: www.localjobsnorth.org/nng @weareliuna.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Using Texas workers to fill Iron Range jobs during mine shutdowns is like kicking someone who's down, but apparently that’s how Northern Natural Gas does biz.
Minnesotans who help fund NNG pipelines thru utility bills deserve more. Info: www.localjobsnorth.org/nng @weareliuna.bsky.social
Minnesotans who help fund NNG pipelines thru utility bills deserve more. Info: www.localjobsnorth.org/nng @weareliuna.bsky.social
👉 “We need to be involved in the next iteration of energy development here in Minnesota” - Joe Fowler, @weareliuna.bsky.social Local 563.
Each new data center built here lowers GHG emissions + generates jobs/growth + eases cost of energy transition
Each new data center built here lowers GHG emissions + generates jobs/growth + eases cost of energy transition
Xcel president: Minnesota can meet data center energy demands and 2040 carbon-free mandate • Minnesota Reformer
The intra-DFL rift between labor unions whose members build data centers and progressives skeptical of corporate giveaways was on full display at the Capitol last week as lawmakers considered extendin...
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June 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
👉 “We need to be involved in the next iteration of energy development here in Minnesota” - Joe Fowler, @weareliuna.bsky.social Local 563.
Each new data center built here lowers GHG emissions + generates jobs/growth + eases cost of energy transition
Each new data center built here lowers GHG emissions + generates jobs/growth + eases cost of energy transition
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I can’t think of anything more Orwellian than waking up to find out you’d transformed into a giant bug
May 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I can’t think of anything more Orwellian than waking up to find out you’d transformed into a giant bug
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#MNLeg Fails Minnesota Workers Again: Infrastructure Union Demands Action After Second Year Without Bonding Bill liunaminnesota.org/en/news/mnle... #FixMN
May 20, 2025 at 3:47 AM
#MNLeg Fails Minnesota Workers Again: Infrastructure Union Demands Action After Second Year Without Bonding Bill liunaminnesota.org/en/news/mnle... #FixMN
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ok but imagine Jackie Chan fighting all the members of the polycule in and around this thing
Behold, per inbox, "the first ever bed design[ed] for non-monogamy": first of all, I'd say all beds work for non-monogamy; second, good god look at it
May 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
ok but imagine Jackie Chan fighting all the members of the polycule in and around this thing
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I had no idea Father Guido Sarducci (comedian Don Novello) was still extant. For many years, he played SNL’s Vatican correspondent. This goes out to my Boomer and GenX followers.😂
Father Guido Sarducci Delivers A Conclave Shocker: Pope Benedict Is Alive!
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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May 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I had no idea Father Guido Sarducci (comedian Don Novello) was still extant. For many years, he played SNL’s Vatican correspondent. This goes out to my Boomer and GenX followers.😂
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I’m not a wise political consultant but I’ve been around a while and I can tell you that somebody like Karl Rove would look at these numbers and say “we should hit him on immigration issues because that’s his only strength and we have a chance to weaken it”
April 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I’m not a wise political consultant but I’ve been around a while and I can tell you that somebody like Karl Rove would look at these numbers and say “we should hit him on immigration issues because that’s his only strength and we have a chance to weaken it”
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Minnesota is a top state for health care, thanks in part to Mayo Clinic.
Now they’re building a $5 billion expansion in Rochester where the lifesaving health care innovations of the future are going to happen.
Inspiring to see the progress today.
Now they’re building a $5 billion expansion in Rochester where the lifesaving health care innovations of the future are going to happen.
Inspiring to see the progress today.
April 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Minnesota is a top state for health care, thanks in part to Mayo Clinic.
Now they’re building a $5 billion expansion in Rochester where the lifesaving health care innovations of the future are going to happen.
Inspiring to see the progress today.
Now they’re building a $5 billion expansion in Rochester where the lifesaving health care innovations of the future are going to happen.
Inspiring to see the progress today.
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i think also the primacy of national politics in political discourse has maybe led people to forget that governance is very decentralized and the federal government does not control the states and has limited enforcement power over them
February 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
i think also the primacy of national politics in political discourse has maybe led people to forget that governance is very decentralized and the federal government does not control the states and has limited enforcement power over them
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Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be
February 1, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be
A 50 PERCENT cut in electric sector GHG emissions is a credit to decades of work by MN lawmakers, regulators + utilities (Xcel, MN Power, Otter Tail Power, Great River Energy, etc.)
Slow progress in other sectors reminds us decarbonization is hard.
www.startribune.com/greenhouse-g...
Slow progress in other sectors reminds us decarbonization is hard.
www.startribune.com/greenhouse-g...
Emissions rose after 2020 in Minnesota, new report says
After a sharp drop in emissions reported for 2020, climate-warming pollution rose in 2022. State officials say the data doesn’t reflect climate spending passed recently.
www.startribune.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
A 50 PERCENT cut in electric sector GHG emissions is a credit to decades of work by MN lawmakers, regulators + utilities (Xcel, MN Power, Otter Tail Power, Great River Energy, etc.)
Slow progress in other sectors reminds us decarbonization is hard.
www.startribune.com/greenhouse-g...
Slow progress in other sectors reminds us decarbonization is hard.
www.startribune.com/greenhouse-g...
Union workers are more likely to have high-quality health coverage, retirement savings, time off, and safe workplaces than those who lack union protections, so it makes sense. Unions save lives. @weareliuna.bsky.social minnesotareformer.com/2025/01/30/w...
Want to live longer? Consider joining a union. • Minnesota Reformer
Public health officials should consider worker power and worker voice a fundamental social determinant of health, one which has helped create the mortality crisis that we currently face.
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January 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Union workers are more likely to have high-quality health coverage, retirement savings, time off, and safe workplaces than those who lack union protections, so it makes sense. Unions save lives. @weareliuna.bsky.social minnesotareformer.com/2025/01/30/w...
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Our infrastructure plan will make life safer and easier for Minnesotans. That’s the nuts and bolts of good government.
Let’s get it done.
Let’s get it done.
January 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Our infrastructure plan will make life safer and easier for Minnesotans. That’s the nuts and bolts of good government.
Let’s get it done.
Let’s get it done.
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Me (after travelling back in time and realising I can become a famous comedian using Jerry Seinfeld’s act before Seinfeld is even born): What’s the deal with airbags?
Resident of the Indus Valley Civilisation who lacks the cultural context to understand the joke: Huh?
Resident of the Indus Valley Civilisation who lacks the cultural context to understand the joke: Huh?
January 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Me (after travelling back in time and realising I can become a famous comedian using Jerry Seinfeld’s act before Seinfeld is even born): What’s the deal with airbags?
Resident of the Indus Valley Civilisation who lacks the cultural context to understand the joke: Huh?
Resident of the Indus Valley Civilisation who lacks the cultural context to understand the joke: Huh?