Mary Beth Leone-Getten
@mbleone.bsky.social
Resident of Funkytown. True believer in the power of citizen organizing. Amateur crop artist. Furiously hopeful.
Reporting for duty at -21 degrees. Fueled by boundless love for our neighbors and warmed by incandescent rage against evil. Let’s do this Minnesota. #ICEOUT #OnTheSideOfLove
January 23, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Reporting for duty at -21 degrees. Fueled by boundless love for our neighbors and warmed by incandescent rage against evil. Let’s do this Minnesota. #ICEOUT #OnTheSideOfLove
Sleepless in St. Paul amid the 🧊occupation, thinking how food plays a role in resistance-i.e. 3 partner schools out east collaborated to send my husband’s school a catered lunch in solidarity as they prep for online learning for families who are unsafe because of OUR OWN GOVERNMENT. Such kindness ❤️🩹
January 20, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Sleepless in St. Paul amid the 🧊occupation, thinking how food plays a role in resistance-i.e. 3 partner schools out east collaborated to send my husband’s school a catered lunch in solidarity as they prep for online learning for families who are unsafe because of OUR OWN GOVERNMENT. Such kindness ❤️🩹
Keep our state outta your MAGA mouths!
December 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Keep our state outta your MAGA mouths!
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Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
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JUST IN: California voters have approved a ballot measure to redraw the state's congressional map to favor Democrats, marking the party's biggest victory to date in a national battle over redistricting ahead of the 2026 midterms.
California voters OK new congressional lines, boosting Democrats ahead of midterms
California voters have approved a ballot measure to redraw the state's congressional map to favor Democrats, marking the party's biggest victory to date in a national battle over redistricting ahead of the 2026 midterms.
n.pr
November 5, 2025 at 4:06 AM
JUST IN: California voters have approved a ballot measure to redraw the state's congressional map to favor Democrats, marking the party's biggest victory to date in a national battle over redistricting ahead of the 2026 midterms.
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“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….”
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
October 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….”
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
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SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
September 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
My crop art entry at the 2025 #minnesotastatefair didn’t win any ribbons, but I love him so much! And yes, #pigglywiggly was the first self service grocery store in the US.
August 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
My crop art entry at the 2025 #minnesotastatefair didn’t win any ribbons, but I love him so much! And yes, #pigglywiggly was the first self service grocery store in the US.
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We have to stop talking about him as if he is he is a man who has the ability to understand diplomacy or military tactics….or anything else for that matter. He is a pathological narcissist with limited cognitive functioning. No one should discuss him with any other lens.
Or maybe he’s psychologically incapable of acting and speaking on anything but pure impulse.
June 22, 2025 at 1:38 AM
We have to stop talking about him as if he is he is a man who has the ability to understand diplomacy or military tactics….or anything else for that matter. He is a pathological narcissist with limited cognitive functioning. No one should discuss him with any other lens.
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Musk and DOGE just shitcanned the 18F open source development team whose job is to make government more efficient.
Because 🤪.
This was never about efficiency.
Because 🤪.
This was never about efficiency.
GSA shutters 18F, possibly leaving agencies in the lurch
On early Saturday morning, the General Services Administration eliminated the program.
fedscoop.com
March 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Musk and DOGE just shitcanned the 18F open source development team whose job is to make government more efficient.
Because 🤪.
This was never about efficiency.
Because 🤪.
This was never about efficiency.
Nothing sinister about regular citizens putting in a shit ton of work to make a better, more just MN for all. Thanks to Tom for calling BS.
I think one thing that stuck with me today from last night’s tax hearing was this sort of Sneering Undercurrent towards local organized churchy group ISAIAH.
December 4, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Nothing sinister about regular citizens putting in a shit ton of work to make a better, more just MN for all. Thanks to Tom for calling BS.
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Hunter
Here’s the reality.
No USAtty would have charged this case given the underlying facts. After a 5 year investigation the facts as discovered only made that clear
Had his name been Joe Smith the resolution would have been - fundamentally and more fairly - a declination
Pardon warranted
Here’s the reality.
No USAtty would have charged this case given the underlying facts. After a 5 year investigation the facts as discovered only made that clear
Had his name been Joe Smith the resolution would have been - fundamentally and more fairly - a declination
Pardon warranted
December 2, 2024 at 1:08 AM
Hunter
Here’s the reality.
No USAtty would have charged this case given the underlying facts. After a 5 year investigation the facts as discovered only made that clear
Had his name been Joe Smith the resolution would have been - fundamentally and more fairly - a declination
Pardon warranted
Here’s the reality.
No USAtty would have charged this case given the underlying facts. After a 5 year investigation the facts as discovered only made that clear
Had his name been Joe Smith the resolution would have been - fundamentally and more fairly - a declination
Pardon warranted
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Ask yourself a vastly more important question. Do you really think Kash Patel is qualified to lead the world’s preeminent law enforcement investigative organization? Obvious answer: hell no.
December 2, 2024 at 1:10 AM
Ask yourself a vastly more important question. Do you really think Kash Patel is qualified to lead the world’s preeminent law enforcement investigative organization? Obvious answer: hell no.
Minnesotans in Angie Craig’s district, it’s time to act! CALL HER OFFICE NOW!
🚨 TODAY: The House will vote on H.R. 9495, the bill that would give Trump unchecked power to go after his political opponents. Please contact your representative (especially if it’s one of these Democrats who voted for the bill last week) and tell them to vote NO: indivisible.org/resource/tel...
November 21, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Minnesotans in Angie Craig’s district, it’s time to act! CALL HER OFFICE NOW!
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These cabinet announcements feel increasingly like the hunger games cannon announcing the death of yet another part of the federal government
November 18, 2024 at 2:13 PM
These cabinet announcements feel increasingly like the hunger games cannon announcing the death of yet another part of the federal government
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It takes until the *tenth paragraph* in this piece to introduce the phrase “thousands of children may die”
RFK Jr. wants to tackle chronic disease. Despite controversial views on vaccines, his focus on healthy food and taking on special interests may find broad support — and face political headwinds.
RFK Jr. wants to 'Make America Healthy Again.' He could face a lot of pushback
RFK Jr. wants to tackle chronic disease. Despite controversial views on vaccines, his focus on healthy food and taking on special interests may find broad support — and face political headwinds.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2024 at 8:22 PM
It takes until the *tenth paragraph* in this piece to introduce the phrase “thousands of children may die”