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Leslie
@minneapolisnice.bsky.social
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We're nice here in Minnesota!
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governorwalz.mn.gov
This is Trump’s long game.

We’ve spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It’s a serious issue - but this has been his plan all along.

He’s politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/hhs...
HHS freezes all child care payments to Minnesota after viral fraud allegations
The Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday it has frozen federal child care funding for the state of Minnesota, citing viral fraud allegations.
www.cbsnews.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Reposted by Leslie
adamserwer.bsky.social
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
When the 18th-century writer Samuel Johnson asked why “we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes,” he was identifying no mere contradiction, but liberty as it was imagined by men who owned other human beings as property. Slaveholders such as John Calhoun saw slavery as inseparable from their own freedom, and they worried that the false doctrine of abolitionism would eliminate that freedom away. “Already it has taken possession of the pulpit, of the schools, and, to a considerable extent, of the press; those great instruments by which the mind of the rising generation will be formed,” Calhoun said. (It seems the “woke mind virus” was telling lies about the great and benevolent institution of American slavery as far back as two centuries ago.) Defending slavery, however, required invasive uses of power, such as banning antislavery literature and returning escaped Black people to bondage. Many white Americans in the 19th century began to understand that the “Slave Power” curtailed their freedoms as well. And this is what many people forget: Systems of domination rarely spread their blessings widely. The Redemption-era revocation of Black freedoms didn’t result in prosperity for white people writ large, but a Gilded Age in which the upper classes gained unfathomable wealth and economic crises left millions destitute. The nation may have held on to white supremacy, but it also got low wages, a threadbare welfare state, and a society dominated by the rich. Everyone else was too divided by race and class to challenge them.
December 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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moryan.bsky.social
As a woman in media who has for decades done a lot of difficult investigative reporting, sometimes involving famous people, who has been ethical about it the entire fucking time, I want a Pulitzer for not popping off about this in public (prayers up for my long suffering Signal pals & group chats)
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
minneapolisnice.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
minneapolisnice.bsky.social
Happy Birthday, President Biden. ❤️🇺🇸
November 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
minneapolisnice.bsky.social
Co-sign!! 🤮
goldengateblond.bsky.social shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · Nov 14
everything I know about the Nuzzi/RFK Jr affair I have learned against my will
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
minneapolisnice.bsky.social
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Nov 3
Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!

I know how hard you worked for this.
Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo. At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25 Then beneath it TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO
November 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Reposted by Leslie
boltsmag.org
Organizers say new regulations on the cost of prison phone calls could benefit around 1.4 million incarcerated people and help save families some $500 million annually.
Priced Out of Phone Calls Home
The FCC blocked Biden-era limits on the exorbitant rates and fees charged by prison telecom companies, leaving incarcerated people and their families to fight for state-level reforms.
boltsmag.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
minneapolisnice.bsky.social
#NoKings Minneapolis from the ground. Lots of doggies there today as well. 💖❤️
October 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
minneapolisnice.bsky.social
This isn't getting a lot of traction out there. I honestly get the feeling that Noem is not a popular figure even within MAGA. So the right is like: "who gives a shit".
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 23
Kristi Noem on Newsom tweeting that she was going to have a "bad day" -- "It was cryptic. And it was really menacing. It immediately panicked my family and friends."
September 23, 2025 at 2:30 AM
minneapolisnice.bsky.social
Dude has been all over the board.
muellershewrote.com Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Sep 14
ALERT: Cox is basing his opinion here on the “Hey Fascist, catch” bullet - which is from a video game and not connected to left wing ideology. He also says it’s based on “interviews with friends”, but doesn’t say if HE spoke to them, or whether he heard it from Kash Patel. apnews.com/article/char...
Utah governor says the motive in Kirk shooting is not yet certain but the suspect was on the left
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox says investigators are not yet ready to discuss a motive in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk but that the 22-year-old who was arrested leaned to the left.
apnews.com
September 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Ah Matt Forney. The answer to ”what would it look like if Hitler’s thumb took a suspicious number of brief trips to Thailand.”
deangullberry47.bsky.social Dean Gullberry @deangullberry47.bsky.social · Sep 13
MAGA: Stop calling us nazis!
Also MAGA:
September 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
minneapolisnice.bsky.social
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Aug 30
All I ask for is an end that is deeply humiliating, entirely self-inflicted and completely in public so the MAGA conspiracy theories will be at a minimum.
August 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
minneapolisnice.bsky.social
Co-sign. What a world, man.
August 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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acyn.bsky.social
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
August 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
We now have an economy subject to the whims and desires of one person, unaccountable to anyone else.

Call it what it is: a dictatorship.
August 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
The legacy media won't admit it, but no one is providing more complete coverage of the attacks on democracy than the 20 person team at Democracy Docket. Help support their vital efforts by becoming a subscriber or premium member today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
August 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
minneapolisnice.bsky.social
"They're eating the dogs, the cats"...
diedrichbader.bsky.social Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · Aug 25
I’ve very rarely seen a car parked on the street in Beverly Hills
Maybe south of wilshire
But very rarely north
Unless there’s a valet
It’s a stupid lie
August 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
minneapolisnice.bsky.social
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emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · Aug 25
Is it called a Hat Trick when you get no billed three times?

Asking for Jeanine Pirro.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
SYDNEY LORI REID, : : Defendant. : GOVERNMENT’S NOTICE OF CASE STATUS The United States, by and through its attorney, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, respectfully submits this notice alerting the Court and counsel that an Indictment has not been returned in this case. As was previously disclosed by the Court to defense counsel, a third grand jury returned a no true bill. On August 25, 2025, within the thirty-day timeframe provided in 18 U.S.C. § 3161(b), the government submitted for filing an Information charging a misdemeanor violation of 18 U.S.C. § 111(a)(1) (Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers).
August 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Republicans sure are pulling out all the stops to wield the government against Texas Democrats. Warrants, FBI, court processes. Not a second wasted. Goes to show that if they *wanted* to bring Epstein's clients to justice, they could. They just don't want to.
August 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM
minneapolisnice.bsky.social
Hahahaha!! An indicted asshole says what?
marcelias.bsky.social Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Aug 7
🚨BREAKING: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is asking an Illinois court to force the arrest and return of House Democrats who left the state to block a mid-decade GOP congressional map redrawing. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Texas Demands Illinois Arrest Democrats Who Fled to Block GOP Redistricting Scheme
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
minneapolisnice.bsky.social
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August 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
It drives Jonathan Turley crazy when I remind everyone that he is just Mike Lindell with tenure. So, please make sure not to amplify this message.👇

Jonathan Turley is just Mike Lindell with tenure.
August 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM