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Fred Beukema
Fred Beukema
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In Minneapolis. Structural engineer, mostly lapsed improvisor, 3 day Jeopardy! champ. Happily married to a public school teacher. Two kids, a cat, and a dog.
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Hey remember a couple months ago when I almost died from sleep apnea and begged y'all to be checked if you have symptoms of sleep apnea? Eric Bauza just died from sleep apnea. We were the same age. Don't ignore sleep apnea.
Do you get a full night's sleep but wake up feeling like death? Does your whole body feel off in ways you can't explain? Research signs of Sleep Apnea. Get a sleep test. You can't diagnose it yourself, cuz you sleepin'.
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So apparently the MN Campaign Finance Board has ruled that these mailers are not intended to influence the election. I assume this is because they don't mention her candidacy for governor and instead advocate telling Senator Klobuchar to "change her tune."
Mailers have targeted Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s record on police accountability and Israel. Who is paying for them remains unclear.
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The same guy who endorsed tafoya in the strib today wrote that "70 percent of the teams in the NBA could fold tomorrow and nobody would notice a difference with the possible exception of increase in street crime." He's considered a moderate.
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Years Of Learning To Love Self Undone By Single Glimpse Of Body In Self-Checkout Camera https://theonion.com/years-of-learning-to-love-self-undone-by-single-glimpse-of-body-in-self-checkout-camera/
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We need enough of a Blue Wave to marginalize willing discriminators like this twerp.
Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.
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One of the most effective things Obama could do for the party is let it rip like this all year long. He's so good, but he saves it for rallies a few weeks before elections like it's a severely-limited resource and that's just not how the modern communications environment has evolved.
“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth
Is 2019 the only year we've had an election off in Minneapolis since 2015? Mad at Phyllis Kahn all over again today.
If, as is widely expected, there turns out to be a special primary and a special election, then those will be the subject of a supplemental budget request, rather than being part of the main budget proposal. The number of dollars may also shrink in the process, but even if not, it *looks* better.
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The Floor of our Imagination. My thoughts on how to think about the ad in the Ohio governor's race: johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/the-floor-...
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Extremely interesting piece from @cip.uw.edu at the University of Washington. Long story short, they identify the Alt National Park Service as a key amplifier of conspiratorial misinformation about a "mail dumping" news story last month.
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Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...
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Call Hakeem Jeffries’ office and ream out whichever loser answers the phone.
In a major escalation in Dems embracing anti-trans positions, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the official campaign arm of House Democrats, released its first anti-trans ad supporting Nancy Lacore in SC-01. Transphobia is spreading among dems. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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rly thought they were gonna cut ramaswamy loose for what is the ugliest ploy in politics in my memory! but instead they’re making it their party platform. literally the party of abuse and rape. i know writers who use subtext and they’re cowards
Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"
I got curious about it, so here are the ages at which the previous Bond actors played him (using release dates): Connery: 32-41 (+53) Lazenby: 30 Moore: 45-57 Dalton: 41-43 Brosnan: 42-49 Craig: 38-53
Callum Turner, Jack Lowden, and Josh O’Connor will all apparently be doing their final screen tests to play 007 in the next week.
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