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I couldn't fall asleep the night of Nov 7th because I was so upset at the election results. So I sat up in bed and wrote the following on another social media space. (There will be expletives.)🧵

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.

ok heres one democratic senator being clear and unambiguous about this. anyone else want to step up?

Donald Trump is going after his political opponents. The raid targeting Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is an abuse of power. Last week, Trump attempted to incite a race war against the Somali community, and today he’s abusing his power by going after our congresswoman. Jason Chavez

most of the headlines about this are complicit with the fascists in power, but let’s be clear: they raided her house because of who she is, not because she’s done anything to justify this treatment. the president shouldn’t be able to weaponize the government against his political enemies.

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

For me, the biggest takeaway from the WSJ opinion page's genuinely funny "Supreme Court expansion is actually SECRETLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL" column is that conservative pundits are terrified of Supreme Court expansion and desperate for ways they can prevent it

Too bad it’s now illegal to teach Marx at most universities because I feel like this is something he mentioned at some point

Musk is already underwater in polls and if Democrats lean in they can make him even more toxic. He's declared open war on you all and is pushing a toxic, destructive, racist agenda. Maybe it's time to push back? I don't know, I'm just spitballing here.

ok but "the future" they are promising is "we destroy your jobs and maybe build a dark god of genocide" so perhaps winning these people back is not the wisest electoral move

AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money

A Neighborhood Greenway Is Coming to 34th Street. It Could Be Amazing.: https://streets.mn/2026/08/28/a-neighborhood-greenway-is-coming-to-34th-street-it-could-be-amazing/ As the City of Minneapolis' Public Works department embarks on the 34th Street Neighborhood Greenway project this summer, Mi...

So Elk River. A place I only know for traffic jams going to lakes & ruby-red politics. How red? Gun-toting popinjay Eric Lucero is the state senator. Walter Hudson reps the next-door house district. Big Lake. Otsego. Albertville. If you see a Strib letter from there, you cringe. A DFL dead zone. 1/

“I know nothing about the horsegirls, please do tell!” is legit a funny line both with and without context.

👋 Media expert here! This isn't cute or funny actually? Comms teams only do this when they're in extreme distress www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes

“I was asked not to mention the Times at all. I’m choosing not to honor that norm, b/c silence abt how accountability journalism gets suppressed is itself a form of suppression.” Read the back story of how @nytimes.com and @thebulwark.com killed @adambonica.bsky.social’s piece. What a mf badass.

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

Why wait

Forgive me father, for I posted. I wrote about why pundits seem so completely unable to understand the Minnesota Election. wburdine.substack.com/p/why-are-we...

See, this is an issue for me because in many ways Metro Surge went pretty poorly. I, for one, have a fairly negative view of the whole thing, really. I suspect others may feel the same way.

I think part of the pundit crack-up has been that they missed the big call of their lifetimes about which was the bigger threat to America: wokeness or authoritarianism. And rather than admitting that, they are doubling down on wokeness, while ignoring an authoritarianism that does not threaten them

You'll never find the words to convince people who don't want to be convinced. Terminology only matters to a receptive audience. An audience with a preconceived notion that things are fine will find issue with anything you say about how they are not. You will burn all your energy on White moderates.

Oh no baby why are you making this judge learn about prompt injections

Objective Journalism, folks

By cartoonishly wrapping herself in the Politics of Law Enforcement, Angie Craig got the reckoning we all wanted for Jacob Frey.

Lisa Demuth and the MNGOP knowingly invited a moronic, souless grifter to our home to create a BS story as an excuse for The American Gestapo to terrorize our family. Many were and are suffering. At least two were murdered. She has blood on her hands.

I am truly honored and humbled to be Minnesota’s Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate. Thank you, Minnesota – for everything.

let me paint a picture for you. imagine angie craig is james longstreet's rebs streaming into the gap in the union line foolishly left by dan sickles the useless wastrel. now imagine peggy flanagan is the men of the first minnesota

Vengeance is going to be a winning platform

Current mood

We do love to see it don't we folks

Happy do a quick google of @naomikritzer.bsky.social’s blog from the ballot booth day to everyone who celebrates!

I just finished telling my colleagues that the performance of “free thinking contrarian” demands a foil. These fools have run all of theirs off and so they go around trying to bully people into fighting them.

The lack of opportunity in outstate is a legitimate issue, but I'm going to guess "Come home Braelyn, they're hiring at the concentration camp" won't do the trick.

look how i'm treated for making a tongue-in-cheek joke 😔

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An autistic woman whose greatest fear is someone being cross with her has reportedly baked enough cakes, pastries and biscuits for the entire world’s population as a preventative measure.

the next president has a duty to the country to prove that “tax immunity” is a completely made up thing that doesnt exist. they need to do this through intense prosecution to signal to future leaders what will happen if they try this

Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Vaccination Rates Wane www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/w...