Ryan Fischer

Ryan Fischer

@jryanfish.bsky.social

US historian of settler colonialism and the environment in the Twin Cities. All views expressed are my own.

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Judd Legum
@juddlegum.bsky.social

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

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CNN
@cnn.com

Veteran photojournalist Heidi Levine, who was on assignment for the Washington Post, was hospitalized after Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank attacked her and a group of Palestinians during the annual olive harvest. CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports. Read more: https://cnn.it/4edEMKU

Ryan Fischer
@jryanfish.bsky.social

I read Rashad Shabazz's great _Prince's Minneapolis_ earlier this year, and then decided to keep going with the discography. His mid/late-90s is so fascinating and maddening.

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Ryan Fischer
@jryanfish.bsky.social

I wonder how much of this is him being his idiosyncratic (stubborn?) self vs. maybe a bit of self-delusion ("the people MUST hear the MIDI-symphonic sounds of _Kamasutra_!")

Ryan Fischer
@jryanfish.bsky.social

I read Rashad Shabazz's great _Prince's Minneapolis_ earlier this year, and then decided to keep going with the discography. His mid/late-90s is so fascinating and maddening.

Ryan Fischer
@jryanfish.bsky.social

_The Truth_ is a great, mature album that maybe could've launched a Grammy campaign and a comeback narrative - so he buries it in uneven archival material and New Power Generation crap.

Ryan Fischer
@jryanfish.bsky.social

If any Twin Cities people want to see Daniel Immerwahr, the historian and author of "How to Hide an Empire" discuss current US foreign policy next week, it is just a quick 40 minute-ish drive to River Falls.

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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social

The easiest possible layup for a President at war with another country would be to explain that they are attacking us. Trump won't do that because he views Minnesota as a bigger enemy than Iran.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."

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Liz Covart
@lizcovart.bsky.social

Gosh, the news out of Indiana is horrible. ICYMI, the Indiana Historical Society fired its entire Education and Engagement Team and its Exhibits staff. Apparently, the emergency all-hands meeting lasted 3 minutes & then they were all escorted from the building, having to return later for their stuff

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Judd Legum
@juddlegum.bsky.social

News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW

popular.infoA nuclear deal for the Saudis. A media blackout for Kushner’s corruption.On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that paves the way for the kingdom to enrich its own uranium.

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Professa Murray
@kalimurray.bsky.social

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

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Daniel - Desert Apostate
@hcexvangelical.bsky.social

The asshole administration is planning to remove the mining buffer around Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. This is being done without tribal or expert input and the public comment time is incredibly, and cowardly short. Please comment to help try and save Chaco. www.koat.com/article/chac...

koat.comChaco Canyon public comment period opens, as BLM proposes reopening 336,000 acres to mineral leasingA new federal assessment could reshape the future of development near Chaco Canyon. Here’s what’s in the plan and how long the public has to weigh in.

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Micah
@rincewind.run

this is the kind of shit that needs to break Senate Collegiality you simply cannot be friends and exchange grandkid pictures with people who turn around and go on national television to lie about how you only won because you cheated

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Tuberville: "We probably have four or five senators that didn't legally win. They shouldn't be up here."

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Andy Rivkin
@asrivkin.bsky.social

Submitted my comment to OMB, after editing it to fit in the length limit. :/ Also sent it to my senators and contacted my representative. I don’t want to look back and say I didn’t go down swinging.

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Michael McDonald
@electproject.bsky.social

If Democrats can reform the Supreme Court they could also: - Increase the size of the Senate with DC statehood - Increase the size of the House - Update the Voting Rights Act - Pass a federal ban on partisan congressional gerrymandering

Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social

"When Democrats retake control of the government... we have to decide if we want to win symbolic victories and simply get caught trying or if we actually want to make permanent, meaningful change. If it’s the latter, then inherently, that requires us to expand the Supreme Court.”

plus.briantylercohen.comThe Dam Is Breaking on Dems Embracing Supreme Court ExpansionA slew of decisions that are killing democracy might have lit a fire under some of the most powerful Democrats. I got them to say that they'll do something about it.

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Tim Hirschel-Burns
@timhirschelburns.bsky.social

The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth

Ryan Fischer
@jryanfish.bsky.social

Seems like a great time to talk about how the fossil fuel industry runs this country actually, what with the current admin shutting down already-built wind projects (at a cost to consumers), and oil companies getting huge profit boosts from high gas prices caused by an inept, unpopular war.

Matt Huber@matthuber.bsky.social

Hello, it’s me in @nytopinion.nytimes.com The Democratic Party is historically unpopular & hemorrhaging working class voters. Focusing on the issue of climate change —an issue mainly impt to their educated/affluent base—is not a way to reverse this. This marks the end of an era. 👇

nytimes.comOpinion | Forget Climate Change. Democrats Need to Talk About Other Issues.
Ryan Fischer
@jryanfish.bsky.social

The Wire Deadwood Sopranos Star Trek DS9 Buffy The Simpsons 30 Rock The Prisoner Andor MST3K Seinfeld SNL The Leftovers Game of Thrones Neon Genesis Evangelion

Sean T. Collins@seantcollins.com

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only Twin Peaks The Sopranos Mad Men Deadwood The Young Pope/The New Pope Too Old to Die Young Andor Boardwalk Empire The Prisoner Game of Thrones I, Claudius Industry Halt and Catch Fire The Terror (Season 1) Channel Zero

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Joel S.
@joelhs.bsky.social

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

politico.com‘Proactively fall in line:’ Holocaust Memorial Museum quietly changed content after Trump returned to officeTwo former employees said they believed the museum was altering its content preemptively to avoid unwanted negative attention from the Trump administration.

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Max Boot
@maxboot.bsky.social

Remember when DOGE was destroying foreign aid because it was supposedly too expensive? The entire US foreign aid budget in 2024 was $62 billion. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

washingtonpost.comPentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran warThat figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.