Ezra Golberstein
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Health policy and economics. Some Prince, some Minnesota. Opinions my own.
An additional implication is it further erodes the effectiveness of state insurance regulation in overall commercial insurance markets.
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jesse
about 23 hours ago
a bit late, but why did a rapist tell me I should eat apples
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This is cool. But Prince was better (obligatory).
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Great thread walking through these complicated details with clarity.
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Aaron Rupar
3 days ago
ICE is still doing checkpoints in Minneapolis like we are an occupied territory. Life remains really hard here thanks to Trump's thugs.
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This is awesome.
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Christoph Kronenberg
5 days ago
đź§µ New WP with
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. We document 2 unsettling patterns in mental health care: 1) despite universal coverage, few individuals with mental illness receive guideline-consistent treatment, and 2) the more severe the illness, the lower the treatment uptake & the longer the wait times. 1/n
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John Moe
6 days ago
Really thankful for the leadership NAMI MN is showing here.
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ICE Activity Is Driving Mental Health Crisis Among Minnesotans Who Live With Serious And Persistent Mental Illnesses - NAMI Minnesota
NAMI Minnesota Urges Use of Mobile Crisis Response Teams as Fear and Trauma Escalate
https://namimn.org/ice-activity-is-driving-mental-health-crisis-among-minnesotans-who-live-with-serious-and-persistent-mental-illnesses/
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Shande Farmisht
6 days ago
#AHRQ
federal employees by GS series using OPM data as of Nov 2025. Running an Agency with no finance, grant, IT, contract & comms Feds. All replaced by contractors and farmed out to other agencies.
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David Brauer
7 days ago
Sadly, I have a personal ask: ICE kidnapped a staffer who works at my grandson’s daycare this weekend along with two other family members. Can you help the extended families with legal costs & famity support? It would mean a lot to me. I’m just sick about this.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
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Donate to Support for Daycare Staff Member Detained by ICE, organized by S E
A staff member of our daycare has been detained by ICE (along with two other fami… S E needs your support for Support for Daycare Staff Member Detained by ICE
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-daycare-staff-member-detained-by-ice?attribution_id=sl:a10eff59-b9e4-45d4-b9fb-f818bbb8eef8&lang=en_US&ts=1770064533&utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_dash&utm_content=amp17_tb&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link
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Aaron Sojourner
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Minnesota Star Tribune
10 days ago
The Minnesota Star Tribune,
@mprnews.org
@minnesotareformer.com
,
@spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social
,
@sahanjournal.bsky.social
, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:
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Aaron Sojourner
10 days ago
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Oh, you mean this "rhetoric"?
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DSchrantz
11 days ago
The Twin Cities is being described as a war “theater.” They believe they are at war with the residents of the Twin Cities and Minnesotans.
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Mental Health Outcomes in Children after Parental Firearm Injury | NEJM
Every year, approximately 20,000 youths lose a parent to firearm injury in the United States. Many more youths have parents who sustain nonfatal firearm injuries. The effect of parents’ firearm inj...
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa2502702
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Guess we have a new addition to this thread. Thanks, Boss.
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T
12 days ago
Being a parent in Minnesota right now is getting an email from your principal about how someone was detained in the building complex your kid’s school is in. More specifically, the community center that houses the local food shelf. ICE needs to leave. Call your damn Senators.
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Governor Tim Walz
13 days ago
I’m glad that Congresswoman Omar is safe. Our state has been shattered by political violence in the last year. The cruel, inflammatory, dehumanizing rhetoric by our nation’s leaders needs to stop immediately.
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Man sprays unknown substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar and is tackled at Minneapolis town hall
A man sprayed an unknown substance on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and was tackled to the ground Tuesday during a town hall she was hosting in Minneapolis, where tensions over federal immigration e...
https://www.startribune.com/man-tackled-to-ground-after-spraying-unknown-substance-on-rep-ilhan-omar-at-minneapolis-town-hall/601572036
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This is great and I recommend singing it to the tune of We Didn’t Start the Fire
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I think a whole lot of Minnesotans will just use this database as their holiday card list.
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Ok, how about this happens at the Minneapolis Orchestra Hall, instead?
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David Brauer
13 days ago
It’s not over.
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Huh. Can anyone think of any Minnesotans in the Cabinet who use Signal?
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“Wait, Wisconsin didn’t get a Nobel prize? You don’t say.” Yeah, we’d be absolutely insufferable.
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Jon Sulman
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Party Pit
YouTube video by The Hold Steady - Topic
https://youtu.be/02oLIpfCxqI?si=ae4W8UXwhRVWOmtc
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14 days ago
Lucinda Williams’ “Minneapolis.”
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Lifting up my city with a thread of songs about Minneapolis. "Minneapolis" by That Dog. I remember this from Rev105 in the mid-90s. Catchy tune.
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Minneapolis by that dog
YouTube video by oh re
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9XR5CynN-k
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$20B is about a third of MN's entire state budget but whatever let's just throw around enormous numbers for kicks
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I feel like I should be allowed to take my cat to work today.
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Christoph Kronenberg
15 days ago
#econsky
et al. I am happy to announce the
#call_for_papers
for the 2026 Economics of Mental Health Workshop! The workshop is hosted by
@peibich.bsky.social
at Paris Dauphine and takes place from June 22-23. They keynotes are
@jcmecon.bsky.social
& Marco Bertoni. 1/n
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Multi-generational mentchkeit. So impressive, and so unsurprising knowing where they came from.
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Pedaling Professor
16 days ago
This is Minneapolis. Literally every corner along Lake St. packed with people holding candles, many singing, honoring a person who by all accounts was an absolute gem of a human, whose life was tragically stolen by a fascist, paramilitary occupation force.
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geri katz
16 days ago
I drove home from 28th and Lyndale to about 50th and Lyndale at around 8pm. Nearly every intersection had people gathered, holding candles. Lake street was lined with people. It was beautiful and so sad. I’m so tired of being sad for my beautiful city.
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Ami Fields-Meyer
16 days ago
I wrote the speech I *wish* Chuck Schumer would give tonight - as an actual opposition leader. Here it is: "My fellow Americans: At this hour, an unrestrained force of militarized and violent federal officers is carrying out a project of ethnic cleansing in the streets of American cities." 1/14
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Well done, Minnesota.
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jeremy messersmith
17 days ago
Minnesotans have been talking about that damned Halloween blizzard for decades but I didn't live here then. I missed it. To my eternal shame. Trust me- marching against ICE during a polar vortex is NOT to be missed. If you go, no one can ever "out-Minnesota" you again. Layer up. See you there.
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Good morning from Minneapolis. We’re putting on long underwear and listening to Prince’s instructions.
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We March
YouTube video by Prince - Topic
https://youtu.be/O4YVbDCSGAg
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Congrats Timberwolves. You’re the second worst thing going on in Minneapolis right now.
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Cassidy could agitate for impeachment of RFK Jr to start at any time, if he wanted.
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Prince would not have been happy about any of this.
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Good on the Walker. I updated their iconic shirt for them.
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No words.
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Context for non-Minnesotans: the Star Tribune is not a super-lefty newspaper.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen
21 days ago
This is pure, unabashed bigotry. If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party. But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence. A stain on our Congress.
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Dan Haugen
22 days ago
National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3
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Every Minnesotan should know that the answer to being asked to produce our papers is to say, “I am Naz Reid.”
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Adrianna McIntyre
25 days ago
Also spotted: Funding cost-sharing reductions and ending so-called "silver loading," which will reduce overall federal spending but increase many Marketplace enrollees' after-subsidy premiums.
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