An additional implication is it further erodes the effectiveness of state insurance regulation in overall commercial insurance markets.

a bit late, but why did a rapist tell me I should eat apples

This is cool. But Prince was better (obligatory).

Great thread walking through these complicated details with clarity.

ICE is still doing checkpoints in Minneapolis like we are an occupied territory. Life remains really hard here thanks to Trump's thugs.

This is awesome.

🧵 New WP with @kaimiele.bsky.social. 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

Really thankful for the leadership NAMI MN is showing here. namimn.org/ice-activity...

#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. @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social

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...

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:

Oh, you mean this "rhetoric"? bsky.app/profile/adam...

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.

Guess we have a new addition to this thread. Thanks, Boss. bsky.app/profile/bruc...

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.

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. www.startribune.com/man-tackled-...

This is great and I recommend singing it to the tune of We Didn’t Start the Fire

I think a whole lot of Minnesotans will just use this database as their holiday card list.

Ok, how about this happens at the Minneapolis Orchestra Hall, instead?

It’s not over.

Huh. Can anyone think of any Minnesotans in the Cabinet who use Signal?

“Wait, Wisconsin didn’t get a Nobel prize? You don’t say.” Yeah, we’d be absolutely insufferable.

Lucinda Williams’ “Minneapolis.”

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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9XR...

$20B is about a third of MN's entire state budget but whatever let's just throw around enormous numbers for kicks

I feel like I should be allowed to take my cat to work today.

#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

Multi-generational mentchkeit. So impressive, and so unsurprising knowing where they came from.

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.

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.

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

Well done, Minnesota.

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.

Good morning from Minneapolis. We’re putting on long underwear and listening to Prince’s instructions. youtu.be/O4YVbDCSGAg

Congrats Timberwolves. You’re the second worst thing going on in Minneapolis right now.

Cassidy could agitate for impeachment of RFK Jr to start at any time, if he wanted.

Prince would not have been happy about any of this.

Good on the Walker. I updated their iconic shirt for them.

No words.

Context for non-Minnesotans: the Star Tribune is not a super-lefty newspaper.

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.

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

Every Minnesotan should know that the answer to being asked to produce our papers is to say, “I am Naz Reid.”

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.