This election guide for the Southwest Metropolitan suburbs of the Twin Cities, #MN includes candidate listings for Mayoral, City Council, and School Board races, as well as referenda on the ballot. Check it out if you live in the Southwest suburbs. Also includes a Rank Choice Voting explainer.👇

New from me: TikTok ignored repeated questions about whether and how they share data with ICE. Also, earlier this year, they quietly updated their policies about what happens when law enforcement asks for your data. 1/ www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

In the midst of a government shutdown, and in the face of fundamental challenges to the rule of law and to democratic accountability, the House of Representatives--the people's house, the heart of our democratic republic--hasn't cast a vote since Sep. 19. An extraordinary failure of responsibility.

#ProtestSong They call truth the enemy and flood our feeds with lies, Ban books our children read, redraw lines to shrink our size; Trumpist rallies, strongman pomp, a counterfeit parade; We link our arms, we meet the dawn, still here, undismayed. 🧵 1/8

Good point 👇

If you live in the Southwest Metro #Minnesota, Chaska is the location for the longest-lasting weekly pro-democracy rally. Every Saturday, 1-2 pm at the corner of Hazeltine Blvd and Highway 41. 🧵 1/3

Biggest story in the world, told in the mainstream press perfectly well: AP/PBS headline: TRUMP'S MOVES AGAINST MEDIA OUTLETS MIRROR AUTHORITARIAN APPROACHES TO SILENCING DISSENT www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Pulte should resign

This is a very insightful piece by Kahlil Greene explaining why Gen Z isn't buying the canonization of Charlie Kirk.👇

Matt Bai: To put a happier, less discomfiting spin on the exhibits in this museum would make us more like Russia or China or North Korea, or any other country where history becomes a strongman’s self-serving fairy tale that no one outside the country believes. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Didn't that magazine make a loud statement about how it would never bow to trump?

The Iowa Senate seat that Democratic candidate Catelin Drey flipped tonight has been in GOP hands for 13 years. Not anymore.

An estimated 218,000 people in the U.S. are stateless or are at risk of becoming so. As a result of President Trump's aggressive policies, people without any citizenship are more vulnerable than ever.

I've been building around WordPress to create a social network based on RSS. I want to get out of being controlled by billionaire-owned sites. I have a feeling we may need a good backup given where we are now.

Thugs.

Fox News falls for it hook, line, and sinker.

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

The fun never stops... wIth the Blame Game!

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Des Moine, Iowa. Who is he?

Since President Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner over a weak jobs report, we’ve been thinking a lot about the trustworthiness of U.S. economic data. China can offer a glimpse of what happens when that trust erodes. Today on Make Me Smart 👇

Trump cuts in the line: “Texas, deal me five more seats.” Abbott stacks the deck—thirty days, repeat, repeat. No new shuffle, same old count, switch the cards mid-hand, Move the borders, move the voters, make the House your brand. #OneMillionRising

Protest songs at www.Movements.Rocks #OneMillionRising

“He said DACA was canceled, that I would stand no chance in stay in the country.” That’s the lie an ICE agent told “Edgar,” a DACA recipient, during his detainment months ago. This administration terrorizes our communities with deception. They lie because cruelty is the point.

Camus: Under conditions so desperate, the hard, marvelous task of this century is to create justice in the most unjust of worlds, and to protect freedom from those souls who, out of principle, choose servitude. If we fail, man will return to darkness. But at least we will have fought to find light.

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Following Texas's lead, the Florida House is creating a committee on congressional redistricting. It's yet another naked attempt at using gerrymandering to stay in power after 2026. floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/07/f...

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

And here we go. The plan seems to be to go full 𝕾𝖈𝖍𝖚𝖙𝖟𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖋𝖋𝖊𝖑, to turn the nation into a military police state. They’re telling each other to be careful what they write down, but they’ve already written down too much. 🧵:

Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know. wrd.cm/4fqM8dC

The original borders of Minnesota 1858. RETVRN

jonathan capehart, subbing for an msnbc host, just used the last minutes of the show to explain his departure from the washington post, specifically citing management's insistence on an optimistic vision of america while a corrupt president flouts the law and deploys troops to march american streets

Exclusive: The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History removed references to President Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit — an apparent change to its plans to update its collection of artifacts about the historic U.S. proceedings.

Lordy, there are tapes

ATTN: If you’re a DoJ employee and have knowledge of the missing minute (or 2:53) of Epstein jail video, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻

I've loved wiggly wind-powered advertising signs since Breaking Bad but this one takes the absolute cake.

The orange buffoon said he would lower grocery prices on day one, stop the Ukraine war before getting into White House, and release the Epstein files. All more LIES from the pathological liar. 😡

NEW: A second whistleblower and former DOJ attorney has produced evidence that backs up allegations that Trump's court pick Emil Bove told DOJ attorneys to defy court orders, mislead judges and say "fuck you" to judges who rule against them, says whistleblower group. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

This is what you getting when you let lunatics run the federal government.

Boasberg again denies a POLITICO bid to unseal grand jury info — this time the contents of Kash Patel's grand jury transcript that Patel himself said should come out. Boasberg notes that Patel incorrectly claimed he couldn't disclose details himself. He can. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Trump just said Schiff merits "prison" for the "fraud" an IG supposedly found. Again, I talked to experts/former IG who described the process used here as deeply troubling. This is becoming his model for manipulating bureaucracy to hatch pretexts to target foes: newrepublic.com/article/1980...

Have any of these politicians trying to get access to ICE facilities actually sued to get access? i think the courts would absolutely allow it. Also, only cowards hide their faces, ICE.

Tonight’s sign for Good Trouble

Good Trouble evening in Stamford I want Andry back - 😭

We’re gonna make good, #goodtrouble, 
’Til the walls of injustice crumble; 
Hand in hand we stand, we’ll never back down— 
We’ll shake this ground.
We’re gonna make good, good trouble, 
Bring the fire, burst the bubble; 
For every freedom call, we’ll answer loud— 
We’ll stand our ground. WATCH:

Apparently the Pioneer Press has decided to just not cover the Nicole Mitchell trial (at least in the dead trees edition). It's an amazingly incompetent editorial decision, even by PiPress standards

We’re taking it back — the flag, the fire The songs they stole, the old desire For liberty with soul and spine Not just for yours, but yours and mine youtu.be/EDCMQHU__j0 #1MillionRising

We’re gonna make good, good trouble, 
 ’Til the walls of injustice crumble; 
 Hand in hand we stand, we’ll never back down— 
 We’ll shake this ground.
 #OneMillionRising WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhQL...