Thread: The Trump Admin tried to inappropriately withhold federal funds to 5 states with Democratic governors (including Minnesota) under block grants like TANF. While that was temporarily stopped through litigation, the Trump Admin is now threatening to withhold #Medicaid funding from MN (1/x)

Fox News ticker is false. There is no investigation underway. There is a cover up underway.

How about lifting sanctions on Minnesota?

Please be aware that contrary to their fundraising ads, @forwardblue.bsky.social has no relationship with the No Kings mobilizations, no record of doing anything in support, no inside information, and is ignoring requests to cease advertising that suggests they are involved.

The real TANF fraud is in Mississippi not blue states

"In the final full year of President Joe Biden’s term, the economy added an average of 168,000 jobs per month. Throughout Trump’s second term in 2025, the number shrank down to 49,000 jobs added per month..." www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goon-k...

The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in south Minneapolis has been identified as Jonathan Ross, the Star-Tribune reports

Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis as Jonathan Ross www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that it was too late to challenge Texas gerrymandering but Florida is going to gerrymander in April!

Kennedy has a book titled “HowTo Test Negative for Stupid”. Kennedy just failed his own test

I don’t root for any professional football team. I’m a Jets fan.

Teams with losing records should not make the playoffs

Quite simply, any mail-in voter must now place their ballot in the mail at least ONE WEEK sooner than they might have in previous years...or be encouraged to return them in person, if possible. We need to message around this consistently from this point forward. www.masslive.com/news/2026/01...

History rhymes with

Good thing Robert’s just said that the courts are acting as a check on Trump or we could have a lawless president.

Not sure what this bodes for 2026

I agree with your kids’ take. He didn’t win the actual world championship. He won an exhibition game. He already had the girl and now he has a kid who he has no means to support since he burned all his bridges. Sure he cried when he saw his kid But we see no evidence he became a good father.

That was the reasoning underlying the SCOTUS decision in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson

Does Iran count as a war Trump ended or started? Hard to keep count

The unifying principle behind Trump’s foreign policy is bombing people of color

Small town lawyer falsely accused of murder

Justice delayed is . . . Trump’s legal strategy

This is less than the cost of one of the 20-25 battleships Trump announced he is building.

If this is what the winner does what do the losers do?

He meant Russian Orthodox Thanksgiving

ICE is refusing to release a US citizen despite extensive documentation of her citizenship. Presented with her birth certificate, they called it a fake and transferred her from Maryland to Louisiana. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

This is vandalism

Looks like a helicopter

Is this a subtweet for David Brooks?

Trade war. What’s it good for?

Does this policy apply to the football coach?

Affordability is a Democratic hoax

Thank you Senator @vanhollen.senate.gov for all you have done to help Mr. Abrego Garcia!

What? You can’t say this Senate tied with 2021-22 that produced bipartisan infrastructure act, CHIPS and Science Act, bipartisan Safer Communities gun legislation, Inflation Reduction Act among many accomplishments.

🚨 Senate Republicans just voted to more than double avg. health insurance premiums for 24 million Americans. Today would be a good day to help Democrats flip the Senate. #Blue26 secure.actblue.com/donate/senat...

Grand jury will indict a ham sandwich but not a sandwich thrower

Keep calling

"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered -- private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..." www.kuow.org/stories/thou...

No beards is not a facially neutral policy

The Christian nationalism is how they excuse the corruption.

Deadhead

I saw a Grateful Dead sticker on a Cadillac

Good idea for a Ozark episode

Turning the FBI into your personal ride share service

19. Still have an AOL email address

There will be growth in the spring. Chauncey Gardner