Saginaw Ojibwe//queer//community-focused//video&board game enthusiast//mn politics and policy//Survivor superfan//I have a dog
Red Wing, MN
Joined December 2021
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Some administrators have asked the legislature to exclude educators from statewide Paid Family and Medical Leave. Just, like, how dare you. #mnleg
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There's a kid dressed as Donald Trump running around my neighborhood stealing Halloween candy and blaming it on a kid dressed as Joe Biden.
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no canvasser knocks on the same door twice for they are not the same canvasser and it is not the same door
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Winona is ready to send Jack Hedin and Dan Wilson to the State Senate and House! Let's get out there to knock on doors, turn out voters, and send these farmers to St. Paul!
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A private prison company offered Minnesota an empty prison for 75 million dollars. The state said no. Then Trump’s administration paid the same company almost 500 million for it.
The prison has sat empty in Appleton, Minnesota since 2010. Last year CoreCivic emailed the state and offered to sell it for 75 million, upgrades included. Minnesota passed. Fifteen months later, Homeland Security bought it for an ICE detention center at 495.6 million.
How could this be? You guessed it. CoreCivic gave half a million dollars to Trump’s inaugural committee. And it still gets paid about 75 million a year to run the place.
Republicans love talking about fraud in Minnesota. JD Vance says his task force is all over it. So where are they on this one? I break it all down in today’s show (link in reply).
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So we’re supposed to believe there’s no money for health care, but there’s enough money for ICE to spend nearly $500 million buying an abandoned private prison in MN that was originally offered for sale at $75 million just last year?
If that sounds like taxpayers are getting ripped off, it’s because you are.
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Q: If the administration has declared on waste and fraud, could you explain the $420 million overpayment for a prison in Appleton, MN, when they company offered it to the state for $75m?
BESSENT: I don't know anything about that. That's a waste of our time.
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"New records obtained by KARE 11 show the company that owned a vacant private prison in Appleton, Minnesota offered to sell it to the state in 2025 for $75 million.
One year later, the Trump administration agreed to use taxpayer funds to buy the same abandoned prison from CoreCivic, Inc., for $495.6 million.
The price difference, $420 million, is more than taxpayers are estimated to have lost in Minnesota’s much-publicized Feeding Our Future fraud scandal." kare11.com/article/news/inve…
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🗳️ Take: KSTP offered both candidates for governor two free minutes of airtime.
Lisa Demuth recorded her two minutes and then pulled it. Amy Klobuchar got her free two minutes.
Five days out, Team Demuth still isn’t ready for primetime. #mngov
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The DFL Bus Tour is underway! We’re hitting the road to get out the vote, and we want you with us. Meet your candidates and help us finish strong.
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New low for the Demuth camp. They put out an op-ed by Rep. Dawn Gillman in a futile attempt to discredit Nicole Smith-Holt about INSULIN affordability. Who do you trust more- Nicole Smith-Holt, or a state rep who wasn't even in the legislature when Alec's Law was passed?
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House DFLers authored a bill to require the MN BCA to investigate the killing of Alex Pretti. Every DFLer in the House voted yes. Every Republican voted no.
Live: Pretti family accuses federal government of ‘shielding Alex’s killers’ startribune.com/alex-pretti-…
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Please watch this powerful story. And if you agree with Tess, that we have the power and capacity for change, then reshare it. And vote!
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Stoss invoked Christian nationalist imagery in rallying young people to “reconquer our state and nation”. This is the guy looking to represent you in White Bear Lake and the North Metro.
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Just landed in Minnesota to rally voters and volunteers for the only pro- worker candidate in this race: Peggy Flanagan.
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James Talarico: “Too many Democrats have joined Republicans in preaching the false gospel of trickle-down economics. The idea that all we gotta do to get the economy on track is to let the rich get richer and forget about everybody else. Trickle-down economics is not a theory, it’s theft. They have been stealing from working people in Texas and across the country for 50 years now”
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The man was Somali. I wanted to add that since that community has become a punching bag of sorts in rightwing media.
A SOMALI American rescued a busload of children.
A Minnesota man is opening up after he saved nearly 20 children when their school bus driver suffered a medical emergency.
Read more: abcnews.link/t1I488m
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Oops! They did it again.
A fact-check on a sloppy attack ad costs a candidate credibility that no amount of money can buy back.
For the second time this week, Team Demuth is learning the hard way.
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Minnesotans want a home they can afford, child care that doesn’t cost as much as a mortgage, and health care that is affordable and accessible.
As Governor, I will fight to lower costs for the people of Minnesota.
