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Zaynab Mohamed @zaynabmmohamed.bsky.social · 3h

I’m letting the haters know now: stay mad. We will continue to exist and thrive in Minnesota. 😘
@aurinmpls.bsky.social @omarfatehmn.com
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Islamophobia threatens to silence Muslim candidates in Minnesota

Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh has seen a consistent stream of threats, but he’s not alone. Several candidates for local office say they’ve been targeted, and they are concerned it will disc...

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · 20h

“It’s not that he’s black, Muslim, or Somali; it’s that I heard something bad about a scandal with one of those people, and I have trouble telling them apart.”

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · 2d

Those are my favorite kind of scores!

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · 6d

MAGA to white South Africans: “You lost apartheid there, come help us rebuild it in America!”

Foreign Policy
Headline: Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners - and virtually no one else
The administration's rush to process thousands of White South Africans coincides with plans for overall admissions set as low as 7,500.
photo: South African refugees arrive at Dulles International Airport in Virginia in May.

Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · 7d

It's amazing how well such enormous numbers of America-hating Hamas terrorists can disguise themselves.

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Sep 18

Remember when the right was pissing their pants in hysterics over "cancel culture"?

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Sep 15

your daily StudBud

photo of 2 sports section front pages, 1 featuring photo of Courtney Williams and 1 featuring photo of Natasha Hiedeman

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Sep 15

In New Jersey, Benefits Bloom in Tiny Forests

www.nytimes.com

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Sep 14

Has there yet been a lawsuit in those conservative states over the teaching of “gender ideology” for a class that includes Romeo and Juliette, or Jane Austin, or even Fun with Dick and Jane? It would at least be a chance for these bozos to learn what “ideology” actually means.

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Sep 14

Willie be Willieing

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Sep 12

So glad they caught the “radical left” guy! Did he have a copy of Das Kapital in his backpack?

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Sep 6

I saw that, but only after I’d sent it!

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Sep 5

Among the details in Seth A. Richardson's excellent, heartbreaking new Racket piece on the death of Palmer's Bar: owner Sarah Dwyer wrote to Mayor Jacob Frey twice to ask for more enforcement of city code to help clean up the neighborhood. Neither letter even received a reply. #DontRankFrey

Goodbye to Palmer’s: A Requiem for Minneapolis’s Weirdest and Wonderfullest Bar - Racket

The landmark West Bank bar will close in 10 days. Here's why that happened—and what will be lost.

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Sep 5

They should also call the Department of Health the Department of Sickness, the Department of Justice the Department of Retribution, and the Department of Education the Department of Ignorance.

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Sep 3

The fact that the Democratic Party is terrified of what the dynamic and popular Zohran Mamdani might do to the public perception of Democrats, yet oblivious to the awful damage Schumer and Jeffries are constantly doing to the same is all you need to know about how brain-dead the party is.

It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down | Mehdi Hasan

This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition. We all deserve better

www.theguardian.com

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hey all you assault weapon-owning, gun-loving dipshit Americans, wasn't your excuse all along that you might need them to fight the US government if it suddenly became authoritarian? Are you all just super busy right now or something?

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Aug 24

I got coffeed up and pissed off yesterday morning and sent one in!

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Aug 22

Just want to say publicly in advance that if I'm ever in a federal prison, then anyone who has the power to pardon me is and has always been, in my estimation, an absolutely perfect gentleperson in all respects and has never done anything even remotely inappropriate.

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Aug 21

“You couldn’t feel safer anywhere in the world than at a ukulele gathering.” —wisdom from MPR this morning (I believe it, though a Lynx game might be a close second)

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D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · Aug 19

I mean, its hard to argue with “Fuck Jacob Frey, fuck fascism and fuck Donald Trump.” but leave it to the fucking Star Tribune to write a fucking article about fucking decorum, so fuck the Star Tribune along with this other list.

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Aug 12

Since October 7, 2023, more journalists have been killed in Gaza than all these wars combined:
U.S. Civil War, World War I and Il, Korean War, Vietnam War, wars in Yugoslavia (1990s & 2000s) and the Afghanistan War.
Brown University Watson School of International and Public Affairs

Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Aug 9

Trump’s concern about antisemitism is about as selective as his concern for birds: it’s only there if there’s a university he wants to shake down or a windmill he wants to take down.

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Aug 9

LTE in today’s Minnesota Star Tribune

MINNEAPOLIS MAYORAL RACE
Fateh's accomplishments far outstrip Frey's Julius Hernandez, shilling for Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, says not to vote for DF L-endorsed mayoral candidate state Sen.
Omar Fateh because "the DFL Party was built by people who believed in results" ("Democratic socialism isn't the future of the DFL Party," Strib Voices, Aug. 8).
OK, here's a test for Minneapolis voters: Off the top of your head, name a single major accomplishment achieved by Frey in his 7½ years as mayor. I'll wait. Finding it difficult?
If someone asked me the same of Fateh's recent tenure as state senator, I'd have to decide between the North Star Promise Act, which made higher education feasible for thousands of lower-income Minnesotans; the legalization of fentanyl test strips, which saves the lives of people who could otherwise potentially die of a fentanyl overdose without even knowing what they were taking (as did my own brother-in-law in the very month before the act was passed); and the bill to ensure that Uber and Lyft drivers were paid a living wage. Fateh led on all those initiatives, and they were based on the desire to make a real difference in his constituents' lives, not to serve any ideological agenda.
If you want "results" rather than showboating, vote DFL-endorsed Fateh for mayor.
JASON McGRATH, Minneapolis

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · Jul 20

#TIME4UNITY: Both sides in our city must recognize the unique & valuable contributions of the other. Young DSA-types provide energy, activism, & idealism we need to keep striving. Old school DFLers provide the anger, resentment, & cash needed to crush that first faction to dust.

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Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social · Jul 20

Let's call out red-baiting and McCarthyist rhetoric for what it is, whether it's corporate Democrats threatened by the popularity of democratic socialism or Trump screeching about "Radical Left Lunatics" whenever anyone opposes his lawlessness. (2/2)

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