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Betsy Hodges @betsyhodges.bsky.social · 2h

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Mark 🏳️‍🌈 @mark55.bsky.social · 3h

D’Angelo was genuinely one of the only humans on the planet who had any business covering a Prince song. And in my opinion that is a rather short list of people.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 1d

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 2h

A good way for Republicans to stop being called Nazis and authoritarians is to stop empowering an authoritarian president, undermining democratic norms at every opportunity, and making Holocaust jokes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Dave McCormick: "I do think some of this horrible language on the extreme left -- 'fascism, Nazism, authoritarianism' -- I think that's a recipe, an introduction and encouragement to violence. It's gotta stop."

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Betsy Hodges @betsyhodges.bsky.social · 4d

Question: is mentioning New Heights in Wood the first time a podcast has been namechecked in a song on the charts? @newheightsofficial.bsky.social #taylorswift

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Betsy Hodges @betsyhodges.bsky.social · 4d

Having heard the whole album, I am now skeptical that Opalite is truly Travis Kelce’s favorite song on the album. 🪵 #TaylorSwift

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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 7d

Pope Leo XIV: "I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor."

"Dilexi te"

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Betsy Hodges @betsyhodges.bsky.social · 11d

yayyyyyyyy!!!! HI!!!!!!

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Betsy Hodges @betsyhodges.bsky.social · 11d

Wait! Hi! You’re here!

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Betsy Hodges @betsyhodges.bsky.social · 13d

I love all the many faces of Taylor Swift in her music, but my top favorite is Happy and Clapbacky Taylor and this album is all that from start to finish. I love it. #taylorswift

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Betsy Hodges @betsyhodges.bsky.social · 18d

I am sorry for your loss, John.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 20d

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired

thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

The Free Speech Crisis for Black Americans Is Worse Than You Think

Don’t let Jimmy Kimmel’s return fool you: Black academics are more frightened of talking to the press than I’ve ever seen.

thebarbedwire.com

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Betsy Hodges @betsyhodges.bsky.social · 20d

I agree—you can make a decent cover of songs on Born To Run, but I posit that it’s not possible to make any better (possible exception were they to try: the muppets). But can there be great covers of him in general? Abso-freakin’—lutely. There’s a whole show on E Street Radio dedicated to them.

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 20d

There isn’t a song on Born to Run that anyone has ever covered better, I’m not a huge sportswriter official Bruce dude but that whole album touches the face of god

The Prime Minister of Ireland @barchen.bsky.social · 20d

*whispers* Bruce Springsteen is the same.

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Lock Wilford @lockwilford.com · Feb 7

My favorite part of the apocalypse has been the constant fatigue

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 29d

Before anyone loses their minds, Ramsey County has been doing this under John Choi’s leadership www.mprnews.org/story/2023/0...

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 29d

Main Cinema, Minneapolis

Theater marquee pays homage to Robert Redford

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Betsy Hodges @betsyhodges.bsky.social · Sep 12

Proud of my friend Senator Scott Dibble.

Sen. Scott Dibble: Republicans scapegoat the trans community to distract from the real threat

"What we have witnessed from Republicans is not leadership, but opportunism at its most callous," Sen. Scott Dibble writes.

www.startribune.com

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Betsy Hodges @betsyhodges.bsky.social · Sep 11

Something simple and helpful in these awful times:

A pal is board pres of Old Spokes Home; they take donated bikes and refurbish them for folks who need them for transpo and for kids who couldn’t afford one. More info and you can donate at the link: donate.oldspokeshome.com/fundraiser/6...

Old Spokes Home 2025 Fall Fundo

donate.oldspokeshome.com

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Betsy Hodges @betsyhodges.bsky.social · Sep 11

I’ll say it again: if there isn’t a gun, there isn’t a shooting.

#gunviolence

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · Sep 10

No elected official Democratic party will be as cruel about Kirk's death as Mike Lee was about the death of Melissa Hortman.

wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/17/s...

Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah took down X posts Tuesday making an apparent connection between Gov. Tim Walz and the man accused of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, and blaming “Marxists” for the murders. The change comes after blowback from Sen. Tina Smith and her staffers as well as Minnesota Democratic and Republican lawmakers.

One X post said “Nightmare on Waltz Street,” with pictures of Boelter, who is accused of killing Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and shooting Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in the early morning hours of June 14. Boelter also went to the homes of two other state lawmakers that night; one house was empty, and at the other, a police officer pulled up to the house shortly after Boelter arrived, so Boelter left.

Another Lee post read, “This is what happens When Marxists don’t get their way,” with a picture of Boelter.

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Betsy Hodges @betsyhodges.bsky.social · Aug 27

This was my last official act and mayor and that fact makes me happy to this day.

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Betsy Hodges @betsyhodges.bsky.social · Aug 27

Oh, Minneapolis. 💔

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Betsy Hodges @betsyhodges.bsky.social · Aug 14

I am starting to suspect that the menu options have *not* changed, phone robot. #phonerobot

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Betsy Hodges @betsyhodges.bsky.social · Jul 24

#goals #seniors #awesome www.cbsnews.com/news/peloton...

Meet the 91-year-old athlete who pushed Peloton to add senior age categories: "You can never give up"

After more than 2,900 rides, 91-year-old Dottie Dorion convinced Peloton to create new age brackets for riders 90 and older.

www.cbsnews.com

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Matt Erickson @thematterickson.bsky.social · Jul 22

It does feel very satisfying to deliver a pro-immigration Reagan zinger but the median Reagan voter is dead and the last person to vote for him did so 41 years ago. "Hey, remember when Republican Chet Arthur vetoed the first Chinese Exclusion Act? Where did that party go?"

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Jul 20

*looks directly at camera*

Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · Jul 19

Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she feels “cheated” after she won a concession in the tax and spending bill to protect wind and solar projects, only to see the Trump administration issue orders that she said seem designed to quash such projects.

Sen. Murkowski, feeling ‘cheated’ by Trump actions against wind and solar, says she’ll go to bat for Alaska projects

Murkowski won a concession in the Big, Beautiful Bill to protect tax credits for 12 months for wind and solar. But she said a recent presidential order and Interior directive undercut those plans.

www.adn.com

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