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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 6h

I get your point. But people used the de minimis loophole to buy medicines overseas and often received bunk, counterfeit garbage.

Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 6h

And you can still do that.

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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 6h

Sure but you do see the problem with counterfeit goods right? Like they might be good for airsoft or whatever. But if someone is buying the pants thinking they are the real deal, they are in for a painful realization.

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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 8h

Right but the de minimus loophole kept goods artificially low & contributed greatly to the perpetual offshoring of manufacturing. It isn't just that Americans like cheap goods, it's also that trade policies enable foreign manufacturers to exploit American consumers. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This US Import Rule Shows How Global Trade Went Wrong

Trump ended the “de minimis exemption,” which allowed duty-free imports of $800 or less. There’s a better way to fix it.

www.bloomberg.com

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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 8h

But Derek is wrong to argue closing the loophole is a bad thing. It isn't—if the goal is to promote domestic manufacturing.

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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 8h

Stoller is obviously not the best messenger because he likes to punch instead of persuade. But advocates were pushing to close de minimus in the Biden era and they didn't. Trump closing it while raising tariffs is just more generalized stupidity.

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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 8h

I get all that, and have no desire to defend Stoller here. But by decrying the end of de minimis, workwear guy is promoting outsourcing. And he's wrong on this. Even the NCTO believes that de minimus results in offshoring and harms domestic manufacturers - ncto.org share.google/zum3FVn9fYAN...

Home - ncto.org

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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 8h

Stoller is saying there used to be vibrant garment industries. That is not dieworkwear's position here.

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Robin for Ward 2 @robin4mpls.bsky.social · 1d

“In 2024, the Minneapolis Police Department solved just 23 percent of nonfatal shootings. But a remarkable shift is under way in St. Paul. The city is on track for a 70 percent drop in homicides by the end of 2025. And they’re solving more than 70 percent of crimes.”

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

This is just so very, very illegal. And Republicans in Congress aren’t the least bit interested in controlling the purse. They’re just employees of trump org at taxpayer expense. This is a dictatorship.

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 2d

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops trib.al/G0HMywT

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops

Left over R&D funds will be used to pay military members on Oct. 15, the Department of Defense said, following orders from President Trump.

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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 2d

Tina and I ran into some friends we hadn't seen since our weddings at the pumpkin patch.

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marymoriarty.bsky.social @marymoriarty.bsky.social · 3d

Why are clearance rates important? The person is caught. High clearance rates, not long punishment, is the best deterrent to crime. And we sometimes see multiple incidents of gun violence which could have been prevented had the person been caught the first time.

Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 3d

Minneapolis could, I imagine, have nice things too. If they elected leaders who choose to implement the solutions that we know already work.

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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 3d

Hey nice thanks for sharing. The people searching on this app remains an annoyance. (I tried to search for the account before sending this and failed to find it.)

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Charlie Rybak @charlierybak.bsky.social · 3d

9 homicides in St. Paul all year. Incredibly impressive.

Also, this bit about Denver really caught my eye, because...

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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 3d

Link to the story here:

St. Paul crime sees a strong drop. Ramsey County Attorney John Choi shares why | MPR News share.google/DZEaQ55U5P1l...

St. Paul solved more crimes, had drastically fewer homicides in 2025

A remarkable shift is under way in St. Paul. The city is on track for a 70 percent drop in homicides by the end of 2025. And they’re solving more than 70 percent of crimes.

share.google

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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 3d

The Hennepin County attorney isn't on here so you're getting a screenshot from over there instead.

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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 3d

Minneapolis could, I imagine, have nice things too. If they elected leaders who choose to implement the solutions that we know already work.

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 3d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 3d

You know what's cool? Because the DFL majority passed a ban on junk fees in 2024, even if Trump's crony at the FCC changes this rule, ISPs in Minnesota still can't hide their fees behind deceptive pricing. They'd have to pass a federal law that preempts our state law and that will never happen.

The Verge @theverge.com · 3d

Brendan Carr wants to let internet providers charge hidden fees again

So much for consumer protections

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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 3d

It's a little fascinating that we can imagine a world where we strip US billionaires of every cent but, at the same time, not also redirect the entire federal budget to more meaningful ends.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 3d

Here, take a break from the peace prize angst and rest your eyes on my latest story in @prospect.org about crypto bros' promise to turn us all into landlords by slicing properties into tiny investments. If you're old enough to remember 2008, well, idk what to tell you. Time is a flat circle.

Crypto Bros Want to Create Micro Landlords

Crypto executives are selling investors fractions of buildings in yet another scheme to reinvent an existing activity and say rules don’t apply because it’s on the blockchain.

prospect.org

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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 3d

This has been true for millennia, we've just forgotten what it looks like.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 3d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 3d

This sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing about it. I'm gonna have to check it out.

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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 4d

They teach you to throw it to first in that spot in tee ball

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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 4d

Cool people doin dope shit www.startribune.com/the-pines-is...

The Pines is bringing farm-to-table fine dining to the North Woods

Grand Rapids is the setting for a couple’s dream restaurant, which highlights locally grown food while raising the bar on this small-town dining scene.

www.startribune.com