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Nathan Coulter
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Husband, Dad, Hubert Humphrey DFLer, State Representative for 51B, fmr Sunday School teacher, fmr Bloomington City Councilmember. Let’s get to work.
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We’ve heard the same song in MN for literal decades. “Rich people will leave the state!!!!!!!”

It was crap decades ago. It’s crap now. #mnleg
But God forbid poor people get food or health care.
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
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I fucking dare this guy to say that to a soybean farmer in Sibley County, Minnesota. #mnleg
Q: What do you have to say to farmers who feel that the deal is benefitting Argentina more than it is them?

TRUMP: Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady. You don't know anything about it. You understand what that means? They are dying
I very much doubt @nytimes.com will care that I stop following them. But if they’re curious, this idiotic, willfully ignorant bullshit (since some of us can still recognize shit when we see it) is why.
There may be no one I’d want to hear discussions about sperm count, girls starting puberty, and people having children from LESS than this man.
RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."
We don’t talk about how much of education is learning how to learn.

As I’ve said before, a large part of especially higher education, is teaching people how to not be stupid. #mnleg
If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
All right. All set to open my new business - Auntie Fa’s Bakery. Now to just take a big sip of coffee and open social media…
So I opened the bottle of rosé when it was like 90° out, and now it’s 49° and what do I do?

I mean, obviously I’m going to drink the rosé but then I just feel weird about it?
More of this please.
McGovern: Republicans love to advocate for more work requirements for poor people… Let's have a work requirement for Republicans to show up to congress and do your god damn job.
Chuck Schumer saying “No. Fucking. Way.” is my new text tone.
"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.
I am never at my more socialist than when I’m dealing with health insurance, and shit like this is exactly why. #mnleg
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Minnesotans are calling for a special session to ban assault weapons—but Republican lawmakers are refusing to let it proceed.

This image perfectly encapsulates Republican’s cruel apathy toward protecting our kids from gun violence: Empty signatures, empty promises.
Came home from Trader Joe’s with only one box of cereal, one box of blueberry muffin mix, and one bottle of wine more than planned. Pretty good, right?
Well #mnleg GOP? Will you step up and do what Minnesotans are demanding?
🚨BIG NEWS:🚨

Minnesota Democrats just unveiled our proposal for a possible special session. Our plan would:

✅Ban assault weapons
✅Ban high-capacity magazines
✅Ban binary triggers
✅Implement 'safe storage' rules
✅Ban untraceable 'ghost guns'
✅Strengthen MN's red flag law
Minnesota’s Red Flag law works. It’s saved lives right here in our city. #mnleg

www.startribune.com/red-flag-gun...
Real ones remember Win Ben Stein’s Money.
I really try hard not to comment on every idiotic macho-to-those-who-don’t-know-better thing that comes from this administration, but this is particularly odious.

No one who knows what actually happened - or who’d been to Wounded Knee - would think this is right.
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
I was glad to talk with @mprnews.org about my bipartisan work to build a child care licensing system that better supports our littles and their educators doing the most important work.

We made some important progress last session, and I’m confident we can do more in 2026. #mnleg
Minnesota’s home-based child care providers are shutting their doors at an alarming rate. Some say it's because they feel burdened by complex regulations and strict enforcement actions that drive up their cost of doing business. But, there is bipartisan legislation that could change that.
Child care providers want changes to strict rules that result in costly upgrades, licensing issues
Family home-based child care providers are leaving the profession. Some say it’s because of complex regulations and strict enforcement that’s driving up the cost of doing business. But, there is bipar...
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John Cougar Marshall
Ruin a band with a Supreme Court Justice

RBG Soundsystem
Frankfurter Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
Important thoughts from fellow Bloomington resident Thai Lloyd.

Like it or not, money is power in politics. The question is who has the power - the shadowy groups and billionaires or the rest of us. #mnleg
Be it resolved that eating Totino’s pizza rolls counts as “dining local” in Minnesota.