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Ruth Conniff
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Progressive journalist, Wisconsinite, editor-in-chief of @[email protected], author of MILKED: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers
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Ruth Conniff @rconniff.bsky.social · 2h
ICYMI: @isiahholmes.bsky.social and @henry-redman.bsky.social report on Wisconsin sheriff transporting immigrants for ICE across the border with Illinois
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Ruth Conniff @rconniff.bsky.social · 2h
Wisconsin FoodShare members will not be able to access benefits and 2 Head Start programs face closure if government shutdown continues at the end of this month @erikgunn.bsky.social reports.
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Wisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com · 7h
Wrongly convicted brothers each awarded $25K, both recommended for $1 million. @ajkennard.bsky.social, who has reported on their case, has the latest.
Wrongly convicted brothers each awarded $25K, both recommended for $1 million • Wisconsin Examiner
The Wisconsin Claims Board awarded the Bintz brothers $25,000 each and recommended an additional $1 million to the Legislature.
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Wisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com · 6h
Wisconsin gun violence prevention advocates call on lawmakers to take action @bspears.bsky.social reports.
Wisconsin gun violence prevention advocates call on lawmakers to take action  • Wisconsin Examiner
Rep. Joan Fitzgerald, who will sponsor the prevention measures, called on her Republican colleagues to work with her on the legislation.
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Wisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com · 3h
More than 42 million low-income Americans are at risk of losing food assistance Nov. 1 if the government shutdown continues. wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/10/22/r...
Shutdown likely to halt food benefits for 42 million in just days • Wisconsin Examiner
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said SNAP funds will run out by the end of the month if Congress fails to end the government shutdown.
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Wisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com · 3h
President Donald Trump said late Tuesday he is personally owed a massive payment from the Department of Justice and would have the authority to approve it wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/10/22/r...
Trump seeks to approve his own $230M payback from DOJ over past probes • Wisconsin Examiner
President Donald Trump said late Tuesday he is personally owed a massive payment from the Department of Justice
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Ruth Conniff @rconniff.bsky.social · 22h
Important breaking story from @isiahholmes.bsky.social and @henry-redman.bsky.social on local Wis sheriff cooperation with ICE in Illinois
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Ruth Conniff @rconniff.bsky.social · 1d
AG Josh Kaul challenges WI judge's ruling that elections officials must verify voters' citizenship via @henry-redman.bsky.social
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Wisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com · 1d
US House Democrats question Trump administration focus on ‘patriotic education’
US House Democrats question Trump administration focus on ‘patriotic education’ • Wisconsin Examiner
The Education Dept. wants "unifying, inspiring, and ennobling characterization of the American founding and foundational principles" in civics classes.
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Wisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com · 1d
Trump tried to lay off more than 2,000 Interior staff in shutdown plan now on hold
Trump tried to lay off more than 2,000 Interior staff in shutdown plan now on hold • Wisconsin Examiner
The Interior Department paused plans to lay off 2,050 employees across the country after a federal judge expanded a restraining order
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Ruth Conniff @rconniff.bsky.social · 3d
Examiner reporters fanned out across Wisconsin to cover No Kings day protests in Madison, Milwaukee, Janesville, Kenosha, Green Bay and Hayward. Here's what they saw and heard
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Baylor Spears @bspears.bsky.social · 4d
Dane Co. Circuit Court Judge Everett Mitchell tells the Madison No Kings crowd that “yes judges are out here too. I might get in trouble on Monday, but I'm here right now.”

"You're living in the redefinition of our democracy right now ... The war for civil rights is being waged all over again."
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Ruth Conniff @rconniff.bsky.social · 4d
Thousands of No Kings protesters converging on the Capitol in Madison
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Baylor Spears @bspears.bsky.social · 4d
Growing crowd is being led in a couple of call and response chants — “Show me what democracy looks like! This is what democracy looks like!” and “We are unstoppable! A better world is possible!”
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Henry Redman @henry-redman.bsky.social · 4d
Protesters in Milwaukee are kicking off their 1.8 mile march through downtown for No Kings day
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Ruth Conniff @rconniff.bsky.social · 4d
More pics from the big No Kings rally in tiny Hayward courtesy the @wisconsinexaminer.com's Frank Zufall:
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Henry Redman @henry-redman.bsky.social · 4d
J. a first generation Mexican-American from Milwaukee who is wearing their costume to “take the wind out of the administration’s sails” tells me “this alien is anti-ICE.”
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Erik Gunn @erikgunn.bsky.social · 4d
Members of the organizing team for the Janesville #NoKings rally estimated that the crowd numbers more than 1,000 people. This is just a small segment who were crowded at a street corner at one end of the park where the rally is being held.
A crowd of people on a street corner in Janesville, Wisconsin, for the #nokings rally.
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Ruth Conniff @rconniff.bsky.social · 4d
Check out the @statesnewsroom.com live feed of No Kings protest coverage from coast to coast today www.newsfromthestates.com/live-feed/no...
No Kings protest coverage | News From The States
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Ruth Conniff @rconniff.bsky.social · 4d
Frank Zufall of @wisconsinexaminer.com is out on the street with 1200 No Kings protesters in Hayward, Wis. home of Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy
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Wisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com · 5d
On our Commentary page: Editor @rconniff.bsky.social talks to Ben Wikler about not running for gov & his thoughts about the future wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/10/17/b...
Ben Wikler isn’t running for governor, but he has a few ideas about Wisconsin’s political future • Wisconsin Examiner
Former WisDems Chair Ben Wikler announced he's not running for governor, but he's working behind the scenes to move Wisconsin forward
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Erik Gunn @erikgunn.bsky.social · 4d
Driving across southern Wisconsin today documenting the #nokings protests in a few different places for @wisconsinexaminer.com and @statesnewsroom.com .
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Lara Weber @laraweber.bsky.social · 4d
Follow our LIVE coast-to-coast No Kings protest coverage here:
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Wisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com · 7d
Judge Susan Illston said she granted the temporary restraining order because Trump officials had “taken advantage of the lapse in government spending... to assume that all bets are off, that the laws don’t apply to them anymore"

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Federal judge blocks Trump from carrying out thousands of layoffs during shutdown • Wisconsin Examiner
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from moving forward with the thousands of layoffs
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