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Posting about Tesla Takedown events in MN and info on the fight to save our democracy. Will post other Twin Cities actions. Indivisible Twin Cities. MN 50501. Adding, fighting disinfo & lies.
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Tesla Takedown MN @teslatakedownmn.bsky.social · Sep 15
Twin Cities Weekly Protests/Rallies/Bridge Brigades

We are the only ones coming to save us. If not now, when?
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marciebp.bsky.social
Release the video.

Few people believe that killing people as they attempt to stay alive in the ocean fits within the bounds of justifiable force. Jeff Flake chimes in.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
When Leaders Mistake Brutality for Strength
Americans may disagree on many things, but they still distinguish between necessary force and needless killing.
www.theatlantic.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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teslatakedown.com
Nothing like spending tens of thousands of dollars for a shitbox that might burn you alive and definitely funds a Nazi's political project. #TeslaTakedown #MuskMustFall
prognews.bsky.social Progressive News Service @prognews.bsky.social · 1d
Consumer Reports ranks Teslas as the least reliable used cars. "The best of the worst [ten] was Chevrolet at a score of 40. But Tesla makes that failing grade seem respectable with its absolute rock bottom rating of 31, trailing Jeep by just one point.” futurism.com/advanced-tra...
Old Teslas Are Falling Apart
On Consumer Reports' latest ranking of used car reliability, Tesla came in dead last with a rating not even half of the top placed brand.
futurism.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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aselrod.bsky.social
Trump’s use of the pardon power and his administration’s actions in the Caribbean have been monstrously villainous.

But as @gregsargent.bsky.social stresses, they’ve also been dangerously, recklessly uninformed. Trump is often acting on shoddy intel or no intel at all. It’s frankly terrifying.
Note that Trump admits he knows next to nothing about Hernandez's case, even though prosecutors won a conviction after alleging that he helped bring more than 500 tons of cocaine into the United States. Trump pardoned him with zero serious reflection on the impact he had on drug use in our country. This is by Trump's own admission. Then, after Burns asked Trump if this sends "the wrong message to drug dealers," Trump segued into claiming Hernandez was the victim of “weaponized" government, just as Trump himself was. Combine this with Trump's confession that he granted this pardon because people "asked me to do it," and the takeaway is inescapable. He did it as a favor, probably corruptly, or out of his narcissistic association of Hernandez with himself, or a combination of both: His narcissism subjects him to easy manipulation by corrupt actors. Trump has ordered the killings of over 80 people in the Caribbean Sea on the grounds that they are bringing drugs into the United States. His administration hasn't presented serious evidence of this, and indeed, tons of evidence contradicts it in various ways. Yet Trump has designated these alleged drug traffickers as "narco-terrorists" and claims constitutional authority to kill them as combatants in a war. Most legal experts dismiss this as nonsense, noting that he's claiming the authority to summarily execute civilians who are not in fact waging war against the U.S. For Trump to then blithely admit to pardoning someone who trafficked in infinitely more drugs than any of these people he's illegally killing—while not bothering to familiarize himself at all with that man's crimes against our country-should conclusively demolish the idea that any of this is about drugs coming into our homeland. It gets worse. Under questioning, Trump justified his campaign by claiming the bombing of each boat saves 25,000 American lives, which is a brain-dead lie in numerous ways. Trump also told Politico, "We're gonna hit 'em on land very soon, too," seemingly saying straight out that a ground invasion of some sort in Venezuela is coming.
December 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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talkingpointsmemo.com
TPM has spent nearly two months on the front lines of Trump's mass deportation push in New York. We found masked agents, chaos in the courts, and a quietly growing movement that's fighting back.
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/life...
Life Inside the Undocumented Underground
During President Donald Trump’s second term, dramatic raids staged by the Immigration...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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willbunch.bsky.social
It's great that the media, Congress is going all Watergate on one of Trump's many crimes, the 'double-tap' murder of 2 Caribbean sailors

But the reality is that Trump's death cult has killed hundreds of thousands, mostly through senseless USAID cuts

My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
The Trump regime murders that aren’t on video | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, troubled Mount Airy Lodge is a perfect Trump venue.
www.inquirer.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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talkingpointsmemo.com
President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will shift billions in costs for SNAP and Medicaid to states. But 26 have cut or eliminated state income taxes just since 2021, depriving them of billions of dollars in revenue.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/wave-of...
Wave of Income Tax Cuts Has Left Many States Vulnerable to Trump SNAP and Medicaid Crisis
This story first appeared at ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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thefarce.org
Don has been sounding the alarm about Schedule F, and was the first person I read warning about Project 2025.

We're heading toward the nightmare stage of this pretty fast, with the goal and hope of making the federal government operate like the veritable one-party rule of, say, Mississippi.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h
New, from me: by embracing unitary executive theory, the Supreme Court is moving towards making all public employees fireable at the will of the President.

This will not just hurt government competence, it will aid democratic backsliding. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/at-will-wh...
At will? Whose will?
Removing independent agency heads is part of a broader assault on a nonpartisan government
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
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December 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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niawag.bsky.social
Trump's farmer bailout will primarily go to massive row-crop farmers. Big Ag as they say. Smaller and diversified farms are getting something else - it rhymes with shackjit.
niawag.bsky.social Gawain @niawag.bsky.social · May 22
Trump is going to dump tens of $ billions in payments for huge commodity farmers to compensate for huge losses they will suffer from his idiotic trade war. Meanwhile, small farmers growing for local markets will get nothing. Just canceled grants and "thoughts and prayers". wapo.st/3YXdAbU
A Kansas family farm, barely getting by, grapples with Trump’s cuts
Like many of his rural neighbors in northeast Kansas, Jacob Thomas is trying to compensate for deep losses in federal funding. There’s worry and anger.
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
The Plot to Enslave America
brianstelter.bsky.social Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 1d
New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."
Behind Paramount’s Relentless Campaign to Woo Warner Discovery and President Trump
David Ellison has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Discovery, taking his case directly to shareholders after Netflix clinched a deal.
www.wsj.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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scottsantens.com
I hate how often this quote so perfectly describes our times.
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time-- when we're a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition." --Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
December 9, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
OK, seriously. This is wild.

Judge Jay Bybee (1) raises a new issue — the Domestic Violence Clause of the Constitution — to consider in the troop deployment cases; (2) extensively details its historical application;
The solution to the second issue and to George Mason’s question was the Domestic Violence Clause in Article IV , Section 4, which provides: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence. The Clause’s phrasing directly inverts the Declaration of Independence’s grievance that the King “kept among us . . . Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.” The Declaration of Independence ¶ 13 (emphasis added). The Militia and Domestic Violence Clauses were to be read together to keep the federal government and the states in their respective lanes. We can quibble around the edges of these examples, and it is possible that I have missed other examples or even counterexamples, but the historical record from George Washington to George H.W. Bush—is, in the main, consistent: federal use of the Militia is constrained by the Domestic Violence Clause. Nor is this historical pattern confined to domestic unrest involving only state law or interests: in most episodes, federal interests, laws, and policies were the primary target of the unrest. From the earliest examples of presidential practice to modern day deployments, presidents have understood that state governments must first request assistance as a necessary condition for the federalized deployment of the Militia in response to domestic disturbances. An important exception to this rule comes out of the Fourteenth Amendment: If states actively oppose or resist the enforcement of the laws in violation of the Privileges or Immunities, Due Process, or Equal Protection Clauses, the federal government may deploy troops to execute the laws of the United States. In such cases, the Domestic Violence Clause provides no basis for objection when the states themselves are the source of or have acquiesced in the unrest. But otherwise, the President may not deploy the Militia without state consent.
December 9, 2025 at 3:37 AM
teslatakedownmn.bsky.social
Twin Cities Event Notice
Save Our Democracy
Golden Valley, MN
Saturday, December 13
12-1 PM
Winnetka & 55

Resist corruption, lawlessness, & grift. Support our immigrant neighbors, friends, & family.

We are the only ones coming to save us.

RSVP: www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Golden Valley Save Our Democracy protest · Mobilize
[PLEASE REPLACE THE TEXT BELOW WITH YOUR SPECIFIC EVENT DETAILS BUT LEAVE THE NON-VIOLENCE CLAUSE IN THE DESCRIPTION - THANK YOU] This a local Indivisible event! Here is where you'll describe your l...
www.mobilize.us
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
File this under Least Surprising News of the Day

The Corruption never ends
December 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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gbrockell.bsky.social
An immigration attorney told me a few weeks ago a client at the Everglades facility was put in a cage outside all day. A guard was bringing him a cup of water & another took it and dumped it.

The exposure and dehydration is torture in itself, but I didn’t realize the cage was this small. Evil.
attackerman.bsky.social Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 1d
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
www.forever-wars.com/torture-tech...
Imagine being made to spend 11 days inside a coffin. Imagine being made to spend more than a day inside a box barely two feet large in any direction. Imagine having to curl up, unable to extend any of your extremities, in the claustrophobic conditions of such a box, for more than a cumulative day. You can see pictures Abu Zubaydah drew of himself in the small box. Now imagine this being done to someone you love. I say all this because the following description appears in an Amnesty International report released Friday into the conditions of confinement for migrants at Alligator Alcatraz:
December 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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airbagmoments.bsky.social
Periodically I ask if anyone has seen MAGA portrayed in fictional Hollywood movies and shows. Or maybe even a new play you've seen.

Unlike Nazi Germany's film industry, America's so far seems very shy about portraying the regime and its cult as they are.
December 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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mattfieldwood.bsky.social
I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS
December 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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peggyflanagan.bsky.social
Respectfully, Congresswoman, you voted with Republicans to strip due process from immigrants and to praise Trump's ICE. This year.

Now you're upset?

Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.
repangiecraig.bsky.social Rep. Angie Craig @repangiecraig.bsky.social · 1d
ICE agents followed a Burnsville family home from the store, failed to present a warrant and entered their home with guns drawn. They detained 4 legal citizens who presented documentation, leaving a 7 year-old without parents.

A seven-year-old. Let that sink in. Trump’s ICE is out of control.
kare11.bsky.social KARE 11 @kare11.bsky.social · 1d
ICE agents detained four people from a Burnsville home, according to family members, including a 7-year-old's parents and the husband of a pregnant woman.
December 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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jamellebouie.net
the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.
theophite.bsky.social rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d
it is incredible that legalizing watergate has been the overriding ideological project of the american right for fifty years
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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attackerman.bsky.social
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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kevintmorris.bsky.social
New from Michael Miller and me at @thejop.bsky.social: Evidence that, in most areas that were affected by the decision, the Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act in 2013 (Shelby County v Holder) increased the racial turnout gap. A thread...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
December 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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mspwhistles.bsky.social
Good morning MSP.

Sending love to everyone on Day 7 of the federal occupation.

Asks for today:
1. Continue to defend our neighbors. Together, we are stronger than ICE.

2. Shovel the sidewalks of your immigrant neighbors this week so they don’t have to be out on the street alone.
December 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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thejenniwren.teamlh.social
ICE stormed a residence hall at Augsburg University, detained an undergrad, and aimed rifles at students and staff then admitted they had no warrant to be on campus.

This is state violence. This is terror. And this is exactly what Trump’s America unleashes on our communities.
December 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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kfile.bsky.social
NEW on CNN: In several old videos we found, Pete Hegseth blasted Trump in 2016 warning he could issue unlawful orders that troops should refuse, calling him an “armchair tough guy” with five draft deferments.

Now he’s attacking Democrats for saying same.

LINK: www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...
December 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM