Nick Harper, he/him
@nharper.bsky.social
Nonprofit political law & policy attorney. Proceduralist & anxious, jealous guardian of democracy. Tweets are mine, not my employer's. Minneapolis. Idealist w/ weltschmerz. I’m on Signal. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nharpermn/
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Coping & Morale Kit
Coping & Morale Kit Do quick meditation using an app like Insight Timer or a YouTube video. Do a muscle/mindful body scan check-in and then use MuscleWiki stretches for tense areas. Use aromatherap...
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Timeline cleanse: a Coping & Morale Kit that I built for myself that others are welcome to use.
Everything on the list is free or extremely low cost. No “go to the cabin” or “get a massage” advice here. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Everything on the list is free or extremely low cost. No “go to the cabin” or “get a massage” advice here. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Update:
Katie just called me. She is being held by Homeland Security at the Whipple Federal Building down by the airport.
They have not told her anything. No word on release, no word on charges. Nothing. Ridiculous. But she is fine and in good spirits.
Her attorney is en route there right now.
Katie just called me. She is being held by Homeland Security at the Whipple Federal Building down by the airport.
They have not told her anything. No word on release, no word on charges. Nothing. Ridiculous. But she is fine and in good spirits.
Her attorney is en route there right now.
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Update:
Katie just called me. She is being held by Homeland Security at the Whipple Federal Building down by the airport.
They have not told her anything. No word on release, no word on charges. Nothing. Ridiculous. But she is fine and in good spirits.
Her attorney is en route there right now.
Katie just called me. She is being held by Homeland Security at the Whipple Federal Building down by the airport.
They have not told her anything. No word on release, no word on charges. Nothing. Ridiculous. But she is fine and in good spirits.
Her attorney is en route there right now.
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I thought this was a hyperbolic paraphrase of what Shapiro said, but no, this is the verbatim quote in the clip.
Ben Shapiro: “When the president said deport all the illegal immigrants, I never thought that he meant that literally”
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I thought this was a hyperbolic paraphrase of what Shapiro said, but no, this is the verbatim quote in the clip.
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Approximately 30% of all job postings are fake, with millions of ghost jobs making a tough hiring process even worse.
November 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Approximately 30% of all job postings are fake, with millions of ghost jobs making a tough hiring process even worse.
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Note: The court ruled that Texas violated the 14th and 15th Amendments by discriminating on the basis of race when drawing its new Republican gerrymander. So this opinion will not be fatally undermined by the Supreme Court's impending blow to the Voting Rights Act; it has an independent rationale.
November 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Note: The court ruled that Texas violated the 14th and 15th Amendments by discriminating on the basis of race when drawing its new Republican gerrymander. So this opinion will not be fatally undermined by the Supreme Court's impending blow to the Voting Rights Act; it has an independent rationale.
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Here is the federal district court's 2–1 ruling, authored by a very conservative Trump appointee, striking down Texas' new Republican gerrymander on the grounds that it unlawfully discriminates against racial minorities. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Here is the federal district court's 2–1 ruling, authored by a very conservative Trump appointee, striking down Texas' new Republican gerrymander on the grounds that it unlawfully discriminates against racial minorities. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.
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A current sex trafficker scandal on top of, you know, the other one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A current sex trafficker scandal on top of, you know, the other one
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It remains very striking to me that some of the most sober, clear-eyed reporting on the neo Nazi movement in America comes from local reporters like Phil Williams. I can't think of anything as frank and grounded as this from national outlets. Give this guy a follow.
MUST WATCH: Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill
A Phil Williams NC5 Investigates report on a neo-Nazi targeting kids online, telling them to prepare for a 'race war'
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November 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
It remains very striking to me that some of the most sober, clear-eyed reporting on the neo Nazi movement in America comes from local reporters like Phil Williams. I can't think of anything as frank and grounded as this from national outlets. Give this guy a follow.
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Wow if only there was some sort of fairly recent historical precedent warning us about the dangers of slicing up and reselling debt across the financial landscape.
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”
@wsj.com
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November 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Wow if only there was some sort of fairly recent historical precedent warning us about the dangers of slicing up and reselling debt across the financial landscape.
Do they make a cross between a convertible velomobile and a cargo e-bike? Because I want that.
November 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Do they make a cross between a convertible velomobile and a cargo e-bike? Because I want that.
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Nightmare shit. Who are these judges? (Also, how was McCollum the only MN congressperson to sign that June letter??)
Hundreds of people have seen their immigration case dismissed, only to be arrested outside a Fort Snelling courtroom and placed in expedited removal.
Judges quick to end immigrants’ asylum cases as ICE agents wait outside courtroom
Hundreds of people have seen their immigration case dismissed, only to be arrested outside a Fort Snelling courtroom and placed in expedited removal.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Nightmare shit. Who are these judges? (Also, how was McCollum the only MN congressperson to sign that June letter??)
it's 2025, why are national nonprofits pretending that all of their staff need to be based in DC
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
it's 2025, why are national nonprofits pretending that all of their staff need to be based in DC
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Hennepin County Attorney’s race was gonna be complete & utter madness already, now with a guy asking “What if ChatGPT could wrongly convict you instead of opportunistic law-and-order humans?” law.umn.edu/profiles/fra...
November 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hennepin County Attorney’s race was gonna be complete & utter madness already, now with a guy asking “What if ChatGPT could wrongly convict you instead of opportunistic law-and-order humans?” law.umn.edu/profiles/fra...
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I too coincidentally think my company can solve all the world’s problems if people pay for its product.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm
November 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I too coincidentally think my company can solve all the world’s problems if people pay for its product.
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I have a harder and harder time justifying having lefty queer people in general engage with a party that is so hostile to them. I hope we can find a way to bring them in to not just Stonewall, but the party as a whole. It’s not too late, but we don’t have a lot of time left either. It’s now or never
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I have a harder and harder time justifying having lefty queer people in general engage with a party that is so hostile to them. I hope we can find a way to bring them in to not just Stonewall, but the party as a whole. It’s not too late, but we don’t have a lot of time left either. It’s now or never
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My fears are bigger and deeper after tonight. Trans and non-binary people are few and far between in party leadership (there’s 3 of us- me, AP Weston of the Progressive Caucus, and Bibi Black of the MPLS Senior Caucus). There’s not all that many more actively involved around the state.
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
My fears are bigger and deeper after tonight. Trans and non-binary people are few and far between in party leadership (there’s 3 of us- me, AP Weston of the Progressive Caucus, and Bibi Black of the MPLS Senior Caucus). There’s not all that many more actively involved around the state.
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I said initially I wouldn’t really make public comment on what’s unfolded from COC tonight, but I’ve changed my mind.
I’ve talked with Chair Carlbom and DFL staff about my fears of the Feminist Caucus impacting how much queer people engage with the party.
I’ve talked with Chair Carlbom and DFL staff about my fears of the Feminist Caucus impacting how much queer people engage with the party.
This happening by and large because I am a trans person who demanded I be respected and I was met with mockery.
Deciding to try and purge the trans person who is attempting to call you to account is a fucking wild choice, but hey, TERFs will be TERFs.
Deciding to try and purge the trans person who is attempting to call you to account is a fucking wild choice, but hey, TERFs will be TERFs.
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I said initially I wouldn’t really make public comment on what’s unfolded from COC tonight, but I’ve changed my mind.
I’ve talked with Chair Carlbom and DFL staff about my fears of the Feminist Caucus impacting how much queer people engage with the party.
I’ve talked with Chair Carlbom and DFL staff about my fears of the Feminist Caucus impacting how much queer people engage with the party.
Agreed, to some degree. Some Dems don't understand the difference between "this campaign/project/legislation coalition is big tent" and "this party is big tent" and that's definitely to the detriment of the party and the nation.
Maybe the tent system is the problem? Let’s try something more structurally sound than a tent, it might work out
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Agreed, to some degree. Some Dems don't understand the difference between "this campaign/project/legislation coalition is big tent" and "this party is big tent" and that's definitely to the detriment of the party and the nation.
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Maybe the tent system is the problem? Let’s try something more structurally sound than a tent, it might work out
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Maybe the tent system is the problem? Let’s try something more structurally sound than a tent, it might work out
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Someone on the Minneapolis subreddit caught Waymos being delivered. We need the City Council need to ban the use of driverless cars. The technology isn't there. Our city cannot be a testing ground for 1.5 ton autonomous projectiles.
November 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Someone on the Minneapolis subreddit caught Waymos being delivered. We need the City Council need to ban the use of driverless cars. The technology isn't there. Our city cannot be a testing ground for 1.5 ton autonomous projectiles.
blech, having to make my resume' readable for applicant tracking systems makes it so much uglier to the human eye 😭
November 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
blech, having to make my resume' readable for applicant tracking systems makes it so much uglier to the human eye 😭
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This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
The N.Y.P.D. Prepares for Mayor Mamdani and a New Era in Public Safety
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.