Jake Schwitzer

What a fun thing to pronounce in my head in a Dutch accent

It was pretty nutty reading the Chamber’s take on our economy and not seeing the word ‘tariff’ even ONCE.

Really loving the corporate humility in this quote. WE’RE HERE AND WE DON’T CARE IF YOU WANT US.

I figured you personally made this.

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

A Black Hawk helicopter. SWAT teams repelling to the roof. 300 agents. Flash-bang grenades. A TV crew.

“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet."

For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested.

Stunning report.

Photo of MN THC beverages in front of the “Come and take it” flag.

Leave our breweries alone.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

What sick dogshit place are we living in where "child sex trafficking and pedophilia" is an "issue" and not a "put everyone in jail and throw away the whole jail" situation

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Viewing this as a mandate in favor of my “Stop making me hear about Ezra Klein” platform

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

All of the pilfering, vandalism, and outright death caused by DOGE cuts, and all of the thefts from the future by illegally stopping research grants, didn't save a penny, Trump spent the money and more on corruption and incompetent ICE goons.

No, it’s just that we hate pedophiles

If a "clean CR" spikes my constituents’ health insurance premiums, it’s not clean. It’s dirty and puts the interests of the richest Americans ahead of Minnesota and I won’t vote for it.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

Great story from @mprnews.org on our recent report release and efforts to end wage theft for non-unionized construction workers in Minneapolis. It's time to move from whack-a-mole reactive enforcement to across-the-board proactive compliance.

Yesterday we stood with labor allies and released our new report, A Roadmap to Compliance: Strengthening Worker Protections in Minneapolis Construction.
We called on the city to take bold steps to eliminate wage theft, retaliation, sexual assault, and labor trafficking.

Advocates want the City of Minneapolis to do more to end wage theft, worker harassment A report released by a progressive think tank recommends that the city use its permitting authority and independent audits to ensure that existing labor regulations are properly enforced.

Labor groups are calling for Minneapolis to more proactively enforce the city’s regulations against worker wage theft and on-site harassment.

“The message is clear: For workers, the risks of reporting are greater than the rewards, while bad actors see the opposite,” said researcher Aaron Rosenthal.

c'mon mn say hell no to Waymo

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill just raised health insurance rates by an average of $2,000 a year for middle class Minnesotans.

He’s prioritizing the pocketbooks of the wealthy - leaving rural communities, middle class families, and small businesses out in the dust.

Why would any legislator vote for a budget the executive will ignore?

In that situation, a yes vote conveys one thing and nothing else: validation for the White House’s blatantly unconstitutional actions.

Key part of funding negotiations that's underdiscussed: Ds want to add provisions to ensure any agreement they come to is *actually followed* (unlike what's happening now)

But Trump says that's a red line he won't accept - that he wants the ability to come to an agreement & immediately break it

Trump doesn’t care about you if you’re not a billionaire saying nice things about him on the teevee.

Trump is absolutely cratering in new Quinnipiac poll:

Overall approval: 38-54
Approval on economy: 39-56
Approval on trade: 39-54
On National Guard into cities: 42-55
On immigration, his "best" issue: 41-55

Trump is weak, unpopular, and failing. Treat him that way:

You covered the issue well! This is added reading for those interested in the widespread abuse of construction workers in the housing space.

Billionaire Pohlad Family Accused of Using Anti-Worker Construction Contractors The Minneapolis-based developer has not done enough to ensure good labor practices throughout its supply chain, critics say.

prospect.org/labor/01-19-...

We love to brag when Minnesota is the best. This isn’t a list we want to be high on.

Minnesota has the fourth largest teacher pay penalty in the country. Our teachers make 33% less than other workers with a college degree.

Nationwide, the gap is the largest it’s ever been and growing.

Anything we do has to include breaking up corporate and media monopolies. The tools are there to dismantle this horseshit, you just have to find the people willing to use them.

does anyone know if we have first amendment rights tomorrow

if youre a ceo and didn’t see this coming then you should be fired for being a dumb stupid gullible moron and also gross negligence

Gimme a Freakin' Break! Alleged Union Buster Ann Kim Was Never 'Canceled.' - Racket Plus U of M labor drama, Euro Target cometh, and one sweet little cabin in today's Flyover news roundup.

Come on, man.